Cast & Creative

Simon Lipkin

as Fagin

Training: Simon attended the Sylvia Young theatre school where most of his classmates were in Cameron’s Palladium production of Oliver…he was very jealous so he’s making up for it now!

Theatre includes: Derren Brown’s Unbelievable, Nathan Detroit in Guys and Dolls, Barlow in I Can’t Sing, Lonny in Rock of Ages, Nicky/Trekkie in Avenue Q, Buddy the Elf in Elf The Musical, Philip Goodman in Ghost Stories, Ratty in The Wind in the Willows, The Lorax in The Lorax, I Love You You’re Perfect Now Change, Pharaoh in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Bob Cratchit in A Christmas Carol; Mr Poppy in Nativity! The Musical (Eventim Apollo); Sheriff in Whisper House (The Other Palace); Brian in Brian & Rodger (Menier Chocolate Factory); Martin in All in a Row (Southwark Playhouse); Lou Lubowitz in Miss Atomic Bomb (St James Theatre); Bill Sikes in Oliver! (Grange Park Opera); The Proprietor in Assassins (Menier Chocolate Factory); Touchstone in As You Like It (Southwark Playhouse); Galahad in Spamalot (UK tour); Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland (Nuffield Theatre Southampton); Sammy and Robbie in The Wedding Singer (UK tour); Blake in Austentatious (Landor Theatre).

Film and Television include: Christmas on Mistletoe Farm; I Love You You’re Perfect Now Change; Nativity Rocks; Show Dogs; First Date; Nativity III; The Muppets: Most Wanted; Casualty; Unforgotten; Silent Witness; The Beaker Girls series 1 & 2; Almost Never; Ricky Zoom; The Amazing World of Gumball; Harry Hill’s Tea Time; Alien Fun Capsule; Doctor Who; The Bill; No Strings Attached.

Simon is also proud to be a member of the world-famous Magic Circle.

Instagram: @simonlipkin

Shanay Holmes

as Nancy

Theatre includes: Ellen in Miss Saigon (Sheffield Theatres); Cindy Breakspeare in Get Up Stand Up! (Lyric Theatre); Laura in High Fidelity (Turbine Theatre); Marian in The Bridges of Madison County (Menier Chocolate Factory); Narrator in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Kilworth House Theatre); Glinda in The Wizard of Oz (Birmingham Rep); Joanne Jefferson in Rent (20th Anniversary production); Soul Girl in Jesus Christ Superstar (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); understudy female leads in Close To You: Bacharach Reimagined (Criterion Theatre); Rachel Marron in The Bodyguard Musical (Adelphi Theatre); Lead Singer in Thriller Live (Lyric Theatre).

Awards: Lord Michael Hastings of Scarisbrick Achievement Award for outstanding contribution to the industry 2024, Black British Theatre Awards winner for Best Producer & Best Production for West End Musical Celebration (Palace Theatre); Stage Top 25 – Theatremakers to look out for in 2022 and beyond.

Producing credits include: Musical Con (Excel London); Bat Boy The Musical (London Palladium); For Black Boys… (Garrick Theatre); Jon Robyns in Concert (His Majesty’s Theatre); West End Musical Love Songs (Lyric Theatre & Apollo Theatre); West End Musical Halloween (Lyric Theatre); West End Musical Christmas (Lyric Theatre & Adelphi Theatre); West End Musical Celebration (Palace Theatre).

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Aaron Sidwell

as Bill Sikes

Theatre credits include: Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings (Watermill Theatre); Jack Cade/Hastings/The Son in Henry VI: Wars of The Roses, Jack Cade in Henry VI: Rebellion (Royal Shakespeare Company); Demetrius/Peter Quince in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Scoot Theatre Company); Alex More in Buyer & Cellar (Above the Stag); Macduff in Macbeth (Salomans Estate Tunbridge Wells); title role in Henry V (Barn Theatre Cirencester); Fiyero in Wicked (UK tour); Johnny in Green Day’s American Idiot (Arts Theatre); Joe Kennedy Jnr/Jerry in Grey Gardens (Southwark Playhouse); Carl Bruner in Ghost the Musical (English Theatre Frankfurt); Michael Dork in Loserville: The Musical (West Yorkshire Playhouse & Garrick Theatre); Michael Carrington in Cool Rider Live (London Palladium, Lyric & Duchess Theatre); Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet, Jack Sprat in Carnaby Street – The Musical (UK tours); Ham in Children of Eden (Prince of Wales Theatre); Kyle Gibson in The Prodigals (Gilded Balloon/Edinburgh Festival).

Film and Television includes: Fyre Rises; The Nephilim; Distanced (Short); Casualty; Father Brown; EastEnders; Doctors.

Concerts include: Cool Rider 10^th Anniversary (London Palladium); The Music of Leonard Bernstein (RTE Orchestra).

Billy Jenkins

as the Artful Dodger

Training: British Theatre Academy

Theatre credits include: Gavroche in Les Misérables (West End).

Films and Television includes: Holmes and Watson; Four Kids and It; Chicken and Egg; Dodger Specials; Dodger; Peaky Blinders series 6; Cursed; Humans series 2 & 3; The Crown seasons 1 & 2.

Radio includes: Michael Morpurgo’s Alone on the Wide Wide Sea; Henry IV Part 2 and Henry V.

Billy was a Screen Actors Guild Award nominee for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series for The Crown; a Young Artist Award 2021 nominee for Best Performance in a Streaming Series by a Young Actor for Cursed; a TV Times Awards 2022 nominee for Favourite Young Performer for Dodger; and a Young Artist Award 2023 nominee for Outstanding Ensemble Cast for Dodger.

Oscar Conlon-Morrey

Mr Bumble

Training: Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts.

Theatre includes: Phil Newman in Rehab The Musical (194 Piccadilly: OFFIE nomination); Dating Agent/Danny Driscoll in Only Fools and Horses The Musical (Theatre Royal Haymarket: WhatsOnStage Award nomination); Jack in Mother Goose (West End & UK tour); Robert Cecil in Treason (London Palladium & UK tour); Vajayjay in Cinderella: A Socially Distanced Ball (Turbine Theatre); Friar Tuck in The Fall (Shakespeare’s Globe); Skelton in The Downfall of Robert Earl of Huntington (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse); Mr Rye/cover Mr Poppy in Nativity! The Musical (West End & UK tour); Simeon/The Baker in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Kilworth House Theatre): White Dude in The Toxic Avenger The Musical (West End and Edinburgh Fringe).

Films include: Oscar Wilde About America, A Killer Party, Cinderella: A Socially Distanced Ball, First Date.

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Katy Secombe

Widow Corney

Role: Widow Corney

Training: The Bristol Old Vic Theatre School

Theatre includes: Mrs Paroo in The Music Man; Bird Seller in Pickwick (Festival Theatre); Antonia in Can’t Pay? Won’t Pay (Minerva Theatre);  Hot Box Charlie and General Cartwright in Guys And Dolls (Bridge Theatre); Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Stefano/Sebastian in The Tempest, Touchstone/Phoebe in As You Like It (Shakespeare’s Globe); Madame Thenardier in Les Misérables and Les Miserables The Staged Concert (West End); Mrs Beaver/Mother in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Clara in Hay Fever (Rose Theatre Kingston); Brenda in I Can’t Sing (London Palladium); Rosie in Mamma Mia! (Prince Charles Theatre); Hannah in A Chorus of Disapproval (Wolsey Theatre Ipswich); Mrs Micawber/Peggotty in David Copperfield (County Hall); Mama Morton in Chicago (UK tour); Rosie in Mamma Mia! (Prince Edward Theatre); Mary Bolton in Mother Clap’s Molly House, Mopsa in A Winter’s Tale, Maria in Twelfth Night, Hot Box Girl/Agatha in Guys and Dolls (National Theatre); Kate in Bedroom Farce (Stephen Joseph Theatre); Cinderella (Salisbury Playhouse); Teechers (Redgrave Theatre Farnham); Macbeth (Harrogate Theatre).

Film and Television includes: Les Misérables; Satisfaction Guaranteed (short); Casualty; Megamaths, London’s Burning; The Matt Lucas Awards; Pompidou.

Radio and Audio includes: Cunch, Twice Brightly, Twelfth Night. Kisses On A Postcard.

Stephen Matthews

Mr Sowerberry / Dr Grimwig

Theatre includes: Noah Claypole in the original cast of Cameron Mackintosh’s 1994 revival of Oliver! (London Palladium); The Mousetrap (St Martin’s Theatre); Les Misérables – The Staged Concert (Gielgud Theatre); Strictly Ballroom (Piccadilly Theatre, Princess of Wales Theatre Toronto & Leeds Playhouse); Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Leeds Playhouse); Monsieur Popular (Ustinov Studio Bath); Anything Goes (Crucible Theatre Sheffield & UK tour); The Boy Who Fell Into A Book (Stephen Joseph Theatre Scarborough); The Lion King (Lyceum Theatre); The Producers (Theatre Royal Drury Lane); Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle & Dick (Harrogate Theatre); Round The Horne…Revisited (UK tour); Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (UK & international tour); Puss in Boots, A Christmas Carol (Hackney Empire); The Pirates of Penzance (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre & Leeds Playhouse); Inkle & Yarico (BAC); Snoopy The Musical (Watermill Newbury); Lady in the Dark and Crows (National Theatre); Thwarted! (King’s Head, Islington); On The Twentieth Century, Is There Life After High School? (Bridewell Theatre); Les Misérables (Palace Theatre); Little Shop of Horrors, Death of a Salesman, Grease (Derby Playhouse); Kiss Me, Kate! (UK tour); Show Boat (RSC/Opera North/London Palladium); Treasure Island (Mermaid Theatre); Prisoner Cell Block H (Dominion Theatre & tour); Sherlock Holmes The Musical (Cambridge Theatre); HMS Pinafore (Old Vic Theatre).

Film and television include: The Sister Boniface Mysteries; Holby City; The Night Watch; David the True Believer; The Quest; The Bill; Les Misérables.

Other credits include: Scam, At Home With Kit and the Widow and Half A Sixpence (BBC Radio 4); My Fair Lady (BBC Prom); Les Misérables 10th Anniversary Concert (Royal Albert Hall); Hey, Mr Producer! (Lyceum Theatre).

Jamie Birkett

Mrs Sowerberry / Mrs Bedwin

Training: Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts.

Theatre includes: Annie in Peter Pan Goes Wrong (Lyric Theatre West End & UK tour); Loretta/cover and Kate/Debbie/Nina in Mamma Mia The Party! (O2); Lucinda in Into the Woods (Theatre Royal Bath); Chemise/Miss Murray in Groan Ups (UK tour); cover Madame Thénardier/Factory Girl in Les Misérables (UK & Ireland tour); alternate Sandra in The Play That Goes Wrong (Duchess Theatre); Handmaiden/cover Evleen in The Pirate Queen (ENO/London Coliseum); Carabosse in Sleeping Beauty (Swansea Grand); Lady Macbeth in Macbeth (European tour); Veronica in The Garden, Miranda in The Ghost Train Don’t Stop Here Anymore (Tristan Bates Theatre); Dr Finache in A Flea in Her Ear (Tabard Theatre); Martha in Cross Purpose (Off West End Awards Best Actress nomination, King’s Head); Countess Charlotte Malcolm in A Little Night Music (Off West End Awards Best Supporting Actress nomination, Ye Olde Rose & Crown); Joanne in Rent (Greenwich Theatre); Serena Katz in Fame (European tour); Jubilee Climax in Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens (West End & 20^th Anniversary production, Leicester Square Theatre); Queen Mouseyrinks in Nutcracker! The Musical (Pleasance Theatre London); Principal Female on Musical Starnights (European tour); Wicked Witch in Little Red Riding Hood, Evil Stepmother in Cinderella (Customs House South Shields); Princess Jasmine in Aladdin (Sands Centre Carlisle); May Queen in Merrie England (Finborough); Ragtime, The Hired Man (Landor); Aladdin in Aladdin (Maltings Theatre); Babs in Once Upon a Time at the Adelphi (Union Theatre).

Television includes: Sondheim’s 80^th (BBC Prom/Royal Albert Hall), Wire in the Blood, Rocketman, I’d Do Anything.

Films include: We Always Find Ourselves at the Seas, Flow.

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Philip Franks

as Mr Brownlow

Theatre includes: The Rocky Horror show; Witness for the Prosecution; Journey’s End; Noises Off; Art; the Importance of Being Earnest; Ivanov; Much Ado About Nothing, (West End),

Hamlet; All’s Well That Ends Well; Peter Pan; The Winter’s Tale; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Henry IV; the Art of Success; Everyman in his Humour; the Storm (RSC)

Breaking the Code; the Secret of Sherlock Holmes; the Winslow Boy; Murder in the Cathedral; the History Boys; Edward II; 66 Books.

Film and Television include: Bleak House; Martin Chuzzlewit; the Green Man; the Darling Buds of May; Heartbeat; Absolutely Fabulous; Finding Neverland; Phantom Thread.

Other credits include: Many appearances on Radio 3 and 4, as reader/ narrator in concerts, including the Proms, the Royal Festival Hall and a stadium tour with Rick Wakeman, various TV quiz shows including a long stint in Countdown’s Dictionary corner.

Directing credits include: 

Philip is also an award-winning director of over 70 plays. He has directed in the West End, in New York and Toronto, at the National Theatre, Chichester Festival Theatre, the Bush, on tour and in most of the major theatres in the UK. He has also written and directed for BBC Radio 4, and online for the Original Theatre Company.

www.philipfranks.co.uk

Billy Byers

Alternate Artful Dodger

Training: Gielgud Academy of Performing Arts

Theatre includes: Watch on The Rhine (Donmar Warehouse)

Film and TV includes: Napoleon (Ridley Scott/Amazon); Call The Midwife (BBC); Doctors (BBC); Changing Ends (ITV); Ghosts (BBC) and Young Sherlock (Amazon Studios)

Cian Eagle-Service

Oliver Twist

Training: JJ Dance Studios and Kim Thursfield Vocal Coaching.

Theatre includes:  Bruno in The Witches (National Theatre); Gustave in Love Never Dies in Concert, Gavroche in Les Misérables, Michael Banks in Mary Poppins and Young Aaron in The Prince of Egypt (West End).

Television includes:  Britain’s Got Talent Live Final 2023 (with the cast of Les Misérables).

Films include:  The Prince of Egypt (filmed live in the West End)

Raphael Korniets

Oliver Twist

Training: Foster’s School of Dance and has solo vocal tuition by Sarah Emanuel.

Theatre/Dance credits include: The Boy in The Snowman (Sadler’s Wells and Birmingham Rep, 2022 & 2023). He also regularly performs in local theatre productions. Raphael has just finished working on an NDA Amazon TV series,

Jack Philpott

Oliver Twist

Training: GSA Junior Conservatoire.

Theatre includes: The Witches (National Theatre); Eric in Matilda The Musical (RSC/West End).

Television includes: Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny; Matilda The Movie; Matilda The Musical – BBC Big Night of Musicals; House of the Dragon; Angela Black.

Films include: Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, Matilda The Movie.

Odo Rowntree-Bailly

Oliver Twist

Training: Stagecoach Fulham

Theatre Includes: Oliver!, Shrek and Robin Hood. Last year Odo spent five months touring in China playing Gustave in Love Never Dies.

Rachael Archer

Ensemble

Training: Arts Educational Schools

Theatre includes: Barnum (Theatre in the Park); Bea in Something Rotten, City of Angels (English Theatre Frankfurt); Mrs Turnbull/Mrs Tilbrook in Betty Blue Eyes (Novello Theatre); Sweet Charity (Menier Chocolate Factory & Theatre Royal Haymarket); Hello Dolly!, Gigi (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Aspects of Love, The Vagina Monologues (UK tours); Imagine This (New London Theatre); The Tempest (Theatre Royal Bath).

Film and television include: Les Misérables, (Universal Pictures), Victoria Wood Christmas Special.

Tegan Bannister

Ensemble

Training: Sylvia Young Theatre School and Urdang Academy.

Theatre includes: Ensemble in I Should Be So Lucky (UK Tour); Eponine in Les Misérables (UK Tour); Ali in Mamma Mia! (Novello Theatre); Ensemble in Les Misérables (Queens Theatre, London); Young Nala in The Lion King (Lyceum Theatre, London).

Adam Boardman

Ensemble

Training: Guildford School of Acting.

Theatre includes: Brujon/cover Thnardier in Les Misérables (UK & Ireland and international tours); Casca in Julius Caesar (RSC); Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Leonato in Much Ado About Nothing (Berkeley Castle & Verona Open Air).

Television includes: Odd Squad (BBC/PBS); Breeders (Sky/Avalon); Not Going Out (BBC/Avalon); The First Team (BBC/Fudge Park).

Lois Craig

Swing

Training: Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts.

Theatre includes: Eilidh in the UK/US Tour of Islander: The Musical.

Television includes: Everest in Paw Patrol (Nickelodeon), Frida in Barracuda Queens (Netflix) and Gail Whale in Baby Shark (Nickelodeon).

Oliver! marks Lois’ West End Debut.

Harry Cross

Dandy

Training: Stagebox

Theatre includes: Patrick in Mame (Hope Mill Manchester/Royal & Derngate/Salisbury Playhouse); Tommy Stubbins in Doctor Dolittle; Toby in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang; Hedgehog/Fieldmouse in The Wind in the Willows (UK tours); Grisha in The Cherry Orchard (Royal Exchange/Bristol Old Vic).

Film and Television includes: Victoria series 2; Rocketman.

Stephen John Davis

Swing

Theatre includes: Phantom in The Phantom of the Opera; Bishop of Digne,  Jean Valjean and Javert in Les Misérables; Cmdr Harbison and cover Emile de Becque in South Pacific, (Sadlers Wells); Anselmo and cover Cervantes/Don Quixote in Man of La Mancha (English National Opera); Reuben in Really Useful Group’s ‪Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (RUG); Father Alexander, Sam and Bill in Mamma Mia; most recently Resident Director and standby for Andrew Fraser in the critically acclaimed/award winning The Little Big Things at (Sohoplace).; Lewis, the Clerk of Graylingwell and Crowley Gifford in the World Premier of The Taxidermist’s Daughter (Chichester Festival Theatre); Created the role of The Doctor and covered the roles of Vilna Lutz and The Magician in another World Premier, The Magician’s Elephant (Royal Shakespeare Company).

Other roles include: Sweeney Todd (The English Theatre Frankfurt and Deutsches Theater, Munich); Frank Butler in Annie Get Your Gun (Frinton Summer Theatre); Russian Constable in Fiddler on the roof (Chichester Festival); Larry in Company (AAC); Chick Clark in Wonderful Town for London Symphony Orchestra (Barbican).

Studio recordings include; Pasquale in The Most Happy Fella (JAY); Bill Bobstay in HMS Pinafore (D’Oyly Carte/JAY); Soloist in Bernstein Dances (Deutsche Grammophon) and Chick Clark in Wonderful Town for the London Symphony Orchestra with Sir Simon Rattle.

Films include: Arena Tour of ‪Jesus Christ Superstar and as Don Atillio in Phantom of the opera 25th Anniversary (Royal Albert Hall).

Bethany Huckle

Swing

Training: The Urdang Academy

Theatre includes: Vivian in Oklahoma! (Chichester Festival Theatre); Flo in Half A Sixpence (Chichester Festival Theatre and Noel Coward Theatre); My Favourite Things: The Rodgers & Hammerstein 80th Anniversary Concert, 42nd Street (Theatre Royal Drury Lane); Roman Holiday (Theatre Royal Bath); cover Eliza in My Fair Lady (London Coliseum & UK tour); The Boy Friend, cover Chairy/Jenny Lind in Barnum (Menier Chocolate Factory); Alice in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Cinderella (Theatre Royal Plymouth); Mrs Henderson Presents (workshop).

Film and Television includes: The One Show; Tonight at the Palladium; BBC Children in Need; The Olivier Awards; Strictly Come Dancing; Wonka, Cats.

Callum Hudson

Noah Claypole

Training: Sylvia Young Theatre School, Bird College.

Theatre includes: Eric in Matilda The Musical (RSC); Gavroche in Les Misérables (Sondheim Theatre); Young Harry Potter in Harry Potter and The Cursed Child (Palace Theatre).

Television includes: Strictly Come Dancing.

Ebony Jonelle

Ensemble

Training: Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts.

Training: Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts.

Theatre includes: Ensemble/understudy Mercy Lewis in The Crucible (National Theatre/Gielgud); Sophie in Zombiegate (Theatre503); Factory Girl in Les Misérables (Sondheim Theatre & international tour); Rosalind in As You Like It (National Theatre/Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch); Waitress/understudy Angie/Kit/Shona in Top Girls (National Theatre); Alice in Alice in Wonderland (Stephen Joseph Theatre).

Film and Television includes: Doctors, Intelligence, Ma’am (shortfilm)

Bethan Keens

Charlotte

Training: London School of Musical Theatre & British Theatre Academy

Credits whilst training: Flag in Soma; Petra in A Little Night Music.

Cast Recordings: Nancy in Oliver! Jr (Musical Theatre International)

Danny Lane

Swing

Theatre includes:  Oliver! (Leeds Playhouse); How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying (Southwark Playhouse); Only Fools and Horses The Musical (Theatre Royal Haymarket); Anyone Can Whistle (Southwark Playhouse); Jack and the Beanstalk (Wyvern Theatre); Soho Cinders (Charing Cross Theatre);Grease and Columbus The Musical! (Royal Caribbean International); Sleeping Beauty (Courtyard Theatre, Hereford); Parade (Frogmore Paper Mill); The Quite Remarkable Adventures of the Owl and the Pussycat (Belgrade Theatre Coventry); The Cat in the Hat (Pleasance Theatre); The Ladykillers and Pygmalion (Sumer Rep Festival/Theatre Royal Windsor & Manor Pavilion Theatre Sidmouth); Miracle on 34th Street (UK tour); You Won’t Succeed on Broadway if You Don’t Have Any Jews (Museum of Art Tel Aviv & St James Theatre London).

Concerts include: Kinky Boots in Concert (Theatre Royal Drury Lane); Best of the West End 2020 (Royal Albert Hall/BBC Radio 2); Zorro The Musical (Cadogan Hall); Nick Barstow and Friends (The Pheasantry); The Night of 1000 Stars (Royal Albert Hall).

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Isabelle Methven

Bet

Training: Sylvia Young Theatre School.

Theatre includes: Anne in The Famous Five: a new musical(Theatre Clwyd/Festival Theatre); Alternate Annie/Swing/July in Annie(Piccadilly Theatre); Summer Hathaway in the original UK cast ofSchool of Rock (Gillian Lynne Theatre); Jane Banks in Mary Poppins(UK & international tour); Brigitta in The Sound of Music (UK & Ireland tour); Little Cosette in Les Misérables (Sondheim Theatre); Gardener’s Daughter in La Traviata, lead acting child in Carmen, ensemble in Die Meistersinger von Nürnburg (Royal Opera House).

Film and Television includes: Tell Me Why?; Bardo Bebop; Children in Need; Annie the Musical, Royal Variety Performance 2018; Annie, Olivier Awards 2017; School of Rock; Michael McIntyre’s Big Show; School of Rock; Royal Variety Performance 2015; Mary Poppins, Poirot; Dead Man’s Folly.

Other credits include: Ella in Daisy Chains (R&D play with the production exchange); Sister Death, I’ll Find You (recordings).

Instagram: @issiemethven

Peter Nash

Ensemble

Training: Arts Educational School.

Theatre includes: Tommy DeVito in Jersey Boys (Trafalgar Theatre & Norwegian Bliss Cruise Line); Rod/1^st Cover Don Lockwood/Roscoe Dexter in Singin’ in the Rain (Sadler’s Wells, UK and international tour); Diesel/cover Tony in West Side Story (Royal Exchange Manchester); Marcel/Dance Captain/cover Bobby in The Boy Friend (Menier Chocolate Factory); Ensemble/Assistant Dance Captain in Evita, Suiter in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Swing/1^st cover Tommy DeVito/cover Nick Massi in Jersey Boys (UK tour); Ensemble/1^st cover Eddie/cover Nick in Funny Girl (UK tour); Ensemble/cover Mary Sunshine in Chicago (UK tour); Christian Elias/Nutcracker in Nutcracker The Musical! (Pleasance Theatre); The Addams Family, Catch Me If You Can (ArtsEd); Jack and the Beanstalk (UK Productions).

Concerts include: West End Heroes, Follies.

Josh Patel-Foster

Ensemble

Training: Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts.

Theatre includes:  Roman Holiday (Theatre Royal Bath); Aladdin (Princes Theatre Clacton-on-Sea); Magic at the Musicals (Royal Albert Hall).

Sam Peggs

Ensemble

Training: Arts Educational Schools.

Theatre includes: Ensemble/understudy Thénardier in Les Misérables (Sondheim Theatre); Hog-Eye in Sunset Boulevard (No.1 UK tour & in concert at Leicester Curve); Ben Levitowitz in Rags (Hope Mill Theatre); Phileas Fogg in Around the World in 80 Days, Issac Tallentire in The Hired Man (Union Theatre); Jack in Jack and the Beanstalk and Dick in Dick Whittington (Kenton Theatre).

Workshops include: Jackson in Brother (The Southwark Playhouse); Maier Burnich in To Paint The Earth (The Southwark Playhouse).

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Jasmine Sakyiama

Swing

Training: Arts1.

Theatre includes: Amber in The Midnight Gang (Festival Theatre); Tallulah in Bugsy Malone (UK tour); Sara Crewe in A Little Princess (Royal Festival Hall); Tomika in School of Rock (Gillian Lynne Theatre); Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Royal & Derngate Northampton); Jesus Christ Superstar (Milton Keynes Theatre).

Film includes: Louis Wain.

Radio includes: The Wilsons Save the World series 3.

Wendy Somerville

Old Sally

Training: Queen Margaret University College and Royal Academy of Music.

Theatre includes: Ilsa in The Book Thief (Belgrade Theatre & Curve Theatre Leicester); Pam in Saving Grace (Riverside Studios); The Magician’s Elephant (RSC); Girl from the North Country (Gielgud Theatre & Royal Alexandra Theatre Toronto); Local Hero (Royal Lyceum Theatre); School of Rock (Gillian Lynne Theatre); The 306: Day (National Theatre of Scotland, Perth Theatre & Stellar Quines); The Threepenny Opera (National Theatre); Billy Elliot (Victoria Palace Theatre); Sweeney Todd (Festival Theatre, also Adelphi Theatre); Hairspray (Shaftesbury Theatre, UK & Ireland Tour); Les Misérables (Queen’s Theatre); Cinderella (London Palladium).

Television includes: Billy Elliot The Musical Live; Royal Variety Performance 2007 & 2010; Classical Brit Awards 2011; Les Misérables In Concert: 25^th Anniversary; Les Misérables Concert at Windsor Castle.

Radio and recordings includes: Les Misérables 21^st Birthday Concert; Sweeney Todd (2012 London cast recording), Michael Ball: Past and Present.

Charlie Stripp

Swing

Training: Tring Park School for the Performing Arts

Theatre includes: Young Alan Osmond in The Osmonds: A New Musical ( UK & Ireland Tour), Gavroche in Les Misérables (Sondheim Theatre), Barry in The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 (Ambassadors Theatre) and Gavroche in Les Misérables (Queens Theatre)

Leah Vassell

Ensemble

Training: Arts Educational Schools.

Theatre includes: Lauren in Kinky Boots (Storyhouse Chester); Rosa Parks/Amelia Earhart/Mary Seacole in Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World (UK tour); alternate Jane Seymour/Catherine Parr in Six The Musical (West End, for which she won Best Recent Graduate at The Black British Theatre Awards 2023); Consuelo in West Side Story (Ljubljana Festival); Laurence Olivier Awards 2022(Royal Albert Hall)).

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Matthew Whennell-Clark

Ensemble

Training: Bird College

West End and London theatre includes: Groundhog Day (The Old Vic); Come From Away (Phoenix Theatre); Young Frankenstein (Garrick Theatre); Carousel (ENO London Coliseum); Guys & Dolls (Phoenix Theatre & Royal Albert Hall); Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, The Boy Friend (Regents Park Open Air Theatre); Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Oliver! (Theatre Royal Drury Lane) Matilda the Musical, Chicago (Cambridge Theatre); Shoes (Peacock Theatre); White Christmas, We Will Rock You (Dominion Theatre); Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (London Palladium); Grease (Victoria Palace).

Regional, UK Touring and International credits include: Me and My Girl (Frinton Summer Theatre); Kiss Me, Kate, My Fair Lady (Sheffield Crucible); 42nd Street (Théâtre du Chatelet Paris & UK tour); Guys & Dolls (Chichester Festival Theatre, Théâtre Marigny Paris); Singin’ in the Rain (Théâtre du Chatelet Paris); Grease (Scandinavian Arena Tour); West Side Story (Bergenz Festival Austria); Saturday Night Fever (Cologne Germany & UK tour); Oh! What a Night (UK tour); Fame (UK tour).

Lochlan White

Charley Bates

Training: Stagebox

Theatre includes: Patrick in Mame (Hope Mill Manchester/Royal & Derngate/Salisbury Playhouse); David in Rags (Hope Mill Theatre); Michael Hobbs in Elf (UK tour); Rupert in Nativity! The Musical (UK tour); Grisha in The Cherry Orchard (Royal Exchange/Bristol Old Vic); Toby in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (UK tour); City of Glass (Home Manchester/Lyric Theatre).

Film and Television includes: Holmes & Watson; Rocketman; Surviving Christmas; Victoria – season 2.