Gordon trained at Manchester Metropolitan School of Theatre and Television.  Recent theatre credits include The Stoneheads and Tonight We Fly (Trestle Theatre Company), Timewatching (Soho Theatre) Monumental (Citizens Glasgow), Rent and Great Monsters of Western Street (Library Manchester) the title role in the national tour of Macbeth (Maqama Theatre) Short-listed for The Stages’ Acting Excellence Award, Gordon won Best Newcomer for his adaptation and one-man performance of Booker-prize winner Michael Ondaatjes' novel The Collected Works of Billy the Kid (Pleasance, Edinburgh)
Television credits include Cold Feet, Always and Everyone, Reckless II (Granada TV) Taggart (Scottish TV) Bad Girls (ITV) and Urban Gothic (Five)
Film credits include the lead in Augustus Lullaby (IPJ Productions), The Suitcase (Kondras Productions) and The Tell Tale Heart (Radmark Films)

Morag trained at Drama Studio London after reading Classics at Cambridge University. Her theatre credits include: Nurse in Romeo and Juliet (National Theatre Ed.); Jane in The Garden of Llangoed (Watermill Theatre); Boy in In the Shadow of Trees (Manchester Royal Exchange); Mouse in The Gruffalo’s Child (Tall Stories/Polka Theatre); Katherine in The Comedian (Watermill Theatre); Dunyazade in Tales from the Arabian Nights (Forest Forge Theatre Co); Mrs Knarre in Company of Angels (Horse & Bamboo); Rosie in Four x 4 (Soho Theatre); Viola in Twelfth Night (Chester Gateway); Titania and Snug in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Strangefish Theatre, international tour); Diana in All’s Well That Ends Well (BAC and national tour); Billy Casper in Kes and Gwendolen in The Importance of Being Earnest (Compagnie ACT, Paris); Hummingbird in Hummingbirds (Young Vic). Radio includes: A Nice Little Trip to Spain and The Eliza Stories (Radio 4). This is Morag’s first trip to Japan and she is extremely excited to be performing here in this her first production for Tour de Force.

Robert Blackwood was trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. He has worked in different countries, exploring different forms of physical and national theatre (including Bhuto and Rakugo) and is a keen student of Laban's techniques. On stage, this year he has appeared as Joey in David Mamet's "The Old Neighbourhood", Waiter in Jean-Paul Sartre's "Huis Clos", and as The Kommandant/Doc in David Gooderson's acclaimed "Kolbe's Gift". For television, he has appeared in "The Cranford Chronicles" and "Bo Selecta". He was in "Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day", released later on this year. He sings for the SPGC Gospel Choir, based in Central London. He is looking forward to returning to Japan, from where he has many happy memories.

Sarah Ratheram trained at East-15 Acting School and Oxford University. She has worked extensively in devised and physical theatre, most recently in Penny Dreadful's "The Bitches Ball", in which she played a bombastic schoolteacher, a flighty courtesan, a gross and lustful husband and King George III! Sarah has been a long-time member of acclaimed Commedia dell'Arte company Ophaboom Theatre, and has toured with them from Kingston to Korea via the Venice Carnival. Roles for Ophaboom include Esmeralda in "The Hunchback of Notre Dame", Friar Tuck in "Robin Hood", Mr Burke in "Burke and Hare", and the anarchic Pulcinella in "Casanova". Sarah was also (very briefly!) one of the Infected in the film "28 Weeks Later".

*Henry Barrett trained at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA). Credits include Ichneumon Fly/Mayfly - THE INSECT PLAY (dir Jamie Lloyd);  Prince Doug – ONCE UPON A TIME IN NARCISSIA (Upstairs at the Gatehouse);  Narrator/Mysterious Man – INTO THE WOODS (Paul McCartney Auditorium) Theo/Vince – WILD ANIMUS (Void Theatre);  Stevie – CRIMINAL GENIUS (Plain Clothes Theatre Company). Henry is also a keen French Horn player and percussionist, having performed at The Royal Festival Hall and in various pit orchestras.

Barry Goldman was born in the USA where he received extensive training in theatre and dance.  In Europe he attended L'Ecole Jacques Lecoq (Paris)  and later participated in The Feldenkrais Training in Munich.
Barry Goldman was an Associate Professor of Theatre at the University of Michigan (USA) and continues to teach theatre and movement workshops in France, Germany and in England.
1982-1985 he was an Associate Artistic Director of the Children's Theatre Company, and for ten years Artistic Director of  Théâtre Marcadet Paris directing (among others) Molière, Ionesco, and Beckett for French language Tours throughout Europe.  Barry has directed many productions in English for the American Drama Group Europe which have toured extensively in Europe,  Asia  and Scandinavia.
Since 1996 Barry Goldman has been directing in German. His work has been seen in various theaters throughout the country, including Braunschweig, Oberhausen, Halle, Neuss and Münster.  Recently he directed a  production of   Shockheaded Peter in the Stadttheater Lübeck and Heute Abend, Lola blau in Ingolstadt.   He has also created and choreographed performance projects with the Salzburger Festspiele in Austria.