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ADEN GILLETT
Actor
Theatre includes Globe world tour of Midsummer Night’s Dream, White Carnation, Doctor’s Dilemma, Accolade, Next Time I’ll Sing to You, The Price, Alarms and Excursions, Mary Poppins. Television: Transporters, Father Brown, Lewis, Holby City, Silk. Film: Tula the Revolt, Collusion, The Winslow Boy, The Borrowers, Shadow of the Vampire.
PIECE OF MIND (Party Lines)
AKEMNJI NDIFORNYEN
Actor
Theatre credits include The History Boys and Chatroom/Citizenship (both at the National Theatre), The Golden Hour (Almeida Theatre) and Little Baby Jesus (Oval Theatre) and Upper Cut (Southwark Playhouse). Television and film includes Leonardo(BBC), Dominic Savage's Award winning Out of Control (BBC Films), Life and Lyrics (Universal Pictures) and The Javone Prince Show (BBC).
FILTH (Party Lines)
ALWYNE TAYLOR
Actor
THEATRE: Annie, Peter Pan, David Copperfield and A Small Family Business (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Rhinoceros, The Arsonists (Royal Court); Guys And Dolls (ATG/Donmar UK Tour); Blithe Spirit (Oldham Coliseum and Tour); Stallerhof (Southwark Playhouse); The Sunken Garden (English National Opera); Diamond (The Kings Head); Platonov (Almeida); Sing Something Simple (Dark Horse Theatre Company); A Chorus Of Disapproval, The Revenger’s Comedies, June Moon, The Linden Tree, Last Of Red Hot Lovers (Stephen Joseph Theatre); Trial By Jury (Covent Garden Festival); Three Sisters (Bristol Old Vic); Pat And Margaret (New Vic Theatre Stoke); The Nun, Spring Awakening (BAC); Tess Of The D’Urbervilles, Two, See How They Run (Derby Playhouse); The Norman Conquests (Crucible Sheffield); Richard III (Pleasance Theatre London); The Rover (Salisbury Playhouse); Once In A Lifetime, Company, Sweet Charity, Accrington Pals (Manchester Library Theatre); A Christmas Carol (Liverpool Playhouse); Abigail’s Party, Top Girls (Bolton Octagon); Gateway To Heaven (Oval Theatre London).
FILM: The Old Curiosity Shop (Disney); Asylum (Paramount); Genghis Cohn (BBC Screen Two). TELEVISION: The Royal, Midsomer Murders, Doctors, Heartbeat, Casualty, Eastenders, Emmerdale, The Bill, The Ladies Guild of Kneesley.
ANNABEL WORSFOLD
Actor
Annabel has a First Class Honours Degree in Performing Arts, specialising in Contemporary Theatre.
Previous productions include: Peter Pan playing Slightly Soiled (the Lighthouse Theatre), Romeo and Juliet playing Romeo (Baden Powell St. Peters), This Changes Everything playing Freya (The Jellicoe Theatre), Darknet playing Stacey (The Jellicoe Theatre), Tristan & Yseult playing Brangaine (The Jellicoe Theatre), Anatomy of a Suicide playing Anna (The Jellicoe Theatre), Constellations playing Marianne (The Jellicoe Theatre), I and You playing Caroline (The Jellicoe Theatre), Love and information playing various roles (The Jellicoe Theatre), Love playing Annabel (The Jellicoe Theatre), The Suicide playing Cleopatra Maximovna (The Jellicoe Theatre), An Unfamiliar Familiarity playing Annabel (The Jellicoe Theatre).
My spotlight link: Coming soon…
Photo Claire Newman-Williams
ANNETTE FLYNN
Actor
Annette, originally from Ballina, Co. Mayo, is best known for her TV roles as Maeve on RTE's Fair City and as detective D.S. Glennie on Hollyoaks. Theatre credits include: Orphans; The Winter's Tale; The Comedy of Errors; Some Explicit Polaroids; A Murder of Crows; Married to the Sea; The Proposal; Tonight Everything's Going to Change; How Tom Beat Captain Najork and His Hired Sportsmen; water musical Sinbad; and I Run, I Sing, I Swim, I Dive - a one-woman show about historical figure Eva Gore Booth for which she won a Best Actress Award. Radio includes Cá Bhfuil Muid, & Abberations.
ANNETTE O’SHEA
Actor
Annette is a recent graduate from LAMDA. Television credits include: Scientist in Up for the Match (R.C.T). Most recent theatre: Before the Party (Bill Kenwright Productions – UK tour). Other theatre credits include: Medea in Bash Latter Days Plays (Devious Theatre Company); Mag in Lovers: Winners and Losers (Watergate Productions); P in Scratcher (Devious Theatre Company); Claire in Smitten (Devious Theatre Company); Mercy Lewis in The Crucible (Keegan Theatre Company); Mrs Yang in Good Person of Szechwan; Narrator in An Clainne (Scoil Airegail); Honor Blake in Playboy of the Western World (Shrughawadda Players). Radio credits include: Oonagh in Behind and Desperation (KCLR), Sheila in The Undertakers (Evil Genius Productions). Short film credits include: Martha in Adomba (Cellar Door Productions); Police Officer in Hunting Dragons (Fridge Magnet Pictures).
BOB CRYER
Actor
Bob Cryer recently finished film work on Legend with Brian Helgeland and Grimsby with Sacha Baron Cohen, as well as a recurring role in the new BBC cop drama Interceptor. Other TV credits include Outnumbered, Our Hidden Lives, Eastenders, Holby City, Coronation Street, The Bill and Victoria Wood’s Christmas Special. His theatre credits include work for The West Yorkshire Playhouse, the Young Vic, Thelma Holt, Theatre Royal Plymouth and Jericho House. As a writer, he recently penned the Christmas show for Wilton’s Music Hall starring Spymonkey Theatre, with his father Barry and can soon be seen at the same theatre in their forthcoming production of The Sting.
PRIMARY PURPOSE (Party Lines)
CALLUM DIAZ
Actor
Callum trained at the Arts University Bournemouth in Contemporary Theatre.
Theatre credits: New Views Festival 2023 (National Theatre, London) Jack in Sterotypes, Narrator in To Drown Boundless Oceans.
Theatre during training includes: Callum in Tides of Neglect, Ajay Chopper in Beautiful Burnout, Mr Webb in Our Town, Lars and Gbatokai in Festen, Nicholas Chapman in Punk Rock, Courfeyrac in Les Misérables.
Professional Music video credit: Main actor in ‘What is’ by Ina Shai.
CAOIMHE MACKIN
Actor
Caoimhe Mackin started her training at the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin in their Youth Theatre Company. In 2022, she was awarded a first class drama degree from De Montfort University Leicester. Theatre credits include Bloody Sunday a self written verbatim play that debuted at the Exit Souls Festival 2022 and was shortlisted for the Christopherson Award. Film credits include To Be an autobiographical film that was shortlisted for the Century Theatre Film Festival 2021.
My spotlight link: https://www.spotlight.com/3413-4501-3762
Photo Jimmy Lee Photography
CIARAN O’BRIEN
Actor
Theatre credits include: The Playboy Of The Western World, Orson's Shadow (Southwark Playhouse), Of Mice And Men (Birmingham Rep); Translations (The Rose Theatre, Sheffield Crucible and ETT); Drum Belly, The Government Inspector, Curse Of The Starving Class, Arrah Na Pogue, The Plough and the Stars, Perve, Comedy of Errors, The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui, Saved, Julius Caesar (Abbey Theatre Dublin), Travesties (Rough Magic); Between Foxrock and a Hard Place, The Shawshank Redemption, Philadelphia Here I Come (Gaiety Theatre Dublin), Observe The Sons Of Ulster Marching Towards The Somme (Livin’ Dred), Elevator, This Is Our Youth, Fewer Emergencies, (Project Theatre Dublin), The Great Goat Bubble (Galway Arts Festival), The Magic Tree,(Edinburgh Fringe), White Rabbit Red Rabbit (Dublin Fringe) and Oliver Twist (Gate Theatre Dublin). Film and Television credits include: Pursuit (An Post) Misfits (Channel 4), Ripper Street (BBC), The Last Security Man (RTE Storyland), The Tudors (Showtime), Fair City (RTE).
CLÍODHNA MCCORLEY
Actor
Cliodhna trained at Drama Cente London and Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Stage credits include: Mary in Long Story Short (Charing Cross Theatre); Arkadina in The Seagull – Rehearsed Reading (NYT); Titsi in Nothing To Be Done (Chaseplay Theatre Company); Magpie/Ensemble in Hansel and Gretel (The Citizens Theatre); Joanna1/Translator in Motherland (The Tron); Ensemble is The Homecoming (CDS); Jane in Train to Xi’an (On The Verge); Medea in Medea (RCS). Television credits include: Bex in Unsettled Down (Touch and Go Entertainment); Majella in Seach (Stirling Productions). Film credits include: Girl in Cherrybomb (Green Park Films). Short Film credits include Nurse Ratches in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Beyond Studios); Susan in The List (Icreatefilms); Miss McCann in Promise You (First Reel Films). Opera credits include Cat in Le Renard (RCS).
CONNOR BANNISTER
Actor
Connor trained at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts.
Theatre credits include:Covering Paul McCartney in Let It Be (UK Tour) and Steve Marriott in All or Nothing(West End); A Theory of Justice: The Musical Workshop (Deus Ex Machina); Prince Jagger in Sleeping Beauty (Chipping Norton Theatre); Floyd Collins (Wilton’s Music Hall) and as Martin Treves in A Month of Sundays (Kate McGregor).
Theatre during training includes:Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream;Gilbert Worthy in Lockhart; Chauffeur/Zinnowitz in Grand Hotel; Ben Butler in Living Quarters;Lysander in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Young Walsingham/Pearce in Half a Sixpence.
Vocal credits include:Everybody's Talking About Jamie Demo(Jonathan Butterell) andA Theory if JusticeCast Album (Deux Ex Machina).
COREY MONTAGUE-SHOLAY
Actor
Corey trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
Theatre credits include:Henry V (Tobacco Factory);The Enchanted(Bunker Theatre); Normal(Styx/Rift Theatre); Snow White(Sixteenfeet Productions); The Hotel Cerise(Theatre Royal Stratford East); Little Revolution,ICU(Almeida); Carpe Diem(National Theatre).
Short film includes: Our Night; Callumand Home.
DANIEL FINE
Actor
Trained: Central School of Speech and Drama
Theatre includes: Welcome To Thebes (NT), The History Boys (NT Tour & West End), GBS (Theatre 503), The Comedy Of Errors (Stafford Gatehouse), Blood Brothers (Bill Kenwright Ltd)
Television includes: Mr Selfridge (ITV), The Royal (ITV), Beau Brummell: This Charming Man (BBC)
Radio work includes: Hanging From The Sky (BBC) Witness: Gallipoli (BBC)
DANIELLE LAURENCE
Actor
Danielle was born in London, England. She has recently graduated from De Montfort University with a BA in Drama and has always been passionate about acting. During her time in university she performed in scripted shows as well as devising her own work. Grimm Tales (Phillip Pullman), One Under (Winsome Pinnock) Love and Information (Caryl Churchill). Most recently she performed in two rehearsed readings for National Theatre’s New Views Festival. Beyond Ourselves will be her London Theatre debut.
My spotlight link: https://www.spotlight.com/7899-8946-8305
Photo Jimmy Lee Photography
DANNY WEBB
Actor
Danny Webb trained at RADA a hundred years ago and has been lucky to work at Glasgow Citizens, Nottingham, Exeter, Bristol, Plymouth in a Repertory System now no longer as vibrant. Recent work with Royal Court includes Chicken Soup with Barley, The Witness and The Mistress Contract. He will be at the Regents Park Open Air Theatre in the Seagull this summer. He apologises to Sam for stopping his career in Pharmacy.
HOW TO GET AHEAD IN POLITICS (Party Lines)
DEBRA PENNY
Actor
Debra trained at Manchester Polytechnic School of Theatre.
Theatre includes Amelia; Wild Oats (Bristol Old Vic), Varya; The Cherry Orchard (Southwark Playhouse), Doreen; Office Suite (Bath Theatre Royal Productions) Hatty; Tom’s Midnight Garden (Unicorn Theatre and New Victory Theatre, Broadway, New York) Sharon; Cancer Tales (Ipswich Wolsey Theatre) Margarita; Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay (New Vic Theatre, Stoke) and Maria; Twelfth Night (Bolton Octagon Theatre), Other work includes Diana of Dobsons (Orange Tree Theatre) One Last Card Trick, How The Other Half Loves, News From the Seventh Floor, Blithe Spirit (Watford Palace), La Musica Deuxieme, Mariana Pineda, The Weavers (Gate Theatre) Martha, Josie and the Chinese Elvis, Top Girls, Abigail’s Party all at Bolton Octagon (twice nominated for a Manchester Evening News Award for best supporting actress).
Film and TV includes, Girls Night Out, Love and Marriage, Doctors, The Bill, EastEnders.
Radio; Silver Street, The Go Slow Club, The End of The World (BBC R4)
DOIREANN MAY WHITE
Actor
Doireann trained at RADA, and has just graduated this July. Previous theatre work includes The Sweethearts (Finborough Theatre), There is No Failure. Only Feedback (Rosemary Branch Theatre), The Sugar Wife, Women of Twilight, The Rover and New Labour (RADA), The Importance of Being Earnest, The Wonderful World of Dissocia, and K. Short Stories and Fragments by Franz Kafka (Samuel Beckett Theatre, Dublin), The Lonesome West (National Tour) and The Making of 'Tis Pity She's a Whore (Project Arts Centre). Work for camera includes Those Who are Lost (dir Sam McMullen), Impact (RADA) and Student/Teacher (RTE Storyland Series).
DOROTHY COTTER
Actor
Dorothy has worked in theatre and television in Ireland for the last 15 years and recently relocated to London. Theatre highlights include A Midsummer Night’s Dream (National Concert Hall) and Dear Frankie (Gaiety Theatre) in which she played 35 different characters. Dorothy was a principal cast member in Bel’s Boys (ITV), a regular on the satirical comedy series The Savage Eye (RTE) and was nominated Best Actress at the Feel Good Film Festival in L.A. for her role in the short film Henry & Sunny.
EDDIE DRUMMOND
Actor
Eddie trained at Bournemouth & Poole College and graduated in 2020 with First Class Honours from Arts University Bournemouth. Since then, he has worked as a member of professional choir Questa Voce, performing alongside internationally renowned singers including operatic soprano Merilee Brunet and tenor Raven Joul.
Credits whilst training: Eddie in Tides of Neglect, Angel in RENT, Warner Huntington III in Legally Blonde, Jeff in [title of show].
Professional credits include: Gavroche and Enjolras in various performances of Les Misérables (studio performances), and, with Questa Voce, Jedi in Symphonic Cinema, Young Soldier in Parade, and chorus in Video Games in Concert, Stella Natalis by Sir Karl Jenkins, Questa Sings Christmas, and the world premiere of Requiem Pandemus. Eddie is currently scheduled to perform alongside Brian May from Queen and Kerry Ellis at the Royal Albert Hall in 2025.
Spotlight: https://www.spotlight.com/7779-5615-7408
Photo Jimmy Lee Photography
EMMA DENNIS-EDWARDS
Actor
Theatre work includes: Upper Cut (Southwark Playhouse) Fast Track (The North Wall); Clean (The Traverse/59e59 New York); Hurried Steps (Finborough/The Cockpit Theatre/Dukes Theatre Lancaster/Brighton Dome); Talent (Soho Theatre); Millennium (Old Vic New Voices/The Vineyard New York) and Ma Kelly's Doorstep (Attic Theatre Company). Her films include Trap for Cinderella and A Heart Divided.
PRIMARY PURPOSE (Party Lines)
FIONN WALTON
Actor
Theatre: Deadly (Abbey Theatre, Dublin), Juno and the Paycock (Liverpool Playhouse and Bristol Old Vic), Desire Under The Elms (Corn Exchange), Disco Pigs (DU Players and Smock Alley Theatre) for which he won Best Actor at ISDA Awards 2009, Bedbound (New Theatre) and The Wonderful World of Dissocia (Samuel Beckett Theatre). Television: Moonfleet and Trivia II. Film: Ctrl.Alt.Del, Stand Behind You, Get Up And Go, Out of Here, Jack Taylor and What Richard Did.
GABRIEL VICK
Actor
Gabriel Trained at the Royal Academy of Music.
Recent credits include: Original London cast of Once (Phoenix Theatre), Chariots of Fire (Gielgud Theatre), The Tempest (Bath Theatre Royal), Hamlet -The Musical (Northampton); Double Falsehood (Union Theatre); Murder in the Cathedral (Oxford Playhouse); The Great British Country Fete (The Bush); La Cage Aux Folles (Playhouse Theatre); What’sOnStage nominee for Henrik in A Little Night Music Directed by Sir Trevor Nunn (The Menier Chocolate Factory/ Garrick Theatre); Dickens Unplugged (Edinburgh Festival/ Comedy Theatre); Cabaret (Lyric Theatre); Original London cast of Avenue Q (Noel Coward Theatre) and Scrooge (London Palladium).
TV and film credits include The Invisible Woman, Les Miserables, Hold, White Van Man (ITV), Eliminate: Archie Cookson, Eastenders (BBC TV), MI High and My Family.
GARETH MCLEOD
Actor / Stage Manager / Film Editor
Gareth's recent sound designs include The Green Bay Tree, Flowers of the Forest and Valerie Hobson (Jermyn Street Theatre). Previous designs include Now We Are Sixty and The Condor and the Maiden (King's Head Theatre), Susan Black Sings Piaf (Leicester Square Theatre) and Cowardy Custard, The Little Hut and Tomfoolery (UK tours).
HOWARD TEALE
Actor
Howard was born in London and grew up in Sussex. Whilst at sixth form college he experienced a workshop by the Théâtre de Complicité that fired his ambition to act and led him to train at Mountview Theatre School and Sam Cogan's School of the Science of Acting. Howard co-founded award-winning Slipstream Productions which included PUSH (Time Out Critic’s Choice), TALES FROM A PIER, THE EIGHT FOOT LEAP (with Sam Kelly) and LOVE ON THE FIRST FLOOR. Early on Howard was fortunate to be taken under the wing of producer Thelma Holt and appeared in several of her West End productions. He has since worked at Glasgow Citz and Northampton amongst many others and enjoyed the lead role in IRISH BLOOD ENGLISH HEART at the Union Theatre in Southwark then transferred to Trafalgar Studios. Howard has collaborated several times with Caitriona McLaughlin - most recently in Ireland during the Derry: City of Culture year in 2013 and then in BUNNY'S VENDETTA. He has just finished at Hull Truck Theatre in REVOLUTION for M68 Theatre Company.
IAN BONAR
Actor
Ian Bonar trained at Bristol old Vic Theatre School. THEATRE INCLUDES: Arden of Faversham, The Witch of Edmonton, The Roaring Girl; RSC, The Blackest Black; Hampstead, City Love; The Bussey Building. Brilliant Adventures; Manchester Royal Exchange, DNA, The Miracle; National Theatre, Ma Vie en Rose; Young Vic, Me, As a Penguin; Arcola. TELEVISON INCLUDES: Southcliffe, Black Mirror, Holy Flying Circus, Going Postal, Scott and Bailey. FILM INCLUDES: Spectre, Skyfall, Kon-Tiki, 1234, Tintin, Starter for Ten, How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, Atonement.
PIECE OF MIND and HOW TO GET AHEAD IN POLITICS (Party Lines)
INDIA PIGNATIELLO
Actor
India trained at De Montfort University Leicester and achieved a BA upper class honours degree.
Theatre credits whilst training: Youth theatre productions of Cinderella, Grimm Tales (Phillip Pullman) and One Under (Winsome Pinnock) and mostly her own devised work during the three years at Uni. Beyond Ourselves will be India’s debut in London.
Photo Jimmy Lee Photography
JAKE RAYNER BLAIR
Actor
Jake trained at Manchester School of Theatre, receiving a First Class Honours Degree in Drama and Contemporary Performance in 2022. Since then, he has written and performed four plays, created three exhibitions, and founded Carnifølk - an immersive theatre collective who are currently working with Shambala and Boomtown festivals to create interactive medieval Carnivals, celebrating music, people, and the planet.
Professional credits include: Orpheus in Orpheus & Euridice (Bristol Old Vic), Art in If it’s to Break (Contact Theatre [for Emergency 22], Burdall’s Yard) (programmed for the Lowry, Courtyard, Theatre Royal Wakefield, and the Alma Tavern for our tour in 2024), Finn in Tenants (Bristol Old Vic), Musician and Co-composer in Babytales (Bristol Old Vic), Spud in Carving’s Carnival (Volunteer Tavern), Jake in T***k You (Bristol Old Vic), Itys & Echo in The Love of the Nightingale (Bristol Old Vic), Sebastian in Craig Barry Hall’s Seventh Circle (Antwerp Mansion).
Spotlight: https://www.spotlight.com/2692-3496-1490
Photo Jimmy Lee Photography
JAMES COONEY
Actor
James Cooney is an actor and voice over artist who graduated from LIPA in 2011. His role of Greg in Bottleneck was nominated for 'Best Male Performance' at the 2014 Off West End awards. Theatre credits include: Island (National Theatre), Hamlet (The Watermill Theatre), Bottom Up (Southwark Playhouse), The Only Way is Chelsea's (York Theatre Royal, Live Theatre Newcastle and Soho Theatre), Bottleneck (Soho Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe and UK Tour), You Once Said Yes, (The Lowry Theatre), and The 24 Hour Plays (Old Vic). TV and Film credits include: Ollie in Strangeways Here We Come (Oh My Productions), Cushy (Second Shot Productions - Winner of Yorkshire Short Film at Leeds International Film Festival), Doctors (BBC) and Vic/Tim (NFTS).
THE MAN IN THE SKY (Party Lines)
JANE BERTISH
Actor
Theatre credits include: Richard III(Arcola Theatre); Richard III, Duchess of Malfi (West Yorkshire Playhouse); A Round Heeled Woman (Riverside Studios / West End); The Syndicate (Chichester Festival Theatre / Tour); House Of Bernarda Alba (Almeida Theatre); Tales From Vienna Woods(National Theatre); Nicholas Nickleby(Chichester/West End); A Family Affair (Arcola Theatre); The White Devil, The Milktrain Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore (Lyric Hammersmith); Gertrude the Cry, Hurts Given And Received (Riverside Studios); The Last Supper, 7 Lears, Golgo(Royal Court); Mother Courage (Mermaid Theatre); Phaedra, Conversations with my Father (Old Vic); Anatol, Walpurgisnacht (Gate Theatre); A Bright Room Called Day (Bush Theatre); Oedipus (Lyceum Theatre); Judith(Traverse/BAC/European Tour) plus many productions for The Glasgow Citizens Theatre and Birmingham Rep.
Television credits include:Emerald City(NBC);Apple Tree Yard(BBC);Black Mirror(Netflix);You Me and the Apocalypse(NBC);Sensitive Skin(BBC);My Dad’s the Prime Minister(BBC);Lewis(ITV);Rosemary’s Baby(NBC);The Reef(HBO);The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone(Showtime).
JENNIE GOOSSENS
Actor
Jennie Goossens trained at the Central School and in 1958, after a spell in repertory joined the Old Vic Company for a tour of the USA, Canada and Europe. She remained with the company in London playing, amongst other parts, Hippolyta in The Dream’, Lady Mortimer in Henry IV Pt I, and Cornelia in The White Devil. Other West End appearances were in Butley opposite Alec McCowen, Whose Life is it Anyway, opposite Tom Conti, and a season of Shakespeare (Viola and Portia) at the Comedy Theatre. Joined the RSC in 1982 for two years, returning to the States for the Olympic Arts Festival in California playing Duenna in Cyrano de Bergerac with Derek Jacobi. At The Man in the Moon theatre she played the title role in The House of Bernada Alba and in 1999 went to Vienna’s English Theatre in Pygmalion playing Mrs Eynsford-Hill. Back home, a two-hander Dot Com for Trinity Arts. Television appearances include BD Girl in Z Cars, the Nurse in The Secret Garden Aveline’s mother-in-law in Bread and the Judge (who sent Arthur to prison) in Eastenders. Also, Grange Hill, Just William, Family Affairs, Down to Earth, The Robinsons, the Omid Djalili Show (twice) and Extras with Ricky Gervais. Film include The Pumpkin Eater, The Outlaw and the Italian film South Kensington with Elle Macpherson and Rupert Everett. Radio work has included several plays and reading four books for Woman’s Hour. Also the Narrator in a concert performance of Peter and the Wolf.
KEVIN TRAINOR
Actor
Kevin Trainor is an Irish actor from Kilkeel, County Down. He trained at RADA 2001-2004 and has worked across stage and screen for the last decade. He made his screen debut in Guillermo del Toro’s Hellboy (2003) and has been a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. He has acted in the West End, the Old Vic, the Bush, Theatre Royal (Stratford East) and many (British) regional theatres. In 2013 he played the title role of Dr Faustus in Colin Teevan’s reinterpretation of Marlowe’s play (Leeds WYP and Glasgow Citz). He is chiefly known for his work on new plays in the theatre and in comedy on television. He played Charles Adams in HBO’s award winning miniseries “John Adams” (2007) and Kieran in two series of Sky1 sitcom “The Cafe”. He was Shawn Keogh in John Crowley’s 2011 Old Vic production of ‘The Playboy of the Western World”. He appeared in the inaugural production at Belfast’s MAC Theatre - “Titanic…’ by Owen McCafferty. Recent and upcoming TV appearances include: "Endeavour", "London Irish" and "Utopia: series 2" (both Channel 4). Kevin has also played Bertie Wooster in a fringe production of the Ayckbourn/Lloyd-Webber musical "By Jeeves” and has greatly enjoyed singing at WIN (Women’s Irish Network)’s St Patrick’s Night Hooleys.
LORNA GAYLE
Actor
Lorna Gayle spent 3 years at Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art, significantly enrolling at 37 and graduating age 40! Since graduating, Lorna has had success both on screen and stage. She has appeared alongside Christian Bale and Heath Ledger in the Batman Movie ‘Dark Knight’ Run Fat Boy Run, One Day, and has also been seen in popular TV series including; Dancing on The Edge, Torchwood, Eastenders, Silk, Ashes to Ashes & One Night. Theatre credits include: The Crucible (Dominic Cooke) Sugar Mummies (Indhu Rubasingham) Rudy's Rare Records (Paulette Randall) She is currently developing her One Woman Play which will hit theatres later this year.
FILTH (Party Lines)
LUCIA MCANESPIE
Actor
Lucia hails from Belfast, Northern Ireland. After graduating from Queens’ University she came to London to begin training at RADA and has been here ever since. Lucia has worked extensively across the UK in theatre and tv and throughout Europe. Her many theatre credits include THE SILVER TASSIE (National Theatre), HAPPINESS (Edinburgh Playhouse Studio), CARTHAGINIANS (Lyric Theatre Belfast), AJAX (Riverside Studios), LINE OF DUTY 2 + 3 (BBC 2), HANJO (Soho Theatre), STEPHEN AND THE SEXY PARTIDGE (Trafalgar Studios) as well as a large body of Shakespeare and new work played everywhere from Elsinore Castle to the ladies loo at the Assembly Rooms in Edinburgh! Lucia has enjoyed working with practitioners such as Howard Davis, Frank McGuiness and Adrian Dunbar. Caitriona Mclaughlin cast her last year in Frank McGuinness's THE FACTORY GIRLS.
MAIREAD CUMISKEY
Actor
Mairéad trained at the Samuel Beckett Centre, Trinity College Dublin. Theatre credits include: Healthy Heart, Up in the Clouds, and The Gift (Ten Ten Theatre), Political Me (The Conker Group), Peer Gynt Recharged (Ibsen Stage Company), Paper boy and Friends (Engine 13 Theatre Company), Ann and Barry: What Kind Of Time Do You Call This? (Talking Shop Ensemble), Submarine Man (Upstate Theatre Project), Black Snow (Samuel Beckett Theatre), Love’s Labour’s Lost (Samuel Beckett theatre), The Hostage(Samuel Beckett Theatre), The Tempest (Samuel Beckett Theatre), Vinegar Tom (Samuel Beckett Theatre). Film credits include: Newborn (Wickergirl Productions), Luna (Met Film School), Spin (KK Productions).
MARK STRAKER
Actor
Mark was a member of the NYT and trained at Central.
Film & Television includes Eastenders, Doctors, Law and Order UK, Ashes to Ashes, Spooks, Judge John Deed, Last Laugh, The Basil Brush Show, Batman Begins, Footballers’ Wives, Secrets, Life Begins, The Bill, Murphy’s Law, Manchild, Trail of Guilt, Hidden City, Border Café, Shiner, The Dream Team, Shades, Randall and Hopkirk Deceased, Reach for the Moon, London’s Burning, Casualty and The Wild House.
Theatre includes Blithe Spirit and Say Who You Are (both Vienna's English Theatre), An Evening with Gary Lineker (Far East Tour), Changes (Mast Theatre Company) and Luck Penny (Lion & Unicorn).
Mark also works extensively in radio and voice overs. Three times a member of BBC Radio Drama Company appearing in over 600 radio plays and soon to be in War and Peace BBC Radio 4.
MATT ANDREWS
Actor
Since Training at The Drama Centre, London Matt has worked extensively in Theatre, Film & Television in both leading & supporting roles. Theatre includes: 'Strangers on a Train' Gielgud, The Canterbury Tales, Garrick/ 3 tours. 'The Merchant of Venice' Waterfront Belfast/Tour 'Having a Ball' Birmingham Rep/Tour. The Devil's Law Case, Our Day Out, A Cage Without Bars,Under My Skin, Wasted, and many others. Film includes: Elizabeth (Working Title), Up'n'Under (John Godber), Hitlers Death (BBC), Tell My Story (Rajesh Shinde), Ms Lonleyhearts (Hitesh Teli). As well as numerous shorts. Television includes: A Wing and a Prayer, Families, Holby City, The Bill, Waterloo Road, Murphy's Law. He has also performed in a number of Radio 4 plays for the BBC.
THE MAN IN THE SKY (Party Lines)
MAX WILSON
Actor
Max trained at ArtsEd London. Theatre includes Othello at The Riverside Studios (2014 Off West End Nomination: Best Supporting Actor), Betrayal for London Classic Theatre (UK & Ireland Tour), The Tempest and A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Grassroots Shakespeare London, Please Wait Patiently and Snowbird for Hot Tubs & Trampolines. Television includes Doctors for the BBC. Voiceover includes Skoda (TV & Radio), London Zoo: Tiger Territory (TV & Cinema), The Open University / Cyclevox (Documentary), Teletext Holidays (Radio), Tetley Tea (Idents) and The Bathroom (ADR). Commercials include Santander Bank, Meller Candy and Orange Mobile.
MICHAEL MATUS
Actor
Theatre includes King Lear (Chichester Festival Theatre), The Frogs (Jermyn Street Theatre), Peter and the Starcatcher (Northampton Theatres Trust), The Phantom of the Opera (Cameron Mackintosh), Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Playhouse Theatre), The Return of the Soldier (Jermyn Street Theatre), Hostage Song (Finborough Theatre), The A to Z of Mrs P Sandor (Southwark Playhouse), Sound of Music (Regent’s Park Theatre), Lend Me A Tenor (Gielgud Theatre West End), Tis Pity She’s A Whore (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Midsummer Night’s Dream/Timon of Athens (The Globe Theatre) and Canterbury Tales (RSC Regional Tour). TV incudes Endeavour (ITV), A Prince Among Men (BBC), Then (Channel 4) and Eastenders (BBC).
THIS ISLAND'S MINE
NICOLA KAVANAGH
Actor
Nicola graduated from Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in 2014. Theatre credits include; Oedipus (Abbey Theatre) Abyss (Arcola Theatre) Othello (Frantic Assembly/ Lyric Hammersmith) A Midsummer Night's Dream (Squerryes Court) London Road (Bristol Old Vic Studio), The Innocent Mistress (Bristol Old Vic Studio), Serious Money (Circomedia) Elevator (THISISPOPBABY). King John and Hamlet (Project Atrs Centre, Dublin). As a singer, Nicola has toured and recorded with the Irish choral group, Anúna.
PATRICK DRURY
Actor
Patrick trained at RADA
Recent theatre: 27 (National Theatre of Scotland), Democracy (Sheffield Crucible/Old Vic Theatre), The Woman in Black (Fortune), 66 Books: Concerning Faith (Bush), The Cherry Orchard (Birmingham Rep). Other theatre work includes Strange Interlude, Fram, Major Barbara, The Enchantment, Much Ado About Nothing, Danton’s Death, Don Juan, The Prince of Homburg, Murderers, Torquato Tasso, Bartholomew Fair, Fuente Ovejuna, (National Theatre); Waste, Judgement Day (Almeida); Ghosts, King Lear, Twelfth Night, Hamlet, Mother Courage (English Touring Theatre); King and Country (Touring Partnership); Afore Night Come (Young Vic); The Graduate (national tour); The Memory of Water (Vaudeville); Flying Blind (Royal Court); Coriolanus (Edinburgh/Jerusalem/Tokyo); Rebecca (Vienna); Proof (Frankfurt); Silas Marner (Orange Tree Theatre); The Trinidad Sisters (Donmar); Measure for Measure (Riverside Studios). Television: Prisoners Wives, Father Ted (3 series); The Politician’s Wife; Cold Blood; Midsomer Murders; Rory Bremner: Who Else?; The Men’s Room; Shoot to Kill; Judge John Deed; Silent Witness; Inspector Morse; Lennon Naked. Film: The Awakening; Hanna’s War; Singleton’s Pluck; The Nightingale Saga.
PAUL KEATING
Actor
Theatre includes: Kenny in KENNY MORGAN (Arcola Theatre), Elliot Garfield in THE GOODBYE GIRL (Gatehouse Theatre), Scarecrow in THE WIZARD OF OZ (London Palladium), TICK TICK BOOM! (Duchess Theatre), BLOWING WHISTLES (Leicester Square Theatre), Buttons in Stephen Fry’s CINDERELLA (Old Vic), LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS (Menier Chocolate Factory & Duke of York’s), DON CARLOS (Gielgud Theatre), GLADIATOR GAMES (Theatre Royal, Stratford East), A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre in conjunction with The Donmar Warehouse), THE FULL MONTY (Prince of Wales Theatre), CLOSER TO HEAVEN (The Arts Theatre) - Olivier Award nomination, LA CAVA (Piccadilly Theatre), ASSASSINS (New End Theatre), LOST IN YONKERS (Novello Theatre), TOMMY (Shaftesbury Theatre) - Olivier Award nomination.
TV credits include: AGAINST THE LAW (BBC), HUMANS (Channel 4), HOLBY CITY (BBC), INJUSTICE (ITV), EASTENDERS (BBC), METROSEXUALITY (Channel 4), SECRET BRITAIN (Channel 4), AMBASSADOR (BBC), PENPICS (Channel 4), TROUBLEMAKERS (BBC), THE BILL (Carlton) and CASUALTY (BBC).
Film credits include THE BROTHERS MARTERANA, STRIP, BRING ME THE HEAD OF MAVIS DAVIS, JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR, and HETROSEXUALITY.
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RACHEL SUMMERS
Actor
Summers trained and received a Masters in Screen Acting at the Royal Central School of Speech & Drama.
Theatre credits include:Conundrum(Arcola Theatre); The Sun, The Moon and Stars(Yard Theatre); Dare to Do(Space Theatre); Til We Meet In England(Peckham Safehouse); Mastering Business(Stockwell Playhouse); Far From Fiction(Lion and Unicorn Theatre); Don Quixote in Algiers(White Bear Theatre); MacBeth (Cockpit Theatre); Dante: The Inferno(Leicester Square Theatre); Bookends: 'A Novel Approach'(Etcetera Theatre); Blue Soup(Red Lion Theatre); Papa's Bathtub Gin(Rosemary Branch Theatre) and Love Isn’t Enough (Kiln Theatre - formally Tricycle Theatre).
Film Credits:Calloused Hands.
TV Credits:Comedy Central shorts.
Voice Over Credits: World Vision UK; ISME; Worldstores; Jacqueline Wilson Books
REBECCA TODD
Actor
Rebecca trained at LAMDA.
Theatre credits include:Nine Night(National Theatre); Romeo & Juliet(Orange Tree Theatre); Seeing the Lights, Old Times, Rookery Nook(Theatre by the Lake); Treasure Island(Iris Theatre); Purge(Arcola); Table Manners, Round And Round The Garden, The Turn Of The Screw, Deathtrap(Sheringham Little Theatre); Contractions(Unicorn Theatre); Julius Caesar(Broadway Studio); A Devilish Exercise(Rose Theatre, Bankside); Coriolanus(Tour); Playhouse Creatures(Milagro Productions). For Shakespeare’s Globe, Rebecca has appeared in several Read Not Deadscript-in-hand performances, including The Knight of the Burning Pestle, Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay, Gorboduc, Gallatheaand Timon of Athens.
Television credits include:Emmerdale.
Film credits include:Peninsula;7 Lives.
ROXANNA NIC LIAM
Actor
Roxanna Nic Liam’s work in theatre includes Liola at The National Theatre, The Plough And The Stars And The Passing At The Abbey, Dublin; Bas Tongue, Paper Boy And Friends, THEATREclub Sole Your Clock Radio, What The F&*k You Gonna Do About It?, This Is Still Life, Daily Bread and The Cripple Of Inishmaan for Project Arts; Rough for THEATREclub; Perve and A Midsummer Nights Dream for Peacock; Complexity for The Complex; and City Breaks at the Dublin Fringe Festival. TV includes Love/Hate III and Raw IV and films include, Out Of Here, Homemade, Two Hearts, Agnes Brown and The General.
SAM GRAHAM
Actor
Sam Graham trained at The Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. 35 years ago Sam was contemplating giving up a degree in Pharmacy to be an actor and was inspired by a documentary on RADA leavers, which included the outstanding Danny Webb. After graduation Danny was filmed packing frozen meat in Smithfields Market and Sam doubted his choice. The week after that broadcast Sam went to the Glasgow Citizens Theatre to see “Macbeth” and there, in the first scene, was Danny Webb being a brilliant ‘Bloody Sergeant’.
The rest as they say is history. Sam’s done the National, RSC, The Royal Exchange, Royal Court, Chichester, The Traverse, toured the world and played most of the towns in England that have a theatre- and some which have none! He has played Macbeth, Richard III, Berowne, Puck and Phoebe! Created more than two dozen characters in new plays, including Conquest of The South Pole, The Permanent Way and Oh Go My Man. He spent last year on the road with his beloved Out of Joint in Our Country’s Good which took him from Croydon to Minneapolis and Toronto back to Brighton. He has 30 years of jobbing television behind him, from Bergerac, through Footballers’ Wives to The Tunnel. He loves his wife, his two daughters and his wee dog.
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SINÉAD BEARY
Actor
Sinead Beary trained at East 15 Acting School. Favourite previous theatre roles include Rosalind in the London premiere of "Chicken" by Mike Batistick and Linda in a national tour of Alan Bennett's "Enjoy".She is currently in rehearsals for the children's charity Scene and Heard's latest production where she will be playing "The Universe".
SOPHIE WARD
Actor
Sophie trained at the Anna Scher Theatre in London.
Theatre includes: Go Back For Murder and The Grass Is Greener (tour); Private Lives; One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (tour); An Ideal Husband (Theatre Clwyd); Nothing (59th Street, New York); Electricity (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Semi Monde (Lyric Theatre, London); The Three Sisters (Chichester); The Turn Of The Screw (Belgrade Theatre, Coventry); Flare Path (King’s Head, London); Les Liaisons Dangereuses (tour); Private Lives, Milk Train, Don Carlos, Hamlet, The Robbers, Blithe Spirit, Venice Preserv’d (all at the Citizen’s Theatre).
Film includes: Jane Eyre, Book of Blood, Out of Bounds, Crime and Punishment, Wuthering Heights, Toscanini, A Summer Story, Little Dorrit, Aria and Young Sherlock Holmes.
Television includes: Secret State, Hustle, Land Girls, Law & Order, New Tricks, Lewis, Heartbeat, Dinotopia, Casualty, Holby City, A Village Affair, Prophecy, Taking Liberty, Class of ’61, A Dark Adapted Eye, MacGyver, Miss Marple, The Shell Seekers.
THEO FRASER STEELE
Actor
Theatre credits include:Don Quixote(West End); Jeeves & Wooster in Perfect Nonsense,Sense & Sensibility, Single Spies(Theatre by the Lake);Doctor Faustus, The Alchemist, Don Quixote(RSC); Woman in Mind(Salisbury Playhouse); Bloody Sunday / Guantanamo(Tricycle Theatre & West End); The Drowned World(Traverse Theatre & The Bush Theatre); Outside Now/ The Moment Is A Gift(Prada Institute, Milan); The Importance of Being Earnest(Australian Tour & West End); Skylight(National Theatre & West End); The Shallow End(Royal Court & West End); A Week With Tony(Finborough); Amphitryon(Gate Theatre); Tamburlaine The Great(RSC)
Television credits include:Victoria; The Thick of It; My Family; Keen Eddie; Hex; Close & True; A Christmas Carol; Shockers: The Visitor; The Prince of Hearts; Casualty.
Film credits include:The Golden Compass; Mad About Mambo; Before You Go; Mrs Brown.
Radio credits include: The Corrupted series 1-5; The Beach at Falesa; Lady Susan; The Prince; Number Ten series 1-4; A Small Town Murder; Two Minutes Hate; Romeo and Juliet; Antoine et Dougie; The Greengage Summer (all BBC Radio4)
THOMA O’NEILL
Actor
Thoma is a recent Drama graduate from De Montfort University. He discovered acting at the age of seven years old in a History class playing Henry VIII which is arguably his greatest role to date. That or when he played a frog.
Theatre credits whilst training: The Frog Prince, The Three Little Men in the Wood, Blood Wedding, excerpts from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, excerpts from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, King Midas and his Golden Touch, Peter Pan, excerpts from The Play that Goes Wrong and A Christmas Carol.
Film credits whilst training: A Will To Disturb and Growing up Polish
He also performed a pilot script for an animated fantasy comedy, and has performed stand up comedy on numerous occasions, while in training.
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TOM ROSS-WILLIAMS
Actor
Tom Ross-Williams is an actor, activist and theatre-maker and the Creative Director of The Advocacy Academy.
Theatre credits include:Jubilee(Royal Exchange & Lyric Hammersmith);We Know Not What We May Be (Metis/Barbican); ArmingThe World(Ice&Fire); Three Sisters(Southwark Playhouse);On Negril Beach(Bush Theatre); The Forest and the Field(Chris Goode & Co); Vieux Carré(King’s Head and West End Transfer);Dunsinane(RSC); Shalom Baby(Theatre Royal Stratford East); Fastburn(Kneehigh); Amphibians (Offstage); Prime Resident(Soho Theatre) and Run (The Bunker – OFFIE nomination for Best Actor).
Film and Television credits include: Fit; Free; The Grove; Forgotten Man and The Young Vic’s The 8 Club.
Theatre-maker credits include:Artistic Director of Populace (2011-2016);Give Me Your Skin(BAC & UK tour);My Uncle is Not Pablo Escobar(BAC/Shoreditch Town Hall) andMan Up(Theatre Royal Stratford East).
TRACY KEARNEY
Actor
Tracy is a London based actor form Co.Cork. She has worked extensively across stage and screen. Recent Theatre credits include: Divorcing God? (Drayton Arms), The Sacred Sow (Prague Playhouse, International Festival), The Ladies Cage (Manchester Royal Exchange), The Six Days World (Finborough Theatre), The Donor (Kings Head Theatre). Film, T.V and Radio include: The Magdalene Sisters (Peter Mullan), Talking with Angels (Yousaf Ali Khan), Doctors (BBC), Green Green Grass (BBC), Questions of The Heart (PHP Germany), The Welcome Committee (Dogma Films), Death of Faith (BBC Radio 4).
TREVOR MICHAEL GEORGES
Actor
Training: Darlington College of Arts - Music BA (Hons) Theatre. Most recent theatre: The Magna Carta Plays (Salisbury Playhouse). For the National: Home, Moon on a Rainbow Shawl. West End: Starlight Express (also Japan, Germany and Australia), The Buddy Holly Story (also Canada), Carmen Jones. Other theatre includes: Orpheus Descending, Swallows and Amazons, Otieno, Blood Wedding, A Christmas Carol, How to Cook a Country, Under One Roof, Pan Beaters, Blue Moon, Casablanca, Once on This Island, The Iron Man, Sweet Charity.
Opera: Porgy and Bess. TV: Whitechapel, Doctor Who, Casualty, My Hero, Doctors, The Rotters Club, EastEnders, T-Bag, Dog Town, Pulling. Films: Piccadilly Jim.
VICTORIA RIGBY
Actor
Victoria graduated from the University of Cambridge with a Double First in English. She recently wrote and appeared in Girl From Nowhere at Theatre503. Credits at Cambridge include Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire, Sister James in Doubt: A Parable, Marianne in Sense and Sensibility and Hero in Much Ado About Nothing for the Pembroke Players JapanTour. Film includes Return with Golden Lane Films and Tell Them of Us with WAGScreen.