Mike Waller
Producer
Mike trained at Morley College and with Frantic Assembly, and is a founding member of Reboot. His productions include Candy at the King’s Head Theatre, Reboot: Shorts and Reboot: Shorts 2 at The Bunker (various roles), Stace in Space (Teacher) at the Vaults Festival, Love and Money (David), Macbeth:Reboot (Macbeth), Saturday, Sunday, Monday (Rocco) and The Blue Room (The Student). His work outside of theatre includes the web-series ‘Shrink’ (Dr Tim) and a short film for Amazon Prime. Mike was proud to perform in WeAreHere, created by Jeremy Deller and Rufus Norris with the Royal National Theatre to commemorate the centenary of the Battle of the Somme.
Mike is originally from Stockton-on-Tees and is a doctor, medical and PhD, with an interest in cystic fibrosis. Medicine has allowed Mike a unique understanding of the extremes of human psychology, behaviour, physicality and emotions, which together provide invaluable acting tools to his characterisation and theatrical performances.
Athena Bounti
Assistant Producer
Athena studied acting at The Actor’s Surgery and at Morley College. In 2012 she completed ‘Acting: The Company’, and performed in Macbeth:Reboot, an adaptation of the original by William Shakespeare.
Before her training, Athena was a member of theatre company ‘Prova’ in Greece from 2004 till 2008, and acted in and co-directed several productions in the national student theatre festival.
Recent theatre work includes Reboot: Shorts at The Bunker Theatre, Stace in Space at the Vaults Festival, and Love and Money at The Network Theatre.
Athena also plays the piano and sings, having performed in several live gigs.
Faidon Loumakis
Audio Visual Content Producer
Faidon started acting at the age of 16 in his school’s theatre company, in Athens, Greece. After school, its members formed the theatre company Metalikiakos Thiasos which stayed active for four years. While at university, Faidon was part of theatre company Prova, where he also devised and directed a play based on 1984 by George Orwell.
After moving to London, he started acting classes at The Actor’s Surgery and later at Morley College, where he performed in the Blue Room by David Hare and Saturday, Sunday, Monday by Eduarto de Philipo.
Productions include Reboot: Shorts and Reboot: Shorts 2 at The Bunker, Love and Money by Dennis Kelly (various roles), Macbeth: Reboot, William Shakespeare (Macduff), Midsummer Night’s Dream, William Shakespeare (Lysander), My Highness by Dimitris Psathas (Fotis); It Wasn’t Me by Grigorios Ksenopoulos (Themos); Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare (Benvolio); Seventh Commandment: Thou Shalt Steal a Bit Less by Dario Fo (Arnaldo Nascimbene); Scenes from a Dead World (based on 1984 by George Orwell and Macintosh Juliet by Stelios
Extended Reboot Members
Creatives and actors who have previously contributed or performed as part of Reboot Company.
Nico is a French-Indian actor, director and ex-physicist. He is part of the Bunker New Work Group, which reads scripts and sees plays on behalf of the Bunker Theatre. He is a member of the National Youth Theatre, and in 2017 he was selected for the Emerging Directors’ Springboard Programme at the Young Vic.
As a director, he has worked at the Young Vic (Freshworks), the Courtyard Theatre, the Blue Elephant Theatre, Theatre N16 and Voice4Thought International Festival Dakar.
As an actor, he has worked at the Lyric Hammersmith, the National Theatre, Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch, the New Wolsey, Richmix, Camden People’s Theatre, the Blue Elephant and the Bread & Roses. His screen work includes SILENT WITNESS for BBC1 and short films for the BFI and BBC Radio 4.
On 12th November, Nico will direct a collective re-imagining of Freud’s The Interpretation Of Dreams, also at the Bunker Theatre.
Beth is a British performer originally from Wiltshire. She moved to London in 2014 and graduated from Queen Mary, University of London in July 2017 with a BA in Drama. She is currently completing a Diploma in Musical Theatre at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, which she does alongside her fundraising internship at the Royal College of Music.
She has previously worked with companies including Young Pleasance, Wondering Hands, Thick and Thin Theatre and Col-lab productions, and has performed at several fringe venues in both London and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. She likes Jazz and cocktails, and her guilty pleasure is Costume Dramas (especially the truly terrible ones).
In early 2018 Beth joined Reboot Company, and performed in Reboot: Shorts in April 2018.
Laura is from Italy. She moved to London in 2005 after living in Tanzania and South Africa. She has a degree in African Languages and Cultures from Italy and an MA in Anthropology of Media from SOAS in London. She works in two different charities during the day but theatre has always been her passion. She has pursued it in all the countries she has lived in.
In London she is part of an amateur Italian theatre company called Teatro In-stabile. Her greatest challenge has been to act in English but overcoming her fear she joined Morley College’s Company in 2013. This has marked the beginning of an amazing journey for her. She has played a variety of roles in short plays by Pinter, the lead roles in Antigone by Jean Anouih and Saturday, Sunday, Monday by Eduardo de Filippo (Donna Rosa). Laura performed as Lady Macbeth at Reboot Theatre’s production of Macbeth:Reboot and as Jess in Love and Money. Recently Laura completed an acting course at the Rose Bruford College and is currently studying for an MA in Dramatherapy at Roehampton University.
Rachel joined Reboot having trained at Morley College. She grew up in Essex and moved to boarding school in Dublin when she was 16. She has always loved acting, however it took a back seat while she pursued a career in fashion. She has recently moved back to London and works as a fashion designer.
Rachel recently made her stage debut as Jess in Love and Money (Morley College) and is excited to join Reboot and spend more time on stage!
Tom trained at Ecole Philippe Gaulier, France. Recent theatre work includes The Spinning House at Chelsea Theatre, The Fems at Camden People’s Theatre and the Moodboard at Rosemary Branch Theatre.
Tom also co-devises and performs with theatre company The Moodboard and is currently working on their debut show.
Before training in theatre, he studied at the Slade School of Fine Art and worked as an artist for several years.
Franciska is a Hungarian, London-based director, performance maker and critic. Her main interest lies in how accent and identity can shape one another. In her performance art she works with voiceover, subtitles, subtext, culture and language, and the translation and transition of meaning.
She has directed new writing at venues such as The Cockpit, the Young Vic’s Platform, Above the Arts, and the Bread and Roses Theatre, but also enjoys working in found spaces and incorporating unique audience arrangements. In 2018, Franciska joined Reboot Company to direct Reboot: Shorts at The Bunker.
Past Reboot Members
David Evans
David Evans thought about acting at school and finally gave it a try thirty years later. As well as his work with Journeyman Theatre, Streatham Theatre companies and the City Lit’s Page to Stage project at the Lyric Studio, David performed at The Blue Room at Morley College and Macbeth: Reboot at the Network Theatre with the RTC.
David we miss you and salute you.