CAST

RICHARD CLEMENTS MR. FOX

Richard is from Bangor, he studied French/ Spanish at Queens and Drama at The Royal Welsh College. Theatre includes: Jimmy’s Hall, Let The Right One In, Abbey Calling (Abbey), The Weir (Sherman), Northern Star, Pentecost, Spokesong (Rough Magic), Group (Belfast Ensemble), Lally The Scut, Summertime, Caught Red Handed (Tinderbox), Spoiling (Traverse - Fringe First Winner), Arguments For Terrorism (Oran Mor), Transparency (Ransom), Over The Bridge (Green Shoot), The Old Curiosity Shop (Gate), Oh What A Lovely War, Confusions, Blue Remembered Hills (Bruiser), Lovers (Big Telly), Zoo Story, Time Flies, Dream Sleep Connect, Stitched Up (C21), Titanic Boys (GBL), The Dreamer Examines His Pillow (Stray Dawg), What The Butler Saw, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (Rawlife).

Lyric credits: Pride and Prejudice, Cinderella, The Miser, Observe The Sons Of Ulster, Paradise,The Wizard Of Oz, What The Donkey Saw, What The Reindeer Saw.

TV: Three Families, Traces, Dave Allen At Peace, EastEnders, The Fall, Wodehouse In Exile, Silverpoint (BBC), Fearless, The Frankenstein Chronicles (ITV), Almost Never (CBBC), Ted’s Top Ten (CITV), Scapegoat, Betrayal Of Trust, S.O.S The Titanic Inquiry, At Water’s Edge (BBC NI).

Film: A Christmas Star, Good Vibrations, Keith Lemon The Movie, Titanic Town, Free Spirits.

Recent radio includes Blackwater (Radio 4).

Richard is also an accomplished songwriter. He recently released the album “Mosaic”. He is currently developing a one man show based on an audio project www.howtoburyadeadmule.com created during lockdown.

Richard Russell Edwards Red Lobster

Born in Bristol, lives in London. Trained at Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama.

Theatre credits include: Sasha Regan’s all male HMS Pinafore (Union Theatre, Hackney Empire, UK Tour), Sasha Regan’s all male The Pirates of Penzance (Hackney Empire, UK Tour & Palace Theatre West End), Sasha Regan’s The Mikado (UK Tour), Sasha Regan’s all male Lolanthe (UK Tour), Alice In Wonderland (The Madinat Theatre Dubai) and Jesus Christ Superstar (Ljubljana Summer Festival Theatre, Slovenia).

Winner of Craig Dodd Theatre Prize - Actor in a Featured Role - HMS Pinafore 2013.

Eimear trained at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland on the BA Acting degree and graduated in 2020. Before this she completed the Lyric Theatre’s Drama Studio course in 2015.

St. Joan (Lyric Theatre Belfast), Before You Go (Kabosh), Tragik Plastik (Tinderbox), Pinocchio (Citizens Theatre Glasgow), Love and Information (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland), Middletown (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland), Blue Stockings (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland), The Seagull (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland), Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland), Lud-In-The-Mist (BBC Radio 4), Bog Girls (BBC Radio), The Haunted Hotel (BBC Radio Scotland), 2020 BBC Carleton Hobbs Runner Up Award.

Born in Grimsby, England and currently living in London, Christopher trained at Italia Conti Academy of Dramatic Arts

Lyric Theatre credits: Peter Pan: The Musical, Hansel + Gretel, Molly Wobbly’s.

Other Theatre includes All male Iolanthe (Various), Mr Popper’s Penguins (The Children’s Theatre, Minneapolis) The Giant Jam Sandwich (New Perspectives, UK tour), Dr Longitude’s Marvellous Imaginary Menagerie, Alice’s Adventures Underground (Various), Cosi (King’s Head Theatre), Molly Wobbly (Leicester Square Theatre, London), Tinseltown, Hunchback The Musical (Theatre at the Mill); Macbeth, The Comedy of Errors, Midsummer Night’s Dream (Festival Players Tour), Double Bed (Dandelion Productions), The Next Big Thing (Leicester Square Theatre), The Three Little Pigs (Greenwich Theatre), Canterbury Tales (British Museum), Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens (Black Box, Belfast), In The Spotlight (UK Tour), The Comedy of Errors (Brockwell Park), Richard III (Brockley Jack), Edges (C Venues, Edinburgh), The Happy End (Chelsea Theatre), Not About Nightingales (Landor), Piaf (Rocket, Edinburgh).

Film credits include: The Shot, 2 Minutes,Triple Jeopardy.

Cast recordings include: One Night Stand, Tinseltown, Molly Wobbly’s Tit Factory, Pilate’s Wife, Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens, Peter Pan: The Musical, Pinocchio: The Greatest Wonder of the Age Demo recording.

Commercials include: GiffGaff, Samsung, Regaine, McDonalds.

Allison Harding Swallowfire

Trained at Arts Educational School Drama Department 1982-85, Allison is an actor musician, born in Portsmouth and now lives in Belfast.

For the Lyric theatre: Nancy: Oliver! 1995 (Robin Midgely), Queen of Hearts: Alice The Musical (Paul Boyd), Ruth: Pirates of Penzance Belfast Ensemble (Conor Mitchell), Jess Hook: Peter Pan (Paul Boyd), Ralph: Kiss Me Kate (NI Opera), Mrs Thistlewaite: Dear Sprit (Tara Lynne O’Neill).

Television and Film: Sal Pucino: Nova Jones (CBBC/RTE/Fergal Costello), The Actress: Old Friends & Other Days (NI Opera/ Cameron Menzies), Head Washerwoman: Beauty and The Beast (Disney/Bill Condon) Waterloo Ensemble: Mama Mia! Here we go Again! (Ol Parker), Farmer: Stills commercial, Bank Of Ireland, Security Officer: Crunchy Nut Cornflakes, Into Action, The Bill, London’s Burning and Moses Jones for BBC

Theatre: The Witch: The Grimm Hotel (Cahoots NI/Paul Mc Eneaney), Automated Voice: A Ticket to Identify (The Mac/Oisin Kearney), Helen Wormer: Centralia (Harry Harris and Lucy Jane Atkinson), Mary Lazuras: Sister Act (London Palladium and Touring/ Whoopi Goldberg/Craig Revel-Horwood), Baruska: Once (Phoenix Theatre London/ Barbara Brocoli/John Tiffany), Miranda: Return to The Forbidden Planet (Cambridge Theatre London/Bob Carlton), Queenie:

From A Jack to A King (Ambassadors Theatre London/Bob Carlton), Grace and Lowbutt: Honk! (Watermill Theatre/Sarah Travis/ Queens Theatre Hornchurch) Martha: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Lucy Lockett: Beggars Opera, Bridgit Baines in A Chorus of Disapproval, Lady Macbeth: Macbeth, Bet: April in Paris, Landlady in Two All directed by Bob Carlton and Matt Devitt.

Olivier Award for Best Musical: Return To The Forbidden Planet by Bob Carlton 1989.

Michael was born in Dublin and currently lives in London.

Training: Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.

Theatre includes: Henry V (Pop-Up Globe, Melbourne/Aukland), As You Like It (PopUp Globe, Melbourne/Aukland), Once: The Musical (Olympia Theatre/Charlotte Theatre), Carmen the Gypsy (Arcola Theatre), Easter Rising And Thereafter (Jermyn Street Theatre), Catch Of The Day (Touring), The Playboy Of The Western World, An Apple A Day (LIR), Bi (Rich Mix), The Greene Card (The Space), A Play For Bad Actors (Back Loft), Ourselves Alone (Samuel Beckett Theatre), Spring Awakening (Everyman Palace Theatre).

Theatre while training: The Commune, Blue Stockings (RCSSD).

Christina Nelson Lady Cat

Christina Nelson is a highly acclaimed actress, director and writer with her work being presented all over the world. Recently she has appeared in a series of plays touring throughout Northern Ireland. The latest Aisling Award nominated appearance being in Is That Too Hot, the follow-up to Patricia Gormley’s I’ll Tell Me Ma.Nelson has just finished performing as Betty in the sell-out show and online sensation Belfast Girls at the MAC and as Masie in Big Telly’s premiere of The Worst Café in the World as part of the Belfast International Arts Festival which is set to tour Ireland in 2020.

TV/Film credits: History Makers (director, Stephen Pierce); Armchair and Rocket (BBC); My Mother and Other Strangers (BBC, director Adrian Shergold).

‘Nelson, one of Northern Ireland’s finest character actors... displays faultless comic timing through dizzying personality switches.’ - The Stage (I’ll Tell Me Ma)