The team.

The Director	Mike Rubbo Mike studied Anthropology at Sydney University, and then travelled on a Fulbright scholarship to study Film at Stanford University, California where he got his MA. Then, for 20 years he worked as a documentary film director at National Film Board of Canada, taking time off to teach between films. He has directed over 40 documentaries, winning many international prizes. His best known docs are Sad Song Of Yellow Skin, Waiting for Fidel, Daisy, Solzhenitsyn's Children. Margaret Atwood, Once in August. Link to Mike's personal site. The Little Box that Sings (ABC) made with his wife, Katerina Korolkevich-Rubbo, is his most recent documentary as writer and director prior to Much Ado About Something. His films have been widely shown on TV, and are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) New York and film schools around the world. He has been visiting lecturer at NYU, UCLA, Stanford. Univ. of Florida with longer teaching periods at Harvard and the Australian Film, Television and Radio School. (AFTRS) Michael has also directed and written 4 children’s feature films including Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller, and the Emmy award winning Vincent and Me. More recently he spent some time as the Head of Documentaries, ABC Television, encouraging Verite and instigating the very popular Race Around the World series. Mike is now an independent productor/director, shooting his own documentaries on mini DV. He also helps others with their films, most notably on structure and narration.
Co producers	Mike Rubbo & Penny McDonald Penelope McDonald, principal of Chili Films, is an accomplished Producer and Director with a number of internationally acclaimed productions to her credit. She has an Arts Degree from the University of Sydney and a Degree from the Australian Film Television and Radio School, as well as a Diploma in Indigenous Education from the University of the Northern Territory. During the past 15 years she has made over 42 internationally award winning programs encompassing documentaries, dramas and new media pieces. My Mother India (SBS), a recent documentary, has won many prestigious awards. Penelope has lectured at the Australian Film Television and Radio School, Sydney’s University of Technology and Metro Television, as well as teaching children at school level during extensive work in the education sector. Penelope’s body of work explores culture and relationships between cultures, particularly between indigenous and other cultures, with the award winning documentaries My Mother India, Too Many Captain Cooks, Black Sheep and Photographic Memory; and dramas My Mother My Son, My Bed Your Bed, Payback and Night Cries. Penelope has strongly encouraged many indigenous Australians in their filmmaking. Penelope has been involved with peak government film organisations including the Australian Film Television and Radio School, The New South Wales Film and Television Office and Film Australia. Her recent work is on permanent display at the new National Museum of Australia.
Camera, sound, script, narration	Mike Rubbo
Editor	Mary Jane St Vincent Welch. Jane loves editing. "Combining images words and ideas is continually fascinating and ultimately satisfying; creating a whole greater than the parts". Jane works mostly on documentaries which explore notions of what's important to humans - whether its the meaning of landscape seen from a train to Alice Springs, the implications of global capitalism, or the question of who wrote some of the most significant works in the English language. Much of her recent work has had international television and film festival release. 2002 "The Glorious Aftermath" Director Nick Torrens: A New York investment banker and a Hong Kong entrepreneur take advantage of global economic and political changes. An inside story of "open prairie" capitalism at work in the former communist world. (ABC - In post-production). 2002 "Much Ado About Something" Director Michael Rubbo: the debate " who wrote Shakespeare?" continues with this original analysis, involving a fascinating cast of characters and a provocative push for a significant Christopher Marlowe involvement. (ABC,BBC,WGBH ) 1998 "To Get Rich is Glorious" Director Nick Torrens: An insight into Hong Kong identity and Chinese capitalism during the handback of Hong Kong to China. (ABC, US/Danish/Swedish/Finnish TV, Sydney, Amsterdam & NZ Film Festivals) 1996/7 "The Queenslander: tales of the tropical north" & "The Ghan: a spiritual connection" Director Nick Torrens: 2 Australian train journeys which explore the relationship between the land and those traveling across it.( PBS, NHK, European cable)
Assistant director	Katerina Korolkevich Rubbo. Katerina did a lot of the behind the scenes arrangements, freeing the director for location work. She organized schedules and transcribed many of the tapes. Her feedback has always been valuable.
Researchers	June Everett, Roberta Garini, Louisa Merlin, Lorelle Harker, Catherine Richardson June Everett arranged many of the contacts in England. She also acted as an excellent sounding board for ideas. June is a very talented watercolorist. During the building of Shakespeare's Globe theatre she was on site during hundreds of days making a precious record of the construction as well as a homage to the folk who designed and built it. June was trained in sculpture and painting. Her paintings have been exhibited at many London exhibitions including a solo show at the Royal Festival Hall, one in Germany and another at Stratford-upon-Avon. In l98O, she was personally appointed Artist -in -Residence by Sam Wanamaker whose dream was that the Globe should be constructed in its original form, a dream that has now been realised. June recorded every phase of the building of the new Globe Theatre resulting in l6O paintings, etching and ink and wash drawings that provides the only complete historical record of the construction methods, materials and craftspeople invoved in the reconstruction" Roberta Garini did much of the research in Italy helping both myself and Louisa Merlin who co-ordinated the efforts. Roberta became fascinated by the question as to whether the writer of the plays was actually in Italy. She made detailed studies of the plays to see whether the referecnes to Italy were based on on the ground knowledge or material that the writer could have picked up from books and travellers. She came to the conclusion that, whoever he was, he must have gone to Italy. Roberta lives and works in the Cremona region. Recently she has toured with a commedia del'arte group.
Original Music	Christopher Gordon
Sound Design	Mike Gissing
Additional Production Management	Jacqui North
Production Assistant	Vanessa Sulman
Archival Footage Clearances	Fotini Manikakis
Additional Camera	Peter Coleman
Special thanks to interviewees	John Baker Prof. Jonathan Bate Peter and Frieda Barker Bill Browning Callum Coates Rev. Graham Corneck Dr Wolfgang Deninger Peter Farey Dr Daniela Ferrari Prof. Andy Gurr Sue Hunt John Hunt John Michell Charles Nicholl Anne Oakley Caroline Ovenden Paul Pollak Jan R Piggott Mark Rylance Prof. Stanley Wells and Dolly Walker-Wraight
and thanks to	Alceste Bulfari John Bell Andrew Butcher Jack Boram Christina Darell-Brown Irene Dunn David Fanning Mike Frohnsdorff Prof. Francesco Giacobelli Barry Greenwald Adam Grummet Lorelle Harker Alan Hart Prof. Michael Hattaway Sally James Julia Jones Egil Kipste Tim Kramer Jo Lapping Carole Sue Lipman Susan MacKinnon Roger Mallion Fredrick Maltby Phillip G Martin Scott Masterson Alan McHardy Ro McHardy Thomas Merriam Dave More Colin Niven Simone O'Halloran Angela Prior Jackie Pope Tracey Powell Christopher Powls Colin Rosewell Ellen Rubbo Colin Saxby Corrie Soeterboek Michael Standsfield Francis Sutton Jonathan Sutton David Tiley John Tramper Dave Thompson Antonio Ventura Patricia Wainright Peter Weir Lou Wiley Karen Yoemans Cesare Zaninelli Ermanna Zaninelli George Metcalfe, Roger Hards and the Marlowe Society Actors Shakespeare - Scott Ainslie Hamlet - Dean Atkinson Marlowe in Italy - Gionato Agisti Young Marlowe – James Dunn Gravedigger - Tony Barry Skeres- Richard Burnip Horatio - Nicholas Cassim Marlowe in England - Callum Coates Poley - Andy Hawthorn Frizer - Daniel Hopkins Mephostophilis - Richard Jacob Touchstone - A. T. Schiller Faustus - Moray Treadwell "Commedia dell'arte" troupe in Italy Alena Azzini, Cristina Berettera, Mario Brignani, Giovanna Marchioli, Christina Del Mastro, Antonio Minelli, Bepi Monai, Fabio Raimondi, Sonia Rosset, Nachia Rizzo
Scenes from HAMLET	Designer Jennifer Hitchcock Sound Recordist Howard Spry Gaffer John Domoney Music Performed by The Song Company, Pro Musica Sydney Conducted by Christopher Gordon Music Engineer Christo Curtis Recorded at Studio 301 Sydney Mixed and Edited at Utopia Audio Orchestra Contractor Coralie Hartl Music Preparation Peter Mapleson, Laura Bishop Composer's Assistant Katrina Schiller
Legals	Bruce Donald
Colour Grader	Alan Hansen
Online Editor	David Tindale
Online Conform	Kristian Anderson
Sound Post Production	Digital City Studios
Postproduction Facility	Frame, Set & Match
Completion Guarantor	First Australian Completion Bond Company Pty Ltd
Insurer	Film Insurance Underwriting Agency
Locations, Stills and Research	Adam Hart Publishers Limited Albion Bookshop Archivo di Stato Canterbury Cathedral Canterbury Archaeological Trust Canterbury Archives Chiselhurst Church Kent Corpus Christi College Cambridge Dickens House Museum London Dulwich College Freud Museum London The George Inn Holy Trinity Church Ightham Mote, National Trust King Edward VI Grammar School for Boys The King's School, Canterbury National Portrait Gallery, London Mander Mitcherson Theatre Collection Palazzo Te, Giulio Romano Stratford-Upon-Avon Church Scadbury Ruins Orpington and District Archaeological Society Scotney Castle The National Trust Shakespeare Centre Shakespeare's Globe St. Leonards Church, Kent St. Nicholas Church, Depford St. Stephens Cemetery Thames Trains Westminster Abbey Whitgift School
Courtesy of BBC Worldwide	Scenes from AS YOU LIKE IT Scenes from HENRY IV Part One Scenes from THE TAMING OF THE SHREW Calvin Hoffman interview on the Russell Harty Show
Courtesy of Universal Studios Licensing, Inc	Calvin Hoffman archival footage The King's School, Canterbury Scenes from ELIZABETH
Courtesy of Universal Studios Licensing, Inc. and Miramax Films	Scenes from ROMEO AND JULIET Courtesy of Paramount Pictures Scenes from SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE
	Mystery Writer Theme composed by Veren Grigorov, Peter Pagac Performed by Veren Grigorov “Lay it Down” from Lay it Down: Images of the Sacred by Linda Allen, performed by John Baker www.lindasongs.com "Kool Kool Cat called Marlowe" by Nigel Jackson, performed by Nigel Jackson
Commissioning Editor for the BBC	Nick Fraser
	Developed in Association with the Australian Film Commission Produced in association with Chili Films
	Produced with the assistance of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Executive Producer, Documentaries Brian McKenzie
	Financed with the assistance of the Australian Film Finance Corporation
	©2001 Australian Film Finance Corporation Limited and The Helpful Eye Pty. Ltd.