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 Leeds Playhouse. He has just completed a sell-out run of Nine Lives at the Bridge Theatre, London. 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 (Bristol Old Vic); 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/Birmingham 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 (Channel 4). 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); Twelfth Night, 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, Romeo and Juliet (Northern Broadsides); George’s Marvellous Medicine (Curve Theatre); Flood (Slung Low and Hull City of Culture 2017); The Duchess of Malfi (Nottingham Playhouse); 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); Ring 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 Yorkshire Playhouse); The Rise and Fall of Little Voice (Torch Theatre). Television and radio credits include: Coronation Street, Emmerdale, Heartbeat, Where the Heart Is, The Royal, 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 (West Yorkshire 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, Manchester). 0113 213 7700 @leedsplayhouse leedsplayhouse.org.uk Television and film credits include: Eternal Law (Kudos); Waterloo Road (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); As You Like It (Shakespeare’s Globe); Going Through (Bush Theatre); 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 Park Theatre); Windibops (UK Tour); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare’s Globe); Tyrannosaurus Drip (Stratford Circus); Love’s Labour’s Lost (Shakespeare’s Globe); Tanika’s Journey, Invisible (Deafinitely Theatre); Girls and Dolls (Southwark Playhouse); Deafhood (Bristol Old Vic); I Believe in Unicorn (Brighton Festival) and We’re Going on a Bear Hunt (Little Angel Theatre). 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); The Comedy Of Errors (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