Playing SCOTT HIPWELL

Theatrical credits include Little Baby Jesus (The Birmingham Repertory Theatre); Out of Sorts (Theatre503); and Drip Drip Drip (National Tour). 

Film and TV credits include HALO (Paramount+); Let’s Not Do This Tonight (Dir. John Jencks); Dying in the Light (Dir. Paul Schrader); Stay Woke (Dir. Michael Williams); The Touch (Dir. Simon Pitts, The Berlin Film Festival); Fantastic Beasts: Crimes of Grindelwald (Dir. David Yates). 

Playing KAMAL ABDIC

Kareem trained at Acting Coach Scotland in Glasgow, with the U.K leader in his particular field Mark Westbrook. Since graduating Kareem has explored a variety of roles in commercial, corporate, film and theatre. Most recently, Kareem had a successful 10 run at the Edinburgh Fringe with a new writing Scottish play based around a family learning to listen to each other. The type of roles he works in are certainly diverse. Immediately prior to the Fringe Kareem played the Beatles Maharishi in an ethereal play set in India.  Kareem adores the rehearsal process, exploring characters and improvising with actors, and has performed in Fringe venues in London and Watford and even to Saudi Royals in Riyadh. Kareem is now enjoying working in front of the camera too.  Recent commercials include the RBS and an international charity organisation. Kareem is scheduled to shoot his debut feature film in November, as a modern-day villain set around the shadowy streets of Glasgow. 

Playing TOM WATSON

Brinsley Terence trained at East 15 Acting School. His theatre work includes: Cyrano De Bergerac (Playhouse Theatre/Harold Pinter Theatre- West End/ BAM Brooklyn; Downstate (National Theatre); The Lark, The Winter’s Tale, The Comedy of Errors, The Cherry Orchard.  

TV includes: Eastenders, Tyrant and Murders, Mysteries and Scandals.  

Film includes: Diamanté, Isis: Conspiracy of Terror and The Down Staircase. 

Playing ANNA WATSON 

Emily Tucker trained at Drama Centre London. 

Theatre credits include:  Blithe Spirit (Duke of York, Richard Eyre); Much Ado About Nothing, Absurd Person Singular (Watford Palace); Suddenly Last Summer, Lady of the Lake, Fallen Angels (Theatre by the Lake); Fortune’s Fool (Old Vic); A Warsaw Melody (Arcola); The Man Who Pays the Piper, The Stepmother (Orange Tree); King Lear, Twelfth Night, Henry V, Legend of King Arthur (Guildford Shakespeare Company); As You Like It, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Actors’ Church); Shiver (National Theatre Studio/Theatre6). 

Film credits include: The Convent, The Seasoning House (Sterling Pictures); Embraceable You (Lockdown Lives); Lady Macbeth (Arty arty Ltd); The Long Walk Home, Stuck (Nine Yards Films), Apocryphal (Last Dog Films). 

TV credits include: Not Safe For Work (Channel 4) 

Playing MEGAN HIPWELL 

Sophie Walter trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. She made her Television debut on Grantchester (ITV) and will next be seen featuring in Riches (Amazon). Since graduating, she has also appeared on stage in Girls with Wings (Bomb Factory Theatre), alongside featuring on several radio productions; Kingmaker: Winter’s Pilgrims (Allegra Productions for Towton Audio) and The King Must Die (BBC Radio 4). 

ADAPTOR 

Duncan Abel co-adapted The Da Vinci Code (2022), which toured the UK. His adaptation of The Girl on the Train transferred to the West End following a successful UK tour (2018). His radio play, co-written with Rachel Wagstaff, was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2013. Also with Wagstaff, he co-wrote Isambard Kingdom Brunel for Sing London. Duncan’s short fiction has appeared in numerous literary anthologies, most recently Comma Press. He is currently under commission to several UK theatre producers.   

SET & COSTUME DESIGNER 

Charlotte is a London-based set and costume designer, she is a graduate of the design course at the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Australia. Recent design credits include: The Marriage of Figaro (Waterperry Opera Festival); 4 Walls (Derby Theatre); SHEWOLVES (Touring production); The Seagull (Dramaten – Royal Dramatic Theatre Sweden); MAGDALENE (Arcola Theatre); The Moors (LAMDA); Three Sisters(LAMDA); Silk Moth (Arcola Theatre); What Fatima Did… (Derby Theatre); and The Shy Manifesto (UK Studio Tour). 

Associate credits include: Rockets and Blue Lights (National Theatre); Jenufa (Royal Opera House); Sweeney Todd (Zurich Opera House); Madama Butterfly (Bregenzer Festspiele); Wings (The Young Vic); Die Tote Stadt (Komische Oper); Billy Bud (Teatro Real). 

FIGHT DIRECTOR 

Kaitlin qualified as a Stage Combat instructor in 2005, is a teaching and examining member of The Academy of Performance Combat and is one of only three women on the Equity Register of Fight Directors. Also trained as an actress, her role in The Alphabet Girl won her a 2014 Manchester Theatre Award for Best Fringe Performance.  

Theatre Fight Direction includes: The Famous Five (Theatr Clwyd, Chichester Festival Theatre); Tom, Dick & Harry (The New Vic, Stoke); Habibti Driver (Bolton Octagon); Life is A Dream, The Scent of Roses (Edinburgh Lyceum); Red Ellen (Northern Stage, Nottingham Playhouse, Edinburgh Lyceum); The Jungle Book (The Dukes, Lancaster); Guards at The Taj (Theatre By The Lake, Keswick); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Our Country’s Good (The Tobacco Factory, Bristol); The Effect, A Skull In Connemara, Jack and The Beanstalk, Aladdin, The Jungle Book (Oldham Coliseum); The Merry Wives of Windsor, Romeo and Juliet (Storyhouse, Chester); Hushabye Mountain, A Kidnapping, Orphans, The Trial, The Pride, Hamlet (Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester); Twelfth Night, Arcadia, The Illusion (HOME, Manchester); The Sweet Science of Bruising, Blue Stockings, Playhouse Creatures (Capitol Theatre, Manchester); Posh, Decades, Game, Alice in Wonderland, Treasure Island, Scuttlers (Wigan Pier); Robin Hood, The Doncastrian Chalk Circle (Cast, Doncaster); Drych (Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru); Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth (The Epstein Theatre, Liverpool); The Little Mermaid (Liverpool Everyman); The Comedy of Errors (Greenwich Playhouse); Killer Joe (The Pleasance Theatre, London).  

Film and TV Fight Direction includes: So Awkward Series 3 & 4 (CBBC); Crimewatch (BBC); Clouds (V-PAC Productions); Blank… (KenMor Films).