Programme
Welcome To
Hello and welcome to this year’s Royal Court Christmas show – The Scouse Red Riding Hood!
This year the show is all about the true meaning of Christmas. Spending time with friends and family, listening to great music, drinking too much and laughing until you ache.
The Royal Court Christmas show continues to break records and it looks like this will be another smash hit. The tickets fly out as soon as they go on sale because people want the warm, festive feeling of sitting in the auditorium and seeing their mates on stage.
I call them mates because that’s what it feels like each year. You’ll know Lindzi, Drew, Keddy, Adam, Emma and Liam from past Christmas shows and we’ve got Lydia making her Chrimbo debut after wowing us in Vernons Girls and YNWA. Making a proper, never-been-here-before debut is Chantel Cole. Make sure you give her an extra loud cheer.
Our band are geared up to keep you rocking around the Christmas tree so huge thanks to Ben, Jack, Mike, Chris and Greg and of course to our MD Howard Gray for pulling it all together.
Ellie has created a magical set, Ian and Kate have lit us up and made us sound great respectively. Bev is moving everyone to tears and Jamie has created some video magic for us. The man in the director’s chair for the second year running is Mark Chatterton, who oozes comedy in everything that he does. He should probably see a doctor about that.
Outside of these doors, we know that times are tough at the moment and people are struggling to keep the big, bad wolf from the door. We really appreciate you spending your hardearned cash on a theatre ticket and in return, we promise to take you away from the real world for a couple of hours. Maybe three hours by the end of the run.
Thank you all for coming, take care of yourselves, have a great Christmas and let’s hope that 2025 is the best year yet.
Kevin Fearon Executive Producer Liverpool’s
Royal Court
Liverpool’s Royal Court presents The Scouse Red Riding Hood
Written by Kevin Fearon
Starring Emma-Grace Arends, Chantel Cole, Lindzi Germain, Adam McCoy, Lydia Rosa Morales Scully, Andrew Schofield, Keddy Sutton and Liam Tobin
Directed by Mark Chatterton • Musical Arranger and Musical Director Howard Gray
Designed by Ellie Light • Movement Direction by Beverley Norris-Edmunds
Lighting Design by Ian Scott • Sound Design by Kate Harvey • Video Design by Jamie Jenkin
Royal Court Supporters
The Elizabeth Rathbone Charitable Trust
The Eleanor Rathbone Charitable Trust
The John Rayner Charitable Trust
Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation
Talent Development
Liverpool’s Royal Court continues on its journey to work towards talent development across the city
There is no doubt Liverpool is renowned for its wealth of talent but we, along with the rest of our city’s theatre organisations and institutions, recognise we need to do more to ensure we are accessible, engaging and aspirational if we are to be truly representative and inclusive of the communities we serve. It is a long-term continuing process and funding is key as is working together with the theatres across the region.
Over the past three years we have laid down the foundations, initiating our plans for meaningful and real change. This includes the theatre’s programming, engagement, accessibility and relationships with artistes, communities, creatives, individuals, institutions, organisations, Schools/FE. We are working towards ensuring our talent development programmes are applicable, realistic and robust.
Listening and engaging in the first instance to a wide cross section of creatives and communities – recognising and taking ownership of our failure to be fully inclusive and to take a proactive approach to ensure there is inclusivity and diversity across the sector
A brief look at a few of our talent development projects so far:
Community
Music AAA (Access All Areas) is a partnership project together with three grassroots organisations: Positive Impact, Capoeira For All, and Catalyst performing arts supported by funding from Youth Music. Children and young people aged 6 – 25 can access free musical instruments, musical theatre, hip hop, dance, singing, drama and performance
Raw Talent
Young people from our youth theatre continue to have access to auditions and employment opportunities – during the past 3 years, 6 young people have been cast in Terriers, written by Maurice Bessman touring to schools and venues across the country.
More recently working with Fury films, 120 young people aged 15 – 25 from across the city took part in audition workshops for the film of Terriers at Fire Fit in South Liverpool, MYA’s Space in Bootle and The Vibe in Huyton. 8 young people will be working with the Director to support the script development.
New Mentor Creatives Scheme
Building on our pilot Mentoring Programme, the new Mentor Creatives Scheme from Liverpool’s Royal Court – in partnership with Shakespeare North Playhouse, Everyman & Playhouse Theatres and Curious Minds seeks to help develop and nurture Global Majority Creatives working right across the artistic sector.
• Mentor Creatives offers
• One-on-One Mentorship
• Goal Setting and Achievement
• Skill Development
• Regular Networking Opportunities
• Continuous Support
The project is supported by PH Holt Charitable Trust and Liverpool BID, find out more on our website
Boisterous Stage Write
Music Access All Areas
Maurice Bessman
An interview with Catherine Jones
Catherine Jones talks to Lindzi Germain and Lydia Rosa Morales Scully about Christmas past and present, and spreading festive cheer into the New Year.
They shared the stage on hit Reds’ show You’ll Never Walk Alone, and now Lindzi Germain and Lydia Rosa Morales Scully are back together in the Royal Court’s seasonal caper
The Scouse Red Riding Hood.
Lydia Rosa, you used to live in Spain. What was Christmas like growing up and was panto a part of it?
Lydia Rosa: I lived there until I was 10. We’d have our Christmas dinner and then I’d perform my own little show for my nan and my mum - for about two hours! We’d have beginners, costumes. It was very serious.
We’d alternate at Christmas between Spain and England, and when we were coming here, we went to the theatre which wasn’t something you did in Spain.
My nan used to take me to pantos at the Empire and St Helens. But when I hit 16, I didn’t really want to go anymore. That’s when I was introduced to the Royal Court panto! You sit there with your mum and nan; you laugh at those things together and it’s something you then make a tradition.
So I’ve seen Lindzi in a lot of things.
Describe the experience of then working together on You’ll Never Walk Alone?
Lydia Rosa: It was my professional debut; I was still in my second year of training (at Arden School of Theatre). It was quite daunting because the Royal Court audience is so iconic and they’re also your family, they’re your friends.
I was put at ease so much by Lindzi. And I figured out ways of how to present myself with the audience as Lydia as well as the character.
This is Lydia Rosa’s first Royal Court Christmas, but Lindzi, you’ve chalked up quite a few festive appearances now.
Lindzi: The first Christmas show I did here was Merry Ding Dong (in 2009). When I get to 20 years, they’ll give me a gold clock! It’s part of our lives, part of what we do, something that my kids have grown up with. And prior to this I was doing panto anyway.
What is Christmas like for you away from the theatre?
Lydia Rosa: My mum invested in quite an expensive karaoke machine and that gets pulled out after dinner. Our signature song is Whitney Houston’s Endless Love. And then my Uncle Pat gets on and sings Mack the Knife. So even though I am doing the show this year, that will be coming out at Christmas.
Lindzi: I don’t do Christmas dinner; I go to my mum and dad’s, and they do everything. And they treat my brother and me like a king and queen. My mum has got this massive couch that can fit six people - we sit at each end, and no one is allowed in the middle because we have so many presents. Everyone else has to sit on the floor!
Can you tell us a bit about The Scouse Red Riding Hood and what people can expect?
Lindzi: It’s a journey of these mad characters as always at Christmas time. Grandma’s going to lose her house. Red, played by Lydia, looks after her. And then the baddies (Andrew Schofield and Keddy Sutton), who want to take Grandma’s cottage, turn up. Throw into the mix Red’s best friend called Little Blue (Adam McCoy), and his dad Bob the Builder (Liam Tobin), and then we’ve got our lovely Emma-Grace Arends who’s back with us again, and Chantel Cole who is with us for the first time.
The show is fast and it’s fun and it’s funny, and we get to put our stamp on it as well.
The Royal Court’s Christmas show has the longest run in the city. How do you keep the festive spirit feeling fresh in January?
Lindzi: It’s just good fun, isn’t it? We’re very lucky we get about five days off over Christmas which is great. You can recharge and do all your family things. But by the time it comes to go back you want to. By that point I’m sick of cooking and doing the dishes and everyone moaning about putting on weight!
And for us here, the season spills right into the New Year. People go ‘I book for January because we have Christmas, and we’ve still got something to look forward to’.
Those who’ve booked tickets on the last night have paid exactly the same money as those on the first night, and they all get exactly the same show.
Lydia Rosa: You go from the Royal Court to home and back, and it’s just very lucky really to be full of that festivity for weeks and weeks.
Last year I was an understudy in the Everyman Rock ‘n’ Roll panto. I got to play quite a few times as different characters. But when I wasn’t on stage, I’d sit in the audience and see their reaction and think ‘I want to make someone feel like that’. I almost felt like I could be a big kid. Which I still am, secretly, especially playing Red.
So adrenaline and excitement keep me going.
Rehearsal Photos
Photographs by Liverpool’s Royal Court
Band
Ben Gladwin
Jack Hymers
Greg Joy
Chris Nicholls
Mike Woodvine
Cast
Emma-Grace Arends
Chantel Cole
Paul Duckworth
Lindzi Germain
Adam McCoy
Lydia Rosa Morales Scully
Andrew Schofield
Keddy Sutton
Liam Tobin
Vocalist/ Swing
“Stage Manager”
Off-Stage Understudy
Grandma
Blue Red Cash
Carry
Bob The Builder
Keys
Keys
Drums
Bass
Guitar
Company
Kevin Fearon
Mark Chatterton
Howard Gray
Ellie Light
Beverley Norris-Edmunds
Ian Scott
Kate Harvey
Jamie Jenkin
Greg Joy
Marie Jones
Sean Gannon
Stephen Petit
Writer Director
Musical Arranger &
Musical Director
Set & Costume Designer
Movement Director
Lighting Designer
Sound Designer
Video Designer
Drums & Music Coordinator
Wardrobe Supervisor
Production Manager
Production Assistant
Workshop Manager
John Kavanagh
Scenic Art Manager
Jen Baron
Workshop
Scenic Artists
Abbie Jones
Chris McCourt
Rachel Shore
Puppets
Abbie Jones
Thanks to
Gary at Envision
Jamie Haining
Andrew Lock
Elizabeth O’Sullivan
Steph Carter
Snowzie Rose
Joe Baron
Laura Spallen
Martyn Case
Phil Dickinson
Liam McGrath
Jonathan Tringham
Jack Walsh
Technical Manager
Technical Stage Manager
Company Stage Manager
Deputy Stage Manager
Assistant Stage Manager
Crew
Crew
LX No 1
AV Programmer
Sound No 1
Sound No 1
Sound No 2
Carpenters
Joe Baron
Dave Davies
Mike Gray
Shaun Gillespie
Connor McLeod
Barry at Colourcreate
Cast Biographies
Emma-Grace Arends Volcalist/Swing
Emma Grace is thrilled to be back joining the Liverpool Royal Court Christmas family for the fourth year.
Emma Grace theatre credits include: Railway Sleepers (JB Shorts) Home I’m Darling (Frinton Summer Theatre); Peppa Pig’s Surprise (Sydney Opera House & Australian Tour); Much Ado About Nothing / Romeo & Juliet (Folksy Theatre / Shakespeare Open Air); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (We Are Butterfly); Presenter (Uber One) Peppa Pigs Big Splash (UK No.1 UK Tour & West End / Fiery Light); Twopence to Cross the Mersey (Liverpool Empire); Troll (Pleasance Theatre); Peppa Pig’s Surprise (No.1 UK & Ireland Tour); Florence Nightingale (Peter Addis); Sleeping Beauty (M&S Arena); Beauty & The Beast (Dorking Halls); Her Benny (Liverpool Empire).
Film & TV Credits Include: Peppa Pig My First Cinema Experience - Daisy (E1); Emmerdale (ITV); Cilla (ITV); Tricyle (Short); A Night with Kylie Minogue (BBC); Across the Pond (Pilot); Galbani (Advert & Radio); Ben & Hollys Little Kingdom / Peppa Pig’s Big Splash (Original Cast Recording).
Emma has recently started singing for the children at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, The Christie and Great Ormond Street which she absolutely adores.
Big shout out to all the staff.
Happy Christmas Everyone! Chantel Cole
“Stage Manager”
Chantel discovered her passion for music and theatre early, which became her lifelong medicine. Despite this passion, she only gained the confidence to perform professionally in her late twenties. Her mother, a casual dancer who performed with Earth, Wind and Fire, Heatwave, and The Dramatics, alongside dating reggae icon Dennis Brown, deeply influenced Chantel. Her mother’s love for artists like Billy Holiday and Gladys Knight & The Pips inspired Chantel and her sister Phillipa.
Chantel has been involved in diverse fields across the country, including Dance, Visual Arts, and Community Arts, supporting marginalized youth and collaborating with organizations like Stonewall. As a talented songwriter with a solid background in various dance styles and extensive acting experience, her impressive vocal abilities have given her opportunities to perform alongside Cream Classical, Basement Jaxx, Shaun Escoffery, and
other notable artists. Recently, she performed at the Champions League final in Paris. Chantel now sings with various ensembles, including Soul City Voices and Disco Classical, gaining national recognition. Chantel has written her own stage Musical Gladys The Story.
Lindzi Germain Grandma
Lindzi is one of our city’s well known character actors and is one of the Royal Court’s regulars - so much so she doesn’t even take her stuff home any more!
Theatre credits include: A Greasy Spoon, A Thong For Europe, Ellen & Rigby Royal Court Selection Box, Night Collar, Council Depot Blues, Lost Soul, Down Our Street, The Royal, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twopence To Cross The Mersey, Alehouse, The Entertainer, Bon Voyage, Beserker Boys, Virgin Express, Desperate Scousewives, Merry Ding Dong, Scouse Pacific, Scouse of the Antarctic, Scouse of the Rising Sun, Pharoah ‘Cross The Mersey, Scouse Nativity, Mam I’m ‘Ere, Sex In Suburbia (tour), YNWA (Royal Court and tour), A Fistful of Collars, Little Scouse on the Prairie, Her Benny, The King & I, King Lear, Our Bessie, Reds & Blues, Scouse Cinderella, Lost Soul 2 and Achy Breaky Bride Peter Pan, Cinderella, Snow White, Robin Hood and Babes In The Wood.
TV and film credits include: Tin Star with Tim Roth. Bella in Clink (5Star), The Way We Are (Feature film), Lynda La Plante’s Above Suspicion (ITV), Les’ Liverpool (BBC), Bodies II (ITV), Common As Muck (ITV), Emmerdale (Yorkshire TV), Prime Suspect (ITV), Dave Kirby’s 15 Minutes That Shook The World, Gwladys in Reds & Blues: The Ballad of Dixie & Kenny, Adam (Short film) and Shooting Fish (short).
Writing credits include: The Royal, Mother’s Pride, Lindzi Germain Merseymouth stand up show, Women With Balls Also penned a new musical for 2024.
Voiceover work includes: Lindzi is the voice of Atomic Olga in the computer game Evil Geniuses 2 and has her own vlog page Mersey Mouth.
Last year Lindzi also set up a private wall on Facebook called Peri/Meno Queens - it’s a place for women to learn, educate, laugh and cry to love and to support each other while going through what can be the most horrendous time of there lives The Menopause. To date she has over 7.7k members!
Lindzi and her husband Darren are the founders of CNC Nutrition building a happier, healthier community. For more information check out their Facebook and Insta @CNCnutritionliverpool
Training: LIPA
Adam McCoy Blue
Theatre: Scouse Dick Whittington, A Greasy Spoon, Masquerade (Liverpool’s Royal Court) The Snow Queen (The Dukes, Lancaster) Peter Pan (Crossroads Entertainment, Liverpool Empire), Boom Bang-a-Bang (Above the Stag London), Crazy Gary’s Mobile Disco (Liverpool Everyman), Lonely Hearts Club (Unity Theatre), Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin (Hope Street Theatre), The King & I (UK Tour, David Ian Productions) and Her Benny (Liverpool Empire/Royal Court Liverpool).
Television: Doctor Who (BBC), Mobile (ITV), Casualty (BBC), Holby City (BBC), House of Anubis (Nickelodeon), Merseybeat (BBC), Brookside (Mersey TV).
Voicieover/Audio: Ramsey Campbell’s Think Yourself Lucky (Audible), Help (Channel 4), Dragonslayers (XBOX Live).
Adam has also worked as a guest vocalist on board P&O Cruises, Holland America Line and Norwegian Cruise Line and recently played a “Veganbulance” Driver in a KFC commercial. He would like to dedicate his performance to his cousin, Matthew.
Lydia Rosa Morales Scully Red
Lydia began her studies at Chiltern Dance Studios in Liverpool and went on to study at LIPA Sixth Form College. Lydia has graduated from The Arden School of theatre last summer and is delighted to be back at the Royal Court Theatre.
Credits - You’ll Never Walk Alone “Let’s Talk About 6 Baby” and Vernons Girls (Liverpool’s Royal Court).
Andrew Schofield Cash
Andrew has appeared in Blood Brothers in 1983 at the Liverpool Playhouse and in the subsequent transfer to the Lyric Theatre in London’s West End. He also appeared as George in Of Mice and Men at the Old Vic, London in 2005.
Theatre credits include: Brick Up The Mersey Tunnels as Dickie Lewis; Smigger in Lost Soul in 2007 and 2008; Brian in Good Golly Miss Molly; Moey in the Alan Bleasdale comedy On The Ledge; Paul Sheldon in Misery; the Traveller in Eight Miles High; Danny in Council Depot Blues; Joe in Night Collar; JJ in The Flags and Mr Briggs in Our Day Out - The Musical. He performed all of these roles at the Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool. Since then he has appeared in A Life In The Theatre, The Sunshine Boys and Mam I’m ‘Ere (Life in Theatre Productions); Dreaming of a Barry White Christmas (Echo Arena) Royal Court Selection Box,Ellen & Rigby, Making It (with Cath Rice) and Boys From The Blackstuff (Liverpool’s Royal Court).
Film credits include: Sid and Nancy, Distant Voices, Still Lives, Three Businessmen, Hamlet, Revengers Tragedy, Under The Mud and The Partisan.
TV credits include: Scully in Alan Bleasdale’s Scully. He has also appeared in three more Bleasdale series, as Peter Grenville in GBH in 1991, Jake’s Progress in 1995 and in Melissa in 1997. Other TV credits include Maisie Raine; Sharpe; Murphy’s Law; Boys from the Blackstuff; Liverpool Nativity for BBC Three; Fifteen Minutes That Shook The World; Cilla; Moving On; Loco; Tin Star, Help.
Keddy Sutton Carry
Keddy trained at The Everyman Youth Theatre, Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama and with Ken Campbell’s Improvisational Company - The School of Night.
Royal Court Theatre credits include: A Thong For Europe, The Scouse Dick Whittington, The Scouse Jack and The Beanstalk, The Scouse Snow White, The Scouse Cinderella, The Scouse Sleeping Beauty, The Scouse Nativity, Scouse Of The Rising Sun, Scousetrap, Bingo Star, Pete Price Is Dead, Father O’Flaherty Saves Our Souls, Stags And Hens (Directed by Willy Russell and Bob Eaton For Capital Of Culture), Slappers And Slapheads, Terry Titters Summer Special, Selection Box and Mam I’m Ere
Cast Biographies
Other theatre credits include: Shirley Valentine (Theatre Royal, Bury St. Edmunds); Keddy was in the Liverpool Everyman Rep theatre 2017/2018, performing in Fiddler On The Roof, Paint Your Wagon, The Big I Am, A Clockwork Orange, The Sum and Conquest Of The South
Further credits: Dreaming Of A Barry White Xmas (Liverpool M&S Banks Arena), The Queens Knickers (Southbank Centre/ Theatre Royal Bath), Beauty And The Beast (Theatre Royal Wakefield), Robinson Crusoe (Theatre Royal Winchester), Singa-Longa-Eurovision (AJN Productions) That Sketchy Show (The Edge), All The Joy Can Bring (Shakespeare North & Slung Low), 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (Nuffield Theatre, Southampton), Ken Campbells Improvisational School Of Night (The Globe, Royal Court London, Edinburgh Fringe, Jeremy Beadles Library, National Theatre Everyman).
Television credits: Hollyoaks (Channel 4), Good Cop and Nice Guy Eddie (BBC), Fated (Ace Films). Pot Noodle Advert and Studio One Advert.
Radio/Audio credits: Patterdale (BBC Radio 4), April Ashley Project (Liverpool Museum), Narrator (Chester College), 1000 Feet Deep (Periplum & Culture Knowsley) and Redwall (Brian Jacques).
Keddy has also been a proud member of her choir ‘Handbag of Harmonies’ for 24 years, a lifelong team of great friends.
Keddy appeared in her own driving documentary - Mirror, Signal, Manoeuvre
Writing credits: Tabbard The Musical Co-Writing credits: Caz ‘N’ Britney Present Scottie Road The Musical (From Primark to Prison) and Mis Les (A Revolution In Rollers).
Liam Tobin
Bob The Builder
Previous work at the Royal Court: Boys From The Blackstuff, Scouse Dick Whittington, Scouse Jack & The Beanstalk, The Scousetrap, Mam I’m ‘Ere, The Scouse Sleeping Beauty, Homebaked, Selection Box, Pete Price is Dead, Lost in Colomendy, The Menlove Avenue Murder Mystery and Slappers & Slapheads
Other Theatre includes: Boys From The Blackstuff (National/ West End), Jab (Finborough Theatre-Offie Nominated Best Duo Performance), Lights On, Lights Off (Shakespeare North); Miracle On 34th Street (Liverpool Playhouse), Sweeney Todd (Liverpool Everyman), Benny (Gilded Balloon Edinburgh Fringe), Paint Your Wagon, A Clockwork Orange, The Big I Am, Fiddler on the Roof, Conquest of the South Pole, The Sum,
Romeo & Juliet (Liverpool Everyman Company), The Hobbit (Dukes Lancaster), Hamlet (Clwyd Theatr Cymru), Clybourne Park, When the Rain Stops Falling (Unity Liverpool/Said & Done), A View From The Bridge (Liverpool Playhouse), One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest , Brief Encounter , Dead Funny (Torch Theatre), A Midsummer Night’s Dream & She Stoops To Conquer (Torch Theatre/Mappa Mundi), Cider With Rosie & The Merchant of Venice (Theatre Royal Bury St. Edmonds), Gods Official (West Yorkshire Playhouse) and, a European tour of Pygmalion (American Drama Group).
Screen work includes Then & Now, Hollyoaks, Emmerdale, Coronation Street, The Royal, Heartbeat, The Cops, Seeing Red, The Second Coming and the feature film Al’s Lads.
Paul Duckworth
Understudy
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, The Menlove Avenue Murder Mystery, Bingo Star and Haunted Scouse (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
Ben Gladwin
Keys
Ninth consecutive year, baby. Here we go. Iiiit’s chriiiistmaass!
Past credits: Come Together, Two of Us, The Scouse Dick Wittington, Celtic the Musical, The Sunderland Story, The Scouse Jack and the Beanstalk, The Scouse Sleeping Beauty, Mam I’m Ere, You’ll Never Walk Alone, Selection Box (Liverpool’s Royal Court).
Jack Hymers
Keys
Jack is excited to be joining the show this year and working with a lovely & talented group of people! Past live performance credits include Peter Andre, Heather Small (M People), Odyssey, T’Pau, Wang Chung, China Crisis, Altered Images, Fiction Factory, Lotus Eaters and more.
Greg
Joy Drums & Musical Coordinator
Greg is very excited to be back at the court this Christmas in his new role as Musical Co-ordinator.
After graduating from the prestigious Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, Founded by Sir Paul McCartney, with a BA Hons in Music.
Greg has worked extensively in the performing arts industry, from touring as a session drummer for various artists such as XAMVOLO, The Farm, China Crisis and more.
Greg has also featured as a solo artist with Live performances at the UK Drum show.
In additions as an Actor-Musician and Pit Drummer in many theatres.
Theatre credits at the The Royal Court include: Scouse of the rising sun, The Scouse Nativity, Royal Court’s 80th Anniversary, The Scouse Cinderella, The Scouse Pacific, The Scouse Snow White, The Royal Court Selection Box, Homebaked, The Scouse Sleeping Beauty, Mam I’m Ere, The Scouse Jack And The Beanstalk, Two Of Us, The Scouse Dick Whittington, Come together
Other theatre credits include: The Beggars Opera (Storyhouse, Chester), Celtic The Musical (SEC Armadillo) and The Sunderland Story (Sunderland Empire)
Chris Nicholls
Bass
Happy to be back at The Royal Court, Chris is a musician and lecturer whose performances have taken him to theatres, venues and festivals around the globe.
Mike Woodvine Guitar
Graduating from Lipa in 2018, Mike made his Royal Court Debut, joining us for Scouse Pacific in 2019. Back for his 5th Year running, can’t wait!
Company Biographies
Mark Chatterton Director
Mark works as an actor, writer and director. His big love is panto and he has performed in, co-written and directed many pantos. He and his partner Sarah have written and directed 19 Rock and Roll Pantos for the Liverpool Everyman. Other pantos include Wakefield Theatre Royal, Oldham, Derby and Buxton Opera House. Darlington Majestic and the New Brindley. Mark has directed shows at Oldham Coliseum, Cheltenham Everyman, Derby Playhouse, Derby Arena, New Victoria, Bolton and many shows for LipService Theatre Company. His work as an actor includes work at the Royal Exchange, Library Theatre and Greenwich Theatre.
TV includes: Coronation Street, Hollyoaks, The Cops, Scott and Bailey, All Creatures Great and Small Foyles War, Last Of the Summer Wine and My Parents Are Aliens. Films include: Millions and the horror film Christmas Presence.
Howard Gray Musical Arranger & Musical Director
For the Royal Court, Howard was the Musical Arranger and Musical Director for, Come Together and Girls Don’t Play Guitars, this year, as well as the Christmas shows, Scouse Dick Whittington and Scouse Red Riding Hood.
Other work here includes: Lennon, Homebaked, (Co pro with Red Ladder) You’ll Never Walk Alone, Brick up the Mersey Tunnels, Our Day Out, Council Depot Blues, Eight Miles High, Sons of The Desert, Maggie May, Reds and Blues, The Scouse Nativity, Scouse Sleeping Beauty, Golden Oldies, Nightmare on Lime Street, Merry Ding Dong, Little Scouse on the Prairie, Hitch Hikers Guide to Fazackerley, Scouse Jack and the Beanstalk and Selection Box. He also directed two Royal Court Christmas shows, Scouse of the Antarctic and Pharoah Cross the Mersey.
He is the Creative Director of Alterean Media and has directed productions of, The Sunderland Story (Sunderland Empire) One Night in Istanbul(M&S Bank Arena Liverpool, plus a tour of Ireland); Celtic, The Musical (Pavillion Theatre and the SEC Armadillo Glasgow plus tour of Ireland) and You’ll Never Walk Alone (Royal Court Theatre Liverpool)
He was previously an Associate Artist of the Octagon Theatre, Bolton. Shows include, The Blonde Bombshells of 1943, which won the Manchester Evening News award for Best Production. The show transferred to Hampstead theatre and subsequently toured for several years both Nationally and Internationally. He was also involved with the original production at West Yorkshire Playhouse. Other work at the Octagon includes, Song of Singapore, Oh What a Lovely War, (Nominated for the Manchester Evening News Best production), Looking
for Buddy(Co production with Live Theatre, Newcastle), Little Voice, Once Upon a Time in Wigan, I just stopped by to see the Man, Eight Miles High and composer for, Danny, The Champion of the World.
He was the Resident Musical Director of the Oldham Coliseum Theatre and worked on numerous productions there including, Close the Coalhouse Door, Bread and Roses, Dick Barton, (which all received award nominations). Our Gracie, Curtain Up, Sweet Charity, Good Golly Miss Molly, The Ladykillers, Union Street, Women on the Verge of HRT, Private Lives, Feed, The Road to Nab End, Brassed off, From a Jack to a King and Return to the Forbidden Planet, plus a hatful of Coliseum Pantos.
At the New Vic Theatre, Newcastle-Under-Lyme: The Admiral Crichton, Spring and Port Wine, A Taste of Honey, The Magic Flute, The Mikado, (co-production with the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough) and several seasons under Peter Cheeseman.
For the Liverpool Everyman Theatre he co-wrote and Musically Directed, Alice in Boogie Wonderland, Puss in Blue Suede Boots and as a performer, Dick Whittington, Cinderella and Aladdin
For Harrogate Theatre, Return to the Forbidden Planet, Of Mice and Men, Macbeth and others.
Howard has also worked at the Royal Exchange, Manchester. Coventry Belgrade, Worcester Swan, York Theatre Royal, Lancaster Dukes, Bristol Old Vic, Theatr Clwyd and Opera North
TV work includes, Johnny and the Bomb, Hollyoaks, Coronation Street, Family Affairs.
Ellie Light Set & Costume Designer
Ellie is a designer for theatre and the arts. She trained at LIPA and is based in Liverpool.
Her professional credits include Lieutenant of Inishmore (Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse); 8 Hours There and Back (All Things Considered); Silverwood (RNCM); Laramie (Grosvenor East Theatre, MMU); Haunted Scouse (Liverpool Royal Court); Light Falls (Grosvenor East Theatre, MMU); Beyond Caring (Durham Gala Theatre); Of All The Beautiful Things In The World (HOME Manchester); Top Girls (Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse); Masquerade (Epstein Theatre/Bill Elms Productions); A Very Odd Birthday Party (Hawkseed Theatre/UK Tour); Dogs (New Step Theatre/Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse); Cherry Jezebel (Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse); Against (Grosvenor East Theatre, MMU); On The Shore of the Wide World (Grosvenor East Theatre, MMU); Pig (Liverpool Royal Court Studio)
Beverly Norris-Edmunds Movement Director
For the Royal Court: The Vernons Girls,Thong for Europe, Scouse Trap, YNWA, Scouse Sleeping Beauty, Selection Box, Maggie May, Scouse Snow White, Girls Don’t Play Guitars, Scouse Pacific, Lost Soul 2, Scouse Nativity, Golden Oldies, The Royal, Father O’Flaherty Saves Our Souls, Sex in Suburbia, Canoeing for Beginners, Bouncers, Special Measures, Our Day Out The Musical by Willy Russell (premiered 2009 and 2010), Ladies Night, Good Golly Miss Molly, You’ll Never Walk Alone, Dirty Dustin’, Nightmare on Lime Street, Little Scouse on the Prairie, Brick up the Mersey Tunnels 1 and 2, Merry Ding Dong, Slappers and Slap Heads and Reds ‘n’ Blues.
Recent choreography includes: One Man Two Guvnor’s, A Leap in the Dark, The Nutcracker, Astley’s Astounding Adventures, The Card ( New Vic Theatre), The Great Gatsby and Pride and Prejudice (Story house Chester)
Other Choreography includes: Marvelous (Soho Place London and New Vic Theatre), Tom Dick and Harry ( Alexandre Palace London and New Vic Theatre), The Worst Witch - Olivier Award winner 2020 for Best Family Show, (Vaudeville Theatre West End, UK Tour and Royal and Derngate Theatre Northampton), Around the World in 80 Days premiered at The New Victory Theatre on Broadway New York after It’s UK Tour starting at The New Vic Theatre (Newcastle -under-Lyme).
Over 50 productions for The New Vic. Including: Alice in Wonderland, The 39 Steps, The Borrowers, Coppellia A Mystery, Sweeney Todd, Oliver and Amadeus
For Northern Broadsides and Touring: Hard Times, For Love or Money, Loves Labours Lost, Much Ado about Nothing and Cyrano (co-production with New Vic)
Oldham Coliseum: Over 50 Productions including, Oh What A Lovely War, Chicago (MEN Theatre Award Winner for Best Ensemble) Stepping Out, Sweet Charity, Laurel and Hardy, Blues in the Night, From a Jack to a King.
Touring credits include: Return To The Forbidden Planet, Carmen.
TV credits include: Disney’s The Evermoor Chronicles, Coronation Street, Hollyoaks, CBeebie’s The Magic Door, Butterfly, Sunny D, Fernando Torres Nike Commercial, September Song, Brookside and the feature film O Jerusalem.
Beverley has also choreographed numerous productions for The Royal Exchange Theatre Manchester, Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse theatres, Bolton Octagon, Hull Truck Theatre, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Birmingham Rep, Liverpool Empire Theatre, Belgrade Theatre Coventry, Stephen Joseph Theatre Scarborough, Haymarket Theatre Basingstoke, Harrogate Theatre,
New Perspective Theatre company, Claybody Theatre Company, Imaginarium Theatre Company and for the award winning Tmesis Theatre.
Ian Scott
Lighting Designer
Trained at Mountview.
Productions for the Royal Court include: Scouse Pacific, Maggie May, The Miracle of Great Homer Street, The Royal, The Scouse Nativity, Lonesome West, Down The Dock Road, Come Together, Two Of Us, Haunted Scouse, Boys From The Blackstuff and in co-production with Lodestar and the Liverpool Shakespeare Festival; Macbeth and A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Other theatre credits include: Much Ado About Nothing (Sheffield Crucible and Ramps On The Moon); ¡Carpa!, The Hooley and Xanadu (Giffords Circus); By The Waters of Liverpool (Pulse Records); Up ‘n’ Under and Frozen (fingersmiths); Reasons To Be Cheerful, Peeling and Blasted (Graeae); Duet for One (Birmingham Rep; Lee Dean & Daniel Schumann); A Skull in Connemara and All My Sons (Nottingham Playhouse); Marco Polo and Messiah (Bergen National Opera); Fish Eye (Theatre Alibi); The Solid Life of Sugar Water (Graeae; Theatre Royal, Plymouth; National Theatre); Owen Wingrave and Where The Wild Things Are (Aldeburgh Festival); Fawlty Towers Live (Roslyn Packer Theatre, Sydney); Flat Stanley (Polka; West Yorkshire Playhouse); The Drummer Boy of Waterloo and The Happy Prince (Jubilee Opera); The 39 Steps (Criterion Theatre); Our Friends Up North (Northern Stage); The Joke, The Summer House and The Victorian in the Wall (Will Adamsdale; Fuel); My Name is… (Tamasha); Oh! What a Lovely War and Frogs (National Theatre); Curlew River (White Light Festival, New York; UCLA Berkeley; St. Giles, Barbican); Animal Farm (West Yorkshire Playhouse) and Observe The Sons Of Ulster Marching Towards The Somme (Abbey Theatre, Dublin).
Kate Harvey Sound Designer
A list of sound credits include: Corporate/Outdoor: Labour, Conservative, NUT, TUC. Symphony in the Park (Hoghton Tower) Liverpool Theatre Festival (Bill Elms Productions), Grimm Tales, Jungle Book, 80 Days Around the World, Alice in Wonderland (Williamson Park, Lancaster)
TV: Stan James World Match Dartsplay (Sky Sports), Strictly Ballroom (ITV), Danny La Rue (BBC) Spirit of Shankly (Granada DVD)
Cruises: P&O World Cruises, Island Cruises, Celebrity. Arena: Hot Ice (Stageworks Worldwide Productions) You’ll Never Walk Alone (Alterean Media and Liverpool FC)
Company Biographies
Music: The Christians, Chesney Hawkes, Sinita, Slade, Bad Manners, Toyah, Limahl, Cream UK Tour, Petula Clarke, Bobby Crush, East 17, Liberty X, Jane McDonald. Comedy: Jason Mansford, Peter Kay, Roy Walker, Norman Wisdom, Jim Bowen, Brian Conley, Brendan O’Carroll, Paddy McGuiness.
Live Theatre: Aladdin, Sleeping Beauty (King Georges Hall) Mystique (Stageworks) Original TV Comedians (Blackpool Opera House) Paul Zerdin (Paradise Room Blackpool) Flags (Royal Exchange, Manchester) Mam I’m Ere (Life in Theatre) Eight Miles High, Council Depot Blues, Bouncers, Night Collar, Our Day Out, Shirley Valentine, Reds and Blues, Lennon, Noises Off, Canoeing for Beginners, Lost Soul 1&2, Girls Don’t Play Guitars, Golden Oldies, Come Together, Vernons Girls (Royal Court Liverpool) Twopence to cross the Mersey, Lennons Banjo and By The Waters of Liverpool (Pulse Records) SHOUT! (Max Emmerson Productions) Out of Order and It runs in the family (Ray Cooney Comedy Company) Bang Bang (A production for John Cleese at Mercury Theatre, Colchester) Omnibus (Unity Theatre) Judy and Liza National Tour (Produced by Royal Court Liverpool) Midsummer Nights Dream (Filter Theatre Company/ Lyric Hammersmith) Homebaked (Red Ladder Theatre Company) Something about George (Something About Productions) Insane Animals (HOME MCR) Cinderella (Imagine Theatre, Beck Theatre-Hayes) Beauty and the Beast, Robin Hood, A Christmas Carol (Dukes Playhouse, Lancaster) Cinderella (Imagine Theatre, Crewe Lyceum)
Marie Jones
Wardrobe Supervisor
Marie studied fashion and then moved on to theatre costume interpretation at Mabel Fletcher College. Marie’s work as a freelance costumier has included costumes for Oldham Coliseum, The Royal Exchange, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Jimmy McGovern’s film Liam, Beyond Friendship for Mersey Television and the many pantomime dames who have appeared on the Everyman stage.
She has worked extensively at the Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse and has recently been employed as full time Wardrobe Supervisor at the Royal Court. Most recently Marie’s work at the Everyman and Playhouse has included: Much Ado About Nothing, The Electric Hills, The Flint Street Nativity, The Tempest, Unprotected, Billy Liar, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolfe, Urban Legend, Fly, Breezeblock Park, The Entertainer, Still Life And The Astonished Heart, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, The Anniversary, Dr Faustus, The May Queen, Cruel Sea and All My Sons. Marie’s other credits include: Brick Up The Mersey Tunnels, Lost Soul, Good Golly Miss Molly, Stags and Hens - The Remix, On The Ledge, Misery, Eight Miles High, Council Depot Blues, Night Collar, Dirty Dusting, Shirley Valentine,
Our Day Out - The Musical, The Salon, Funny Money, Merry Ding Dong, A Fistul Of Collars, Lucky Numbers, Lennon, Scouse Pacific, You’ll Never Walk Alone, Little Scouse on the Prairie, Reds And Blues - The Musical, Ladies Day, Bouncers, Scouse Of The Antarctic, Pharaoh ‘Cross The Mersey and Down The Dock Road for Royal Court Liverpool, Brouhaha International Street Festival, Working Class Hero on the recent Imagine DVD, Costume Supervisor for many shows at LIPA, The Splash Project at MYPT and Twopence To Cross The Mersey at the Liverpool Empire.
Jamie Jenkin Video Designer
Jamie is the in-house graphic and video designer at Liverpool’s Royal Court. Starting as marketing assistant at the theatre in 2005, he has been part of the Royal Court since it’s rebirth as a theatre in 2006. He now designs artwork for all Royal Court productions alongside working on video content for the Royal Court stage and beyond.
Video Designs for Theatre include:
Alan Bleasdale’s Boys From The Blackstuff by James Graham (Liverpool’s Royal Court, National Theatre and Garrick Theatre London), A Thong For Europe, Willy Russell’s Our Day Out - The Musical, A Fistful Of Collars, Lennon, Ladies Day, Hitchhikers Guide to Fazakerley, Ladies Night, Canoeing for Beginners, The Scouse Nativity, Father O’Flaherty Saves Our Souls, A Miracle On Great Homer Street, Home, Going Halves, The Royal, The Scouse Cinderella, My Fairfield Lady, Bingo Star, Two Of Us, Royal Court Selection Box, Macca & Beth, The Scouse Sleeping Beauty, The Menlove Avenue Murder Mystery, The Scousetrap, The Scouse Jack & The Beanstalk, The Scouse Dick Whittington, Haunted Scouse, Sisters Of Mersey, The Netherely Hillbillies, Haunted Scouse, Come Together and Girls Don’t Play Guitars (Liverpool’s Royal Court); Masquerade, Knee Deep In Promises, Hey Bunny Get Loose, Stocking Fillers and Cosmic (Liverpool’s Royal Court Studio); Cured (Liverpool’s Royal Court in association with DaDaFest & Unlimited); The Dream Team and VR Family (Liverpool’s Royal Court Youth Theatre); Macbeth and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Liverpool Shakespeare Festival); Judy & Liza (National Tour); YNWA (Alterean Productions, international tour); The Big I Am (Liverpool Everyman); Celtic The Musical (Alterean Productions, Pavilion Theatre Glasgow and SEC Glasgow); Sunderland The Musical (Alterean Productions, Empire Theatre Sunderland); Something About George (Something About Productions, Liverpool Philharmonic Hall and national tour); The Salford Docker (Salford Community Theatre, Lighthouse Salford); Our Country’s Good (Hope St Theatre); and Peter Pan (Storyhouse Chester). Jamie was also Sound Designer on Hey Bunny Get Loose, Offered Up, Stocking Fillers and Cosmic (Liverpool’s Royal Court Studio) and Our Country’s Good (Hope St Theatre).
by Helen Serafinowicz
Royal Court Staff
Executive Producer Kevin Fearon
Chief Executive Gillian Miller
Head of Finance & Administration Gary O’Connor
Creative Producer Jess Bolger
Head of Marketing Kofi Ohene-Djan
Head of Operations Ailsa Morris
Executive Chef David Assall
HR & Finance Manager Alison Ward
Graphic Designer & Brand Manager Jamie Jenkin
Assistant Producer Clare Carlucci
Marketing Manager Iain Christie
Workshop Manager John Kavanagh
Social Media Officer Clara Mbirimi
Head of Technical & Production Sean Gannon
Resident Stage Manager Andrew Lock
Scenic Art Manager Jen Baron
Chief LX Jamie Haining
Box Office & Sales Manager Lauren Macauley
Assistant Box Office Manager Laura Lees
Head of Community Engagement Miriam Mussa
Well Being Training Manager Maria Schumann
Costume Supervisor Marie Jones
Finance Administrator Izzie Litwin
Venue Administrator Phil McLoughlin
Youth Theatre Coordinator Vannessa Park
Later Life Coordinator Jay McWinen
Assistant Producer - Talent Development Harvey Robinson
Daytime Technician Gary Currin
Studio Technician Phil Dickinson
LX Technician Martyn Case
HR & Payroll Administrator Gilly Taylor
Executive Assistant Joe Morris
Box Office Assistants
Erica Drummond, Finn Goulden-Jennings, Carl Lees, Scarlet Lees, Anna Miller, Pat O’Neill, Susan Segar, and Angela Simms
Fire Officer Sven Key
Stage Door Allan Dodd
Kitchen
Head Chefs Kyle Wardale
Chefs Thomas Alexander, Daniel Ambrose, Billie Chisam, Jay Quinn, Josh Eglin, Harrison Mclaughlin, Jake Stephenson, Jack While and Nick Watson
Kitchen Porters Hezekiah Abramson, Ryan Charnock, Debbie Chisam, Louise Dodd, Luke Dunn, Harry Lawlor and Ellis McNeil
Front of House
FOH Manager Kathy Hutson
Assistant FOH Managers Paul Imrie and Brendan Wright
Shift Supervisors Sammy Hunter and Mohan Welstand-Keryk
Bar Supervisors Jordan Barkely
Floor Supervisors Michael Hall and Katie Sherman
Front of House Staff Hebron Abraha, Beth Baccino, Unisa Bangura, Jordan Barkley, Hazel Bawden, Jacob Bee, Cameron Brown, Denise Byrne, Louis Carney-Smith, Sinead CullenBarret, Azize Dia, Holly Evans, Charlotte Freyne, Michael Hall, Lauren Heywood, Samantha Hunter, Lily Hutson, Leighton Jenkins, Callum Johnstone, Elizabeth Kendrick, Michael James, Charlotte Kendrick Jones, Raia Kiernan, Jackie Kirton, Cherry Kim, Takunda Kudzunga, Hansol Lee, Phil Lyne, Sam Massen, Lukas Matuzevicius, Faye McCutcheon, Joseph McGee, Phil McLoughlin, Alison Myers, Isabella Renshaw, Aiden Scott, Theo Stock-Best, Joseph O’Neil, Emma Phythian, Christiano Samuel, Katie Sherman, Charis Stead, Mohan Welstand-Keryk and Samantha Woolley.
Cleaners
Cleaning Supervisor: Debbie Chisam, Billie Chisam, Joanne Kinsella, Claire Wilson and Julie Wright.
And a big thank you to all of our freelance and security staff for their hard work throughout the year.
