CAST
Selina Brathwaite
Selina trained at The Academy Drama School.
Theatre: Jackal in Leopard (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield) Tita/Meta in After Mrs Rochester (Greenwich Playhouse); Minister of Health in Methuzalar (Shaw Theatre). At Drama School: Iphigenial/Chorus in Agamemnon; Elise in The Miser; Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing; Queen/June in The Love of the Nightingale.
Film/Photographic: Alesha inThe Humming Bird (Indie Creations); Lead Female in “Revival” Music Video (Small Screen Video); Office Worker in Prêt - A - Teleporter (NBC); Woman on Tube in Lenor ‘Have a Duvet Day’ (Proctor & Gamble)
Estella Daniels
Estella trained at The Actor Works
Theatre: Lead Singer in Festa (Young Vic Theatre); Various in Under 11's Script Factor (Soho Theatre); Dr Gilbert in The Sweetest Swing in Baseball (Pacific Playhouse); Fury in The Eumenidies (Rag Factory); Lady Le Basset in The Beau Defeated and Nym/John Rugby in The Merry Wives of Windsor (Brockley Jack); Various in Devised Theatre (Unicorn Theatre); Landlady in Two (The Actor Works); Rosie in Teen Dreams (Half Moon Theatre)
Film:Amy in Flush:Politics (Queen Anne Revenge Films)
Chanelle Dusette
Chantelle trained at The Academy Drama School
Theatre: Dr Stanton in The Sweetest Swing in Baseball (Pacific Playhouse); Alex in In Flame (Greenwich Playhouse). At Drama School: Mother Courage in Mother Courage; Chorus in Agamemnon; Philintine in The Misanthrope ; Pompei/Maria in Measure for Measure; Nikki in Alarms & Excursions.
Nichola June
Nichola trained at The Actor Works.
Theatre: Sharon in Headrot Holiday (Greenwich Playhouse); Crysothemis in Electra (Oxford House Theatre). At Drama School: Gatty in She Would if She Could ; Dumaine in Alls Well that Ends Well; Adela in The House of Bernada Alba. A Dame in Dames (The Butts Theatre); Helen in Trojan Women (The Butts Theatre); Zoe in Connexions 1 (Impact Tour); Rachael in Connextions 2 (Impact Tour)
Eki Maria
Eki trained at The Academy Drama School.
Theatre: Mina in Dracula (The Theatre Royal Bath,The Lowry, Grand Opera House Belfast). Faith in Random Acts (Nottingham Playhouse Season) Tituba in The Crucible - understudy ( The Birmingham Repetory Theatre); Lisa in Those who Trespass Against Us (Hackney Empire Bullion Room).
TV: Akuba Delle in Casualty (BBC). Vivien in The Great Love Swindle (E4).
Film: Young African Woman, Nana in Amazing Grace (20th Century Fox).
Lisa Davina Phillip
Lisa trained at the Academy Drama School
Theatre: The Bacchae (NTS/Lincoln Centre, NY); The Gershwins Porgy and Bess (Savoy); Disneys The Lion King (Lyceum); Waiting for Lefty (BAC); The Libertine (CPT) The Darker The Berry (Albany)
TV: Nurse Pearl McDonald in The Royal Today (ITV/Yorkshire)
Film: The voice of Macy in Laters - a short by B3
Lisa was a runner up in the BBC's Norman Beaton Fellowship and has since appeared in two productions, Open Book and a Kind Of Home: James Baldwin in Paris
Stephanie Toghill
Stephanie trained at The Actor Works
Theatre: The Long-Tongued gossip in The Cagebirds (Henley Fringe Festival); Maria in Woyzeck (Pleasance); Pilate's Wife in The Woman at the Tomb (Lion & Unicorn); Dee in Headrot Holiday (Greenwich Playhouse); Aegeus/Chorus in Medea (Oxford House Theatre). At Drama School: Queen Eleanor in King John; Belinda in The Man of Mode; Prudencia in The House of Bernada Alba.
DIRECTOR - Daniel Brennan
As Artistic Director and Co-founder of Show Don't Tell: Dangerous Corner (Brockley Jack), Relative Values (Tour), The Games Room (Southwark Playhouse), Retired Hurt/Mad Margaret's Revenge and Loveplay (Pleasance Theatre). With In Company: Dinner (Brockley Jack).
Other work includes: In Flame (Greenwich Playhouse); Two Lips Indifferent Red and Present Laughter (Diorama); Last of the Red Hot Lovers and Attack of the Killer G-Strings (Canal Cafe).
In 2007 he founded The Actor Works in Wapping to offer drama training based on the work of late theatre practitioner, Viola Spolin. He has recently returned from a trip to the USA, where he trained with her family, as well as Bob Moyer and Max Shafer; both experts on her work.
For further information visit www.theactorworks.co.uk
Rebecca Kirk - Stage Manager
Previous credits include, ‘Ghosts in the Attic’, ‘Can’t Pay? Won’t Pay!’, ‘StoneCrabs New Directors Festival’, ‘Teechers’, ‘La Ronde’, ‘Hound of the Baskervilles’, ‘The Merry Wives of Windsor’, ‘Great Expectations’ (Brockley Jack Theatre), ‘Big Maggie’ (Pentameters Theatre and Ireland Tour), ‘It’s a Girl’ (Bucharest International Theatre Festival), ‘The Lion Hunt’ , ‘Sing2006’ (London Coliseum), ‘Shakers’ (Gielgud Theatre, RADA), ‘Fanny and Faggot’ and ‘John and Jen’ (Finborough Theatre), ‘An Age of Angels’, ‘Change – the Upcoming War with Iran’ (Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh) ‘Fanny and Faggot / Stacy’, ‘Some Kind of Bliss’ and ‘Angry Young Man’ (Trafalgar Studios), ‘Tinderbox’ (The Bush Theatre) and ‘Look Back In Anger’ (Jermyn Street Theatre).