Relatively Speaking

Ginny: Caroline Ciglenec

Caroline is a professional dancer, singer and actress. The native Australian started as a ballet dancer before attending the Performing Arts Studios Vienna for Musical Theater, where she graduated with honors in May 2007. For the last years she has worked in Theater and TV and was part of the "Joey Racino Show" (Magna Racino) and the opera "Die Italienerin in Algier" (Sommerfestspiele Klosterneuburg) in 2005. Other productions include "The Next Generation" (Theater des Augenblicks), "Operettensommer Wien" (Theater Akzent) in 2007 and "Dialogues des Carmelites" (Theater an der Wien) in 2008.

Philip: Jeff Sturgeon

Jeff Sturgeon, actor, received his B.A. degree in Theater from the University of Louisville ( U.S.A.).  As a young actor, Jeff appeared in numerous festival and stock musicals as well as Off-Off Broadway productions of Gilbert & Sullivan operettas in New York.  English audiences in Vienna have seen him in over forty productions for the International Theatre, Vienna Theater Project and others, including Arsenic and Old Lace, Deathtrap, The Odd Couple, Oleanna and most recently An Inspector Calls.  He has also appeared in film, most recently the documentary Aloha, im Dreivierteltakt, and has appeared in TV commercials for VW, OMV, Telekabel, and the Austrian Lottery.  He was the program director of Monday Night English, a monthly evening of literature readings in the FUNDUS, Vienna, from 1999 to 2005.  He has lived in Vienna since 1993, is married, and has one son.

Producer, also starring as Sheila: Jeannette Skrbensky-Meinl

Jeannette Skrbensky-Meinl studied acting at the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts in London.
She has since appeared in numerous plays such as „Le Jeu de L’Amour et Du hazard” by Marivaux, „The Importance of Being Earnest” by Oscar Wilde, „Der Besuch der Alten Dame” by Dürenmatt, „The Provoked Wife” by Vanbrugh ,Private Lives ” by Noel Coward, performed at Vienna’s English Theatre and several readings such as Heinrich Heine, Frederick Forsyth and Dickens „The Christmas Carrol”.
She has directed „Arms and The Man” at the AIS (American International School).
Her latest performance was Dont dress for dinner ” by Marc Camoletti , performed at The Schönnbrunner Schlosstheater, Vienna, which she produced. She played the role of Jacqueline.
She has founded the group „Art4charity” where she raises money for charity through her performances.
Jeannette likes to create new projects and enjoys bringing witty English plays to Vienna. In „Relatively Speaking by Alan Ayckbourn she plays the role of Sheila.

Stage Manager: Eva Drnek

Eva Drnek gratuated in Theatre, Film and Media Studies from the University of Vienna in 2007. She has been director of play such as “Frühere Verhältnisse” and “The complete works of William Shakespeare (abridged)”. Eva has worked at Volkstheater and Kammeroper ans she also manages Theaterverein Vision, a platform for up-and-coming artists. Since last year she is assistant director by the Vienna Theatre Project for the shows “La Vie Ennui” and “The Meeting”.

Artistic Director: Howard Nightingall

Howard is from London and trained at Academy of Live and Recorded Arts.

Theatre credits include: Larry in Closer (Ensemble Theatre) The Lieutenant in the Man of Destiny (Kings Head) Flash Harry in Dry Rot (Channel Theatre) Fred in Present Laughter (Kevin Wood Productions) Stephen Hawking in Hawking's Dream (Teatro Technis and dietheater Künstlerhaus) Michael in  Wienerleben (European tour) Frederic in The Pirates of Penzance (Volksoper) the Scottish transexual policeman in When did you Last see your Trousers (No 1 National Tour.)
For Vienna's International Theatre: Sergius Saranoff in Arms and the Man, Horatio in Hamlet, Seargent Trotter in The Mousetrap, Jimmy Porter in Look Back in Anger, Nick in What the Bultler Saw and Joe Pitt in Angels in America.
For Vienna’s English Theatre: The Young Man in the World Premier of Three Tall Women, directed by Edward Albee, Malcolm in Bedroom Farce, The Surley Man in Lettuce and Lovage with Rue Mclanahan, William Humphries in 84 Charring Cross Road,  Inspector Egan in Murder by Misadventure, Ross in the European Premier of The Goat, Barnette Lloyd in Crimes of the Heart and Bill Taylor in Donkeys Years.

Howard also worked with Bruce Myers in The Grand  Inquisitor, directed by Peter Brook at the Landestheater St Pölten, and most recently played Joseph Priestly in Oxygen (Varesa, Italy.)
Television work includes The Bill, Casualty, Catherine (Prix European award for TV Fiction) and the part of Percy Polutant in Help!

Film credits include Julius McDoom in The Pilgrim Factor, The Director in The Rehearsal,  Frederic in MA2412 directed by Harold Sicheritz and William Harold  in Nous Nous Sommes Tant Haïs with Sarah Biasini.

Later this year Howard will be narrating an English version of Die Fledermaus at the Wiener konzerthaus.

Costume: Catriona Kerridge

Costume: Andrea Bernd

Stage Helper: Laura Schiller

Set: Friederike Schwarz

Light: Lisa Weiß