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Ralph Birtwell | Bubb / Mason / Erskine / Jailer

Trained at London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.

Theatre includes Macbeth (National Tour for Tara Arts), The Man of Mode, Market Boy and The Royal Hunt of the Sun (National Theatre), Aladdin and Sleeping Beauty (Theatre Royal Stratford East), East Is East (Haymarket Theatre, Leicester), Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves (The Theatre, Chipping Norton), A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Macbeth (English Shakespeare Company), Richard III, Romeo and Juliet and The Relapse (Royal Shakespeare Company), Call Me Madam (Union Theatre), Aspire (Aspire Dome, Qatar), The Far Pavilions (Shaftsbury Theatre), Bombay Dreams (Apollo Victoria Theatre), Jesus Christ Superstar (National Tour), and I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky (Southwark Playhouse).

Film includes East Is East and Shooting Stars.

Television includes Coronation Street, Law and Order: UK, Harley Street, Crisis Command, Doctors, The Vice, Blood Strangers, The Cops, Clocking Off and Tales From Pleasure Beach.

Workshop includes Bombay Dreams, Free World and Bend It Like Beckham.

Doron Davidson | Narrator / Maitland / Lefroy / Jones / Bartram

Trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.

Theatre includes Romeo and Juliet (Holy Trinity Church, London), Execution of Justice (Southwark Playhouse), The Comedy of Errors and Richard II (The Tobacco Factory, Bristol) and Hedda Gabler (Riverside Studios).

Film includes Woman in Gold and World War Z.

Television includes Call The Midwife, Catastrophe and The Honourable Woman.

Edmund Digby-Jones | Brother-in-law / Pinching / Clerk / Chaplain

Trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.

Theatre includes Generation Y (Hen and Chickens Theatre), The Sunset Five (Greenwich Theatre, Hull Truck, and Pleasance London), The Daily Plays (Pleasance London), A Haunting (Southwark Playhouse), The Conquering Hero (The Tobacco Factory, Bristol), Love to Love to Love You (VAULT Festival), Play/Date (Theatre Delicatessen), Being As I Am (King’s Head Theatre), The Miser (Watermill Theatre, Newbury), Sandwich Man (Etcetera Theatre), Hamlet (National Tour), Disco Pigs (Tristan Bates Theatre), and Phaedra’s Love (National Student Drama Festival).

Film includes Nevermore, Turn Me Online, Independence Day, No Win No Fee, Man Alive and No Smoking.

Television includes A Song for Jenny, Life in Squares, Outlander, Doctors and The Best of Men.

Caroline Moroney | Mrs Holyoake Trained at Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

Theatre whilst training includes The Rover, Love(Sic), As You Like It, New Labour, Women of Twilight, Measure For Measure, Stasiland, The Busie Body, The Changeling, King Lear, Medea, August Osage County and Chicken Soup With Barley (RADA).

Rehearsed Readings include Julius Caesar and Twelfth Night.

Jamie Muscato | Mr Holyoake

Theatre includes Stay Awake Jake (VAULT Festival), Bend It Like Beckham (Phoenix Theatre), Sweeney Todd (Welsh National Opera), House of Mirrors and Hearts (Arcola Theatre), Dogfight (Southwark Playhouse), The Light Princess (National Theatre), Rock of Ages (Shaftsbury Theatre), Love Story (Chichester Festival Theatre and Duchess Theatre), Les Misérables (International Tour), Spring Awakening (Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith) and Lift (Trafalgar Studios).

Film includes Les Misérables, The Euphoria of Drowning and Wild Oats.

Television includes Cilla, Mega Bytes Café and My Parents Are Aliens.

Rehearsed Readings include Remote and Drama Baby (National Theatre Studio) and The Writing of Snoo Wilson (National Theatre Platforms).

Workshops includes Bend It Like Beckham, Blitz, Falklands, But I’m A Cheerleader The Musical and X.

Richard Shanks | Chairman / Magistrate / Cooper / Alexander

Trained at Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

Theatre includes One Man Two Guvnors, The Revenger’s Tragedy and Major Barbara (National Theatre), Spider Lady (Soho Theatre), The Poetry of Dan Brown (The Roundhouse), The Arden Project (The Old Vic), None But Friends (Rose Theatre, Kingston), The Spanish Tragedy (Arcola Theatre), Almost Near (National Theatre Studio) and Playtime (Hampstead Theatre).

Film includes Pride, Pusher, Last Night, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus and Inseparable.

Television includes The Royals, The Last Hours of Laura K, Inspector George Gently, The Borgias, EastEnders, Holby City, The Bill and The Message.

John Osborne | Playwright

John Osborne was born in Fulham in 1929. His best known works include Look Back in Anger (celebrating its 60th anniversary in 2016), The Entertainer, Luther, Inadmissible Evidence, West of Suez, A Sense of Detachment, Watch It Come Down, A Patriot For Me and The Hotel In Amsterdam, his screenplay for the film Tom Jones, which won him an Oscar, and his autobiographies A Better Class of Person and Almost A Gentleman. Osborne died in 1994.

A Subject of Scandal and Concern was originally written for television in 1960 starring Richard Burton and Rachel Roberts and directed by Tony Richardson, and was first seen onstage in Nottingham in the early 1960s. This production, commissioned for the Finborough Theatre, marks the first theatrical staging of the play in over 40 years and its long overdue London premiere.

Jimmy Walters | Director

Direction includes A Naughty Night With Noël Coward (Old Red Lion Theatre), Julius Caesar (Saatchi Gallery and Chelsea Theatre), I The Jury (Hen and Chickens Theatre), Improbable Fiction (Courtyard Theatre), Dear Ray (Edinburgh Festival), Breaded Butler (The Troubadour) and Hamlet (International Tour). Assistant Direction includes Othello (Riverside Studios), Twelfth Night (Bloomsbury Theatre), Romeo and Juliet (National Tour) and Knock Yourself Out (Courtyard Theatre).

Philip Lindley | Designer

Philip is Associate Designer at the Finborough Theatre, and has designed Mirror Teeth, Drama At Inish, Autumn Fire, The American Clock, Merrie England, The Fear of Breathing, Passing By, Somersaults, Rooms, As Is, Lost Boy (and its subsequent transfer to Charing Cross Theatre), The Floeurs o’Edinburgh, The Grand Tour, I Wish To Die Singing and Merit. Forthcoming productions include It Is Easy To Be Dead.

Trained as an architect, Philip began his theatre career as a set and lighting designer before joining the BBC TV Design Department. During 25 years at the BBC, he worked on every type of production. The ones most remembered today include Dr. Who, Blackadder, Top Of The Pops and Mastermind. After leaving the BBC, he worked as a freelance theatre consultant before moving to Lisbon where he continued to design sets and lighting for Portuguese theatre including productions of Cymbeline, Saturday Sunday Monday, The Bear, The Proposal, Recklessness, Tone Clusters, One For The Road, A Time For Farewells, and Dracula. Since returning to the UK he has designed Nerve (Baron’s Court Theatre), Fair Em, Measure For Measure, Lear’s Widow, Times Square Angels (Union Theatre), The Theban plays (The Scoop – Time Out best free London event of 2013), Passing By (Tristan Bates Theatre), The Keepers Of Infinite Space (Park Theatre), Murderer, Blonde Bombshells of 1943 (Upstairs at the Gatehouse), The Curing Room (Pleasance Edinburgh and London), The Mikado and Dusty (Charing Cross Theatre).

Simon Gethin-Thomas | Lighting Designer

Productions at the Finborough Theatre include Stone Face.

Trained in Lighting Design at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.

Designs include German Skerries (Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond), Eventide (Arcola Theatre), Rent (Birmingham Hippodrome), Visitors (Bush Theatre), Sweeney Todd (Twickenham Theatre), Eye of a Needle (Southwark Playhouse), Pincher Martin (Britten Theatre), Othello: Deconstructed (The North Wall, Oxford), Woman in the Dunies (Theatre503) and Arensky Chamber Orchestra (Queen Elizabeth Hall).

Piers Sherwood-Roberts | Composer

Theatre includes A Naughty Night With Noël Coward (Old Red Lion Theatre), Julius Caesar (Saatchi Gallery and Chelsea Theatre), The Dirty Talk (Jermyn Street Theatre), I The Jury (Hen and Chickens Theatre), Improbable Fiction (Courtyard Theatre), Dear Ray (Edinburgh Festival), Breaded Butler (The Troubadour), Hamlet (International Tour), Othello (Riverside Studios) and Knock Yourself Out (Courtyard Theatre).

Film includes The Date and The Split.

Ste Clough | Choreographer

Theatre includes Gods and Monsters (Southwark Playhouse), Peter Pan (Broadway Theatre, Barking), Snow White (The Brindley, Runcorn) and The Audition Song, When You’re A Wimp, Somewhere Hovering Over Indiana and Anything But Normal (Spirit Young Performers Company).

As a performer, theatre includes Shrek the Musical (Theatre Royal Drury Lane), Spamalot (National Tour) and Jersey Boys (National Tour).

Fight Choreography includes Gods and Monsters (Southwark Playhouse).

Alexandra Evans | Production Manager

Theatre includes A Naughty Night With Noël Coward (Old Red Lion Theatre), Julius Caesar (Saatchi Gallery) and Improbable Fiction (Courtyard Theatre).

Film includes Dragons of Camelot, Redistributors, Soho Cigarette, London Fields, Crown for Christmas and The Thompsons.

Television includes The Intern and Silent Witness.

Sofie Arnkil | Stage Manager

Theatre includes Cancel the Sunshine (Hope Theatre, Manchester), 5 Guys Chillin’ (King’s Head Theatre), The Ballad of Robin Hood (Southwark Playhouse), The Killing of Sister George (London Theatre Workshop), The Emperor Jones (LOST Theatre), The Man Who Had All The Luck (King’s Head Theatre), The Marvellous Mechanical Mesmerist (Merlin Theatre, Frome) and EleXion (Theatre503).

Assistant Stage Management includes My Mother Said I Never Should (St. James Theatre) and Macbeth (Omnibus Clapham).

Isabella Kimpton | Lighting Operator

Theatre includes Orphans (Southwark Playhouse), Billy Connolly Live From New York and Lee Evans (37 Arts Theatre), Lewis Black Red, White and Screwed (Carnegie Hall), Escape From Bellevue (Village Theatre), Pogo and Evie A Zydeco Musical and Time Et. Al (New York Festival), Poe A Musical (Metropolitan Opera of New York), Jerry Herman’s Showtune (St. Peter’s Theatre), The Scarlet Pimpernel, Smoky Joes Cafe, West Side Story, Funny Girl, Fiddler on the Roof, Forbidden Broadway, Annie Get Your Gun, Oklahoma and Kiss Me Kate (Gateway Playhouse) and Spirit of the Dance, The Three Irish Tenors, Alice on Ice, Jekyll and Hyde, Ragtime, Jesus Christ Superstar, Miss Saigon and Footloose (Patchogue Theatre for the Performing Arts).

Katie Pesskin | Assistant Director

Theatre includes Sam Bailey Live in the West End (Lyric Theatre), Two Gentlemen of Verona (National Tour), RSO in London and British Musical Futures (St. James Theatre), New Revue (Canal Café Theatre), The Tale of the Dastardly Defrost (Pleasance Edinburgh), The Last Five Years (Greenwich Theatre) and The New Musical Project (Leicester Square theatre).

Proud Haddock was founded by Jimmy Walters and James Ahearne in 2014 and so far has celebrated the work of great playwrights such as William Shakespeare, Noël Coward and John Osborne. Productions include Julius Caesar (2014) and A Naughty Night with Noël Coward (2015).

Production Acknowledgements

Public Relations | Chloe Nelkin Consultants

Special thanks to The Miller, Jerwood Space, Tony Ahearne, Robert Boulton, Sam Taylor, Rob Carter, Resource Solutions, Hatty Jones, Paul Tinto and Lucy French.