Cast & Creatives – Untitled Love Story
Noah McCreadie is an actor and theatre maker who graduated from Oxford School of Drama in 2022. Since then, Noah has primarily focused on writing; penning two plays, two contemporary librettos and a short film. His first play, Getaway/Runaway was described by one critic as some of the most realistic writing I’ve seen in a show. In 2024, Noah founded his own theatre company, The McCreadie Company and produced his second play, titled The Glass House. It was in this production that he made his professional debut, in the role of Kai.
Alice trained at East 15 and her stage credits include: A Christmas Carol (Folkoperan Stockholm); Some Mothers Do Ave Em (UK tour); Sherlock Holmes and The Valley of Fear (Blackeyed Theatre); Hancock’s Half Hour (Apollo Theatre); The Entertainer (Curve Theatre/ Simon Friend UK tour); Vault Festival’s Origins Award winning Paper Straws (Pearshaped Theatre); A Christmas Carol (Apollo Theatre Company); and Much Ado About Nothing (Merely Theatre). Alice has also appeared in award winning Podcast Wooden Overcoats; in an audio episode of Dr Who with Big Finish Productions and plays the titular role in Wireless Theatre’s audio comedy Drayton Trench.
Jordan trained at East 15 Acting School and The Actors Class. His theatre credits include: Doctor Faustus (Lazarus Theatre Company); Romeo & Juliet (English Theatre Düsseldorf); Macbeth (Rabble Theatre).
Theatre includes: Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World (UK and World tour); One Jewish Boy (Trafalgar Studios and Old Red Lion); Snowflakes (Old Red Lion); Pufferfish (Vault Festival); Graceful (RADA Studio/Rosemary Branch Theatre); Inside Pussy Riot (Les Enfants Terribles); Biggest Tarantino Fan in the World (The Vaults Festival/Arcola); Edinburgh Test (Pleasance/Old Red Lion); Stay Happy Keep Smiling (Jermyn Street Theatre); I Found Joy in a Hopeless Place (Hackney Showrooms); Money Womb (Theatre 503); A Third (Finborough Theatre); Scarlet (Southwark Playhouse); Electra (Old Vic); Cross Purpose (Crypt Gallery); Medea (The London Theatre); The Hate Play (Box Clever Theatre); Miniaturists: The Interval (Arcola); Scarlet (Bush); The Tempest (Watford Palace); Lord of the Flies (Broadway Theatre); The Magpies The Wolves (Tristan Bates/Pleasance); Hacked (Theatre 503); The Beggars Opera (Regent’s Park Open Air).
Film includes: FEMME Feature Film, FEMME Short Film (BIFA Winner & BAFTA Nominated). Television: This Is Gay (BBC / BabyCow), The Syndicate (BBC1), Nutritiously Nicola (London Live).
Amanda trained at the Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts. Theatre credits include: Thomas (Snapper Theatre); Cinderella and The Beanstalk (Theatre503); Julius Caesar (RADA Youth Company); The Malcontent (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse). Short Film: I Choose (ie ie Productions/BBC Cymru Wales). Amanda is also a voiceover artist, she has narrated several audiobooks and dramas for Big Finish Productions including Doctor Who and the Timeslip Series.
Stephanie is an actor, writer and film director. She is a founding member of The Gazebo Effect, a writing and performance collective that creates shows and films to commission. With Gazebo she has performed in Europe, the USA, the Middle East and Africa. She has performed a seance in a Riad in Marrakesh and has played The Sea in a loose interpretation of Hamlet in Kronborg Castle, Denmark. Other notable credits include performing at the Royal Festival Hall and then Melbourne Comedy Festival as one of the co-devisors of Liz Carr’s Assisted Suicide: The Musical; performing in drag at the Soho Theatre as Prince Charming and a current voiceover commercial running on Spotify across the USA. Stephanie is delighted to be working with The English Theatre Frankfurt for the first time. @stephanierona
Previous productions for ETF include The Wasp by Morgan Lloyd Malcolm, The Two Popes by Anthony McCarten, the German premieres of The Children by Lucy Kirkwood and Girl on a Train adapted by Rachel Wagstaff. In what seems like a lifetime ago- she won the Channel 4 Regional Directors Award (now the Regional Theatre Young Director Award) enabling her to take up the role of Director in Residence at Northern Stage. Continuing as Associate Director for their UK tour of Our Friends in the North. Training also includes the National Theatre Studio. She is a regular guest Director for the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and LAMDA.
She is also on the audition panel for RADA. Productions for RADA include: Against by Christopher Shinn, Suddenly Last Summer, Something Unspoken, Kindertransport, The Five Wives of Maurice Pinder, Women of Twilight. Productions for LAMDA: Boudica, Duchess of Malfi, The White Devil and scenes from Shakespeare. Some directing highlights include: Jekyll & Hyde, a new adaptation (Story House, Chester); Lucy Kirkwood’s NSFW (Platform Theatre London); The 20th anniversary production of David Farr’s Elton John’s Glasses (Watford Palace Theatre); The Fighting Bradfords, new commission (Gala Theatre, Durham); Blue Remembered Hills (Northern Stage & UK Tour); Skylight (Teatro Dell’Orologio, Rome); The Australian premiere of the Award winning British hit comedy Calendar Girls (for Gordon Frost Organisation, Lyric Theatre, QPAC Brisbane, Theatre Royal Sydney and Comedy Theatre Melbourne); Calendar Girls (Chichester Festival Theatre and New UK Tour); Pub Quiz (New Writing North and Northeast Theatre Consortium Regional Tour). Directing for BBC Radio: Brian Friel’s Hedda Gabler (produced by Sparklab for BBC Radio 4). www.psychestott.co.uk
Lizzy trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and studied English Literature at Warwick University. Recent designs include: Dead Girls Rising (Hull Truck and UK tour); The Golden Fleece (Sheffield Theatres); Trueman and the Arsonists (The Roundhouse Camden); A Girl In School Uniform (Leeds Playhouse, New Diorama Theatre and tour); Joan of Leeds and Antigone (New Diorama Theatre); Hansel and Gretel (Theatr Clwyd); The Merchant of Venice (Stafford Festival Shakespeare); The Butterfly Lion (The Barn Theatre, Cirencester); Songlines (HighTide Theatre, UK tour); The Leftovers (Leicester Curve and UK tour); A Table Tennis Play (Walrus Theatre and Theatre Royal Plymouth).
As Assistant and Associate Designer she has worked on productions at The National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company and in the West End. Recently Lizzy has been focussing on creating ecologically informed work. In 2023 she was the first theatre designer to be offered a fully funded residency at Cove Park where she explored environmentally sustainable processes. She is currently undertaking a 12 month period of development researching eco-dramaturgy and indigenous practice, funded by Arts Council England.
Neill is a UK based Lighting Designer working on a wide range of opera, musicals, plays, dance and immersive theatre. His credits include: Don Giovanni (revival at Gothenburg Opera); Ghostbusters (Secret Cinema); The Flying Dutchman (Opera Up Close); Made in Dagenham (Mountview); Cinema Inferno (John Galliano at Paris Fashion week with Imitating the Dog); Afterite (revival for Wayne McGregor, La Scala, Milan); Katya Kabanova (revival at Teatro dell’opera, Rome); Dido and Aeneas, Jephthe, Bridgetower (all English Touring Opera); Blank (NT Connections, Dorfmann Theatre); Phantasmagoria (Coventry Belgrade); Merrily We Roll Along, Spring Awakening (Leeds Conservatoire); The Girl on the Train (The English Theatre Frankfurt); Alice’s Adventures Underground (Irish National Opera); The Dark (Fuel Theatre); Jekyll & Hyde (Chester Storyhouse); Hansel & Gretl (San Francisco Opera); In the Night Garden Live (Minor Entertainment); The Firm (Hampstead Theatre); Children of Killers (NT Connections, Olivier Theatre); Lohengrin (Greek National Opera); Mozart & Machine (Mahogany Opera); The Cutting of the Cloth (Southwark Playhouse); Dark Sublime, As is, Dessa Rose (Trafalgar Studios). As Associate LD: Everybody’s Talking about Jamie, (Apollo West End); Hansel und Gretl (ROH); 0 (Michael Clarke Company).
Recent theatre includes: The Night of the Iguana, Cruise (West End); The School for Scandal, Crooked Dances (Royal Shakespeare Company); Coram Boy, Macbeth (Chichester Festival Theatre); Twelfth Night (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); A Raisin in the Sun (Headlong); Shed: Exploded View (Royal Exchange); A Doll’s House Part 2, The Way of the World (Donmar Warehouse); Personal Values, The Habits, The Invention of Love, King James, The Divine Mrs S, Nineteen Gardens, Blackout Songs, Linck and Mülhahn, Labyrinth (Hampstead Theatre); Village Idiot, One Night in Miami (Nottingham Playhouse); Henry V (Shakespeare’s Globe/Headlong); Hamlet (Bristol Old Vic); The Children (also Broadway); Ophelias Zimmer (Royal Court); Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible Is Going To Happen, Old Bridge (Bush Theatre); The Homecoming, My Cousin Rachel (Theatre Royal Bath); Picture You Dead, Art, The Syndicate, Murder in the Dark, The Mirror Crack’d, Wish You Were Dead, The Circle, Looking Good Dead (National Tours); Playhouse Creatures, Churchill in Moscow, Humble Boy, Blue/Heart, The Distance (Orange Tree Theatre). Opera and Ballet includes: The Limit (Royal Ballet); The Marriage of Figaro (Salzburg Festival); Miranda (Opéra Comique, Paris); Hansel and Gretel (BYO/Opera Holland Park); Scraww (Trebah Gardens). Online includes: The System, Barnes’ People, The Haunting of Alice Bowles (Original Theatre); 15 Heroines (Digital Theatre). Associate Artist of Orange Tree Theatre, The Faction and Silent Opera. Awards include Off West End Award for Sound Design for Old Bridge.
Libby Ward is a Video Designer, working across theatre, film and live events. Design credits include: If/Then (Savoy Theatre); The Snow Queen (Reading Rep); The Ultimate Firework Spectacular 2024 + 2023 (Alton Towers) and Animal Farm (Creation Theatre). Associate Video Design credits include: My Neighbour Totoro (Gillian Lynne Theatre); Hello Dolly! (London Palladium); Shrek the Musical (UK Tour); Bonnie and Clyde (Garrick Theatre); Spitting Image The Musical (Phoenix Theatre); Cinderella (Imagine Theatre); The Trials (Donmar Warehouse); Extinct (Theatre Royal Stratford East).
Joseph is an actor, freelance fight director, qualified instructor of the BGSC and stage combat tutor at the London Academy of Dramatic Art. He is highly skilled in many weapon arts, applying the principles of body mechanics passed on to him by John Waller and Rodney Cottier. He has worked on the West end, at the Globe, the Watermill and many others. He is also a student of Kong dao kwan wing chun gung fu. He continues to teach stage combat for the BA (hons) professional acting, MFA classical acting, MFA musical theatre, Semester programme and Shakespeare short courses at LAMDA as well as providing fight direction for their graduating shows. He has also run workshops for LMA, Theatre Peckham and schools in the US. His latest work includes: Police cops the musical (Southwark playhouse); The great murder mystery (The Lost Estate); Fleche (Marcel productions); The Box (White Bear); Binding Agent (White Bear) and Vicious Flower (Paul Ashton). He was the fight director for ETF’s production of The Wasp.
Christina is a UK-based Movement Director and certified Intimacy Director/Coordinator, on the Bectu Union IC Registry. She works across the UK and internationally on a diverse range of productions, including opera, musicals, plays, dance, and film/TV. Christina holds an MFA in Movement Directing and Teaching from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. She is also a Senior Lecturer, teaching actor movement and intimacy practices at LAMDA, Mountview, and Leeds Conservatoire. Previous productions for ETF include Sylvia and Now & Then. As Movement and Intimacy Director credits: Farewell Mister Haffman (Park Theatre); Romeo & Juliet (Guilford Shakespeare Company/Orange Tree Theatre); When We Died (EdFringe/UK Tour/VAULT Festival); Silla (Northern Opera Group); Beg for Me (EdFringe); The False Servant (Orange Tree Theatre); Cherry Jezebel (Everyman Theatre Liverpool); Cinderella (Barn Theatre); Death and Dancing (Kings Head Theatre). As Movement Director: Ruckus (UK Tour/Southwark Playhouse/ EdFringe); Paper Tin (English Touring Opera); Straight White Men (Southwark Playhouse). As Intimacy Director: Puppy (King’s Head Theatre); Paranormal Activity (Leeds Playhouse); Bhangra Nation (The Birmingham Rep); 1984: The Immersive Experience (Hackney Town Hall); Vincent River (Greenwich Theatre); Arminio (Royal Opera House); Village Idiot (Nottingham Playhouse/Stratford East); Boudica (LAMDA); The Girl on the Train (Barn Theatre). Intimacy Coordinator credits include A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder (BBC/Netflix), and The Way (BBC – cover). linktr.ee/fulchermovement
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.
