Trained at RADA.
Theatre includes: Bloody Difficult Women (Edinburgh Fringe Festival), The Girl On The Train (West End & UK Tour), Love on the Links (Salisbury Playhouse), The Real Thing (Theatre Royal, Bath; Cambridge Arts Theatre; Rose Theatre, Kingston), The Dresser (West End), The First Man (Jermyn St Theatre), The Deep Blue Sea (The Watermill), The Rivals (The Arcola), The 39 Steps (West End), The Second Mrs Tanqueray (Rose Theatre, Kingston), The Illusion (Southwark Playhouse), The Phoenix of Madrid, Iphigenia, The Surprise of Love (Theatre Royal, Bath), The 24 Hour Plays (The Old Vic).
Television: Outlander, FBI International, This Sceptred Isle, Master Of None S3, Eastenders, Casualty, Hollyoaks, Elizabeth I’s Secret Agents, Doctors.
Film: Heads Of State, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, Mr Theatre Comes Home Different, Headcleaner, Youth
Theatre credits include:Female MC in Magic Mike Live (The Hippodrome); Cilla the Goose in Mother Goose (Duke of York’s Theatre/UK Tour); Fraulein Kost in Cabaret (Playhouse Theatre); Alyson in A Grand Night For Singing (Edinburgh Festival); Shelly Porter in The Band Plays On (Sheffield Crucible);Alice in Stages (Vault Festival); Mrs. Burke in Girl From the North Country (Royal Alexandra Theatre, Toronto, The Gielgud Theatre, London); Annie in Calendar Girls (UK Tour) Mrs Wilkinson in Billy Elliot (UK & International Tour); Mavis in Stepping Out (Vaudeville Theatre); Annie Oakley in Annie Get Your Gun (Sheffield Crucible); Violet Butterfield in Flowers For Mrs Harris(Sheffield Crucible), Lottie in Mack & Mabel (Chichester & UK Tour), Jerry’s Girls (St James Theatre), Mrs Wilkinson in Billy Elliot (Victoria Palace Theatre), Aladdin in Aladdin (Hackney Empire), Courtesan in Comedy of Errors (Open Air Theatre Regents Park), Ella Peterson in Bells are Ringing (Union Theatre) receiving WOS Nomination for Best Actress in a Musical and OFFIE nomination for Best Actress, Olive James in Radio Times (Watermill, Newbury), Jenny in Company (Sheffield Crucible) and Lady of the Lake in Spamalot (Playhouse Theatre).
Anna-Jane played the title role in Sweet Charity at the Sheffield Crucible (Best Actress nomination at the 2003 TMA Awards) and was invited back to the Crucible to play the title role in Pam Gems’ Piaf. She played Dot inSunday in the Park with George (Menier Chocolate Factory), Maggie in Hobson’s Choice and Mabel in Mack and Mabel (both, Watermill, Newbury) receiving the 2005 TMA award for Best Performance in a Musical for Mack & Mabel.
Film and television include: Nicky in Casualty, Cal’s Mum in The Full Monty, Vanessa Lloyd in Silent Witness, Family Guy in the episode ChapStewie as Stewie’s English mother, Geri Hanswick in Coronation Street, Amy in The Royal, Shirley Walker in Doctors, Sophie in Eastenders, Linda Kemp in The Bill, Beyond the Sea directed by Kevin Spacey and also guest lead roles in Heartbeat and Holby City.
Anna-Jane has performed with all of the UK’s major orchestras and has a long history with the John Wilson orchestra including numerous Proms appearances and tours. She also performs in her own cabarets worldwide.
Training: Guildford School of Acting.
Theatre credits include: La Cage Aux Folles (Open Air Theatre, Regents Park); Jews. In Their Own Words (Royal Court); Habibti Driver (Octagon, Bolton); Berberian Sound Studio (Donmar Warehouse); Arabian Nights (Hoxton Hall); Alice’s Adventures Underground (Waterloo Vaults); Romeo and Juliet and The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (US Tour/ Off- Broadway); Operation Magic Carpet (Polka Theatre); Arabian Nights (Tricycle Theatre); The Tempest, AMidsummer Night’s Dream (Cambridge Shakespeare Festival), 66 Minutes in Damascus (LIFT London & Sao Paolo Biennal, Brasil); Mathieu Kassovitz’s La Haine (Netherlands Tour); Cradle Will Rock (Arcola Theatre); Shadow Language (Theatre 503); The Container (site-specific regional tour).
Television credits include: Sitters, Casualty, Dr Who, Nova Jones, Cockfields, Benidorm, Tyrant, Common People and EastEnders E20.
Film credits include: Mamma Mia!, Closed Circuit.
Radio credits include: Black Water, Turnpike Lane, The Long View, Ambridge Extra, Forgiving, The Cool Bag Baby and Poppyseeds.
Hemi is the voice of Kozlowski in the multiple award-winning podcast series The Amelia Project.
Victoria Fox has been performing professionally for 10 years as an actor, singer, and voice-over artist. She graduated from Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts with a BA in Acting and has been performing ever since. With experience playing roles such as Miss Julie in After Miss Julie, Rosalind in As You Like It, and the title role(s) in the UK premiere of the Canadian play Watching Glory Die by Judith Thompson.
Victoria’s has established herself as a rising star on the jazz and blues scene in London. She performs her own shows at jazz clubs and performs with some of the UK’s brightest jazz stars. She also leads her own band and performs at various venues around the world and holds residencies at The Savoy and The Four Seasons.
She is proudly returning to the stage, and to her roots, and couldn’t be more delighted to join the cast in this brand-new production of Fawlty Towers as the inimitable ‘Polly’.
Paul Nicholas became a household favourite in the role of Vince Pinner in the celebrated British sitcom Just Good Friends which won the BAFTA award for Best Comedy Series. Paul has continued to star in many TV series including the evil Gavin Sullivan in EastEnders and can be seen as himself in the BAFTA nominated series The Real Marigold Hotel and Marigold On Tour.
His film credits include: Tommy, The Jazz Singer, Stardust, Lisztomania, Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, The World Is Full is Full of Married, What Became of Jack and Jill, See No Evil, Yesterday’s Hero and more recently Neville Chamberlain in Masaryk.
On stage, Paul’s theatrical success began more than fifty years ago in 1968 when he originated the role of Claude in the London premiere of Hair. Following this, in 1972 he originated the role of Jesus in Jesus Christ Superstar. He starred as Danny Zuko in the original West End production of Grease with Elaine Page and as the Rum Tum Tugger in the original production of Cats. His other leading role musical credits include The Exorcist UK Tour, Quartet Cheltenham Theatre and UK tour, Jekyll & Hyde, Barnum, 42nd Street, Singing In The Rain, Dr Doolittle, A Christmas Carol, Pirates of Penzance, Tale of Two Cities, Fiddler On The Roof and Jerry Herman’s Dear World.
His venture into pop singing in 1976 resulted in four top ten UK hits including the USA two million best seller Heaven On The Seventh Floor. Paul has since received a further four gold albums and presented his own pop series on Granada TV called ‘Paul’. His numerous television appearances also include four Royal Variety Performances. At the end of 1991 Paul was the subject of This Is Your Life. For his service to show business and charity, Paul was awarded a Silver Heart from the Variety Club of Great Britain.
Most recently, Paul’s theatrical ventures have included leading roles in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel directed by Lucy Bailey for a UK tour; The Exorcist directed by Sean Mathias for a UK tour; Quartet directed by Peter Rowe for the Cheltenham Everyman Theatre and a UK tour; And Then There Were None directed by Joe Harmston for a UK tour
Paul has also coproduced numerous shows including Grease, Singing in the Rain, Evita, Pirates of Penzance, Chess and Saturday Night Fever.
In 2021 Paul published his autobiography Musicals, Marigolds & Me and a three CD boxset Paul Nicholas Gold featuring his pop and musical career including Jesus Christ Superstar, Cats, Hair and Grease.
Rachel’s prestigious career on both stage and screen spans over four decades making her West End debut in A Chorus Line at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.
In 2010 she relocated to the USA, and was immediately cast as Mrs. Brill in the US tour of Mary Poppins and subsequently transferred to New York, marking her Broadway debut.
After seven years in the USA culminating as Madame Thénardier in Les Misérables on Broadway, Rachel returned to the UK to play Sheridan Smith’s mother, Mrs. Brice in the UK tour of Funny Girl, filmed for Sky Arts.
Rachel made theatre history in 2019 by being the first female in the UK to play Scrooge in A Christmas Carol (The Bridge House Theatre).
This was immediately followed by another award nominated performance as Rachel in Rags (Park Theatre, London).
Rachel is very proud to have played Grandma Edna in Nikolai Foster’s production of Billy Elliot at Curve Theatre, Leicester which won the 2023 WhatsOnStage award for best regional production.
West End credits include roles in A Chorus Line, Chicago, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Beauty and the Beast, Blondel, Lautrec, Singin’ in the Rain and Annie.
Other theatre credits include: Porter’s Wife in The Third Man (Mernier Chocolate Factory); Agatha in Guys and Dolls, Mrs. Vixen in The Beggar’s Opera (National Theatre); Felicia in The Witches of Eastwick (UK Tour); Gladys in The Pajama Game (Leicester Haymarket & Tour); Miss Barnes in The Winslow Boy (Chichester Festival Theatre & Tour); Mama Rose in Gypsy (Wales Millennium Theatre); Miss Skillon in See How They Run (UK Tour); Miss Shingle in A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder (Hartford Stage, USA); Miss Gibson in Daisy Pulls It Off (Theatr Clywd & Tour); Hattie in Follies (Landor Theatre); Mrs. Wire in The Lady of Larkspur Lotion (New End); Gussie in Bitter Sweet (UK tour); Jessica in Hot Flush (UK Tour); Mona in Dames at Sea (The Mill at Sonning); Beggar Woman in Sweeney Todd (Oldham Coliseum); Lowbutt in The Ugly Duckling (Watermill, Newbury); Sylvia Hollamby in Bad Girls the Musical (Leeds Playhouse); Jessica in Hot Flush (UK Tour); Mrs. Pearce in My Fair Lady (Teatro San Carlo, Naples); Empress of China in Aladdin (Northampton and Darlington); General Cartwright in Guys and Dolls (Théâtre Marigny, Paris); Queen Rat in Dick Whittington (Wimbledon) and Mrs. Blunderbore in Jack and the Beanstalk (Bromley).
Film and TV appearances include: Steven Soderbergh’s The Knick, Evita, Endgame, Jack Brown and the Curse of the Crown, Beg!, The Beggars Opera, Casualty, Holby City, Big Women, Clem, The Bill, Where There’s Smoke, Daylight Robbery, The Queen’s Nose, Smith and Jones and Everybody’s Talking About Jamie.
Steven is delighted to be appearing in Fawlty Towers having been a lifelong fan of the show. This marks Steve’s return to London’s West End after recent appearances at the Donmar Warehouse (Henry V), and two years at The Sondheim Theatre (Les Misérables).
Having graduated from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in 1999, Steven is very grateful to have enjoyed a successful career on both stage and screen. His credits include;
Film and TV: House of the Dragon (HBO), Father Brown (BBC), Mia and the Dragon Princess, Coronation Street (ITV), Sister Boniface Mysteries (BBC), Love Without Walls, Protein, Trying (Apple TV), Stath Lets Flats (Channel 4), Code 404 (Sky One & Kudos), Doctors (BBC), Back (Channal 4), The Pembrokeshire Murders (ITV), Porridge (BBC), Canaries, High Hopes (BBC), Casualty (BBC), Drifters (Channel 4), Baker Boys (BBC), Gavin and Stacey (BBC), Grownups (BBC), Good Arrows (ITV), Torchwood (BBC), Belonging (BBC), Roger Roger (BBC), Holby City (BBC), Score (BBC) and Nice Girl (BBC).
Theatre credits include; Henry V (Donmar Warehouse), Les Misérables (Sondheim Theatre), Pride & Prejudice (Regents Park Theatre), The Distance (The Orange Tree Theatre), Under Milk Wood, Boeing Boeing, The Taming of the Shrew, Arden of Faversham, Pieces, Great Expectations, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog (All Theatre Clwyd), Caucasian Chalk Circle (Shared Experience), Amgen/Broken (Sherman Theatre), Crazy Gary’s Mobile Disco (Paines Plough), Flesh and Blood (Sherman Theatre), Up’n’Under (Bristol Old Vic).
Steven is a proud Associate Artist of Theatre Clwyd.
Training: The Oxford School of Drama.
Theatre includes: Harry Potter & The Cursed Child (Palace Theatre, West End); A Curmudgeon’s Guide To Christmas Round Robin Letters (The Hope Theatre, Offie Nominated for Best Actress); Unidentified Item In The Bagging Area (Old Red Lion); Sex Cells (Riverside Studios); Better Together (Brockley Jack); Talking Heads – Bed Among The Lentils, Same Time Next Year, Sleeping Beauty, Jack & The Beanstalk (Winchester Theatre Royal); Flathampton, The Wizard Of Oz, What Makes Us Tick (Royal &Derngate, Northampton); Children Of A Lesser God (Salisbury Playhouse); Aladdin (Watford Palace); And A Nightingale Sang (Southwold & Aldeburgh Theatres); Whatever Happened To Bette & Joan?, Three Musketeers (Proteus Theatre).
Television includes: Shadow & Bone (Netflix); Chloe (BBC); Dreaming Whilst Black (BBC); Coconut (BBC3); From Darkness (BBC); Silent Witness (BBC); The Taming Of The Shrew (BBC); Passer By (BBC); The Reckoning (ITV); Frances Tuesday (ITV); Skins (Channel 4); Second Generation (Channel 4).
Film includes: Funny Cow, The Perfect Silence, BAFTA Nominated Three Brothers.
Theatre includes: Witness for the Prosecution (Country Hall, London), Romeo and Juliet, Richard III (Shakespeare’s Rose Theatre), Jack Lear (Hull Truck/Northern Stage), Love From A Stranger (Royal and Derngate /Fiery Angel national tour), Merry Wives, King Lear, The Man With Two Gaffers, Henry V, A Woman Killed With Kindness (Northern Broadsides), Tis Pity She’s a Whore ( Cheek by Jowl, Barbican Centre, national and international tour), Fast Food (Royal Exchange Manchester) Ed Reardon: A Writer’s Burden (Pleasance, Edinburgh), Aladdin ( Opera House Manchester) The Wicked Lady, Flamingo Land (New Vic), The Servant (Birmingham Rep), Bad Company (The Bush), Somewhere (National Theatre), Itchy (National Theatre Studio), Finger Food (Assembly Rooms Edinburgh), Believe Me ( Southwark Playhouse), Mad or Bad ( Pilot Theatre), Lifelines (Theatre Foundry), Was He Anyone? (Union Theatre) The National Theatre (King’s Head) , Diamond Hard, All Saints, Confetti ( Furious Theatre Collective).
TV includes: Boat Story, Slow Horses, Coronation Street, Eastenders, Law and Order UK (8 series.) Holby, Casualty, Extras, Trial and Retribution, Mandy Kramer’s Drivetime, Where the Heart Is, Family Affairs, William and Mary, A and E, The Bill, Touching Evil, City Central, Forgive and Forget, Peak Practice, The Governor, A Perfect Match, The Peter Principle, Smashie and Nicey, Stop The World, Is This About Crop Circles? and Low Level Panic.
Radio includes: Beauty of Britain (co-creator, writer and series regular), Ed Reardon’s Week, Mastering The Universe and Dave Podmore (BBC Radio 4)
Writing includes: Diamond Hard (winner of the Almeida Theatre’s WRITE competition), Beauty of Britain and Kicked by a Cow (BBC Radio 4), Lucky Jen (The Nosocomial Project).
Trained at RSAMD (now Royal Conservatoire of Scotland)
Theatre credits include: Quiz (Chichester and West End), Nell Gwynn (Globe and West End), Richard II (Globe), 39 Steps (West End), The Comedy of Errors (RSC and Barbican), Guy Fawkes (York Theatre Royal), Peter and the Starcatcher, A Christmas Carol (Royal and Derngate), Lysistrata, (Rose Theatre, Kingston) How to Make it Huge (Edinburgh Fringe) Relatively Speaking, Black Comedy, The Bowmans (Watermill, Newbury), Love’s Labour’s Lost (Peter Hall Company/ Rose Theatre) The Play What I Wrote (National Tour), The Missionary’s Position (National Tour), Low Pay, Don’t Pay (Salisbury Playhouse/Told by an Idiot), The Lady in the Van, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Hamlet, The Accrington Pals (all West Yorkshire Playhouse), The Madness of George III (Birmingham Rep / West Yorkshire Playhouse), The Tempest (Southwark Playhouse), Henry IV (Orange Tree Theatre), Away and Europe (Traverse, Edinburgh), It Runs in the Family (National Tour), Services (Gate Theatre, London)
TV credits include: Ghosts, Miss Scarlet and the Duke, This England, Pennyworth, Timewasters, Home Fires, True Crimes, See How They Run, Jane Hall, Eastenders, Emmerdale and Touch Me, I’m Karen Taylor.
Film: The Current War, The Time of Our Lives, Starfish
Short Film: One Drop, Pops, Ken Loach’s Star Wars, Les Chuckle Brothers
Radio credits include the Writers’ Guild Award winning Radio 4 comedy Fags, Mags and Bags.
Greg is also a regular volunteer for the theatre mentoring charity ‘Scene and Heard’, which won the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service.
Theatre Credits Include: Danny Zuko in Grease (Piccadilly Theatre), Danny Driscoll in Only Fools And Horses (Haymarket Theatre), Tony Manero in Saturday Night Fever (UK National Tour), Corny Collins in Hairspray (National Tour), Choreographer for Larks In Transit (Bill Bailey).
Tv And Film Credits Include: Tell Me You Love Me (Short Film), The Peripheral (Amazon Studios), Doctors (BBC), Home Sweet Homicide (October Films Studio For Discovery), Hollyoaks (Lime Productions), winner of Grease Is The Word (Talkback Thames For ITV)
Recent theatre work includes Girl From The North Country (UK tour), Oresteia, (West End), Jersey Boys (international tour), Spring Awakening (Hope Mill, Manchester), NHS, The Musical (Theatre Royal, Plymouth) and the world premier of Mrs Henderson Presents (Theatre Royal, Bath & West End).
After training at LAMDA Neil began his career in The Wind In The Willows atTheatr Clwyd. Work in rep at the Palace Theatre, Westcliff, the Mercury Theatre, Colchester and Perth Rep includes Alan Ayckbourn’s Taking Steps and A Small Family Business, Agatha Christie’s Spider’s Web and Witness For The Prosecution, Ray Cooney’s Funny Money and Out Of Order, Amadeus, Noises Off, and The Wizard Of Oz. Neil played Henry Higgins in a European tour of My Fair Lady for Sir Frank Dunlop and has worked extensively in America where roles include Henry in The Real Thing, in Boston, Elyot Chase in Private Lives in Maine, Peter Finch in Iago in Florida, Franklin Gowen in The Molly Maguires in Philadelphia, King Magnus in Shaw’s The Apple Cart in New York and the title roles in Macbeth in New Jersey and Butley in Connecticut. Other theatre credits include The Comedy Of Errors (Hamburg), Azdak in the Peter Brook Award-nominated Caucasian Chalk Circle (New Rep), Chess and Love Story (Union Theatre) and Oh, What A Lovely War (Theatre Royal, Stratford and UK tour).
Film credits: uwantme2killhim? and the villain, Lawrence III, in the film Pokemon 2000.
Training: Drama Studio London.
Theatre credits: Around the World in 80 Days (Octagon), A Christmas Carol (Antic Disposition), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Legend of King Arthur and The Merry Wives of Windsor (all for Guildford Shakespeare Company), Twelfth Night (Vienna’s English Theatre/Bermuda Festival); Hamlet (Fort Lovrijenac, Dubrovnik); Alice (Creation Theatre); Wuthering Heights and Sense and Sensibility (Yvonne Arnaud Theatre/Regional Tours); Inherit the Wind (Old Vic), Something Strange (Arcola).
Emma is also an award-winning audiobook narrator. Her titles include: The Power; The Rose Garden; Birdcage Walk.
Trained at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts.
Theatre includes: London Wall (St James Theatre, WESTEND), Pygmalion (Old Vic, London & Hong Kong Arts Centre), In the Jungle of Cities (Arcola Theatre), Yours for the Asking, Mary Goes First and Once Bitten (Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond), Distinguished Villa and Go Bang Your Tambourine (Finborough Theatre), What The Women Did and Goodbye To All That (Southwark Playhouse), Edmond (Theatre Royal Haymarket), Gaslight (English Theatre, Frankfurt), The New Inn (Sam Wanamaker Festival-Shakespeare’s Globe).
TV includes: Call the Midwife (BBC), Save Me (SKY), Ludwig (BBC), Doctors (BBC), Coconut(BBC4)
Film includes Summer in February, Molly Moon: The Incredible Hypnotist, End of Love
Voice over includes: Death of England (National Theatre), Tales from the Bridge and The Zone (Atomic TV)
Commercials includes:John Lewis Christmas, Virgin Trains, Disney, Heinz, Very, Cheesestrings, Birdseye, Chase Bank, Halifax, Iceland, Mecca Bingo, Legal and General, Huawei and many more!
John trained with the Sylvia Young Theatre School.
John’s theatre credits include playing Timon in The Lion King at the Lyceum Theatre, West End, a role he originally played and went on to tour with for many years including in the first ever tour of the UK and Ireland in 2012.
Other theatre credits include; Jonny/Consultant, Oxy & The Morons at the New Wolsey Theatre Ipswich, Peter in The Railway Children for Middle Ground Theatre Company, Sam in Tarnished Angel for the Finborough Theatre, Boult in Pericles for the Ludlow Festival, Eugene in Brighton Beach Memoirs for the English Theatre Frankfurt, Edwin in The Cub for the Traverse Theatre, Stefano in Mirandolina, Skinner in Forty Years On and Young Charlie in Conversations With My Father, all at The Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough. He has also played Arty in Lost In Yonkers – Mercury Colchester, the Artful Dodger in Oliver! – Crucible Theatre, Dandini in Cinderella – City Varieties Leeds, Son of McDuff in Macbeth – RSC Barbican and Lampwick in Pinnochio for the Arts Theatre.
Television work includes; Sophie and The Shadow Woods, Anita and Me for the BBC, Dundas in Mighty Hood, Invincible Bismarck for ITV, Lee Carter in Casualty – BBC, Jack in Renford Rejects – Nickleodeon, Paul in Against All Odds – BBC, Access in Harry’s Mad II – Central Productions, Alec in Doctor At The Top – BBC, and T- Shirt in 9 series and 3 Christmas specials of the long-running CITV show T-Bag. On Film he played Irving in 10 Arenas of Marwood, Stephen in Breakout for The Children’s Film Foundation and was in Brazil! directed by Terry Gilliam.
John has also recorded voices for many popular TV and film animations including Jim Hawkins in Treasure Island, Gargoyle in Mike the Knight, Toot in Toot the Tiny Tug and all the male characters in CBeebies Get Squiggling. Current animations include playing Zeve and Superfan in Robozuna, Dandy in Gecko’s Garage, Kip in Word Party, Kai in BuddyBots, Radley in Benjamin Bat, Foz in Go Jetters and James and Arnold in Fireman Sam. He was also the voice of Thomas in Thomas & Friends for many years voicing many series and feature films.
As well as the above he has dubbed and recorded ADR on numerous films and television programmes such as Game of Thrones, Dunkirk, Brave, Cloud Atlas, Storage 24, Arthur Christmas, Gnomeo and Juliet, High School Musical, Perfume, High Seas, Gulliver’s Travels, The Tudors, Rome, Silent Witness, Doctor Who and many more.
Dale trained at Mountview Theatre School.
Theatre credits include : Humphrey The Camel in Aladdin (Mercury Theatre); The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (The Minack Theatre, Cornwall); Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland (APL Theatre); Patsy in Spamalot, Idle Jack in Dick Whittington, Wishee Washee In Aladdin, Centipede in James and the Giant Peach, Toad in Wind in the Willows, Muddles in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Day-z in Jack and the Beanstalk, Miley in Cinderella (Winner of 2022 Best Ugly Sister-Great British Pantomime Awards)! Sir Percy Poter Habeas Corus, Buttons in Cinderella, Tony Lumpkin in She Stoops to Conquer, Oh! what a Lovely War All at the MercuryTheatre Colchester; Scarecrow in Oz (APL Theatre); Forever Young (Nottingham Playhouse), Grandpa in my Pocket (National tour), Hercules and Verges in Much Ado About Nothing (Chester Performs) Thinking About Doughnuts (Nottingham Playhouse /UK Tour); Absent Friends, Dick Whittington, Aladdin, Cinderella (Watford Playhouse Theatre); Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Peter in Romeo and Juliet and Pinocchio in Pinocchio (Regents Park Open Air Theatre), Ariel in the UK tour of Return to the Forbidden Planet (Bassingstoke Haymarket); George in The Knight of The Burning Pestle (Barbican Theatre); Toad in The Wind in the Willows (Oldham Coliseum); Simply Heavenly (YoungViv/Ambassador Group); Rumplestilskin (Unicorn Theatre); Epsom Downs (Nuffield Theatre); Doc Faust (Forest Forge); Mother Goose, Cinderella, Aladdin (Salisbury Playhouse); Tom’s Midnight Garden (London/ NewYork); Big Nose (Coventry Belgrade Theatre); Having a Ball, Fings Ain’t What They Used To Be and Of Mice and Men (Queens Theatre Hornchurch); Jungle Book (Redgrave Theatre Farnham); Alice In Wonderland, Puss in Boots, The Last Noo-Noo, Stardog, Charlottes Web, Patchwork Quilt (Polka Theatre); Babies (Palace Theatre Westcliff); You’re Thinking About Doughnuts (Nottingham Playhouse); A Song From The Sea ( Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich); A lesson to Forgive (TheMan In the Moon).
Television Credits : Way to Go (BBC3); Nuzzle and Scratch (CBBC); Tick Tock (Disney); The World At There Feet (Disney Channel); Bill’s New Frock (CH4); Rainbow Days (ITV).
Voice Over Work : Tony. Big Finish, BBC Doctor Who, “The Diary Of River Song”. Terror of The Suburbs. CH5 “Mimis World” Voice of Sausage
Theatre includes: Noises Off (Garrick Theatre); Standby for both Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders for two consecutive years at The London Palladium in Peter Pan and Jack And The Beanstalk (London Palladium), The Mentor, Stepping Out (both at Vaudeville Theatre); Landscape with Weapon (Cockpit Theatre); Travesties, The Mill on the Floss (Nottingham Playhouse); Vanity Fair, French Without Tears (Northcott); Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle and Dick (Harrogate Theatre); Time Of My Life (Bristol Old Vic); Over My Shoulder – The Jessie Matthews Story (Jermyn Street); Vanity Fair (Covent Garden Festival); Overrulled, Hecuba (Tristan Bates); Pal Joey (Chichester Festival Theatre); 110 In The Shade (Fortune); Chicago (Adelphi); Hot Mikado (Sondheim Theatre); Cats (New London).
Television includes: Matt Berry & Rich Fulcher’s “Snuff Box”, (BBC3); Genie in the House (Nickelodeon); Casualty, EastEnders, What’s Happening? (BBC); The One (ITV); “Skitches”, written and created by Suzy Bloom, Helen Goldwyn and Annalea Doyle.
Film includes: Emma (Universal Pictures); 24 Hours In London (One World Films); Tillington Hills (GR Films); The Art Of Love (Philippe Weibel Productions) currently on Netflix; Suzy stars opposite Noel Fielding in the BAFTA nominated film “Sweet” (Angry Donkey Productions).
Theatre Credits include: Witness for the Prosecution (London County Hall), Baskerville (Vienna’s English Theatre), Julius Caesar (Castle Park Theatre), Memento Mori (Mercury Theatre) and Secret Cinema’s production of Bridgerton.
Film and Television credits include: Pan Tau (Amazon Prime) and Paul Dood’s Deadly Lunchbreak (Sky Cinema).
Ben has also starred in The Corrupted for BBC Radio 4 and recently completed narration on two audiobook titles for Audible.
John Cleese is best known for his involvement in Monty Python’s Flying Circus, Fawlty Towers, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Monty Python’s Life of Brian,and a Fish Called Wanda.
In addition to his comedic activities, he was a co-founder with Sir Antony Jay of Video Arts, a management and sales training video company. Over a period of 20 yrs, Video Arts made over 120 training videos, and it was the largest firm of its kind outside the United States.
John Cleese was also a co-author, with the eminent psychiatrist Dr. Robin Skynner of two books ‘Families And How To Survive Them’, and ’Life And How To Survive It’. These books, which explored psychology, psychiatry, and their application to the wider world, both became best sellers.
He wrote his first autobiography ‘So Anyway’, which was published in 2014 and has sold 600,000 copies worldwide. In 2020, he also penned ‘Creativity A short and cheerful guide’.
In his twilight years he passes his time writing film scripts, making speeches to business audiences, doing seminars on creativity, teaching at Cornell and constructing a virtual reality website, www.thejohncleese.com.
Caroline moved into directing after a long career as a performer, working with artists such as Peter Darling, Arlene Philips, Antony Van Laast, Alan Harding and Clark Peters. Throughout the 1980s she worked with music artists on videos including; Nomad, Adamski, Kiss, David Grant, Jackie Graham, Queen and Freddie Mercury. Caroline’s West End Theatre credits as a performer include; West Side Story, Jesus Christ Superstar and Chicago.Choreography includes numerous rock concerts and live shows for Steve Coogan and Tim Minchin, amongst others.
As a Director, credits include; Steve Coogan Live UK & Australian tour, The Rod Stewart Musical Tonight’s the Night (2006 & 2014 tours), The Shape of Things by Neil LaBute (Edinburgh Festival), Love in the Time of Barriers by Hassan Abdul Razzak and Perve by Stacey Gregg (Vanburgh, RADA). Look Back in Anger by John Osborne (Rose, Southwark), The Cook and the Insurgent by Hassan Abdul Razzak (BBC3 Celebrating Sanctuary at the Southbank), Immaculate Conception by Cary Crankson (Vanburgh, RADA), Mr WH – A Forgery by Billie Brown (RADA), Marbles by Lydia Prior (Soho Theatre Project Wednesday), Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse Legends Live Tour (2015).
Additionally, Caroline worked on the staging for Tim Minchin Live Tour and was Associate Director to Eric Idle on Monty Python (Almost) Live (The O2, London 2014).
Caroline worked as Associate Director on the West End production of Roddy Doyle’s The Commitments Musical in 2013 (Palace Theatre) and subsequently directed the 2016 UK Tour of The Commitments Musical.Following this Caroline Directed Early Doors Live (2018) by Craig Cash and Phil Mealey and was consultant Director on Clive Tulloh and Joanna Lumley’s It’s All About Me UK Tour 2018/19.
After working on the early development of Only Fools and Horses the Musical she then directed its West End debut. The Final West End performance of Only Fools and Horses the musical took place on April 29th, 2023, after a 4 year run at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, making it the longest running show in the prestigious theatre’s history. Pre-production for Only Fools and Horses the musical 2024 UK Tour is now underway.
After developing and adapting a play for stage based on The Cut by Hibo Wardere she then collaborated with Jen Rainsford in adapting its themes into the screen play I Carry Your Crown for Momma Lion Films and producer Sarina Taylor, who are both now thrilled to be in collaboration with RSA films in realising this story to screen.
In August 2016 Caroline worked alongside John Cleese and directed the stage adaptation of Fawlty Towers for Sydney Australia and is thrilled to be teaming up with John Cleese once again to bring to life these incredibly iconic characters with such a talented company for its premiere in the West End.
Theatre credits include: Early Doors (UK Tour, Mcintyre Entertainments); Beirut (Park Theatre); This Is Not For You (Graeae, Greenwich/docklands International Festival And 14-18 Nov); Reasons To Be Cheerful (Graeae UK Tour); The House Of Bernarda Alba (Royal Exchange Theatre & Graeae); Fawlty Towers (Australia Tour); Legends (UK Tour); A Better Woman (Marlowe Theatre); A View From The Bridge (Touring Consortium); Tartuffe, Of Mice And Men (Birmingham Rep); Lucia Di Lammermoor (Scottish Opera); Grapes Of Wrath (RADA); On Golden Pond, Golden Leaf Strutt, Sad Arthur’s Trip, Agnes Of God (Belgrade Theatre); Trojan Women, Tis Pity She’s A Whore, As You Like It, The Nativity (Liverpool Everyman); Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Importance Of Being Earnest, The Three Musketeers, The Snow Queen, Death And The Maiden, Robin Hood, Beauty and The Beast (Dukes Playhouse Lancaster); Merrily We Roll Along (Watermill Theatre); Beautiful Thing, Blithe Spirit, The Three Sisters, Children’s House, Strawgirl, The Adoption Papers, Roots, Mary Barton, Hedda Gabler, As You Like It, Fast Food, So Special, The Seagull, The Rise And Fall Of Little Voice (Royal Exchange Theatre); On The Shore Of The Wide World (Royal Exchange Theatre & National Theatre); Katherine Howard (Chichester Festival Theatre); Cavalcaders (Tricycle); Ladies In Lavender (Royal & Derngate and UK Tour); Canary, Seven Up, Vincent River, Apocalyptica, Give Me Your Answer Do, Yellowman, Anna In The Tropics, Losing Louis, The Rubenstein Kiss (Hampstead Theatre); Peggy For You (Comedy Theatre, London & Tour); Two Gentleman Of Verona (RSC, National Tour); Honour (Wyndams Theatre); Corrie! (Lowry & Tour) Hotel In Amsterdam (Donmar Warehouse).
For the Gate Theatre, Dublin: All My Sons, Uncle Vanya, Pygmalion, Dublin Carol, See You Next Tuesday (Duke Of York Theatre); The Bear, Afterplay (The Spoleto Festival, South Carolina, The Gielgud Theatre); Faith Healer, Yalta Game, Afterplay (Sydney Festival); One For The Road (St Martin’s Theatre, Lincoln Centre – New York for The Pinter Festival).
Opera Credits include: The Carmelites (Grange Park Opera); Porgy And Bess (The Royal Danish Opera); Lucia Di Lammermoor (Houston Grand Opera Texas, La Fenice Venice & The Sydney Opera House).
Liz graduated with a BA Hons from Wimbledon School of Art. She has been awarded the Arts Council Trainee Design Bursary, the UNESCO award for Promotion of the Visual Arts (Prague Quadrennial), and TMA Best Designer.
Ian works extensively in theatre, opera and dance. Recent credits: Boys From The Blackstuff (Liverpool’s Royal Court); Avalon and Les Enfants du Paradis (Giffords Circus); The Children (Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds) and Much Ado About Nothing (The Crucible / Ramps On The Moon).
Other work includes: Where The Wild Things Areand A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Aldeburgh Festival);Flat Stanley (Polka/ West Yorkshire Playhouse); Reasons To Be Cheerful (Graeae); The Drummer Boy of Waterloo and The Happy Prince (Jubilee Opera); The 39 Steps (Criterion Theatre); All My Sons (Nottingham Playhouse); Taylor’s Dummies (Gecko); Animal Farm (Leeds Playhouse) and Observe The Sons Of Ulster Marching Towards The Somme (Abbey Theatre – Winner of The Irish Times Theatre Award for Best Lighting). Ian has lit over 50 shows at Liverpool’s Royal Court including: Mam I’m ‘Ere, Scouse Nativity, The Royal, You’ll Never Walk Alone and The Scousetrap. As Associate Artist of Suspect Culture Ian designed the set and lighting for many productions including Timeless, Mainstream and Lament.
For the last 40 years Rory has been at the very front end, pushing the boundaries of high-end performance audio systems and relishing the opportunity to incorporate the very latest technological advances in live production.
Rory’s work has taken him across the globe countless times with the biggest artists and the best productions the world has had to offer, through every type of venue, from theatres to stadiums.
Previous acts Rory has engineered sound for include Tina Turner, Joe Cocker, Diana Ross, Lionel Richie, Paul McCartney, Tom Jones, Rod Stewart, Dire Straits, Billy Joel, and Monty Python, Only Fools & Horses the Musical to name but a few.
“Having been an avid fan of Faulty Towers it’s a pleasure to be involved in this production”
Anne started casting in 1992 as in-house Casting Director for the Apollo Leisure Group. She has cast numerous West End and touring productions.
During her years at Apollo Leisure her West End casting credits included: Barnum (Dominion); Aspects of Love (Prince Of Wales); Fiddler On The Roof starring Topol (London Palladium); Copacabana (Prince of Wales); Scrooge starring Anthony Newley (Dominion); Doctor Dolittle starring Phillip Schofield (Apollo Hammersmith); Summer Holiday (Apollo Hammersmith); and numerous number one touring musicals.
Further musical credits include: A Night With Janis Joplin (West End 2024), I Should Be So Lucky (UK Tour); Mother Goose starring Ian McKellen & John Bishop (West End & UK Tour); We Will Rock You (UK Tour & London Coliseum); Bat Out of Hell (UK tour & West End); Identical (UK Tour); Strictly Ballroom (UK Tour); 9 To 5: The Musical (West End & UK Tour); The Grinning Man (West End); Hairspray, Carousel, Half A Sixpence, Guys and Dolls, Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Cats (all Kilworth House Theatre); The Life directed by Michael Blakemore (Southwark Playhouse, London); Guys and Dolls directed by Gordon Greenberg (UK Tour); Dance Til Dawn (West End); Loserville (West End); Zorro (West End); Boy George’s Taboo (West End); Saturday Night Fever (West End); Fame (West End).
Her play credits include: Fawlty Towers (West End 2024); Awful Auntie (UK Tour); Home, I’m Darling (UK Tour); Fatal Attraction (UK Tour); Abigail’s Party (UK Tour); Strangers On A Train (UK Tour); The Old Vic New Voices Festival (The Old Vic); The Mentalists starring Stephen Merchant (West End), Barking In Essex starring Lee Evans (West End); Flare Path (UK Tour); What The Butler Saw (West End); Stones In His Pockets (West End).
TV credits: Casting team on How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria; Any Dream Will Do; I’d Do Anything and Over the Rainbow (all BBC); Superstar (ITV); Take That’s Wonderland Special (ITV); and I Dream starring Christopher Lloyd (BBC).
Twitter: @AnneVosser
Denise trained at the Doreen Bird College of Performing Arts.
Choreography Credits include: Tonights the Night: UK Tour, Additional Choreography for The Commitments UK Tour, Aladdin (Harlequin Theatre, Redhill); Half a Sixpence (Ashcroft Theatre, Croydon); and Beauty and the Beast (Camberley Theatre).
Denise also worked as assistant choreographer for the BBC TV series Grange Hill, Steve Coogan Live: As Alan Partridge and Other Less Successful Characters (UK Tour) and the Red Nose ‘Danceathon’ for Comic Relief (Wembley Arena).
In addition, Denise was Resident and Associate Director on the first UK tour of The Commitments, Associate Director on Only Fools and Horses the Musical at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, West End and soon to be Associate Director & Choreographed for the upcoming UK tour of Only Fools and Horses the musical. Denise is thrilled to be working as assistant director on the London premiere of Fawlty Towers.
Chris trained at The Guildford School of Acting
Theatre credits include: Resident Director and original cast of Only Fools and Horses the Musical playing the role of Mickey Pearce understudying the roles of Rodney, Trigger and Grandad (Theatre Royal Haymarket) Some Mothers Do Ave Um as Desmond and Understudy Frank Spencer (UK Tour) Artie Goldberg in Yank! (Charing Cross Theatre and Hope Mill Theatre) Louis Harvey in the Lady Killers (Theatre Royal Windsor) Nigel in Relative Values (Theatre Royal Windsor) Lord Goring in an Ideal Husband (Manor Pavilion) Akari in Still Waiting (St James Theatre, Re:Act) Joe in The Spitfire Grill (Union Theatre, Winner of the Broadway World award for best production of a musical Fringe/Regional) Artie in Sunset Boulevard (Yvonne Arnaud Theatre) Freddy in Pygmalion (Theatre Royal Windsor) Sam Stone in Stone Cold Murder (Manor Pavilion) Flight Lieutenant Graham in Flair Path (Manor Pavilion) Malcolm in Macbeth (Neuss Globe) Ensemble in Chess (Concert Tour) Soloist/Cover in The West End Men (Vaudeville Theatre) Steve in Payback (Riverside Studios) Willie Briggs in Pools Paradise (Manor Pavilion) Victor in Private lives (Manor Pavilion) The Water Babies (Workshop) Soloist in Something Wonderful (Yvonne Arnaud)
Television Credits: Vernon Wilton in Doctors (BBC) Skins (Channel 4)
Roles whilst training: Jerry in Jerry Springer: The Opera, Oscar in Sweet Charity, Tosher in Lionel Bart’s Fings Aint What They Used T’Be Mercutio in Romeo and Juliette, Benny Southstreet in Guys and Dolls and male soloist in The World Goes ‘Round.
Twitter: @chris_kiely