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Lladel Bryant Dick Wilkins, Topper

Lladel appeared in the original production of A Christmas Carol in addition to Nine Lives, The Night Before Christmas, Road and Europe at the Playhouse.

He has just completed a sell-out run of Nine Lives at the , .

His screen credits include DCI Banks; Intergalactic for Sky One and the 00’s CBBC cult classic game show The Raven’s Tournament.

Lladel has recently embarked on a journey of creative social change. Through his impromptu #freestylemonologues, which he produces and shares on his social media, YouTube and website www.lladelbryant.com, he aims to use his experience as an actor and certified speaker to entertain, educate & empower young people aged 13-18, to strive for greatness in all areas of their lives.

Stephen Collins Bob Cratchit

Stephen Collins is a London-based actor, workshop facilitator, Lead Artist for DH Ensemble and Associate Artist for 1623 Theatre and Amplified Theatre. He assisted with the direction of Handprint Theatre’s ‘Moonbird’ which won a Broadway World Award for ‘Best Children’s Theatre Production’ at the Edinburgh Fringe.

Theatre credits include; Oliver Twist (Leeds Playhouse), A Christmas Carol (); Blasted (RADA/Graeae); Frozen Snow Queen and Scrooge (D-Live! Theatre); Beauty & The Beast (ATT/Unity Theatre); Up N Under (Fingersmiths); Reasons To Be Cheerful UK TOUR, Threepenny Opera, The Iron Man (Graeae/New Wolsey/TRSE); Summit (Fuel Theatre); Fair is Foul, Nodus Tollens (DH Ensemble); Crimplene Crusaders (Vamos Theatre); The Government Inspector (Ramps on the Moon/ Rep); Love’s Labour’s Lost (Shakespeare’s Globe), Tyrannosaurus Drip and Red Flags (Deafinitely Theatre); Hansel & Gretel (Red Earth); The Winter’s Tale (Taking Flight)

Screen credits include; Doctors (BBC); Post Office Holiday Mode Activated (Ogilvy and Family Productions); Smirnoff Commercial (Bold Company); Dawn Of The Deaf (Shadowhouse); 4 (BSLBT); Nonsense (Max Clendaniel); How To Mug A Deaf Person (Greensville); The Paralympic Opening Ceremony ().

Other credits include: Bartholomew Abominations for BBC Radio 4 (Graeae and Naked Productions)

0113 213 7700 @leedsplayhouse leedsplayhouse.org.uk Lisa Howard Christmas Present, Mrs Fezziwig

Trained East 15.

Theatre credits include: Every Time A Bell Rings (Engine House Theatre); Ladies That Bus (Dukes Lancaster, Brewery Kendal, Theatre by the Lake Keswick); , Henry V, The Borrowers (Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre); Noughts and Crosses (Pilot Theatre); They Don’t Pay? We Won’t Pay!, When We Are Married, (Northern Broadsides); George’s Marvellous Medicine (Curve Theatre); Flood (Slung Low and Hull City of Culture 2017); The Duchess of Malfi (); Blood and Chocolate, Emergency Story Penguin (Slung Low); Road to Nab End (Oldham Coliseum); The Morecambe Mermaid (Captain Mermaid); Sex and Docks and Rock and Roll, Big Society (Red Ladder); Around the Humber (Hull Truck); Alfie - Blackeyed Theatre; Grimm Tales, Pinocchio, Beauty and the Beast, Jason and the Argonauts, Robin Hood (The Dukes, Lancaster); Macbeth, The Little Mermaid (York Theatre Royal); Wizard of Oz, The Wind in the Willows, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Flat Stanley (West Playhouse); The Rise and Fall of Little Voice (Torch Theatre).

Television and radio credits include: Coronation Street, , Heartbeat, Where the Heart Is, , Red Riding 1983. Plays for BBC Radio 3 and 4. Lisa is lead singer with Leeds band Lula and the BeBops.

Jack Lord Scrooge

Theatre credits include: Oliver Twist (Leeds Playhouse); Treasure Island (Bolton Octagon); Clybourne Park (Scottish Tour, Rapture Theatre); West Side Story (Royal Exchange Theatre); Kes (Leeds Playhouse); War Horse (National Theatre, UK Tour); Romeo and Juliet ( Playhouse); Treasure Island (Hull Truck Theatre); Democracy (Scottish Tour, Rapture Theatre Company); Kiss Me Quickstep (New Vic, SJT Scarborough & Oldham Coliseum); The Winter’s Tale (Northern Broadsides and UK Tour); The Mist In The Mirror (Oldham Coliseum and UK Tour); Rock of Ages (ATG’s UK Tour); Accidental Death of an Anarchist (Oldham Coliseum); The Jungle Book (Citizen Theatre Glasgow); Crime and Punishment (Citizen Theatre Glasgow, Edinburgh Lyceum & Liverpool Playhouse); Cooking With Elvis (Derby Theatre); Wind In The Willows (West Yorkshire Playhouse); A Midsummer Night’s Dream/Macbeth (Royal Court Liverpool); Twelfth Night (Grosvenor Open Air Theatre); Our Country’s Good (Original Theatre UK Tour); Dick Turpin’s Last Ride (UK Tour); A Christmas Carol (Library Theatre); Ladies’ Night (Royal Court Liverpool); Grimm Tales (Library Theatre); The Wizard Of Oz (Lowry Theatre); The Glee Club (Library Theatre); Dad’s Army (The Lowry); Absurd Person Singular (Bolton Octagon); Get Carter (Red Shift Theatre Company); Antony & Cleopatra, Pictures Of Clay, Major Barbara, Hobson’s Choice, A Moon For The Misbegotten; King Lear and Rotten Apple (all for The Royal Exchange, ).

0113 213 7700 @leedsplayhouse leedsplayhouse.org.uk Television and film credits include: Eternal Law (Kudos); (Shed Productions); The Street II (ITV Granada); Pierrepoint (Granada Films); Coronation Street (ITV Granada); Cold Feet (ITV Granada); Emmerdale (ITV Yorkshire); North Square (Channel 4)

Nadia Nadarajah Mrs Cratchit, Bella, Fan, Char Lady, GhostMrs Fred’s sister

Nadia trained at the International Visual Theatre in Paris.

Theatre credits include: Midnight Movie (Royal Court, London); (Shakespeare’s Globe); Going Through (); A Christmas Carol (Bristol Old Vic); As You Like It and Hamlet (Shakespeare’s Globe); Our Town (Royal Exchange Manchester); The House of Bernarda Alba (Royal Exchange Manchester); Untouchable (RADA Festival); Can I Start Again Please (UK Tour); Notre Dame (National Theatre); Grounded (Deafinitely Theatre at ); Windibops (UK Tour); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare’s Globe); Tyrannosaurus Drip (); Love’s Labour’s Lost (Shakespeare’s Globe); Tanika’s Journey, Invisible (Deafinitely Theatre); Girls and Dolls (); Deafhood (Bristol Old Vic); I Believe in Unicorn (Brighton Festival) and We’re Going on a Bear Hunt (). TV: Eastenders (BBC)

Film credits include: Vox Furex (Short Film); Domestic Abuse Towards Men (Short Film); I See You (Online Film), Before The Flame Goes Out (Online Film); Sonnet 30 and All Day.

Television credits include: Dot’s Legacy, The Hub, Snapshot: Dicing with Sex and Wicked (series 2 & 3).

Commercials: Cisco and Compton Care.

For more information about Nadia, please visit www.access-uk.com

Dan Parr Fred, Young Scrooge, Puppeteer

Theatre credits include: The Big Corner (Bolton Octagon); Road (Royal Court); The Kitchen Sink (The New Vic); Around The World In 80 Days, Hamlet, A Christmas Carol, Europe, Road, Romeo and Juliet, Kes (Leeds Playhouse); Weald (Finbourgh theatre); Hamlet (Barbican); Britannia Waves The Rules, Scuttlers, Pages From my Songbook (Royal Exchange Theatre); Wanted! Robin Hood (Library Theatre); and DNA (The Lowry Theatre).

Film credits include: 2.0 Lucy, The Rise Of the Krays, The Fall of the Krays and Halcyon Heights.

Television credits include: Silent Witness, The Musketeers, Rocket’s

0113 213 7700 @leedsplayhouse leedsplayhouse.org.uk Island, Casualty, The Crimson Field, and The Village.

Dan was nominated for Best Actor at the Manchester Theatre Awards for Britannia Waves The Rules.

Dan is also a founding member of ‘Hear The Picture’ an actor led, creative audio description company.

Tessa Parr Christmas Past, Puppeteer

Theatre credits include: There are No Beginnings (Leeds Playhouse); Be My Baby (Leeds Playhouse); Hamlet (Leeds Playhouse); A Christmas Carol (Leeds Playhouse); Europe (Leeds Playhouse); Road (Leeds Playhouse); B!RTH (Royal Exchange Theatre); Frogman (Traverse Theatre); The Breakfast Plays (Traverse Theatre); Romeo & Juliet (West Yorkshire Playhouse) Playdough (Unlimited Theatre Co); The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz (Northern Stage); Theatre Uncut ’15 (Theatre Uncut); The Soaking of Vera Shrimp (Live Theatre/ Pleasance); Get Santa (Northern Stage); Dead To Me (Greyscale/Kitchings Co); Alice in Bed (Tender Buttons); Funny Not Funny (Drywrite/ Bush).

Television credits include: Love, Lies & Records (Rollem Productions), Father Brown, Parades End, Casualty 1909, Doctors (BBC).

Tessa performs her own work as spoken word poet Johnny the Biblical Rapper and is a proud member of Newcastle’s drag collective DGA.

Tessa is a founding member of Hear the Picture - an actor led creative audio description company.

Everal A Walsh Jacob Marley, Mr Fezziwig, Father Christmas, Old Joe

Everal A Walsh has previously appeared at Leeds Playhouse in Sweeney Todd (Formerly West Yorkshire Playhouse).

Other recent theatre credits include: Rockets and Blue Lights (Royal Exchange); War With The Newts (Knaive Theatre); Amadeus (National Theatre); The Wakefield Mystery Plays (Wakefield Theatre Royal); When Bill Met Robert (Slung Low Shorts); A Raisin In The Sun (Eclipse Theatre); The Epic Adventure Of Nhamo The Manyinka Warrior (Tiata Fahodzi); Amen Corner (National Theatre); (National Theatre); Somebody’s Son (Hidden Gems Productions); Dreaming Under A Different Moon (Waters Edge Arts); Ghost Boy, Babul and The Blue Bear (20 Stories High Theatre); Travels With My Aunt (New Wosley Theatre); Anthony & Cleopatra (Royal Exchange); Basil & Beattie (Royal Exchange).

Television credits include: Cold Call, Doctor Who, In the Dark, Coronation

0113 213 7700 @leedsplayhouse leedsplayhouse.org.uk Street, Accused, Spooks Code 9, It’s Adam and Shelly, The Street, New Street Law, Blue Murder, Max and Paddy, Emmerdale, Prime Suspect.

Film credits include: The Favourite, The Selfish Giant and Screwed.

Everal is often heard on Radio 4 in various dramas including: Stone, The Hunting of the Snark, Brief Lives, The Barber & The Ark, A Land Fit For Heroes, The Hottentot Venus, A Bullet at Balmains, Goalkeepers Boo and Slam Banging Home.

Deborah McAndrew Writer

Writing credits include: Peter Pan, A Christmas Carol (Hull Truck); The D Road, Hot Lane, Dirty Laundry, Digging In, Ugly Duck (Claybody Theatre); The Chester Mysteries 2018; They Don’t Pay? We Won’t Pay!, Hard Times, Cyrano, An August Bank Holiday Lark (winner UK Theatre Award and Manchester Theatre Award for Best New Play 2014), The Grand Gesture, A Government Inspector, Accidental Death of an Anarchist, Vacuum, The Bells (Northern Broadsides); Anna of the Five Towns, Flamingoland (New Vic Theatre); The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist (Octagon Theatre, Bolton); One of Each, Till the Cows Come Home, Beyond the Veil, Losing the Plot (Mikron Theatre); King Macbeth (Reveal Theatre Company)

Current commissions include Pride and Prejudice for Storyhouse at Grosvenor Park, Chester. The Card for Claybody Theatre.

Deborah grew up in Leeds, but now lives and works in North , where she is co-founder and Creative Director of Claybody Theatre Company, based in Stoke-on-Trent. In her acting career Deborah has worked extensively in television, radio and theatre. She is best known to television viewers as Coronation Street regular, Angie Freeman, in the 1990s.

Amy Leach Director

After working across the UK for 15 years as a freelance director and facilitator, Amy joined Leeds Playhouse in 2017 as associate director. Amy’s directing credits at Leeds Playhouse include: Oliver Twist, There Are No Beginnings, Hamlet, Road, A Christmas Carol, Talking Heads, Queen of Chapeltown, Romeo and Juliet, Kes, The Night Before Christmas and Little Sure Shot. Amy has also directed work for Hull Truck Theatre, Sherman Theatre in Cardiff, National Theatre Wales, National Theatre Studio, Gagglebabble, Wales Millennium Centre, in London, Library Theatre in Manchester, the egg in Bath, Dukes in Lancaster and Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester. Between 2003 and 2011, Amy co-founded and ran en masse, an award-winning touring theatre company that created work for young people and their families.

0113 213 7700 @leedsplayhouse leedsplayhouse.org.uk Hayley Grindle Set and Costume Designer

Hayley is a UK-based theatre designer who graduated from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in 2002. Since then, Hayley has continued to design productions across the UK and abroad. Hayley was the recipient of the Paul Kimpton Prize for Innovation from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.

Recent theatre credits includes: As You Like It (Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch and National Theatre Public Acts); Hamlet (Leeds Playhouse); A Christmas Carol (Hull Truck); Alice in Wonderland, The Borrowers, Arabian Nights (Sherman Cymru); Double Vision (Wales Millennium Centre and Gagglebabble); Road and Romeo and Juliet (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Iphigenia in Splott (Sherman Cymru, Edinburgh, National Theatre and 59E59 Theaters, New York); Wonderman (Gagglebabble, National Theatre Wales and Wales Millennium Centre); Made in Dagenham (Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch and New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich); The Tale of Mr Tumble (Manchester International Festival); Little Sure Shot (Bath Theatre Royal, West Yorkshire Playhouse and tour); The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Unicorn Theatre); All My Sons, Of Mice and Men (Watermill Theatre); A Taste of Honey (Hull Truck and Derby Theatre); Wanted! Robin Hood and Arabian Nights (Manchester Library Theatre); As You Like It (Transport); Cooking With Elvis (Derby Theatre); Fantastic Mr Fox (Singapore Repertory Theatre); The Boy Who Fell Into a Book and Mongrel Island (); God in Ruins (RSC); Peter Pan (the Dukes, Lancaster). Chris Davey Lighting Designer

For Leeds Playhouse: Maggie May, Villette, The Graduate, Sweeney Todd, Wind in the Willows, Waiting for Godot, King Lear, The Deep Blue Sea, Death of a Salesman, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Dial M for Murder, Blues in the Night, Twelfth Night, The Wizard of Oz, Dangerous Corner, Johnson Over Jordon, Broken Glass, The Comedy of Errors and Half a Sixpence.

He has designed extensively for The National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, Shared Experience Theatre, Royal Court, , Lyric Hammersmith, Royal Exchange Manchester, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Royal Lyceum Edinburgh, Citizens’s Theatre Glasgow, Birmingham Rep and Manchester International Festival.

Designs include: Touching the Void (Tour and Duke of York’s Theatre, London); Witness for the Prosecution (County Hall, London); Switzerland (Bath Theatre Royal, Ambassadors Theatre, London); Nightfall (Bridge Theatre, London); Rhinoceros (Edinburgh International Festival); Vamos Cuba! (Sadler’s Wells); Sweeney Todd (La Monnaie, Brussels); 42nd Street (Chicago Lyric Opera, Chatelet Theatre, Paris); Matthew Bourne’s The Car Man and Lord of the Flies (Sadler’s Wells, national and international tours); The Driver’s Seat (National Theatre of ); Carlos Acosta’s Classical Selection (Coliseum, Royal Albert Hall and

0113 213 7700 @leedsplayhouse leedsplayhouse.org.uk world tour); Touching the Void, The Crucible, Wonderful Town, , High Society, Dr Dolittle and Dial M for Murder (national tours); Secret Seven, A Little Night Music, The Crucible, The Suuicide, Blue Stockings, Miss Julie (Storyhouse, Chester); Our Lady of Blundellsands (Everyman Liverpool).

John Biddle Composer & Musical Director

Projects as composer/sound designer include: Frankenstein (LA Theatre Works, Los Angeles); Still Floating and The Ladder (Hoipolloi); The Borrowers, Henry V, Twelfth Night and (Storyhouse/Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre, Chester); Muckers (Caroline Horton/Conde Duque, Madrid/ The Egg, Bath); Kes, Queen of Chapeltown (Leeds Playhouse); Unconditional (ThisEgg); Peter Pan, Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol and Treasure Island (Hull Truck); Still Waiting (Crew for Calais); The Life and Times of Mitchell and Kenyon (Oldham Coliseum and Dukes Lancaster); Rift Zone (Night Light Theatre); The Queen’s Knickers (Southbank Centre and Theatre Royal Bath); The Gift and the Glory (Dukes, Lancaster) and Dracula, Wilde Tales, The Comedy of Errors and The Animated Tales of Shakespeare (The Egg, Theatre Royal Bath).

Podcasts include Your Call (BBC Culture in Quarantine), Dead Honest.

John also worked for many years as an actor, including at the Bush, Soho Theatre and Unicorn in London, Theatre Royal Bath, Manchester Royal Exchange, Crucible, Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh, as well as in numerous radio plays and dramas on BBC Radio 4.

Forthcoming projects include: A Possible Ending (Hoipolloi/National Theatre Wales); Nothing Happens (Twice) (Little Soldier); The Family Sex Show (ThisEgg); and The Railway Children (Hull Truck).

Ed Clarke Sound Designer

Ed’s first album of original music, ‘Landscape’, is available now. A second album will be released in Spring 2020. Current work includes The Ballad Of Corona-V at The Big House. He was nominated for an Olivier award for his work on Frankenstein at the National Theatre. Other credits include: The Mysteries and The Good Hope (National Theatre); An Adventure, Leave Taking, The Royale, The Invisible, Perseverance Drive and Fear (Bush Theatre); The Canary and the Crow, Us Against Whatever, All We Ever Wanted Was Everything and One Life Stand (Middle Child Theatre); Showboat (New London Theatre); Backbeat (Duke Of York’s Theatre); The Infidel (Theatre Royal Stratford East); Orpheus (Little Bulb Theatre at and worldwide); Improbable Theatre’s Beauty and the Beast ( and worldwide); and The Railway Children (Waterloo International Station and Roundhouse Theatre Toronto); A Super Happy Story (about Feeling Super

0113 213 7700 @leedsplayhouse leedsplayhouse.org.uk Sad) (Silent Uproar Productions); Oliver Twist and A Short History Of Tractors In Ukrainian (Hull Truck Theatre); Phoenix, Knifedge, Electric, Politrix and The Realness (Big House Theatre). He has toured internationally with Van der Graaf Generator, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Talvin Singh, Evelyn Glennie and John Tams.

Lucy Cullingford Choreographer

Lucy is a Choreographer and Movement Director working in Theatre, Opera and Film.

Recent Productions for Leeds Playhouse include: A Christmas Carol; The Night before Christmas; Kes and The Wizard of Oz.

Other Productions include: Death of and All of Us (The National Theatre). The RSC’s acclaimed production of The Taming of The Shrew and Measure for Measure. The RSC’s Coriolanus, The Jew of Malta, Snow in Midsummer. The motion capture production of The Tempest and Don Quixote (RSC/Barbican and West End). King Lear with Ian Mckellen (Chichester Theatre/ West End). Constellations for (The Royal Court /West End /UK National tour and Broadway).

Rachael Canning Puppet Designer

Rachael trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.

Set and costume design credits include: Pinocchio, A Christmas Carol, Hansel and Gretel, Rapunzel (Citizens Theatre); Swanhunter (Opera North/ The Wrong Crowd); Hag, Kite, The Girl with the Iron Claws (The Wrong Crowd); Magical Night (); Mad Forest (Battersea Arts Centre); House (Clean Break); Hansel and Gretel, Beauty and the Beast, Sleeping Beauties, The Snow Tiger (Sherman Cymru); The Tailor’s Daughter (Welsh National Opera); Peter Grimes (Grand Theatre Geneva); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Winnie and Wilbur (Birmingham Rep); Purcell His Ground (English National Opera).

Puppet design and direction credits include: The Jungle Book, Of Mice and Men, Into The Woods, Oliver Twist (Leeds Playhouse); The City Madam (Royal Shakespeare Company); The Three Musketeers and the Princess of Spain (English Touring Theatre/Traverse/Belgrade Theatre, Coventry); Into the Woods, Peter Pan (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre/Public Theatre NYC); The Red Balloon (Royal Opera House); Kes, The Wizard of Oz (Sheffield Crucible); Crocodile Fever (Traverse).

Elisa De Grey Puppet Director

Theatre credits include:The Wolves in the Walls (Little Angel Theatre); Pinocchio, A Christmas Carol (Citizens Theatre); Peter Pan (Regent’s Park Open Air

0113 213 7700 @leedsplayhouse leedsplayhouse.org.uk Theatre); Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons: A Reimagining (Shakespeare’s Globe); Running Wild (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre UK Tour); Goodnight Mr Tom (Chichester Festival Theatre/West End and UK Tour); Little Universe, Brilliant (Fevered Sleep); These Associations (Tino Sehgal); No Way Out (Southwark Playhouse); The Juniper Tree (Goat and Monkey Theatre Company); The Water Babies (Northern Broadsides); Gormenghast (David Glass Ensemble); Beyond Midnight (Trestle Theatre Company); Binari (Obviam Est); Macbeth (Conspirators of Pleasure); Cinderella, Robin Hood, The Lottie Project (Polka Theatre).

Television credits include: The Lost World of Mitchell and Kenyon, Harbour Lights (BBC).

Sameena Hussain RTYDS Resident Assistant Director

Sameena Hussain is RTYDS Resident Assistant Director. Credits include: Director La Voix Humaine, Opera North/Leeds Playhouse. Henry V, Lawrence Batley Theatre. Assistant Dir: Dr Korczak’s Example, Night Before Christmas, There Are No Beginnings, Europe, Road and A Christmas Carol. Sameena is passionate about making theatre a safe space, enabling dialogue and connection; a place to not only build a community but for it to thrive.

Sajidah Shabir Trainee Assistant Director

Sajidah Shabir, Trainee Assistant Director on A Christmas Carol. Currently an Assistant Producer for Common Wealth, and co-directing Peaceophobia as well as co-producer for Speakers Corner. An aspiring Director, interested in bringing more South Asian culture and stories to our stages. Led a photography project which focused on young females in Bradford, and using Art to present these women. Bradford born and based. Also a Young Producer for Compass Live Art. Interested in exploring more around how to create immersive theatre/ experiences for people, while bringing in South Asian culture and stories.

Adam Bassett BSL Consultant

Adam is from Kingston-upon-Hull. His acting short films credits include Vanishing, Retreat, Four Deaf Yorkshiremen Go to , Deaf Funny, Deaf Victorians, as well as starring in the BSL Zone sitcom Small World. In theatre he appeared in Love’s Labour’s Lost, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and 4.48 Psychosis (Deafinitely Theatre) and Up ’n’ Under (fingersmiths). Also as BSL consultant, worked with Upon the Stairs and Dare Master in CITV. Involved with Ramp on the Moon’s Oliver Twist as Creative Assistant Director. A presenter of BSL Zone’s The Muddy Boot Room. Currently, Adam works for ITV SignPost as on-screen on TV.

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