Biographies June 2007
Neil Frost your Host.
Neil Frost recently returned from India, where he played Sebastian in a tour of ‘Twelfth Night’. He has appeared in the worlds longest running comedy revue show ‘News revue’ at the Canal Café Theatre, and has performed in many impro and stand-up shows. Neil graduated from the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts in 2003. Contact at NeilFrost1981@Hotmail.com.
Martin Miller in his own piece “C.S.I. Oldham”.
Martin is from Oldham and trained at Webber Douglas (graduated 2004). Credits include: sketchshow “Jamie Douglas: Historique” (The Underbelly, Edinburgh), “The Rivals” (Theatre Royal Bath and national tour), “Clement Doesn’t Live Here Anymore” (BBC Radio 4), “Adam Geist” (Manchester Royal Exchange). Martin can be contacted via the Malcolm Browning Agency.
Penelope Peters in “The Memory of Water” by Shelagh Stephenson.
Penelope read English at Trinity College, Cambridge, before going on to train at Mountview. Credits include: Mrs Darling in ‘Peter Pan’ (ABD), Ida in ‘The Enchanted Book Tower’ (Venture), whore in Michael Boyd’s ‘Measure for Measure’ (RSC), and the one-woman show ‘Spoonface Steinberg’. Penelope can be contacted at penelope@penelopepeters.co.uk.
Richard Keynes in “The Memory of Water” by Shelagh Stephenson.
Richard trained at QMUC. He’s just returned from a national tour of ‘The Play What I Wrote’. Credits include ‘Peter Pan’, ‘Christmas Carol’, ‘Hobson’s Choice’ (ABD); ‘Doctor Faustus/Devil is an Ass’ (White Bear); ‘As You Like It’, ‘Hamlet’ (RJ Williamson); ‘The Hollow’, ‘Amadeus’ (Pitlochry); ‘Fabulous Bagel Boys’ (BBC). Contact richard@richardkeynes.co.uk.
Mandy Dassa in “Home Sweet Home” by Jane Goodwin.
Mandy is a recent graduate from ALRA on the 3yr Acting Course. Some of her roles include Mrs Bolton ‘Lady Chatterlies Lover’, Molly ‘The Boxes’, Fat Fairy ‘The Fat Fairy’ and Beatrice ‘A View From The Bridge’. Recently she has been involved in ‘Ovid: Metamorphos’, which is being developed in association with the Old Vic New Voices and will be developing it further during 2007.
Tanja Pilcher in her own piece “Carcinoma”.
Tanja graduated from East 15 in 2004. Recent credits include work as an Improvisation Artist with ‘Ken Campbell and Co’ (Royal Court Theatre; Inn on The Green); Stand-up Comedienne (Chats Palace); ‘Never Saw The Day’ and ‘The Price’ (Walking Forward Theatre Co.); ‘Aimless’ (Tobell Films/Worlds End Television). Contact details: tanja.pilcher@virgin.net
Graham Townsend in “Wired” by Eric Bogosian.
Theatre credits include Edgbaston in ‘Victory’, Roderigo in ‘Othello’, Romeo in ‘Romeo and Juliet’, Horst in ‘‘Bent’, President Garcia Perez in ‘Frankenstein in Love’ and Antonio in ‘Twelfth Night’. After London Bites, Graham will be appearing at the Bailiwick Theatre, Chicago in a new adaptation of ‘Les Liaisons Dangereuses’.
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Annabel Cleare in “Human Resources” by Harry Scott.
Annabel trained at Drama Centre. Theatre credits include Carrie in ‘Ballad of a Thin Man’ by Judy Upton; Di Poulton in ‘Too Much Punch for Judy’ for Ape Theatre and Genevieve in ‘Lost’ at the Etcetera Theatre. Annabel is returning to acting after starting a family and is represented by AMC Management.
Ben Thompson in “Human Resources” by Harry Scott.
Ben trained at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Credits include ‘Peter Pan’ (Dundee Rep), ‘The Magic Flute’ (WNO), ‘The Ghost Sonata’ (Goat and Monkey) and ‘Waiting for Chekhov’ (Cilgwyn). He is currently doing R&D work with Cilgwyn for their Christmas production. Ben can be contacted at benjthompson@hotmail.com.
Chandrika Chevli in “4.48 Psychosis“ by Sarah Kane.
Chandrika's recent work includes ‘The Changeling’ (Rose Theatre) and ‘This To This’ (Union Theatre). She is currently filming ‘Delicious’, a sitcom in development. Chandrika has written and performed stand up comedy and was a semi finalist in ‘So You Think You're Funny?’ last year. She's also a regular voice on Radio 2 and BBC Radio 5 Live. Chandrika can be contacted directly on cchevli@yahoo.com or via her agent Katherine Gregor on020 7261 9466.
Catherine Campbell in “Modern Dance for Beginners” by Sarah Phelps.
Catherine has appeared in ‘Much Ado about Nothing’, ‘Shortland Street’ and the silent play ‘3 People @ the Cinema’. She has professional experience in stage, television, short film, music videos and commercials. Catherine can be seen performing regularly in comedy improvisation shows ‘Your Line or Mine?’ and ‘Burnt Toast’. Catherine can be contacted directly at mscatherinecampbell@gmail.com
Chris Harvey John in “Modern Dance for Beginners” by Sarah Phelps.
Chris Harvey John has played the lead in two feature films and specialises in improvised comedy, working with ‘The Spontaneity Shop’ for nine years and performing all over the world. As well as developing improv formats for TV, namely ‘Dreamdate’ and ‘YouTV’, he can also be seen at Ginglik doing multi-media improv and The Pleasance with ‘Burnt Toast’.
Laura Jayne in “Top Girls” by Caryl Churchill.
Laura Jayne graduated from London Met in 2006 with a BA (Hons) Degree in Performing Arts in which she majored in Acting. Since then Laura has performed in many short films and was chosen to perform in a production of ‘Macbeth’ at the tenth annual Shakespeare Festival at the Wybrzeze Theatre in Gdansk, Poland. Laura can be contacted directly on Lauj02@hotmail.com or view http://www.spotlightcd.com/interactive/cv/009012019165
Gareth Llwelyn in “You Were After Poetry” by Steven Bloomer.
Gareth graduated from the Central School of Speech of Drama and made his professional debut in the role of Little Monk in 'Becket' (Theatre Royal, Haymarket), followed by Jake in the premiere of 'Break Away' (Finborough Theatre, Time Out Critics Choice). Gareth’s first principal film role was playing Adam in 'Hotel Very Welcome' which premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale 2007). Gareth will be playing Don John and Dogberry in 'Much Ado About Nothing' and Trinculo in 'The Tempest' at the Cambridge Shakespesre Festival this summer.
Kate Donmall in “You Were After Poetry” by Steven Bloomer.
Kate graduated from LAMDA in 2005. Theatre includes: ‘The Beach’ and ‘Yorgyin Oxo’ (both Theatre 503), ‘Blacking Iago’ (National tour), ‘Dancing at Lughnasa’, ‘Hayfever’ (understudy, Haymarket), ‘Walking the Line’ (National tour), ‘Leonce and Lena’ (Tabard Theatre), and ‘You Were After Poetry’ and ‘Assembly’ as part of the inaugural Hightide Festival.
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