Cast Biographies

Helen Carter Debbie

Helen has been working in theatre for 15 years as an actor, having performed many times on the Liverpool Royal Court stage.

Helen trained at LAMDA. Her theatre credits include:

My Fairfield Lady (Royal Court Liverpool); The Last Testament of Lillian Billoca (Hull Truck Theatre); Beauty and The Beast and Aladdin (Hope Street Theatre, Drops of Light); The Star (The Liverpool Playhouse Theatre); Father O’Flaherty Save Our Souls (Royal Court Liverpool); Mam I’m ‘Ere (Royal Court Liverpool); Scouse of the Antarctic (Royal Court Liverpool); The Sunshine Boys (Epstein Theatre;/Life in Theatre Productions); Word:Play Tour (Box of Tricks Theatre Company); The Last 5 Years (Life in Theatre Productions); The Gatekeeper (The Royal Exchange Theatre); Dead Heavy Fantastic (Liverpool Everyman) ; No Wise Men (Liverpool Playhouse); Hatch (Bolton Octogon/24:7 Theatre Festival); Dad’s Army Marches On (Calibre Productions Tour); Once Upon a Time at the Adelphi (Liverpool Playhouse); The Flint Street Nativity (Liverpool Playhouse) Top Girls (Royal Court Theatre London 50th Anniversary performance); The Honest Whore (William Poel Prize; The Globe Theatre; London).

TV Credits include:

The Last Testament of Lillian Billoca (BBC Television); Wallander (Left Bank Pictures); Doctors (BBC Television);Beaten ( Coastal Productions);Judge John Deed (BBC Television); A470 (S4C)

Film:

96 Ways to Say I Love You (Daisy Aitkens and Georgia Moffet)

Paul Duckworth

Theatre credits include:

Grand Old Lady (Epstein Theatre); The Big I Am, Othello, Paint Your Wagon (Everyman Rep Company); Beating Berlusconi, Twelfth Night, Bright Phoenix, The May Queen, Urban Legend, Sweeney Todd (Everyman Theatre Liverpool); A Barry White Christmas (Liverpool Echo Arena); Sink or Swim, Baron Munchhausen, Backwater, Jason & the Argonauts, The Man Who Cracked (Spike Theatre Company); Mam I’m Ere (Life in Theatre Productions); Reds And Blues The Musical, Little Scouse on the Prairie, Scouse Pacific, Brick Up The Mersey Tunnels, Down The Dock Road, Father O’Flaherty Saves Our Souls, The Lonesome West, The Scouse Nativity, The Scouse Cinderella, Yellow Breck

Road and The Menlove Avenue Murder Mystery (Liverpool’s Royal Court); Family Business (M6 Theatre Company); The Quiet Little Englishman (ZHO Productions); Microdots (Contact Theatre Manchester); The Corrupted Angel, The Golden Boy (Base Chorus); River Fever (Unity Theatre Liverpool); My Bit of Sky (M.Y.P.T) and Horrible Histories (Christmas 2019, Blackpool Opera House).

Television credits include:

The Courtroom (Lime Pictures); Brookside (Mersey Television), The 4 O’Clock Club (CBBC).

Film credits include:

I’ve Got A Bad Feeling About This, Donohue, Reds and Blues, Backbeat, To Know Him (short film).

Paige Fenlon

Actress, singer and dancer Paige hails from Northwest England.

Paige recently appeared in Berlin Berlin as Josephine Baker at Admiralspalast in Berlin.

Further credits include: Identical: The Parent Trap Musical (Nottingham Playhouse, The Lowry) Luisa in Zorro (Charing Cross Theatre); Pretty Woman (Savoy Theatre); Oklahoma! (Chichester Festival Theatre); and Rafaela/Alma in Elegies for Punks, Angels and Raging Queens (Union Theatre).

Paige was the runner up in the Sondheim Society Student Performer of the Year Award 2019.

Training: Bird College.

Jonathan Markwood Keyboard Keith

Jonathan is delighted to be back at the Royal Court where his previous appearances include Girls Dont Play Guitars, Lennon, Laurel & Hardy and Noises Off

Other theatre includes: Votes For Women (New Vic Theatre) The Lost Boy (Theatre In The Quarter) Our Gracie (Oldham Coliseum & New Vic) Dr Prospero in 25th Anniversary of Return To The Forbidden Planet (No. 1 Tour), The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (Bussey Building, London), Satin & Steel, Peter Pan, The Hound Of The Baskervilles (Queens Theatre, Hornchurch) Taming Of The Shrew (Open Air Theatre, Regents Park), The Importance Of Being Earnest (Northampton Royal) The Mousetrap (St Martins Theatre, West End, London), A Midsummer Nights Dream and Comedy Of Errors (both at Ludlow Festival) In The Midnight Hour (Belgrade Theatre, Coventry & No.1 Tour) Return To The Forbidden Planet (New Vic Stoke)

Romeo & Juliet, Private Lives, Keep On Running, Kind Hearts & Coronets, Twelfth Night and Corpse! (all at The Queens Theatre, Hornchurch)

TV appearances include: Peaky Blinders, Coronation Street, Doctors, Home Fires, Tina & Bobby, DCI Banks, Hollyoaks, Fresh Meat, Merseybeat, Eastenders, Peak Practice, Londons Burning, Spatz and My Dads The Prime Minister. On film his credits include Oscar and Lucinda (Fox Pictures) and the lead role of David Taylor in Francis Harrimans film Go With God (Arrondissment Productions) for which he won Best Actor at the Global Revolution Film Festival, New York.

Jonathan’s band Hoo-Hah Conspiracy recently supported Corduroy on their tour of the UK and are favourites on the festival circuit. They have also been featured on BBC Music Introducing with songs from their critically acclaimed new album ‘Television For Trees’ which is available on Spotify, Apple Music and selected stores of HMV.

Alan Stocks Arthur

Alan trained at RADA.

Theatre credits include:

Measure for Measure, The Two Gentlemen of Verona and the Merchant of Venice (Royal Shakespeare Company); Twelfth Night (Lyric Belfast); End of the Food Chain (Stephen Joseph Theatre) and Nervous Breakdown (Warehouse Theatre). He recently toured Tartuffe on an ETT national tour, A Barry White Christmas (Liverpool Echo Arena). Dennis in Calendar Girls (touring). Credits for the Everyman & Playhouse include: Midsummer Nights Dream, Hope Place, Twelfth Night, Held, A Streetcar Named Desire, Tartuffe, Flint Street

Nativity, Sleeping Beauty, Love at a Loss, ‘Tis Pity She’s A Whore, Wild Wild Women, Trojan Women and Dead Heavy Fantastic

Merry Ding Dong, Little Scouse On The Prairie, Scouse Pacific, A Fistful Of Collars, Funny Money, Night Collar, Reds And Blues The Musical, Slappers And Slapheads, Ladies Night, Mam! I’m ‘Ere! , Father O’Flaherty Saves Our Souls and Scouse of the Rising Sun (Royal Court Liverpool).

Television credits include:

Moving On, Phone Shop, Casualty 1907, Kingdom, Robin Hood, Ghost Boat, Blue Blood, Wire in the Blood, The Plan Man, Rome, Merseybeat, This Little Life, Auf Wiedersehen Pet, City Central, Dad, Drop the Dead Donkey, Murder in Mind, North Square, Sins, Dockers, This Life, Wycliffe, Grushko, The Day Today, Soldier Soldier, Conviction, Between the Lines, Sweet Nothing and You Me And Him amongst others. He recently appeared in an episode of Vera

Film credits include:

Memory of Water, The Birthday Girl, Under Suspicion, Trigger Puller, The Pond and Look At Me I’m Beautiful

Radio credits include:

Tartuffe and The Ladykillers

Keddy Sutton Lesley

Keddy trained at Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama and with Ken Campbell’s Improvisational Company - The School of Night.

Theatre:

All The Joy You Can Wish (Shakespeare North and SlungLow); That Sketch Show (The Edge Theatre); Royal Court Selection Box (Liverpool’s Royal Court); Pop Up Party (Paperwork Theatre); Mr Gum RND (National Theatre); Shirley Valentine (Theatre Royal, Bury St. Edmunds); Keddy was a member of the Liverpool Everyman Rep Company in 2017 and 2018 in Paint Your Wagon, The Big I Am A Clockwork Orange and Fiddler On The Roof The Sum, Conquest Of The South Pole and Romeo And Juliet (Liverpool Everyman); Scouse Sleeping Beauty, Pete Price Is Dead, Scouse Snow White, Scouse Cinderella, Scouse Nativity, Scouse Of The Rising Sun, Father O’Flaherty Saves Our Souls, Stags And Hens (Directed by Willy Russell and Bob Eaton For Capital Of Culture), and Slappers And Slapheads (Liverpool Royal Court); Terry Titter’s Summer Special (Liverpool Royal Court Studio); Princess And The Pea (Unity Theatre, Liverpool); Mam I’m Ere (Life In Theatre Productions); Dreaming Of A Barry White Xmas (Liverpool Echo Arena); The Queen’s Knickers (Southbank London); Peppa Pig (West End and No 1 Tour); ; Cruel Sea (Liverpool Everyman); The Games, Hoof, Beasts And Beauties (Spike Theatre); Dormouse in Alice In Wonderland (Hope Street); Ken Campbell’s Improvisational School Of Night (The Globe, Drill Hall, Edinburgh Fringe, Jeremy Beadles Library and The Royal Court, London); Beyond Our Ken (National Theatre); In Pursuit Of Cardeenio (Edinburgh Fringe); 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (Nuffield Theatre, Southampton); Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs and Dick Whittington (Buxton Opera House); Beauty And The Beast (Theatre Royal, Wakefield); Robinson Crusoe (Theatre Royal, Winchester); Singa-Longa-Eurovision (AJN Productions).

Television: Good Cop and Nice Guy Eddie (BBC); Fated (Ace Films); Keddy appeared in her own driving documentary - Mirror, Signal, Manoeuvre; Pot Noodle Advert

Radio/Audio: Brian Jacques’ Redwall; Narrator of the April Ashley Project (Liverpool Museum); Narrator (Chester College); Narrator (BBC Learning); The Witching Hour and 1,000 Feet Deep (Periplum), Culture Knowsley and Patterdale (BBC Radio 4).

Keddy is a member of the vocal group Handbag of Harmonies.

Writing: Tabbard The Musical and Caz ’N’ Britney Present Scottie Road The Musical (From Primark to Prison) and Mis Les (A Revolution In Rollers).