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Training: Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
Theatre credits include: Fallen Angels (Menier Chocolate Factory); Shostakovich’s 5th Symphony (BBC Proms & Frantic Assembly); Parklife (Sky Comedy and Birmingham Rep); Filumena (Bill Kenwright Ltd & Theatre Royal Windsor); The Pocket Dream (Lichfield Garrick); Accolade (Bill Kenwright Ltd); The Southbury Child (Chichester Festival Theatre & Bridge Theatre); Venice Preserved, The Provoked Wife, A Christmas Carol, and Twelfth Night (Royal Shakespeare Company); The Young Chekhov Trilogy (National Theatre/Chichester Festival Theatre); and Mermaid (Shared Experience).
Television credits include: The Mind of Herbert Clunkerdunk; The Sandman; Call The Midwife; Kate and Koji; and Nightmares.
Film credits include: Paddington in Peru; Men; and Twelfth Night.
Theatre credits include: The Statesman (Theatro Technis); Breeding (King’s Head Theatre); ECC (Riotous Assembly/Confidence Man); Umwelt (Theatre Royal Copenhagen); Sleep No More (Punchdrunk); The Man Who Would Be King (Dawn State/Vault Festival/ Oxford Playhouse/ National Tour/ Zoo, Edinburgh Fringe Festival/ Latchmere Theatre); and The Wonderful Discovery of Witches in the County of Lancaster (Dawn State/ The New Diorama/Pleasance Attic/Edinburgh Fringe Festival/Greenwich Theatre)
Screen credits include: Nightsleeper; Grace; Ghosts; Liar; Blood Sex & Royalty; Doctors; and The Rebel.
Training: Arts Educational Schools London. Awarded the Laurence Olivier Bursary Award.
Theatre credits include: Robert Icke’s Oedipus (Wyndham’s).
Roles while training include: Macbeth in Macbeth, Val in Orpheus Descending, Lopakhin in The Cherry Orchard and Captain Chen in Qibla.
Screen credits include: The Agency (Paramount+); FBI: International (CBS); and Day 1’s and EastEnders (BBC).
Training: LAMDA
Theatre credits include: The Girl From Arles (Queen Elizabeth Hall); Funny Girl (Savoy); This Is My Family (Southwark Playhouse Elephant); The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Apollo/Gielgud); Sunday in the Park with George (Wyndham’s); Godspell (original London cast); Les Misérables (Palace); Billy (Drury Lane); Side By Side by Sondheim (Wyndham’s/Garrick); Good (Royal Shakespeare Company); Mother Courage (National Theatre); A Little Night Music and The Crucible (Storyhouse, Chester); The Pirates of Penzance (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Crazy for You (Chichester); Cabaret (English Theatre Frankfurt); The Rink (Orange Tree); Pippin and The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole (Menier Chocolate Factory); and Peter Pan (Birmingham Rep).
Her career began understudying and later playing Eliza in a UK tour of My Fair Lady.
Screen credits include: Moonflower Murders; Unforgotten; Holby City; The Bill; Romany Jones; Father Dear Father; Bless This House; A Christmas Carol; The Agatha Christie Hour; and she also voiced all of The Flumps.
Cabaret and recordings: Numerous original cast recordings. Her cabaret appearances include Pizza on the Park and Jermyn Street Theatre.
Theatre credits include: Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare’s Globe); Closure (Theatre Royal Windsor); The Wife of Willesden (Kiln Theatre); Signal Fires (Eastern Angles–HighTide); One Man, Two Guvnors (Wolsey Theatre); War Horse, The Suicide, The Comedy of Errors (National Theatre); The Convert (Gate Theatre); Backseat Drivers (The London Theatre); Keeler (Charing Cross Theatre); Macbeth (The Last Refuge Theatre); The Chicago Cowboy (Rosemary Branch Theatre); Twelfth Night (The Nursery Theatre); Keeping Mum (Brockley Jack Theatre); 1867 (Brockley Jack Theatre); A Christmas Carol (Brockley Jack Theatre); The Children of Salt (Alma Theatre); Macbeth (Artrix); and Anyone Can Whistle (Bridewell Theatre).
Television credits include: Dune: Prophecy; Hijack; The Sandman; Scott and Bailey; Father Figure; Doctors; and Emmerdale.
Theatre credits include: Cinderella (Not Too Tame) and The Syndicate (UK tour).
Television credits include: Playing Nice (ITVX); Sexy Beast (Paramount+); The Tower (ITV); Funny Woman (Sky); Lucky Man (Sky One); Pennyworth (HBO); Cradle to Grave (BBC); Silent Witness (BBC); and The Dumping Ground (CBBC).
Film credits include: Rare Beasts and the NFTS short film Drones.
Theatre credits include: Waiting For Godot (Theatre Royal Haymarket); Quiz (Chichester Festival Theatre, UK tour); The Great Gatsby (Gatsby’s Mansion); Money Heist: The Experience (Netflix/Fever); Romeo & Juliet (Secret Cinema); Electra (The Bunker); We Raise Our Hands in The Sanctuary (The Albany); and A Boy Named Sue (King’s Head Theatre).
Television credits include: Believe Me, Liar (ITV); We Are Lady Parts (Channel 4); and Confessions of a Hitman (Sky).
Dean is also a writer, director and coach. He is the founder of actor training company The Actors Yard and host of The Actors Yard Podcast.
Theatre credits include: Othello (Theatre Royal Haymarket); The Grinning Man (Trafalgar Theatre); Stick Man (Leicester Square Theatre); Here There Are Blueberries (Stratford East); War Horse (National Theatre); The Waiting Game (Hampstead Theatre); Moonlight Revelry: My Oxygen (Shakespeare’s Globe); The School for Scandal and Love’s Labour’s Lost (Changeling Theatre); Babe the Sheep-Pig (Mercury Theatre); Lovecraft and Border Men (King’s Head Theatre); Half (Southwark Playhouse); The Taming of the Shrew, The Two Gentlemen of Verona and Measure for Measure (Quite Right Theatre); Twelfth Night (The Globe Players); and The Fox on the Fairway (Vienna’s English Theatre).
Film credits include: Mine Has; The Shamrock Spitfire; War Blade; Darkly Bright; Wait; Warm Glass; The Other Mother; Umbarro; Current Affairs; With the Birds; Surprise!; EVOL; The Sixth Handshake; Mates, Agents; Dirty Laundry; Percheron; Fountain of Youth; Nuts; Hippopotamus; My Day; The Grinning Man; and The Flytipper.
Television credits include: Murder Before Evensong and Police Interceptors.
Training: Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art.
Theatre credits include: The Hobbit (Fortune); Fiddler on the Roof, Jack and the Beanstalk (The Eric Morecambe Centre). Understudy credits include Gross Indecency. Clive has also worked in Stockholm for the last 20 years in A Christmas Carol, The Sound of Music, South Pacific, Twelfth Night, Pravda, A Chorus of Disapproval.
Radio and television credits include: Vicars, football referees, tax inspectors, and other pillars of the community!
Clive received an award as a Covid-19 Local Hero for his work as a homeless navigator on the Restart Homeless Project in Welwyn Garden City.
Training: The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts.
Theatre credits include: Suitcase Shakespeare: Macbeth (UK tour); Suitcase Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet (UK tour); Blockbuster (Key Theatre, Peterborough); and Wild Boy (UK tour).
Television and film credits include: Brexit – The Uncivil War; Henry VIII; and The Men Who Made Him.
Workshops include: The Mysteries of Milton Hall (National Theatre).
Richard is also an Artistic Associate with Lamphouse Theatre and has been involved in devising, reimagining and performing a variety of shows, including A Christmas Carol, The Jungle Book and Peter Pan. Most recently Richard was Assistant Director on Ruth – The Musical (Wilton’s Music Hall).
Training: Rose Bruford College.
Theatre credits include: Witness for the Prosecution (West End); COCK (UK tour); Anarkia (High Tide); and Contact Light (Edinburgh Fringe).
Television credits include: Finalist for Mamma Mia! I Have A Dream (ITV).
Training: Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts.
Theatre credits include: Les Misérables (Palace Theatre); Starlight Express (Apollo Victoria Theatre); The Sound of Music (Sadler’s Wells); Road Show (Union Theatre); A Doll’s House (Barons Court Theatre); and 84 Charing Cross Road (84 Charing Cross Road).
Concert credits include: Les Misérables 10th Anniversary (Royal Albert Hall); Les Misérables 25th Anniversary (O2 Arena); and Lesley Garrett’s Travelling Light tour.
Television credits include: EastEnders (BBC) and The Great Plague (Discovery).
Training: Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
Theatre credits include: London Tide, The House of Bernarda Alba (National Theatre); Edward II (The Barn Theatre/Virtual Relative Motion); Eyes in the Side of a Skull (Seven Dials Playhouse); and Bursting the Bubble (Edinburgh Fringe).
Screen credits include: The Beast Must Die (Dome Karukoski) and This Is On You (Maisie Peters/Haze Films Ltd.)
Peter Saunders’ first job was as a very junior assistant cameraman. He graduated to cameraman and film director.
He then produced his own films and lost all his money. He worked as a reporter on the Daily Express for four years; then as press agent to bandleader Harry Roy. He joined the army when war broke out, rising from private to captain.
He jumped in at the deep end and put on his first play in 1947. He then produced more than 150 shows all over the world including the world record breaking The Mousetrap. In 1981 he was knighted for his services to the theatre. In April 1994 he transferred the management of The Mousetrap to Mousetrap Productions run by Sir Stephen Waley-Cohen. Sir Peter’s hobbies included chess, photography, the music of George Gershwin, telephoning, and collecting wills. He was married to Katie Boyle.
Sir Stephen has been a theatre owner and manager since 1984 when he was Joint Chief Executive of Maybox Group which acquired and managed the Albery, Criterion, Donmar Warehouse, Piccadilly, Whitehall and Wyndham’s Theatre, as well as developing the first British owned multiplex cinemas.
Maybox was sold in 1989, in which year he became Director of the Victoria Palace Theatre but sold it to Cameron Mackintosh in 2014. Sir Stephen became the Producer of The Mousetrap in 1994. Since then he has also taken on the management of the St Martin’s Theatre as well as the Vaudeville from 1995 – 2002 and the Savoy from 1997 – 2005. In April 2007 Sir Stephen purchased the Ambassadors Theatre, the sister theatre to the St.Martin’s and the original home of The Mousetrap for the first 21 years of it’s run. Before entering the theatre business Sir Stephen was a financial journalist and a founder director of Euromoney Publications. Sir Stephen was President of the Society of London Theatre from 2002 to 2005; and he was a Trustee of The Theatres Trust 1998 – 2004. In 2007 Sir Stephen became Chairman of RADA, The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
He founded Mousetrap Theatre Projects in 1996 which each year takes thousands of young people, who would not otherwise have the opportunity, to the best of West End Theatre, and is the industry’s leading education charity.
Over the past 25 years, Adam Spiegel has produced extensively in London’s West End as well as various tours throughout the UK and internationally. Most recently Adam has taken over as producer of the world’s longest running show The Mousetrap (St Martin’s Theatre), upholding its prestigious legacy within the West End.
West End credits include: Motown The Musical (Shaftesbury Theatre); The Last Tango (Phoenix Theatre); Hairspray (Shaftesbury Theatre); Fame (Aldwych Theatre and Shaftesbury Theatre); Sister Act (London Palladium); Saturday Night Fever (Apollo Victoria); High School Musical – Live on Stage! (Hammersmith Apollo); Midnight Tango (Aldwych Theatre, Phoenix Theatre); Dance ’Til Dawn (Aldwych Theatre); Love Story (Duchess Theatre); Crazy for You (Novello Theatre); The Mysteries (Queen’s Theatre) and Birdy (Comedy Theatre).
UK touring credits include: Motown the Musical (2018); Fat Friends the Musical (2017); Tango Moderno (2017); Shirley Valentine (2017); The Mousetrap 60th anniversary tour (2012–2016); To Kill a Mockingbird (2014 and 2015); Love Me Tender (2015) The Producers (2015); Fame; Saturday Night Fever; The Last Tango (2015-2016); Dance ’Til Dawn (2014 and 2015); Midnight Tango (2011, 2012 and 2013); Strictly Come Dancing Live; High School Musical – Live on Stage!; High School Musical 2; the Creole Choir of Cuba; The Mysteries; Lady Salsa and Five Guys Named Moe.
International touring credits include: Saturday Night Fever (Australasian and Scandinavian tours); Fame (Scandinavian and US tours) and the Creole Choir of Cuba (worldwide).
Other theatre credits include: To Kill a Mockingbird (Barbican Theatre); Amadeus (Wilton’s Music Hall, London); Lady Salsa (Pleasance Theatre) and Promises, Promises (Sheffield Theatres).
Adam produced the annual Laurence Olivier Awards for the Society of London Theatre for five years running from 2004 to 2008. Adam has also previously acted as an arts consultant for both The Sunday Times and Tate Britain. Adam now sits on the board of SOLT and the League of Independent Producers. www.adamspiegel.com
Brian Fenty is a producer, entrepreneur, and executive, and is delighted to bring Agatha Christie’s genre-defining classic, The Mousetrap — the world’s longest-running show — to audiences the world over.
Brian is the founder and CEO of TodayTix Group, the global e-commerce leader for cultural experiences, with more than 20 million members. With two decades of experience at the intersection of technology, commerce, and culture, he leads a portfolio of brands and platforms that connect audiences with the best live entertainment around the world, including TodayTix, Show-Score, and the legendary immersive pioneer Secret Cinema. Brian leads growth at MARI, the global live events portfolio, which owns events including the Madrid and Miami Open, as well as Winter Wonderland and Frieze.
A lifelong entrepreneur, investor, and Tony-nominated Broadway producer, Brian is passionate about unlocking greater access and diversity in the arts. His credits include Broadway’s Hell’s Kitchen, Oleanna (starring Bill Pullman) and The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window (starring Rachel Brosnahan), as well as the off-Broadway hits Danny and the Deep Blue Sea (with Aubrey Plaza) and Hold On to Me, Darling (with Adam Driver).
Brian has been recognised on Crain’s 30 Under 30, Variety’s Dealmakers List and the Broadway Impact List, and is a recipient of the Dramatists Guild Foundation award and Atlantic Theatre’s 40th Anniversary Honoree. Under his leadership, TodayTix Group has been named one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies and featured in a16z’s The Marketplace 100.
Brian lives in London with his wife, children, and Bernedoodle, Moo.
