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Cast Biographies (in alphabetical order)

Neil D’Souza Alan/Simon Fernandez

Neil trained at RADA and has since worked extensively in theatre, film, television and radio.

Theatre credits include: How To Hold Your Breath and Khandan (Royal Court); Drawing The Line (Hampstead); Much Ado About Nothing and Midnight’s Children (RSC); Tintin (Watford Palace Theatre and West End); The Man Of Mode (National); Twelfth Night (West End); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Colchester, Mercury); Merchant Of Venice and The Honest Whore (Globe).

For Television Neil’s work includes: EastEnders, Doctors, Hustle, Citizen Khan, Undercover, Holby City, Don’t Take My Baby, Happiness, Back Up (BBC); Not Safe For Work, Friday Night Dinner, Raised by Wolves (Channel 4); Albert’s Memorial, The Bill (ITV) and Amerikan Kannibal (Discovery).

Film work includes: Filth, Still Life, Closed Circuit, Wild Target, Another Me, My Sweet Home, Gate To Heaven and the lead role in Italian Movies (2012).

Radio includes: The Red Oleander, Goan Flame, Ask Mina, and the recurring drama Recent Events At Collington House (BBC Radio 4).

Ravin J. Ganatra Older Jacob/Ghalib/Vicar

Theatre credits include: The Deranged Marriage (Rifco and Watford Palace Theatre); Bombay Dreams (Really Useful); Passage to India (Shared Experience); Journey to the West, Revelations, Exodus, Nagwanti, The Bourgeois Gentelhomme (Tara Arts/Tour); The Mahabharata (National Tour); Natural World (Kali Theatre Co.); Hamlet, The Life of Galileo, The Winter’s Tale, The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe (Library Theatre); Voices on the Wind, Aurangzebe (RNT Studio); The Wind in the Willows (Solent Peoples Theatre); Look Out Here Comes Trouble (Kaboodle); The Rammayana and Travesties.

Television credits include: The Infidel, Doctors, Coronation Street, In The Club, Hollyoaks, Rev, Torchwood, EastEnders, Nighty Night, Handle with Prayer, Waterloo Road, Britz, The Fugitives, Tom & Thomas, Entrapment, Prime Suspect, No Worries, Casualty, Holding On, The Brittas Empire, No Child of Mine and Circle of Deceit.

Radio credits include: Various productions for BBC Radio 4 and the World Service.

Clara Indrani Hanna/Cook/Mrs Pereira/Tiger

Clara trained at the London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art (LAMDA).

Recent theatre credits include The Deranged Marriage and Happy Birthday Sunita (Rifco and Watford Palace Theatre) where she made her professional stage debut.

Whilst at LAMDA she performed in many productions including A Gloriously Mucky Business, A Lie In The Mind, Cabaret, As You Like It, The Seagull and A Prayer for Owen Meany.

Clara’s TV credits include: Led Astray (BBC); Hollyoaks (Lime Pictures) and Gates (Feelgood Fiction).

Goldy Notay Young Jacob/Alice

Theatre credits include: Happy Birthday Sunita (Rifco and Watford Palace Theatre); Speed (Kali); My Daughter’s Trial (Kali); Tagore’s Women (Kali); Handful of Henna (Sheffield Crucible); Zameen (Kali); The Deranged Marriage (Rifco and Watford Palace Theatre); Something about Simmy (Rifco); Blood Wedding (Theatre Passé Muraille/Toronto) and Romeo and Juliet (Waterspout/Bermuda).

Film credits include: The lead in It’s A Wonderful Afterlife (Gurinder Chadha); My Own Country (Mira Nair); Sex and the City 2 (produced by Sarah Jessica Parker); London Dreams (Bollywood); Amar, Akbar, & Tony (Atul Malholtra) and Death Threat (Toronto Film Festival).

TV credits include: Silent Witness (BBC); Warehouse 13 (US Syfy); The Town (ITV Series); Holby City (BBC); The Bill (Talkback Thames); In a Heartbeat (Disney); Doctors (BBC) and Noddy (BBC).

Mitesh Soni Daniel/Father Alvarez

Mitesh trained at the Guildford School of Acting.

Theatre credits include: Banquo in Macbeth (Tara Arts – UK Tour); Paris/Prince in Romeo & Juliet (National Theatre); Second God in The Good Person of Sichuan (Colchester); Ali Baba in Arabian Nights (Manchester Library Theatre); Toalfish in This Place Means (Greenwich); Chulak in The Firework Maker’s Daughter (Theatre by the Lake, Keswick); Billy in The Rise & Fall of Little Voice (Dukes, Lancaster); Tootles in Peter Pan (New Vic Stoke); Etash in Rafta Rafta (Bolton Octagon/New Vic Stoke); Mowgli in The Jungle Book (Birmingham Stage Company UK Tour); Beeny in Cloud Pictures (Polka Theatre); Naz in Mercury Fur (Goldsmiths); Simon in Lord of the Flies (Pilot Theatre UK tour); Luke in Meteorite (Hampstead Theatre); Betty/Cathy in Cloud 9 (Queen Mother Theatre) and Leonardo in Blood Wedding (Edinburgh Festival).

Film credits include: Rise of The Footsoldier 2, Syriana, Ghost of Life, Nine Lives London, Alpha Mayall and Lost Night.

Television credits include: Run, Threesome and The Canterbury Tales.

Awards: 2012 Manchester Theatre Award-Best Ensemble – Arabian Nights.