Sleeping Beauty

Jonny Bower

Jonny trained at LAMDA, graduating in 2008. Prior to this he studied Drama at The University of Bristol.

Theatre credits include: Forester and accompanist in Love's Labour's Lost (Shakespeare @ the Tobacco Factory); Sebastian in Twelfth Night (Creation Theatre); Virgil Tracey in Dick Whittington (Liverpool Everyman) and Tommy / First Cover Buddy in The Buddy Holly Story (Channel Islands).

Short Film credits include: The Clutch (Nadoworks).

Adam Day Howard

Adam Day Howard holds a bachelor’s in theatre arts from Kent State University in Ohio, and an MA in performance from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.

Theatre Credits include: Scripps in The History Boys (Ohio premier); Lysander in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Adam in The Complete History of America (Abridged) (Warehouse Theatre, Greenville SC); Jerry Springer in Jerry Springer: The Opera (2008 Edinburgh Fringe Festival), and far too many ensembles to mention at the Porthouse Theatre in Cuyahoga Falls, OH.

Adam spends as much time playing in bands and music directing as he does on stage, and wouldn’t have it any other way! He has written original music for Brecht’s The Caucasian Chalk Circle, adapted by Mathew Earnest, as well as being part of the writing team for the original musical From Up Here, which premiered as part of the 2009 Perfect Pitch Showcase in London.

Adam most recently appeared as Schlomo Metzenbaum in Fame at the Grimaldi Forum in Monte Carlo.

Catherine Henderson

Catherine is a local girl so is delighted to be returning to the Everyman for the final panto in the current Everyman.

Theatre credits include: Looking for Hannah and The Shakespeare Band (Bred in The Bone); Dick Whittington (Liverpool Everyman); The Buddy Holly Story (No1 UK Tour); What If? (Channel Theatre); Don’t Go There (Dramanon); The Price (Walking Forward); Be Mine (Rehearsed Reading – Soho Theatre) and co-Musical Director in the Globe Theatre’s Read not Dead Season.

Catherine graduated from Rose Bruford College in 2006 on the Actor Musicianship Course and her college credits include Jasmine in Girlfriends at the BAC, Lorraine Sheldon in The Man Who Came to Dinner and Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Adam Keast

Theatre credits include: Mother Goose, Aladdin, Jack and the Beanstalk, Cinderella and Dick Whittington (Liverpool Everyman); Lennon, Brick Up The Mersey Tunnel, Our Day Out and Good Golly Miss Molly (Liverpool Royal Court); Forbidden Planet, Wake Up Little Suzie, Sweet Charity and From a Jack to a King (Oldham Coliseum); 8 Miles High, Once Upon a Time in Wigan and Looking For Buddy (Bolton Octagon); Timewarp, Rock n’ Roll Heaven, Elvis – The Musical, Rave On, Itchycoo Park and Norah’s Ark (tour); Pump Boys and Dinettes (Stoke New Victoria Theatre); Cinderella (Theatr Clywd); Lonely Heart (West End and tour); The Sound of Fury (Liverpool Playhouse and tour); Three Steps to Heaven (Chester Gateway and tour); Ferry Cross the Mersey (Lyric, London and tour); Buddy (Victoria Palace, London and Toronto); Just Like That (Edinburgh Festival and tour) and Puss In Boots (Theatre Royal, Windsor).

Television credits include: Crimewatch, The Big Time,The Queen’s Nose, All Very Well and various corporate work and commercials.

David McGranaghan

Theatre Credits Include: Honk! (Royal and Derngate); Be Near Me (Donmar Warehouse/National Theatre of Scotland); The Wizard of Oz (Royal Festival Hall); Betwixt! (King's Head); The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Macbeth, A Midsummer Nights Dream, The Boyfriend and Lady Be Good (Regent's Park Open Air Theatre).

TV, Film, Adverts and Workshop credits include: Bridget Jones's Diary (Working Title Films); Soapdish (Stiles and Drewe); Hot and Cold (Army/Raf); Gulliver's Travels (20th Century Fox); Peter Pan (National Theatre of Scotland); ESPN and Barclaycard (Directed by comedian Dom Jolly) and Royal Festival of Remembrance (BBC1/Royal Albert Hall).

David is also the proud co-inventor of the fun new party board game: Game For Fame. After winning the Shell Young Entrepreneur of the Year award www.gameforfame.co.uk

Nicky Swift

Nicky trained with the NYMT, Birmingham University and The Royal Academy Of Music, where she was the recipient of the Ian Fleming Musical Theatre award.

Theatre credits include: Lennon (Royal Court, Liverpool); Alice (Open Air, London);The Buddy Holly Story (Gatehouse, London); Cats (International Tour); Musical Express (Zambia); Les Miserables (UK Tour); Dick Whittington, Mother Goose, Aladdin and Jack and the Beanstalk (Liverpool Everyman); A Broadway Diva Christmas (Off-Broadway, NYC); Sixteen Gobs (Kings Head, London); An Enchanted Evening (Drury Lane, West End); City of Angels and The Blue Room (RAM); Little Shop of Horrors (Northampton Derngate); Whistle Down The Wind (Sadlers Wells, West Yorkshire Playhouse and Edinburgh Festival); Warchild and David Copperfield (National Tour); Her Benny (Liverpool Empire); Charlie (Buxton Opera House) and Musical Futures (Greenwich Theatre).

Television credits include: Merseybeat, Voices Raised, Blue Peter and Hillsborough. Nicky also appeared as a backing singer at the opening of London’s O2 Arena, supporting Tom Jones, The Kaiser Chiefs, The X Factor’s Brenda and Peter Kay.

 Radio credits include: Loose Ends and Sunday with Sondheim (Radio 2) Fringe classics and Angels (Classic FM); Voice of Musical Theatre 2002 and BBC Proms New Musicals (BBC & Radio 2)

Nicky was born and raised in Liverpool and is delighted to be returning again to the Everyman to play the Fairy. She is very proud to have been part of this yearly tradition and wants to thank everyone at the theatre (and Bistro) for all of the happy memories over the last five years

Francis Tucker

Theatre credits include: Once Upon a Time in Wigan, Eight Miles High and Song Of Singapore (Bolton Octagon); Brick Up the Mersey Tunnel and Good Golly Miss Molly (Royal Court Liverpool); Feels Like the First Time and Wake Up Little Susie (Oldham Coliseum); Wake Up Little Susie (Basingstoke Haymarket Theatre); Aladdin (Pele Productions); Pistols (Hanover Productions); Twelfth Night (Midlands Arts Centre); Cinderella (Theatre Clwyd); Dancing at Lughnasa and The Balcony (Birmingham Library Theatre); Dick Whittington, Mother Goose, Aladdin, Jack and the Beanstalk, Cinderella, Dick Whittington and Puss in Blue Suede Boots (Liverpool Everyman) and Once in Your Life (Leicester Haymarket).

 Television credits include: Casualty, Cutting It, Coronation Street, Central Weekend, Boyfriends and Noah’s Ark.

Film Credits include: 15 Minutes That Shook the World.

Francis also performs in the burlesque comedy duo The Schmidts.

Sarah Vezmar

Sarah graduated from the Rose Bruford college of Theatre and Performance in 2008.

Theatre credits include: Love On The Dole, White Nights (Bolton Octagon); Don Quioxte (The Grotowski Institute, Wroclaw); The Shakespeare Band, Looking For Hannah (The Rose Theatre) To Die A Second Time and Grimethorpe Race (Arcola); Blok Busta (The New Players); Dick Whittington and Mother Goose (Liverpool Everyman); Twelfth Night (The Works Theatre Company); Snow White and Dick Whittington (Pantomime Productions); Into the Woods, The Plough and the Stars, Julius Caesar and ‘Tis A Pity She’s A Whore (Rose Theatre).

Television and film credits include: Parents of the Band, The Truth About Food (BBC) and Duplicity (Tangent Productions).

For more information about Sarah please visit www.sarahvezmar.co.uk

Matthew Wycliffe

Matt is an actor. He is also a musician. He plays several instruments and thoroughly enjoys singing. He studied acting at Arts Ed, London and graduated in 2006. This is his first pantomime and although it is apparently all behind him he is very proud to be in the Everyman’s final production as The Prince, extremely pleased to be part of such a fantastic company and is poised to make his debut as a fairy.

Theatre credits include: Buddy in The Buddy Holly Story (West End, Lubbock Texas, Edmonton Canada, UK No.1 tour, Channel islands); Policeman and First Cover Lord Arthur in Lord Arthur Saviles Crime (UK No.1 tour); The Man in Grounded, Steve Binder/Jerry Scheff in This Is Elvis (UK No.1 tour); MacDuff in Macbeth, Blackmore in The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd, Gus in The Dumb Waiter, and Nicky in The Vortex.

Radio and TV appearances include: Friday Night is Music Night 50's special, Elaine Paige on Sunday and This Morning.

This is his first ever time in Liverpool and he loves it.