Theatre Credits Include: Danny Zuko in GREASE (Piccadilly Theatre), Danny Driscoll in ONLY FOOLS AND HORSES (Haymarket Theatre), Tony Manero in SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER (UK National Tour), Corny Collins in HAIRSPRAY (National Tour), Choreographer for LARKS IN TRANSIT (Bill Bailey).
TV and Film Credits Include: TELL ME YOU LOVE ME (Short Film), THE PERIPHERAL (Amazon Studios), DOCTORS (BBC), HOME SWEET HOMICIDE (October Films Studio for Discovery), HOLLYOAKS (Lime Productions), Winner of GREASE IS THE WORD (Talkback Thames for ITV)
Trained at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts.
Theatre includes: London Wall (St James Theatre, WESTEND), Pygmalion (Old Vic, London & Hong Kong Arts Centre), In the Jungle of Cities (Arcola Theatre), Yours for the Asking, Mary Goes First and Once Bitten (Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond), Distinguished Villa and Go Bang Your Tambourine (Finborough Theatre), What The Women Did and Goodbye To All That (Southwark Playhouse), Edmond (Theatre Royal Haymarket), Gaslight (English Theatre, Frankfurt), The New Inn (Sam Wanamaker Festival-Shakespeare’s Globe).
TV includes: Call the Midwife (BBC), Save Me (SKY), Ludwig (BBC), Doctors (BBC), Coconut(BBC4)
Film includes: Summer in February, Molly Moon: The Incredible Hypnotist, End of Love
Voice over includes: Death of England (National Theatre), Tales from the Bridge and The Zone (Atomic TV)
Commercials includes: John Lewis Christmas, Virgin Trains, Disney, Heinz, Very, Cheesestrings, Birdseye, Chase Bank, Halifax, Iceland, Mecca Bingo, Legal and General, Huawei and many more!
Training: Guildford School of Acting.
Theatre credits include: La Cage Aux Folles (Open Air Theatre, Regents Park); Jews. In Their Own Words (Royal Court); Habibti Driver (Octagon, Bolton); Berberian Sound Studio (Donmar Warehouse); Arabian Nights (Hoxton Hall); Alice’s Adventures Underground (Waterloo Vaults); Romeo and Juliet and The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (US Tour/ Off- Broadway); Operation Magic Carpet (Polka Theatre); Arabian Nights (Tricycle Theatre); The Tempest, AMidsummer Night’s Dream (Cambridge Shakespeare Festival), 66 Minutes in Damascus (LIFT London & Sao Paolo Biennal, Brasil); Mathieu Kassovitz’s La Haine (Netherlands Tour); Cradle Will Rock (Arcola Theatre); Shadow Language (Theatre 503); The Container (site-specific regional tour).
Television credits include: Sitters, Casualty, Dr Who, Nova Jones, Cockfields, Benidorm, Tyrant, Common People and EastEnders E20.
Film credits include: Mamma Mia!, Closed Circuit.
Radio credits include: Black Water, Turnpike Lane, The Long View, Ambridge Extra, Forgiving, The Cool Bag Baby and Poppyseeds.
Hemi is the voice of Kozlowski in the multiple award-winning podcast series The Amelia Project.
Joanne is perhaps best known for her time on the BBC’s “Strictly Come Dancing.” After winning the World Professional Showdance Champion and the European Professional Ballroom Championship, she joined the show as a professional dancer. During her time on the show she performed in the “Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour,” won the Christmas Special with McFly’s Harry Judd, and went on to win the glitterball trophy as the 2016 champion with her partner Ore Oduba.
Joanne Clifton was most recently seen playing the role of Velma Von Tussle in the UK Tour of “Hairspray.” Prior to this, she has played Princess Fiona in the UK Tour and London transfer of “Shrek,” Jacqueline in “Windfall,” at the Southwark Playhouse, Morticia Addams in “The Addams Family,” UK Tour, Berthe and Fastrada in “Pippin,” at The Garden Theatre, Janet in the No. 1 UK Tour of “The Rocky Horror Show,” Alex Owens in the No. 1 UK Tour of “Flashdance,” and Dale Tremont in “Top Hat,” where she received her second Offie nomination. Her first was for her acting debut as the Streetwalker in Irving Berlin’s “Face the Music.”
Joanne’s further credits include the UK Tour of “Burn The Floor – Reunion Tour,” the Fairy Godmother in “Cinderella,” at the Sheffield Lyceum, The Grove Theatre in Dunstable and the Royal & Derngate in Northampton, the Fairy in “Jack and the Beanstalk,” at the Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury and “Friday Night is Music Night,” on BBC Radio 2.
Paul Nicholas became a household favourite in the role of Vince Pinner in the celebrated British sitcom Just Good Friends which won the BAFTA award for Best Comedy Series. Paul has continued to star in many TV series including the evil Gavin Sullivan in EastEnders and can be seen as himself in the BAFTA nominated series The Real Marigold Hotel and Marigold On Tour.
His film credits include: Tommy, The Jazz Singer, Stardust, Lisztomania, Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, The World Is Full is Full of Married, What Became of Jack and Jill, See No Evil, Yesterday’s Hero and more recently Neville Chamberlain in Masaryk.
On stage, Paul’s theatrical success began more than fifty years ago in 1968 when he originated the role of Claude in the London premiere of Hair. Following this, in 1972 he originated the role of Jesus in Jesus Christ Superstar. He starred as Danny Zuko in the original West End production of Grease with Elaine Page and as the Rum Tum Tugger in the original production of Cats. His other leading role musical credits include The Exorcist UK Tour, Quartet Cheltenham Theatre and UK tour, Jekyll & Hyde, Barnum, 42nd Street, Singing In The Rain, Dr Doolittle, A Christmas Carol, Pirates of Penzance, Tale of Two Cities, Fiddler On The Roof and Jerry Herman’s Dear World.
His venture into pop singing in 1976 resulted in four top ten UK hits including the USA two million best seller Heaven On The Seventh Floor. Paul has since received a further four gold albums and presented his own pop series on Granada TV called ‘Paul’. His numerous television appearances also include four Royal Variety Performances. At the end of 1991 Paul was the subject of This Is Your Life. For his service to show business and charity, Paul was awarded a Silver Heart from the Variety Club of Great Britain. Most recently, Paul’s theatrical ventures have included leading roles in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel directed by Lucy Bailey for a UK tour; The Exorcist directed by Sean Mathias for a UK tour; Quartet directed by Peter Rowe for the Cheltenham Everyman Theatre and a UK tour; And Then There Were None directed by Joe Harmston for a UK tour
Paul has also coproduced numerous shows including Grease, Singing in the Rain, Evita, Pirates of Penzance, Chess and Saturday Night Fever.
In 2021 Paul published his autobiography Musicals, Marigolds & Me and a three CD boxset Paul Nicholas Gold featuring his pop and musical career including Jesus Christ Superstar, Cats, Hair and Grease.
Jemma is best known for her roles as nosey neighbour ‘Sandra’ in the BAFTA award winning BBC sitcom Alma’s Not Normal, other series regulars include ’Grandma Pat’ in the cult hit ITV comedy GWED, ‘Matron Ramsay’ in Call the Midwife and cruel ‘Nanny Lyons’ in the period drama Upstairs Downstairs also for the BBC.
Training at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama, she left to play a borstal girl in Mai Zeterrling’s feature film Scrubbers at aged 18.
Churchill’s first television appearance was in the BBC sitcom No Place Like Home with William Gaunt and Martin Clunes. She then played guest parts in John Mortimer’s Paradise Postponed as ‘Cissy Bigwell’ and ‘Audrey Wystan’, Rumpole’s niece in Rumpole of the Bailey. She has made numerous guest appearances on UK television including; Stonehouse, Ladhood, Doctors, Doctor Who, Emmerdale, Call the Midwife, Still Open All Hours, Agatha Raisin And The Quiche of Death, Waterloo Road, Hollyoaks, Heartbeat, Holby City, Footballers Wives, Midsomer Murders, Kiss Me Kate, Red Dwarf, Jonathan Creek, Eastenders, The Brittass Empire, Londons Burning and Agatha Christie’s Poirot.
Jemma will shortly be seen in the cult horror feature The Conjuring: Last Rites. She also played ‘Barnaby’s Nanny’ in the 2018 Christmas film Nativity Rocks! The fourth film in Debbie Isitt’s Nativity series.
Jemma’s first love is theatre. Creating the stage role of ‘Mrs. Bevan’, headteacher in Nativity! The Musical with Debbie Isitt (which then led to her being cast in the feature film Nativity Rocks!). In 2019 she created a new role and UK premiered Birthdays Past, Birthdays Present, a new comedy play written and directed by Sir Alan Ayckbourn. This fulfilled a lifelong ambition to work with Ayckbourn, who reached his celebratory 80th birthday during the run.
Jemma also appeared with Janie Dee in 84 Charing Cross Road at Salisbury Playhouse and Appetite at the New Vic Theatre, a musical starring Miriam Margolyes and Tamsin Greig. Other theatre credits include: Diary Of A Somebody, Martha, Josie and the Chinese Elvis, Guys and Dolls, Horniman’s Choice, My Name is Freda, Larksong, The Gift, Hungry, The Good mother, Appetite, Noises Off, Factors Unforeseen, The Winslow Boy, Things We Do For Love, Hamlet, Macbeth, Slaughterhouse Five.
In 2022, Jemma returned to Nativity! The Musical at The Birmingham Rep Theatre playing ‘Mrs. Bevan’. This is the same role she originated on the 2017 tour and played for a second time in the 2018 touring production of the show.
In 2024, Jemma reunited with director Debbie Isitt in the recent No1 tour of the new Stock Aitken Waterman musical I Should Be So Lucky where she played ‘Ivy’ and featured all the hits from the hit factory!
Trained at RSAMD (now Royal Conservatoire of Scotland)
Theatre credits include: Quiz (Chichester and West End), Nell Gwynn (Globe and West End), Richard II (Globe), 39 Steps (West End), The Comedy of Errors (RSC and Barbican), Guy Fawkes (York Theatre Royal), Peter and the Starcatcher, A Christmas Carol (Royal and Derngate), Lysistrata, (Rose Theatre, Kingston) How to Make it Huge (Edinburgh Fringe) Relatively Speaking, Black Comedy, The Bowmans (Watermill, Newbury), Love’s Labour’s Lost (Peter Hall Company/ Rose Theatre) The Play What I Wrote (National Tour), The Missionary’s Position (National Tour), Low Pay, Don’t Pay (Salisbury Playhouse/Told by an Idiot),The Lady in the Van, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Hamlet, The Accrington Pals (all West Yorkshire Playhouse), The Madness of George III (Birmingham Rep / West Yorkshire Playhouse), The Tempest (Southwark Playhouse), Henry IV (Orange Tree Theatre), Away and Europe (Traverse, Edinburgh, It Runs in the Family (National Tour), Services (Gate Theatre, London)
TV credits include: Ghosts, Miss Scarlet and the Duke, This England, Pennyworth, Timewasters, Home Fires, True Crimes, See How They Run, Jane Hall, Eastenders, Emmerdale and Touch Me, I’m Karen Taylor.
Film: The Current War, The Time of Our Lives, Starfish
Short Film: One Drop, Pops, Ken Loach’s Star Wars, Les Chuckle Brothers
Radio credits include the Writers’ Guild Award winning Radio 4 comedy Fags, Mags and Bags.
Greg is also a regular volunteer for the theatre mentoring charity ‘Scene and Heard’, which won the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service.
Training: East 15 Acting School
Theatre credits include: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory UK and Ireland Tour (Leeds Playhouse and Playful Productions); Snake in the Grass; The Children; August, Osage County; Much Ado About Nothing; Les Parents Terrible; Sweeney Todd; Sunshine On Leith; Titus Andronicus; A Doll’s House; The Elephant Man; Anna Karenina; The Cherry Orchard; Mother Courage; The Witches; The Graduate; Gypsy; Flora the Red Menace; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; The Talented Mr Ripley; Romeo and Juliet; Dancing at Lughnasa; Macbeth; The Seagull; Cabaret (all for Dundee Rep Theatre); A Winter’s Tale (International Festival, Iran); Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off; Time and The Conways (co-pro Dundee Rep/Lyceum Edinburgh); Peer Gynt (co-pro Dundee Rep/National Theatre of Scotland); The Gamblers (Greyscale Newcastle); Sleeping Beauty; Pygmalion; Shanghied (Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh).
Film and television credits include: Time Teens the Beginning (Baudelaire Productions); Strathblair (BBC Scotland); Close (Peter Mullan).
Theatre credits include: Mrs White in Cluedo 2 (UK Tour); Dolly Sinatra in Sinatra the Musical (Birmingham Rep); Paula/Marina in Rehab -the Musical (Playground Theatre); Polly Parker in Nativity – The Musical (Apollo Theatre, Hammersmith); Nurse Ratched in Cuckoo’s Nest (Battersea Arts Centre); Mamma Mia! (Novello Theatre); Billy Elliot (Victoria Palace Theatre); Mrs Sowerberry in Oliver (International Tour); Miss Bell in Fame (Aldwych Theatre); Miss Grano in Peggy Sue Got Married (Shaftsbury Theatre); La Cava (Victoria Palace & Piccadilly Theatres); Ashley/Dinah and Pearl in Starlight Express (Apollo Victoria Theatre) and Sue Jeager in South Pacific (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield). Player Pippin (Bridewell Theatre)
Film & TV work include: Music Hall Performer in A Thousand Blows (Disney Plus); The Witcher (Netflix); Miss Bow Sweets in Christmas on Mistletoe Farm (Netflix); Jackie in Taking Care of Business (Short Film); Wonka (Warner Bros); Greatest Days (Elysian Film Group); Mamma Mia 2 ‘Here We Go Again’ (Universal Pictures); Beauty and the Beast (Disney Pictures) and Mrs Hudson in Victoria (ITV).
Choreographer/Directing work includes: A Thousand Blows (Disney Plus); Meet The Gladiators (Hungry Bear/MGM); Dino Expo (Fruit Shoot); Peter Pan & Pirates of Penzance (Savoy Theatre); Fame (Aldwych Theatre); Danger Mouse Live and Mr Potato Head for (Bourne Leisure/Butlins); Only You Can Save Mankind (Edinburgh Fringe Festival);Associate Choreographer for BBC2 Our Dancing Town; Associate Choreographer Offenenbachs Orphee Aux Enfers (Royal Academy Opera)
John trained with the Sylvia Young Theatre School.
John’s theatre credits include playing Timon in The Lion King at the Lyceum Theatre, West End, a role he originally played and went on to tour with for many years including in the first ever tour of the UK and Ireland in 2012.
Other theatre credits include; Jonny/Consultant, Oxy & The Morons at the New Wolsey Theatre Ipswich, Peter in The Railway Children for Middle Ground Theatre Company, Sam in Tarnished Angel for the Finborough Theatre, Boult in Pericles for the Ludlow Festival, Eugene in Brighton Beach Memoirs for the English Theatre Frankfurt, Edwin in The Cub for the Traverse Theatre, Stefano in Mirandolina, Skinner in Forty Years On and Young Charlie in Conversations With My Father, all at The Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough. He has also played Arty in Lost In Yonkers – Mercury Colchester, the Artful Dodger in Oliver! – Crucible Theatre, Dandini in Cinderella – City Varieties Leeds, Son of McDuff in Macbeth – RSC Barbican and Lampwick in Pinnochio for the Arts Theatre.
Television work includes; Sophie and The Shadow Woods, Anita and Me for the BBC, Dundas in Mighty Hood, Invincible Bismarck for ITV, Lee Carter in Casualty – BBC, Jack in Renford Rejects – Nickleodeon, Paul in Against All Odds – BBC, Access in Harry’s Mad II – Central Productions, Alec in Doctor At The Top – BBC, and T- Shirt in 9 series and 3 Christmas specials of the long-running CITV show T-Bag. On Film he played Irving in 10 Arenas of Marwood, Stephen in Breakout for The Children’s Film Foundation and was in Brazil! directed by Terry Gilliam.
John has also recorded voices for many popular TV and film animations including Jim Hawkins in Treasure Island, Gargoyle in Mike the Knight, Toot in Toot the Tiny Tug and all the male characters in CBeebies Get Squiggling. Current animations include playing Zeve and Superfan in Robozuna, Dandy in Gecko’s Garage, Kip in Word Party, Kai in BuddyBots, Radley in Benjamin Bat, Foz in Go Jetters and James and Arnold in Fireman Sam. He was also the voice of Thomas in Thomas & Friends for many years voicing many series and feature films.
As well as the above he has dubbed and recorded ADR on numerous films and television programmes such as Game of Thrones, Dunkirk, Brave, Cloud Atlas, Storage 24, Arthur Christmas, Gnomeo and Juliet, High School Musical, Perfume, High Seas, Gulliver’s Travels, The Tudors, Rome, Silent Witness, Doctor Who and many more.
Theatre credits include: The Mousetrap (St. Martin’s Theatre), 2:22 A Ghost Story; Same Time, Next Year; Ken Ludwig’s: Baskerville (Vienna’s English Theatre), Houdini’s Greatest Escape (UK tour), Around the World in 80 Days (Barn Theatre), The Great Christmas Feast (The Lost Estate), Much Ado about Nothing (The Rose Playhouse), The Count of Monte Cristo (Brighton Open Air Theatre), House on Haunted Hill (Leicester Square Theatre), Crimes, Camera, Action (UK Tour)
Screen credits include: Talking Gods: Icarus; The Hunter; Billy Saunders and the Strings; News At Now.
Adam is one half of the writing and producing partnership Rather Nifty, one quarter of the comedy troupe The Lampoons, and co-artistic director of Wild Immersive Theatre Co.
Recent theatre work includes Girl From The North Country (UK tour), Oresteia, (West End), Jersey Boys (international tour), Spring Awakening (Hope Mill, Manchester), NHS, The Musical (Theatre Royal, Plymouth) and the world premier of Mrs Henderson Presents (Theatre Royal, Bath & West End).
After training at LAMDA Neil began his career in The Wind In The Willows at Theatr Clwyd. Work in rep at the Palace Theatre, Westcliff, the Mercury Theatre, Colchester and Perth Rep includes Alan Ayckbourn’s Taking Steps and A Small Family Business, Agatha Christie’s Spider’s Web and Witness For The Prosecution, Ray Cooney’s Funny Money and Out Of Order, Amadeus, Noises Off, and The Wizard Of Oz. Neil played Henry Higgins in a European tour of My Fair Lady for Sir Frank Dunlop and has worked extensively in America where roles include Henry in The Real Thing, in Boston, Elyot Chase in Private Lives in Maine, Peter Finch in Iago in Florida, Franklin Gowen in The Molly Maguires in Philadelphia, King Magnus in Shaw’s The Apple Cart in New York and the title roles in Macbeth in New Jersey and Butley in Connecticut. Other theatre credits include The Comedy Of Errors (Hamburg), Azdak in the Peter Brook Award-nominated Caucasian Chalk Circle (New Rep), Chess and Love Story (Union Theatre) and Oh, What A Lovely War (Theatre Royal, Stratford and UK tour).
Film credits: uwantme2killhim? and the villain, Lawrence III, in the film Pokemon 2000.
Josie trained at The Central School of Speech and Drama graduating with a 1st Class BA (Hons) Acting degree.
Credits include: Judy Porter in BBC’s ‘Call the Midwife’; Originating the roles of Nina/Siobhan/Belinda in Martha Loader’s award winning play ‘Bindweed’ at The Mercury Theatre, New Wolsey and Arcola Theatre; Alison and understudy Alison/Robyn/Barbara in ‘Mum’s The Word: UK Tour’; Spa assistant in ‘Michael McIntyre’s Big Show’; Factory Girl in ‘Les Misérables’ Sondheim Theatre – West End; Eulampia Petrovna in ‘Black Snow’ at the Moscow Art Theatre; ‘The Emperor of the Moon’ workshop at NT Studio; ‘Made in Dagenham 25th Anniversary Concert’ at The London Palladium; Peggy in ‘The War of the Worlds’; Tracey in ‘Bedlam’ for Mercury Theatre Reads; Baba Yaga in ‘Hansel and Gretel’ with Iris Theatre; Flora in Tennessee Williams’ ‘27 Wagons Full of Cotton’.
Josie is delighted to be a part of the Fawlty Towers Company and would like to thank her family, loved ones and agents for their endless support.
Ashleigh has been in the entertainment industry for almost 20 years. Her favourite roles to date are Kate Monster/Lucy the Slut in Avenue Q, and Fanny Brice in Funny Girl at The Fugard Theatre in Cape Town, South Africa.
Most recently, she was standby Beverley, Janice, Beulah and Diane in the UK production of Come From Away.
Previous credits include covering the Dynamos (Donna, Tanya and Rosie) in the UK and International production of Mamma Mia!, Ms Fleming in Heathers (The Other Palace), The Pleasure Garden, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Macbeth; Much Ado About Nothing, Janet in The Rocky Horror Show, 4.48 Psychosis, Bash, Pests, Into the Woods, and Shrek the Musical.
Ashleigh is delighted to be making her West End debut in Fawlty Towers.
Theatre Credits include: Witness for the Prosecution (London County Hall), Baskerville (Vienna’s English Theatre), Julius Caesar (Castle Park Theatre), Memento Mori (Mercury Theatre) and Secret Cinema’s production of Bridgerton.
Film and Television credits include: Pan Tau (Amazon Prime) and Paul Dood’s Deadly Lunchbreak (Sky Cinema).
Ben has also starred in The Corrupted for BBC Radio 4 and recently completed narration on two audiobook titles for Audible.
Since completing his training at ALRA North, Matthew has performed in a variety of stage shows such as:
Rob & The Hoodies (Vienna’s English Theatre), Hamlet; King Lear; Macbeth (Cream-Faced Loons), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (GB Theatre), Waiting for Waiting for Godot (Co-produced with 53Two), Roundheads (Big Room Theatre), The Agency (Manchester Fringe), Measuring Up (Fine Comb), Macbeth (MAP Productions) and Tom Gates: Live On Stage (Birmingham Stage Company). Most notably, Matthew performed as the title role of Joe Spud in the West End/National Tour of Billionaire Boy (Birmingham Stage Company) from 2019-2022.
Matthew has also starred in the independent feature films The Bee-Eaters (Foliate Head Films) & Sweetly It Turns (Root Puller) and has most recently written, directed and produced his own feature film: Learn To Loathe Yourself.
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Theatre Credits: Murder Express: Part Deux (Whitechapel), The Woman In Black (West End & UK Tour), Lockdown Town (Southwark Tunnels), The Private Ear, The Public Eye (U.K. Tour), The Wind In The Willows, The 39 Steps, Oh, What A Lovely War (WATCo), Chaplin’s Circus (U.K. Tour), The Composer Is Dead by Lemony Snicket (Norfolk Symphony Orchestra). Horrible Histories Blue Peter Olympic Torch Tour (U.K. & Ireland Tour), The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Emma, The Possibilities (The Courtyard Theatre).
Other credits: Standard Life Insurance (Commercial), The Briefcase (Short), Sorry – Wrong Number (Short), BBC Live Lessons (TV & Online resource). Clash Of The Moths (Short), A Man Of Letters (Director, WATCo), Sherlock plus John – A Musical (Writer). Lockdown Town ( Writer & Presenter), Mayor BottomBurp & Chums, The Multiple Minds Of Raymond Rose (writer, animator, Online Media).
Raymond is a member of The Groundlings Improv Theatre & School, Los Angeles.
John Cleese is best known for his involvement in Monty Python’s Flying Circus, Fawlty Towers, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Monty Python’s Life of Brian,and a Fish Called Wanda.
In addition to his comedic activities, he was a co-founder with Sir Antony Jay of Video Arts, a management and sales training video company. Over a period of 20 yrs, Video Arts made over 120 training videos, and it was the largest firm of its kind outside the United States.
John Cleese was also a co-author, with the eminent psychiatrist Dr. Robin Skynner of two books ‘Families And How To Survive Them’, and ’Life And How To Survive It’. These books, which explored psychology, psychiatry, and their application to the wider world, both became best sellers.
He wrote his first autobiography ‘So Anyway’, which was published in 2014 and has sold 600,000 copies worldwide. In 2020, he also penned ‘Creativity A short and cheerful guide’.
In his twilight years he passes his time writing film scripts, making speeches to business audiences, doing seminars on creativity, teaching at Cornell and constructing a virtual reality website, www.thejohncleese.com.
John Cleese is best known for his involvement in Monty Python’s Flying Circus, Fawlty Towers, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Monty Python’s Life of Brian,and a Fish Called Wanda.
In addition to his comedic activities, he was a co-founder with Sir Antony Jay of Video Arts, a management and sales training video company. Over a period of 20 yrs, Video Arts made over 120 training videos, and it was the largest firm of its kind outside the United States.
John Cleese was also a co-author, with the eminent psychiatrist Dr. Robin Skynner of two books ‘Families And How To Survive Them’, and ’Life And How To Survive It’. These books, which explored psychology, psychiatry, and their application to the wider world, both became best sellers.
He wrote his first autobiography ‘So Anyway’, which was published in 2014 and has sold 600,000 copies worldwide. In 2020, he also penned ‘Creativity A short and cheerful guide’.
In his twilight years he passes his time writing film scripts, making speeches to business audiences, doing seminars on creativity, teaching at Cornell and constructing a virtual reality website, www.thejohncleese.com.
Caroline moved into directing after a long career as a performer, working with artists such as Peter Darling, Arlene Philips, Antony Van Laast, Alan Harding and Clark Peters. Throughout the 1980s she worked with music artists on videos including; Nomad, Adamski, Kiss, David Grant, Jackie Graham, Queen and Freddie Mercury. Caroline’s West End Theatre credits as a performer include; West Side Story, Jesus Christ Superstar and Chicago.Choreography includes numerous rock concerts and live shows for Steve Coogan and Tim Minchin, amongst others.
As a Director, credits include; Steve Coogan Live UK & Australian tour, The Rod Stewart Musical Tonight’s the Night (2006 & 2014 tours), The Shape of Things by Neil LaBute (Edinburgh Festival), Love in the Time of Barriers by Hassan Abdul Razzak and Perve by Stacey Gregg (Vanburgh, RADA). Look Back in Anger by John Osborne (Rose, Southwark), The Cook and the Insurgent by Hassan Abdul Razzak (BBC3 Celebrating Sanctuary at the Southbank), Immaculate Conception by Cary Crankson (Vanburgh, RADA), Mr WH – A Forgery by Billie Brown (RADA), Marbles by Lydia Prior (Soho Theatre Project Wednesday), Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse Legends Live Tour (2015).
Additionally, Caroline worked on the staging for Tim Minchin Live Tour and was Associate Director to Eric Idle on Monty Python (Almost) Live (The O2, London 2014).
Caroline worked as Associate Director on the West End production of Roddy Doyle’s The Commitments Musical in 2013 (Palace Theatre) and subsequently directed the 2016 UK Tour of The Commitments Musical.Following this Caroline Directed Early Doors Live (2018) by Craig Cash and Phil Mealey and was consultant Director on Clive Tulloh and Joanna Lumley’s It’s All About Me UK Tour 2018/19.
After working on the early development of Only Fools and Horses the Musical she then directed its West End debut. The Final West End performance of Only Fools and Horses the musical took place on April 29th, 2023, after a 4 year run at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, making it the longest running show in the prestigious theatre’s history. Pre-production for Only Fools and Horses the musical 2024 UK Tour is now underway.
After developing and adapting a play for stage based on The Cut by Hibo Wardere she then collaborated with Jen Rainsford in adapting its themes into the screen play I Carry Your Crown for Momma Lion Films and producer Sarina Taylor, who are both now thrilled to be in collaboration with RSA films in realising this story to screen.
In August 2016 Caroline worked alongside John Cleese and directed the stage adaptation of Fawlty Towers for Sydney Australia and is thrilled to be teaming up with John Cleese once again to bring to life these incredibly iconic characters with such a talented company for its premiere in the West End.
Theatre credits include: Early Doors (UK Tour, Mcintyre Entertainments); Beirut (Park Theatre); This Is Not For You (Graeae, Greenwich/docklands International Festival And 14-18 Nov); Reasons To Be Cheerful (Graeae UK Tour); The House Of Bernarda Alba (Royal Exchange Theatre & Graeae); Fawlty Towers (Australia Tour); Legends (UK Tour); A Better Woman (Marlowe Theatre); A View From The Bridge (Touring Consortium); Tartuffe, Of Mice And Men (Birmingham Rep); Lucia Di Lammermoor (Scottish Opera); Grapes Of Wrath (RADA); On Golden Pond, Golden Leaf Strutt, Sad Arthur’s Trip, Agnes Of God (Belgrade Theatre); Trojan Women, Tis Pity She’s A Whore, As You Like It, The Nativity (Liverpool Everyman); Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Importance Of Being Earnest, The Three Musketeers, The Snow Queen, Death And The Maiden, Robin Hood, Beauty and The Beast (Dukes Playhouse Lancaster); Merrily We Roll Along (Watermill Theatre); Beautiful Thing, Blithe Spirit, The Three Sisters, Children’s House, Strawgirl, The Adoption Papers, Roots, Mary Barton, Hedda Gabler, As You Like It, Fast Food, So Special, The Seagull, The Rise And Fall Of Little Voice (Royal Exchange Theatre); On The Shore Of The Wide World (Royal Exchange Theatre & National Theatre); Katherine Howard (Chichester Festival Theatre); Cavalcaders (Tricycle); Ladies In Lavender (Royal & Derngate and UK Tour); Canary, Seven Up, Vincent River, Apocalyptica, Give Me Your Answer Do, Yellowman, Anna In The Tropics, Losing Louis, The Rubenstein Kiss (Hampstead Theatre); Peggy For You (Comedy Theatre, London & Tour); Two Gentleman Of Verona (RSC, National Tour); Honour (Wyndams Theatre); Corrie! (Lowry & Tour) Hotel In Amsterdam (Donmar Warehouse).
For the Gate Theatre, Dublin: All My Sons, Uncle Vanya, Pygmalion, Dublin Carol, See You Next Tuesday (Duke Of York Theatre); The Bear, Afterplay (The Spoleto Festival, South Carolina, The Gielgud Theatre); Faith Healer, Yalta Game, Afterplay (Sydney Festival); One For The Road (St Martin’s Theatre, Lincoln Centre – New York for The Pinter Festival).
Opera Credits include: The Carmelites (Grange Park Opera); Porgy And Bess (The Royal Danish Opera); Lucia Di Lammermoor (Houston Grand Opera Texas, La Fenice Venice & The Sydney Opera House).
Liz graduated with a BA Hons from Wimbledon School of Art. She has been awarded the Arts Council Trainee Design Bursary, the UNESCO award for Promotion of the Visual Arts (Prague Quadrennial), and TMA Best Designer.
Ian works extensively in theatre, opera and dance. Recent credits: Boys From The Blackstuff (Liverpool’s Royal Court); Avalon and Les Enfants du Paradis (Giffords Circus); The Children (Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds) and Much Ado About Nothing (The Crucible / Ramps On The Moon).
Other work includes: Where The Wild Things Areand A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Aldeburgh Festival);Flat Stanley (Polka/ West Yorkshire Playhouse); Reasons To Be Cheerful (Graeae); The Drummer Boy of Waterloo and The Happy Prince (Jubilee Opera); The 39 Steps (Criterion Theatre); All My Sons (Nottingham Playhouse); Taylor’s Dummies (Gecko); Animal Farm (Leeds Playhouse) and Observe The Sons Of Ulster Marching Towards The Somme (Abbey Theatre – Winner of The Irish Times Theatre Award for Best Lighting). Ian has lit over 50 shows at Liverpool’s Royal Court including: Mam I’m ‘Ere, Scouse Nativity, The Royal, You’ll Never Walk Alone and The Scousetrap. As Associate Artist of Suspect Culture Ian designed the set and lighting for many productions including Timeless, Mainstream and Lament.
For the last 40 years Rory has been at the very front end, pushing the boundaries of high-end performance audio systems and relishing the opportunity to incorporate the very latest technological advances in live production.
Rory’s work has taken him across the globe countless times with the biggest artists and the best productions the world has had to offer, through every type of venue, from theatres to stadiums.
Previous acts Rory has engineered sound for include Tina Turner, Joe Cocker, Diana Ross, Lionel Richie, Paul McCartney, Tom Jones, Rod Stewart, Dire Straits, Billy Joel, and Monty Python, Only Fools & Horses the Musical to name but a few.
“Having been an avid fan of Faulty Towers it’s a pleasure to be involved in this production”
Anne started casting in 1992 as in-house Casting Director for the Apollo Leisure Group. She has cast numerous West End and touring productions.
During her years at Apollo Leisure her West End casting credits included: Barnum (Dominion); Aspects of Love (Prince Of Wales); Fiddler On The Roof starring Topol (London Palladium); Copacabana (Prince of Wales); Scrooge starring Anthony Newley (Dominion); Doctor Dolittle starring Phillip Schofield (Apollo Hammersmith); Summer Holiday (Apollo Hammersmith); and numerous number one touring musicals.
Further musical credits include: A Night With Janis Joplin (West End 2024), I Should Be So Lucky (UK Tour); Mother Goose starring Ian McKellen & John Bishop (West End & UK Tour); We Will Rock You (UK Tour & London Coliseum); Bat Out of Hell (UK tour & West End); Identical (UK Tour); Strictly Ballroom (UK Tour); 9 To 5: The Musical (West End & UK Tour); The Grinning Man (West End); Hairspray, Carousel, Half A Sixpence, Guys and Dolls, Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Cats (all Kilworth House Theatre); The Life directed by Michael Blakemore (Southwark Playhouse, London); Guys and Dolls directed by Gordon Greenberg (UK Tour); Dance Til Dawn (West End); Loserville (West End); Zorro (West End); Boy George’s Taboo (West End); Saturday Night Fever (West End); Fame (West End).
Her play credits include: Fawlty Towers (West End 2024); Awful Auntie (UK Tour); Home, I’m Darling (UK Tour); Fatal Attraction (UK Tour); Abigail’s Party (UK Tour); Strangers On A Train (UK Tour); The Old Vic New Voices Festival (The Old Vic); The Mentalists starring Stephen Merchant (West End), Barking In Essex starring Lee Evans (West End); Flare Path (UK Tour); What The Butler Saw (West End); Stones In His Pockets (West End).
TV credits: Casting team on How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria; Any Dream Will Do; I’d Do Anything and Over the Rainbow (all BBC); Superstar (ITV); Take That’s Wonderland Special (ITV); and I Dream starring Christopher Lloyd (BBC).
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Denise trained at the Doreen Bird College of Performing Arts.
Choreography Credits include: Tonights the Night: UK Tour, Additional Choreography for The Commitments UK Tour, Aladdin (Harlequin Theatre, Redhill); Half a Sixpence (Ashcroft Theatre, Croydon); and Beauty and the Beast (Camberley Theatre).
Denise also worked as assistant choreographer for the BBC TV series Grange Hill, Steve Coogan Live: As Alan Partridge and Other Less Successful Characters (UK Tour) and the Red Nose ‘Danceathon’ for Comic Relief (Wembley Arena).
In addition, Denise was Resident and Associate Director on the first UK tour of The Commitments, Associate Director on Only Fools and Horses the Musical at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, West End and soon to be Associate Director & Choreographed for the upcoming UK tour of Only Fools and Horses the musical. Denise is thrilled to be working as assistant director on the London premiere of Fawlty Towers.
