Lark Rise to Candleford

Rosalind read French and Italian at Edinburgh University and holds an MA in Translation. She also works as a portrait artist under the name Rosalind Olivia (rosalindolivia.co.uk)

Select performing credits include Coven (Kiln Theatre), In Clay (for which she won Best Lead Performance in a Musical at the 2025 OFFIE awards, Upstairs at the Gatehouse), The Cabinet Minister (Menier Chocolate Factory), Elowen and Mary in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Southwark Playhouse), Miss Littlewood and Boundless as the Sea (RSC/Cunard), Adriana in The Comedy of Errors (Mercury Theatre), Ophelia in Hamlet (Guildford Shakespeare Company), Once (UK Tour), Gin Craze! (Royal & Derngate), Mother Courage And Her Children (Southwark Playhouse), These Trees Are Made Of Blood (Arcola Theatre).

Workshops include The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (ATG), Coven (The Kiln Theatre), Flitch the Musical (Pinchy Theatre), The Lost Souls Club (Mercury Theatre), United We Stand (The Cockpit), John Barleycorn Must Die (Tombola Theatre), The Little Mermaid (Metta Theatre).

Recordings include In Clay Live in Concert (The Other Palace), The Little Prince (Metta Theatre).

Christopher has performed extensively in the UK, Ireland and Australia. He was an original member of New Writing Irish theatre company, Tinderbox.

Theatre credits in UK include NOW That’s What I Call A Musical (2024-25 Ireland-UK Tour),The Kite Runner (2024
Ireland-UK Tour), Oliver! (Leeds Playhouse), The Card (New Vic), The Kite Runner (UKDubai Tour), Sherlock HolmesThe Sign of Four (Blackeyed Theatre. UK- Netherlands-China Tour), No Planet B (Sheffield), Aladdin and Alice in Wonderland (Sixteenfeet), Peckham The Soap Opera (Royal Court), and 5 Steps to Privatisation (Royal Court Tottenham).

Theatre credits in Australia include Constance Drinkwater & The Final Days of Somerset (Darwin Festival/Tour), 7 Deadly Australian Sins and Gods of Spicy Things (Australian Tours). Macbeth (Jute Theatre). As Associate Director of Jute Theatre Australia, he directed the original productions of Cake (Tropic Sun/JUTE Tour), The Shining Path (Queensland Tour), and Dancing Back Home (Mudlark Tasmania), his play The Mad Mile was nominated for several awards.

Screen credits include Eastenders, Casualty (BBC), Touching Evil, Rules of Engagement, The Bill, Breaking the Band (ITV), Karaoke (BBC-Channel 4), Underworld, Hollyoaks (Channel 4), Enfield Poltergeist (Apple), Judge Dredd
(Hollywood Pictures), Heard (Short), War On Drugs (Talos Films).

Zrey Sholapurkar trained at Rose Bruford College.

Credits include Theatre The History Boys (Theatre Royal, Bath & UK Tour)

Film credits include Kitty, Floverr, Mimic, Chivalry.

Theatre includes Spitfire Girls (Tilted Wig), As You Like It (Pilgrim Players), Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (West End), Fighting Irish (Belgrade Theatre), The Provoked Wife and Venice Preserved (RSC), Shakespeare in Love (Bath Theatre Royal/Tour), The Secret Garden (York Theatre Royal), The Box of Delights (Wilton's Music Hall), William Wordsworth, Swallows & Amazons and Rogue Herries (Theatre by the Lake), Fanny Hill and The Lost World (Bristol Old Vic), As You Like It (Oxford Shakespeare Company), Father Christmas (The Lyric Hammersmith), Daisy Pulls it Off and Arabian Nights (Watermill Theatre), We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea, Margaret Catchpole and Parkway Dreams (Eastern Angles), The Snail and the Whale, (US Tour/Broadway), The Merchant of Venice and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (GB Theatre, UK Tour), Sam Rose in the Shadows and Tim & Light (Tucked In, UK Tour) and regular appearances at Shakespeare's Globe in the Read not Dead series.

Rosalind is also a composer, and has written music for Read not Dead at the Globe, GB Theatre, Tucked In Productions and Rabble Theatre, for whom she is an associate artist. She has recently written music for a short film.

As a voice artist she has worked on computer games and recorded several audiobooks.

Training Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.

Theatre credits include Hamlet (RSC), Patriots (Almeida, West End), The Mousetrap (West End), The Madness of George III (Nottingham Playhouse), Peter Pan (National Theatre).

Television and film credits include Mimic (HH Pictures), Malpractice (ITV), D.I Ray (ITV), Atlanta (FX)

Radio credits include Heartstrings (BBC R3), Who Cares (BBC R4).

Alex trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.

Recent theatre credits include Lark Rise to Candleford, The Snow Queen (Cheltenham Everyman/ Hammerpuzzle), Secret Life of Humans (English Theatre Frankfurt), A Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare in Italy), Much Ado About
Nothing (Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory), Jane Eyre (The Watermill), The Elephant Man (Bristol Old Vic), An Act of Care (HOME/Archipelago), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (The Lord Chamberlain's Men), Much Ado About Nothing, Treasure Island, Twelfth Night, The Canterbury Tales (Half Cut Theatre).

Alex was nominated for Best Actor at the 2018 The Stage Debut Awards for his performance as Frederick Treves in The Elephant Man at Bristol Old Vic. He is cofounder of Half Cut Theatre.

Theatre credits include: Under the Greenwood Tree, The Snow Queen, The Owl and the Pussycat, The Velveteen Rabbit, The Old Curiosity Shop, The Woodlanders, Tales of Hans ChristianAndersen, A Gloucestershire Midwinter (Everyman Theatre Cheltenham); The Owl and the Pussycat (Tobacco Factory, Bristol); King John (the egg, Theatre Royal Bath); The Spare Room (The Ustinov, Theatre Royal Bath); The Tempest (Edinburgh Festival Fringe) and Measure for Measure (The Rondo, Bath). Her work for Hammerpuzzle has toured widely across the southwest with the support of Arts Council England.

Composition for theatre includes: On The Mend (Everyman Theatre Cheltenham); Unlocked & Unbolted, Great Expectations (Corn Exchange Newbury) and Sloe Pickers and Dogs of War (Theatre Royal Bath).Tamsin has worked with Hammerpuzzle Theatre Company as an actor and theatre maker since its founding in 2007, taking over as Artistic Director in 2012. During that time she has written and adapted much of the company’s work and often composed the musical scores. Alongside her work for Hammerpuzzle, Tamsin is an experienced voice artist and audiobook narrator with over 200titles to her name, regularly working for publishers such as Hachette, Bloomsbury, Macmillan, Orion and Bookouture.

Bryn is Co-Artistic Director of Hammerpuzzle Theatre Co and was resident Assistant Director at the New Vic Theatre from 2016 to 2017.

Directing work includes: Big Big Sky (New Vic); Cinderella, Home Girl (Derby Theatre); The Owl and the Pussycat (Tobacco Factory, Bristol); The Snow Queen, Under The Greenwood Tree, The Velveteen Rabbit, Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Woodlanders and The Old Curiosity Shop (Hammerpuzzle Theatre Co and Everyman Theatre Cheltenham); On The Mend(Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham); All Hands (Princess Theatre and Nornen Project); Across the Sky (Opera - Cheltenham Festivals); Common Lore (Award winning -Breakthrough Performance Rural Touring Awards 2019 for Stute Theatre and Northern Broadsides); Just Soph (Stute Theatre and New Vic Tour); Tail Trail to The Snow Queen (New Vic Theatre, Studio); King John (Hammerpuzzle Theatre Co, commissioned by Theatre Royal Bath); Dogs of War (Theatre Royal Bath, Engage);The Sloe Pickers and The Arrivals (Theatre Royal Bath, The Egg); Twelfth Night and The Comedy of Errors (Greenwich Theatre) and Urinetown, Bronte, Macbeth, The Clockmaker’s Daughter and The Grand Gesture (Royal Birmingham Conservatoire).

Set & Costume Designer Training: Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.

Watermill credits include: The Wicker Husband (2022); Under Milk Wood (2017) and Our Town (2017).

Theatre credits include: A Christmas Carol (The Barn); The Seagull (Royal Lyceum); Big Big Sky (New Vic); The CuriousC ase of Benjamin Button (Ambassadors); Mrs President, Stiletto (Charing Cross); Basic Bald Btch* (Brixton House); Shakespeare’s R&J (Reading Rep); The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Indecent Proposal (Southwark Borough); The Snow Queen and Lark Rise to Candleford (Hammerpuzzle and Cheltenham Everyman); Guesthouse (Eastern Angles); Moby Dick the Musical(Union); 1001 Nights (Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch); The Great American Trailer Park Musical(Waterloo East); Ring Ring and Dance Nation (Omnibus); Our Girls Our Game (BYMT); If.Destroyed.Still.True (Hope); Exodus (Finborough)and Le Loup-Garou and Le Dernier Sorcier (Gothic Opera).

Assistant/Associate credits include: Rhinoceros (Almeida); The Flying Dutchman (Opera Up Close); Pride and Prejudice (*Sort of) (UK Tour/Minack); Purple Snowflake and Titty Wanks (Royal Court); and The Boy in the Dress, Measure for Measure and Kunene & The King (RSC).

Recent projects include: MotherGoose (Mercury Theatre) and Dweeb-a-Mania (Polka Theatre).

Upcoming shows include: Murder for Two (Stephen Joseph Theatre)and Calendar Girls The Musical (Stephen Joseph Theatre, Theatre by the Lake, New Wolsey, Ipswich and Bolton Octagon).

Previous shows include: Production Supervisor, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama; Noises Off (Stephen Joseph Theatre); Love’s Labours Lost (Stephen JosephTheatre and Shakespeare North Playhouse); Aladdin (Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds); Nutcracker: The Alternative Cabaret (Wales Millennium Centre); Little Women (York Theatre Royal); Dracula: The Bloody Truth (Bolton Octagon and Stephen Joseph Theatre); Parti Priodas (Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru Welsh Tour); Tidy (Polka Theatre); Beauty and the Beast(Torch Theatre); Circle of Fifths(National Theatre Wales); Around the World in 80 Days (Bolton Octagon); Jeeves and Woosterin Perfect Nonsense (Salisbury Playhouse and Bolton Octagon); Now and Then (English Theatre ,Frankfurt); The Card (New Vic Theatre, Newcastle Under Lyme); Rose (Ambassador’s Theatre); Cost of Living (National Theatre Wales); Song From Far Away (HOME, Manchester); Aladdin (Harrogate Theatre); Constellations (Stephen Joseph Theatre); Right Where We Left Us (Chapter Theatre); Rose (Hope Mill Theatre and Park Theatre); One Man, Two Guvnors(Bolton Octagon); Circle of Fifths(National Theatre Wales); I Wanna Be Yours (Leeds Playhouse); Grandmother’s Closet (Wales Millennium Centre); The House with Chicken Legs (Les Enfants Terribles and HOME); Wind in the Willows(Taunton Brewhouse); Peter Pan (Bolton Octagon); Antigone(Storyhouse); Meet Me at Dawn(HER Productions and Hope Mill Theatre); Ghost Light (Concept and Lead Artist at Ffwrnes Theatre); The Storm (M6 Theatre); Dr Korczak’s Example (Leeds Playhouse) and Giraffes Can’t Dance (Leicester Curve).

Anna trained at LAMDA.

Watermill Credits include: The Wizard of Oz, Camp Albion and The Girl of Ink and Stars (all 2022).

Credits as Sound Designer include: The Girls Bathroom: Live(Hammersmith Apollo); Meet Your Neighbours: Echoes of Earlsfield (Tara Theatre); Something Rotten(English Theatre Frankfurt); Jurassic (Soho Theatre); Count Dykula (Pleasance Ace Dome and Soho Theatre); Even More...Ghost Stories by Candlelight (UK Tour); Get Happy (Omnibus Theatre - Fringe Theatre Award Nomination for Sound Design and Production); The Maladies (Kiln Theatre); Canned Goods (Southwark Playhouse); Nunsense (English Theatre Frankfurt); Beyond Her Years (Almeida Theatre); What Lies Above (National Youth Theatre); Lady Dealer (Roundabout, Summerhall and Bush Theatre); Pansexual Pregnant Piracy (Soho Theatre); The Beautiful Future is Coming (Jermyn Street Theatre); The Last One (Arcola Theatre); Bad Ladz (Studio at Wimbledon Theatre); Spy For Spy (Riverside Studios); Crackers (Polka Theatre); Ravenscourt (Hampstead Theatre); I Know I Know I Know (Southwark Playhouse); The Straw Chair (Finborough Theatre); Pauline (Pleasance Theatre); I Have Heard You Calling in the Night (Union Theatre) and A Big Ol’ Laugh (Sheffield Crucible).

Credits as Associate Sound Designer include: Wish You Were Here (Gate Theatre); Two Billion Beats (Orange Tree Theatre); Lesbian Space Crime (Soho Theatre); Folk (Hampstead Theatre) and My Son’s a Queer (But What Can You Do?) (Turbine Theatre).

Patsy Browne-Hope is a choreographer, movement director, and intimacy coordinator working across theatre, dance, and film.

Theatre Credits include: LOOP (Theatre503); Big Big Sky (The New Vic); PIAF (RBC and The Old Rep Theatre); The Lotus Eaters (Restoke and The National); WWC24 McDonalds (La Fira Arena, Barcelona); Urinetown (RBC and Crescent Theatre); Cinderella (Derby Theatre); The Clockmakers Daughter (RBC, Crescent Theatre); The Ghost House (Cahoots NI); All Hands! (Princess Theatre); Penguins (Birmingham REP); Cinderella (MAC Belfast); Seraphina (Birmingham Royal Ballet LEAP and Birmingham Hippodrome); Fortis (BirminghamRoyal Ballet LEAP); El Amour Es Amour (Birmingham Royal Ballet LEAP); Spring Awakening (RBC and The Patrick Centre).

TV and Film Credits include: Malice (Prime Video); Heartlands: Earth & Bones (Restoke – Winner of Best Performance and Best Choreography at Bien Cortos Film Festival 2024); She Swims (SHE Dance); Postpartum (PBH Dance)and World War Z (Paramount Pictures).

Workshops include: Dear England (National Theatre); Tammy Faye (Almeida Theatre) and Mother (Restoke).
Patsy has also performed with notable UK dance companies including; Protein Dance, Akram Khan Company, Royal Opera House, Restoke, and DeNada DT.

Theatre credits include: OliverTwist, The Great Gatsby, Kiss Me Quickstep, Of Mice and Men, Welfare, Cinderella, Brassed Off, Jekyll & Hyde, Homegirl, Extra Time, Abi, What Fatima Did, One Man, Two Guvnors, Treasure Island, The Little Mermaid, 4Walls, Mr Burns, The Wind and the Willows (Derby Theatre) First Encounters: Romeo & Juliet (RSC); Chariots of Fire, Rock/Paper/Scissors and We Could All Be Perfect (Sheffield Theatres); The Trials and The Ugly Duckling (Nottingham Playhouse);Big Big Sky (New Vic Stoke); Gods Of Salford (Lowry Theatre and Not too Tame); Twelfth Night(Shakespeare North Playhouse and Not Too Tame); Lark Rise to Candleford and Under the Greenwood (Hammerpuzzle Theatre Co.)

Screen and Audio credits include: Witches of Essex (Sky History); Hollyoaks (Lime Pictures); Bonny Chip (Fox & Cox Prod.) and You Cannot Thread a Moving Needle (BBC Radio 4 Drama).

Anita trained as an actor at ALRA and holds an, MA (Dist)‘Professional Voice Practice’ from, The Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. She is also the co-writer of ‘The Jobbing Actor’, published by Nick Hern Books.

Jason is a Lighting Designer, Assistant and Relighter based in the East Riding of Yorkshire. He is a graduate of the ALPD Lumiere Scheme.

Recent Assistant and Associate Lighting Designer credits include: Pride & Prejudice (UK Tour); The Boy on the Roof (UK Tour); Play On(UK Tour); Birdsong (30th Anniversary UK Tour); A Christmas Carol(Birmingham Rep 2024, Nottingham Playhouse and Alexandra Palace2023); Frankenstein (UK Tour) and The Time Machine (UK Tour).
Recent Lighting Design credits include: A Christmas Carol (Operation Moonlight and UK Tour); Mowgli (Chroma Q Theatre, Leeds); Annie and Calamity Jane (NAPA at Hull Truck Theatre); A Small Enclosed Room with Alfie Murphy (UK Tour); Music by Moonlight - Country House Concert Tours (UK Tour); Jack and the Beanstalk (Watersmeet Theatre); Snow White (Chelmsford Theatre); 21st Century Events – Garden Festival Tours (UK Tour); Two Pianos – Rock‘n’ Roll Experience 2024 (Hull New Theatre); Balance (UK Tour); Empire Dance Centre Showcase 2024 (StMary’s Hull) and Finding Chester (UK Tour).

Recent relighter credits include: Spitfire Girls (UK Tour); Frankenstein (UK Tour); The School for Scandal (UK Tour); Emergence 2023 (UK Tour) and An Inspector Calls (UK Tour).