Electra
The
Cambridge Greek Play 2001
Jane
Montgomery - Biography
After graduating from
King's' College Cambridge with a First in Classics, Jane joined
Cambridge Theatre Company as an actor, making her professional debut
at the Cambridge Arts Theatre in CTC's How the Other Half Loves
and Mrs. Warren's Profession. Since then she has acted in
over 30 professional productions with theatre companies across the
country. She has toured with the RSC and Compass Theatre Company,
for whom she played the title role in their 1999 UK tour of Sophocles'
Electra (winning the Manchester Evening News Best
Actress Award), and has appeared on TV in Red Dwarf, The
Bill, Casualty and the films, One Against the Wind
and A Murder of Quality
She
was Resident Company Member and Staff Director at Harrogate Theatre
for 18 months, where shows included Teechers, Educating
Rita (co-director) and Fears and Miseries of the Third
Reich. As a freelance director, she has staged Yerma, Too
Modest Proposals and Ezra Pound's version of Elektra.
In
1998, she directed the Cambridge Greek Play, Trojan Women,
and was Judith E Wilson Junior Fellow in Drama at Cambridge, and
a visiting Fellow of King's College. Over the last few years,
she has given workshops at the RSC, taught at Bretton Hall Drama
College and Central St Martin's Art School, and lectured at St.
John's, York and the University of Melbourne. She was the 2000
Artist in Residence at la Trobe University, Australia, and the
2001 Leventis Visiting Fellow in Greek Drama at Peterhouse, Cambridge.
She is currently working on her PhD on Electra and performance/critical
theory.
Classical Receptions in Drama and Poetry in English