Theatre includes: A Kind of People (Royal Court), Blue Orange (Birmingham Rep), King Lear (Royal Exchange), Misfits (Queens Theatre), The Merchant Of Venice (The Globe), Barbarians for which Thomas won the Best Male Performance at the 2013 Offies – Off West End Theatre Awards (Tooting Arts Club), The Father (Trafalgar Studios), Single Spies (The Rose Theatre Kingston), Plastic (Old Red Lion), Finding Alice (Lyric Hammersmith/Tricycle), Shooting Clouds (Union Theatre), The Winslow Boy (Palace Theatre Westcliff).
Television includes: Baby Reindeer, The Acolyte (Star Wars), Miss Austen, Moonflower Murders, Slow Horses, Rain Dogs, Save Me, Save Me Too, Small Axe, Grace, Eastenders, Whitehouse Farm, London Kills, Endeavour, Hatton Garden, Knightfall, Prime Suspect 1973, Silent Witness, Cuffs, Jekyll and Hyde, The Scandalous Lady W, Wallander, Count Arthur Strong, Man Down, Atlantis, Suspects, The Honourable Woman, Him & Her: The Wedding, Life Of Crime, The Genius Of Turner.
Film includes: Luther: The Fallen Sun, Boiling Point, Living, Cottontail, Summerland.
Paapa Essiedu is an acclaimed British actor with a career spanning television, film, and theatre. The London born actor has garnered many award nominations including Emmy and BAFTA TV nominations for his breakout performance in Michaela Coel’s era defining show, I May Destroy You and The Lazarus Project.
Recent projects include the National Theatre production of The Effect, written by Lucy Prebble and directed by Jamie Lloyd, which transferred to The Shed, New York. Paapa also starred in season 6 of the cult anthology series, Black Mirror, Demon 79, season 1 & 2 of Sky thriller The Lazarus Project, and Working Title/Universal Christmas movie The Genie, directed by Sam Boyd and written by Richard Curtis.
Next up, Paapa will star opposite Saoirse Ronan in The Outrun, directed by Nora Fingscheidt and based on Amy Liptrot’s bestselling memoir. The film has screened at this year’s Sundance and Berlinale and will open the Edinburgh Film Festival.
Paapa is currently filming The Scurry, a comedy horror directed by Craig Roberts and written by Tim Telling.
Further screen credits include: The Capture (BBC1), Alex Garland’s Men (A24), Gangs Of London (HBO/Sky Atlantic), Anne Boleyn (Channel 5), Unsaid Stories (ITV), Press (Masterpiece/BBC One), Black Earth Rising (BBC Two), Kiri (Channel 4), The Miniaturist (BBC), short film Femme, which was nominated in the Best British Short category in the 2022 BAFTAs and won the BIFA Award for Best Short Film.
Further theatre credits include: A Number (Old Vic Theatre, directed by Lynsey Posner), Simon Godwin’s lauded production Hamlet at the RSC, The Merry Wives Of Windsor (RSC, directed by Philip Breen), King Lear (National Theatre, directed by Sam Mendes), Pass Over (Kiln Theatre, directed by Indhu Rubasingham).
Erin Doherty is one of the most talented and respected actors of her generation, playing leading roles across film, television and theatre.
Doherty most recently played the lead in upcoming Disney Plus series A Thousand Blows. In 2022 Erin appeared at the National Theatre leading the cast of The Crucible as Abigail Williams. Erin played the lead in BBC One/Amazon Prime thriller series Chloe, which garnered five star reviews and critical acclaim for Erin. Erin will next be seen in new feature film Firebrand, opposite Jude Law, and in feature film Reawakening opposite Juliet Stevenson, both of which will have a theatrical release this year.
Erin attended the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, playing a range of leading roles during her three years of training. During this time, Doherty was selected to take part in the professional production of Pink Mist at the Bristol Old Vic, and was the winner of The Stephen Sondheim Society Student Performer of the Year 2015.
Her debut performance upon graduation in 2015 was as Laura in Ellen McDougall’s The Glass Menagerie, after which Doherty was cast as Tamsin in Katherine Soper’s debut play Wish List (2016) at Manchester’s Royal Exchange and London’s Royal Court Theatre. Her performance was recognised by the Manchester Theatre Awards, naming Doherty as Best Actress in a Studio Production 2017.
In 2017 appeared as Fiz in BAFTA Award-winning writer Jack Thorne’s Junkyard, which earned her rave reviews: “Doherty is the star here, and by rights will soon be a star full-stop” WhatsOnStage. Later that same year, she took on the leading role in Aykbourn’s The Divide at the Edinburgh International Festival, remounting it early in 2018 at London’s Old Vic Theatre. The Telegraph noted her “luminous central performance”.
Also in 2017, Doherty received high critical acclaim in The Young Vic’s production of the one woman show My Name Is Rachel Corrie. The Guardian applauded her stunning performance, marking her out as “one of the year’s great discoveries”.
Doherty closed 2017 with a run at London’s Old Vic Theatre, playing the leading role of Belle opposite Rhy Ifans’ Scrooge in Matthew Warchus’ production of A Christmas Carol. In 2019 Doherty was once again on stage in Wolfie at Theatre 503. Doherty’s inaugural television role was as a guest star in the BBC’s Call The Midwife in 2016, followed by the BBC adaptation of Les Miserables in 2018 before landing the role of Princess Anne in Netflix’s world-wide hit series The Crown.
Erin is best known for her break out performance as Princess Anne in Netflix’s The Crown. Erin was a 2018 Screen International Star of Tomorrow and a 2018 Evening Standard Rising Star. In 2020, Erin was honoured at the Newport Beach Film Festival as a ‘Breakout Honouree’ following her role of Princess Anne.
Sharon Duncan-Brewster’s outstanding skills as an actress are reflected in the diverse range of theatre, television and film credits she has acquired over the years. Most recently, she was seen in the blockbuster film Dune for Warner Bros, playing the role of Dr Liet Kynes, Enola Holmes on Netflix and as Tula Quik in Sky’s drama Intergalactic.
Theatre includes: Victory Condition (Royal Court Theatre), Meet Me At Dawn (Traverse Theatre), The Almighty Sometimes (Manchester Royal Exchange), Swallow (Traverse Theatre), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Liverpool Everyman) and The Not Black and White Season (Tricycle Theatre).
Television includes: Sex Education (Netflix), Years & Years (BBC), The Long Song (BBC), Top Boy (Channel 4), The Bible (History Channel), Cucumber (Channel 4), The Mimic (Channel 4), Bad Girls (ITV), Doctor Who (BBC) and Eastenders (BBC).
Film includes: The Intent 2: The Come Up, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (Disney/Lucas films) and Three and Out (Rovinge).
Clint Dyer was appointed as Deputy Artistic Director of the National Theatre in 2021.
Work at the National Theatre includes Othello (making him the first Black director to direct Othello in major UK venue), Death of England: Delroy (winner, best play at Visionary Awards) and Death of England: Closing Time, the sequels to the celebrated Death of England (nomination for Best Director, Black British Theatre Awards), both of which he cowrote with Roy Williams. This made him the first Black artist to act, write and direct at the National Theatre.
Other work includes Kingston 14 and The Big Life (also in the West End; Olivier, Evening Standard and WhatsOnStage-nominations; first Black British musical transfer to the West End) at Theatre Royal Stratford East; Sylvia Plath (as writer and director) and The Westbridge at the Royal Court; and The Happy Tragedy of Being Woke (written by Dyer and co-directed with Simon Mcburney) for Complicité. Clint Dyer directed Get Up, Stand Up! The Bob Marley Musical, which received four 2022 Olivier Award nominations including Best New Musical and won Best Original Score/New Orchestrations, was nominated for ten WhatsOnStage awards, had two nominations for the Best Musical and Best Actor at the Evening Standard Awards and won for Best Actor in a Musical and Best Musical Director at the Black British Theatre Awards.
His writing/directing work in TV and film includes writing Starter Motor for the BBC’s Soon Gone: A Windrush Chronicle monologues; and Death of England: Face to Face, a feature-length film (co-written with Roy Williams) for the National Theatre and SKY TV, which was nominated for Best Single Drama at the BAFTA TV awards, Royal Television Society Awards and Broadcast Digital Media Awards. As an actor, his work includes the Olivier-winning production of Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Best Actor, I.A.R. Awards) at the National Theatre; The Kid Stays in the Picture for Complicité at the Royal Court; SUS at the Young Vic; Big White Fog at the Almeida; and The Royale at the Bush. Film includes: SUS, Unknown, The Trail, Mine, Mr Inbetween.
Television includes: Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror, directed by David Slade, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Hooves, Fallout, written by Roy Williams and adapted from his 2002 play, Inspector Lynley Mysteries, Linda laplante’s Trial and Retribution, and the soon to be released Mr Loverman adapted from the novel by Benardine Evaristo.
Roy Williams began writing plays in 1990 and is now arguably one of the country's leading dramatists. In 2000 he was the joint winner of The George Devine Award and in 2001 he was awarded the Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright. He was awarded the OBE for Services to Drama in the 2008 Birthday Honours List and was made a fellow of The Royal Society of Literature in 2018.
Roy Williams’ work in theatre includes Death of England, Death of England: Delroy, Death of England: Closing Time (all co-written with Clint Dyer), Baby Girl, Slow Time and Sing Yer Heart Out for the Lads for the National Theatre; The Lonely Londoners for Jermyn Street Theatre; Sucker Punch (Olivier Award nomination for Best Play and joint winner of the Alfred Fagon Award), Fallout, Clubland and Lift Off at the Royal Court. Days of Significance for the RSC; Wildefire, Local Boy, The Firm and The Fellowship at Hampstead Theatre; Out West and Absolute Beginners at Lyric Hammersmith; The No-Boys Cricket Club and Kingston 14 at Stratford East; Soul: The Untold Story of Marvin Gaye for Hackney Empire at the Royal & Derngate; There’s Only One Wayne Matthews at the Polka Theatre; All Roads for the Attic Theatre Company; The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (at the York Theatre Royal) and Antigone for the Pilot Theatre Company; Angel House at the New Wolsey Theatre; and Advice for the Young At Heart for Theatre Centre.
His work for TV and film includes Death of England: Face to Face (BAFTA nomination for Best Single Drama), Soon Gone: A Windrush Chronicle (BAFTA nominated for Best Short Form programme), Fallout, Babyfather, Offside and Fast Girls.
Radio includes The Likes of Us, The Midwich Cuckoos (adaptation), Faith Hope & Glory, Bess Loves Porgy, Westway and eight series of The Interrogation.
Sadeysa Greenaway-Bailey is a performance designer with a background in scenic and carnival arts. She trained at Rose Bruford College.
Her work as a designer for the theatre includes Tambo and Bones (Theatre Royal Stratford East and ATC); The Odyssey: Episode 5 - The Underworld; Death of England, Death of England: Delroy and Death of England: Closing Time at the National Theatre; If I Were Older (for the National Theatre’s New Views); Anansi the Spider at the Unicorn and transfer to Regents Park Open Air Theatre; Suckerpunch Boom Suite for nitroBEAT at the Barbican; #Black is… and When this is Over which she also co-created (Company Three); NW Trilogy, Sugar and The Orphans of the Grange for Mapping Brent at Kiln; Gargantua and The Endless Night for Takeover Festival at Kiln; Open Doors at Harkers Studio; TYTP: 17 Bite your Tongue for Talawa; I Call My Brothers at the Gate, Notting Hill; and The Legend of Hamba for Tiata Fahodzi Theatre Company at Greenwich + Docklands International Festival.
In film Death of England: Face to Face (National Theatre), Anansi the Spider Respun (The Unicorn Theatre and Guardian) Twenty Twenty at the Young Vic. As an artist, co-creator of The Unforgotten, an outdoor and digital installation for the Young Vic.
Her awards include a Set Design Recognition from the Black British Theatre Awards and the UK Theatre Best Design Award 2023 for Tambo and Bones.
ULTZ is an Olivier Award-winning, UK Theatre Award-winning, Off-West End Award-winning, Tony Award-nominated designer based in London. He works internationally designing and directing for opera and theatre.
Recent UK theatre includes set and costume designs for: Skeleton Crew (Donmar), Tambo and Bones (co-designed Theatre Royal Stratford East); Death of England Trilogy (co-designed), The Corn is Green, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (National Theatre); One Love (Birmingham Rep), The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives (Arcola); Richard II (Almeida), La Musica (Young Vic), Torn (Royal Court); Jerusalem (Apollo Theatre).
Recent opera work includes: designing sets and costumes for La Clemenza di Tito and Gloriana (Royal Opera House), Parsifal (Paris Opera), Ariodante (Aix-en-Provence Festival / Dutch National Opera / Canadian Opera Company / Lyric Opera of Chicago; directing and designing Don Giovanni, Anna Bolena, I Capuleti e I Montecchi (Landestheater-Niederbayern, Germany).
Jackie is a lighting designer for Dance, Theatre, Opera, and Performing Arts.
Recent Theatre includes: Ben & Imo, As You Like It (RSC); Two Palestinians Go Dogging (Royal Court); The Half God of Rainfall (Birmingham Rep and Kiln); The Seagull (West End, Jamie Lloyd Productions) The Beloved, Islands and Misty (also in the West End) (The Bush); What if Women Ruled the World and Ceremony (Manchester International Festival); The Chairs, Vanya and Mary Stuart (also in the West End) (Almeida); Changing Destiny, In the Penal Colony, Man and Oh my Sweet Land (Young Vic); and White Noise (Bridge).
Dance includes: Run Mary Run (Sadler’s Wells); Goat and Cerberus for Rambert; Ruination, Juliet and her Romeo and Paradise Lost (Lost Dog); The Murmuring and Young Men (BalletBoyz); Beheld, Hot Mess and Let’s Talk About Dis (Candoco); and Lunatic (National Dance Company of Wales).
Opera includes: L’Orfeo (Opera North); Violet (Aldeburgh Festival); Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria (Grange Opera); Recital for Cathy and From Canyons to Stars (Hamburg Symphony Orchestra); Santa (London Symphony Orchestra).
Jackie is also works in Visual and Performance Art and he teaches and guest lectures at institutions including London Contemporary Dance School, Sadler’s Wells Summer University, and Goldsmiths.
Benjamin Grant studied Theatre Sound at the Central School of Speech and Drama.
His work in theatre includes Machinal at Old Vic, Death of England: Face to Face, Death of England: Delroy and Death of England (as co-sound designer) and Othello (as co-sound designer and composer) at the National Theatre; A Fight Against... (Una Lucha Contra...) at the Royal Court; Figures in Extinction [1.0 & 2.0] at Nederlands Dans Theater; Michael Kohlhaas at Schaubühne; Maggot Moon at the Unicorn; Education Education Education at Trafalgar Studios; The War of the Worlds at New Diorama; Southwestern at the Tobacco Factory; Prurience at the Southbank Centre and Guggenheim Museum, New York; and The Road Awaits Us at Sadler’s Wells.
As sound effects designer work includes Get Up, Stand Up! at Lyric Theatre.
Benjamin Grant is an Associate Artist of the Wardrobe Ensemble.
Pete Malkin is a Sound Designer for Theatre and Film. He trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
Productions include: Robin/Red/Breast (Factory International) Let the Right One In, There Is a Light That Never Goes Out, Death of a Salesman and Twelfth Night (Royal Exchange, Manchester); The Cherry Orchard (Toneelgroep, Amsterdam); Privacy (Kilden Performing Arts Centre, Norway); The Unreturning (Frantic Assembly on UK tour); Pity and The Kid Stays in the Picture (Royal Court); The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca (UK City of Culture, Hull); The Seagull (Lyric Hammersmith); The Tempest (Donmar); Beware of Pity (Complicité at Schaubühne); Frogman (Curious Directive); White Bike (The Space); Schism (Aegis Productions); Am I Dead Yet? (Unlimited at the Bush); The Commission (Royal Opera House, Aldeburgh and Opera North); and Farragut North (Southwark Playhouse).
As co-sound designer, work includes: Othello, Death of England, Death of England: Delroy, Death of England: Closing Time (National Theatre) The Encounter (Tony, Drama Desk, Helpmann and Evening Standard awards for Best Sound Design, alongside Gareth Fry) (Complicité); The Chairs (Almeida); and The Noise (Northern Stage and Unlimited).
As associate sound designer, work includes: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (original creative team) (Sonia Friedman Productions, in the West End, on Broadway, in Hamburg, in Australia and in Japan); 1984 (Headlong); Hamlet (RSC); Lionboy, The Magic Flute and The Master and Margarita (Complicité).
Chris has designed extensively for Shared Experience Theatre, Royal Court, Hampstead Theatre, Lyric Hammersmith, Royal Exchange Manchester, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Royal Lyceum Edinburgh, Citizen’s Theatre Glasgow, Birmingham Rep and Manchester International Festival.
Recent designs include: Witness for the Prosecution (London County Hall); The Other Boleyn Girl (Chichester Festival Theatre); And Then There Were None (National &International Tour); The Gifting (Leeds Year of Culture); Noah’s Flood (Slung Low/MIF); 42nd Street (Théatre du Chatêlet, Paris); Tarantino Live (Riverside Studios); Touching the Void (Bristol Old Vic/Duke of York’s London/Tokyo); Macbeth (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Sweeney Todd (Welsh National Opera/La Monnaie, Brussels); The Car Man, Lord of the Flies (Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures/Royal Albert Hall, Sadler’s Wells, national & international tours); Carlos Acosta Classical Farewell (Royal Albert Hall); The Driver’s Seat (National Theatre of Scotland); The Shawshank Redemption, Footloose, Twelve Angry Men, Dial M for Murder, High Society, Wonderful Town (national tours).
Other theatre credits include: Or You Could Kiss Me, Beyond the Horizon, Spring Storm, Harper Regan, The Seagull, Pillars of the Community, A Dream Play, Iphigenia at Aulis, War and Peace, Baby Doll, The Colour of Justice (National Theatre); Titus Adronicus, Twelfth Night, The Winter’s Tale, Pericles, Cymbeline, Alice in Wonderland, Night of the Soul, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Everyman (both also in New York), A Month in the Country, Troilus and Cressida, The Comedy of Errors (world tour), Mysteria, Easter (RSC).
Opera includes Madame Butterfly (Oslo), A Little Night Music, The Magic Flute, Queen Of Spades (Opera North), Romeo et Juliette (Opera Ireland), L’Heure Espagnole, La Voix Humaine, Hippolyte et Aricie (Nationale Reisopera Netherlands), L’Arbore di Diana (Valencia), I Capuleti E I Montecchi (Opera North, Melbourne, Sydney Opera House), Skellig (The Sage Gateshead), Aida (Houston), Bird of Night (Royal Opera House London), Bluebeard (Bregenz), Jephtha (Copenhagen / English National Opera/Welsh National Opera), The Magic Flute, Sweeney Todd (Welsh National Opera), eight seasons for Grange Park Opera, Les Illuminations, The Turn of the Screw, The Rake’s Progress (Aldeburgh Festival), The Picture of Dorian Gray (Monte Carlo).
Winner of the TMA Best Lighting Design for Dial M for Murder (West Yorkshire Playhouse) and Beyond the Horizon (Royal and Derngate, Northampton), Knights of Illumination winner for 1984 (Northern Ballet), 4 Critics Award for Theatre in Scotland - Best Design.
Anastasia is an experienced Director who works on projects in the theatre, on the radio and on screen. She is a writer, director, producer and poet who began her career in 2012, training as a theatre director through the Young Vic Directors Programme, the National Theatre's Director's course and on the tiata fahodzi led Artistic Director Leadership Programme. She was an Associate Director at Theatre503 (Aug 2019 to May 2021). She loves stories and their power to move and touch people and believes those stories can be a catalyst for change. She is Artistic Director of Wrested Veil Production Company.
Theatre includes: Love Steps (Omnibus Theatre & Talawa); 4 Walls (Derby Theatre); All Roads (Bernie Grant Arts Centre, Tramshed, New Wimbledon Theatre Studio, Theatre Peckham), On The Ropes (Park Theatre), Seeds (Leeds Playhouse, Live Newcastle, Derby Theatre & Warwick Arts Centre); Typical (Soho Theatre, Pleasance Courtyard Edinburgh Fringe); Cuttin' It (Royal Court, UK schools tour); Footprints on the Moon (Finborough Theatre).
Film credits include: Chevalier (Assistant to the Director - Searchlight Pictures); Typical (Soho Theatre On Demand )
Radio and Audio Drama credits include: Typical (Audible); Faith, Hope & Glory Series 3 to 6 (BBC Radio 4); A Story Told Three Times and Still Unfinished (Tamasha & National Archives); We Need New Stories (Fifth Word); Bulletin and Persons Unknown (Applied Stories), A Stranger In a Strange place (Tamasha & National Archives); Middlemarch Monologues (BBC Radio 3); Precious Little Thing (BBC Radio 4).
For more information please visit her website: www.anastasiaoseikuffour.com
Cary Crankson, a London-born actor, has built an extensive career across film, television, and theatre. He earned the Best Lead Performance in a Play award at the 2020 OFFIES (Off West End Awards) for his portrayal of Jamie in Simon Stephen’s Country Music at the Omnibus Theatre, Clapham. Cary also previously understudied the role of Michael in Death of England at the National Theatre.
In addition, his notable stage credits include Chris Keller in All My Sons at Nottingham Playhouse Theatre, Tony in Abigail's Party at Leicester Curve, Mugsy in Dealers Choice at Royal and Derngate, Kenny in The Saints at Nuffield Theatre, Ted in Wasted at The Roundhouse, Iago in Othello at The Rose, Alex in Seawall at Salisbury Playhouse, Jonathan in Flight Path at The Bush, and Dario in Silverland at Arcola Theatre/ 59E59 New York.
Cary's screen work includes roles such as Mr. Barrowclough in Scrapper (BBC Films), Alan in Silent Night (Break 'Em Films), Adult Angus in The Peripheral (Amazon Prime), Gary Lewis in Doctors (BBC), Richard Vincent and James Maguire in The Bill (Talkback Thames), and Trevor Jackman in Doctors (BBC1).
Ashley trained at Guildford School of Acting.
Theatre Credits include: Bear in Bear Snores On (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), Conor in Exhibitionists (Elphin Productions & James Seabright), Marley's Ghost/ Fezziwig/ Ghost of Christmas Present in A Christmas Carol (Theatre Royal Windsor), Caliban/Antonio in The Tempest (Regents Park Open Air Theatre, The Unicorn Theatre), Actor 3 in On The Ropes (Park Theatre), Smith The Weaver in Henry VI: Rebellion (RSC), Edward IV in Henry VI: Wars Of The Roses (RSC), Edward IV in Richard III (RSC), Laertes in Hamlet (Theatre Royal Windsor), The Cherry Orchard (Theatre Royal Windsor), Rufus/Leo/Lout/Young Man in The Lady in the Van (Theatre Royal Windsor), Sam in Holes (UK Tour), George in Stop Kiss (Above the Stag Theatre), Mandras in Captain Corelli's Mandolin (UK Tour and West End), Shakespeare in Love (UK Tour), The Duchess of Malfi (RSC), The Fantastic Follies of Mrs Rich (RSC), Othello (The Globe Theatre), Jay Johnson in The Realness (Hackney Downs Studio), Mike in Ring of Fire (Courtyard Theatre).
Television & Film credits include: Marcellus in Hamlet (Feature Film, BKL Productions), Cedric Dunn in Turning Point (Short, Sweet Patootee), Jacob Hunter in I Love You (short, Watch Out Entertainment). Masked Leader in Nobody Can (Lady Lykez music video), Chris in Noose (short, Central Film School); School Boy in The Whistle Blowers (Television, Carnival Films);
Ashley has also featured in TV commercials for Trust Two, Reed.com, McDonald's and Mercedes-Benz
Kate is an actor, singer and beatboxer from South London. She graduated from Italia Conti as a Carlton Hobbs Bursary Award runner up and Alan Bates Award finalist.
In 2023 she originated the role of Robyn in Pied Piper: A Hip Hop Family Musical (Battersea Arts Centre, BAC Beatbox Academy and rODIUM) and Desree in the UK tour of Michael Rosen's Unexpected Twist, directed by James Dacre (Royal & Derngate Northampton). She then joined the ensemble for The Globe's Christmas production of Hansel & Gretel.
This year Kate co-wrote and played Juliet in Polka Theatre and Beats & Elements' co-production of Romeo & Juliet, for which she has been nominated for TYA Best Performance in the Off West-End Awards among further nominations for the show. She went on to tour with Pied Piper: A Hip Hop Family Musical including a run at London’s Southbank Centre. Further credits include Frankenstein: How To Make A Monster (BAC Beatbox Academy & Battersea Arts Centre, UK Tour), Crongton Knights (Pilot Theatre), Arthur/Merlin (Iris Theatre), 3 Years, 1 Week and a Lemon Drizzle (Edinburgh Fringe, Underbelly) and Aladdin (Lyric Hammersmith) for which she won Best Supporting Artist at The UK Pantomime Awards 2022.
Kate has been part of the BAC Beatbox Academy since 2014 training, facilitating at the Academy to some of London’s top Drama Schools and performing across the country
Paulette trained at The Arts Educational Schools and has built an extensive career across film, theatre and television both in the UK and the USA.
Theatre credits include: Lilian Bader in Unsung Collective (tour), Rachel in Blend.Share.Mix. (Theatre 503), Fanny in Chew You Like Ice (Ohio Theatre NY) Pauline in In-between the Sheets (Theatre 54, NY) Carrie in A Left at Happily Ever After (MTC, NY).
Notable film and tv credits include: Jacquie Richards in Where the Heart Is (Yorkshire/United TV), Amanda Kennet in The Cops (BBC), Mary Magdalene in The Testament (Roarlight), Ms Morningstar in Supah Ninjas (Nickelodeon), Detective Belushi in Franklin & Bash (TNT), Talulah in The Leading Man (ALM Films), Susan Alogosa in The Testing Point (Academy Films), Jo Weber in Holby City (BBC), Charlie in Ella and The Mother’s (BBC).
Paulette has also appeared in numerous short films including the role of Cassie King in C.A.T.s (Stay Tuned Tv), Gemma in Waiting for Nana (MPP), Josephine in Violin Boy (Delphine Films), Juliette in The Three of Us (MMG Films), Eve Hamilton in Mother’s Cure (SW Productions).
Featured roles in television commercials and voice over productions for Apple Music, EE, Avanti Trains, Buick, American Airlines and GT Alive, amongst others.
