ACTORS BIOGRAPHIES

Imogen Devey / ELIZABETH 1

Imogen is an actor in her final year at BSU. Her credits whilst training include Bawd in Pericles, the doctor in People, Places and Things, and Thea in Hedda Gabler. Imogen is continuing her training to be a motion capture performer at Performance Captured Academy and has begun her career working with Mocap Masters on an animated TV pilot.

Rhys Myhill / BISHOP OF ROSS

Rhys is an actor, director, and writer in his last year of training at Bath Spa University. He has previously trained at the National Youth Theatre and recently completed a tour with Greedy Pig Theatre Company’s Peacock, in which Rhys was understudy and assistant director. Rhys looks forward to performing in The Wrong Pod at this year’s Sparkfest and making his professional acting debut in Spoil Me at the Rondo Theatre in July.

Emma Curry / CECILY

Emma has trained in musical theatre at Stagecoach Performing Arts School gaining stage credits of Deb in Elf Jr the Musical, Jack in Into the Woods and becoming a world record holder playing Belle in Beauty and the Beast Jr in the largest simultaneous performance of one show. Whilst training at Bath Spa University her credits include Mrs Elvsted in Hedda Gabler, Olga in Three Sisters and Ms Lawson in Care Takers. Emma is now teaching at Stagecoach whilst finishing her final year at Bath Spa!

Mollie Biddlecombe / ROSE 1

Mollie is an actor and training dramaturg in her final year at BSU. Her credits whilst training include: Duncan in Party, Punka at BOOMTOWN FESTIVAL, Rita in Get A Life, The French Lady in Help! We’re Stuck in Paris!, Carla in The Wasp, Nora in A Doll’s House and Kate in Legally Blonde the Musical. Mollie is currently taking on her first director and dramaturg role for Sparkfest Festival 2023.

Claire Philp / BESS 2 & LADY PARRY

Claire is an actor in her final year at BSU. Her credits whilst training include: Lou in a radio production of DNA, Elizabeth in Richard III, The professor in Jerusalem, Mrs Rutter in Caretakers and will be starring in her own children’s tv show Claire’s House which will debut in Sparkfest 2023.

Rebecca Lee / MARY 2

Rebecca is an actor in her final year at BSU. Her credits whilst training include Ranyevskaya in The Cherry Orchard, Mrs Rutter in Caretakers and Joe changed to Joyce in a radio drama production of Haunting Julia. Rebecca is currently producing and acting in a horror short film for Sparkfest 2023 and will then begin her motion capture training for video games at The Mocap Vaults, after University.

Calum Halley / THOMAS ,DUKE OF NORFOLK

Calum is an actor in his final year of Bath Spa University. His acting credits whilst training include: King Richard III in Richard III, Nils Krogstad in A Doll’s House, Max in The Penetrator and Johnny ‘Rooster’ Byron in Jerusalem. He is now Directing, writing and performing on a new show ‘The Story of Florence Nightingale, Sort of’, which will be featuring in Sparkfest this May.

Holly Nicholson / LIVINGSTON

Holly is an actor in her final year at Bath Spa University. Her credits whilst training include: Ranyevskaya in The Cherry Orchard, Nora in A Doll’s House, Heather in The Wasp, Ruth in The Acid Test and Eve in Love In A Glass Jar. Holly looks forward to performing a devised piece, The Wrong Pod in Sparkfest 2023.

Dylan Kelly / GEORGE, EARL OF SHREWSBURY

Dylan is an actor in his final year at Bath Spa University. His credits include Audrey II in Little Shop of Horrors, Alan in Penetrator. Dylan is next performing at SparkFest in a devised comedic play called Florence’s Naughty Nurses.

Phoebe Harris / MARY 1

Phoebe is an actor/writer in her final year at Bath Spa University. Credits whilst training include: Arkadina in The Seagull, Nora in A Doll’s House, Brutus in Julius Caesar, Heather in The Wasp, and Tiffany in the sitcom Mugged. Phoebe will be acting/ puppeteering in her co-written show No Strings Attached for Sparkfest 2023.

Harriet Walton / SEATON

Harriet is an actor in her final year at Bath Spa University. Her credits while training include: Mrs Elvsted in Hedda Gabler, Queen Elizabeth in Richard III, Mrs Rutter in Caretakers and Gwen in Building Madness. She is now working towards her Sparkfest piece called Chasing Whiskey, a wacky whodunnit, in which she is directing and writing with her group.

Paddy King / WALSINGHAM

Paddy is an actor and musician in his final year at Bath Spa University. His stage credits include: Max in Penetrator, King Richard in Richard III, Torvald in A Doll’s house, Trigorin in The Seagull, Merriman in The importance of being Earnest, Mr Spit in Mother Goose, Fred in A Christmas carol, Simple Simon in Jack and the beanstalk, Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet and Puck in A midsummer night’s dream. Paddy will be performing under the direction of Mollie Biddlecombe in Sparkfest 2023 and will continue his own training in the exploration of postmodern theatre.

Ellie-Mae Williams / ROSE 2

Ellie-Mae is a Welsh actor, director and choreographer in her final year of training at Bath Spa University. She has previously trained at Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama’s ‘Young Actors Studio’ programme. Her credits whilst training include: Madame Thénardier in Les Miserablés, Paddington Bear Storyteller and Elf at Cribbs Causeway Winter Wonderland, Lady Anne in Richard III, Davey in Jerusalem, Carla in The Wasp, Mrs Linde in A Doll’s House and she has doubled for Catherine Jenkins and Ellie Bamber in the films Dream Horse and Willow. Ellie-Mae will be performing a mime piece for Sparkfest Festival 2023.

Caitlin O’Connor-Brooke / BESS 1

Caitlin is an actor/director in her final year at BSU. She has previously trained at The Bath Theatre Royal School for 7+ years. Credits whilst training include: Boudicca in Boudicca, Boss in devised company Knotted, Lady Anne in Richard lll, Nora in A Doll’s House and Carla in The Wasp. She is now directing and devising a new show The Sofa, coming this May, in collaboration with Sparkfest.