Tim Berrington co founded the Louder Than Words Theatre Company after completing his degree in Performing Arts at Middlesex University.  His latest theatre work was as Trigorin in The Seagull at the Aldeburgh Festival.  TV includes a stint in Brookside, Ralph in Carla Lane's Screaming, Gone to Seed, Poirot, Men Behaving Badly, Harry and Saturday Night Armistice.  Radio includes a series with Struck Off and Die for Radio 4 and the Tony Hawks Show on Heart FM.  Tim has also worked as a stand-up comic and this is his third show in Edinburgh.

Finty has split her time equally between film (The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Secret Rapture),  television (The Torch and Tales from the Crypt) and the theatre.  At Manchester Royal Exchange she appeared in Pride and Prejudice, at the Watermill Theatre in Wendy Toye's production of Lloyd George Knew My Father and the national tour of The Clandestine Marriage which was directed by Nigel Hawthorne.  Finty's most recent part was in The Misanthrope at the Pentameters.

Di's theatre work includes Six Characters in Search of an Author and Ting Tang Mine at the National Theatre; The Silver King and A Patriot for Me at Chichester Festival Theatre, Wealth, Roister Doister and Fighting for the Dunghill at the Croydon Warehouse.  Film credits include Britannia Hospital and The Rachel Papers and for television Jury, Rumpole, Birds of a Feather, The Bill, Against All Odds and  Harry Enfield and Chums.

Frank has been acting for 35 years.  In London he has appeared at the Theatre Royal, Stratford in Land of The Dinosaurs; the Mermaid in Treasure Island with Bernard Miles, the Comedy in Little Shop of Horrors and Sadlers Wells in Jeanne.  He also played Mordcha the Innkeeper in a National Tour of Fiddler on the Roof.  In 1992 he played several parts in Ken Hill's Phantom of the Opera  at the Shaftesbury.  Frank has been in numerous television productions including  Accused, Johnny and the Dead, Finney, Eastenders, The Chief, Anna Lee, Lovejoy and London's Burning.  His films include Buster, Old Flames and Squaring the Circle.

Alan appeared at the 1986 Fringe in the Argentinean play The Boxer, directed by Giles Croft which won a Fringe First Award.  He also played here last year at the Festival Theatre in The Wizard of Oz and was reminded of his first visit in 1960 with John Hanson in The Student Prince.  Alan's career started when he ran away from home at the age of thirteen to join a tour company of No Room at the Inn.  Under age, he toured for a month before the Company Manager, John Osborne(!), returned him to his parents.  His more recent work includes The Deep Blue Sea with Penelope Wilton at the Apollo and Ken Hoare's new play Glyn and It.

Victoria has worked extensively in the theatre, her most recent credits include Synchronicity and The Road to Nowhere (Hampstead), The Merry Wives of Windsor (National Tour), Wit's End and Jam (New End Theatre, Hampstead), Newsrevue, which she also directed (Canal Cafe) and An Evening with Robert Baggio (Fringe 95).  TV credits include Lovejoy, Aunties Sporting Bloomers, Prospects, Rude Health and Streetwise.  Film credits include Harold Washington and The Naked Cell.  She is also one half of the Award winning female comedy double act The Totally Naff Tarts (available for Royal Weddings, Bar mitzvahs, Knitting Circles and Car Boot Sales).

James trained at Guildford and went on to gain experience at the Yvonne Arnaud.  James has had a wealth of experience in the theatre, films and television.  He recently worked on the film Dame Flora.  In addition, he has been seen frequently in television series such as The Vet and The Bill and his most recent theatre part was as The Pedant in The Taming of the Shrew at the Wimbledon Open Air Theatre.

John is very thrilled to be making his Fringe debut in the part of Bamberger.  Touring the reps, previous noticeable roles have included 2nd Officer in Twelfth Night, 3rd passer-by in Send Me No Flowers,  Programme Seller in The Rocky Horror Show and Tall Rabbi in the crowd in Fiddler on the Roof.  Georg Bamberger provides a new challenge in his long and varied career.

Director

John trained at LAMDA and spent several years in Rep including a long stay at the Theatre Royal, Windsor where, in 1969, he was ASM on Michael Meacham's production of Black Comedy.  He has directed and produced numerous shows including many for cruise lines Cunard and P & O.  John (in partnership with Katie Plews) runs Ovation Productions, one of the country's leading producers of corporate events, organising conferences and roadshows for a wide variety of clients.

Simon has previously been to the Fringe as an actor.  He took on the Bard in Edinburgh appearing in both Twelfth Night and As You Like It.  Other recent stage work includes the Warehouse Theatre production of Sugar Hill Blues which he played at Hampstead.  His face is well know to TV viewers for performances in Jasper Carrot's The Detectives and  McCallum for Scottish Television.  In the Autumn Simon will be seen in a new children's programme Out of Spirit,  and he is currently shooting a three part drama entitled The Fragile Heart.  Black Comedy is his debut as a Director for Ovation Productions.

Stage Manager

Racky is currently a student as the Arts Educational School in London, and has recently stage managed the pupil's production of the musical Dracula Spectacula.  She has been to the Fringe many times although this is her Stage Management debut.  Her real aspirations lie in choreography, and from September she will be studying Musical Theatre under Ian Watt-Smith.  One of Racky's responsibilities during the pre-production period of Black Comedy has been the making of Harold Gorringe's priceless Chinese Budda.