Everyman and Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool

Ken Bradshaw
Vasquez
Kevin Harvey
Friar Bonaventura
Matti Houghton
Annabella
Paul McCleary
Florio
Eileen O'Brien
Putana
Emily Pithon
Hippolita
Stuart Richman
Cardinal
Nicholas Shaw
Soranzo
Hugh Skinner
Giovanni

Ken Bradshaw

Theatre credits include: Rock ‘n’ Roll (Manchester Library Theatre); London Assurance (Newbury / National Tour); As You Like It (Derby Playhouse); The Crucible (RSC / West End); Four Nights In Knaresborough (Riverside Studio); The Spirit Of the Man (Nottingham Playhouse); Liverpool Heartbeats (Liverpool Everyman); Brassed Off (Birmingham Rep); Going to the Chapel (Salisbury Playhouse); Big Night Out (Watford Palace); Eden End, Johnson over Jordan, Half a Sixpence, Enjoy and Macbeth (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Blue Remembered Hills (Sheffield Crucible) and Venice Preserved (Manchester Royal Exchange).

Television credits include: Doctors, New Tricks, Law & Order, Shameless, The Bill, The Royal, Wire in the Blood, Inspector Lynley, Beaten, Coronation Street, Dream team, Courtroom, Hollyoaks, Silent Witness, Shipman, Blind Ambition, Where the Heart is, Police 2020 and Reckless.

Film credits include: Blessed.

Kevin Harvey

Theatre credits include: Tiny Volcanoes (Paines Plough); Salt (Royal Exchange, Manchester); Wig Out (Royal Court, London); Tartuffe (Liverpool Playhouse / Rose Theatre, Kingston); Stags and Hens (Royal Court, Liverpool); Clockwork (Breaking Cycles at the National Theatre); Dr Faustus (Bristol Old Vic); Speaking Like Magpies, Sejanus: His Fall, Believe What You Will and Thomas Moore (RSC); Macbeth (Out of Joint); Yellowman (Liverpool Everyman / Hampstead Theatre); The Key Game (Talawa); Souls (L.T.C) and Ragamuffin (UKArts).

Television credits include: Paradox, Spooks: Code 9, Adam and Shelley Show, Ruby in the Smoke, Holby City, Mersey Beat, Everybody Loves Sunshine, L1, The Lenny Henry Show, Hearts and Minds, Dancin Thru’ the Dark, Sweet Soul Harmonies and The Golden Collar.

Film Credits include: A Boy Called Dad, Salvage and Til Death.

Radio credits include: Cavalry, Brief Lives, Fused Ricebowl, The Book of Love, The Morning After and Why Don’t You Stop Talking

Matti Houghton

Matti trained at Guildhall School of Music and Drama

Theatre credit include: Ditch (Old Vic Tunnels); Caucasian Chalk Circle and Kindertransport (Shared Experience); Romeo and Juliet (Exeter Northcott); Antigone and The Cracks of my Skin (Royal Exchange, Manchester); Kebab (Royal Court, London); Watership Down (Lyric Hammersmith); Burn/Chatroom/Citizenship (National Theatre) and Stallerhof (Southwark Playhouse).

Television credits: Law & Order, Pulse, Luther, The Bill, Doctors, Wire in the Blood, Afterlife and The Last Detective.

Radio credits include: The Grand Babylon Hotel (BBC radio 4).

Paul McCleary

Recent theatre credits include: The Fairy Queen (Opera Comique); King of the Gypsies (Edinburgh Festival and UK Tour); The Price, The Wizard of Oz, A Christmas Carol and To Kill A Mockingbird (New Vic Theatre); Oedipus (National Theatre); Our Friends in the North and Son of Man (Northern Stage); Shining City and Absurd Person Singular (Bolton Octagon); Death of a Salesman (Mercury Theatre, Colchester); The Mortal Ash and Brighton Beach Memoirs (Oldham Coliseum); Katherine Desouza (Birmingham Rep); Richard II (Steven Berkoff); Hysteria (Northcott Theatre); Othello (U.S Tour); Insignificance and The Weir and Waiting for Godot (Northampton Theatre Royal);The Tempest, Much Ado About Nothing and Merchant of Venice (RSC).

Television credits include: Holby City, The Bill, The Extraordinary Equiano, Max & Paddy’s Road To Nowhere, Outlaws and Doctors.

Film credits include: Calendar Girls and Britannia Hospital.

Radio credits include: The Custom of the Country, The Crowded Street and The Voyage Out.

Eileen O'Brien

Theatre credits include: When We Are Married (West Yorkshire Playhouse / Liverpool Playhouse); Death of a Salesman (York Theatre Royal); The Revenger’s Tragedy, Basil and Beattie, Acroos Oka, Rafts and Dreams, Yerma and Prize Night (Royal Exchange, Manchester); An Inspector Calls (Oldham Coliseum); The Crucible and The Beauty Queen Of Leenane (The Bolton Octagon); Kindertransport and A Doll’s House (Shared Experience); Foxes (West Yorkshire Playhouse); On the Shore of the Wild World (National theatre / Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester); Beyond Belief and Death of a Salesman (Manchester Library); Redundant and The Knocky (The Royal Court Theatre) and Richard III (Northern Broadsides).

Television credits include: Lennon Naked, Moving On, Red in Tooth and Claw, Doctors, The Royal Today, Emmerdale, Casualty, Eyes Down, Building the Titanic, The Royal, Merseybeat, The Vice, Brookside, The Life and Crimes of William Palmer and The Practise.

Film credits include: Fanny and Elvis, A Private Function, A Month in the Country and Runners.

Radio credits include: I.D, Legacy, Calagari, Tin Man and Snow in July.

Emily Pithon

Theatre credits include: Taking Steps (Orange Tree Theatre); Blithe Spirit (Oldham Coliseum); Noises Off, Suddenly Last Summer, The Birthday Party, Chorus of Disapproval, The Crucible and Blithe Spirit (Theatr Clwyd); Tartuffe and All My Sons (Liverpool Playhouse); Merchant of Venice (Bolton Octagon); People at Sea and Lady Windermere’s Fan (Salisbury Playhouse); The Beggars Opera, Chorus of Disapproval and The Wizard of Oz (Bristol old Vic); Blood red Saffron Yellow (Plymouth Theatre Royal); Pericles (Ludlow Theatre Festival); Herakles (Gate Theatre); The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe, Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Winters Tale (RSC).

Television credits include: Doctors, Holby City, Love Soup and Casualty.

Radio credits include: Tartuffe.

Stuart Richman

Theatre credits include: The Price (Compass Theatre Co.Tour); The Duchess of Malfi and Wild Oats (National Theatre and Tour); Fandango! Enemy of the People (The Dukes, Lancaster); A Doll’s House and The Good Doctor (Century Theatre, Keswick); Little Shop of Horrors (Oldham Coliseum); The Seagull, Volpone, Othello and Whose Life Is It Anyway? (Birmingham Rep); The Taming of the Shrew (RSC Tour); The Illusion (Old Vic); King Lear and As You Like It (Oxford Stage Company); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, As You Like It, Wild Duck, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Class K and The Technicians (Royal Exchange, Manchester); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Balcony, Everyman In His Humour, Country Dancing, Troilus & Cressida, The Devils and Curtmantle (RSC); Macbeth (Sheffield Crucible); Skin Of Our Teeth (Leeds Playhouse); Mystery Plays (Coventry); Touch of the Poet, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, The Caretaker, Tartuffe, Uncle Vanya, Hedda Gabler, Murder in the Cathedral andmany others(Founder member Liverpool Everyman); Due Process In Law, The Recruiting Officer and All’s Well That Ends Well (Oxford Playhouse); The Winters Tale, Guys & Dolls, Paddington Bear, Treasure Island and Ruffian on the Stairs (Chester Gateway); The Marowitz Hamlet and Marowitz Faustus (Open Space) and As You Like It and The Three Musketeers (Stoke).

Television credits include: Emmerdale, The Magnificent 7, Court Room, The Royal, The Forsyte Saga, Coronation Street, Sunday, Land of Plenty, Liverpool One, Secret Agent, Seeing Red, Underbelly, The Ward, Birth of Frankenstein, All Creatures Great and Small, The Storyteller, Victorian Values, Lost Empires, Group Practise, Bulman, Brookside, Life of Ransom, Z Cars and Public Eye.

Film credits include: This Filthy Earth, Waterland, Reds, The Dresser and Chaplin.

Radio credits include: Schweik, Goodbye Mr Gherkins, Solaris, Erehwon, Lost in Liverpool, Ministry of Fear, The Thebans and The Woman in Black.

Nicholas Shaw

Theatre credits include: Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Regent’s Park Theatre); Merchant of Venice and Holding Fire (Globe Theatre); Easter (Oxford Stage Company –Ian Charleston Award Commendation) and The Fairy Queen (Glyndebourne/Opera Comique/BAM).

Television credits include: Doctors, Land Girls, Foyles War, All About Me, Cortes, Goldplated, Heartbeat, The Romantics, Afterlife, The Rotters Club and Dalziel & Pascoe.

Film Includes: The Torment

Hugh Skinner

Theatre credits include: Is Everyone Ok? (Nabakov); 2 May 1997 and Suddenlossofdignity.com (Bush Theatre); The Great Game (Tricycle Theatre); Angry Young Man (Trafalgar Studios); The Enchantment (National Theatre); Senora Carrar’s Rifles (Young Vic) and French Without Tears (English Touring Theatre) and Savage/Love (Theatre 503).

Television credits include: Tess of the D’Urbervilles and Bonkers.

Film credits include: Day of the Dead and Glove.