Open Air Theatre

Creative Team:

Director Timothy Sheader
Timothy read Law with French at the University of Birmingham and then became a Trainee Director at the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond followed by an Assistant Director with the RSC for two years.

Directing includes Twelfth Night (Regent's Park Open Air Theatre), Hobson's Choice, The Clandestine Marriage and Love in a Maze (Watermill Theatre), Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella and The Three Musketeers (Bristol Old Vic), new plays The Star Throwers and Unless (Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough) and Misconceptions (Derby Playhouse). He directed Streetcar to Tennessee (Young Vic), Achilles (Edinburgh Fringe First) and Wild, Wild Women (Orange Tree). He has also directed national tours of Shaw's Arms and the Man, The Vagina Monolgues and Annie Get Your Gun. At the Sheffield Crucible he directed Piaf and Sweet Charity (TMA Best Musical). He has also developed and directed the world premiere of the new musical Imagine This at Plymouth Theatre Royal.
Designer Yannis Thavoris
Choreographer Stephen Mear
Lighting Designer Simon Mills
Orchestrator Steven Edis
Sound Designer Mike Walker
Musical Director Philip Bateman
Casting Director Ginny Schiller

Cast:

Rachel Archer : Ensemble
Paul Bentley : Dufresne
Thomas Borchert : Gaston
Thomas Borchert is a leading man in German musical theatre and is best known for starring in Jekyll & Hyde as Jekyll/ Hyde (Award as Best Male Actor in a Musical), the Phantom in the 20th Anniversary production of Sir Andrew Lloyds Webber’s The Phantom Of The Opera, Count von Krolock in Roman Polanski’s Dance Of The Vampires in the premiere productions in Hamburg and Berlin, and Count Dracula in Frank Wildhorn’s Dracula.

His previous solo albums (music & lyrics by Thomas Borchert) include Ruthless Love Songs, The Best Of Goodbyes (alias Tom Reed) and Borchert Deluxe
Jennie Dale : Ensemble
Nina French : Ensemble
Francis Haugen : Ensemble
Shaun Henson : Ensemble
David Lucas : Duclos/Ensemble
Millicent Martin : Mamita
Millicent is best known for her appearances in That Was the Week that Was, Side by Side by Sondheim, Frasier and Will & Grace. She also starred in The Boyfriend on Broadway, King Of Hearts, 42nd Street and The Card in the West End. She also appeared in the classic movie Alfie.
Jo Morris : Ensemble
Lisa O'Hare : Gigi
Lisa O'Hare is currently starring as Eliza Doolittle in a US Tour of My Fair Lady, after having taken the same role in 2005 in a UK National Tour of the musical. She has appeared in Alice and the Others at Sadler's Wells and Defile at the Royal Opera House. O'Hare also took the title role in Mary Poppins at the Prince Edward Theatre in the West End.
Richard Pettyfer : Manuel/Ensemble
Zoe Rainey : Ensemble
Amy Ellen Richardson : Liane/Ensemble
Myra Sands : Ensemble
Laura Scott : Ensemble
Chaim Topol : Honore
Topol is known best for playing Tevye the milkman in the long-running musical show Fiddler on the Roof in the West End and then on Broadway. He also starred in the 1972 movie of Fiddler On The Roof and won Golden Globe and an Oscar nomination for his performance. He has also featured in the films Galileo, Flash Gordon and For Your Eyes Only.
Kate Tydman : Ensemble
Kerry Washington : Ensemble
Linda Thorson : Alicia
In 2000, Linda was awarded an honorary BAFTA for her role as ‘Tara King’ in The Avengers. Linda can currently be seen as ‘Hesther’ in the UK Tour of Equus.
Film credits include Touch of Pink (Sundance 2004 Top 10); ‘Jane Macpherson’ in Half Past Dead with Stephen Seagal, ‘Maria’ in Straight in to Darkness, 'Drew’ in The Other Sister with Diane Keaton and ‘Grace James’ in Sweet Liberty. TV credits include
‘Rosemary Sinclair’ in Emmerdale (ITV).