LIAM HORRIGAN

as ‘Sam’

Liam is an actor and writer from Essex. 

TRAINED: Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. 

BARN THEATRE: Ben Hur.  

THEATRE INCLUDES: The Play That Goes Wrong (Duchess Theatre, West End); Cluedo (UK tour); Cluedo 2 (UK tour); Cockfosters (Southwark Playhouse); The Play That Goes Wrong (UK tour); The Devils (Embassy Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Webber Douglas Studio). 

AUDIO INCLUDES: The Queen Philippa (2handers/BBC); Writer/Performer in DMs Are Open (BBC Studios). 

FILM INCLUDES: Third Bench on the Left (CPO Productions). 

OTHER: Liam has written and performed as part of the award-nominated sketch duo Horrigan & Howell for both stage and audio, including in the shows A Sketch Too Far and Two’s a Crowd. Their audio series Horrigan & Howell: Sketch Tonic is currently available on all podcasting platforms. 

GEEBS MARIE WILLIAMS

as ‘Jessica’

Geebs is a Bristol-born actor with a strong background in devising and ensemble-driven theatre. Geebs moved to London in 2021 to study a Masters as ARTSED. She is passionate about continuing to collaborate with Bristol based artists and thrilled to be performing back in the South-West with the Barn Theatre. 

TRAINED: ArtsEd. 

THEATRE INCLUDES: Bobby and Amy (OSO Arts Centre); Skyvers (Almeida Theatre); The Lesson (Theatre503); Heretics (Union Theatre); Lucre (Park Theatre); Thirst (The Vaults); Limelight, Off Peak (Bristol Old Vic); The Impracticality of Womanhood (Loupe Theatre); The Time Travelling Detective (Travelling Light Theatre).  

OTHER: Geebs has worked extensively with Bristol Old Vic, training and performing with their Made in Bristol course before working as an Actor and Writer for their Heritage Department. In Bristol, she has also collaborated with Loupe Theatre and Travelling Light Theatre Company. 

ROSANNA MILES

as ‘Fiona’

Rosanna grew up in Birmingham and began her professional career at just 8 years old when filming a BBC TV series called Specials at Pebble Mill Studios, where The Archers was being recorded. This ignited a love of radio drama and passion for new writing, which is why Rosanna is thrilled to be playing “Fiona” in the original cast of Haywire. 

TRAINED: Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. 

THEATRE INCLUDES: Richard, My Richard (by Philippa Gregory, National Theatre Studio); “Judy” in Home, I’m Darling (by Laura Wade); “Elvira” in Blythe Spirit (by Noel Coward); “Brooke” in Noises Off (by Michael Frayne); Absurd Person Singular; Taking Steps; How the Other Half Loves; Communicating Doors (by Alan Ayckbourn); “Sarah” in A Daughter’s A Daughter (by Agatha Christie); “Cherry” in September Tide (by Daphne du Maurier); “Patty” in The Fool (by Edward Bond); “Claire” in Islanders (by Samuel Bailey); “Esme” in Walking the Tightrope (by Mike Kenny); “Nancy” in Gas Light (by Patrick Hamilton); Caught in the Net; Out of Order; Tom, Dick and Harry (by Ray Cooney); Cowardy Custard and Peace in our Time (by Noel Coward.) 

RADIO INCLUDES: Moominsummer Madness (currently available to listen on BBC Sounds); Christmas Pudding (BBC Radio 4) Doctor Who; Dracula; Riversong; Jago & Litefoot; Bernice Summerfield (Big Finish); The Reign of Terror and Cat of Bubastis (Heirloom Productions). 

FILM INCLUDES: Assassins Guild, “Griff” in Warchief (Amazon Prime). 

TV INCLUDES: Doctors (BBC); “Tracy” in The Grimley’s (ITV). 

OLIVIA BERNSTONE

as ‘Abbie’

TRAINED: London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art; The Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, New York.  

THEATRE INCLUDES: The White Factory (Marylebone Theatre); Birdsong (No1 UK Tour); The End of the Night (Park Theatre); Treasure (Finborough Theatre); Breaking Gadd (Soho Theatre); Anyone for Tea? (Les Enfants Terribles); Barefoot in the Park (Frinton Summer Theatre).  

FILM INCLUDES: Fighting with My Family (Seven Bucks Productions/Film4); Hungry (Signature Entertainment). 

TV INCLUDES: Mood (BBC3); Finding Alice (ITV); Bulletproof (Sky One); The Good Ship Murder (Channel 5); Humans (Channel 4); The Rebel (UKTV Gold). 

ANTHONY GLENNON

as ‘Martin’

TRAINED: Mountview.  

THEATRE INCLUDES: What’s In A Name?, Travels With My Aunt, and “Dr Watson” in both Sherlock Holmes: The Sign of the Four and Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery (Vienna’s English Theatre); The Murderess (Shooting Fish); Twelfth Night, Great Expectations (Attic Theatre Company); It’s A Wonderful Life, Hamlet, Summer Lightning, The Grapes of Wrath (Pitlochry Festival Theatre); The Jungle Book, The Wind in the Willows (Sixteen Feet).  

RADIO INCLUDES: Doctor Zhivago, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Shylock, The Sea, Edge Falls, A Regent’s Tale, High Table, Lower Orders (BBC); Dr Who – Paper Cuts, Dr Who – The Company of Friends (Big Finish); Mrs Lirriper, The Walnut Bureau (First Writes); The Christmas Mysteries (Unique).  

WRITING INCLUDES: Co-writing the audio production of Tales of Gigglesbottom and Hebble House (Beyond the Wardrobe). 

KIERAN BROWN

as ‘Adrian’

TRAINED: Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama. 

THEATRE INCLUDES: Made in Dagenham in Concert (London Palladium); The Crown Jewels (West End); “Mr Paravicini” in The Mousetrap (UK tour); “Ram’s Dad/Coach Ripper” in Heathers: The Musical (The Other Palace); “Murdoch” in Titanic (World Tour); Cover “Phantom” in The Phantom of the Opera (Her Majesty’s Theatre); Pipe Dream (Union Theatre); Tick, Tick… Boom! (Vienna Theatre Project); “Elphaba’s Father/Dr Dillamond/Wizard” in Wicked (Apollo Victoria); “The Actor” in The Woman in Black (International Theatre Vienna); u/s “Raoul” in Love Never Dies (Adelphi Theatre); “Algernon” in The Importance of Being Earnest (English Theatre, Vienna); “Fueilly” in Les Misérables (Palace Theatre). 

TELEVISION INCLUDES: Taggart (STV); Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) (BBC1); Anatomy of an Enigma (Channel 4); Andrew Marr’s Great Scots: The Writers Who Shaped a Nation (BBC1); Traces (BBC). 

OTHER: Kieran is also an original member of one of the UK’s most successful vocal groups, The Barricade Boys, with whom he performs regularly. 

JAMES MACK

as ‘Jonty’

TRAINED: Guildhall School of Music and Drama.  

THEATRE INCLUDES: “Edward” (Cad) in The Autobiography of A Cad by Ian Hislop & Nick Neman, Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing, Spike, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Rivals, Macbeth, Journey’s End (Watermill Theatre); Spike (UK Tour); Burke & Hare (New Wolsey Theatre); Cinderella, One Man, Two Guvnors (Torch Theatre); Robin Hood (The Old Market Theatre, Brighton); Ragtime (Charing Cross Theatre); The Provok’d Wife (Go People and Tour); Dr. Faustus (Matchstick Theatre Company); Mermaid (London Shuffle Festival); This Heaven (Finborough Theatre); Hay Fever (Duke of Yorks, West End); A Christmas Carol (Old Red Lion); Julius Caesar (Sam Wanamaker Festival, Shakespeare’s Globe); The Jailer’s Tale (ArtsDepot); Confusions, The Insect Play (Theatre Royal Haymarket).  

FILM INCLUDES: Embryonic (Door 77 Films). 

TELEVISION INCLUDES: Bad Snappers (Comedy Central).  

TIM STIMPSON

WRITER

Tim Stimpson was born in Wolverhampton and was brought up in the new town of Telford in Shropshire. In 1998 he made the long and arduous journey all the way to Birmingham. 

Tim had always imagined he would become a director or an actor, but while studying English and Drama at the University of Birmingham he became interested in writing. Having taken a module taught by the playwrights Mark Ravenhill and Fraser Grace, Tim decided to stay on and do an MPhil in Playwriting Studies. During this time he was writing trial scripts for Radio 4’s The Archers and just a few weeks after leaving university he was asked to join the team. Since then he has penned almost five hundred episodes, as well as writing for EastEnders and Doctors (BBC One), and devising four seasons of Ambridge Extra (Radio 4 Extra). He recently began writing for Casualty (BBC One) 

In 2017 Tim was nominated for a BBC Audio Drama Award for ‘Best Series or Serial’ for his work on The Archers, which went on to win the award for ‘Outstanding Contribution’ and an ARIA for ‘Radio Moment of the Year’. In 2019 an episode Tim wrote won a Mind Media Award. 

When Tim isn’t writing TV or radio he writes for theatre. Between 2003 and 2010 he worked extensively with Net Curtains Theatre Company, first becoming an associate writer and then co-artistic director. His plays have been performed at the Soho Theatre, the Southwark Playhouse, the Arcola Theatre, Studio Salford, Old Joint Stock, New Wolsey Studio and Margate’s Theatre Royal. He is now a member of BOLDtext Playwrights, a collective of professional Midlands-based writers whose work is performed regularly at the Birmingham Rep. They have recently branched out into site-specific work. 

In his spare time he keeps himself busy as Deputy Chair of the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain, and providing workshops/training for organisations including BBC Academy and Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Tim still lives in Birmingham with his wife, his daughter, and his feline writing partner Penny. 

JOSEPH O’MALLEY

DIRECTOR

Joseph is a frequent collaborator of the Barn, an Archers fan and the first cousin (twice removed) of Godfrey Baseley. Joseph can often be found directing at drama schools throughout the UK. 

TRAINED: Guildford School of Acting. 

BARN THEATRE: Some Mothers do ‘Ave ‘Em, Around the World in 80 Days, Ben Hur, The 39 Steps, The Hound of the Baskervilles, One Minute. 

THEATRE INCLUDES: The Dinosaur Show (Southwark Playhouse); The Ugly Duckling and Other Stories (Lichfield Garrick and several UK tours); A Christmas Carol (Lichfield Garrick and several tours); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Scoot Theatre). 

DIGITAL INCLUDES: The Three Musketeers starring Robert Lindsay (digital audio animation); Bard from the Barn (digital monologue series). 

ALFIE HEYWOOD

SET & COSTUME DESIGNER

Alfie is delighted to be asked to design Haywire, which will be his sixth production working for the Barn Theatre. 

BARN THEATRE: Room 13, Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em, Treasure Island, Private Lives, The True Adventures of Marian and Robin Hood.  

THEATRE INCLUDES: Adrian Mole the Musical (Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch); Ellen and Rigby, A Greasy Spoon, Vernon’s Girls, Lost in Colomendy, Netherley Hillbillies, Offered Up, Omnibus (Liverpool’s Royal Court); A Monster Call’s, Wendy and Peter Pan (Watermill Theatre); Twelfth Night (Stafford Gatehouse); Guys and Dolls, Start (Mountview Academy);  Nora: A Doll’s House, The Ballad of Maria Marten (Rose Bruford); Lord of the Flies (Greenwich Theatre); Unspoken Spoken (Candoco Dance Company).  

ASSOCIATE THEATRE INCLUDES (to Designer Christopher Oram): Turn of the Screw, Platee (Garsington Opera); Bitter Wheat (Garrick Theatre, West End); Geisha (Northern Ballet); The Mirror and the Light (Gielgud Theatre, West End); The Wreckers (Houston Grand Opera); Backstairs Billy (Duke of York’s Theatre, West End); The Artist (Theatre Royal Plymouth); Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Goodman Theatre, Chicago); La Traviata (Sante Fe Opera); and most recently Alice in Wonderland (Tulsa Ballet). They are currently working on a design for Norwegian’s National Ballet production of Romeo and Juliet opening in 2025.  

AMANDA PRIESTLEY

SOUND DESIGNER

TRAINED: Studied composition at Huddersfield University, and at the RSAMD with Sir James MacMillan and John Maxwell Geddes. 

BARN THEATRE: A Role to Die For, Constellations, Sherlock Holmes and the Whitechapel Fiend. 

THEATRE INCLUDES: The Gift (Park Theatre); The Silver Cord (Finborough Theatre); The Trials (Nottingham Playhouse); Connect Up: Firewall (Derby Theatre); R&D on The King Stone (Nottingham Playhouse); Good Morning, Midnight; Small Journeys – collaborations with writer and director Lucy Campbell (Harrogate Theatre and Leeds Playhouse); Strangers on a Train, Macbeth, Rabbit Hole, The York Realist, The Innocents (The Little Theatre, Leicester); Bothered and Bewildered, The Long Road, Be My Baby, The Pillowman, Things I Know To Be True, The Girl on the Train, Blood Brothers, Bull, Skylight (Harborough Theatre). 

RADIO INCLUDES: BBC Radio Commissions include a setting of T.S.Eliot prize-winner Joelle Taylor’s Atlas for R3 poetry programme The Verb; Fingerprints and Lightbulbs for R4’s Short Cuts; and BBC Bitesize GCSE Biology podcast. 

AWARDS INCLUDES: In 2022/23, Amanda was selected for BBC Sound First, which aims to identify the best emerging sound design talent in the UK. 

ADAM FOLEY

LIGHTING DESIGNER

TRAINED: University of Hull.

BARN THEATRE: A Role to Die For, Some Mothers Do ‘Ave’ Em, I’m Sorry Prime Minister I Can’t Quite Remember, Around the World in 80 Days. 

THEATRE INCLUDES: A Christmas Carol (Derby Theatre); These Majestic Creatures (The SJT); Pop Music, The Culture, and Our Mutual Friend (Hull Truck Theatre); The Wedding Party (Oldham Coliseum); Sanctuary, Taxi, My Voice Was Heard But It Was Ignored and Smile Club (Red Ladder); Small Wonders (Punchdrunk); The Jungle Book (The Dukes); Patient Soldier (Storytime & Seven Dials Theatre);To the Moon and Back (Concrete Youth); Sh!t Life Crisis, Dead Girls Rising, The Golden Fleece, A Super Happy Story (About Feeling Super Sad), Pig, and Small Plans (Silent Uproar); The Merry Wives (Northern Broadsides); We Used To Be Closer Than This, Robin Hood, The Little Mermaid, Cinderella, Aladdin and Dick Whittington (Middle Child);  Sleeping Beauty and Aladdin (CAST); John Proctor is the Villain (Leeds Conservatoire) and Imaam Imraan (NYT). 

OTHER: Adam is the Head of Production at the new writing company Silent Uproar and was one of the ALD Lumières for 2020. 

EMILY JONES

CASTING DIRECTOR

BARN THEATRE: A Role To Die For, Room 13, Henry V. 

THEATRE INCLUDES: Twelfth Night, Henry V, Richard III and Present Laughter (Changeling Theatre); Silence (Tara Theatre); The Boys are Kissing (Theatre 503); Jules & Jim (Jermyn Street Theatre); Seeds (Pleasance Theatre); Never Not Once (Park Theatre); Gaslight (Watford Palace Theatre); Much Ado About Nothing (Dubai Opera House); Blue/Orange (Birmingham Rep); Our Lady of Kibeho (Royal & Derogate/ Stratford East); Out Lying Islands (Atticist/Kings Head); Hidden (Forest Forge Theatre).