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Isabel Adomakoh Young

Isabel is an actor, writer and activist; they have trained at Identity School of Acting and until January 2019 they will be training and performing with National Youth Theatre Rep Company.

Isabel performs regularly at theatres, festivals and events with Pecs: The All-Female Drag Troupe and Shotgun Carousel. Last year Pecs’ The 80’s Show sold out a run at Soho Theatre and was nominated for an Offie award.

Stage credits include:
Macbeth (NYT),Consensual (NYT), Victoria’s Knickers (NYT), Secret Cinema Presents: Blade Runner (Secret Cinema), Brood (Arcola, Pennyworth Productions), Bite Your Tongue (Talawa Theatre), The Village R&D (Theatre Royal Stratford East), Lionboy (Complicite)

Cabaret credits include:
Pecs at Tate Modern, Café Des Hommes, Pecs: Late at Tate, Pecs:XXXMAS (Pecs Drag Kings)

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Leo Bill

Theatre includes:
The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (Almeida), Curtains (Rose Theatre), A Midsummers Night’s Dream (Young Vic), Hamlet,  Lighting Shining in Buckinghamshire (National Theatre), Secret Theatre (Lyric Hammersmith), The Silence of the Sea (Donmar Warehouse), Posh (Duke of York’s Theatre), The Way of the World (Sheffield Crucible Theatre), A Woman Killed with Kindness (National Theatre), School for Scandal (Barbican), The Glass Menagerie (Young Vic), Posh (Royal Court Theatre), Pains of Youth (National Theatre), The Observer (National Theatre), The Hothouse (National Theatre), The Reporter (National Theatre), Beautiful Thing (Sound Theatre)

Film includes:
Rare Beasts, In Fabric, Peterloo, Hamlet, Alice in Wonderland: Through the Looking Glass, Mr Turner, A Long Way Down, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Alice in Wonderland, Me and Orson Welles, Becoming Jane, The Living and the Dead, Kinky Boots, These Foolish Things, The Fall, Vera Drake, LD50, Two Men Went to War, 28 Days Later, All or Nothing, Gosford Park

Television includes:
The Long Song, The Strike Series- The Cuckoos Calling, Taboo, The White Queen, Pramface, The Borgais, Words of Captain Scott, Dr Who – A Christmas Carol, Home Time, Ashes to Ashes, Lead Balloon – Series 2, Sense and Sensibility, Jekyll, Bash, A Very Social Secretary, Silent Witness, Messiah III, Eroica, Canterbury Tales – Man of Law, Spooks 2, Midsomer Murders – A Tale of Two Hamlets, Harry Enfield’s Celeb, Surrealismo, Attachments II, Crime and Punishment     

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Chris Thorpe

Chris was a founder member of Unlimited Theatre and still works and tours with the company. He is also an Artistic Associate of live art/theatre company Third Angel. He has worked with, among others, Forest Fringe, Slung Low, Chris Goode, RashDash, Belarus Free Theatre and Portuguese experimental company mala voadora - his fourth piece for the company, Your Best Guess opened at Lisbon's Almada festival in 2015. He also plays guitar in Lucy Ellinson's political noise project #TORYCORE and works with the National Student Drama Festival.
 
Chris is an Associate at the Royal Exchange, Manchester. His play for the Exchange, There Has Possibly Been An Incident was selected by Simon Stephens for the Stuckemarkt in Berlin, 2014.  It has been produced in Denmark and Sweden, on German radio, and is about to open in Saarbrucken and Vienna.
 
He has an ongoing collaboration with director Rachel Chavkin from New York's TEAM. Their first piece Confirmation, is currently touring internationally and they are starting to develop their next. His other main collaborator is poet Hannah Jane Walker with whom he made The Oh Fuck Moment and I Wish I Was Lonely.
 
Currently Chris is touring Confirmation and Unlimited's Am I Dead Yet? He is writing a new version of Beowulf for the Unicorn Theatre, and a new piece, Victory Condition for the Royal Court. He is also working on Truck for the Royal Exchange with Sam Pritchard, who directed There Has Possibly Been An Incident.
 
The texts for There Has Possibly Been An Incident and Confirmation, as well as work with Hannah Jane Walker, are published by Oberon Books. His work with mala voadora is published in English and Portuguese.

Chris has written Chorus for The Iphigenia Quartet. 

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Lucy Ellinson

Lucy is an actor and theatre maker, specialising in devised and experimental performance and international new writing. She is an associate artist with Third Angel and Forest Fringe. Previous credits for the Gate include: the Chorus in Trojan Women, Julian Assange in Tenet (Greyscale Theatre/Gate Theatre) Previous theatre credits include: Oh The Humanity! and other good intentions (Northern Stage; Soho Theatre); Presumption (Third Angel); Money: The Game Show, Mission to Mars, The Swing Left, Tangle (Unlimited Theatre); 3rd Ring Out, Two Perspectives (Metis Arts); Where We Meet, Who We Are, Speed death of the Radiant Child, Homemade (Chris Goode); A Thousand Shards of Glass (Jane Packman Co.); 15 Minutes Live, They Only Come at Night, Helium (Slung Low); Monsters (dir: Christopher Haydon, Arcola); Land Without Words (dir: Lydia Ziemke) #TORYCORE (Forest Fringe, Gate Theatre, The Arches Brick Award). Radio credits include: The Fall (Clare Duffy).

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Sue MacLaine

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Nadia Albina

Theatre credits include: Macbeth (Shakespeare’s Globe); Told From the Inside
(Royal Court); Five Plays – You Are So Relevant (Young Vic); Robin Hood
(Theatre Royal Stratford East); Hecuba, Othello, The Merchant of Venice
(Royal Shakespeare Company); A Stab in the Dark, Secret Theatre
(Lyric Theatre Hammersmith); Reasons to be Cheerful (Southbank Centre,
New Wolsey Theatre); Shakespeare 365, Henry V (Orange Tree Theatre);
Twelfth Night (Orange Tree Theatre and Tour); The Iceberg (En Mass Theatre
Company); The Red Ladies (The Clod Ensemble); Nabakov Shorts
(Trafalgar Studios); A Thousand Words (Tessellate Theatre Company);
Rosetta Life (National Theatre Studio); The Space Between (Tour); A Lie of the
Mind (Battersea Arts Centre); Good (Sound Theatre); Petrograd (The Old Red
Lion); Cyrano de Bergerac, Richard III, Twelfth Night (Tremor Cordis).

Film credits include: Othello, The Merchant of Venice, Making It.

Television credits include: Coronation Street (ITV); Paralympic Opening
Ceremony (Channel 4); Come Fly With Me, Whites, Doctors, Beautiful People
(BBC).

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Emma Frankland

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Jo Clifford

Jo is a playwright and performer. She is the author of about 90 performed plays.

In 2018, she performed her THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO JESUS QUEEN OF HEAVEN as the Christmas show at the Traverse. The show sold out and attracted 26,008 signatures to an online petition demanding it be banned.

She also performed EVE (which she co-wrote with Chris Goode) for the National Theatre of Scotland in Dundee, Nairn, and Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

Her FIVE DAYS WHICH CHANGED EVERYTHING was broadcast on BBC Radio 4; her short film, THESE ARE MY HANDS, which she wrote and performs,  is being shown in cinemas throughout the world.

Her ANNA KARENINA was performed in Tokyo; and she was one of a cast of 12 women in Taishani’s DC:SEMIRAMIS, a performance art installation in the Tramway, Glasgow.

Her queer adaptation of THE TAMING OF THE SHREW opens in the Sherman, Cardiff, and tours to the Tron, Glasgow, in Feb/Mar 2019.

She is a proud father and grandmother and lives in Edinburgh.

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Jo Horton

Stage credits:
Othello (Shakespeare’s Globe), All’s Well That Ends Well (RSC), As You Like It (RSC), Belongings (Hamstead Theatre), The Cherry Orchard (Birmingham Rep), Town (Royal/ Derngate), The Gods Weep (RSC), Days of Significance (RSC),  Once a Catholic (The Royal Court)
Television and Film credits:
Endeavour (Mammoth/ ITV), Dark Angel (ITV 1), Silent Witness (BBC 1), Partners in Crime (BBC1), Children Next Door (Channel 4/ Raw TV), Knifeman (AMC), The Suspicions of Mr Whicher (ITV), Father Brown (BBC), London’s Burning (Juniper Communications), Doctors (BBC), Permanently Excluded  (BBC), New Tricks (BBC), The Bill (ITV), Midnight Man (ITV/ Carnival), Bike Squad (ITV), Doctors (BBC), Holby Blue (BBC), Five Days (BBC/ HBO), Robin Hood (BBC/ Tiger Aspect), Spooks (BBC/ Kudos), Eleventh Hour (ITV/ Granada), Afterlife (BBC), Foyle’s War (ITV), Fishtank (BBC)

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Emma Dennis Edwards

Emma is a writer and performer of Jamaican and Trinidadian heritage; she trained as an actor at The BRIT School and East15 Acting School. Emma recently performed her self-penned play Funeral Flowers at The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, which won the Scotsman’s Fringe First Award and Filipa Bragança award for best solo performance. Previous Stage Credits include: New Futures & Festival (Pentabus Theatre Company), After Orlando (The Finborough), Rise Up (Belgrade, Hull Truck, Pegasus) Upper Cut (Southwark Playhouse) Fast Track (The North Wall Arts Centre) Clean (The Traverse Theatre and 59e59 theaters, New York), Crash (North Wall Arts Centre and Arcola Theatre), Hurried Steps (Brighton Dome, The Cockpit Theatre, Dukes Theatre Lancaster) A New World Order (Shoreditch Town Hall, Barbican and Hydrocracker Theatre) Bussin’ It (Oval House Theatre, Camp Bestival), Millennium (Vineyard Theatre, New York). Previous Television and Film credits includes: Trap for Cinderella (Forthcoming Productions) BBC Ident Over the Rainbow (Red Bee Media), The Naked Poet (Triple Threat Media). 

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Seiriol Davies

Seiriol is a musical theatremaker who trained at the London International School of Performing Arts. He has made shows with companies like Punchdrunk, You Need Me, Gideon Reeling and Beady Eye. He was half of the cult time-travelling knees-up variety act Underbling and Vow, and writes songs with the dark glam, Weimar-fabulous band Temper Temper.
 
His first full-length play Moon River, an unsettling comedy about the social lives of the over-70s, was developed by the Soho Theatre and produced at the Pleasance and he later devised, composed and performed Mess with Caroline Horton, which won The Stage Award for Best Ensemble, 2012 and toured internationally.
 
Seiriol’s first musical How To Win Against History, about Henry Cyril Paget, the cross-dressing black sheep Marquis of Anglesey, opened at the 2016 Edinburgh Fringe to critical acclaim, and played two consecutive total sellout runs there in 2016 and 2017. It then toured the UK before transferring to a sellout run at London's Young Vic in December 2017. It has won several awards including a The Stage Award and the Wales Theatre Award.

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Temi Wilkey

Temi trained at Cambridge University. Her theatre credits include: TERMINAL 3 & ACT (Print Room); JUBILEE (Lyric Hammersmith, Royal Exchange); THE COMEDY OF ERRORS (National Theatre Learning); HOW TO HOLD YOUR BREATH (The Royal Court); THE WORLD'S WIFE, MACBETH and PRIVATE PEACEFUL (all National Youth Theatre Rep). Television credits include: YEARS AND YEARS (BBC); MANHUNT (ITV)

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Amelia Stubberfield

Amelia is a theatre-maker, actor, writer and comedian. After training as an actor at The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, they have worked on numerous projects including performances at The Yard, The Bush and Camden People's Theatre and The Vaults. They are currently developing their own solo show and were named as "One to Watch" by the Funny Women 2018 Awards. Recent credits include Bullish by Milk Presents (UK tour) and the latest show from Greg Wohead, Call it a Day, which premieres at The Yard in January 2019.

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Charlotte Josephine

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Phoebe Fox

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?Caoilfhionn Dunne

Caoilfhionn Dunne's theatre credits include Katie Roche (Abbey Theatre), The Nest (Lyric Belfast, Young Vic), Wild (Hampstead Theatre), Forever Yours, Mary Lou (Theatre Royal, Bath), Our Country's Good, The Veil (National Theatre) Fathers and Sons, The Night Alive (Donmar Warehouse). Her television credits include Love/Hate, Vexed II, Little White Lies and for film; In View, Wrath of the Titans, Corduroy.

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Annabel Baldwin

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Joseph Akubeze

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Hannah Ringham

Hannah Ringham is a co-founder and performer of the UK award winning performance collective SHUNT.  Her recent theatre credits include Islands (Bush Theatre), The Architects (Shunt), The Present (Unicorn Theatre, Battersea Arts Centre), Cadavre Exquis (2012), Contain Violence – Site Specific (Lyric Hammersmith), Ooogly Boogly (2008), Tropicana (Shunt). She has performed and toured internationally with many other companies including Tim Crouch, Kassys (a collaborative performance with Kassys, The Nature Theatre of Oklahoma and Nicole Beutler), Caroline Horton, Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin.

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Angus Wright

Theatre includes: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Donmar Warehouse), Hamlet (The Harold Pinter Theatre/ ATG), Hamlet (Almeida), 1984 (Playhouse Theatre), Oresteia (Almeida), Oresteia- Trafalgar Studios (ATG), The Cherry Orchard (Young Vic), Twelfth Night/ Richard III (The Globe on Broadway), Privates on Parade (Michael Grandage Company), The Master and Margarita (Complicite), The Cat in the Hat (National Theatre/ Young Vic/ Theatre De La Ville,  Paris), Wastwater (Royal Court Theatre), Design for Living (Old Vic Theatre), Mrs Affleck (National Theatre), The Tragedy of Thomas Hobbes (RSC), Merchant of Venice (RSC), War House (National Theatre), St Joan (National Theatre), The Seagull (National Theatre), Measure for Measure (Complicite), A Dream Play (National Theatre), Stuff Happens (National Theatre), Three Sisters (National Theatre), Twelfth Night (The Globe), Three Sisters (Chichester Festival Theatre), The Importance of Being Earnest (Nottingham Playhouse), Talk of the City (RSC), Chips with Everything (Royal National Theatre), A Midsummer’s Night Dream (Almeida), The Rivals (National Theatre Studio), Early Morning (National Theatre Studio), Mother Courage (Royal National Theatre), A Mongrel’s Heart (Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh), Salome (European Tour), Private Lives (Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh), Hamlet (RSC), The Theban Plays (RSC), The Dybbuk (RSC), Henry IV I&II (RSC), Twelfth Night (RSC), Too Clever by Half (Moscow Arts Theatre School), Uncle Vanya (Moscow Arts Theatre School) Film includes: Official Secrets, The Little Stranger, The Rabbits Foot, Rouge One, A Little Chaos, Jack Ryan, Maleficent, Closed Circuit, Private Peaceful, The Iron Lady, Affair of the Necklace, Bridget Jones’s Diary, Charlotte Gray, Cutthroat Island, Dr Sleep, First Knight, Frankenstein, Jilting joe,  Kingdom of Heaven, Labyrinth, Nicholas Nickleby, RKO 281, The Bank Job, The Lover’s Prayer, The Whipping Boy Television includes: The Year of the Rabbit (Objective Fiction), Plebs 4 (Rise Films), Midsomer Murders (Bentley Productions), Flowers (Kudos Film and TV Ltd), Peep Shows (Objective Productions), Jekyll and Hyde (ITV J&H Ltd), Father Brown  Series 3 (BBC), Sons of Liberty (A&E Studios for History Channels), Breathless (ITV Studios Ltd), Murder on the Home Front (Carnival), Being Human Series 4 (Touchpaper TV), The Sarah Jane Adventures (DW Productions Ltd), Above Suspicion (La Plante Productions), Attachments (Carlton UK), Between the Lines (BBC), Boudica (Box TV), Brilliant (Native/ BBC10 X 10), Cambridge Spies (BBC), Casanova (Red Productions), Crocodile Shoes (Red Productions), Dalziel & Pascoe (BBC), Duck Patrol (LWT), Hotel Babylon (Carnival), Pie in the Sky (SelecTV), Solider Solider (Carlton UK), The Bill (Thames TV), The Painted Lady (Granada), The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall (Talkback Thames for Channel 4), The Vice (Carlton), The Way We Live (BBC), Waking the Dead (BBC), Whistleblower (BBC), Winter Solstice (Own Two Feet Productions), Wire in the Blood (Coastal Productions)  Radio includes: The Secret Pilgrim (BBC Radio 4), Plenty (Catherine Bailey Productions), Precious (Pier Productions)

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Kwame Owusu

Kwame is an actor, director, playwright, and songwriter. He’s a Young Associate at the Gate Theatre and is a member of the National Youth Theatre. Most recently, Kwame co-directed a 5 star production of Alistair McDowall’s Pomona at the 2018 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Kwame has also recently starred in productions of Simon Stephens’ Yerma, and William Wycherley’s The Country Wife at the John Thaw Theatre, Manchester and Union Theatre, Manchester, respectively. Kwame is currently studying at the University of Manchester.

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Linda Broughton

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Dickie Beau

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Sule Rimi

Theatre includes: Sweat (Donmar Warehouse), Measure for Measure (Donmar Warehouse), Love and Information, Desire Under the Elms (Sheffield);  Barber Shop Chronicles (NT/Australia/New Zealand);  Mary Stuart, They Drink it in the Congo (Almeida);  The Suicide (NT);  The Rolling Stone (Royal Exchange, Manchester/WYP/Orange Tree);  The Odyssey: Missing, Presumed Dead (ETT/Liverpool Everyman);  Bordergame National Theatre of Wales);  Babes in the Woods (Rainbow Valley Productions);  Othello (Fluellen Theatre Company); Muscle (Shock N Awe);  Serious Money (Waking Exploits);  Robinson Crusoe, Aladdin (Owen Money Theatre Company);  Stanley’s Magic Lamp and the Heart of Darkness (Twm O’r Nant). Film includes:  Ashens & the Quest for the Game Child; Bad Fucking; The Adventurer: Curse of the Midas Box; Silent Night, Bloody Night: The Homecoming; The Machine; Elfie Hopkins and the Gammons; Night of the Living Dead: Resurrections; Rock ‘N’ Roll Killers; Eastern Promises; Daddy’s Girl; Starter for Ten. Television includes:  Black Earth Rising;  Death in Paradise;  Birds of a Feather Christmas Special; Strikeback; Casualty; Unforgotten; Stella; DNN: Definitely Not Newsround; 4 O'Clock Club; Mistresses; Crash; Caerdydd; The Black Lion; Y Pris; Scrum IV; Doctor Who; Fondue; Sex and Dinosaurs; The Story of Tracey Beaker

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Lucy Bairstow

Credits include: Fat Girls Don't Dance, director, (Roundhouse, BAC, Rich Mix, Bristol Old Vic, Underbelly Edinburgh Fringe 2016, winner of Saboteur Best Spoken Word Show 2017), DIGS, creator/performer, (Pleasance London, Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh Fringe 2017), SEXY, movement director, (Camden Peoples Theatre, Roundhouse, The Wardrobe Theatre, Bristol Old Vic, Nottingham Playhouse, Bikeshed, Wales Millennium Centre, The Shelley Theatre, The Marlowe, 2017/18), Crumbles Search for Christmas, performer, (West Yorkshire Playhouse, 2017) Skate Hard, Turn Left, performer/creator, (BAC, 2018), Essex Girl, director, (BAC, Roundhouse, Soho Theatre, 2018/19) North & South, creator/performer (Theatre in the Mill, 2018/19)

Lucy is currently writer in residence at Balbir Singh Dance Company in West Yorkshire

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Jonjo O'Neill

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Lucy McCormick

Lucy McCormick is an actor/performer based in London. Her hit show Triple Threat, took the Edinburgh Fringe by storm in 2016 and had a sell-out run at the Soho Theatre in 2017. Her other theatre credits include: Collective Rage (Southwark Playhouse); Roller Diner(Soho Theatre); Cinderella (Oxford Playhouse); The Naked Truth (National Tour); First Love is the Revolution (Soho Theatre); Big Hits (International Tour);  SPLAT! (Barbican); Violent Incient (Arnolfini Bristol); External (National Tour); Dusa, Fish, Stas, Vi (Worksworth Festival); As You Like It (Worksworth Festival/Jagged Fence Productions); The House of Bernada Alba (Tristan Bates Theatre) Lucy won the Dublin Fringe Best Performer Award, Glasgow's Brick  Award and the TV Bomb Groundbreaker Award for her show Triple Threat. She was further nominated for Emerging Artist at the Total Theatre Awards Edinburgh Festival. She has also received a Off West End Award nomination for Best Female for her role in Collective Rage.

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Jade Anouka

Jade Anouka’s stage roles include The Greatest Wealth (The Old Vic), Queen Margaret (Royal Exchange), The Phlebotomist (Hampstead Theatre), Cover My Tracks (The Old Vic), Shakespeare Trilogy (Donmar Warehouse), Doctor Faustus (The Jamie Lloyd Company), Henry IV (St Anne’s Warehouse, New York), So Here We Are (Royal Exchange/High Tide), Chef (Soho), The Vote and Henry IV (Donmar Warehouse), Chef (Edinburgh Fringe), Omeros (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse), Clean (59E59 Theatres New York), Julius Caesar (St Anne’s Warehouse, New York), Clean (Traverse Theatre), Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare’s Globe), Julius Caesar (Donmar Warehouse), Moon On A Rainbow Shawl (National Theatre), Hamlet (Shakespeare’s Globe), Romeo and Juliet (Bolton Octagon), Wild Horses (Theatre 503), Love’s Labour’s Lost (Shakespeare’s Globe / US tour), Blood Wedding (Southwark Playhouse), Twelfth Night (York Theatre Royal), The Taming of the Shrew (RSC), The Merchant of Venice (RSC), The Penelopiad (RSC/National Arts Centre Canada), Handa’s Surprise (The Little Angel Theatre).  On television she has appeared in Turning Up Charlie, Cleaning Up, Trauma, Chewing Gum, Lucky Man, The Vote, Shakespeare Uncovered: Romeo and Juliet, Doctor Who:The Bells of Saint John, Shakespeare Uncovered: The Comedies, Shakespeare Uncovered: The Tempest, Shakespeare Uncovered: Hamlet, Secrets and Words: Mightier Than The Sword, Law and Order:UK.  On film, Jade has appeared in The Rhythm Section, Fisherman’s Friend, Baby Gravy, The Dark Channel, A Summer Hamlet, T-Police Field, A Running Jump, That Serious Face and Happy Hour.  On radio she has appeared in Assata Shakur:The FBI’s Most Wanted Woman and World On The Move.

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Nina Bowers

A recent graduate of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, her professional acting debut was playing Caroline and Papa Roger in the tour of Tomorrow I'll Be Twenty (Complicité).

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Tamsin Greig

Tamsin Greig is an Award Winning actor of Stage & Screen.  Her theatre work: A Kind of Alaska/Landscape (Pinter season (Harold Pinter Th), Labour of Love (Noel Coward Th); Twelfth Night (National Th), The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures (iHo); Longing (Hampstead Th), Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Playhouse - Olivier nomination for Best Actress in a Musical); Jumpy (Royal Court/Duke of York’s); The Little Dog Laughed (Garrick - Oliver Award Nomination for Best Actress 2011); Gethsemane (National Theatre); God of Carnage (Gielgud); Much Ado About Nothing (RSC - Winner of The Critics Circle Award and Olivier Award for Best Actress Award (2007); King John (RSC.  Her film work includes Tamara Drewe (British Independent Film Awards Nomination – and an out of competition hit at Cannes); The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel; Breaking the Bank, Stop the World/  Television work includes: Elementary  Episodes (5 Series- BAFTA nomination); White Heat; Friday Night Dinner (4 series BAFTA nomination);The Guilty – 3 part series,  Diana & I,Emma; The Diary of Anne Frank; Love Soup (2 Series); Green Wing (2 Series – Royal Television Society's Award 2006/BAFTA Nomination 2006 - British Comedy Award Nomination 2005); Black Books (3 Series), People Like Us; Happiness.

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Travis Alabanza

Travis Alabanza is a performer and writer based in London. Their theatre credits include Putting Words in Your Mouth (Roundhouse), Jubilee (royal exchange, Lyric Hammersmith) and recently a sold-out, critically acclaimed run of their own show Burgerz (Hackney Showroom, Oval House, Royal Exchange). Outside of theatre, their writing and activism surrounding LGBTQ+ rights has appeared in Vogue, BBC, Huffington Post, The Guardian, Independent, and they have given talks at over 120 international institutions including The Tate, V&A, Harvard University, and Royal Academy of art.

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Christopher Green

Christopher Green is a theatrical and broadcast provocateur. His experiential theatre credits as creator, writer, and director include: Prurience: an experiential entertainment about porn, which was performed at the Royal Festival Hall at the Southbank Centre July 2017 and transferred to the Guggenheim in New York March 2018 (the Guggenheim’s first theatrical commission), VIP, The Frozen Scream (co-written with Sarah Waters) and Office Party (co-created with Ursula Martinez, directed by Cal McCrystal).

Christopher is the author of Overpowered: The Science & Showbiz of Hypnosis. He is a trained hypnotherapist and has reinvented the stage hypnotism routine in his theatre show The Singing Hypnotist. This was developed when he was the first Artist in Residence at The British Library in 2012. Christopher was the curator of Victorian Popular Entertainments: There Will Be Fun! at the British Library which ran from 2016-2017. He scripted the material for his own repertory company of performers to support the exhibition.

Christopher regularly writes for BBC Radio 4, including 9 series of Tina C and many radio plays. His most recent is How Success Ruined Me, a two hander with entertainment legend Roy Hudd about music hall singer, Fred Barnes. Christopher’s previous radio drama series The Experience of Love, a five-part series exploring queer history in the late 20th Century, is now being developed for television.

He performs as characters such as country music singer, Tina C. who has recently published her autobiography, Complete & Utter Country, rapping pensioner Ida Barr and cultural critic Jedd O’Sullivan. Christopher has won multiple awards the first being the Olivier award for Best Entertainment in 2004 and the most recently, best Cabaret Show at Brighton Festival 2017.

Christopher’s works in development include Music Hall Monster: The Insatiable Mr Fred Barnes for production at Wilton’s Music Hall in May 2018, a commission from the Gate Theatre, London and the large-scale immersive show, The Home, in association with Entelechy Arts and The Albany for production in 2019.

Christopher is an Artistic Associate of Alexandra Palace, Wilton’s Music Hall, Duckie, Entelechy Theatre Company, and Creative Cowboy Films (Australia)

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Christopher Brett Bailey

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Lois Chimimba

Lois Chimimba trained at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts.  

Recent theatre includes: wonder.land for the National Theatre and the Manchester International Festival. 

Other theatre includes: Pitcairn (Shakespeare's Globe, Chichester and UK tour); Nightingale and Chase (Albany Theatre); A Long and Happy Life (Vibrant Festival); Laridae (White Bear Theatre); Deep (Talawa Theatre). 

Television includes: Radges, Fried, Holby City (all BBC)

Film includes:The Proposal and Earth, Air, Fire, Water 

Radio includes:The Three Musketeers 

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Thalissa Teixeira

Thalissa Teixeira’s theatre work includes Othello, The Broken Heart, The Changeling (Shakespeare’s Globe), Yerma (Young Vic), The Night Watch (Manchester Royal Exchange), BU21 (Theatre503), Electra (Old Vic). Her television work includes The Musketeers; and for film, Take Down.

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Tim Crouch

Tim Crouch is an Obie-award winning writer, actor and theatre-maker. His plays include My Arm, ENGLAND (a play for galleries), An Oak Tree, The Author, Adler & Gibb, Beginners, and (with Andy Smith) what happens to the hope at the end of the evening. Tim also writes for younger audiences. A series of plays inspired by Shakespeare’s lesser characters includes I, Malvolio and I, Peaseblossom.  For the RSC Tim has directed The Taming of the Shrew, King Lear and I, Cinna (the poet) – all for young audiences.  Directing credits include Jeramee, Hartleby and Oooglemore for the Unicorn Theatre, London, and The Complete Deaths for Spymonkey.  Awards include a Fringe First, two Herald Angels, two Total Theatre awards, the Brian Way award for best children’s play and the 2010 John Whiting award. Tim is published by Oberon Books. He is currently under commission to the Ark, Dublin, the Royal Court Theatre, the National Theatre of Scotland and the BBC.

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Kayla Meikle

Theatre includes: Ear For Eye (Royal Court); Dance Nation (Almeida); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Jack & the Beanstalk (Lyric, Hammersmith); I Have Mouth & I Will Scream, People Who Need People, Streets (Vaults Festival); Macbeth, Romeo & Juliet (National); Primetime (Royal Court); The Taming of the Shrew (Arts); Operation Black Antler (Blast Theory); Merlin (Nuffield); All That Lives (Ovalhouse). Television includes: The Capture, Afterlife, Will, Bitesize Learning. Film includes: Soundproof, State Zero, Every Eight Minutes, Samira’s Party.

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Emun Elliott

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Shalisha James Davis

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Sam Spruell

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Elizabeth Chan

Elizabeth Chan trained at Ecole Philippe Gaulier in Paris and at Drama Centre London. Her work in theatre includes Macbeth, Light Shining in Buckinghamshire and Greenland at the National Theatre; Greg Wohead’s Celebration Florida at Soho Theatre; Henry IV at the Donmar Warehouse; Chimerica at the Almeida and in the West End; The Wheel for the National Theatre of Scotland; Into the Numbers at the Finborough; B!irth at the Royal Exchange; The Suger-Coated Bullets of the Bourgeoisie at HighTide; Caught and Hamlet is Dead at the Arcola; Don’t Shoot the Clowns for Fuel; An Argument About Sex at the Traverse and Tramway; Cinderella at the Lyric Hammersmith. TV includes Doctors, Foreign Skies, No Offence, Motherland, Carters Get Rich, The Last Dragonslayer, Last Tango in Halifax, Cucumber, Holby City, Black Mirror, Coronation Street, Spirit Warriors and Silent Witness. 

 

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Anjana Vasan

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Kwong Loke

Theatre work includes:
The Great Wave (National Theatre), Labour of Love (Noel Coward, West End), New and Now (Royal Court), You For Me For You (Royal Court), You Never Touched Dirt (Royal Court at Edinburgh), The Lulu Plays (Almeida Theatre), Hiawatha (Bristol Old Vic), Global Baby Factory (Yellow Earth Theatre), Summer Rolls (Rich Mix), The Changeling (Finborough Theatre), Rashomon, Scenes from Paradise (Riverside Studios), The Magic Paintbrush, The Snow Lion (Polka Theatre), Blue Remembered Hills (UK Tour), Tibetan Inroads (Gate Theatre), Two Gentlemen of Verona (Singapore Drama Centre), The Soldier’s Tale (South Bank).
 
His television work includes:
The Feed (ITV Amazon), Gangs of London (HBO-Sky), As Time Goes By, Love Hurts, Blue Peter, Casualty, The Knock, The Monkey King.
 
His radio work includes:
At Sea on Inya Lake, Another Land, Our Farther the Mountain, Joy Luck Club.

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Frankie Henry

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Helena Lymbery

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Angela Clerkin

Recent theatre includes: Vessel by Sue MacLaine (BAC), Long Live Queen James directed by Scottee (Whitehall Palace), The Secret Keeper directed by Angela Clerkin & Lucy J Skilbeck (UK Tour), O’Brien in 1984 (Oxford), The Importance of Being Earnest (Birmingham Rep), Everyone by Jo Clifford (BAC), The Haunting of Hill House directed by Melly Still (Liverpool Playhouse, Sonia Friedman), Early Days of a Better Nation (Coney, UK tour), Chris Goode’s Monkey Bars (Fringe First, Traverse, UK tour), The Bear (ClerkinWorks & Improbable UK tour), and Improbable's Panic (Barbican, Sydney Opera House, UK tour). Other theatre includes shows at Northern Stage, Young Vic, Cottesloe, Lyric Hammersmith, Nottingham Playhouse, New York off-Broadway, Brisbane Festival, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Curve Leicester, ICA, Almeida, Old Vic. TV includes : Dr Who, Humans, Holby City, EastEnders, Dalziel & Pascoe, My Family, Sugar Rush, The Office & Dean Spanley. Angela runs her own theatre company ClerkinWorks and is an Associate Artist with Chris Goode & Company and Improbable.

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