CAST (in alphabetical order)
Mia Austen (Rosamund Miller)
Mia graduated from Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts where she won the Sam Wanamaker Award.
Theatre includes: London Wall (St James Theatre), Pygmalion (The Old Vic, London & Hong Kong Arts Center, Sir Peter Hall), Edmond (Theatre Royal Haymarket), Yours for the Asking, Mary Goes First and Once Bitten (Orange Tree, Richmond), Gaslight (The English Theatre, Frankfurt), The New Inn (Shakespeare's Globe), The Pork Crunch and A Warwickshire Testimony (The Pleasance, London), Lesbian Bathhouse (Edinburgh Festival)
Film/TV includes: Summer in February (CrossDay), Molly Moon: The Incredible Hypnotist (Amber Entertainment), London Wall (MasterMedia), End of Love (Partizan Pictures), King of Comedy (Mike Skinner), People Involved (CAMU Czech TV), Zero Hour (Discovery Channel).
Mia graduated from Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts where she won the Sam Wanamaker Award.
Theatre includes: London Wall (St James Theatre), Pygmalion (The Old Vic, London & Hong Kong Arts Center, Sir Peter Hall), Edmond (Theatre Royal Haymarket), Yours for the Asking, Mary Goes First and Once Bitten (Orange Tree, Richmond), Gaslight (The English Theatre, Frankfurt), The New Inn (Shakespeare's Globe), The Pork Crunch and A Warwickshire Testimony (The Pleasance, London), Lesbian Bathhouse (Edinburgh Festival)
Film/TV includes: Summer in February (CrossDay), Molly Moon: The Incredible Hypnotist (Amber Entertainment), London Wall (MasterMedia), End of Love (Partizan Pictures), King of Comedy (Mike Skinner), People Involved (CAMU Czech TV), Zero Hour (Discovery Channel).
Rhiannon Oliver (Clarabel Jones)
Rhiannon Oliver trained at RADA. Her screen credits include Jamaica Inn, Doctors and Torchwood (BBC1), The Cafe (Sky 1), Fatal Attraction (Oxford Scientific/Discovery) and the feature film Summertime. Her theatre credits include Children of the Sun, Comedy of Errors (National Theatre), Eternal Love (English Touring Theatre), Doctor Scroggy's War, The Heresy of Love, Love's Labours Lost, Anthony & Cleopatra, In Extremis, We the People, The Bible (Shakespeare's Globe), The Vortex (Manchester Royal Exchange) and Christmas Carol, Accrington Pals and Under Milk Wood (Lancaster Dukes Theatre). Musicals include Sleeping Beauty (Young Vic) and Great Expectations (Clwyd Theatr Cymru). She has also appeared in the radio plays The Pickwick Papers, Belle Amie and Giving it Back (BBC Radio).
Rhiannon Oliver trained at RADA. Her screen credits include Jamaica Inn, Doctors and Torchwood (BBC1), The Cafe (Sky 1), Fatal Attraction (Oxford Scientific/Discovery) and the feature film Summertime. Her theatre credits include Children of the Sun, Comedy of Errors (National Theatre), Eternal Love (English Touring Theatre), Doctor Scroggy's War, The Heresy of Love, Love's Labours Lost, Anthony & Cleopatra, In Extremis, We the People, The Bible (Shakespeare's Globe), The Vortex (Manchester Royal Exchange) and Christmas Carol, Accrington Pals and Under Milk Wood (Lancaster Dukes Theatre). Musicals include Sleeping Beauty (Young Vic) and Great Expectations (Clwyd Theatr Cymru). She has also appeared in the radio plays The Pickwick Papers, Belle Amie and Giving it Back (BBC Radio).
Caitlin Shannon (Daisy Fleet)
Theatre includes; Once Bitten (Orange Tree Theatre) The Hostage (Southwark Playhouse), Gaslight (English Theatre of Frankfurt), The Merry Wives of Windsor (Cambridge Shakespeare Festival), Talk to me Like Rain (The Courtyard), Love Labours Won (The Gilded Balloon) and in the USA; The Norman Conquests (Theatre 40), Stella by Starlight (Laguna Playhouse), Henry IV part 1 (Classical Theatre Lab), Things We Do For Love, A Chorus of Disapproval (Odyssey Theatre), The Cradle Will Rock, Medea, Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing (Theatricum Botanicum)
Film/TV includes; 13th Rider (YLE), The Division (Lifetime). Caitlin also works extensively in voice over and radio. She was a longstanding member of 'The California Artists' Radio Theatre' and in the U.K she has recorded several books for 'Listening Books' including Jane Goodall's The Shadow of Man and Rachel Carson's Seasons in the Sea. Most recently she voiced The Good Guy for Hodder Books.
Theatre includes; Once Bitten (Orange Tree Theatre) The Hostage (Southwark Playhouse), Gaslight (English Theatre of Frankfurt), The Merry Wives of Windsor (Cambridge Shakespeare Festival), Talk to me Like Rain (The Courtyard), Love Labours Won (The Gilded Balloon) and in the USA; The Norman Conquests (Theatre 40), Stella by Starlight (Laguna Playhouse), Henry IV part 1 (Classical Theatre Lab), Things We Do For Love, A Chorus of Disapproval (Odyssey Theatre), The Cradle Will Rock, Medea, Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing (Theatricum Botanicum)
Film/TV includes; 13th Rider (YLE), The Division (Lifetime). Caitlin also works extensively in voice over and radio. She was a longstanding member of 'The California Artists' Radio Theatre' and in the U.K she has recorded several books for 'Listening Books' including Jane Goodall's The Shadow of Man and Rachel Carson's Seasons in the Sea. Most recently she voiced The Good Guy for Hodder Books.
Sarah Simpkins (Mrs. Eliza Dippy)
Sarah trained with the Actors Company eight years ago having previously worked in corporate hospitality and teaching.
Theatre credits include two number one tours with Calendar Girls, The Importance of Being Ernest Rose Theatre Kingston, Bedroom Farce at the Duke of Yorks, Hannah and Martin at the Court Theatre, Gaslight for The English Theatre Frankfurt and Undiscovered Country at The New Players Theatre. She has made numerous short films and also works in corporate roleplay and voice over.
Sarah trained with the Actors Company eight years ago having previously worked in corporate hospitality and teaching.
Theatre credits include two number one tours with Calendar Girls, The Importance of Being Ernest Rose Theatre Kingston, Bedroom Farce at the Duke of Yorks, Hannah and Martin at the Court Theatre, Gaslight for The English Theatre Frankfurt and Undiscovered Country at The New Players Theatre. She has made numerous short films and also works in corporate roleplay and voice over.
Catherine Skinner (Gertrude Hetherington)
Theatre includes: The Crucible (RSC); Mirror Teeth, Little Madam (FInborough Theatre); Switzerland (Hightide Festival); Undercarriage, Forward, Transmissions (Birmingham Rep); The Witches (Wyndham’s Theatre/Birmingham Rep); Taketh Me Away (Pleasance Edinburgh); Hayfever (Haymarket, Basingstoke); The Hound of the Baskervilles (Plymouth Theatre Royal/ Ian Fricker Productions); Twelfth Night (Sprite); The Rover (Southwark Playhouse); Confusions, Joking Apart, Taking Steps (Mill at Sonning); Mrs Ruskin (Croydon Warehouse); The Importance of Being Earnest (Kaos Theatre)
Television includes: Call the Midwife (BBC/Neal Street Productions; Housewife 49 (Granada); Doctors (BBC); Henry 8.0 (BBC Comedy Extra); The Rotters’ Club (BBC/Company Pictures)
Radio includes: Ambridge Extra, One Day, Blood in the Bridal Shop, What Is Missing From Your Life?, Love Chat (BBC Radio 4); Daddy’s Girl (Watershed)
Theatre includes: The Crucible (RSC); Mirror Teeth, Little Madam (FInborough Theatre); Switzerland (Hightide Festival); Undercarriage, Forward, Transmissions (Birmingham Rep); The Witches (Wyndham’s Theatre/Birmingham Rep); Taketh Me Away (Pleasance Edinburgh); Hayfever (Haymarket, Basingstoke); The Hound of the Baskervilles (Plymouth Theatre Royal/ Ian Fricker Productions); Twelfth Night (Sprite); The Rover (Southwark Playhouse); Confusions, Joking Apart, Taking Steps (Mill at Sonning); Mrs Ruskin (Croydon Warehouse); The Importance of Being Earnest (Kaos Theatre)
Television includes: Call the Midwife (BBC/Neal Street Productions; Housewife 49 (Granada); Doctors (BBC); Henry 8.0 (BBC Comedy Extra); The Rotters’ Club (BBC/Company Pictures)
Radio includes: Ambridge Extra, One Day, Blood in the Bridal Shop, What Is Missing From Your Life?, Love Chat (BBC Radio 4); Daddy’s Girl (Watershed)
Alison Skilbeck (Winifred Miller)
Alison started acting at Oxford University. Her enormously varied theatre career has taken her all over the UK and the world. She began with five years with Sir Alan Ayckbourn’s Stephen Joseph Theatre-in-the-Round at Scarborough, where she created lead roles in six Ayckbourn world premieres. West End includes; Steaming, Little Lies, Judy. Other theatre includes; Tartuffe, Passion Play (Bristol Old Vic), Time and The Conways (Derby Playhouse) Abigail’s Party and A Doll’s House (Theatr Clwyd), Just Between Ourselves, Habeas Corpus, Relative Values (all at Salisbury Playhouse), On Golden Pond (Nottingham), Relatively Speaking (Northampton) Balmoral , at the Theatre Royal Bath. Her one-woman show Are There More of You? has been seen at London’s King’s Head, at many UK studio theatres, and at the Edinburgh and Brighton Festivals, and has recently toured Ireland. Her new one-woman play Mrs Roosevelt Flies to London has just been launched at the RADA Festival and the King's Head Theatre London.
Film/TV includes; Sherlock Holmes (The Naval Treaty), Miss Marple (Nemesis), The Beiderbecke Affair, and the series Head Over Heels and Soldier Soldier, Dr Who, The Bill, Lovejoy, He Knew He Was Right, New Tricks, Midsomer Murders, and Law and Order UK. She has worked extensively for BBC Radio: in The Archers and in many plays and series, for writer/directors Simon Brett, the late Don Taylor, and Ellen Dryden: most recently she was in Ellen’s adaptation of Mrs Gaskell’s ‘Ruth’ for Radio 4’s Classic Serial.
Alison started acting at Oxford University. Her enormously varied theatre career has taken her all over the UK and the world. She began with five years with Sir Alan Ayckbourn’s Stephen Joseph Theatre-in-the-Round at Scarborough, where she created lead roles in six Ayckbourn world premieres. West End includes; Steaming, Little Lies, Judy. Other theatre includes; Tartuffe, Passion Play (Bristol Old Vic), Time and The Conways (Derby Playhouse) Abigail’s Party and A Doll’s House (Theatr Clwyd), Just Between Ourselves, Habeas Corpus, Relative Values (all at Salisbury Playhouse), On Golden Pond (Nottingham), Relatively Speaking (Northampton) Balmoral , at the Theatre Royal Bath. Her one-woman show Are There More of You? has been seen at London’s King’s Head, at many UK studio theatres, and at the Edinburgh and Brighton Festivals, and has recently toured Ireland. Her new one-woman play Mrs Roosevelt Flies to London has just been launched at the RADA Festival and the King's Head Theatre London.
Film/TV includes; Sherlock Holmes (The Naval Treaty), Miss Marple (Nemesis), The Beiderbecke Affair, and the series Head Over Heels and Soldier Soldier, Dr Who, The Bill, Lovejoy, He Knew He Was Right, New Tricks, Midsomer Murders, and Law and Order UK. She has worked extensively for BBC Radio: in The Archers and in many plays and series, for writer/directors Simon Brett, the late Don Taylor, and Ellen Dryden: most recently she was in Ellen’s adaptation of Mrs Gaskell’s ‘Ruth’ for Radio 4’s Classic Serial.
David Whitworth (Captain Hanson)
Recent theatre includes French Without Tears for English Touring Theatre and The Orange Tree.; In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel at the Charing Cross Theatre. Other theatre includes Aladdin in Aylesbury ,Milton Keynes and Bristol Hippodrome; Sleeping Beauty at the Waterside, Aylesbury; The Woman in Black for GEST in Gothenburg and at the Stadsteater in Stockholm ; The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd, The Thunderbolt, Mary Goes First, A Journey to London, Double Double, Trifles, Sauce for the Goose, King Lear, Magnificence at the Orange Tree Theatre; Pride and Prejudice, Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Henry V, As You Like It, The Dark Lady of the Sonnets, Love’s Labours Lost, at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre; London Wall at the Finborough and The Other Palace; Rigor Mortis at the Finborough; The Second Mrs Tanqueray at the Rose Theatre Kingston; London Assurance at the National Theatre; Wuthering Heights at Birmingham Rep and The Mousetrap at St Martin’s Theatre.
TV includes: Alan Titchmarsh Show, The Bill, Nicholas Nickleby, Jasper Carrott, Big Deal, Poldark, Miss Jones and
Son, Colditz, Z Cars, Coronation Street, A Family at War, Barlow, Armchair Theatre
Next engagement: A Day by the Sea at Southwark Playhouse in October 2017.
Films include: Love’s Kitchen, Little Dorrit.
Recent theatre includes French Without Tears for English Touring Theatre and The Orange Tree.; In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel at the Charing Cross Theatre. Other theatre includes Aladdin in Aylesbury ,Milton Keynes and Bristol Hippodrome; Sleeping Beauty at the Waterside, Aylesbury; The Woman in Black for GEST in Gothenburg and at the Stadsteater in Stockholm ; The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd, The Thunderbolt, Mary Goes First, A Journey to London, Double Double, Trifles, Sauce for the Goose, King Lear, Magnificence at the Orange Tree Theatre; Pride and Prejudice, Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Henry V, As You Like It, The Dark Lady of the Sonnets, Love’s Labours Lost, at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre; London Wall at the Finborough and The Other Palace; Rigor Mortis at the Finborough; The Second Mrs Tanqueray at the Rose Theatre Kingston; London Assurance at the National Theatre; Wuthering Heights at Birmingham Rep and The Mousetrap at St Martin’s Theatre.
TV includes: Alan Titchmarsh Show, The Bill, Nicholas Nickleby, Jasper Carrott, Big Deal, Poldark, Miss Jones and
Son, Colditz, Z Cars, Coronation Street, A Family at War, Barlow, Armchair Theatre
Next engagement: A Day by the Sea at Southwark Playhouse in October 2017.
Films include: Love’s Kitchen, Little Dorrit.
Sam Wilkin (Matthew Miller)
Sam trained at Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.
Theatre includes; The Rover at Southwark Playhouse, Macbeth and Taming of the Shrew at Sprite Theatre, Binary at High Tide, Taketh Me Away at The Pleasance Courtyard and Neon for RashDash Theatre Company at the BAC.
Television includes; Hotel Babylon (BBC), Doctors (BBC), Pleasure Park (ITV Wales).
Sam trained at Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.
Theatre includes; The Rover at Southwark Playhouse, Macbeth and Taming of the Shrew at Sprite Theatre, Binary at High Tide, Taketh Me Away at The Pleasance Courtyard and Neon for RashDash Theatre Company at the BAC.
Television includes; Hotel Babylon (BBC), Doctors (BBC), Pleasure Park (ITV Wales).
Simon Yadoo (Nelson Brand)
Simon trained at LAMDA.
Theatre includes; Damned by Despair National Theatre, 2401 Objects, Eulogy, Happiness, My Family and Other Animals, Bring Me the Head of Adam Riches, Coalition, Fair Trade, The Real Thing, Richard III, Demi-Monde: The Half-World of William Morris, Oliver Twist, La Ronde, Whatever Happened to the Moops?, Three Men in a Boat, Tuesdays, Little Madam, Unveiling/Audience/Protest: The Vanek Plays, Dogfight, Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet, Resistance, The Country Wife.
Film and Television includes; Bedlam The Manual, The Constant Gardener, Vanity Fair, The Muppets Most Wanted.
Simon trained at LAMDA.
Theatre includes; Damned by Despair National Theatre, 2401 Objects, Eulogy, Happiness, My Family and Other Animals, Bring Me the Head of Adam Riches, Coalition, Fair Trade, The Real Thing, Richard III, Demi-Monde: The Half-World of William Morris, Oliver Twist, La Ronde, Whatever Happened to the Moops?, Three Men in a Boat, Tuesdays, Little Madam, Unveiling/Audience/Protest: The Vanek Plays, Dogfight, Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet, Resistance, The Country Wife.
Film and Television includes; Bedlam The Manual, The Constant Gardener, Vanity Fair, The Muppets Most Wanted.