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Throughout her illustrious career, Bernadette Peters has dazzled audiences and critics with her performances on stage, film and television, in concert, and on recordings. She has garnered numerous accolades including three Tony Awards, a Golden Globe, three Emmy and four Grammy Award nominations and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Bernadette is one of Broadway’s most critically acclaimed performers. She recently participated in the sold out, one-night-only, all-star gala on London’s West End celebrating the life and work of Stephen Sondheim. Bernadette couldn’t be more thrilled to be performing in London for this special production of Stephen Sondheim’s music. Bernadette has starred as Dolly Gallagher Levi in the hit Broadway musical, Hello, Dolly! She also starred in Stephen Sondheim’s A Little Night Music and Follies and City Center’s Encores! Production, A Bed and a Chair: A New York Love Affair featuring the music of Stephen Sondheim and orchestrations by Wynton Marsalis. Peters garnered both the Tony Award and Drama Desk Award for her performance in the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, Song and Dance. She also won a Tony Award starring as the iconic Annie Oakley in Annie Get Your Gun. She received Tony nominations for her outstanding performances in Sam Mendes’ critically acclaimed revival of Gypsy, in Neil Simon’s The Goodbye Girl, Stephen Sondheim’s Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Sunday in the Park with George, the Jerry Herman/Gower Champion ode to the movies, Mack and Mabel, and the Leonard Bernstein/Comden and Green musical On The Town. In addition to these honors, Peters earned a Drama Desk nomination for her unforgettable portrayal of the Witch in Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods.

Her career boasts an impressive list of television credits, including the Apple TV+ series, High Desert, NBC-TV series, Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist (Emmy nomination), CBS All Access’ The Good Fight; Amazon Prime’s Golden Globe winning series, Mozart in the Jungle, NBC-TV’s Smash, ABC-TV’s Grey’s Anatomy and Ugly Betty. Peters has lit-up the silver screen in over 30 films, including a Golden Globe Award in Pennies From Heaven, The Jerk, The Longest Yard, Silent Movie, Annie, Pink Cadillac, Slaves of New York, Woody Allen’s Alice, Impromptu, It Runs in the Family, Coming Up Roses, and The Broken Hearts Gallery.
Bernadette has recorded six solo albums, including the Grammy-nominated I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight, Sondheim, Etc. – Bernadette Peters Live at Carnegie Hall, and Bernadette Peters Loves Rodgers & Hammerstein.

Peters devotes her time and talents to numerous events that benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Her ‘pet project’ Broadway Barks, co-founded with Mary Tyler Moore, is an annual, star-studded dog and cat adoption event that benefits shelter animals in the New York City area. During the pandemic Broadway Barks Across America was established virtually to help animals find forever homes across the country and in addition West End Woofs was created in the UK. The American Theater Wing recognised her efforts in 2012 and awarded her with the Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award. She is a New York Times best-selling author who has penned three children’s books: Broadway Barks, Stella is a Star and Stella and Charlie: Friends Forever. All of her proceeds from the sale of these books benefit Broadway Barks.

Multiple award-winning actress and singer Lea Salonga is renowned across the world for her powerful voice and perfect pitch. Lea is best known for her Tony Award winning role in Miss Saigon. In addition to the Tony, she has won the Olivier, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Theatre World Awards. She was the first Asian to play Éponine in the musical Les Misérables on Broadway and returned to the beloved show as Fantine in the 2006 revival. On Broadway, Lea most recently starred in Here Lies Love (for which she is also a co-producer) and in the 2018 Broadway revival of Once on This Island as the Goddess of Love, Erzulie. The show’s return to the Broadway stage earned a Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical and garnered Lea and the cast a Grammy nomination for Best Musical Theater Album. She has also been seen on Broadway in Allegiance and Flower Drum Song. Many fans of all ages recognise Lea as the singing voice of Princess Jasmine from Aladdin and Fa Mulan for Mulan and Mulan II. For her portrayal of the beloved princesses, the Walt Disney Company bestowed her with the honor of ‘Disney Legend’.

Lea stars in the first season of Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin (a reboot of the popular series) now available on MAX, after starring in the critically acclaimed Sony musical-drama Yellow Rose. Lea can also be heard in the Netflix animated series Centaurworld and in FX’s animated series Little Demon. In August 2021, Lea released her single Dream Again and in November Lea Salonga: Live with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra from Sydney Opera House aired as part of Great Performances on PBS. A live album of the performance was subsequently released by Broadway Records.

Lea’s 2022 Dream Again Tour and her 2019 The Human Heart Tour saw sold-out audiences and record-breaking sales across North America and the United Kingdom. Lea has toured all over the world, performing sold out concerts in such locations as the Sydney Opera House, 02 Arena, Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, Singapore’s Esplanade, Kuala Lumpur Convention Center, Hong Kong Cultural Center, Queen Sirikit Convention Center in Bangkok and Carnegie Hall in New York. In addition to her stage and screen credits, Lea served as a judge on the Philippines hit version of The Voice including the ratings juggernaut The Voice Kids. She has released multiple solo albums, toured the world with legendary pop opera quartet Il Divo, and received rave reviews for her many cabaret engagements, including a record setting run at New York’s 54 Below.

In her 45-year career, Lea has performed for six Philippine presidents (from Ferdinand Marcos to Benigno S. Aquino III), four American Presidents (Joe Biden, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush), and for Diana, Princess of Wales and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. She was honored by Time Magazine as a Time100 Impact Award Recipient and received the Gold House 2023 Gold Legend Award.

Training: The Royal Academy of Music, ARAM Award recipient. Grammy Award Nominated Artist. Theatre: Meat in We Will Rock You (London Coliseum); Tzipporah in The Prince of Egypt (Dominion Theatre); Peggy and Maria Reynolds in the original London Cast of Hamilton (Victoria Palace Theatre); Cinderella in Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella (Cadogan Hall); Vanessa in In The Heights (Kings Cross Theatre); Dovee in Here Lies Love (National Theatre); Constance in The Clockmaker’s Daughter (Cadogan Hall); Ursula in Sweet Charity (Royal Exchange); Turandot in Turandot (Regent Theatre); Minerva in From Here To Eternity (Shaftesbury Theatre); Girlie in Beyond The Fence (Arts Theatre); Aggie Hurley in A Catered Affair (Jack Lyons Theatre). Off Broadway: Cinderella, Tinkerbell and Woman in Evening Primrose for Live and in Living Color! (Kauffman Concert Hall 92Y).

Screen: Tzipporah in The Prince of Egypt Musical Film (DreamWorks); Maria in West Side Stories – The Making of a Classic (BBC/Reef TV); Maria in Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends (BBC); Dragonstriker (Disney Animation, Disney+); Rhyme Time Town (Dreamworks Animation, Netflix); Pocahontas and Jasmine in Hollywood in Vienna: Alan Menken (Tomek Productions); Maria in The Sound of Music – Revisited (Moonlake Entertainment); Jasmine in Royal Hearts (Hallmark).

Recordings: The Prince of Egypt (DreamWorks); Zyrah Rose (Decca Records); The Clockmakers Daughter (Auburn Jam Records); Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends Gala: Live Album (Warner Music).

Other work: Royal Variety Performance (ITV, London Palladium); Andrea Bocelli: Cinema and Si arena tours in Europe and Asia; Magic at The Musicals at the Royal Albert Hall; Olivier Awards at the Royal Opera House and Royal Albert Hall.

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Clare Burt’s work in theatre includes: Flowers for Mrs Harris (Chichester Festival Theatre/Sheffield Crucible – Winner of the 2016 UK Theatre Award for her performance in the title role), London Road, The Miracle, DNA and Babygirl, Coram Boy and Sunday in the Park with George (National Theatre), This is My Family (Chichester Festival Theatre), The American Clock (Old Vic), Miss Littlewood (RSC), Big Fish (The Other Palace), The Divide (Edinburgh Festival/Old Vic), Sunspots (Hampstead Theatre), Game (Almeida Theatre), A Streetcar Named Desire, Vernon God Little (Young Vic), Into the Woods, Company and Nine (Donmar Warehouse), Now You Know (Metropolitan Room New York/ Pizza on the Park), The Hired Man (Astoria Theatre) and Passion (Bridewell).

Screen work includes: Friday Night Dinner, The Children Next Door, Top Boy (C4) The Long Shadow, Tina and Bobby (ITV), Call the Midwife, Holby City, Salisbury Poisonings, Cuffs, Criminal Justice, Fair Cop (BBC) and feature films London Road, Broken, X&Y and The Levelling.

Janie Dee is one of the UK’s most versatile performers. The winner of multiple awards – including two Oliviers, an Evening Standard Award, a Critics Circle Award, an Obie Award, the Theatre World Best Newcomer Award in New York, the UK Theatre Best Performance Award for her performance as Dolly Levi in Hello, Dolly! – the actress, singer and musical star’s career encompasses everything from the revival of classic plays, modern dramas and comedies, leading musical roles to Shakespeare with Sir Peter Hall, The Royal Shakespeare Company and Shakespeare’s Globe, as well as performing her own witty and sophisticated cabaret shows at leading London venues such as Crazy Coqs and The Pheasantry. Janie was most recently in The Motive and the Cue directed by Sam Mendes at the National Theatre, where she also played Phyllis Rogers Stone in Stephen Sondheim’s Follies, for which she was nominated for the Evening Standard Award for Best Musical Performance and the Olivier and WhatsOnStage Award for Best Actress in a Musical. Other Sondheim credits include: the London premiere of Putting It Together, Desirèe in A Little Night Music at the Palace Theatre, London, Buxton Opera House, and Holland Park Opera (which she coproduced) and Fosca in Passion at The Cantiere Festival in Montepulciano, Italy, directed by ROH Keith Warner and hailed by the New York Times as one of the greatest productions of 2019.

On television Janie can be seen as Hannah in ITV’s You & Me, and also stars opposite Samantha Morton in the soon to be released The Burning Girls on Paramount +. She has worked extensively with Sir Alan Ayckbourn who wrote Comic Potential for her (winning her the Best Actress awards in the above) and Harold Pinter who, after her performances in Betrayal and Old Times, cast her as Suki in the film of Celebration opposite Colin Firth.

Other highlights include: Playing opposite Gryff Rhys Jones in An Hour and a Half Late in 2022 directed by Belinda Lang; Shadowlands by William Nicholson playing Joy Gresham opposite Charles Dance as CS Lewis in the West End; Blithe Spirit at the Gielgud Theatre, starring legendary stage, film and television star, Dame Angela Lansbury; Mabel opposite David Soul in Mack and Mabel at The Criterion Theatre and for Shakespeare’s Globe; playing Cleopatra at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles; touring China and Russia as Titania/Hippolyta in A Midsummer Night’s Dream; and playing the Countess of Roussillion in All’s Well that Ends Well.

Janie started The London Climate Change Festival to inspire, inform and bring hope in 2019. As Producer she created A Song for Nature on Sky Arts, broadcast on World Earth Day in 2021 and on demand; The Wayne Sleep 75th Birthday Celebration at the The Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House; The Angela Lansbury Farewell Dinner and Cabaret at Cafe de Paris in London; On Reflection with the Follies Company for Underbelly on the Southbank; Concert for Peace at Theatre Royal Drury Lane; Beautiful World Cabarets – to come this year. Janie is delighted to be joining her Old Friends for this special tribute to the great Stephen Sondheim.

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Theatre credits include: Ben in The Great British Bake Off Musical (Everyman Theatre Cheltenham & Noel Coward Theatre); Mac in Local Hero (Edinburgh Lyceum Theatre); Charley Kringas in Merrily We Roll Along (Huntington Theatre Company, Menier Chocolate Factory & Harold Pinter Theatre); Eilert Lovbourg in Hedda Gabler (Salisbury Playhouse); Charles Dickens in Dickens Abridged (Arts Theatre); Harry in Company (Sheffield Theatres); Max Garber in Lend Me A Tenor (Plymouth Theatre Royal & Gielgud Theatre); Seymour in Little Shop of Horrors (Menier Chocolate Factory UK Tour); Perchik in Fiddler on the Roof (Sheffield Crucible & The Savoy Theatre); Jamie Wellerstein in The Last 5 Years (Menier Chocolate Factory).

Television credits include: Casualty (BBC).

Bradley recently appeared as Raoul in Broadway Italia’s brand new production of The Phantom of the Opera in Trieste and most notably as Javert in Les Misérables at the Sondheim Theatre. Prior to that, he starred as Thomas Percy in Treason: The Musical (Theatre Royal Drury Lane) and featured in the Gala concert Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends (Sondheim Theatre).

Other headline appearances include the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra’s concert Best of Broadway at The Royal Albert Hall, the concert production of Camelot as Sir Lancelot (London Palladium) and The Greatest Showtunes, a concert series produced by Raymond Gubbay. He also appeared as Enjolras in Les Misérables – The Staged Concert (Gielgud Theatre) which was released on DVD in 2020. Bradley also played Javert in the final cast of the original production of Les Misérables (Queen’s Theatre). Further theatre credits include: After You as part of the streamed concert series Tonight at the London Coliseum, Fiyero in Wicked (Apollo Victoria Theatre and International Tour), Lt. Joseph Cable in South Pacifiic in Concert (Cadogan Hall), Freddie in My Fair Lady for the 60th Anniversary Celebration at St Paul’s Church, Ghost the Musical (UK Tour), Shrek The Musical (Theatre Royal Drury Lane).

Film credits include: Les Misérables – The Staged Concert

Television includes: Eastenders, Emmerdale, Sugar Rush and Britain’s Got Talent.

Recordings include: After You (Alex Parker & Katie Lam), Peter Pan (George Stiles & Anthony Drewe), Theseus (Vallier Music Studios) and Treason: The Musical (Katy Galloway Productions)

Bonnie has packed a wealth of experience in her outstanding career which has embraced success in theatre, television, film and radio in both Britain and America. Last year, Bonnie celebrated 50 years on stage with sell out shows at London’s Crazy Coqs and The Pheasantry. On the anniversary of her West End debut, she was performing in Old Friends at the Sondheim Theatre, celebrating the life and work of Stephen Sondheim, a fitting way to mark such a milestone. Most recently, Bonnie appeared as Mrs Evangeline Harcourt in Anything Goes at the Barbican Theatre. She reached the final of The Masked Dancer (ITV) as Squirrel and revisited her role of Melanie Bush in Doctor Who for the BBC Centenary episode ‘The Power of The Doctor’.

West End theatre includes: Roz Keith in 9 to 5, The Musical (Savoy Theatre) Dorothy Brock in 42nd Street (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane and filmed for DVD and cinema release in the UK and Ireland, across America and streamed on Broadway HD and PBS America), Rumpleteaser in the Original London cast of Cats (Gillian Lynne Theatre); Mabel and Kate in The Pirates Of Penzance (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane and London Palladium); Peter in Peter Pan – The Musical (Aldwych Theatre); Sally in Me And My Girl (Adelphi Theatre); Charity in Sweet Charity (Victoria Palace Theatre); The Lady of the Lake in Spamalot (Harold Pinter Theatre and Playhouse Theatre); Muriel in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Savoy Theatre) and Roxie Hart in Chicago (Adelphi Theatre, Cambridge Theatre and on Broadway). She made her theatre debut in the West End at the tender age of seven in Gone with the Wind at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. The following year she played ‘Baby June’ in Gypsy opposite Angela Lansbury at the Piccadilly Theatre, making such an impact that the producers took her to America with the show for a highly successful run on Broadway. For this performance, at the age of ten, Bonnie was nominated for a Drama Desk Award. UK tours include: 42nd Street; Charlie Girl; Oklahoma!; Guys and Dolls; Fosse; Spamalot; 9 to 5, The Musical; Anything Goes and numerous Royal Variety Performances and Royal Galas. Bonnie performed her concert ‘An Evening With Bonnie Langford’ to celebrate the 120th Anniversary of Richmond Theatre, she also hosted both ‘The Music Of The Night’ and ‘Let’s Face The Music’ concerts with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall.

Television and film includes: Carmel Kazemi in BBC’s EastEnders for which she won ‘Best Newcomer’ at the 2015 British Soap Awards, a BAFTA for best continuing drama and nomination for ‘Best Serial Drama Performance’ at the 2019 National Television Awards; Lena Marelli in Bugsy Malone (dir. Alan Parker); Violet Elizabeth Bott in Just William (ITV); The Lena and Bonnie Show (ITV); The Hot Shoe Show (BBC); Hotel Babylon (BBC); Agatha Christie’s Marple (ITV); The Catherine Tate Show (BBC) and Melanie Bush on Doctor Who (BBC). Bonnie was the subject of ITV’s This Is Your Life. In 2006, she learned to ice skate on the ITV show Dancing on Ice, skating her way to the final and returning for the All Stars season in 2014. Recordings include: ‘Bonnie Langford Now’, ‘Jazz at the Theatre‘ and numerous Doctor Who audio dramas for Big Finish.

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West End theatre includes: Lumière in Beauty and the Beast, Jerry Travers in Top Hat, Bert in Mary Poppins (Olivier nomination), Contact, Oklahoma!, Peggy Sue Got Married, A Saint She Ain’t, Crazy For You, Me And My Girl. Broadway theatre includes: Squidward in The SpongeBob Musical (Tony and OCC nominations, Drama Desk Award), Thénardier in Les Misérables, Bert in Mary Poppins (Tony and OCC nominations, Drama Desk and Theater World Awards). Other select theatre: 39 Steps (Chicago), Beauty and The Beast, Sound of Music (Papermill Playhouse, NJ), How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Madison Square Garden), Showboat (Carnegie Hall), Holiday Inn (World premiere, Goodspeed), Mary Poppins (1st national tour), The Nerd (Bucks County). Television: ‘Woodford’ in White Collar (season six), Little America, Law and Order SVU, The Good Wife.

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Jason has three Olivier nominations for: Lafayette/ Jefferson in the Original cast of Hamilton (Victoria Palace Theatre) (also WhatsOnStage Award winner), Bobby Dupree in Memphis (Shaftesbury Theatre), and Jacob in La Cage Aux Folles (Menier Chocolate Factory). He also has 3 affiliate Olivier nominations for West End shows he choreographed: Porgy & Bess, Soul Sister and The Big Life. Other West End credits include: Toulouse Lautrec in Moulin Rouge (Piccadilly Theatre), Benny Southstreet in Guys & Dolls (Phoenix Theatre), Paul in Kiss Me Kate, Little Moe in Five Guys Named Moe, Second in Father Comes Home From The Wars (Royal Court), Benny in RENT, Rocky III in Starlight Express, Jason in Soul Train, Particle Man in Stomp, Sammy Davis Jnr in The Rat Pack Live from Las Vegas, John Jasper in Simply Heavenly, Joe Wellington in Golden Boy, Lamar in Elegies, Admiral in The Big Life, Will Scarlett in Robin and The Seven Hoods, Cats.

Other credits include: Wilson Pickett in Elton John biopic Rocketman, Other Samuel in BBC Drama/Comedy – Boat Story, Larry in season 2 of Loki (Disney+ Marvel), Steve in Dinner With The Parents (HBO), Bus Conductor in Worzel Gummidge (BBC), Barry in Sister Boniface Mysteries Season 3 (BBC/Britbox), as the voice of the Lead Wildebeest in feature animation Junglebeat: The Movie, voice of lead character Arni in new Disney Animation series Vikingskool (Disney+).

Choreography/Direction/Resident Direction: Get Up Stand Up (Lyric Theatre), The Big Life, Half a Sixpence, Into The Woods, Shrek The Musical (Sweden), Crazy For You (Sweden), End of The Rainbow, Five Guys Named Moe, Pearl Fishers. Numerous Stage shows, stadium events and music videos. Other Film and TV credits include: Mister Lonely (Dir. Harmony Korine), Bumps (BBC1), Shopping (Dir Paul W.S Anderson), All About The McKenzies (ITV, London Live) and Stay Lucky (YTV).

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Joanna Riding is a double Olivier Award winner and 5-time nominee for ‘Best Actress in a Musical’.

Theatre credits include: most recently Madame Rose in Gypsy (Buxton Opera House); Nettie in Carousel (Regent’s Park); Sally in Follies (National Theatre); Flowers For Mrs Harris (Chichester); Romantics Anonymous (Shakespeare’s Globe); Annie in Calendar Girls (Phoenix, Olivier Award nominee); Eliza in My Fair Lady (Drury Lane, Olivier Award winner); Jane in Witches of Eastwick (Drury Lane, Olivier Award nominee); for the National Theatre: Julie in Carousel (Olivier Award winner), Sarah in Guys and Dolls (Olivier Award nominee), Anne in A Little Night Music and Oh, What A Lovely War!; Babe in Pajama Game (Chichester and Shaftesbury); Stephen Ward (Aldwych); Umbrellas of Cherbourg and Lend Me A Tenor (Gielgud); Billy Elliot (Victoria Palace); Blithe Spirit (Bath Royal, tour and Savoy); for Manchester Royal Exchange: Hobson’s Choice (Manchester Evening Standard Award nominee), The Happiest Days of Our Lives and An Ideal Husband; Playing For Time (Salisbury Playhouse); Me And My Girl (Adelphi); Martin Guerre (West Yorkshire Playhouse and tour); Lady Be Good (Regent’s Park); Wizard of Oz, My Mother Said I Never Should and Merry Wives of Windsor (Chichester); and two pantomime seasons at Hackney Empire.

Film includes: Into the Woods (Cinderella’s Mother).

Television includes: most recently, Eve Marbury in Ridley (ITV), Maeve Gibney in McDonald & Dodds, and Stella (Sky).

Off-Broadway Theatre: Sweeney Todd (Barrow Street, New York, Winner of The Theatre World Award and nominations for Best Leading Actor in a Musical, Lucille Lortel, Drama League and Drama Desk Awards). West End Theatre: A Christmas Carol (The Dominion); Les Misérables (Queen’s); Sweeney Todd (Shaftesbury Avenue); The Phantom of the Opera (Her Majesty’s); Lend Me A Tenor (Gielgud); Priscilla Queen of the Desert (Palace); Evita (Adelphi); The Woman In White (Palace); Jerry Springer – The Opera (Cambridge). Other theatre: Sister Act (Eventim Apollo and UK Tour); Sweet Charity (Nottingham Playhouse); Evita (International/UK Tour), Sweeney Todd (Harrington’s Pie and Mash Shop, Tooting); Joseph and his Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (UK tour); A Grand Night for Singing (Footbridge Sydney); The Phantom of the Opera (Australia/New Zealand and UK tour).

Television: Rod Murray in Stonehouse for ITV directed by John S Baird.

Concerts: Concert soloist singing with many orchestras including Liverpool Philharmonic, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Birmingham Symphony and Ulster Symphony Orchestras; Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends Gala (The Sondheim Theatre and BBC); Bonnie & Clyde and Evita (The Theatre Royal Drury Lane); Sunset Boulevard (Alexandra Palace and The Royal Albert Hall); Three Phantoms (China and UK); Movies to Musicals (Barcelona, Seville); Les Misérables in Concert (Sir John Loveridge Hall, Guernsey); Jesus Christ Superstar (Porchester Castle); Playing Our Part (Cadogan Hall).

Recordings: Mascherato: The Musical (CD Release); Jerry Springer – The Opera (BBC and DVD release); 25th Anniversary Phantom of the Opera (The Royal Albert Hall); Lend Me A Tenor; Vocalist on numerous charity and solo albums.

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Jac was born in Cardiff and graduated with a First Class BA (Hons) from The Arts Educational School, London in 2019. He made his professional debut as Joseph in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at the London Palladium. For his performance, Jac garnered extraordinary critical and public acclaim. He was nominated for the 2020 Olivier Award for Best Actor In A Musical; for the 2020 WhatsOnStage Award for Best Actor In A Musical; and won The Stage Debut Award 2019 for Best West End Debut and was nominated for Best Actor in a Musical. Jac most recently reprised the role of Joseph for the UK & Ireland Tour and a run at the Princess of Wales Theatre, Toronto.

Other Theatre: Jac returned to the iconic London Palladium for two Christmas seasons in Pantoland at The Palladium.

Concerts include: Archie in At Last, It’s Summer (London Palladium); Prince Topher in Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella (Cadogan Hall).

Television includes: Musicals: The Greatest Show (BBC); Angelo Bernardone in Glow & Darkness (Dreamlight International); and Jamie Dalton in BAFTA-winning In My Skin (BBC).

Training: The Arts Educational School, receiving the Ian Fleming Award, from where he graduated in 2023.

Credits whilst training include: Richie Walters in A Chorus Line; Agent Branton in Catch Me If You Can; The Olivier Awards and Let’s Face The Music (Royal Albert Hall).

Most recently: Marley made his professional and West End debut in The Wizard of Oz (London Palladium)

Training: The Arts Educational School, where she was awarded the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation Scholarship, graduating in 2021.

Theatre includes: Young Heidi in Follies (Tangier) directed by Rob Ashford; her professional and West End debut covering and playing Christine in The Phantom of the Opera (Her Majesty’s Theatre).

Workshops include: Young Clare in The Time Traveller’s Wife.

Most recently: Gwendolyn and understudied and played Mary Poppins in Mary Poppins (Prince Edward Theatre).

Harry made his professional debut as Marius in the UK & Ireland Tour of Les Misérables, before going on to make his West End debut in the role at the Sondheim Theatre.

Other Theatre credits include: Tobias in Sweeney Todd (West Green House Opera) and Marius in Les Misérables: The Staged Concert (Sondheim Theatre).

Training: The Arts Educational School, from where she graduated in 2023.

Credits whilst training include: Cassie in A Chorus Line; Catch Me If You Can.

Commercial: Bella can currently be seen in a major national advertising campaign for E.ON (Familia).

Most recently: Bella made her professional debut in Rock Follies (Minerva Theatre, Chichester) directed by Dominic Cooke.

Training: Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Richard appeared in the Original West End productions of Into The Woods (Jack), Fame (Nick) and Dirty Dancing (Neil). Also: Charlie and The Chocolate Factory (Mr Bucket) and Quince in Michael Grandage’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (West End) and Don Quixote (RSC/West End). Tammy Faye (Almeida).

Other Theatre: Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Hermione in The Winters Tale, Henry V (Propeller/Hampstead) as well as The Merchant Of Venice (BAM New York). Ugly in Honk (Tour), Burn and Citizenship for The National Theatre, Just So, Out Of This World and Damsels in Distress at Chichester Festival Theatre and Strictly Ballroom WYP/Toronto. Also Victor/Victoria (Southwark Playhouse) The Cocktail Party (Coronet) and Home Chat (Finborough) and Rothschild & Sons (Park Theatre) in London.

TV/Film includes: My Policeman, 1917, Genius, Doctor Who, Downton Abbey, Doc Martin, Island At War, Crime Traveller, Sherlock Holmes and Peter in The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (BBC).

Training: Arts Educational School, London and Tring Park School for the Performing Arts.

Theatre: Judy Haynes in White Christmas (UK Tour); Louise in Gypsy (Buxton Opera House); Understudy Mary Poppins and Winifred Banks in Mary Poppins (West End); Judy Haynes in White Christmas (Leicester Curve); Kathy Selden in Singin’ in the Rain (Grand Palais, Paris); Lois Lane/ Bianca in Kiss Me Kate (Kilworth House); Peggy Sawyer in 42nd Street (Theatre du Chatelet, Paris); Penny Lou Pingleton in Hairspray (UK Tour); Alternate Dale Tremont in Top Hat (UK Tour).