Beryl King - Althea

Beryl was born in Essex and studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama and York University. After her early rep career, she worked as script writer and broadcaster for BBC and Scandinavian educational radio services and lectured in drama at Middlesex Polytechnic/University. Returning to the theatre her work has included: Miss Prism in The Importance of Being Earnest (Bristol Old Vic), Madame Arcati in Blithe Spirit (Pitlochry), Dotty Otley in Noises Off (Christchurch, New Zealand), Mrs Malaprop in The Rivals (Cheltenham), Liz in Happy Jack (Bolton), and Anne-Marie in Dolls House (Library Theatre Manchester). On tour: Flora Tompson in Flora, Doris in My Mother Said I Never Should, Aunt Juley in The Forsyte Saga, Ada Doom in Cold Comfort Farm. Recently in London, Joyce in Double Effect (Finborough), Honey in Timeless (New End), Jean in November (Union Theatre), Ester in Chopping Onions (Theatre 503) and Sylvia in Other People’s Garden’s (Arcola). TV includes Tycoon, Geeves and Wooster, Grange Hill, Inspector Morse, The Bill and Casualty.

Penelope Beaumont - Caroline Tiller

For Watford Palace Theatre: The Dresser and Blithe Spirit

Penelope trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. For Shakespeare’s Globe: Paulina - The Winter’s Tale, Leanoto - Much Ado About Nothing, Vincentio - The Taming of the Shrew and Lord Stanley - Richard III. For the RSC: Elizabeth - Richard III, Bodice - Bond’s Lear, The Marquise de Merteuil - Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Ambassadors, West End), Octavia - Anthony and Cleopatra, Lady McDuff - Macbeth, Madelaine - Moliere, Cyrano de Bergerac, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Other theatre includes: Mrs Lintott - The History Boys, Nora – Alphabetical Order, Mrs Tadman – Mary Goes First, Alice Moor - A Man For All Seasons, The Duchess - The Duchess of Malfi, Myra - Hayfever, Anna Petrovna - Wild Honey, Rosalind - As You Like It, Lydia Languish - The Rivals, Nora - The Dolls House, Amanda - Private Lives, Viola - Twelfth Night; Vivvie - Mrs Warren’s Profession, Kate - She Stoops to Conquer. Screen appearances include: Peep Show, Holby City, Doctors, Eastenders, Recovery, Wire in the Blood, Mrs David, Midsomer Murders, Family Affairs, Murder Without Motive, Black Easter, Bad Girl, Gaudy Nights, Cyrano de Bergerac, Moliere, Prime Suspect and Poirot.

Richard O’Callaghan - David Tiller

Richard O’Callaghan has worked extensively with the RSC, the Royal Court and the National Theatre. Recent theatre credits include King Lear at West Yorkshire Playhouse, Haunting Julia at Riverside Studios and Litchfield Garrick, The Importance of Being Earnest at Regents Park, The Story of Vasco at The Orange Tree, Romeo and Juliet and Twelfth Night for Regents Park and The Last Confession at the Haymarket Theatre. Other credits include The Magistrate at the Royal Exchange, The Misanthrope at the Young Vic, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead also at the Young Vic and the Criterion Theatre, Cyrano De Bergerac at the Haymarket, Boys From Syracuse and Midsummer Night’s Dream at Regents Park, Amadeus at Her Majesty’s, The Seagull at the Duke of York’s Theatre and Butley at The Criterion. Television includes Red Dwarf - Back To Earth, New Tricks, Midsomer Murders, The Pale Horse, The Prince and The Pauper, Casualty, McCallum, Spatz, Jackanory My Friend Walter, Hannay, Boon, Tickets For The Titan, Pastoral Care, Paying Guests, Mr Pye, Merry Wives of Windsor, Name For The Day, Born and Bred (2nd series), Two’s Company, Crown Court, Renoir My Father, Flint, Come The Revolution and Professional Foul. Film includes Watership Down, Galileo, Carry On at Your Convenience, Carry on Loving and The Bofors Gun.

Penny Layden - Sophie Tiller

Theatre includes: Nora (Belgrade Theatre, Coventry), 66 Books (Bush Theatre), Incoming (Hightide), Lidless (Trafalgar Studios/Edinburgh/Hightide), Vernon God Little (Young Vic), The Bacchae, Mary Barton, Electra, Mayhem (all Manchester Royal Exchange), Dancing At Lughnasa (Birmingham Rep), The Spanish Tragedy (Arcola), Romeo and Juliet, Helen, Hamlet, The Antipodes (all Shakespeare’s Globe), Cinderella (Old Vic), Comfort Me With Apples (Hampstead Theatre/Tour), Assassins (Sheffield Crucible), A Passage To India, The Magic Toyshop, Jane Eyre (all Shared Experience), Romeo and Juliet (Southwark Playhouse), Popcorn, Season’s Greetings (both Liverpool Playhouse), The Tempest, Measure For Measure, Roberto Zucco (all RSC), The Winter’s Tale, Ghosts, What I Did In The Holidays (all Mike Alfreds – CTC/Method & Madness) & several seasons at New Vic, Stoke, under the directorship of Peter Cheeseman. TV: Prisoner’s Wives, Call The Midwife, Land Girls, Sirens, South Riding, Doctors, Silent Witness, Poppy Shakespeare, Waterloo Road, The Bill, Bad Mother’s Handbook, Murphy’s Law, Outlaws, Casualty. Film: Broken, The Libertine. Radio: Crime and Punishment, Uganda, Second Chance, Return Ticket.

Justin Avoth - Anthony

Theatre credits include: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Headlong Theatre Company); Beasts & Beauties (Hampstead Theatre 2010 and 2001/’12); Moliere (NT Studio, Finborough); As You Like It (Curve, Leicester); De Monfort and Chains (Orange Tree Theatre); title role in Hamlet (Southwark Playhouse); Nathan the Wise (Hampstead Theatre); Dead Hands, 13 Objects and Gertrude – The Cry (all for The Wrestling School); Othello (Royal Shakespeare Company); Edward II (Shakespeare’s Globe); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Royal Exchange, Manchester – commended for Ian Charleson Awards); The Ash Girl and True Brit (Birmingham Rep); The Snow Palace (Tricycle Theatre); The Tempest (City of London Festival); Venice Preserved (Almeida Theatre); King Arthur (Royal Opera House/ Chatelet Theatre de Paris); Richard III (Arts Threshold), The Government Inspector (Harrogate Theatre). Television credits include: Three episodes of  Dark Matters; Whitechapel (Carnival); The Borgias (LB TV); Holby City (BBC); Midsomer Murders (ITV); Merlin (BBC); Spooks (BBC); Coronation Street (Granada); Judge John Deed (BBC);Persuasion (BBC Screen 2). Film includes: Giro Day; 667- The Neighbour of the Beast and Hackney Downs. Radio includes Random Edition (BBC). 

Michael Lumsden - Lawrence

Michael studied German and French at Cambridge and trained at Webber Douglas. Theatre includes: Star Quality (Tour), Mary Broome, Mary Goes First, The Years Between (Orange Tree), Entertaining Angels (Chichester), 3-1-6 (Basingstoke), The Real Thing (Bristol & Tour), How the Other Half Loves (Tour), All Things Considered (Scarborough and Hampstead), The Old Bachelor and Othello (Lyric Hammersmith), Dr Faustus (Tour), Bedroom Farce (Plymouth), Pravda, Camille and Funny Peculiar (Leeds), The Caucasian Chalk Circle and You Never Can Tell (Derby), Macbeth (Southampton), Twelfth Night and Dirty Linen (Farnham), The Secret Rapture (Tour), Dangerous Corner and Who Killed Hilda Murrell (Newcastle-Under-Lyme), Tom Jones (Orchard Theatre), A Man For All Seasons, Twelfth Night, Can’t Pay? Won’t Pay!, Under Milk Wood, Miner Dig The Coal (Stoke), School For Scandal and Cider With Rosie (Exeter) and The Merchant of Venice (Spectrum). TV includes: William and Catherine (for USA) House of Anubis, Wire in the Blood, My Good Friend (2 Series), The Bill, Casualty, Pig Heart Boy, If…Women Ruled the World, Holby City, Doctors, Family Affairs, Bernard’s Watch (2 Series), London Bridge, Brookside, Grown Ups, Ghostbusters of East Finchley, Crocodile Shoes, Health and Efficiency, The Buddha of Suburbia, Firm Friends 2, Watching, The Piglet Files, Victoria Wood Playhouse, Wish Me Luck, Floodtide and Sherlock Holmes. Michael plays regular character Alistair in The Archers.

Camilla Power - Amelia

Theatre includes: Platonov (Almeida), Semi-Monde (Lyric Theatre), Blue Room (Haymarket Theatre Royal and Chichester), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (National Theatre). TV includes: Whitechapel III (ITV), Injustice (ITV), Harley Street (ITV), Torchwood (BBC), Lorna in Waterlook Road - (Shed Productions), Brief Encounters (BBC), The Brief (Granada)
Not Only But Always (Channel 4), Byron (BBC), Hornblower (Meridian) anad Spark House (Granada), Uprising (Tiger Aspect), Fish (BBC), Slap (Prospect Pictures, Underworld (Hat Trick Prodcutions), The Grand (Granada TV), Casualty (BBC), The Bill (Thames TV), Bonjour La Classe (Talkback), Not the End of the World (BBC), Ruth Rendell -The Double (Blue Heaven Productions), Over the Rainbow (Clement La Frenais Productions), The Treasure Seekers (Channel 4), Stone Cold (BBC), Beck (BBC), The Echo (BBC) and The Mystery of the Keys (Entertainment Berlin). Film includes Moonacre (Euro Film and Video), A Summer Story (ITC Productions), The Tournament (Miramax) and The Calling (Fanes Films/Constantin Films). Radio includes Ivanov by Chekhov, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Not Just Anybody Family and History - Lost and Found (all BBC) and Reflections (LBC).

Hugh John - Jason

Hugh will graduate from Drama Centre this summer. Whilst training his credits have included De Flores in The Changeling, Jason in Medea, Major Robbie Ross in Our Country’s Good, Worthy in The Recruiting Officer, Proteus in Two Gentlemen of Verona, Flores in Fuenteove Juna, Ben Gordon in Paradise Lost, Kudryash in The Storm, Mamillus in The Winter’s Tale and Philip Clandon in You Never Can Tell.