The Smart Casual Project Contributors

Sam Woof - Writer/Director
Sam Woof is a writer/composer/director working in Oxford and London. Before university, Sam studied music at Junior Guildhall, led the London School Symphony Orchestra and wrote the score for Fine Thanks, a verbatim musical about mental health made for the Edinburgh Fringe 2017 which was redeveloped for a performance at London’s Savoy Theatre in April 2019. Sam also has a background in movement, specifically in contemporary dance and contact improvisation, and in 2019 Sam spent a month training in physical theatre with Thomas Prattki at arthaus.berlin. In
Oxford, Sam directed Henry Waddon’s Plagued (Burton Taylor Theatre, February 2019), Sarah Kane’s Crave (Pilch Theatre, October 2019) and Stephen Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along (Oxford Playhouse, February 2020). Sam also wrote/directed the play With One Eye Open: Shostakovich and other insomniacs (Pilch Theatre, May 2019) and assistant directed Enron (Oxford Playhouse, February 2019). Currently, Sam is collaborating on a musical about Ada Lovelace commissioned by the National Youth Theatre, as well as writing/composing/directing Smart Casual.

 

 

Mrinmoyee Roy - Producer
Mrinmoyee is a recent graduate from Wadham College, Oxford. She is a co-producer for Smart Casual (2021). Whilst at Oxford, she produced Merrily We Roll Along (Oxford Playhouse, 2020), The Merry Wives of Windsor (Wadham College, TT19), The Wings of the Seagull (BT, 2019), I Punched A Nazi (((And I Liked It))) (Pilch, 2019) Skin A Cat (BT HT19) and Little Eyolf (BT 2019). She also production managed My Mother Runs In Zig Zags (North Wall, 2019). Outside of university, she has been involved with youth theatre for five years, training with NYMT, and has toured a production of Franz Kafka’s The Trial to Oldenburg, Germany (2016). Outside of theatre, Mrinmoyee was on the core team for the anti-colonial working group Oxford Common Ground, and has worked as an editor for publications including The Isis and Clare Market Review.

 

Lowri is a final-year English student who spends most of her time devoted to making and producing theatre. Since finding herself at Oxford University, she has been involved in all aspects of student drama, beginning with assistant directing ‘HisPol’ (BT Studio, Oct 2018) and ‘Cutting Room’ for the New Writing Festival (BT Studio, Feb 2019). As a co-founder of Pendulum Productions, she also produced ‘HisPol 2: What Fresher Hell’ (Oxford Deaf & Hard of Hearing Centre, May 2019), co-directed ‘Hero-Man’ (BT Studio, Feb 2020) and produced the radio play ‘V-Card’ (Nov 2020) raising £700 for the LGBTQ+ anti-violence charity Galop. In addition, she acted as the titular role in ‘The Witch of Edmonton’ (BT Studio, Jun 2019) and was the marketing manager for GOYA’s production of Sondheim’s ‘Merrily We Roll Along’ at the Oxford Playhouse (Feb 2020). At home she has established herself in the Derby amdram community, being involved in various musical theatre productions.

 

Since June 2019, we have produced three shows. This year, we have two more in the pipeline, plus a short film. What binds them is a love of ensemble storytelling and a fascination with the meeting point of music, speech and movement.