24th & 25th

Cast Biographies

Jayne Aguire

Trained at LAMDA. Theatre includes The Christening, Pale Horse, Uncle Vanya, Much Ado About Nothing and Girl in a Car with a Man (LAMDA), Pack up your Troubles-50 Hour Improvisation (Peoples Show Studios) and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Alexandra Theatre).

Carina Birrell
Trained at Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts. Theatre includes A Lifeless Ordinary (Icarus Theatre Collective),Men Should Weep (The Chelsea Theatre), Blood Wedding (The Landor Theatre), Dolly West's Kitchen (Italia Conti), The Magic Toyshop (Italia Conti),Richard III, and The Mysteries (Edinburgh Fringe Festival). Television includes Sea of Souls (BBC) and Live News Project (Longford Productions). Film includes Its Just Sex (Lochana Films), Jack Said (Optimum/Lucky Strike), Our Last Album (Anton Short) and Stagnant (Fear Driven Film).

Charlie Collins
Trained at The London School of Dramatic Art. Theatre includes The Merchant of Venice and Tales from Ovid (LSDA), Legal Weapon Spring Tour (APE Theatre Company) and The Fix (The Fix Theatre Company). Film includes Henry (London Met University), Fate (Uni of Hertfordshire) and Coldshki Snow-vak (Laz Productions).

Geoff Cotton
Trained at Actors’ Studio, Montreal. Theatre includes Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Montreal), California Suite (Montreal), Bloody Sunday (Edinburgh Festival), Arms Trade Tour (Amnesty International), Napoleon (Questors), One Man Show (Old Red Lion, Islington). Television includes Spooks (BBC1), Dream Team (Sky One), How To Have Sex After Marriage (Channel 5), Oh My Bingo (Commercial) Film includes King Ralph, The Johnson (Independent Art House), Hot Air and Humbug (Comedy short), 2Fast2Soon (Public Service Film).

Michael Quartey
Trained Anna Scher Theatre School. Theatre includes Hoxton story(Red Room) Skara Brai(White Bear Theatre) After the Flood(The Old Vic Theatre) Cell begat Cell(The Old Vic Theatre) Thinking Deep Thoughts(The Old Vic Theatre) Swab (Southwark Playhouse) The 24 hour Plays (The Old Vic Theatre) Taken In (Tristan Bates Theatre) Dried and Roasted at the Glitch and Turn(Southwark Playhouse). Television includes The Bill (ITV) Crimewatch (BBC) Casino52 (ideas Tap) Souljah (B3 Media) and Londun (inzgo films).

Lisa Jane Gregory
Trained at Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama. Theatre includes Edward II (The Kent Theatre Company), Robin and the Withering Wood (Kinetic Theatre), The Canterville Ghost (TNT Theatre International No 1 Venues), Platforms - London Bites (Stand Up Drama), Ready, Steady, Date. (Southside Theatre), Life on Earth (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane), Sister Wendy Musical - Postcards From God (Battersea Arts Centre), The Snow Queen (Working Space Theatre). Film includes Nadine (Matchstix Production), Colin (Nowhere Fast Productions), and The Unwelcome (Lonewolf Productions). www.lisajanegregory.com

Avena Mansergh Wallace
Avena graduated from The London School of Dramatic Art (LSDA) in July 09 to her first work with Interactive Theatre Australia in two shows for the Edinburgh Fringe. She returned to VoiceOver work with CKUK media, a performance in Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin and a Shakespearean Bardathon at The Scoop, SouthBank with WordWideMedia (Sept/Oct 09) Her first short was with Dir. Augusto Da Rocha- Blood Of Remorse November 09. She also co-formed The Flying Penguins with two other actresses, and their co-devised comedic piece Fame or Fries(Dir. Adam Morley) premiered at London’s Etcetera Theatre (Dec 09) before transferring to the Adelaide Fringe (Feb/March 2010), and is heading to Edinburgh this summer. She has just been cast in Poimandres Productions devised physical theatre piece- Folk Tale Trilogy, also heading to Edinburgh this year., as well as working towards her second short- Sorry Signs (Dir. Andrew Davidson) to be shot in late May.

Scott McFarlan
Trained at Drama Centre. Theatre includes A Lifeless Ordinary (Icarus Theatre Collective), Alexander (Old Red Lion & Edinburgh Festival), Witchcraft (Finborough Theatre), Gagarin Way (Battersea Arts Centre), The Tempest (The Stageworks Theatre Company), Feet First (Box Clever Theatre) and Ivanov, Spring Awakening, The Country Wife, The Dutch Courtesan and The Threepenny Opera (Drama Centre). Television includes Flat Share (BBC). Film includes Road to Recovery (Chocolate Films), Together (Jellyfielders Productions) and With Respect (PACE Media Productions).

Dominic O'Flynn
Theatre includes A View from the Bridge (Courtlands Players). Short Films include Nearly Back (Raindrop), Enter, Distracted (Van den Broek).

Sally Samad
Trained at Mountview. Theatre includes Peter Pandemonium, Snow White & the Seven Signs of Ageing, Aladdin, Big Dick Whittington, Trinity's, Diva Night (Millionth Muse Productions), The Vagina Monologues (City V), Songs From the West End, Quarter-Life Crisis (Four Part Company). Television includes Celebrity Doubles (Discovery Channel), Alistair McGowan's Big Impression (BBC), Operation Good Guys (BBC).Film includes Harry Potter 3 - The Prisoner of Azkaban (Warner Bros), The Biggest Thing That Ever Hit Broadway (Hollywood Daze), The Storm (Walrus Films), Mirror Love (Awad Films), Somebody Else (Tonitto Productions).

Roxanne Stutchbury
Trained at Drama Centre. Theatre includes Twelfth Night, Arms and Then Man and Black Snow (Drama Centre),  Mustard (The Company of Angels) Sun, Moon, Stars, Rain (Blank thorn Apprenticeship) Heirs and Graces (BBC) Audio Includes Bulats Audio script 1 and 2 (Andrew Betsis ELT) Film Includes Charlotte Bach (Malachite Films) and Sewn (James. R. Kipping)

Katy Weir
Trained at Bretton Hall. Theatre includes The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Charlotte's Web (The Dukes, Lancaster), The Yellow Wallpaper (The Royal Exchange, Manchester), Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth (Manchester Actors Company), The Shagaround (Edinburgh Festival), and Bailey Bridge (Northumberland Theatre Company). Television includes The Bill (ITV). Film includes Motivation (Shakabuku Films).

Kimberley Wintle
Trained at Drama Centre. Theatre includes Arms and The Man, Much Ado About Nothing, Black Snow and Love’s Labours Lost (Drama Centre), Kathy Acker Mobile Library (The Canal Café), One for the Road (Central Studios, Basingstoke), Macbeth (King’s Head, Islington) Emma (Heartbreak Productions), Dick Whittington (Troubadour). Film includes Charlotte Bach (Malachite Films) Pushing Mundane (Midwinter Productions) and Big Font, Large Spacing (33 Story), premiered at Atlanta Film Festival last month. Kimberley also represented Drama Centre in the Carlton Hobbs Award (BBC Radio Drama).