Andy Nyman is an award-winning actor, director and writer who has earned acclaim from both critics and audiences for his work in theatre, film and television. His most recent theatre work includes the West End run of Martin McDonnagh’s Hangmen, the highly acclaimed revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Assassins at the Menier Chocolate Factory; Abigail’s Party in London’s West End, and in the original production of Ghost Stories which Andy starred in and co-wrote & co-directed with Jeremy Dyson.
Andy’s extensive television credits include Wanderlust, The Eichmann Show, Campus and Dead Set as well as his highly acclaimed performance as Winston Churchill in Peaky Blinders. This year he will be seen in the up and coming series Hanna (Amazon).
Andy’s extensive film credits include The Commuter, Death at a Funeral, Kick-Ass 2, Black Death, The Brother’s Bloom, Severance and Shut Up & Shoot Me, for which Andy won the ‘Best Actor’ award at the Cherbourg Film Festival in 2006. Later this year Andy will be seen playing opposite Renee Zelwegger in Rupert Gould’s Judy Garland film Judy and next year in Disney’s new blockbuster Jungle Cruise.
This year saw the release of the film version of Ghost Stories. Based on their own play, the film was written and directed by Andy & Jeremy Dyson. Andy stars alongside Martin Freeman, Alex Lawther & Paul Whitehouse. The film has been hailed as a ‘Modern Horror Classic’ and was recently number 16 in Empire magazines list ‘ The Great 25 Horror films ever made’.
Andy has collaborated with Derren Brown for almost 20 years. As well as co-writing and co-creating much of Derren’s early TV work, Andy has also co-written and directed 6 of Derren Brown’s stage shows winning the ‘Best Entertainment’ Olivier Award for Derren Brown: Something Wicked This Way Comes and recently won the New York Drama Desk Award for ‘Best Unique Theatrical Event 2017’ for Derren Brown: Secret. Andy’s book The Golden Rules of Acting has become a bestseller within the acting world.
Maria Friedman
GOLDE
With a string of awards to her name including three Olivier Awards and eight nominations, Evening Standard and Critics Circle Awards, and many other theatre accolades both from the West End and Broadway stage, Maria Friedman is in demand as undoubtedly one of our most successful leading Musical Theatre ladies.
Having won an Olivier Award for her one-woman cabaret, Maria Friedman By Special Arrangement at the Donmar (1995), she was then awarded a second for Best Actress in a Musical as ‘Fosca’ in the West End production of Stephen Sondheim’s Passion (1996) and again for Ragtime (2003). She has also appeared in Merrily We Roll Along, Blues in the Night, Chicago, The Witches of Eastwick l, Anna in The King and I in the Royal Albert Hall with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Lady in the Dark. In 2004 she originated the role of ‘Marian Halcombe’ in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical, The Woman in White, both in the West End and on Broadway.
She is regularly associated with the work of the composer lyricist Stephen Sondheim. She has performed principle roles in Merrily We Roll Along, A Little Night Music, Sunday in the Park with George and most recently ‘Mrs Lovett’ in concert performances of Sweeney Todd at the Barbican in 2010. She also appeared in New York, Washington and the BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, to celebrate Stephen Sondheim’s 80th birthday.
She has performed her critically acclaimed one woman shows – Maria Friedman – By Special Arrangement and Maria Friedman – By Extra Special Arrangement in several venues both in the UK and New York City, including several seasons at the prestigious Café Carlyle and has most recently performed her new solo show From the Heart to sell-out audiences and rave reviews at Crazy Coqs in Piccadilly.
She can be heard on many cast recordings; and has released several solo albums including Maria Friedman, Maria Friedman Live, Now and Then,and Maria Friedman Celebrates The Great British Songbook.
On screen, Maria joined the cast of long-running soap EastEnders playing ‘Elaine Peacock’ in 2014 and has also appeared as ‘Trish Baynes’ in the popular TV series Casualty, in an early series of Red Dwarf and as the ‘Narrator’ in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat (DVD). She was most recently seen as the ‘Mother Abbas’ on ITV’s TheSound of Music Live.
Maria appeared alongside Barbra Streisand, Liza Minnelli and Arethra Franklin at the memorial service for the late Marvin Hamlisch at the Juilliard School, New York. She had the pleasure of working very closely with the composer most recently in November 2011 on the concert platform in London. In tribute to his music she has appeared in two concerts performances of One Singular Sensation on New Year’s Eve at the Avery Fischer Hall, New York’s Lincoln Centre, accompanied by the New York Philharmonic alongside Liza Minnelli and Joel Gray, and again with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra at the Heinz Hall, Pittsburgh, with guest artists including Idina Menzel.
In 2013 Maria made her directorial debut at the Menier Chocolate Factory with a production of Stephen Sondheim’s musical Merrily We Roll Along. After a series of 5 star reviews, the Critics Circle Award for Best Musical, and a sell-out extended run it transferred into the West End and Boston. In 2015 Maria directed a widely praised production of High Society at The Old Vic, and in 2018 she directed the world premiere of new musical Dusty at Bath Theatre Royal. Maria continues to direct internationally.
Anita Dobson
YENTE, THE MATCHMAKER
Anita’s many stage appearances include Budgie (Cambridge Theatre); ‘Olga’ in The Three Sisters (Royal Court); ‘Madame Jourdain’ in Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (Royal National Theatre); ‘Donna’ in Kvetch (The Garrick); ‘Rose Weiss’ in My Lovely Shayna Maidel (The Ambassadors); ‘Kitty’ in Charley’s Aunt (Aldwych Theatre); ‘Gladys’ in The Pyjama Game (Victoria Palace); The Vagina Monologues (Arts Theatre/UK Tour); ‘Cleanthis’ in The Island Of Slaves (Lyric Hammersmith); ‘Nancy’ in Frozen (Royal National Theatre) for which she was nominated for an Olivier, Evening Standard and London Critics Award; ‘Mama Morton’ in Chicago (Adelphi Theatre); ‘Mrs Meers’ in Thoroughly Modern Millie (Shaftesbury Theatre); ‘Gertrude’ in Hamlet (New Ambassadors/UK Tour); ‘Dolly Levi’ in Hello Dolly (Theatre Royal Lincoln/ UK Tour); ‘Frau von Luber’ in Kurt Weill’s opera The Silver Lake (Wexford Festival); ‘Chris Harper’ in Calendar Girls (Noel Coward Theatre); ‘Rika’ in Two Sisters (Eastbourne and Brighton); ‘Carabosse’ in Sleeping Beauty (Richmond); Strictly Come Dancing Live!; ‘Joan Crawford’ in Bette And Joan (Arts Theatre); ‘Mistress Quickly’ in Merry Wives Of Windsor (for the RSC), ‘Jocasta’ in Steven Berkoff’s production of Oedipus (Edinburgh Festival at the Pleasance Grand.); ‘Parfait’ in Carnival Of The Animals; ‘Miss Austin’ in Crush – A Girl’s Own Musical; ‘Stella’ in the all star concert version of Follies (Royal Albert Hall); ‘Mrs Hardcastle’ in She Stoops To Conquer (Theatre Royal, Bath); ‘Madame Morrible’ in Wicked (Apollo Victoria); ‘Lady Cooper/Ma’ in The Shadow Factory (Nuffield, Southampton); ‘Eleanor’ in 3Women (Trafalgar Studio) and most recently ‘Miss Hannigan’ in Annie (UK Tour).
As ‘Angie Watts’ in EastEnders, Anita Dobson was one of the most popular characters on television, winning her the Pye award for Television Personality Of The Year, the Daily Mirror’s Actress Of The Year and the TV Times Actress Of The Year award, voted by the readers.
Other Television includes: Leave Him To Heaven, Nanny, The House Of Lurking Death, Up The Elephant And Round The Castle, Split Ends, The World Of Eddie Weary, Red Dwarf, Rab C Nesbitt, Smokescreen, I’ll Be Watching You, Dangerfield, The Famous Five, Highlander, Get Well Soon, Junk, Sunburn, The Stretch, Hearts And Bones, Urban Gothic, NCS Manhunt, Fun At The Funeral Parlour, The Last Detective, Doctors, New Tricks, The Bill, Hotel Babylone, Casualty, Katy Brand’s Big Ass Show, 12 O’clock Girls, Green Santa, Little Crackers ‘My First Nativity’, Coming Up (Hooked), Sadie J, Moving On, Pompidou, Holby City, Armada, Call The Midwife, The Worst Witch, The Rebel 1 & 2 and Torvill And Dean.
Film includes: Seaview Knights, Beyond Bedlam, The Tichborne Claimant, The Revengers’ Comedies, Darkness Falls, Charlie, Soltary, The Rise of the Krays, The Fall of The Krays, London Road (taken from the acclaimed National Theatre production directed by Rufus Norris), and The Fight.
Nicola Brown
CHAVA
Nicola trained at the Glasgow Academy of Musical Theatre Arts (GAMTA) and graduated with a first class honours degree in June 2018.
Nicola is delighted to be making her professional and West End debut in such a monumental production and would like to thank her parents and those close to her for their continued support
Harriet Bunton
HODEL
Harriet trained at Laine Theatre Arts graduating in 2012.
Theatre credits include: Hodel in Fiddler On The Roof (Menier Chocolate Factory); Lisa in Mamma Mia! (Novello Theatre), Joyce in Sunny Afternoon (Harold Pinter Theatre), Janet in The Rocky Horror Show (European Tour), We Will Rock You (Dominion) and Dolly the Fairy in Jack and the Beanstalk (Norwich Theatre Royal). Other credits include: ‘Let’s Fly To The Moon’ music video for The M’goo Project.
Dermot Canavan
LAZAR WOLF, the Butcher
Training: Drama Studio London.
Theatre Includes: ‘Lazar Wolf’ in Fiddler on the Roof (Menier Chocolate Factory) ‘Cord Elam’ in Oklahoma (Grange Park Opera) ‘George’ in The Last Tango (Phoenix Theatre) ‘Doc’ in West Side Story (Kilworth House Theatre) Major Courtney in The Ladykillers (The Watermill Theatre); Foster Wilson/Pawnee Bill/ cover Charley in Annie Get Your Gun (UK Tour); Keith in Dick Whittington and his Cat (Lyric, Hammersmith); Smee in Peter Pan (Richmond Theatre); John in Get Got (Janski Productions); Stephano in The Tempest; Tranio in The Taming Of The Shrew; Man 1 in The 39 Steps (Criterion Theatre); Male Authority Figure/ Wilbur And Edna In Hairspray (Shaftesbury Theatre); Poppineau in In The Club (Hampstead Theatre); Christmas Present/ Fezziwig and Others in A Christmas Carol (Hidden Pearl Productions); Falstaff in The Merry Wives Of Windsor (Oxford Shakespeare Company); Witch/ Porter in Macbeth (Oxford Shakespeare Company); Chorus in The Incarcerator; Luce/Courtesan/Abbes in A Comedy of Errors (Oxford Shakespeare Company); Vanity/Squire in Mother Goose (Pneuma Arts); Boswell in Office Suite (Theatre Royal); Prospero in The Tempest (Ragz Theatre Company); Al in April In Paris (White Fox Productions); C.S.M Rivers/ Arthur Boogis in The Accrington Pals (White Fox Productions).
Television: Gavin Dunn in Doctors; Colin Stephens in CUFFS; Clerk Of The Court in Dalziel and Pascoe (BBC Television); Catering Manager in Where The Heart Is (Meridian Broadcasting); Thomas Bradley in Silent Witness (BBC Television).
Commercial: Magician in Harvey’s Sofa Advert. Butcher in Tescos. Regular Character in Peugeot Channel Four Indent (Kuncklehead); Dad in Morrison’s Commercial (DKLW); Kevin in ABC 1 (Walt Disney); Dad in BT (A. V. Browne Advertising); Premiership Football (Sky Television).
Film: Janitor in Like Crazy (Ascension Productions).
Workshop: Eric and Ensemble in Rehab (Union Theatre) Bock And Others in Mephisto (MJE Productions).
Dermot is also a Playwright, and his play Third Finger, Left Hand is currently playing in Prague, after a successful run at the Trafalgar Studios.
Dermot is looking forward to taking this wonderful production of Fiddler on the Roof to a wider audience.
You can follow Dermot on Twitter and Instagram: @derrybear
Stewart Clarke
PERCHIK, a Student
Stewart’s most recent theatre work includes: Fiddler On The Roof (Menier Chocolate Factory); The Rink (Southwark Playhouse); A Streetcar Named Desire (The Curve); Assassins (Menier Chocolate Factory); The Return of The Soldier (Jermyn Street Theatre); Godspell in Concert (Lyric); Cool Rider (Duchess Theatre); Ghost The Musical (UK Tour); The History Boys, The Resistible Rise of Aurturo Ui & A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Warwick Arts Centre); Loserville (Garrick Theatre); Jason Robert Brown and Very Special Guests (Apollo); Sweeney Todd (Rose Theatre); Songs For A New World (Bridewell Theatre); Parade (The Lowry, Salford).
Television includes:Moonstone (BBC); Godfrey Abelwhite; West Side Stories: The Making of a Classic (BBC)
Film includes:Easy Virtue
Joshua Gannon
MOTEL, a Tailor
Joshua graduated from Guildford School of Acting in 2017. Since then, his theatrical credits include Curly in Oklahoma! (Gordon Craig Theatre); Paul McCartney & U/S Ringo and Bobby in Cilla – The Musical (UK Tour) and Lesser Weasel/ Cover Mole in The Wind in The Willows (London Palladium).
Theatre whilst training: Mr Black in The Wild Party; Jimmy Smith in Thoroughly Modern Millie; Lt. Brannigan/Cover Sky Masterson in Guys and Dolls; Kurt Weill/Ensemble in Speak Low (Original Cast).
Concerts: The Olivier Awards 40th Anniversary Concert (Royal Festival Hall and BBC Radio 3).
Workshops: Hugo/Ensemble in Odd: A New Musical (Perfect Pitch); Oliver De Bois in As You Like It (GSA); Agamemnon in The Oresteia (GSA). Joshua is delighted to be transferring to the West End with the Menier Chocolate Factory production of Fiddler on the Roof.
Matthew Hawksley
FYEDKA
Theatre: Fiddler On The Roof (Menier Chocolate Factory); Annie (ED/Mirvish Theatre, Toronto), Romeo and Juliet (Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company), The Winters Tale (Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company), A Damsel in Distress (Chichester Festival Theatre), White Christmas (West Yorkshire Playhouse), West Side Story (UK Tour).
Film: Murder on the Orient Express (20th Century Fox).
Molly Osborne
TZIETEL
Molly trained at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance (2018 Graduate).
Theatre whilst training: Charlotte Donne in Animus; The Witch in Into the Woods; Hope Cladwell in Urinetown and Wendla in Spring Awakening.
Molly is delighted to be making her professional and West End debut in the Menier Chocolate Factory’s Fiddler on the Roof.
Miles Barrow
LUKA/YUSSEL, the Hatmaker’s assistant
Miles is London born and bred. He started performing professionally at the age of 19. His credits include Fiddler On The Roof (Menier Chocolate Factory); Guys & Dolls at Chichester Festival Theatre, Bugsy Malone at the Lyric Hammersmith, the role of Omar in Disney’s Aladdin, Pinocchio workshop for the National Theatre playing the title role and The Lorax at the Old Vic playing the roles of brother and baby bear. His television credits include CBBC’s Scoop as the Newspaper Boy.
Philip Bertioli
MENDEL, the Rabbi’s son
Philip trained at Laine Theatre Arts.
Theatre includes: understudied and played Billy Lawlor in 42nd Street (Theatre Royal Drury Lane); Ziegfeld Tenor and understudied and played Nick Arnstein & Eddie Ryan in Funny Girl (Savoy Theatre); Joey in Warhorse (New London Theatre); Eat Pray Laugh! Barry Humphries’ Farewell Tour (London Palladium and National Tour); Josh in 9 to 5: The Musical (National Tour); Troy Bolton in High School Musical (Indonesia), Anthems, Kerry Ellis & Brian May (Royal Albert Hall), Lead Vocalist for Tokyo Disney.
Workshops include:Pinocchio (NT Studio) directed by John Tiffany.
Film and Televisionincludes: Billy Lawlor in 42nd Street (Feature Film); Galavant (ABC Studios); The Royal Variety Performance 2018 (ITV); The One Show (BBC); The Oliviers 2018 (ITV); Tonight At The London Palladium (ITV).
Fenton Gray
THE RABBI
Theatre creditsinclude: Ko-Ko in The Mikado (Gielgud Theatre), Manfred in Sunset Boulevard (London Coliseum), Gus The Theatre Cat in Cats, Pimp/Clacquesous in Les Miserables, the original casts of Blood Brothers and Top Hat and the ill-fated Out Of The Blue. He has played Ko-Ko in The Mikado numerous times over the last 25 years, for The D’Oyly Carte Opera Company (Sadlers Wells, UK Tour, BBC2) and The Carl Rosa Opera Company (UK & USA Tours), and notably with Dame Hilda Bracket as Katisha. Other G&S roles on national tour include Jack Point in The Yeomen Of The Guard for the D’Oyly Carte, Bunthorne in Patience and Sir Joseph Porter in HMS Pinafore for the Carl Rosa Opera Company, and the title role in The Sorcerer for Opera Della Luna. Other regional productions include MC in Cabaret (Leicester Haymarket), ‘Hold Me Touch Me’ in The Producers (UK Tour) & Noël Coward in Noël and Gertie (Sherringham Little Theatre). Opera roles include Goro in Madama Butterfly, Bardolph in Falstaff and Pang in Turandot.
Directing credits include:The Mikado and Iolanthe for The D’Oyly Carte Opera Company/Raymond Gubbay, Madame Butterfly for English Festival Opera at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, and tours of La Boheme, La Traviata and Carmen. He was Julian Clary’s director for three years, directing productions of Cinderella (Brighton/Richmond/Woking), and his one-man shows Amore (West Beth Theatre, New York) and Natural Born Mincer (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane & National Tour). Other notable pantomime productions as director include Cinderella with Mickey Rooney, Peter Pan with Simon Callow & Bonnie Langford, and Sleeping Beauty with Anita Dobson and Tim Vine at Richmond Theatre, where he also made his debut as a pantomime dame, playing Nurse Penny. Fenton has worked closely with writing team Charles Miller and Kevin Hammonds, directing & developing the original productions of Brenda Bly: Teen Detective, When Midnight Strikes, Hope & RSVP ASAP.
James Hameed
VLAD/ELIJAH, the Butcher’s assistant
James made his professional debut at the Menier Chocolate Factory in Spamilton and following has been in the Menier Chocolate Factory’s original production of Fiddler On The Roof.
Training: Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts. Credits whilst training include Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Parade and Damn Yankees.
His workshop credits include:This Half Life, Legend and Vibez at the Theatre Royal Stratford East.
Other Credits include:Ball & Boe Back Together Again for ITV, Ball & Boe at the O2 Arena and the ITV Gala at the London Palladium.
Adam Linstead
HERSCH, the Baker
Adam trained at the Birmingham Conservatoire and is an associate of The Royal Academy of Music.
Theatre:Farris in Broken Wings (Theatre Royal Haymarket), Co-Director of Aladdin (The Hexagon, Reading), Standby Thenardier in Les Miserables (Queens Theatre), Repertory Company in From Page to Stage: Four Showcases (Southwark Playhouse), Co-Director of Peter Pan (The Hexagon, Reading), Les Miserables (Dubai Opera), Old Deuteronomy in Cats (Germany, Blackpool & London Palladium), Leah’s Guide to Winning The Lottery – workshop (Perfect Pitch), Grantaire/Bishop + 1st u/s Thenardier in Les Miserables (Queens Theatre), Seasonal Sauce (Watermill Theatre), Editor Daily in The Cradle Will Rock (Arcola Theatre, London), Grantaire u/s Thenardier & Valjean in The 25th Anniversary Production of Les Miserables (Barbican, Paris & UK Tour), The Phantom of the Opera (Her Majesty’s Theatre), Julian in Love Shack (UK Tour), West End Girls (Opera House, Jersey), Our Miss Gibbs (Finborough Theatre), Judge Turpin in Sweeney Todd (Jack Lyons Theatre) and Closer Than Ever (The King’s Head).
Film/TV: Kenneth Branagh’s The Magic Flute and Do us a Flavour (Walker’s Crisps).
Recordings:Broken Wings (Concept Album), Take Flight, Les Miserables Live! (Grantaire)
Concert work includes: Sir Elton John (Wembley Arena/Royal Albert Hall/NEC), Chess in Concert (RAH),
Playing Our Part (Cadogan Hall), Classic Spin (St Petersburg, Russia) and the Classical Brit Awards (RAH/
ITV).
Adam Margilewski
BORIS/YUDAH, the Bagel Man
Training: Musical Theatre (BA Hons) Arts Ed in London.
Theatre: Boris/ Yudah, the Bagel Man in Fiddler On The Roof at the Menier Chocolate Factory; Trioperas, Peacock Theatre; ensemble and cover Northbrook in Mary Poppins, UK Tour; Cosmo Brown in Singin’ in the Rain, Kilworth House; Cameron Mackintosh’s Barnum, UK tour; ensemble in the critically acclaimed production of Guys and Dolls at Chichester’s Festival Theatre; ensemble in White Christmas at Edinburgh Playhouse, ensemble and cover Cosmo Brown in Singin’ in the Rain, Palace Theatre; Swing in Cats European Tour, Swing in Berlin’s production of Dirty Dancing, Ensemble in the UK tour of White Christmas. Adam’s West End debut was in Dirty Dancing at the Aldwych Theatre where he understudied and played Neil Kellerman. Adam appeared in Children Will Listen the 75th Birthday Gala for Stephen Sondheim at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, and Follies in concert at the Palladium.
Further credits include:Prophecy workshop, Heaven on Earth workshop, dancer in the Carmen Nebel Show, James and the Narrator in a workshop for Moments, a new musical at the Chichester Festival Theatre, Starkey the Pirate (understudy Captain Hook) in Peter Pan, Ensemble in BBC’s Britain at War: A Nation Remembers, Blue Peter & Children In Need.
Robert Maskell
MORDCHA, the Innkeeper
Theatre:Fiddler On The Roof (Menier Chocolate Factory); Edward IV, Brackenbury, Catesby, Richard III; Duncan, Porter, Ross, Macbeth; Friar Tuck, Reynold, Robin Hood; Longaville, Constable Dull, Love’s Labour’s Lost (all Guildford Shakespeare Company); Radio Interviewer, End of the Rainbow (UK Tour); Wilfred Cedar, For Services Rendered (Union Theatre); Michael, Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me (Broadway Studio); King Henry, Henry IV Parts 1&2 (Forty Hall Open Air Theatre); Earthworm, James and the Giant Peach; Messrs. Scoblowski & Thompson, Daisy Pulls It Off (The Watermill); Carney, A Man of No Importance (Salisbury Playhouse); Pedro, Blind Eye & Pasden, Compliance (Theatre 503); Sir Toby Belch, Twelfth Night (Iris Theatre); Victor Green, Bar Mitzvah Boy (Upstairs at the Gatehouse); Simon Palmer, White Witch (The Chelsea Theatre); Dr. Henry Shackleton, Eleanor Marx the Jewess of Jew’s Walk (Upstairs at The Sydenham Centre).
West End: Tabarro/Georges/Albin, La Cage aux Folles (The Playhouse); Trio/Max Detweiler, The Sound of Music (The Palladium).
Film: Dr. Knapp, The Therapist (RSA Films); Headmaster, Farming (Farming the Film Ltd.); Daniel, A Simple Man (Wychwood Films).
TV: Edward III, London: The Greatest City (Channel 4); Franz the horn player, Eroica (BBC).
Radio: Mr. Furnival, Orley Farm; Lord Williams, Rudolpho’s Zest; Narrator, Together (all BBC).
Robert has recorded The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes for Classic Audiobooks. He played the Narrator, Soldier and Devil in Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale at the Wimbledon International Music Festival. In a previous life Robert was, for twenty years, a French horn player and a member of The Philharmonia for ten of them. He can be heard as one of the soloists in Schumann’s Konzerstuke for Four Horns and Orchestra with Sir John Eliot Gardiner and the Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique for Deutsche Grammaphon.
Robyn McIntyre
FRAYDA, Miriam’s daughter
Robyn trained at The Urdang Academy and National Youth Music Theatre.
Stage Credits: Campbell in Bring It On: The Musical (Southwark Playhouse); Joanna in The Dysfunctional Guide to Being a Third Wheel (Workshop – The Other Palace); Tats in BRASS (Hackney Empire; Leeds City Varieties).
Credits Whilst Training: Jane Eyre in Jane Eyre (Bernie Grant Arts Centre); Sally Bowles in Cabaret (Urdang).
Robyn is thrilled to be making her West End Debut.
Gaynor Miles
SHAINDEL/FRUMA-SARAH
Gaynor Miles began her singing studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, while she was a student reading English at University College London.
Her first performances were in musicals such as The Arcadians, where she played the leading role of Sombra, at the Northcott Theatre, Exeter, Gianetta, The Gondoliers at the Bristol Old Vic, and as Elizabeth in Robert and Elizabeth at the Chichester Festival Theatre. She played Mabel in the UK tour of The Pirates of Penzance, and Paquette in the Scottish Opera/Old Vic production of Candide, directed by Jonathan Miller and conducted by John Mauceri.
Gaynor has played the title role in Offenbach’s La Belle Helene at the Kammeroper, Vienna, Musetta in La Boheme for Travelling Opera at the Barbican Centre and on tour, as well as First Lady and Queen of the Night in The Magic Flute. She appeared in the premiere of Stephen McNeff’s opera The Wasteland at the Donmar Warehouse.
For Music Theatre London, she appeared in their acclaimed, modern productions of The Marriage of Figaro (Countess), Don Giovanni (Elvira), The Magic Flute (Queen of the Night), La Cenerentola, (Ramiro), La Traviata (Flora), and Eugene Onegin (Larina).
Ellie Mullane
NAVA, a young mother
Theatre Credits include:Fiddler On The Roof (Menier Chocolate Factory); Celtic Angels Christmas, US Tour, Frenchy in Grease Cork Opera House, Jasmine in Jedward and the Magic Lamp, Olympia Theatre, Sonice in The Promise: An Irish Musical, The Helix and Leisl in The Sound of Music (Cork Opera House).
Parts played at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts: Adele in Jane Eyre, Sally Ann Gritton, Ensemble in Kiss Me Kate, Darren Lawrence, Marion Maidley in Hoods The Musical, Stephen Jameson, Tracey Candler in Lockhart, Jonathan Butterell, Louise/Betty in Sunday In The Park With George, Alex Sutton, Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, Eve Matheson, Maggie in Dancing in Lughnasa, Gary Lilburn and Ensemble in Wonderful Town Jeremy Lloyd Thomas.
Tania Newton
MIRIAM, a mother
Training: Mountview Theatre School, winning the Dame Judi Dench Scholarship.
Theatre credits: Lady Conway & understudy Mrs Henderson in Mrs Henderson Presents (Noel Coward Theatre, London & Toronto); Jennyanydots & Grizabella, Cats (national tour), Mrs Potts, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (international tour); Rosita, Murderous Instincts (Savoy Theatre); Bridget in Ragtime (Piccadilly Theatre); Miss Dilber & Mary in Scrooge (UK Tour); understudied and played Fantine & Madame Thenardier in Les Misérables (Palace Theatre); Mrs Potts and Madame de la Grande Bouche, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (national tour); Servant, premiere workshop of The Woman in White (Sydmonton Festival); Jane Thornhill, Hogarth (Bridewell Theatre); Les Misérables at Windsor Castle for HRH Queen Elizabeth II and President Jacques Shirac.
Opera credits:Madame Butterfly, Il Trovatore, La Bohème and The Mikado, English Festival Opera, (Holland Park Theatre).
Recordings: Vocals for the Les Miserables movie (Pinewood Studios), Singin’ in the Rain, 42nd Street, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, The Rocky Horror Show (TER Records at Abbey Road Studio).
Concerts:Les Miserables 25th Anniversary Concert (02 Arena), Les Misérables at the Odyssey Belfast, Bournemouth International Centre, Powderham Castle and Broadlands, Romsey. Masters of the Musicals, Songs from the West End, Bahrain & Dubai.
George Olney
KOPPEL, a Villager
Training: The Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts.
Theatre Includes: Swing/ Cover ‘Caboose’, ‘Flat Top’, ‘Engines’ and ‘Components’ in Starlight Express (Starlighthalle, Bochum); ‘Vince Fontaine/Teen Angel’ and cover ‘Roger’ and ‘Doody’ in Grease (UK Tour); ‘Dandini’ in Cinderella (Floral Pavilion); ‘Effin’ & ‘Pants’/ Cover ‘Niko’ in Eurobeat Moldova (Pleasance Grand, Edinburgh); Ensemble/ 2nd Cover ‘Jerry’ in Top Hat (UK Tour); Ensemble in White Christmas (Festival Theatre, Edinburgh); ‘Dom’ in Deepover (The Rag Factory); Ensemble/ Cover ‘Ham’ & ‘Shem’ in Children of Eden Gala Performance (Prince of Wales Theatre).
Cast Recordings: Original cast recording for Eurobeat Moldova.
Fiddler On The Roof marks George’s West End debut.
Craig Pinder
THE CONSTABLE/AVRAM
Theatre includes:Fiddler On The Roof (Menier Chocolate Factory); The Best Man (Playhouse and Tour), Veterans Day (Finborough), Floyd Collins (Wilton’s), Guys & Dolls (Tour), Walking the Chains (Bristol), Blue/Orange (Sherman), High Society (Tour), The White House Murder Case (Orange Tree), 1936 (Lilian Baylis), Death of a Salesman (Tour), Othello (Southampton), The Subject Was Roses (Hamburg), Sunset Boulevard (Comedy), Footloose (Tour), Ballad of Little Jo (Bridewell), Mamma Mia! (Prince Edward), Life During Wartime, The Cenci (Lyric Studio), Baby Doll (Birmingham), Not About Nightingales (RNT), Popcorn (Tour), Henry V, A Chaste Maid (Globe), Sunset Boulevard (Adelphi), Macbeth (Greenwich and Tour), Sweeney Todd, Hands Up, Mikado, (New Vic), Twelfth Night, A Chip in the Sugar (Eye), Romeo & Juliet, Micro-musicals (Scarborough), Assassins (Library), Little Murders, Comedy of Errors, A View From The Bridge, Romeo & Juliet (Exchange), All My Sons (Watford), Company (Exeter), Children of Eden (Prince Edward), As You Like It, Singer, The Duchess of Malfi, Moscow Gold (RSC), Les Miserables (RSC & Palace), Pravda (Worcester), The Hired Man (Leicester and Astoria), Brighton Rock (Coventry), A Touch of Spring (Harrogate). Antony and Cleopatra, Kean and The Greeks (Hartford).
Television:Search for Tomorrow (NBC), Edmond, One Day, Death of a Gentleman (BBC).
Film:The American Way, Children of God, Wind Jammers, Cargo.
Ed Wade
ASHER, Miriam’s son
Ed trained at The Dance School of Scotland and at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts.
Theatre includes: Dan & u/s Pharaoh in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Kilworth House Theatre) directed by Andrew Wright; u/s Dick in Dick Whittington (London Palladium); u/s Emmett in Legally Blonde (Monte Carlo); u/s Prince Charming in Cinderella (London Palladium); Mouse/Keiron in wonder.land (National Theatre & Theatre du Chatelet, Paris) directed by Rufus Norris; Amos/Julius/Edgar in Barnum (National Tour).
Workshops include:The Midwich Cuckoos directed by Lyndsey Turner; The Ignatius Trail; Scourge Of All Nations; The Threepenny Opera directed by Rufus Norris (all NT Studio).
As Assistant Choreographer:Dessa Rose (Trafalgar Studios).
Most recently: Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz (Birmingham Rep).
Workshop:An Officer and a Gentleman (Curve Theatre), choreographer and composer of The Storm (Curve Theatre)
Taylor also composed Behind These Walls at Hackney Empire.
Sofia Bennett
BIELKE
Sofia loves to act, sing and especially to dance!
For the last four years she has been training hard as an Acrobatic Gymnast. Last year she represented Great Britain at the European and World Championships, where her trio came fifth in the World.
Sofia performed at West End Live last summer. She is very excited to be playing Bielke in Fiddler on the Roof, which will be her theatre debut.
Lottie Casserley
BIELKE
Lottie studies at the Jayne Marie Dancing School in Hertfordshire, where she has been since age 5, studying ballet, tap, Modern, contemporary as well as drama and musical theatre. She also regularly attends Tring Park Classical Ballet Academy.
Lottie is so thrilled to be joining this amazing production, which marks her debut on the London Stage. She would like to thank her family, friends and teachers for all their support and hopes you enjoy the show.
Elena Cervesi
SHRPINTZE
Training: Sylvia Young Theatre School, The British Theatre Academy, The Ballet School.
Theatre includes: Amanda and Lavender in Matilda the Musical (Cambridge Theatre), Ginnie in Goodnight Mister Tom (Southwark Playhouse), Gretl in The Sound of Music (UK Tour), Molly in Annie Jr (Arts Theatre), ensemble in Oliver! (Minack Theatre).
Lia Cohen
SHRPINTZE
Lia has been performing since she was five years old and attended part-time theatre classes, which is where her love for singing, dancing and acting grew. Lia is now a full-time student at a renowned theatre school. Her passion is dancing, especially jazz and lyrical. Lia is making her stage debut and is excited to be performing in this show.
Lia can be seen in the soon to be released Disobedience a feature film with Rachel McAdams and Rachel Weisz.
Talia Etherington
BIELKE
Talia is extremely excited to be joining the cast of Fiddler on the Roof. She lives in Buckinghamshire with her family attends Allstars Academy. Talia is in year 6 and her favourite subjects are Maths, PE and French. She is a keen netball player and is also learning to play the guitar. Talia has played Gretl Von Trapp in the Sound of Music UK tour in 2016/17 and made her West End debut in 2018 in Les Miserables as both Young Eponine and Little Cosette. She is represented by Daisy & Dukes.
Shoshana Ezequiel
SHRPINTZE
Training: House of Talent School, Victoria Jane School of Dance.
Theatre includes: Original cast member Shonelle in School of Rock the Musical (New London Theatre 2016). Laurence Olivier Awards (Royal Albert Hall). Maggie in 13 The Musical (The Ambassadors Theatre). Ensemble in The Secret Garden (The Ambassadors Theatre). Dancer in Aladdin, Cinderella and Snow White Pantomime (The Radlett Centre).
TV includes:Michael McIntytre’s Big Show, Tonight at the London Palladium, The One Show and BBC Children in Need.
Other: Shoshana has performed at Proms in the Park and Camp Bestival with School of Rock and taken part in a Short film entitled A Dancer Dies Twice.
Isabella Foat
BIELKE
Training: Berkshire Theatre School. Isabella trains in all dance genres, acting and musical theatre and has gained numerous lead roles in local shows including the Farrer Theatre, Eton College. She enjoys playing the piano, guitar and writing stories.
Theatre Credits:Collabro Tour – BTS Choir (Hexagon, Reading).
Television/Commercial: BBC drama Motherfatherson and Kaspersky online commercial.
Isabella is thrilled to be making her West End debut as Beilke in Fiddler on the Roof. She would like to thank her Mum and Dad for their continuous support. She is represented by Daisy & Dukes.
Valentina Theodoulou
SHRPINTZE
Training: London Studio Centre.
This will be Valentina’s professional debut.
Joseph Stein
BOOK
Joseph Stein won the Tony Award and Drama Critics Circle Award for Fiddler on the Roof. His other musicals include Zorba (Tony nom., Drama Critics Circle Award); Rags (Tony nom.); The Baker’s Wife (Olivier Award nom., London); Take Me Along (Tony nom.); Juno; Irene (starring Debbie Reynolds); The King of Hearts; All About Us; and Enter Laughing: The Musical (Lucille Lortel nom., outstanding revival). He also co-authored, with Alan Jay Lerner, Carmelina; and with Will Glickman, Mr. Wonderful (starring Sammy Davis, Jr.), The Body Beautiful, and Plain and Fancy. His plays are Enter Laughing, Before the Dawn, and Mrs. Gibbons’ Boys. Stein grew up in the Bronx and first became a social worker while pursuing writing. He began his career in TV and radio, writing for The Sid Caesar Show, Your Show of Shows and Henry Morgan Show, and for personalities including Tallulah Bankhead, Phil Silvers, Jackie Gleason and Zero Mostel. On Broadway he made his debut contributing to the revues Lend an Ear (featuring Carol Channing) and Alive and Kicking. He wrote the screenplays of Enter Laughing and Fiddler on the Roof, for which he won the Screen Writers Guild Award. In 2008, he was inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame.
Trevor Nunn
DIRECTOR
His 2016 production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream means he has now directed all thirty-seven of Shakespeare’s plays. From 1968 to 1986, he was the youngest ever Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, directing over thirty productions, including most of the Shakespeare canon, as well as Nicholas Nickleby and Les Miserables. From 1997 to 2003, he was Director of the National Theatre, where his productions included Troilus and Cressida, Oklahoma!, The Merchant of Venice, Summerfolk, My Fair Lady, The Cherry Orchard, The Coast of Utopia, A Streetcar Named Desire, Anything Goes and Love’s Labour’s Lost. He has directed the world premieres of Tom Stoppard’s plays Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, Arcadia, The Coast of Utopia and Rock n Roll; and of Cats, Sunset Boulevard, Starlight Express, Aspects of Love and The Woman in White by Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Other theatre includes:The Lady From The Sea (Almeida); Hamlet, Richard II, Inherit the Wind (Old Vic); Cyrano de Bergerac (Chichester), Kiss Me Kate (Chichester & Old Vic); Heartbreak House, Flare Path, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, The Tempest (Theatre Royal, Haymarket); A Chorus of Disapproval and All That Fall (West End); Relative Values (Theatre Royal Bath and West End); The Wars of the Roses (Kingston Rose Theatre); Pericles (TFANA New York); Schikaneder (Vienna); Agnes Colander (Theatre Royal Bath). Previously at the Menier Chocolate Factory he has directed A Little Night Music, Aspects of Love, Love in Idleness and Lettice and Lovage. At Glyndebourne he has directed Idomeneo, Porgy & Bess, Cosi Fan Tutte and Peter Grimes and at the Royal Opera House Porgy & Bess, Katya Kabanova and Sophie’s Choice.
Films include:Hedda, Lady Jane, Twelfth Night and the recently completed Red Joan with Judi Dench.
Matt Cole
CHOREOGRAPHY
As Choreographer credits include:Fiddler on the Roof (Menier Chocolate Factory); The Return of the Soldier (Hope Mill Theatre & Jermyn Street Theatre); Little Baby Bum; Flashdance; The Night Pirates; Footloose; Little Shop of Horrors (UK & International Tour); The Beautiful Game (NYMT); The Sweet Smell of Success; Amour (Royal Academy of Music); Lovesick (Berkeley Rep, California & NYC Workshop); The Producers (International Tour); Em (Royal Central School of Speech & Drama); Side Show (Southwark Playhouse); Aladdin (Theatre Clwyd); Rags The Musical (Theatre Royal Stratford East); Pure Imagination (St James’ Theatre); Jerry’s Girls (St James’ & Jermyn Street Theatre); Bette Midler & Me (Edinburgh Festival & UK Tour); The Road to Qatar (Edinburgh Festival & Landor Theatre); Angelina Ballerina the Musical (UK & Australian Tour).
As Resident/Associate:Guys & Dolls (Chichester Festival Theatre, West End & UK Tour) and The International Trend Awards (NYC).
As Director credits include:Carmen La Cubana (Co-director, Chatelet Theatre, Paris
