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  • STEVEN ALVEY

    STEVEN ALVEY

    Policeman, Young Wackford, Master P Crummles, Boxkeeper, Coachman, Ned Cheeryble

    Theatre credits include Trinculo in The Tempest (Shakespeare’s Globe), Sir Thurio in The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Globe and Broadway), Tony Burtoft in Up ‘n’ Under (West End), Catwalk, Sweet Sorrow, The Office Party Dracula and The New Office Party (Hull Truck Theatre Company), 84 Charing Cross Road, Blood Brothers, Far from the Madding Crowd and Peter Pan (national tours).
     
    Television credits include Loved by You, Beast and The Brief (all 2 series), Longitude, The Luddites, North Square, Trevor’s World of Sport and Doctors and Nurses.
     
    Trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

  • IAN ASHPITEL

    IAN ASHPITEL

    William, Tomkins, Master Crummles, Mr Curdle, Pluck, Charles Ceeryble

    Theatre credits include Tittle Tattle, Macbeth, Brighton Rock, The Ghost Train, Father Brown and the Poppyland Mysteries, Shout, The Merchant of Venice and Faustus.
     
    Television credits include, most recently, as Roy Piper in Thin Ice.  Other TV includes The Stupid Version, The Bill, Trial and Retribution, Heartbeat, EastEnders, Holby City, Biker Grove, Armando Iannucci Show, In the Red, Cappuccino Years, The Knock, and Chris Hart in Family Affairs. Radio credits include Week Ending.  Films include The Marksman. 
     
    He trained at the Birmingham School of Speech and Drama after spending 9 years in the Royal Navy.

  • BOB BARRETT

    BOB BARRETT

    Policeman, John Browdie, Hetherington, Lord Frederick Verisopht

    Previously appeared at Chichester as John Browdie/Hetherington/Lord Frederick Verisopht/Policeman in Nicholas Nickleby
     
    Most recent theatre credits include Baptista in The Taming of the Shrew and Malvolio  in Twelfth Night (Propeller, Old Vic, UK and international tour), The Winter’s Tale (Propeller), Hamlet (Thelma Holt Production Bite ’04, Barbican and tour), After the Dance (Oxford Stage Company. TMA Regional Theatre Awards nomination for Best Supporting Actor).
     
    Other Theatre includes Victory, Guys and Dolls, Dancing at Lughnasa, The Recruiting Officer and Of Mice and Men (Royal Lyceum Edinburgh), Uncle Vanya and The Castle (Wrestling School), Hamlet (Greenwich and tour), Hamlet and Comedians (Belgrade Theatre, Coventry), Cyrano de Bergerac (West End), The School for Scandal (Manchester Royal Exchange), Damned for Despair (Gate).
     
    Television credits include EastEnders, Absolutely Fabulous, Casualty, Cazalet Chronicles, Invasion: Earth, Inspector Alleyn Mysteries, The Tenth Kingdom, Wonderful You, Rich Tea and Sympathy, The Bill, Ruth Rendell Mysteries and An Unsuitable Job for a Woman.
     
    Films include Shakespeare in Love.
     
    Trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

  • DAVID DAWSON

    DAVID DAWSON

    Smike, Croupier

    Previously appeared as Smike in Nicholas Nickleby
     
    Theatre credits include Frank Rice in The Entertaininer and Groom/Understudy Richard in Richard II (Old Vic), Whittaker in The Long The Short and The Tall (Sheffield Lyceum), The Actor in The America Play, Darkie in The Fool, Weinberl in On the Razzle, Mr Wolf in Into the Woods, Cecil Graham in Lady Windermere’s Fan, Archer in The Beaux’ Stratagem, The Ward in Women Beware Women, title role in The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Bassanio/Gratiano in The Merchant of Venice and Dude Lester in Tobacco Road (RADA), title role in The Boy in the Bed  (Tower Theatre, London), Lysander in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Tower of London), Alan in Caligari (Unity Theatre, Liverpool) and Monsieur Grivet in Therese Raquin (national tour).
     
    Television credits include Up Close and Personal, The Thick of It: Spinners and Losers, The Thick of It: Riser of the Nutters, Damage and Doc Martin.
     
    Films include Making Love.
     
    Trained at RADA.

  • PIP DONAGHY

    PIP DONAGHY

    Mr Squeers, Wagstaff, Sir Mulbery Hawk

    Previously appeared at Chichester as Wackford Squeers/Wagstaff/Sir Mulbery Hawk in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby Parts 1 & 2 (Festival Theatre, UK tour, Gielgud Theatre London and Princess of Wales Theatre Toronto), Hamish McLennan in Pravda (and Birmingham Rep), The Magistrate in The Government Inspector and Argante in Scapino or The Trickster (Festival Theatre), Paul Adolph in Collaboration and Helmuth Rode in Taking Sides (Minerva Theatre and Duchess Theatre London).
     
    Theatre credits include Ron in Pressure Drop (On Theatre/Wellcome Collection), Des James in Deep Cut (Sherman Theatre/tour), Father Christmas in Down by the Greenwood Side (The Opera Group), Fezziwig in A Christmas Carol (Rose Theatre Kingston), Salter in A Number (Salisbury Playhouse Studio), Tony in On Religion (Soho Theatre Company), Inspector in An Inspector Calls (Australian tour), Padre in Jackets (Studio 503), King Ferdinand in The Lunatic Queen (Riverside Studios), Mr Paris in The Crucible (Birmingham Rep/Centreline tour), The Old Man in Interior (Young Vic), The Guide in 100 (Imaginary Theatre Company tour of Brazil and Australia), Mr Kipps in The Woman in Black (Fortune Theatre), Friar Lawrence in Romeo and Juliet (Clwyd Theatr Cymru), Solomon in The Clearing, Mr Tulliver in The Mill on the Floss and Dr Rank in A Doll’s House(Shared Experience), Weinand in Luther, Dr  Todt/Rabbi Geis in Albert Speer, Dr Sartorius in Widowers’ Houses, Creon in The Oedipus Trilogy, Countrymania, The Wandering Jew, Napoleon in Animal Farm, Sir Lucius O’Trigger in The Rivals, Clytemnestra in The Oresteia and Jesus Christ in The Nativity/ The Passion (National Theatre), Count Orsini Rosenberg in Amadeus (The Old Vic), Aslaksen in An Enemy of the People (National Theatre/US tour), Bruce in Caravan and Reno in Loving Reno (Bush Theatre), The Inspector in An Inspector Calls (Garrick Theatre), Keith in Way Upstream (Sheffield Crucible), Elyot Chase in Private Lives, The Duke/Dr Pinch in The Comedy of Errors and Carol in Little Murders (Manchester Royal Exchange), Dr Wangle in The Lady from the Sea (West Yorkshire Playhouse/Lyric Hammersmith), Torvald in A Doll’s House and Claudius in Hamlet (English Touring Company), Victor in No Remission (Midnight Theatre Company), Victor Franz in The Price (Oxford Stage Company), Captain Boyle in Juno and The Paycock (Contact Theatre Manchester), Brutus in Julius Caesar and Don Pedro in Much Ado About Nothing (Open Air Theatre Regent’s Park), Raymond in Hess is Dead (RSC/ Almeida), Mr Medley in The Man of Mode, Sir Harry Wildair in The Constant Couple and Mr Freeman in The Plain Dealer (RSC Swan/Barbican).
     
    Television credits include MidsomerMurders, Holby City, This is Personal, The Bill, Coronation Street, Out of the Blue, Dalziel and Pascoe, Prime Suspect, Ruth Rendell, Boon, Tell Tale, Underbelly, Maigret, A Wanted Man, The Campbells, Alice in Wonderland, Oliver Twist, In the Secret State, Pickwick Papers, The Invisible Man.
     
    Radio credits include An English Tragedy, Deep Cut, All the Birds of the Air, The Dutch Mariner, Dionysus, Poems by Post, The Publicist’s Tale, Fumers, A Valentine for Execution, The Sevenfold Crown, In Praise of Progress, The Oedipus Plays, Campion’s Ghost, Banishing Lucifer.
     
    Films include 1984.

  • ROBERT HASTIE

    ROBERT HASTIE

    Mr Lenville, Mr Scaley, Mr Snobb, Mr Witterly, Frank Cheeryble, Snawley Jnr.

    Theatre credits include Herbert Pocket in Great Expectations (RSC), The Soldier in Edward Bond’s Lear (Sheffield Crucible), Treadgold in Forty Years On (Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough).
     
    Radio includes Flash for Freedom, Lucinda Brayford, A Passage to India, Arthur, Black Beauty, The Lair of the White Worm
     
    Winner of the BBC Carlton Hobbs Prize 2004.
                             
    Studied at Peterhouse , Cambridge and trained at RADA. 

  • STEPHANIE  JACOB

    STEPHANIE JACOB

    Mme Mantalini, Boulder, Miss Ledrook, Wanda

    Theatre credits include As You Desire Me (Playhouse Theatre), Sweeney Todd (Watermill, Trafalgar Studios, New Ambassadors), Be My Baby (Soho Theatre), The Winter’s Tale (Theatre Royal, Bath), The Man of Mode (Northcott, Exeter), The Importance of Being Earnest (Watermill), Romeo and Juliet (English Shakespeare Company), Candida (National Theatre Studio, Theatre Royal, Plymouth, Salisbury Playhouse), David Copperfield, World on Fire and The Tinderbox (New Vic, Stoke), Cyrano de Bergerac, The Winter’s Tale, Unfinished Business, The Beggar’s Opera, The Changeling and The Taming of the Shrew (RSC), The Dresser (Vienna’s English Theatre), Silas Marner (Theatr Clwyd), Stanley (National Theatre), The Rival (National Theatre Studio), Boadicea (Foursight Theatre, international tour), The Good Person of Sichuan (Leicester Haymarket), As You Like It, Dr Faustus and The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Liverpool Everyman), Fen and Under The Earth (Orchard Theatre).
     
    Television credits include Foyle’s War, Midsomer Murders, Doctors, EastEnders, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Daniel Deronda, Casualty, Family Affairs and Home Farm Twins.  Films include The Life and Death of Peter Sellers.
     
    Theatre-in-Education includes five years in Black Country and London schools, creating and performing participatory theatre for all ages.  Topics included Prohibition, Solidarnosc and the Palestinian/Israeli conflict.

  • SUSAN JAMESON

    SUSAN JAMESON

    Mrs Nickleby, Mrs Curdle, Mrs Snevellicci

    Previously appeared at Chichester as Mrs Shaw in In Celebration (Minerva Theatre).
     
    Theatre credits include Dorimene in A Fool and His Money (Nottingham Playhouse and Birmingham Rep), Libby in You Say Tomatoes (Haymarket Theatre, Basingstoke), Talking Heads – Bed Among the Lentils (Swan Theatre, Worcester), Ethel Gibbons in This Happy Breed (Farnham and Bromley), Vera in Just Between Ourselves (Greenwich), Jill Robinson in Safe in Our Hands (Belgrade Theatre, Coventry), Patience in Jamaica Inn and Lady Macbeth in Macbeth (Farnham), Visiting Hour (Richmond), Gargantua (Royal Court Upstairs), Happy as a Sandbag (Windsor), Prince Fritz Fitz-Pince in Cinderella (Stratford East and tour) and Constance in The Constant Wife (Cambridge and tour).  Other theatre credits include work at various repertory companies and national tours of Getting On and Pride and Prejudice.
     
    Television credits include New Tricks (3 series), Holby City, Dalziel and Pascoe, Rescue Me, People Like Us, A&E, Close and True, Heartbeat, Kid in the Corner, The Works – E Nesbitt, The Bill, Catherine Cookson’s The Girl, Band of Gold, Circle of Deceit, Boon, The Merchant of Venice, To Serve Them All My Days, When the Boat Comes In, Take Three Girls, Coronation Street, Rory Bremner…Who Else?, Hell’s Bells, The Dave Allen Show, Gingerbread Girl, Home to Roost, Hi-De-Hi, All in Good Faith, Never the Twain, Archers Goon, Rosie the First, Bad Boyes, Who Sir? Me Sir?, Woof, Secret World of Polly Flint and Jackanory.  Films include Nine Lives, The Jumper, International Velvet, I Monster, Count of Solar, Catherine – Brief Lives, All Creatures Great and Small and Little Grey Home in the West.
     
    A member of the Radio Drama Company for 9 months (2004-5) recorded many audio books for Penguin, Macmillan, BBC etc including 46 unabridged Catherine Cooksons.
     
    Trained at the Birmingham School of Speech and Drama.

  • LEIGH LAWSON

    LEIGH LAWSON

    Ralph Nickleby

    Theatre credits include, most recently, Shoreditch Madonna (Soho Theatre), Dr Mirander in Death and the Maiden (King’s Head Theatre).  In the West End credits include Lloyd in Noises Off, Marc in Art (and UK tour), Deeley in Old Times (and Moscow), Antonio in The Merchant of Venice, Baldo in A Touch of Spring.  For the RSC Oberon/Theseus in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (and world tour) and Loveless in The Relapse, for the National Theatre From the Balcony, Yonadab and The Second Mrs Tanqueray.  In the USA Lloyd in Noises Off, Antonio in The Merchant of Venice (Broadway), Sydney in Hotel Suite (Roundabout Theatre, New York), Horner in The Country Wife (Washington Shakespeare Theatre) and Barrymore (Arizona City Theatre).  Other theatre credits include The Cherry Orchard (Riverside Studio), The Doctor’s Dilemma (Greenwich) and extensive repertory work.
     
    Television credits in the UK and USA include Travelling Man, Kinsey, Stick With Me Kid.   Mini series and others include Song of Songs, Tears in the Rain, Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?, Disraeli, Queenie, Voice of the Heart, The Ring, Silent Witness, Heartbeat, Absolutely Fabulous, Coach, The Nanny, The Captain’s Doll, Journey Into the Shadows, Charlie Boy, Deadline Madrid, The Small Assassin, Black Carrion, O’Pioneers, Battling for Baby, An Unsuitable Job for a Woman.  Films include Casanova, Silence Becomes You, Being Julia, Madame Sousatzka, Tess, Love Among the Ruins, Brother Sun Sister Moon, The God King, Ghost Story, Sword of the Valiant, The Tiger Lilly, Golden Rendezvous, The Devil’s Advocate, The Sword and the Fire.
     
    Credits as a Director include Jack and The Beanstalk (Theatre Royal, Brighton), The Cherry Orchard (MATA), Next Time I’ll Sing to You (Hen and Chicken), Noël and Gertie (Sag Harbour, NY), The Restaurant, Make Us Believe It (Lenox Theatre, NY).  Produced, adapted and directed If Love Were All (Lortle Theatre, NY).
     
    Trained at RADA.

  • DILYS LAYE

    DILYS LAYE

    Miss La Creevy, Mrs Gudden, Peg

    Theatre credits include Mrs Branson in Night Must Fall (Theatr Clwyd), Grandmother in The Witches (Birmingham Rep, tour and Wyndhams Theatre), Elizabeth in Blonde Bombshells and Connie in Father’s Day (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Madame de Rosemond in Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Playhouse Theatre.  Clarence Derwent Award for Best Supporting Actress), Lady Markby in An Ideal Husband and Coral Browne/HM The Queen in Single Spies (Leicester Haymarket), Mrs Pearce in My Fair Lady (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane), Mrs Medlock in The Secret Garden (RSC, Stratford-upon-Avon and Aldwych Theatre), Cornelia Corombona in The White Devil (Lyric, Hammersmith), Mother in Gone to LA (Hampstead Theatre), Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest (Northcott Theatre, Exeter), Bess in Dreaming (Queen’s Theatre and Manchester Royal Exchange), Red Riding Hood’s Granny/Cinderella’s Mother in Into the Woods and Guido’s Mother in Nine (Donmar Warehouse), Heather Espy in Racing Demon, Charlotta in The Cherry Orchard and Winnie in Happy Days (Salisbury Playhouse), Aunt Eller in Oklahoma! (Plymouth and UK tour), Golde in Fiddler on the Roof (Belgrade Theatre, Coventry), Ruth in The Pirates of Penzance and Mrs Lovett in Sweeney Todd (Manchester), Dulcie in The Boy Friend (original Broadway cast), Jessica Faldgate in Beethoven’s Tenth (Vaudeville), The Devil Himself (Lyric Studio), Wife/Helen in Frontiers of Farce (Old Vic), The Theory and Practice of Belly Dancing (Other Place/Barbican), Dorothy Brock in 42nd Street (UK tour), Maria in Twelfth Night, Teresa Diego in The Bewitched, Nurse in Romeo and Juliet, Mrs Needham in The Art of Success, First Witch in Macbeth, Irma in The Balcony, Glinda/Aunt Em in The Wizard of Oz and Parthy Ann in Showboat (RSC), And So to Bed, Intimacy at 8.30, For Amusement Only, High Spirits, Make Me an Offer, The Tunnel of Love and Say Who You Are (West End).
     
    Television credits include Mister Charity, Holby City, Midsomer Murders, Coronation Street, Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married, Merlin, EastEnders, Hard Times, The Spirit of Man, Bye Bye Columbus, Campion, Waters of the Moon, Chintz and Morecambe & Wise.  Films include Dog Eat Dog, Alice in Wonderland, Voices from a Locked Room, Carry On Doctor, Carry On Spying, Carry On Cruising, Carry On Camping, Doctor at Large, Petticoat Pirates, Idle on Parade, The Countess of Hong Kong, Please Turn Over, and the St Trinians films.

  • CHRISTOPHER LOGAN

    CHRISTOPHER LOGAN

    Flunkey Snawley Jnr, Mr Bane, Mr Tix, Alphonse, Wilbur, Angry Fellow, Belling

    Previously appeared at Chichester as Flunkey/Snawley Jnr/Mr Bane/Mr Tix/Alphonse/
    Wilbur/Angry Fellow/New Smike in Nicholas Nickleby and Larry Punt/Ian Ape-Ward in Pravda (and Birmingham Rep).
     
    Theatre credits include Twelfth Night (Thelma Holt Company national tour), The Quare Fellow (Oxford Stage Company, Tricycle Theatre and tour) and Shakespeare performances, poetry recitals and acting workshops (Cunard QM2), Quartermaine’s Terms, Antigone, Hotel Paradiso, Early Morning and The Devil in Drag (RADA), A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Dancing at Lughnasa (National Youth Theatre).
     
    Television credits include Kerching! 
     
    Radio credits include The Arab/Israeli Cookbook.
     
    Films include The Magic Flute, Mrs Henderson Presents and Esther Kahn.
     
    Trained at RADA.
     

  • EMMA MANTON

    EMMA MANTON

    Hannah, Tilda Price, Rich Lord's Daughter, Miss Belvawney

    Previously appeared as Hannah/Tilda Price/Rich Lord’s Daughter/Miss Belvawney in Nicholas Nickleby
     
    Theatre credits include Ladybird in James and the Giant Peach (Bolton Octagon), Messua in The Jungle Book (Watermill Theatre), Stelmaria in His Dark Materials (National Theatre), Magaera in Androcles and The Lion and Chorus in Agamemnon (Scoop Theatre), Mouse in The Gruffalo (US tour), Bella in Zagazoo (Nottingham Playhouse), Manton in The Island of First Loves (tour), Watkins in Around the World in 80 Days (Liverpool Playhouse), Storyteller in Our Thing (Gate Theatre), Eros/Echo in Pandemonium (Pleasance Theatre and tour), Imogen in Pulling Together (Latchmere Theatre), Mollie in Animal Farm, Ensemble in Oedipus the King, Abigail in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Young ‘Un in Yoho and Jemmy in Kip’s War (Leicester Haymarket).
     
    Television credits include The Office Christmas Specials, The Office (series 1&2). 
     
    Radio credits include Dr Who: Creatures of Beauty.
     
    A member of Leicester Haymarket young People’s Theatre, performed with National Youth Music Theatre and studied at Sheffield University.

  • ALEX MCINTOSH

    ALEX MCINTOSH

    Snawley Snr, Mr Pailey, Mr Pyke

    Theatre credits include Julius Caesar (Barbican), Doing It (Greenwich), Cinderella (Northampton), Tom’s Midnight Garden (Library Theatre), Murder (The Gate), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Albery Theatre) and Kingelein in Grand Hotel, Don John in Much Ado About Nothing, title role in Uncle Vanya, title role in Tartuffe and Sky Masterson in Guys and Dolls (Guildhall).
     
    Television credits include Police Stories, Inspector Lynley, Oscar Charlie and HG Wells.  Films include The Four Feather,s Twelfth Night and Perfect Day.
     
    Trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

  • ABIGAIL MCKERN

    ABIGAIL MCKERN

    Coates, Miss Knagg, Mrs Lenville, Mrs Wititterley

    Previously at Chichester Coates/Miss Knagg/Miss Lenville/Mrs Wititterley in Nicholas Nickleby, Agatha Posket in The Magistrate (and transfer to Savoy Theatre), Lady Teazle in The School for Scandal (and UK tour), Josepha Quarenden in Preserving Mr Panmure (all Festival Theatre) and Eleanor in Dead Funny (Minerva Theatre).
     
    Theatre credits include Eva in For Services Rendered (Watermill Newbury), The Woman in Death of a Salesman (Lyric Shaftesbury Avenue), Mrs Moxton in Relative Values (Salisbury Playhouse), Mrs Holly in Suddenly Last Summer (Sheffield Crucible and Albery Theatre), Beatrice in A View from the Bridge (Birmingham Rep and West Yorkshire Playhouse), Charlotta in The Cherry Orchard (Oxford Stage Company), Ethel in Ethel and Ernest (Nottingham Playhouse), Mae in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Lyric Shaftesbury Avenue), Maria in Twelfth Night (Liverpool Playhouse), Barbara in Things We Do for Love (Chester Gateway), Harper Amaty Pitt in Angels in America (Library Theatre, Manchester), Miss Hardcastle in She Stoops to Conquer (Sydney Theatre Company), Mrs Weston/Mrs Elton in Emma (Gilded Balloon), Dorine in Tartuffe (Almeida Theatre), Cordelia in King Lear, Rosaline in Love’s Labour’s Lost and Lady Fidget in The Country Wife (RSC), Fiona in Three Birds Alighting on a Field (Royal Court), Elena in Kean (Old Vic and Toronto), Dunyasha in The Cherry Ochard (Aldwych Theatre), Nerissa in The Merchant of Venice (Phoenix Theatre), Leontile in Meet Me at Mimi’s and Eliza in Pygmalion (Mercury Theatre), Maria in Twelfth Night (Riverside Studios), Joanna in The Viewing (Greenwich Theatre), An Act of Faith and Marya in  Wild Honey (National Theatre), Jackie Coryton in Hay Fever (Queens Theatre).  Plays and Players Best Newcomer Award), Hero in Much Ado About Nothing, Hermia in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Celia in As You Like It (SWET Best Supporting Actress Award) (Regent’s Park Theatre), Mary Mooney in Once a Catholic (Derby Playhouse) and a season directed by Alan Ayckbourn at Scarborough.
     
    Television credits include Bonkers, Life Begins, Holby City, Swallow, Nicholas Nickleby, Midsomer Murders, Psychos, A Respectable Trade, Daphne and Apollo, Pie in the Sky II, Bramwell, Talking to Strange Men, Harnessing Peacocks, Rumpole of the Bailey (3 series), Medics, Twelfth Night, Wish Me Luck, The Charmer, Raspberry Ripple, Ladies Night, Angels and Fame is the Spur.
     
    Radio credits include Othello, War and Peace, Sense and Sensibility, Christabel, Letters from Kenneth Alsop.

  • BRIAN POYSER

    BRIAN POYSER

    Sir Matthew Pupker, Fluggers.Old Lord, Mr Snevellicci, Walter, Tim Linkinwater, Walter Bray

    Previously appeared at Chichester in Nicholas Nickleby and in four seasons (1966, 67, 69 and 72) under John Clements.
     
    Recent theatre credits include Wolsey in A Man for All Seasons (Haymarket), Don Carlos (Gielgud Theatre), Pirandello’s Henry IV (Donmar Warehouse), Arsenic and Old Lace (Strand Theatre), The Miser (Salisbury), Macbeth and South Pacific (Sheffield Crucible), David Copperfield (Greenwich and Sheffield Crucible), Of Mice and Men (Churchill Theatre, Bromley and tour), ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore, A Curlew’s Cry and Single Spies (Northcott Theatre, Exeter), The Merchant of  Venice (Phoenix Theatre), The Witch of Edmonton (Southwark Playhouse), Elizabeth Rex (Birmingham Rep), King Lear (RSC, Tokyo, Barbican and Stratford), The Prince of Homburg (RSC at Lyric Hammersmith and Stratford), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Winter’s Tale, Henry IV Parts I&II, Money, Peter Pan and Poppy (RSC Stratford and Barbican).
     
    Television Credits include Archbishop in Simon Schama’s Rough Crossing, Foyle’s War, Most Mysterious Murders, Midsomer Murders, Sex and Chips and Rock and Roll, The Bill, Wycliffe, The Ruth Rendell Mysteries, Inspector Alleyn, The Piglet Files, Poirot, Inspector Morse, Bergerac, Auf Wiedersehen Pet and Shine On Harvey Moon.  Films include Joan of Arc, Lady Jane, Parting Shots and Little Dorrit.
     
    Trained at RADA.

  • JOHN RAMM

    JOHN RAMM

    Newman Noggs, Handsaw

    Previously appeared at Chichester as William Monteagle in 5/11 (Festival Theatre) and Fool in King Lear (Minerva Theatre).
     
    Theatre credits include Pedro in Pedro the Great Pretender, Marquis Ricardo in The Dog in the Manger, Laertes in Hamlet, Sir Jack Daw in Epicoene and Danny in Have (RSC), Malvolio in Twelfth Night (Manchester Royal Exchange), Rogers in And Then There Were None,  The Green Man (Plymouth Theatre Royal and The Bush), The Golden Ass, Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Iachimo in Cymbeline (The Globe), The Wonder of SexAn Inspector Calls (National Theatre),  Buried Alive (Hampstead Theatre), Raymond Box in The Messiah (Bush Theatre), Leontes in The Winter’s Tale (Salisbury Playhouse), Hitler in Good (Donmar Warehouse), Raymond in Love Upon the Throne (Comedy Theatre, Edinburgh Festival, Bush Theatre and Berlin Festival), Angelo in Measure for Measure (Nottingham Playhouse), Raymond in The Mysteries of Sex (National Theatre of Brent), Olaf in Time and the Room (Nottingham Playhouse and Edinburgh), Cesare in The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari (Nottingham Playhouse and Lyric Hammersmith), Nestor in The Nose (Nottingham Playhouse and Bucharest), Berringer in Rhinoceros (Man in the Moon), Caliban in The Tempest (Phoebus Cart), Oberon in The Park, Yasha in The Cherry Orchard, Autolycus in The Winter’s Tale, Feste in Twelfth Night (Sheffield Crucible).
     
    Television credits include This is Dom Joly, The Queen’s Nose, Massive Landmarks, The Bill, South of the Border, Robin Hood and Losing It.  Films include The Nine Lives of Thomas Katz, Shakespeare in Love and Food of Love.

  • SIMON ROBERTS

    SIMON ROBERTS

    Mr Pitcher, Mr Mantalini, Brooker, Folair, Col. Chowser, Minister

    Previously appeared at Chichester as Mr Mantalini in Nicholas Nickleby.
     
    Theatre credits include Corvino in Volpone and Judge Bracke in Hedda Gabler (Theatre Babel), Sir Danvers Carew in Dr Jeckyll and Mr Hyde and Charles Money in Tales from Hollywood (Perth Theatre), Siegfried Sassoon in Not About Heroes (Byre Theatre), Sebastian in The Tempest (Liverpool Theatre), Kenneth Tynan in Smoking with Lulu and Victor in Private Lives, Lyngstrand in Lady from the Sea and Octavius Robinson in Man and Superman (Glasgow Citizens), Hortensio in The Taming of the Shrew (Royal Exchange), Dr Marsh in Learning to Love the Grey (Pleasance Edinburgh), Henry Lyppiatt in Present Laughter (Birmingham Rep), The Protagonist in Der Protagonist (BBC Symphony Orchestra), Edgar in King Lear (Leicester Haymarket/Young Vic/Tokyo Globe), Amphitryon in Amphitryon, Don Juan in Don Gil of the Green Breeches and George Orwell in Down and Out in Paris and London (Gate Theatre), Camille in A Flea in Her Ear (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Falkland in The Rivals (Nottingham Playhouse), Silvius in As You Like It (Old Vic), Edmund in King Lear (Renaissance Theatre), Oberon in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (world tour), Leo in Design for Living, Trofimov in The Cherry Orchard, Wolf in The Park , Mr Martin in Bald Prima Donna, Jack in The Importance of Being Earnest and Sir Andrew Aguecheek in Twelfth Night (Sheffield Crucible), Emil Nolde in Unpainted Pictures (Union Theatre), Guy in A Chorus of Disapproval (Cheltenham Everyman), Prince Henri de Conde in The Devils and Captain Worthy in The Recruiting Officer (Theatr Clwyd), Sir Williams Davidson in Mary Stuart (Greenwich Theatre), Tom Jones in Tom Jones (Redgrave Theatre Farnham),German Soldier in Mephisto and Viscount Destaing in The Danton Affair (RSC Barbican), James Joyce in Mr Joyce is Leaving Paris (Kings Head) and Barclay in Another Country (Queen’s Theatre).
     
    Television credits include Modern Toss, Absolute Power, Swiss Toni, The Queen’s Nose, Ted and Ralph, Jonathan Creek, The Famous Five, The Fast Show, The Bill, Poirot, Coronation Street, Mapp and Lucia, By the Sword Divided, A Woman of Substance, Dream Stuffing.
     
    Radio credits include  Married, The Patrick and Maureen Maybe Radio Experience, The Russia House, Weekending and Mr Finchley goes to Paris.
     
     
     

  • VERONICA ROBERTS

    VERONICA ROBERTS

    Mrs Squeers, Rich Lady, Mrs Crummles, Mrs Snawley

    Previously appeared at Chichester as Mrs Sqweers/Mrs Crummles in Nicholas Nickleby (also West End and Toronto), The Inconstant Couple, Look After Lulu, Hitting Town and VE Night.
     
    Theatre credits include Irene in Comfort Me With Apples Margaret in Buried Alive and Dearly Beloved (Hampstead Theatre), Flick in Being Olivia and Nervous Breakdown (Croydon Warehouse), Nancy in The Shell Seekers (national tour), Amanda in The Glass Menagerie (Duke’s Playhouse Lancaster), Shirley in Shirley Valentine (Newbury), Under Milk Wood (Bristol Old Vic), John Bull’s Other Island (Cambridge), Rose in Dancing at Lughnasa (Garrick), Rachel in Season’s Greetings (Mill at Sonning), Hannah in A Chorus of Disapproval (York), Mrs Kay in Our Day Out (Leatherhead and Liverpool), One of Us, Party Piece, Maggie in Hobson’s Choice and She Stoops to Conquer (Leatherhead), Better In My Dreams (Waterman’s), Vivie in Mrs Warren’s Profession (Lyric Belfast), New Black Plays (Royal Court), The Nest (Bush), The Possessed (Almeida), Miss Julie (Duke of York’s), Viola in Twelfth Night (British Council tour), Sonia in Crime and Punishment (Lyric Hammersmith), Thark (Farnham), The Strongest Man in the World (Roundhouse), The Nest, Three Sisters, The Recruiting Officer, Hobson’s Choice and Their Finest Hour (Crucible), The Glass Menagerie (Crucible and Roundhouse), What the Butler Saw (Oxford), Arabian Nights (Shared Experience), Lady Godiva (Belgrade Coventry).
     
    Television credits include Emma, Midsomer Murders, Party Animals, After Thomas, Secret Smile, Casualty, Class of ‘76, All About George, Afterlife, New Tricks, Little Britain, Doctors, Holby, Fields of Gold, Heartbeat, Chambers, Love in a Cold Climate, Playing the Field, Maisie Raine, EastEnders, Disaster, The Bill, Peak Practice, True Blues, Harry, Screen Two: Money for Nothing, A Question of Indemnity, The Piglet Files, A Small Dance, Happy Feet, Acting in Shakespearean Comedy, Chains of Love, No Wind of Blame, Ties of Blood, Tenko Reunion, Miracles Take Longer, Our Winnie, Tenko, Shaping Up, Devenish, The Warrior Queen, The Cuckoo Waltz, By Christians Condemned, The Permissive Society, Against the Crowd, Sam, The Village Hall, Red Letter Day, Bellamira, The Early Life of Stephen Hind.
     
    Films include The Calling and Just Ines.

  • PHILIPPA STANTON

    PHILIPPA STANTON

    Phib Old Lord's Fiancee, Infant Phenomenon, Young Woman

    Previously appeared at Chichester as The Infant Phenomenon/Phib/Mobbs/Opera Singer in Nicholas Nickleby Parts 1 and 2 (Festival Theatre, UK tour, West End and Toronto).
     
    Theatre credits include Mabel in The Pirates of Penzance (The Orange Tree Theatre Richmond), Charite in The Golden Ass, Hermia in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Tata in Augustine’s Oak and The Courtesan in The Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare's Globe), Little Voice in The Rise and Fall of Little Voice (Salisbury Playhouse), How I Learned to Drive (Donmar Warehouse), Like a Dancer (New End Hampstead), Alice in Wonderland (The Dukes Lancaster), Sleeping Beauty (Chipping Norton Theatre), Northanger Abbey (Northcott Theatre Exeter), The Crucible (Sheffield Crucible), The Plough and the Stars (West Yorkshire Playhouse).
     
    She is currently working on  The Diva in Me, a play written for her by Charlotte Jones, which she has just performed at the Pavilion Theatre, Brighton, picking up two Festival awards, and which will return in December. The Diva in Me has also been commissioned by Radio 4 and will be broadcast next year.
     
    Television includes  Doctors, Casualty, The Only Boy for Me, Great Expectations, How Do You Want Me, The Bill, Never Mind the Horrocks.
     
    Films include Swinging with the Finkels, Unconditional Love, Clandestine Marriage.
     
    Philippa is also an artist and has, amongst other exhibitions, been Artist in Residence at Shakespeare's Globe.
     
    Trained at RADA.  

  • ZOË WAITES

    ZOË WAITES

    Fanny Squeers, Miss Snevellicci, Madeline Bray

    Previously appeared at Chichester as Rebecca Foley in Pravda (Festival Theatre and Birmingham Rep), Fanny Squeers/Miss Snevellicci/Madeline Bray in  Nicholas Nickleby (Festival Theatre), Regan in King Lear and Mistress Hibbins in The Scarlet Letter (Minerva Theatre).
     
    Theatre credits include Pat Green in Breaking the Code (Northampton Theatre Royal), title role in Antigone (Royal Albert Hall), Hermia in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (City of London Sinfonia), Joanna in Night of the Soul, Kelima in The Prisoner’s Dilemma, Viola in Twelfth Night, Desdemona in Othello, Mary in The Family Reunion and Juliet in Romeo and Juliet (RSC), Vittoria in The White Devil (Lyric Hammersmith), Girl in The Play About the Baby (Almeida Theatre) and Ophelia in Hamlet (Greenwich/West Yorkshire Playhouse tour).
     
    Television credits include The Other Boleyn Girl, Love in a Cold Climate, Unknown Soldier and Robin Hood.  Radio includes The Beaux’ Stratagem, In Search of Lost Time, Be Prepared, Antigone, One Pair of Hands and The Man Who Knows Everything.

  • DANIEL WEYMAN

    DANIEL WEYMAN

    Nicholas Nickleby

    Previously appeared at Chichester as Nicholas Nickleby in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (TMA Awards nomination for Best Performance in a Play).
     
    Theatre credits include Jaques in As You Like It (Sheffield Crucible and RSC Swan), Myles in The Glass Room (Hampstead Theatre), Ejlert Lovborg in Hedda Gabler (West Yorkshire Playhouse and Liverpool Playhouse), Marullus/Lucilius in Julius Caesar (Barbican and international tour), Camille in Therese Raquin (Glasgow Citizens), Samuel Beckett in Calico (Duke of York’s), Harold in Black ‘Ell (Soho Theatre) and Bruce Fairlight in The Vortex (Donmar Warehouse).
     
    Television credits include Breaking the Chains, Colditz, The Brief, Midsomer Murders, May 33rd, Dunkirk and Wire in the Blood. 
     
    Radio credits include The Card, Dracula, Billiards at Half Past Nine, The Ibbs & Tillett Story and The Fantastic Adventures of Mary Secole. 
     
    Films include Just Ines (release 2008) and Millions.
     
    Daniel has just recorded The Spook’s Apprentice for Random House Audio Books.
     

  • HANNAH YELLAND

    HANNAH YELLAND

    Kate Nickleby, Jennings, Miss Bravassa

     
    Previously appeared as Kate Nickleby/Jennings/Miss Bravassa in Nicholas Nickleby
     
    Theatre credits include Jan in Bedroom Farce (UK tour), Marion de Saint Vaury in The Linden Tree (Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond), Nora in A Dolls House (Abbey Theatre, Dublin), Vivie Warren in Mrs Warren’s Profession (Peter Hall Company), Daisy in Daisy Pulls It Off (Lyric Theatre, West End), Marie-Jo Simenon in Murder In Paris (Basingstoke and Theatre Royal, Windsor) and Hero in Beatrice et Benedict (Barbican).
     
    Television Credits include Dalziel and Pascoe, Ahead of the Class, Bodies, Holby City, Ultimate Force 3, Doctors, Danielle Cable – Eye Witness, Heartbeat, The Project, Swallow, Dinotopia, Micawber, Catherine Cookson’s The Secret, Poirot, The Bill and A Touch of Frost. 
     
    Films include Method and AKA.
     
    Read English at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge.