Melissa Woodbridge (Laura)
Melissa is a graduate of The Royal Conservatoire Scotland. For theatre, she has played Elvira to Angela Lansbury’s Madame Arcati in ‘Blithe Spirit’. Other theatres she’s performed at in London include The Vaudeville, The Gielgud, The Arcola, Hampstead Theatre, Southwark Playhouse, The Park Theatre, and Soho Theatre. Most recently she was in ‘Wind of Heaven’ at the Finborough Theatre (winner of the Best Rediscovery Award), and ‘Life and Death of a Journalist‘ at the Vaults Festival. Her film work Includes ‘The Angel’ for Netflix and the award-winning short ‘Swings and Roundabouts’. She was also in ‘Rekindle’ for Sky, ‘Framed’ for Jubilee Pictures as well as several short films and comedy pilots. She features in the new series of David Mitchell and Robert Webb’s TV comedy ‘Back’.
Simon Slater (Ben)
Simon is a well-known TV face with over 300 credits to his name in TV, film and theatre.
Theatre work includes 4 years as Sam in the West End production of Mamma Mia, and Chariots of Fire (Hampstead and Gielgud), Viva Forever (Picadilly) Also Wild Honey(Hampstead theatre and his multi award-nominated performance in a one-man thriller Bloodshot by Chicago based writer Douglas Post, which he has performed in the UK, Canada, Europe, and Chicago
Recent TV includes Mr. Selfridge, Spooks, Doctors, and is soon to be seen as a regular character in Holby City for the BBC and film work in Mamma Mia 2 and The Iron Lady.
Simon can be heard narrating many audiobooks including awards for his narration of Wolf Hall.
Theatre work includes 4 years as Sam in the West End production of Mamma Mia, and Chariots of Fire (Hampstead and Gielgud), Viva Forever (Picadilly) Also Wild Honey(Hampstead theatre and his multi award-nominated performance in a one-man thriller Bloodshot by Chicago based writer Douglas Post, which he has performed in the UK, Canada, Europe, and Chicago
Recent TV includes Mr. Selfridge, Spooks, Doctors, and is soon to be seen as a regular character in Holby City for the BBC and film work in Mamma Mia 2 and The Iron Lady.
Simon can be heard narrating many audiobooks including awards for his narration of Wolf Hall.
Dan March (Noah)
Dan is an actor, comedian and writer. Recent feature films include MOLLY MOON & THE INCREDIBLE BOOK OF HYPNOTISM, JOHNNY ENGLISH STRIKES BACK with Rowan Atkinson, and he is due to start filming on political thriller THE WHIP in October. His TV credits include: MIRANDA (BBC1), PRAMFACE (BBC3), two series of SO AWKWARD (CBBC), BACK (C4) & THE ROYAL BODYGUARD (BBC1) with Sir David Jason. He has also been in EASTENDERS, CASUALTY, DOCTORS and was Mr Thompson in INNOCENT (ITV1) in 2021. Recent theatre work: Marvin in CALIFORNIA SUITE (Peterborough New Theatre), A NIGHT IN PROVENCE (Mill at Sonning), Neville in Ayckbourn’s SEASON’S GREETINGS (Claire Evans Productions) and, in 2019, he starred Off Broadway, New York with his sketch group, THE REAL MACGUFFINS, in their hit sell out show INSTRUCTIONS FOR AMERICAN SERVICEMEN IN BRITAIN (Theatre 59E59). He greatly enjoyed playing the role of NOAH, the stalker, in MY ONE AND ONLY - but Dan would just like to point out that he is not a method actor.
Helena Blackman (Amy)
Helena trained at the Guildford School of Acting.
TV includes: Wallace Simpson in The Windsors (CNN); Duchess of Windermerein Pennyworth (Warner TV); Theatre credits include, Blue Girl in Shout; Carloline in Titanic the Musical (Charing Cross Theatre); Cherie in Kingmaker (St James Theatre); Anna in But First This (Watermill Theatre, Newbury); Milly Pontipee in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (UK tour); Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady (Kilworth House Open Air Theatre); Linda in the revival of Ivor Novello’s Gay’s The Word (Jermyn Street Theatre); Dr Zoe Lane in Impotent; Paulina in A Winters Tale the Musical; Maria Von Trap in The Sound of Music (Kilworth House Theatre); Belle Gardiner in Little Women the Musical (The Playhouse Theatre, (West End); Gertrude Lawrence in Noel & Gertie; Lily/Rose in The Secret Garden (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Helen Fogel in Saturday Night (Arts Theatre, West
End); Nellie Forbush in South Pacific (UK tour); Gypsy Rose Lee in Gypsy (Cardiff Millennium Centre); and Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz (Leicester Haymarket Theatre). Helena was a finalist in the Voice of Musical Theatre competition (BBC Wales /BBC Radio 2) and a runner-up on How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria (BBC 1). Her debut album The Sound of Rodgers & Hammerstein was released in 2011 to critical acclaim.
TV includes: Wallace Simpson in The Windsors (CNN); Duchess of Windermerein Pennyworth (Warner TV); Theatre credits include, Blue Girl in Shout; Carloline in Titanic the Musical (Charing Cross Theatre); Cherie in Kingmaker (St James Theatre); Anna in But First This (Watermill Theatre, Newbury); Milly Pontipee in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (UK tour); Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady (Kilworth House Open Air Theatre); Linda in the revival of Ivor Novello’s Gay’s The Word (Jermyn Street Theatre); Dr Zoe Lane in Impotent; Paulina in A Winters Tale the Musical; Maria Von Trap in The Sound of Music (Kilworth House Theatre); Belle Gardiner in Little Women the Musical (The Playhouse Theatre, (West End); Gertrude Lawrence in Noel & Gertie; Lily/Rose in The Secret Garden (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Helen Fogel in Saturday Night (Arts Theatre, West
End); Nellie Forbush in South Pacific (UK tour); Gypsy Rose Lee in Gypsy (Cardiff Millennium Centre); and Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz (Leicester Haymarket Theatre). Helena was a finalist in the Voice of Musical Theatre competition (BBC Wales /BBC Radio 2) and a runner-up on How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria (BBC 1). Her debut album The Sound of Rodgers & Hammerstein was released in 2011 to critical acclaim.
Jo Burke (Katy)
Jo is an actor, comedian and writer.
She recently debuted a new show “Peculiar” performing at the Brighton Festival and at London venues.
Jo’s debut comedy book “iScream” reached No.17 on Amazon and continues to receive rave reviews.
A short comedy film “Spinster” she wrote, directed and performed, as her character ‘Mary Magdalene’, won the London-Worldwide Comedy Festival’s Best Shorter Short in 2018.
She has written, produced and performed five, four star, Edinburgh Festival shows and was a ‘So You Think That’s Funny?’ Finalist.
Jo’s a big hit with the kids too. Her children’s books “Standing on Custard”, “A Squirrel’s Tail” and “Molly, Chip and the Chair”, are available via www.standingoncustard.com
Sagar Arya (Kamal)
Sagar Arya is an actor, known for Life on Mars (2006), Baar Baar Dekho (2016) and Love Aaj Kal (2009). He is married to Anwesha Bhattacharya.
Bindu de Stoppani (Emma)
Bindu is a scriptwriter and director and actress (The Beach & 28 Days Later)
In 2012 Bindu wrote and directed her first feature film JUMP (Hugofilm/Manmade Films/RSI), which won five awards at the 2012 BIFF festival including Best Director and Best Feature Film.
Her second feature film, FINDING CAMILLE, was shot in Switzerland, Italy and Bosnia (in 2016), and premiered at the Rome Film Festival in October 2017 to great acclaim. It was then broadcast in Germany, France and Switzerland, in 2018 (on RSI and ARTE).
Lakesha Cammock (Florist)
A Wound That Won’t Heal (Short Film) Vibrations (Short Film) Invisible Strings (Short Film) The Tempest (The Orange Tree); Rudolf (Birmingham MAC Theatre); The Cherry Orchard (Union Theatre); The Hundred and One Dalmatians (Birmingham Repertory Theatre); Edward The Second (Tristan Bates Theatre); The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Greenwich Theatre); Hot Stuff (Coliseum Theatre); STOMP! (Stomp Productions Ltd.); 20th Century Boy (UK Tour); The Color Purple (Menier Chocolate Factory); Hair (UK & European Tour)
Jonathan Murphy (Director)
Jonathan Albert Murphy began his filmmaking career in the 1990s making Television Commercials, expanding to include commissions for music videos, short films and television programmes. He produced high-end television commercials all over the world for, amongst others, Shell, Vodafone, Jeep, Proctor & Gamble, Unilever, Kellogg’s, Campbell’s, Sainsbury, Bacardi and Ford. He has produced television programs for Sky, the BBC and Channel 4.
Jonathan has produced three award-winning short films – ‘Sylvester’ (2002), ‘It’s Not My Fault’ (2006) and ‘Best Mates’ (2007).
The first short film he wrote & directed was ‘Which Shall It Be’ (2010) followed by ‘Oscar V’ (2012). ‘Laura’, completed in 2017 was his debut as a feature film director, it was based on a BBC Radio 4 play by Dawn King and shot in Brazil in the Portuguese language. The film is currently being screened on the prestigious CanalBrasil channel / VOD platform throughout South America.
‘My One and Only’ is an English language version of 'Laura', it was filmed in early 2020 on the South Coast of England.
Jonathan has produced three award-winning short films – ‘Sylvester’ (2002), ‘It’s Not My Fault’ (2006) and ‘Best Mates’ (2007).
The first short film he wrote & directed was ‘Which Shall It Be’ (2010) followed by ‘Oscar V’ (2012). ‘Laura’, completed in 2017 was his debut as a feature film director, it was based on a BBC Radio 4 play by Dawn King and shot in Brazil in the Portuguese language. The film is currently being screened on the prestigious CanalBrasil channel / VOD platform throughout South America.
‘My One and Only’ is an English language version of 'Laura', it was filmed in early 2020 on the South Coast of England.
Natasha Murphy (Producer)
has a degree in film from a University in Rio de Janeiro. She has been working in the film industry for 25 years.
In 2007 co-founded Union Films a branch of an English indie Production Company Union. She produced a series of the BAFTA winner, "Show me What You're Made Of" a CBBC documentary series hosted by Stacey Dooley. The documentary "Street Kids The Other World Cup" for BBC. She had collaborated with ITV Sports, SBS (Australia), and RTV during the World Cup in Brazil.At the end of 2016, she was one of the founders and president of APL – Local Productive Arrangement of Londrina, helping to develop the market audiovisual of the region.
"Laura" (2015) was her first feature film as Executive Producer. The Film was awarded: Best Film, Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor nomination at the Melbourne Film Festival; and Best Actress at the Wolves Festival. She was the Producer and Executive Producer of the feature film " My One and Only" scheduled to be released in 2022.
Simon Slater (Compser)
Simon has written original scores for 350 productions in theatre, television, radio and film. Nominated for an Olivier for his score in “Constellations” in the West End, the Royal Court and Broadway. Recent productions include “Amadeus” for the National Theatre and music for the Olivier winning production “Killology” (Sherman and Royal Court),and many production at the Globe London and the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Simon’s music has been heard in TV series Dalziell and Pascoe, Hunting Venus, Inquisition with Derek Jacobi, and Impact Earth.