Cast & Creatives – Nunsense

Millie trained at The London School of Musical Theatre and Mountview Theatre Arts.  Experience whilst Training : The Drowsey Chaperone, Merrily We Roll Along, Spring Awakening. Theatre credits include: Choreographer/Assistant Director for Most Notorious; Ensemble in Made in Dagenham – 10th Anniversary Concert; Queen of Hearts and Dance Captain in Alice in Wonderland (Italian Tour); Grandma Red and Dance Captain in Little Red Riding Hood; Ben Gunn and Dance Captain in Treasure Island; Company Manager in Ordinary Days. Millie is delighted to be part of the Nunsense company.

Selected theatre credits include: Inez in The Baker’s Wife (Original West End Cast); Marta in Kiss of the Spiderwoman (West End); Grizabella and Jellylorum in Cats (UK Tour); Godspell (UK Tour); Bet in Oliver! (UK Tour); Narrator in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (UK Tour); Rosalie in West Side Story (Leicester Haymarket); Alice in Wind and the Willows (West End); Vocalist in Rock Hard (UK Tour). Julie is excited to be joining the cast of Nunsense. She would like to thank her family and friends for their continued love and support.

Kate was awarded a DaDA to train at the Guildford School of Acting, graduating with a BA(Hons) degree in Musical Theatre and furthered her training at Associated Studios, London. Theatre credits include: Sister Mary Martin Of Tours / 1st Cover Mother Superior in Sister Act (UK Tour, Jamie Wilson Productions); Flo Manero in Saturday Night Fever (Royal Caribbean Productions); Dan in The Goal (The Courtyard Theatre, Hereford); Gerda/The Snow Queen in The Snow Queen (The Courtyard Theatre, Hereford);  Vicky in The Opposite Sex (Adonia Theatre Company); Sybil in Private Lives (Adonia Theatre Company); J-Belle in Stalking John Barrowman the Musical (Chapter Arts, Cardiff); Franny The Fairy in Dick Whittington (Tour); Doreen/Matti in Three Of The Best and Deryn in Breaking The String (both Frank Vickery); Anne in Another Bite Of the Apple (Frank Vickery, Parc and Dare Theatre); Dandini in Cinderella (Lincoln Theatre Royal); Virginia Farquhar/Nancy Allright in Death By Fatal Murder (Ian Dickens Productions, UK Tour); That’s Love (Ian Dickens Productions, UK Tour). Kate has also appeared in various short films and has recorded voiceovers for companies such as Royal Museums Greenwich and Macmillan. Kate can also be heard reading the children’s book Max and The Magic Wish on Audible.

Amelia has recently graduated from The Royal Academy of Music where she gained a Masters in Musical Theatre. Her credits whilst training included Cinderella’s Stepmother/Dance Captain in Into the Woods; Balladeer/Sara Jane Moore in Assassins; Featured Soloist/Dance Captain in Cry Baby; A Celebration of Cy Coleman and Sian/Waiter in Dinner. Amelia also holds a Diploma in Professional Dance and Musical Theatre from Bird College. Her professional credits include a featured Tap Dancer in the music video Happy Feet for the band Do Nothing, and the principal role of Eeko in Lapland UK. Amelia is absolutely thrilled to be joining this production of Nunsense and would like to thank her wonderful parents, friends, and agent for their never ending support. 

Nicola trained at Laine Theatre Arts. Theatre credits include: Dance Captain/Swing/Cover Lisa in Mamma Mia! (International Tour); Ensemble/Swing in Mamma Mia! (Prince of Wales Theatre); Ensemble in Sesame Street (International Tour); Panic in Hercules The Musical (Disney Cruise Line); Ensemble in Disney Dreams (Disney Cruise Line); Ensemble in Sleeping Beauty (Carnegie Hall, Dunfermline); Featured Dancer in Dance Explosive (Royal Albert Hall). Nicola is thrilled to be joining the cast of Nunsense and would like to thank her family for their unwavering love and support.

Credits include: Cover Nancy in Cameron Mackintosh’s Oliver! (Leeds Playhouse); Clodagh in Soho Cinders (Charing Cross Theatre, Offie Nominated for Best Supporting actress and West End Talks Award Winner for Best Supporting Actress); Rhino in Just So (The Barn Theatre, Cirencester); Diva & Shirley in Priscilla Queen Of The Desert (International Tour); Sylvia in Tim Rice’s new musical Blondel (London Premiere); Sister Mary Patrick in Sister Act (Gordon Craig Theatre); Dragon in Noisy Notes (Royal Festival Hall / U.K. Tour); Clodagh in Soho Cinders (Union Theatre); Tracey & Resident Director in You Won’t Succeed on Broadway If You Don’t Have Any Jews (International Tour &  Garrick Theatre West End); Lead Vocalist in Golden Kite (Lyceum Theatre West End); Bayla in Soviet Zion (Original London Cast); Soloist in An evening with Tim Rice (West End); Soloist in Candide (Royal Festival Hall). Screen credits include: Herself in new reality TV pilot (Multistory media), Rebecca in To Life (Series pilot). Radio and recording credits include: Bayla in Soviet Zion (Radio drama), Charlotte, THE ATTIC (concept recording and workshop). Michaela is also a West End and International Theatre Producer. As well as working independently, Michaela was lead producer at Base Productions, for Dax O’Callaghan and Aston Merrygold and produced an Essex on Stage season at The Queens Theatre,Hornchurch.

Lulu trained at The Urdang Academy. Credits include: Frenchy / Ensemble / Cover Cha Cha and Patty in Grease: The Musical (Royal Caribbean); Linda / Ensemble /Assistant Dance Captain in Saturday Night Fever (Royal Caribbean); dancer for Sky Sports (Bath Dance College); ballet dancer in The Nutcracker (The National State Ballet of Belarus). Lulu is delighted to be joining the cast of Nunsense and would like to thank her family, friends, agents and teachers for their endless support. Enjoy the show!

Ewan trained at Arts Educational Schools and holds an MA in Choreography. His Choreography for screen includes second and third season of Sex Education (Netflix) and  Renegade Nell (Disney+).

Stage credits as choreographer include: Phantom of the Opera (European Tour); Archipel (Opera Comique, Paris); Something Rotten! and Sister Act (as Director/Choreographer, both at The English Theatre Frankfurt); Candide (WNO); Barber of Seville (Garsington); The Phantom Of The Opera (Folketeateret Oslo, Teatrul National Bucharest, Dubai, Saudi Arabia and Greece); Matilda (Folketeateret, Oslo); The Yeomen of the Guard (Grange Festival); Milky Peaks (Theatre Clwyd); She Loves Me (Sheffield Crucible); Der Mond (Opera National de Lyon); L’Enfant et les Sortileges (Opera de Limoges and Britten Theatre); L’Etoile (Theatre Sao Carlos, Lisbon); Offenbach’s Fantasio (Garsington Opera); Bring It On (as director/choreographer, Southwark Playhouse); West Side Story (Future Stages/RNCM Theatre, Manchester); The Wizard Of Oz (Sheffield Crucible); 13 – The Musical (as director/choreographer, Ambassadors Theatre); Travels With My Aunt (Chichester); Ragtime (Charing Cross Theatre); What I Go To School For (Brighton Theatre Royal);  The Tales Of Hoffman (English Touring Opera); Ariodante and Giove In Argo (International Handel Festival); The Three Little Pigs (as director/choreographer, Palace Theatre/UK & International Tour – Broadway World nomination for Best Choreography); Vert Vert (Garsington Opera); Elegies for Angels, Punks & Raging Queens (Criterion Theatre); Altar Boyz (Greenwich Theatre);  The Mikado (Hackney Empire); Ha Ha Hoods! (UK tour); The Three Billy Goats Gruff, Goldilocks And The Three Bears (Singapore Repertory Theatre); The Dreaming (Rose Theatre); Mexican Hayride (Sadlers Wells); Don Pasquale (Opera Holland Park); Cabaret (Grand Theatre Swansea); Fame (Grimsby Auditorium); HMS Pinafore – Revisited (Kings Head Theatre – Offies nomination for Best Choreographer); Carousel (Broadway Theatre); Beauty and the Beast and Cinderella (Swan Theatre, High Wycombe); Aladdin (Sunderland Empire), Cinderella, Snow White & The Seven Dwarves, Jack and the Beanstalk (Palace Theatre Mansfield), Sleeping Beauty (Malvern Festival Theatre). 

Ewan has choreographed work for various drama schools including Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Guildhall, RADA, RAM, RCM, Bird College, Arts Educational Schools London, LSMT and Guildford School of Acting. 

As Musical Director: Something Rotten!, Now and Then, Sister Act, Young Frankenstein, Sweeney Todd, Cabaret (all for The English Theatre Frankfurt); Summer Holiday (UK Tour – Associate MD); Mother Knows Best (Above the Arts); Let’s go MT for HD (Above the Arts); Bananaman the Musical (Southwark Playhouse / From Page to Stage); West End Jerseys (Magnetic Entertainment); Legally Blonde (University of Cumbria);  Piaf (Charing Cross Theatre). Workshops Include: Bananaman the Musical, Girl From the North Country (Assistant Musical Director – The Old Vic)

As Keyboards/Rehearsal Pianist: Matilda (West End and UK tour); Forever Plaid (The Other Palace); Aladdin and Cinderella (both Liverpool Empire); You’ll Never Walk Alone (Queen’s Theatre, London); Tommy (Prince Edward Theatre). Following Nunsense, Mal will be Musical Director for Titanic the Musical at Bird College, London.

Sophia Pardon is an Offie nominated set and costume designer. Sophia recently designed the set and costumes for Fanny at The Watermill Theatre. Her upcoming credits include Figaro: A New Musical at the London Palladium and Midnight Cowboy at Southwark Playhouse.

Further credits include: The Wizard of Oz (Watermill Theatre); How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying (Southwark Playhouse); Once (Barn Theatre); Head Over Heels (Hope Mill Theatre); Daddy Issues (Seven Dials Theatre); Clinton Baptiste (Hackney Empire & UK Tour); The Moors (Hope Theatre); Dirty Hearts (Old Red Lion Theatre); A Christmas Carol (The Barn Theatre); How to Make a Revolution (Finborough Theatre); Gorgon: A Horror Story (VAULTS Festival); Faustus (Queen Elizabeth Hall); Neck or Nothing (Pleasance Theatre); The Little Prince (Omnibus Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Arthur and Merlin (St Paul’s Church, Covent Garden). Sophia was the assistant set designer on Bonnie & Clyde for Philip Witcomb (Arts Theatre). Screen credits include: Luti Media’s Sylvia (as set designer), Chronic in partnership with The Me Association (as production designer) and Flying Piglet Production’s Two’s a Crowd (as production designer). Installations and site-specific work include Glow Arts’ Glow Illumination Trail (Cobtree Manor Park), and The Pod (Iris Theatre, Covent Garden). Sophia designs for numerous top UK drama schools, including Arts Educational Schools London, Italia Conti, and Mountview. Other awards include shortlisting for Told by an Idiot’s Naomi Wilkinson Award, a year-long residency at the NDT Broadgate Design Studio and a best costume nomination at the Comedy Short Awards.

Peter is an Offie and Theatre & Technology Award nominated lighting designer working across mediums such as theatre, dance, opera and immersive. In 2018 Peter was nominated for two Off West End Best Lighting Awards for Black Mountain and A Girl In School Uniform (Walks In To A Bar). As well as his work on stage, Peter designed the lighting for the Garden Cinema in Covent Garden, and was a judge for the inaugural Profile Awards. Previously with The English Theatre Frankfurt: Sylvia.

Credits include: Kathy & Stella solve a Murder (The Ambassadors Theatre in the West End, Bristol Old Vic, HOME Manchester & Edinburgh Fringe); King Stakh’s Wild Hunt (The Barbican); Baby Reindeer (Bush Theatre & Edinburgh Fringe); All or Nothing (West End & on tour); What remains for us (Bristol Old Vic); The School for Scandal (UK Tour); Lady Chatterley’s Lover (UK Tour); Orlando (59E59 New York); Shrek The Musical and My Fair Lady (Mercury Theatre, Colchester); Cinderella (Queens Theatre Hornchurch); The Misandrist (Arcola Theatre); Twelfth Night (Kew Gardens); Ks6: Small Forward (La MaMa, New York); Red (Polka Theatre); Lit (Nottingham Playhouse Tour and Online); 58th Street, The Great Murder Mystery, The Greatest Night of the Jazz Age and The Great Christmas Feast (all with The Lost Estate); The Ritual Slaughter of Gorge Mastromas, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, The Priory and A Skull in Connemara (all at the Dailes Theatre, Latvia); 17 Minutes (Edinburgh Fringe); Dido’s Bar (Dash Arts UK Tour); 2020: Collections (Tara Arts); Square Go (UK Tour, 59E59 New York and Edinburgh Fringe).

Anna trained at LAMDA and works primarily in London. Credits as Sound Designer include Beyond Her Years (Almeida Theatre); What Lies Above (National Youth Theatre); Lady Dealer (Bush Theatre); Pansexual Pregnant Piracy (Soho Theatre); The Beautiful Future is Coming (Jermyn Street Theatre); The Last One (Arcola Theatre); The Wizard of Oz (Watermill Theatre); Spy for Spy (Riverside Studios); Primary Shakespeare: As You Like It (Orange Tree Theatre); Crackers (Polka Theatre); Ravenscourt (Hampstead Theatre);  I Know I Know I Know (Southwark Playhouse); The Straw Chair (Finborough Theatre). As Associate Sound Designer: Wish You Were Here (Gate Theatre); My Son’s a Queer (But What Can You Do?) (Turbine Theatre); Folk (Hampstead Theatre); Lesbian Space Crime (Soho Theatre).

Marc trained as an actor at Drama Centre London before moving into casting. For The English Theatre Frankfurt, Marc has cast The Wasp, The Two Popes, Sylvia, Something Rotten!, Now and Then, Suddenly Last Summer, Sister Act, Secret Life of Humans, The Totalitarians, Young Frankenstein, The Girl on the Train, Switzerland, The Effect, Sweeney Todd, One flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, The Children, Apologia, Cabaret, The Lion in Winter, Jekyll & Hyde – the Musical, Hand to God, Pygmalion, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Handbagged, Spamalot, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Glass Menagerie, Disgraced, Death and the Maiden, Other Desert Cities, Ghost – the Musical and Strangers on a Train.

Marc has also recently cast The Children (Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds); The Walworth Farce (Southwark Playhouse Elephant); The Way Old Friends Do (Birmingham Rep/UK Tour); Sky Comedy Rep (Birmingham Rep); The Play what I Wrote (Birmingham Rep/UK Tour); Now Is Good (Storyhouse, Chester); Bang Bang (Northcott Theatre/UK Tour); The History Boys (Grand Theatre Wolverhampton); The Comedy of Errors, Baskerville, Aladdin, Moll Flanders, Pieces of String, Much Ado About Nothing, Clybourne Park, Noises Off, Macbeth (Mercury Theatre Colchester); The Full Monty (UK Tours); The Band (West End/UK Tour) and many more.