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Jennifer Kidd

Jennifer trained as an actress at RADA.  Since leaving she has enjoyed professional engagements including The Changeling with Cheek by Jowl which toured Europe and ran at The Barbican, and The Merchant of Venice and Holding Fire! at Shakespeare's Globe as part of the Renaissance and Revolution Season. Jennifer has also initiated her own productions including The Only Girl in the World at The Arcola Theatre (Best of West End Production of 2008 - Time Out) and regularly works with writers developing their scripts. 

Jennifer has trained has a workshop drama leader. She has delivered workshops in schools for RADA and also facilitates workshops on Shakespeare for Shakespeare's Globe as well as running courses for City Acting.

 

Charlie Walker-Wise

Charlie is a professional actor and teacher trained as an actor at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) and has worked extensively in film, television and theatre.  

He has been running workshops for several years both for individuals and for the business world. 

His work includes West End theatre, Television and Film.  Having worked in some of the UK’s most prestigious theatres Charlie has recently retuned from a production of Othello at the Ludlow Shakespeare festival.  He spent the first part of last year touring the USA with a  production of Much Ado about Nothing and finished up at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester.

 

Roses Urquhart

Roses trained as an actress at RADA and has a background in dance and circus, having studied at the Laban Centre and at San Francisco School of Circus Arts.

Acting work includes Nicholas Nickleby at the Gielgud, Private Lives for Bath Theatre Royal, and New York cult hit The Donkey Show.

Roses now writes and directs The Night Kitchen Cabaret, a cross-genre festival show.  Her cabaret act Circularity Thinking plays to great acclaim on the corporate and cabaret circuits.

Roses trained to teach with Performing Arts Workshop and at RADA.  She teaches drama for the NHS on their Healthy Lifestyles projects in Hackney and on RADA's outreach and Saturday programmes.

Russell Bolam

Russell trained as a director at Middlesex University and GITIS Academy of Theatre Arts, Moscow.

His theatre credits as director include the critical acclaimed The Road to Mecca (Arcola Theatre), The Roman Bath (Arcola Theatre), Captain Oates' Left Sock (Finborough Theatre), Tiny Bones (Theatre 503), Three More Sleepless Nights (Tristan Bates Theatre) and Fourplay (Tristan Bates Theatre). He has been assistant director for The Royal Shakespeare Company, Old Vic, Bristol Old Vic, and Nottingham Playhouse.

Russell teaches improvisation at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, is a visiting director of Shakespeare at RWCMD and visiting practitioner at Kent University.

 

Will Norris

Will graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in 2001.

His theatre work includes: Hard Times; The Bear; Under Milk Wood; Romeo & Juliet (International Tours); Walk Hard (Tricycle Theatre); Biloxi Blues (West End); Who's Harry (Edinburgh Festival and West End Transfer - Winner of the Fringe First Award 2002).

TV and Film work includes: Spilt Milk; Slapper; The Wreck; Coronation Street (semi-regular); Heartbeat (series 11, 14, & 16); Ultimate Force; Rosemary Thyme; 20 Things to do Before You're 30; The Bill; Dalziel and Pacoe (series regular).

He is about to film a role in the upcoming British Romantic comedy, Swinging With the Finkles, alongside Martin Freeman and Mandy Moore.

Will is also the Artistic Director of Couch Potato Productions, for which he has directed The Owl and the Pussycat (Lamproom Theatre); Cinderella is not Enough (Jerwood Vanburgh); as well a also producing the West End production of Biloxi Blues. He is currently in post-production on the company's first feature film, The Revenge's Trail.

Olly Pengelly

Olly is a professional actor graduated from RADA. He has previously appeared at the Theatre Royal Plymouth as the lead in The Lost Domain and Cyrano De Bergerac. He has also worked extensively with the RADA graduate company and appeared in many production throughout the UK.

Olly teaches for a variety of companies, working with children in South London, running workshops at RADA and working with Wales' premier youth theatre company WGYTC, as well as his work with City Acting.

Olly was filming earlier this autumn a 2 part drama called Broadside for an american TV. You should this this around spring next year on the UK channels.

 

Susannah Wise

Susannah trained at LAMDA and has worked extensively in film, television and theatre. 

Her credits in the West End include 'Festen', 'When Harry Met Sally', 'Three Sisters', 'Rabbit' and 'Life After George'. She has also worked several times at the National and Royal Court theatre as well as The Manchester Royal Exchange, Chichester and the Sheffield Crucible. 

Her television credits range from the ITV series 'The Time Of Your Life', the BBC series 'In A Land Of Plenty', period drama 'The Tennant of Wildfell Hall' and several comedy series such as 'Peepshow' and 'The IT Crowd'.

She has just appeared in Caryl Churchill's controversial new play 'Seven Jewish Children' at the Royal Court and can soon be seen in the new ITV series 'Law and Order', the two-part film for television 'U Be Dead' and the new BBC4 comedy 'Freddi'. 

Susannah has six years of teaching experience.

 

David Caves

David is a professional actor having graduated from LAMDA.

Since then he has worked extensively in theatre, most prominently with Declan Donnellan's Chekk by Jowl in world tours of "Cymberline" in 2007 and "Troilus & Cressida" in 2008. This last play has been praised by all major reviews of the country for the performance at the Barbican Centre, by the Figaro in Paris and in Barcelona and The Hague.

David recently toured throughout the UK and Ireland for "Stones in his Pockets".

 

 

 

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