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Training: The Central School of Speech and Drama.

Theatre includes: Junior Clerk in Committee… (Donmar Warehouse) directed by Adam
Penford; Fleetwood in The Life (Southwark Playhouse) directed by Michael Blakemore; Jimmy in Exposure The Musical (St. James Theatre); Billy Gray in Only The Brave (Wales Millenium Centre); The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (Birmingham Rep); Lead Vocalist in You Won’t Succeed on Broadway if You Don’t Have Any Jews (St. James Theatre & Tel Aviv); Oliver Barrett IV in Love Story (Union Theatre); u/s Jake in Porgy and Bess (Open Air Theatre) directed by Timothy Sheader; Zack in Bare (Greenwich Theatre); understudied and played Simba in The Lion King (National Tour).

Most recently: Smokey Robinson in Motown the Musical (Shaftesbury Theatre).

Gabrielle could recently be seen in our Zoom play for young audiences, Noah and the Peacock.

Theatre credits include: Anna Bella Eema (Arcola Theatre), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), Our Lady of Kibeho (Royal and Derngate), Twelfth Night (Young Vic), The Way of the World (Donmar Warehouse), Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz (Sheffield Theatres), Queen Ann (RSC/Theatre Royal Haymarket), Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (Sheffield Theatres), Lazarus (Kings Cross Theatre), Perfect Pitch Musicals (St James Theatre), Red Snapper (Belgrade Theatre Coventry), The Strangers Case (Liverpool Everyman), The Book of Mormon (Prince of Wales Theatre), I Can’t Sing (London Palladium), Our House (Savoy Theatre), Avenue Q (UK Tour).

Workshops include: Becoming Nancy, Big Fish, Love Me Tender

TV includes: Shadow & Bone (Netflix) and Coming Down the Mountain (BBC).

Film includes: Notes on a Scandal

John has played Dame in the Nottingham Playhouse pantomime for the past twenty years.

Other theatre work includes: One Man, Two Guvnors (Ipswich/Southampton) Queens of the Coal Age (Manchester Royal Exchange / New Vic), Holes (Nottingham Playhouse), Robin Hood: Arrow of Destiny (York Theatre Royal), The Father, Meat Pie, Sausage Roll, Brassed Off, Starcross’d, The Road To Nab End, Me Mam Sez and An Evening With Gary Lineker (Oldham Coliseum); Noises Off (Nottingham Playhouse/No. 1 Tour); Dancing Through The Shadows (Hull Truck); Beryl and Twelfth Night (West Yorkshire Playhouse); The Seagull (Nuffield/Headlong Theatre); Carmen, The Yalta Game and Elegy for a Lady (Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough); Dolly and A Right Old Song and Dance (New Perspectives); Kes, The Pros and Cons of a Screw (Derby Theatre); The Glee Club (Manchester Library Theatre); Great Expectations and Carmen (New Vic Theatre Stoke); People At Sea (Salisbury Playhouse); King Cotton (Lowry Theatre and Liverpool Empire); Return to the Forbidden Planet (UK Tour); April In Paris (Keswick Theatre By The Lake) and The Cherry Orchard, The Importance of Being Earnest, Lady Bracknell’s Confinement, Of Mice & Men, Garage Band, Forever Young (Nottingham Playhouse).

John has also worked consistently in television appearing in several BBC,  ITV and Channel 4 dramas including: The Village, The Mill, The Syndicate, Oakfield, Our Zoo, Sunshine, Legless, New Street Law, Cold Blood, Shameless, Emmerdale, Family Affairs, Coronation Street, Hollyoaks, Quest III, 73 Million To One, The Illustrated Mum, The Royal, Playing The Field, Fat Friends, Real Men, Cold Feet, Heartbeat, New Street Law, Hollyoaks, The Quest, Sparkhouse, The Cops, City Central.

Tim trained at Parkside Academy, Northampton and Guildford School of Acting where he was the first recipient of the Sean McGrath Scholarship.

Theatre credits include: Cinderella, Robin Hood and the Babes in the Wood, Jack and the Beanstalk, Sleeping Beauty, Dick Whittington (Nottingham Playhouse); Dance Captain for Five Guys Named Moe (Festival Square, Edinburgh); A Christmas Carol (Royal Theatre, Northampton); Jolson (Birmingham Hippodrome/Victoria Palace Theatre); Forever Young (Nottingham Playhouse and UK Tour); original West End cast of Hairspray, understudying and playing the role of Seaweed J Stubbs (Shaftesbury Theatre); Hair (Ljubljana, Slovenia); A Handful of Keys (Prince Edward Theatre); Loveshack (UK Tour); Oh! What A Night (UK and European Tour); Beyond The Masque (Derngate Theatre, Northampton); East End Of Chicago (Stratford Circus Arts Centre); Only You Can Save Mankind (Pleasance, Edinburgh); Marvin Gaye: A Celebration Musical (Belgian Tour); West Side Story (Larnaca, Cyprus); Sweet Soul Music (UK Tour).

Other work includes: Workshops for Songs of Freedom (National Theatre) and Safe (West Yorkshire Playhouse), and the short film Freckles. Tim also choreographed for the 2012 Jubilee Celebrations in the presence of HRH Elizabeth II at Burghley House. He has also choreographed for TruckFest Silverstone, Aviva Singha 7’s and Northampton Saints RFC.

Television credits include: Shoot the Writers, Royal Variety Performance (ITV); Strictly Come Dancing, Children in Need, Comic Relief (BBC); The Alan Titchmarsh Show (Spun Gold TV); The Paul O’Grady Show (Olga TV); Tonight’s The Night (Barrowman Barker Productions); The Laurence Olivier Awards, the Variety Club Showbiz Awards and commercials for Heineken and Microsoft XBOX.

Training: Arts Educational Schools London

Credits: The Comedy About a Bank Robbery (West End & UK Tour), A Little Princess (Southbank Centre), Blonde (RADA Festival), The Olivier Awards 2017.

Credits while training Include: Jerry Travers in Top Hat, Cheech in Bullets Over Broadway, Monty in A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, Captain Bluntschli in Arms and The Man.

Tom grew up in Nottingham and the Playhouse panto was his first experience of live theatre. He’s delighted to be part of the company!

Jessica graduated from Arts Ed with a BA (Hons) Degree in Musical Theatre in 2018. Prior to this, Jessica studied at The Brit School and graduated in 2016

Theatre credits include: Prince of Egpyt (Dominion Theatre), High Fidelity (Turbine Theatre), Les Misérables (Queen’s Theatre), Evita ( Regent’s Open Air Theatre)

Theatre credits whilst training include: Cynthia in Priscilla Queen of the Desert (ArtsEd), Mary in Bullets Over Broadway (ArtsEd)

Television credits include: Comic Relief (BBC)

Concert credits include:  Disney’s Broadway Hits (Royal Albert Hall), Olivier Awards (Royal Albert Hall)

Workshop credits include: Billionaire Boy and The Boy In The Dress​

Sara was recently seen at Nottingham Playhouse as Sarah Jane Moore in Assassins. Prior to that she played the role of Donna Sheridan in Mamma Mia! for over six years on and off, on the International Tour and in the West End.

Other theatre includes: Janet in Rutherford & Son (UK tour/West End), Emilia in Othello, Mam in Billy Elliot the Musical (Victoria Palace), Forever Young and All Quiet on the Western Front (Nottingham Playhouse), Beverley in Abigail’s Party (Theatre Royal, York), creating the role of Teena Satin in Satin ‘n’ Steel (Nottingham Playhouse and UK tour), Lady Sneerwell in The School for Scandal, Nerissa in The Merchant of Venice, Ismene in Antigone and Poetry or Bust (Northern Broadsides), created the role of Kate in Bollywood Jane (Leicester Haymarket), The Fly (Oldham Coliseum), Up ‘n’ Under (Leicester Haymarket) and Players Angels (UK tour).

Television includes: Casualty, EastEnders, Doctors, Cast Offs, Paradise Reclaimed, Dangerville, Dangerfield, Playing the Field, Peak Practice and The Pilot of ODDinary People.

Film includes: The Knife That Killed Me and My Last Five Girlfriends.

Radio includes: Emilia in Othello, Leonie Snell in The Archers and numerous other drama series for BBC Radio 4. Sara recently recorded the The Legacy of Time for the Doctor Who audio series.