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[[File:JNPirates.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Jon directing in early [[Pirates of Penzance 2014]] rehearsals]]
[[File:JNPirates.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Jon Directing in early [[Pirates of Penzance 2014]] rehearsals]]
[[File:Jon.jpg|150px|thumb|right|Jon North as John Wellington Wells in [[Sorcerer 2012]]]]
[[File:Jon.jpg|150px|thumb|right|Jon North as John Wellington Wells in [[Sorcerer 2012]]]]
=== Biography ===
=== Biography ===
Limbs. Skinny jeans. Caffeine. Procrastination. Flailing. Walkward. His own theme song.


Jon joined the society in 2012 for The Sorcerer and never looked back, he then went on to do several shows for the society before getting in the Directors chair for the 2014 Nuffield Production The Pirates of Penzance.
Along the way he acted as Chairman for the society for the period 2013-14 during which the society tripled in size. He also worked on several shows with LOpSoc's sister societies Showstoppers, Theatre Group and StageSoc.


Also he is like Chairman or something...
=== Super Powers ===
<ul>
<li>Super intelligence</li>
<li>Hypercaffienation</li>
<li>Photoshopathy</li>
<li>Improv</li>
<li>Is quite tall</li>
<li>Sonic Boom</li>
<li>Falcon Punch</li>
<li>Hawkward Gait</li>
<li>Super Stretch (only limbs)</li>
<li>Mental power over biscuits but not Jaffa Cakes (Biscuitopathy)</li>
<li>Show clothing</li>
<li>Ability to deal with LOpSoc (''hah!'')</li>
</ul>


In 2014 Jon won the Best Director award at the 21st International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival for his work on The Pirates of Penzance, which won five awards in total including Best Show, while also being nominated for a further two.
=== Quotes ===
 
<ul>
His 2015 Production of H.M.S Pinafore, co-directed with Joseph Hand received a five star review from the Soton Tab as well as  two Daily Echo Curtain Call nominations including one for Best Director of a Musical or Opera. He received life membership in 2015.
<li>"Sam Dobson doesn't have to put up with this." </li>
 
<li>“Do, do not, you’ll probably fuck it up either way.”</li>
=== Fresher Lengends ===
<li>“Where did I put my Relentless”</li>
 
<li>“For fuck sake”</li>
-The one with the knobbly knees
<li>“Seriously guys where’s my Relentless”</li>
 
<li>“It’s only 5am guys”</li>
-Like Ben, but more stick like
<li>“I’ve not learnt it yet, don’t worry though”</li>
 
<li>“It’s about 60% learned”</li>
-Is scared of that song from Sweeney Todd
<li>“I shipped d’ya see in a rwr urrrrh mmmmm .... FURERNERS!?”</li>
<li> "So, while i love William Shatner, it's not in a gay way. It's just like i want to be buddies with him and Star trek across the universe hand in hand. I don't mean hand in hand, i mean... hand in... i mean penis in... no i mean side by side. buddy by buddy. But not in a gay way. It's a sick world when a man can't want to be best friends with a beefcake without being accused on the homosex. What sort of world do we live in when i can't fantasise about running my hands over his glistening pecks and pert buttocks without being called gay. You're all insane."</li>
<li>"If it's skin-coloured, why does it have nipples?"</li>
<li>"Let's get this conversation away from my massive penis!"</li>
<li>"I don't see 2 girls 1 cup as an abomination, I see it as a goal to strive for."
<li> "Yes Thomas, I nicknamed my penis 'Wrath' because the innocent fear it."
<li> "No offence Thomas, but I don't think you'll ever be the end of it.."
<li> "You know what all these new freshers mean? New ships! *giggle giggle clap clap clap*"
</ul>


=== History of Roles ===
=== History of Roles ===
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{|Class="wikitable sortable"  
!Performance!!Role
!Performance!!Role
|-
 
| [[Iolanthe 2015 (Harrogate)]]||''Chorus (Fairy)''
|-
| [[H.M.S. Pinafore 2015]]||''Director''
|-
| [[Iolanthe 2015 ]]||''Chorus (Fairy)''
|-
| [[Pirates of Penzance 2014 (Harrogate)]]||''Director''
|-
| [[Sweeney Todd 2014]]||''Sweeney Todd''
|-
|-
| [[Pirates of Penzance 2014]]||''Director''
| [[Pirates of Penzance 2014]]||''Director''
|-
|-
| [[Pirates of Penzance 2014]]||''Chairman''
| [[Pirates of Penzance 2014]]||''Chairman''
|-
| [[Ruddigore 2013 (Buxton)]]||''Producer''
|-
| [[Ruddigore 2013 (Buxton)]]||''Dick Dauntless''
|-
| [[Ruddigore 2013 (Buxton)]]||''Chairman''
|-
| [[Ruddigore 2013]]||''Producer''
|-  
|-  
| [[Ruddigore 2013]]||''Dick Dauntless''
| [[Ruddigore 2013]]||''Dick Dauntless''

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