Jay Villiers

Trained at The Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.

Theatre includes: Fanta Orange (The Finborough); In Praise Of Love (Theatre Royal, Northampton); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet, and Much Ado About  Nothing (The Tobacco Factory, Bristol); Gone To Earth (Shared Experience); Barbarians, The Taming Of The Shrew and Dead Funny (Salisbury Playhouse); Betrayal and The Browning Version (Bristol Old Vic); Arcadia, Mansfield Park, and The Admirable Crichton (Chichester); Six Degrees Of Separation (Crucible Sheffield); Hamlet, As You Like It, and Much Ado About Nothing (Renaissance Theatre Company); Ting Tang Mine, Fathers And Sons, and Six Characters in Search Of An Author (National Theatre); Richard III (RSC).

Film includes: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel; The Lady; The International; Before The Rain; Virgin Territory; and Henry V.

Television includes: Extras; Absolute Power; Lewis; Midsomer Murders; The Leopard Of Rudraprayag; Heartbeat; Spooks; Silent Witness; The Government Inspector; Monsignor Renard; McCallum; The Sculptress; Black Hearts In Battersea; Rumpole; Lipstick On Your Collar; The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles; and Miss Marple.

Richard Bremmer

Richard Bremmer has played seasons at:  the R.S.C., (inc. King John, The Plantagenets, Henry IV pt II, Henry V, Great Expectations), and The Royal National Theatre (inc. Richard III, King Lear, [inc. world tour], Richard II, Napoli Millionari), Shakespeare’s Globe (Julius Caesar), in the West End (inc. Bent, Entertaining Mr. Sloane, Nicholas Nickleby) and throughout the UK (inc. Dracula, Macbeth,  Rozencranz And Guildenstern Are Dead)

Films include: Control, The Aryan Couple, Vipère Au Poing, Sin-Eater, Shanghai Knights, Half-Past Dead, Thirteenth Warrior, Harry Potter and The Philosopher’s Stone

Laura Pyper

Laura studied English and Drama at Trinity College Dublin and landed her first feature film (Reign of Fire) whilst at University. Further work in Ireland includes; Omagh, Headrush  and Bachelor’s Walk.

In 2005 Laura was cast as series regular Ella Dee in Sky One’s ‘Hex,’ roles in Silent Witness, Spooks, Holby City, The Bill and Demons followed and in 2009 Laura played  Jane Fairfax in the BBC adaptation of Jane Austen’s Emma.

Laura has worked for The Bush (66 Books), The Lyric Hammersmith (Punk Rock), The Finborough (Blackwater Angel) and the Donmar Warehouse (Don Juan in Soho). In 2009 Laura played Cressida in Shakespeare’s Globe’s first full scale production of Troilus and Cressida.

Laura’s voice work includes: A Book at Bedtime and Women’s Hour Drama (BBC Radio 4) as well as various advertising campaigns. She provides the voice for Lexine in the award winning computer game ‘Dead Space Extraction 1&2′ (EA Games).

Bethan Walker

Bethan graduated from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in 2006, and was the winner of the BBC Carleton Hobbs Award for radio drama. She has since recorded over 50 radio plays for the BBC.

Bethan’s theatre credits include: King James’ Bible (Shakespeare’s Globe) and Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare’s Globe & tour), Cinderella (Watford  Palace Theatre), The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (Birmingham Rep), Timon of Athens (Shakespeare’s Globe) and Beauty and the Beast (Cardiff Sherman  Theatre).

Television credits include: Torchwood (BBC) and Caerdydd (S4C).

Jon Bonnici

Jonathan Bonnici trained at RADA

Theatre Includes:The Black Album (NT), A Model for Mankind (Cock Tavern), Oedipus (Teatralane), Shame (Via Negativa), Decade (Headlong)

TV: Inspector George Gently, Casualty, ‘Situation Critical: Taliban Uprising’ (Nat Geo), Borgia (Canal plus)

Film: Strawberry Fields, Mercenaries

Emma Beattie

Emma trained at ALRA and was winner of the 1998 Lilian Bayliis Award.

She recently played Rachel in Four for Jericho at the Pleasance Courtyard for Menagerie Theatre.

Other theatre credits include: Mrs Joe/Biddy/Wemick in Great Expectations (Watermill Theatre); Deborah in The Song of Deborah (Lowry Theatre); Sara in The Potting Shed (Finborough Theatre); Natalia in Ivanov (Wyndham’s Theatre); Joyce in The Ruffian on the Stair (Orange Tree Theatre); Malene in John Gabriel Borkman (Donmar Warehouse); Mina in The Cut (Donmar Warehouse); Regan in King Lear (Pendley Shakespeare Festival) and Jessica in Hysteria (UK Tour)

Pieter Lawman

Trained: RADA.

Theatre credits include: War Horse and The Revenger’s Tragedy (National Theatre); Tristan and Yseult and A Matter of Life and Death (Kneehigh at the National      Theatre); Macbeth and Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare’s Globe); Good (Manchester Royal Exchange); 2401 Objects (Analogue); Swallows and    Amazons (Bristol Old Vic); The Count of Monte Cristo (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Rapunzel (Kneehigh); A Doll’s House (Northcott Theatre); Romeo and Juliet (Ludlow Festival/Northcott Theatre); Reverence: A Tale of Abelard and Heloise (Goat and Monkey/Southwark Playhouse); Jason and The Argonauts (Schtanhaus/Warwick Arts Centre/Tour); Car Cemetery (Gate Theatre); Closer (HIFA, Zimbabwe); Release The Beat (Arcola); The Canterville Ghost, The Three Musketeers, Tartuffe, and the one man show Head On (Haymarket Theatre, Basingstoke).

Television credits include: Lennon Naked, Lewis and The Inspector Lynley Mysteries.

Radio credits include: OK Computer.

Kate Malyon

Training: Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts.

Theatre includes: Florentine, The Secret Market (Greenwich Theatre). Young Isack, Let Newton Be! (Menagerie, UK and US tour). Clover, The Finders, (Greenwich  Theatre). Girl/Statue, AD2050 (Young Vic Theatre & Library Theatre, Manchester). Harriet, Bloody Poetry (White Bear Theatre). Kate, Zanna Don’t (Upstairs at the  Gatehouse, The Space and West End Live!) Corinna, The City Wives’ Confederacy (Greenwich Playhouse). Celia WW, Me and My Girl (London Palladium). Chloe, Sex  and the Village (George Square, Edinburgh). The Girl, Normal (Cockpit Theatre). Backing singer for Rod Stewart, Concert for Diana (Wembley Stadium).

Film/TV includes: Sarah Trevellin, Doctors (BBC). Lara, Memory Reloaded (Kinicon Films). Felicity, Hussein Somethin’ (TellyJuice). Lucy, Action (Fabulist  Films). Maria, The Things We Do. Maria, The Garden of Eden (NFTS). Jess, Prick (P Productions).

Whilst training: Carla, Nine. Margery, A Warwickshire Testimony (Albany Theatre). Bobby, No Shoulder (Pleasance Theatre).

Caroline Rippin

Having trained as an actor Caroline has expanded her performance skills over the last nine years and become a successful stage and screen puppeteer.  Most recently Caroline has worked with Improbable Theatre and the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, as well as The English National Opera, BAC, Soho Theatre, The Red  Room, Royal Court New Writer’s Programme, Tell Tarra Theatre and The Little Angel Theatre.