Danny Hatchard

as Gaz

Training: Arts Ed

Theatre includes: Aaron in Eyes Closed Ears Covered (The Bunker Theatre), Tom Jenkins in SCROOGE
(Leicester Curve), Jack Dawkins & Noah Claypole in Oliver Twist (Regents Park Open Air Theatre), Ste
in Beautiful Thing (The Arts Theatre & UK Tour), Valentin in Kiss of the Spider Woman.

TV includes: Lee in Ridley Road (BBC One), Cheese aka Private Rhett Charlton in Our Girl (BBC One),
Lee Carter in Eastenders (BBC One), Gary in Not Going Out (BBC One).

Awards: Nominated for Best Actor in a Play at the Off West End Theatre Awards for his role of Aaron
in Eyes Closed Ears Covered.

Jake Quickenden

as Guy

Theatre includes: Hair (UK Tour), Footloose (UK Tour), Friendsical (UK Tour), Peter Pan a Musical
Adventure (Blackpool Opera House).

TV includes: X Factor (ITV), The Chart Show (ITV), I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! (ITV),
Lorraine (ITV), Dancing on Ice (ITV), Hollyoaks (Channel 4), The Real Full Monty: On Ice (ITV), Celebrity
Bumps (MTV), Celebrity SAS ‘Who Dares Wins’ (Channel 4).

Other: When Jake isn’t presenting on TV, he can be seen touring the UK playing concerts on a
weekly basis

Bill Ward

as Gerald

Theatre includes: Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (Apollo Theatre), Viva Forever (Piccadilly Theatre),
Million Dollar Quartet (Noel Coward Theatre), Spamalot (Palace Theatre) and Japes (Theatre Royal
Haymarket). The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Tilted Wig), The Glee Club (Out of Joint), Shakespeare in
Love (Bath Theatre Royal), Legally Blonde (UK Tour), Not Dead Enough (UK Tour), Look Back In Anger
(Northern Stage).

Additional Theatre includes: Are You As Nervous As I Am? (Greenwich Theatre), The Lady From The
Sea (Manchester Royal Exchange), The Hairy Ape (Southwark Playhouse), The Tempest (Guildford
Shakespeare Company), Edward II (BAC), Harriott And I (Manchester Royal Exchange Studio), Destiny
(BAC), Oh! What A Lovely War (Clwyd Theatre Cymru), A Chorus Of Disapproval (Bristol Old Vic), The
Beggar’s Opera (Bristol Old Vic), Antigone (Bristol Old Vic), Stalin! The Musical (Pleasance), Around
The World In Eighty Days (BAC), Uncle Ebenezer- A Christmas Carol (BAC).

TV includes: Coronation Street (ITV), Emmerdale (ITV), The Hunt for Raoul Moat (ITV), Before We Die
(Channel 4), After Life (Netflix), Vera (ITV), Silent Witness (BBC), Robin Hood (BBC), Midsomer
Murders (ITV), Jonathan Creek (BBC), Footballers’ Wives (ITV), Rose and Maloney (Prime Video), In
Deep (Prime Video), Heartbeat (ITV), Cold Blood (ITV), Fallen (Prime Video), True Crime (Netflix),
Casualty (BBC), Tangled (CBC Canada), Doctors (BBC), The Bill (ITV), Holby City (BBC), EastEnders
(BBC), Swag (Channel 5), Seven Stories (BBC), Make My Day (Netflix).

Film includes: To A Cinder, A Dark Reflection, The Great Ghost Rescue, The Haunting of Ellie Rose,
Practice Makes Perfect, Adam and Steve.

Awards: Winner of Best Exit and Best Storyline with a nomination for Best Actor at the British Soap
Awards for Emmerdale.

Other: Bill is also a multi-award-winning landscape photographer – his work has been exhibited in
numerous fine art galleries around the UK, and he raised thousands of pounds for the Theatres Trust
during the pandemic with his book #TheatresInDanger. He’s proud to be a judge for UK Landscape
Photographer of the Year 2022 and 2023, runs workshops and tours for Light and Land, and gives
talks and seminars on photography all over the world. You can follow his work on Instagram
@billwardphotography, or via his website www.billwardphotography.co.uk

Neil Hurst

as Dave

Theatre includes: Fat Friends the Musical (World Premier and UK Tour), Early Doors Live (UK Arena
Tour), Evita (Leeds Grand Theatre), Early Doors – One More Chance (The Lowry, Salford), Jungle Book
The Musical (Oldham Coliseum), Bouncers, Two, The Last Five Years (Made Up North Theatre), Me
and My Girl, Joseph and his Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.

TV includes: All Creatures Great and Small (Channel 5), Coronation Street (ITV), Home from Home
(BBC), Casualty (BBC), Doctors (BBC), The Syndicate (BBC), Moving On (BBC), Fresh Meat (Channel 4),
Andy and the Band (BBC), Biff and Chip (CBBC), The 4 O’Clock Club (CBBC), Player Pranks (Sky), All
Star Family Fortunes (ITV) as Vernon Kay’s comedy sidekick and a recurring role on Michael
McIntyre’s Big Show (BBC), working alongside Michael to set up his Unexpected Star of the Show.

Film includes: The Railway Children Return, Tomorrow Morning and The ABC Murders.

Writing includes: The Government Inspector – with writing partner Jodie Prenger (MTFest UK,
Turbine Theatre), Dating For Dogs (Pulped TV), Cinderella – A Socially Distanced Ball (Turbine Theatre)
The Choir (UCLAN), Showbiz Stories (Blueberry Audio) and TV Comedy Pilot – Tracks (House in the
Road).

Other: Neil is an award-winning pantomime performer

Ben Onwukwe

as Horse

Theatre includes: The Shawshank Redemption (UK Tour), The 47th (Old Vic), Black Men Walking (UK
Tour), New Nigerians (Arcola Theatre), The Treatment (Almeida Theatre), The Lion, The Witch & The
Wardrobe (Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh).

TV includes: Professor T (ITV), Marcella (Netflix), Eastenders (BBC One), Doctors (BBC One), Hollyoaks
(Channel 4), Coronation Street (ITV), Holby City (BBC One), Law & Order UK (ITV), London’s Burning
(Prime Video).

Film includes: Late Bloomers.

Radio includes: The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency (BBC Radio 4), Book at Bedtime (BBC Radio 4),
Three Strong Women (BBC Radio 4), The Exorcist (BBC Radio 4).

Other: Numerous audio books including; White Debt, Final Target & An Island

Nicholas Prasad

as Lomper

Training: London Academy of Music and Drama (L.A.M.D.A) and Bristol University.

Theatre includes: Mr Naidu in Around the World in 80 Days (Theatre by the Lake/Hull Truck), Duke
Solinus in The Comedy of Errors (Royal Shakespeare Company), Sully in Approaching Empty (Kiln
Theatre/Live Theatre/Tamasha), Sir Thomas Grey/Montjoy/Monsieur Le Fer in Henry V (The New
Generation Festival), Borachio in Much Ado About Nothing (Rose Theatre Kingston), Shaan in Miss
Meena and the Masala Queens (Watford Palace Theatre), Israel Hands in Treasure Island
(Birmingham Repertory Theatre), Hamed in Ross (Chichester Festival Theatre), Ensemble in The BFG
(Birmingham Rep), Master Muchly-Minted in A Mad World, My Masters (Royal Shakespeare
Company & Barbican), Sempronius/Alarbus in Titus Andronicus (Royal Shakespeare Company), Mole
in The Wind in the Willows (Birmingham Rep), Brian in Maydays (Royal Shakespeare Company), 1st
Mariner in The Tempest (Tobacco Factory), U.S. Soldier in Baghdad Wedding (Soho Theatre), Joseph
in Colours (Bloomsbury Theatre), Nick in Mustard (Bristol Old Vic), Gregg in Be My Eyes (Edinburgh
Fringe Festival).

TV includes: Doctors (BBC), Krypton (Warner/DC for SyFy), Drifters (Bwark), The Five (Red
Productions), Eastenders (BBC).

Film includes: Sunil in Boogie Man (Boogie Man Films), Monday (Scratchmark Films), Hearts & Minds
(Scratchmark Films).

Radio includes: Peter in The Cherry Orchard (BBC Radio 4).

Oliver Joseph Brooke

as Barry/Terry/Interviewer

Training: Drama Centre London

Theatre includes: A Christmas Carol (East Riding Theatre), Austen: The Musical (UK Tour), The Eagle
& The Seagull (Bridge House Theatre/Brighton Fringe).

Film includes: Run from Hell (Bearing 305 Productions), Leaves in Fall (LA Femme Film Festival: Best
Short)

Katy Dean

as Jean

Training: Graduated with a First-Class Honours degree from the Birmingham School of Acting before
going onto further training in Musical Theatre at the Royal Academy of Music.

Theatre includes: Absent friends, Gas Light (Devonshire Park, Eastbourne), Abigail’s Party and Gas
Light (Harrogate Rep), On the Piste and Deathtrap (Harrogate Rep); Dial M for Murder, Boeing Boeing
and Private Lives (Harrogate Rep); Body Double (UK Tour); Trespass (UK Tour); Blithe Spirit (UK Tour);
Sherlock Holmes and the Ripper Murders (UK Tour); Spend Spend Spend (Union Theatre); Shady
Business (UK Tour); Blood Brothers (UK Tour); Blood Brothers (Phoenix Theatre, London West End);
Very Brief Encounters (SiteLine Productions); Christmas Reloaded (Old Red Lion); Erics (Liverpool
Everyman).

Pantomime includes: Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella, Aladdin, Sleeping Beauty, Dick Whittington,
Jack & the Beanstalk and Peter Pan.

TV includes: Nurse Hastings in Emmerdale (ITV).

Commercial includes: KFC, NatWest Bank, Bold 2 in 1, Dentyl Active, Stand up to Psoriasis Campaign
and 3 Commercials for Morrisons.

Voiceover includes: NSPCC.

Other: Nominated for Best Actress in a Musical (Offies Awards), Nominated for Best Supporting Artist
(UK Pantomime Awards).

Laura Matthews

as Mandy/Michelle

Training: Bristol Old Vic Theatre School

Theatre includes: Henri Bolingbroke in Richard II (Guildford Shakespeare Company), Rachel Watson
in The Girl on the Train (UK Tour), Lady Marguerite Blakeney in The Scarlet Pimpernel (Theatre Royal
Bath/Pins and Needles), Cynthia/Ursula/Jenny/Tilly in A Brief History Of Women (World Premiere in
59E59 Theater New York), Kitty in Taking Steps (Stephen Joseph Theatre), Zoe in Henceforward (UK
Tour/ Stephen Joseph Theatre), Alison in the world premiere of No Knowing (Stephen Joseph
Theatre), Gwendoline in Earnest and The Pale Moon (Les Enfants Terribles, Edinburgh Festival/UK
Tour and Soho Theatre), Alice in Dick Whittington and His Cat (Salisbury Playhouse), Portia in The
Merchant of Venice (GB Theatre UK Tour), Christine Patterson in One Man, Two Guvnors (National
Theatre), Xanthe in We’re All In It Together (Theatre503), The Doctor’s Daughter in London Assurance
(National Theatre), Ensemble in Ferment: Select A Quest (Bristol Old Vic), Brooke Ashton in Noises
Off! (Ambassadors Theatre Group/No 1 UK Tour).

TV includes: Call the Midwife (Neal Street Productions), Doctors (BBC), Eastenders (BBC).

Film includes: Pride (Proud Films).

Radio includes: The Shape Of The Table, Falco: Poseidon’s Gold (BBC).

Voiceover includes: Aardman Animations.

Danny Mellor

as Phil/Policeman

Training: Studied Drama at The University of Hull and Acting at the Royal Welsh College of Music and
Drama, graduating in 2014.

Theatre includes: Some Tiny Plays About How F**ked We Are (Middle Child), Undermined (Red
Ladder Theatre Company), Blister (Paines Plough), After the Accident (Cube Theatre), On Behalf of
The People (The Melting Shop), Bomb Happy (Everwitch Theatre Company), Suffer Fools Gladly
(Badapple Theatre Company), Yorkshire Kernel (Badapple Theatre Company), The Snow Dancer
(Badapple Theatre Company), The Ratcatcher (Dead Earnest).

TV includes: Da Vinci’s Demons (Starz), Happy Valley (BBC), Coronation Street (ITV), The Full Monty
(Disney+/FX)

Other: Danny Mellor is an actor, writer & stand-up comedian born and raised in South Yorkshire

Adam Porter Smith

as Alan/Alf/Dance Student/Interviewer/Reg/Policeman

Training: Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA)

Theatre includes: Of Mice and Men (Torch Theatre), Christie in Love (Monkey Heads), Billy Elliott
(Italian Tour), Santa’s Missing Trousers (Torch Theatre), The Snow Queen (UAE Tour), Cinderella (Mark
Andrew’s Production), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Made Up North Theatre).

TV includes: Player Prank (Sky), Michael McIntyre’s Big Show (BBC), Only Here for the Pier (Yorkshire
TV).

Film includes: It Lives Somewhere and I’ll Get Away with it (North Park Pictures).

Other: Adam is also a vocal coach and singing teacher. He also regularly tours the UK as an after
dinner speaker.

Suzanne Procter

as Linda/Annie/Bee

Theatre includes: Stepping Out (Stephen Joseph Theatre), Battle Song (Brighton Open Air Theatre),
Whose Life Is It Anyway? (Frinton Summer Theatre), Oliver (Trinity Theatre), In Conversation with An
Acid Bath Murderer (UK Tour), Hansel and Gretel (Simply Theatre, Geneva), In Extremis (UK Tour),
Love and Other Ambiguities (Greenwich Theatre), The Taming of The Shrew Interactive (Theatre
Royal, Plymouth), The Wizard of Oz (UK Tour), Pink for A Boy (Oldham Coliseum), The Jolly Folly of
Polly the Scottish Trolley Dolly (World Tour, Ripley Theatre), Calamity Jane (BAC) and many
pantomimes!

TV includes: Doctors (BBC), Eastenders (BBC), Blackpool (BBC), Jekyll (BBC), Casualty (BBC), Brief
Encounters (ITV), Coronation Street (ITV), Emmerdale (ITV) and Cucumber (Channel 4).

Film includes: Kill Ben Lyk, Invasion of the Not Quite Dead, A Quiet Courage, Connected and
Amalgamated Angels.

Other: Voice work includes many commercials and audio dramas including Doctor Who, Sapphire
and Steel, Blake’s 7, Pulling Faces (All for Big Finish Productions), The Pogley Wood Murders and
Moira Moments (368 Theatre) and The Corrupted (BBC Radio 4).

Suzanne also runs the charity Dementia Singing Experience, Sussex, leading interactive singing
sessions for those living with dementia, something she is very passionate about.
www.dementiasingingexperience.com

Alice Schofield

as Sharon/ Job Centre Employee/Social Worker

Training: Graduated with a First-Class BA Acting degree from the Guildford School of Acting. Prior to
GSA; Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, the National Youth Music Theatre and the British Youth
Music Theatre.

Theatre includes: Cheswick in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (English Theatre).

Credits while training includes: Jilly/Carter in The Sea, Maša in 3 Winters, Yanina in Widows, and
Queen Margaret in Henry VI Part III.

Leyon Stolz-Hunter

as Brian/Interviewer/Police Sergeant

Training: National Youth Theatre, Drama and Film at Anglia Ruskin, Identity Drama School and The
Unseen Drama School.

Theatre includes: Blood on Your Hands (Cockpit Theatre), Roberto Zucco (Mumford Theatre), Agatha
Christie’s And Then There Were None (Soho House), As You Like It (Canary Wharf) Trumpet and
Raspberries (Barons Court).

TV includes: The award-winning Sadbh with Laura Whitmore.

Jacki Van Holloway

as Understudy Gaz/Guy/Gerald/Dave/Horse/Lomper

Training: East 15 Acting School, UWE Bristol.

Theatre Includes: Corners (Pleasance Theatre), Wine & Hotdogs (Rotunda Theatre), Children of Lir (The Mount Without. Exeter Phoenix)

Credits While Training Include: The Cherry Orchard, Waiting for Godot, Macbeth, The Winter’s Tale.

Other: Jacki is a writer and Theatre-maker. He wrote, performed and directed his debut play Wine & Hotdogs at the Brighton Fringe Festival in May 2023. He is also a DJ having played at festivals across the UK, including Glastonbury Festival (2017, 2019, 2022)

Cass Dempsey

as Nathan

Cass was born in Sheffield on the 24th August 2012. He will complete junior school this year and
shortly begin his secondary education at High Storrs school in Sheffield.

Like all boys his age Cass likes nothing more than larking about in the park with his mates. He is a
keen and capable boxer which does go some way to burning his seamlessly endless energy – he is a
complete live wire of a kid.

He also has a bizarrely grown-up taste in music (big brothers influence) which mainly centres around
rock. His favourites are the Foo Fighters and Queen.

He’s extremely excited about the show and cannot wait to get on the stage for this new experience.

Theo Hills

as Nathan

Training: Stagebox

Theo is delighted to be making his professional debut in the cast of The Full Monty as Nathan.

Rowan Poulton

as Nathan

Training: Cast Academy

Rowan is 10 years old and lives in South Yorkshire with his mum, dad, sister Abbie and his foster
brothers. Although he has had supporting actor roles, The Full Monty will be Rowans Debut acting
performance.

“I’m very excited to be playing the role of Nathan, acting is my favourite thing to do”

Jack Wisniewski

as Nathan

Jack is a performer from Yorkshire, whose experience lies in screen acting and voice over work. He
was absolutely over the moon to land the role of Nathan and take on the new challenge of theatre!