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Andy Nyman is a multi award-winning actor, director and writer for his work in theatre, film and television.
For the Chocolate Factory: Terrible Advice; Abigail’s Party (also Wyndham’s); Assassins; Fiddler on the Roof (also Playhouse Theatre – Olivier Award Nomination)
Recent theatre includes: Horace Vandergelder in Hello, Dolly! at the London Palladium; Tevye in Trevor Nunn’s Fiddler on the Roof; Hangmen (West End/Broadway); Ghost Stories which Andy starred in, co-wrote and co-directed with Jeremy Dyson.
Television credits include: A Small Light; The Capture; Unforgotten; Wanderlust; Hanna; The Eichmann Show; Campus; Dead Set; Winston Churchill in Peaky Blinders.
Film credits include: Gov. Thropp in Wicked; Jungle Cruise; Judy; The Commuter; Ghost Stories; Death at a Funeral; Kiss-Ass 2; Black Death; The Brother’s Bloom; Severance; Shut Up & Shoot Me (winner Best Actor at Cherbourg Film Festival).
Andy has collaborated with Derren Brown for over 20 years, co-creating the first 10 years of Derren’s TV as well as co-writing / directing Derren’s stage shows – winning an Olivier Award for Derren Brown: Something Wicked This Way Comes and the New York Drama Desk Award for Derren Brown: Secret.
Andy’s books on how to survive as a freelancer “The Golden Rules of Acting” and “More Golden Rules of Acting” are bestsellers within the acting world. Andy and Jeremy Dyson’s first novel The Warlock Effect, was released last year, became a Sunday Times book of the month and is out now in paperback.
Marc is a prolific theatre actor. He has recently completed a run in I Wish You Well – The Gwyneth Paltrow Ski-Trial Musical at the Criterion in the West End after a sell out at Edinburgh Fringe.
Stage credits include: Quiz (National Tour); The Band’s Visit (Donmar Warehouse); Murder on the Orient Express (Chichester Festival Theatre) and The Magician’s Elephant (RSC).
In 2019, Marc received an Olivier Award nomination for his portrayal of Seymour in Little Shop of Horrors at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre.
On screen, Marc can be seen in The Outlaws season 1 for the BBC.
Trevor Ashley is a multi award-winning actor, writer, director and international drag performer working across theatre, cabaret, television and film.
For the Chocolate Factory: Liza in Typsy (sold-out season); The Producers (Roger De Bris – transferring to the Garrick Theatre).
Recent theatre includes: Thenardier in Les Misérables (Cameron Mackintosh/Australian tour); Edna Turnblad in Hairspray (original Australian production); King Herod in Jesus Christ Superstar (The Really Useful Group, dir. Gale Edwards); Pharaoh in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (London Palladium production); and originated the role of Miss Understanding in the original Australian cast of Priscilla Queen of the Desert.
Television credits include: RFDS – Royal Flying Doctor Service; Les Norton; Significant Others; The Very Trevor Ashley Show. Trevor was runner-up on Season 2 of RuPaul’s Queen of the Universe, hosted by Graham Norton.
Film credits include: playing Barbra Streisand — and kissing Bobby Cannavale — in Seriously Red; and a memorable (albeit one-line) role in the cult queer classic Holding the Man.
Directorial credits include: Hear Me Roar (Sydney Opera House); Mack and Mabel; and the Australian premiere of Heathers the Musical. Trevor also wrote and directed original Australian hits Moulin Scrooge, Fat Swan, The Lyin’ Queen, and Little Orphan TrAshley, among others.
He has toured globally with his hit solo shows, including Liza (on an E), I’m Every Woman, and Diamonds Are for Trevor, establishing himself as one of the world’s leading drag vocalists and cabaret performers.
Trevor was the Artistic Director of the Sydney Cabaret Festival and continues to champion cabaret and queer voices on international stages.
Theatre credits include: The Father and the Assassin (National Theatre); Life of Pi (Wyndhams Theatre and Sheffield Crucible); AmDram – A Musical Comedy (Curve); The Kite Runner (UK Tour Best Actor Winner); Miss Meena and the Masala Queens (Watford Palace and Tour); Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (Sheffield Crucible); This Tuesday (Arcola Theatre); Hector (Traverse/Ambassadors); The Low Road & Free Outgoing (The Royal Court); Soho Cinders (Soho Theatre); Bombay Dreams (Apollo Victoria, Best Supporting Performance in a Musical Nomination).
Television credits include: Silent Witness (BBC); Ackley Bridge (Channel 4); Ghosts (BBC); The Amazing Mr Blunden (Sky); Hetty Feathers (BBC); Eastenders (BBC); Taboo (Hardy, Son & Baker); The 7.39 (Carnival); Doctors (BBC), Dead Set (Zeppotron).
Film credits include: 3 Bags Full (Working Title); Blimp (Avani Films); Hostages (Rawk Pictures); Christopher Robin (Disney); Defrosted (Tea Films); Job’s Dinner (Issa Films); Mrs Brown’s Boys D’Movie (That’s Nice Films); Starter for 10 (Starter Films); Diary of a Thagee (Split Second Films).
Raj also voices hundreds of voice overs including animations, documentaries, audiobooks and commercials.
For the Chocolate Factory: The Third Man; Assassins.
Harry has recently finished playing the title role in Beetlejuice: The Musical (NCL) directed by Catie Davis.
Theatre includes: Beetlejuice: The Musical (NCL); Come From Away (Phoenix Theatre); Half a Sixpence (Noel Coward and Chichester Festival Theatre); Guys & Dolls and Kiss Me, Kate (Chichester Festival Theatre); Boeing, Boeing (Frinton Summer Theatre); My Fair Lady (Teatro di San Carlo, Italy); Oliver! (Sheffield Crucible); The Sound of Music (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Crazy for You (Novello and Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Lend Me a Tenor (Theatre Royal Plymouth).
Television includes: We Are Mongrels; Casualty and Doc Martin.
Harry is a writer/actor with a number of projects in development. News and samples of his writing can be found on his social media platforms.
Instagram: @allomrmorrison
X: @harrymorrison
Training: The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
For the Chocolate Factory: Understudies Beth/Meg/KT in Merrily We Roll Along (also at the Harold Pinter Theatre) directed by Maria Friedman.
Theatre includes: most recently Joanna originated the role of Clare in the world premier of The Time Traveller’s Wife (Apollo Theatre & Storyhouse, Chester); understudies and played Vivian Ward in Pretty Woman: The Musical (Piccadilly Theatre & Savoy Theatre) directed by Jerry Mitchell; Eulpha Miziam in Confessions (The Other Palace); Mary in The Life (Southwark Playhouse) directed by Michael Blakemore; understudied and played Carole King in Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (Aldwych Theatre); Margaret in Fings Ain’t Wot They Used T’Be (Theatre Royal Stratford East) directed by Terry Johnson; Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors (Kilworth House Theatre); Princess in Sleeping Beauty and Puss in Boots (Newbury Corn Exchange); Kimberley in Pages: Promised Land (Union Theatre); Glauke in Medea; Princess Atlanta in The Adventures of Jason and the Argonauts (Scoop Amphitheatre).
Other credits include: Rock On (Up at the O2); Mum’s The Word (Crazy Coqs); Carole King in Concert (BST, Hyde Park); The Drowned Man: A Hollywood Fable (Punchdrunk/National Theatre).
As an acclaimed cabaret compere, comedian and singer credits include Le Grand Cabaret (Crazy Coqs), The Black Cat Cabaret (Underbelly Boulevard Soho), support act for Julian Clary in Cabaret Allstars (Proud Cabaret), headlining The Wam Bam Club (Royal Albert Hall), An Evening of Burlesque (UK & international tour), The Hurly Burly Show (Duchess Theatre) as well as holding prestigious residencies across London including The Ned, Soho House & The Playboy Club.
Instagram: @thejoannawoodward
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