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Ali trained at the Birmingham School of Speech and Drama.

This is his first production Upstairs at the Gatehouse. His other theatre credits include: The Persian Revolution (The Shah/Assassin) and Majnoun (Said) both at the Lyric Hammersmith; The Strange Case ... (Jekyll/Hyde); The Master and Margarita (Pontius Pilate); As You Like It (Oliver) and The Tempest (Caliban) for Arkansas Shakespeare Festival; Othello (Bianca/Duke) BAC; The Birds (Hoopoe) Edinburgh Festival and The Jungle Book (Bagheera) at The Library Theatre.

Film & TV credits include: Voices Inside dir. Bernard Walton and Heaven dir. Sarah J. Gibson. He appeared as Said in Comic Side of 7 Days on BBC THREE and played Julius Caesar in Historyonics and The Saracen General in Robin Hood both for BBC ONE.

Following this production Ali will go on a UK tour of The Persian Revolution and will play the role of Badam in the TV series Genie in the House.

Paige

Television includes: Lizzie Sheldon in Doctors (BBC dir Lisa Clark); Petrina, UKIP Chair, in Bremner, Bird & Fortune (Vera Prods for C4); Linda Sheringham in Doctors (BBC); Lyndsay Doyle in The Bill (Talkback Thames); Mary Jones in Silent Witness; Nora in Pure Wickedness; The Vet in Rough Justice; Eva Sutton in Kinsey; Beverley in Just Good Friends; Mrs Monson in Murder Not Proven (all BBC); Sian in Wycliffe; Samantha in She Wolf Of London (both HTV); Mrs Arthur in Forgotten; Lucy in Me And My Girl (both LWT); Mrs Carpenter in Frontiers (Beambright); The Matron in Brookside (many episodes) Mersey and Mrs Maxwell-Glover in Coronation Street (Granada).

…..plus Oasis; Emmerdale; Sherlock Holmes; Hope It Rains;

Truman Capote; Growing Pains; Grange Hill; Hollyoaks; Bird Of Prey; An Independent Man; Eastenders; House Of Cards.

Theatre includes: Maggie Bird in Final Judgement (Windsor); Nancy in Steaming (West End); Queen Victoria in Abyssinia (Southwark Playhouse & Tour); The Woman/Klara in The Great Highway (Gate Theatre); Arabella in Dinner; Mrs Helsing in Dracula; Tsarina Alexandra in A Night At The Revolution (all Croydon Warehouse); Gertrude in Hamlet (Oval theatre for Fifth Column); Julie in Blood Money (Derby); Beverley in Abigail's Party (Leeds Playhouse); Just Between Ourselves, The Old Country, Last Of The Red Hot Lovers (all Newbury); Watching Foxes (Bristol).

Films include: The Fool; Macbeth; Jaguar Lives and Hot Millions.

Lars

Jonny previously performed at The Gatehouse in Kafka's Dick. Other theatre includes Map of the Heart (Salisbury Playhouse), Frogs (Nottingham Playhouse), The Invisible Man (Oldham Coliseum), The Handmaid's Tale and Alphabetical Order (Basingstoke Haymarket), Volpone (Wilton's Music Hall), Hamlet (Wimbledon Theatre), The Queen of Spades (New End Theatre), Peter Pan (National Theatre), The Hobbit (West End), The Winter's Tale, As You Like It and The Merchant of Venice at Berkeley Castle. UK tours include Far From the Madding Crowd, The 39 Steps, The Phantom of the Opera and Much Ado About Nothing. He has also done numerous international tours of shows such as Clouds, Frogs, The Lover, The Dumb Waiter, Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet. TV includes Hustle, Attachments, The Visitor, In Defence and How Proust Can Change Your Life. He has never appeared in The Bill...

Wynne
Ava trained at Eat 15 Acting School. Recent credits include: Grace Page in ‘Gameplan’ for The English Theatre of Hamburg. Diana in the internet sitcom Not Barking But Howling & Kate in Bedroom Farce here at The Gatehouse.

Other theatre: Janet in Stand with Reform Theatre at York Theatre Royal. La Merteiul in Quartet performed at Theatro Technis. Helena in A Midsummer Nights Dream for Creation Theatre & Mistress Anne Page in The Merry Wives of Windsor. Trish in O’learys Daughters at Studio Salford. Doris in My Mother Said I Never Should at Theatre Antibes, France. Karen in Pieces, Helen in Leaving The Boy & part of the Comedy Rep Ensemble all at The Soho Theatre. Beatrice in much Ado About Nothing. Witch & Lady Macduff in Macbeth. Titania in a Midsummer Nights Dream. Viola in Twelfth Night. Calpurnia in Julias Caesar. & Helena in A Midsummer Nights Dream all for The Shakespearean Peoples Theatre Company. The narrator in Falstaff. The Snow Queen in a tour of The Snow Queen, Rhys Page in One Goes Mad in Burmah & the Therapist in Sessions at The Finborough

Ava also played Moira in the feature film Jam & Valerie Vice in the short ‘Desperate Measures’. She appeared as various comedy characters for The Johnny Vaughn Tonight Show & has narrated stories for Cambridge University Press.

Hal

PJ has recently returned from America where his credits include: Art (Serge) at The Stage Door Theater, Coral Springs; Mother’s Gift (Tom), On Golden Pond (Bill Ray), Other Peoples’ Money (William Coles), The Bris, Barmitzvah and Beyond (Gary) at The Public Theater of South Florida, Miami; Mothers Gift (Tom) and Black Comedy (Colonel Melkett) at The Waterfront Playhouse Theatre, Key West; Sherlock’s Secret Life (Inspector Le Strade) at The Red Barn Theatre, Key West; Orson’s Shadow (Lawrence Olivier) and Reality TV (Judson Weaver) at The Edge Theater, Miami Lakes, and Sleuth (Andrew Wyke) at The Tennessee Williams Theater, Key West.

UK credits include, Sleuth (Andrew Wyke) at The Greenwich Playhouse Theater, A Chorus of Disapproval (Ian Hubbard) at The Pentameters Theater, Crop Circles (Maltigrad) for Nippon TV, The Days That Shook The World (Ambassador Chapuys)for BBC TV and the Independent Film Quiet Storm (Tom Collucci).

While training her credits include: FILM:Stripper in Lucky for Some, Jackie in Close Call. THEATRE: Eva in The Accrington Pals, Millament in The Way of the World, Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, Irina in Three Sisters, and God in The Mysteries: The Nativity.

Other relevant experience includes: FILM: (Older) Evie in Essayette

THEATRE: Steph in Playhouse Wrestlefest, Linda in Les Belles Soeurs, Moth in A Midsummer's Night's Dream TELEVISION: Myself in Mike Baldwin and Me