Training: ALRA
Theatre Credits:Once the Musical (Original UK Tour); The Score (Theatre Royal Bath); The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Southwark Playhouse 2019 and 2023); The House With Chicken Legs (Les Enfants Terribles); Treasure Island, The Wind In The Willows (The New Vic Theatre); The Scarecrow’s Wedding (West End); The Ruff Tuff Cream Puff Estate Agency (Belgrade Theatre Coventry, Cardboard Citizens); Romeo & Juliet,Macbeth (Oddsocks Shakespeare Company); Robin Hood (Leeds City Varieties); A Christmas Carol, The Ballad of Rudy (Goblin Theatre); Aladdin (Stafford Gatehouse); Henry V, Hamlet, Romeo & Juliet (Pendley Shakespeare Company); Buddy Holly and The Cricketers (UK Tour)
TV/Film Credits:Hanna (Amazon Prime Studios); Into The Abyss (Indie Film Prods); Born On This Day (Channel 4)
Jonathan Charles
Jonathan Charles
Training: Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
Theatre Credits: Moby Dick (Simple8), The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe (Birmingham Rep), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Southwark Playhouse); Rosie & Hugh’s Great Big Adventure (North Wall) and A Christmas Carol (Bolton Octagon); The Wicker Husband (Watermill Theatre); Beauty & The Beast, Robin Hood & Marian, The Borrowers and Dracula (New Vic Theatre); On Hostile Ground (Royal & Derngate Northampton); War Horse (National Theatre and No 1 Tour); The Butterfly Lionand A Christmas Carol (Barn Theatre); Cinderella (Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch); Peter Pan In Scarlet (New Vic Theatre and Oxford Playhouse); The Tempest (Stafford Castle); Sunset Five (Edinburgh Festival, Pleasance Theatre & Greenwich, DugOut Theatre Co); Juno & The Paycock (Bristol Old Vic and Liverpool Playhouse); The Revenger’s Tragedy (Gentleman Jack Theatre)
Film & Television Credits: Art Spiegelman in The Toys That Built America (History Channel); Down To Earth (BBC)
Oonagh Cox
Oonagh Cox
Training: ArtsEd
Theatre Credits: On-stage Swing/1st Cover Blanche in Bonnie and Clyde (UK & International Tour); The Book Thief (Curve and Belgrade); The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Southwark Playhouse); Cinderella in Cinderella (Newcastle Theatre Royal); Rusty/2nd Cover Ariel in Footloose (UK & International Tour); Cinderella in Cinderella (Richmond Theatre) and Hortensia in Matilda the Musical (West End) directed by Matthew Warchus
Television Credits: Dancer in The HolidayWorkshops Credits: Jackie in Hay Fever the Musical
John Dagleish
John Dagleish
Training: Drama Centre London
Theatre Credits: Spike (The Watermill Theatre), Cratchit (The Park Theatre), Sylvia (The Old Vic), A Christmas Carol (The Old Vic), Common (National Theatre), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (The Young Vic), The Winter’s Tale/Harlequinade (Branagh Theatre Company at The Garrick), Sunny Afternoon (Hampstead Theatre/Harold Pinter Theatre), Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat (Royal Court).
Film Credits: The Scurry, The Little Mermaid, Matilda the Musical, Judy, Farming, Christopher Robin, The Gentlemen, All Is True, Justice League, On The Beaches, Mary Poppins Returns, The Monuments Men, Age Of Heroes.TV Credits:3 Body Problem, Sexy Beast, The Third Day, The Bisexual, The Moorside, The Last Dragonslayer, Silent Witness, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, Siblings, Truckers, Beaver Falls, The Hollow Crown, Starlings, Any Human Heart, Lark Rise To Candleford, The Bill.
Katy Ellis
Katy Ellis
Training: Guildford School of Acting
Theatre Credits:Rosie and Hugh’s Great Big Adventure (The North Wall/Pleasance Courtyard/Soho Theatre); Get Happy (Told by an Idiot, Barbican); Ride (Leicester Curve/Southwark Playhouse); Wuthering Heights , Malory Towers (Wise Children, UK & International Tours); Never Tickle a Tiger, That Pesky Rat (Chichester Festival Theatre); The Scarecrows’ Wedding (Leicester Square Theatre, UK Tour); Metamorphosis (Tristan Bates Theatre); Daisy Pulls it Off (Charing Cross Theatre)
Radio Credits:Temporal (Sweet Talk Ltd); Read the Room (Big Fish/BBC Radio 4)
Anna Fordham
Anna Fordham
Training: Rose Bruford College
Theatre Credits: The Good John Proctor (Jermyn Street), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Southwark Playhouse Elephant), And We’ll Catch Stardust Yes We Will (Womens Writes/Vault Festival), Sleeping Beauty (Queens Theatre Hornchurch), Sunshine on Leith; Little Women (Pitlochry Festival Theatre/Watford Palace), The Brothers Grimm Present Cinderella (Barn Theatre), NewsRevue (Canal Cafe), I’m Eric Get Me Out of Here (New Vic Stoke), Women in Power (NST/Oxford Playhouse), The Borrowers (Watermill), Fantastic Mr Fox (Lyric Hammersmith/UK Tour), and Jack and the Beanstalk (Emergency Cover, Bridgehouse Theatre)
Workshop Credits: The Bridges of Madison County (National Theatre Studios), Coven (Kindred Partners), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Southwark Playhouse), Hirta (Pitlochry Festival Theatre), The Wild Party (Watermill/Chipping Norton), and A Penny Dreadful (Royal & Derngate)
TV Credits:The Athena (Sky)
Other credits include:We Progress (Short), Flood of Light (Rolo Tomassi) and Blink (Midas Fall)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button marks Anna’s west end debut.
Clare Foster
Clare Foster
Training: Masters Performing Arts College
Theatre Credits:Best of Enemies (Young Vic/ Noel Coward Theatre); The Realistic Joneses (Ustinov, Theatre Royal Bath); Consent (Harold Pinter Theatre); Travesties (Menier Chocolate Factory/ Apollo Theatre, Olivier nomination for Best Supporting Actress in a Play); Guys and Dolls (Chichester Festival Theatre); Separation and Duet for One (Octagon Theatre, Manchester Theatre Award for Best Actress); Merrily We Roll Along (Menier Chocolate Factory/ Harold Pinter Theatre); Finding Neverland (Curve); Crazy For You (Regents Park Open Air Theatre/ Novello Theatre, WOS nomination for Best Actress in a Musical); Oleanna (Nottingham Lake Side Theatre); Love on the Dole and A Streetcar named Desire ( Octagon Theatre, Manchester Theatre Award nomination for Best Actress); Avenue Q (Noel Coward Theatre. Olivier award nomination for Best Ensemble), The Far Pavilions (Shaftesbury Theatre); Out of This World and The Master and Margarita (Chichester Festival Theatre); We Will Rock You (Dominion Theatre); Sweet Charity (Crucible Theatre), Chicago (UK Tour)
Film Credits: Heads of State (Amazon); Seacole (Racing Green Pictures); Holmes & Watson (Sony); Les Misérables (Universal/ Working Title); Black Forest (Sci-Fi Channel)
Television Credits:Miss Austen (BBC and Masterpiece); Until I Kill You (ITV); Nolly (ITV); The Ex-Wife (Paramount Plus) Dark Heart (ITV); Sherlock (BBC); Taboo (FX); Galavant (ABC Studios); Ripper Street (BBC); The Crown (Netflix)
Philippa Hogg
Philippa Hogg
Training: Guildford School of Acting Musical Theatre Performance
Theatre credits include:The Curious Case of Benjamin Button(Southwark Playhouse 2019 & 2023); The Enormous Crocodile (Leeds Playhouse); Blood Harmony(ThickSkin/Traverse Theatre); Peter Pan (National Theatre/Bristol Old Vic); The Jungle Book (The Watermill Theatre); PippiLongstocking (Royal & Derngate); Little Robin Redbreast (Salisbury Playhouse); UtilityFunction (Bristol Old Vic); The Scarlet Pimpernel(Theatre Royal Bath); The Leftovers (Curve Theatre); Olivier Award Winning Alice’s Adventures Underground& The Vaudevillains (Les Enfants Terribles); The Scarecrow’sWedding (Leicester Square Theatre)
TV credits include:Flack (Amazon Prime)
Damien James
Damien James
Damien is an actor and musician originally from Coventry and is absolutely over the moon (and the sea) to be rejoining the wonderful cast of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.Training: Rose Bruford College
Theatre Credits:Fun at The Beach Romp-Bomp-A-Lomp!! (Southwark Playhouse), Luna Loves Library Day The Musical (UK Tour), Cinderella (Lyric Hammersmith), Ordinary People (Hazlitt Theatre),The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Southwark Playhouse), Red Riding Hood: The Rock ’n’ Roll Panto (Liverpool Everyman), Othello (The Watermill), The Play That Goes Wrong (UK Tour), The Play That Goes Wrong (The Duchess), Camelot (The Watermill) and Romeo and Juliet (Stockwell Playhouse)
Television Credits:Casualty (BBC), Doctors (BBC)
Elliot Mackenzie
Elliot Mackenzie
Training: Rose Bruford College BA (Hons) Actor Musicianship (2015 – 2018), The BRIT School of Performing Arts and Technology (2013 – 2015) and National Youth Music Theatre (NYMT)
Theatre Credits: Haldir in The Lord of the Rings (The Watermill Theatre); Nick and Righteous Brother in Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (UK Tour); Mr Fix in Around the World in 80 Days (Dubrovnik & Hvar, Croatia); Snake Preacher/Minister/Show Musical Director in Whistle Down the Wind (The Watermill Theatre); Junkfolker/Swallowfire/MD in The Misadventures of Pinocchio: The Radical Robot Girl (The Bohemians Theatre Company); Bowbells/King Elvis in Dick Whittington (Queens Theatre Hornchurch); Constable Coppem u/s Dame Widow Betty Gagwash, Aladdin and Bjorn Nastee in Aladdin (Queens Theatre Hornchurch); u/s Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash & Carl Perkins in Million Dollar Quartet (UK & India Tour); Alex in Lexi (The Bohemians Theatre Company); Maurice/Harry in Phoebe’s First Christmas (Embracing Arts); Zog/Music Captain in Zog (Rose Theatre, Kingston/UK Tour); Jack/Pat/MD in Wondertown (The Bohemians Theatre Company) and Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol (Rose Theatre, Kingston)
Elliot recently appeared in Britain’s Brightest CelebrityFamily (ITV) and is the reigning champion!
He is also a founding member and the Musical Director of the Bohemians Theatre Company.
For more information about Elliot please visit: accessuk.agency
X (Twitter): @EJ_Mackenzie
Ann Marcuson
Ann Marcuson
Training: Webber Douglas
Theatre Credits:Brendan, Son of Dublin, ICC and Liverpool Festival, These Demons, Theatre 503, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Southwark Playhouse, Two Ladies, The Bridge, Checkpoint Chana, Finborough, The Mighty Walzer, Royal Exchange Theatre, Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, National Theatre, NTP and Gielgud, The Lottery, Burt Court Opera, The Glass Slipper and Bloodhound, Northern Stage, The Family Reunion, Donmar Warehouse, Little Wolf and Hard Love at Hampstead Theatre, Needle, Soho Theatre, Sweet Dreams, Sphinx Theatre Company, Strange Love, Young Vic, Brassed Off, York Theatre Royal, I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls, Tricycle/Watermill, Newbury (Time Best Performance), Pinocchio, Regent’s Park Open Air, Twelfth Night, Keswick, Little Shop of Horrors, Basingstoke Haymarket, Diary Of Anne Frank, Harrogate Theatre, Over Ruled, King’s Head.
Film and TV Credits:The Power, Sister Pictures/Amazon Studios; This Is Going To Hurt, BBC; Redemption Day, H Films; Emmerdale, ITV; Bancroft, ITV Studios, The Divorce, UK Jewish Film Festival; A Place For Everything, BFI; Shark, Met Film; Relentless, October Films; Family Affairs, Freemantle; The Bookworm, BBC.
Radio Credits:Sabbat, London Radio, The Middle Eastern Cookbook, Radio 4.
Jack Quarton
Jack Quarton
Training: Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA)
Theatre Credits: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Southwark Playhouse, Elephant); Amélie (Criterion Theatre); The Wicker Husband, Much Ado About Nothing (Watermill Theatre); Assassins (Nottingham Playhouse/Watermill Theatre); Wonderland (Nottingham Playhouse/Northern Stage); Wonderland, Coram Boy (Nottingham Playhouse); An August Bank Holiday Lark (Northern Broadsides); Song of the Sytch (Claybody Theatre); Much Ado About Nothing, The Tempest, Swallows and Amazons (Storyhouse/Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre); Great Expectations, Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland, Hansel and Gretel (Derby Theatre); On the Mend (Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham); Ovid’s Metamorphoses (Pants On Fire Theatre Company); Alice in Wonderland (Octagon Theatre, Bolton); The Master and Margarita (Lodestar Theatre Company)
Film Credits: Mike Leigh’s Peterloo
Jack also works as a composer, lyricist and musical director. His work includes A Christmas Carol, Cinderella (Derby Theatre, MD), Goldilocks and the Three Bears (Nottingham Playhouse, composer and MD), Everything is Possible (York Theatre Royal, choral arranger), Ovid’s Metamorphoses (Pants on Fire, MD).
Benedict Salter
Benedict Salter
Training: LAMDA
Theatre Credits:The Score (Theatre RoyalBath); The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Southwark Playhouse); Othello, The Importance of Being Earnest, A Little Night Music (Watermill Theatre); Lone Flyer (Jermyn St/Hull Truck-shortlisted for Best Supporting Performance, Off-West EndAwards 2022); Lady Windermere’s Fan, An Inspector Calls (West End); A Christmas Carol (Derby Theatre); Vespertilio (VAULT Festival and Dublin Fringe); The Last Days of Anne Boleyn (Tower of London); Shakespeare in Music (RSC/SouthbankSinfonia)
Voice Credits:Final Fantasy XVI: The Rising Tide (Square Enix)
CREATIVES
Jethro Compton
Book & Lyrics, Director & Stage Designer
Darren Clark
Music & Lyrics, Co-Music Supervisor, Orchestrator & Arranger
Mark Aspinall
Musical Director & Co-Music Supervisor, Orchestrator & Arranger
