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John Nicholson is an Artistic Director of the award-winning Peepolykus, with whom he has toured the UK and the world for 25 years. 8 of his stage plays have been published by Nick Hern Books and 8 radio plays by BBC Radio 4. His most recent stage play The Time Machine was nominated for an Olivier Award. Forthcoming projects include writing and directing a new mid-scale national touring show for Le Navet Bete. 

Writing includes: A Trespassers Guide To The Classics - series 1 and 2, Rik Mayall’s Bedside Tales - series 1, Baskervilles and Marley Was Dead (BBC Radio 4), Off Their Rockers (ITV), The Time Machine (Original Theatre, national tour). The Hound Of The Baskervilles (Leeds Playhouse, West End, National tour) No Wise Men (Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse), Treasure Island, King Arthur (Bristol Old Vic, National Tour), The Massive Tragedy of Madame Bovary (Northampton Royal, Jermyn Street Theatre, National Tour), A Christmas Carol (Exeter Northcott), Spyski – The Importance of Being Honest (Lyric Hammersmith, National Tour), The Ramsbury Players (National Theatre), Richard’s Rampage (The Old Vic, International Tour), Dick Tracy, The Three Musketeers, (National tour for Le Navet Bete), Origins (Pentabus, National Tour), The Arthur Conan Doyle Appreciation Society (Edinburgh Traverse), Help! Get me Out Of This Musical (South Hill Park). 

Physical comedy director/consultant credits include: One Man Two Guvnors (Bolton Octagon, National Tour), A little Hotel On The Side (Theatre Royal Bath), The Secret Adversary (Newbury Watermill), Watson and Oliver, The Wrong Door (BBC), Playtime (Northampton Royal), Accidental Death Of An Anarchist (Sheffield Theatres, West End).   

Directing credits include: Tweedy’s Massive Circus (RSC and national tour), The Hound of the Baskervilles (Theatre By The Lake), Partners in Crime (Queens Theatre, Hornchurch), Dracula - the Bloody Truth and 400 (Plymouth Theatre Royal/National), Shaun The Sheep Live (Aardman/International), Nina Conti - Dolly Mixtures (Soho Theatre and West End) Paul Merton – Out Of His Head (West End), Spymonkey’s Spook Show (Blackpool Winter Gardens), Coulrophobia (London International Mime Festival) Aladdin, Dick Tracy (Plymouth Athenaeum), The Three Musketeers (York Theatre Royal, National Tour), King Arthur (National Tour), The Light Princess (Tobacco Factory Theatre, Bristol), A Christmas Carol (Exeter Northcott). 

David Morley is an Aria and Sony Gold winning writer and producer. His radio dramas and comedies have starred Richard E Grant, Sir David Jason, Ricky Tomlinson, Lesley Manville, Stephanie Cole, Alistair McGowan, Gemma Whelan, Anton Lesser, Jon Culshaw, Tamsin Greig among many others.  

The Stage described him as "unrivalled in turning true events into radio dramas". The Independent on Sunday described him as "a perceptive journalist and a fine writer" in their review of his book "Gorgeous George: The life and adventures of George Galloway". 

His plays have dealt with subjects as wide ranging as David Bowie’s last few days, Boris Johnson and Michael Gove’s Brexit rivalry, the shooting down of flight MH17, and the truth behind Tony Blair’s invasion of Iraq. 

David co-produced “The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy” national tour, 2010 – 2013. 'It’s a big thumbs up… A fun ride.' Daily Mail

Ben Whitehead is an established voice actor, across in gaming, commercial and audio drama. Ben has been working with Aardman animations since 2003 and is the voice of ‘Wallace’ in their recent Wallace & Gromit productions. Most notably in the Double BAFTA winning, Oscar nominated feature “Vengeance Most Fowl" He also provided the voice for the Titular ‘Golem’ in the show by internationally acclaimed 1927 productions. 

Credits for Aardman Animations

Wallace & Gromit’s Musical Marvels; Early Man; The Pirates!In an adventure with scientists; A Grand Night In:The story of Aardman; We are amused and Amazed; Wallace & Gromit and the curse of the WereRabbit

Theatre includes A Midsummer Nights Dream (OVO), News Revue (Canal Cafe Theatre), The Thing That Came From Over There (Theatre Royal Plymouth), The Wind in the Willows (Banbury Mill Arts), 'Theatre Brothel’-Blackout (Hull Truck), The Bald Prima Donna (The Space).

Audio Drama includes Treasure Island, The three Musketeers, Oliver Twist, An Enemy of the People, Curse of the Wolfman; The Darkwater Bride; The Trial of Sherlock Holmes; The Monster Hunters; The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, The Strange case of Springheel’d Jack, Stage Fright, Amelie’s Party, The Piper and the Musicians of Bremen, Painted Blind and Medusa on the Beach.

Video Games include Warhammer - Darktide, Sherlock Holmes, Yaga, Troy-A Total War saga, Wallace & Gromit -The Big Fix Up, A Year Of Rain, Layers of Fear, Trine 4-The Nightmare Prince, Pillars of the Earth, Shadow Tactics - Blades of the Shogun, Anno 2205, Rome II-Toatl War, Runescape, Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Adventures.

Writer and Solo theatre productions include Fred Strangebone Performs Comedy (Soho Theatre), Frankenstein in the Bin (Old Red Lion), Fred Strangebone’s Freakshow (Etcetera Theatre), Festival in the Bin (Edinburgh Fringe), Pekka and Strangebone (Hen & Chickens).

Sarah Lawrie is Off West End Award nominated for her performance in one woman show The Good Dad (Hope Theatre/Playground Theatre/EdFringe 2023). Other theatre includes Something Unspoken by Tennessee Williams (Playground Theatre), Dom: The Play (Theatre Royal Windsor/Assembly Rooms/Bill Kenwright Ltd), The Mirror Crack'd (Original Theatre/No. 1 Tour), the UK premiere of the Ephron sisters’ Love, Loss & What I Wore, Alan Ayckbourn’s Improbable Fiction, and Ten Times Table (The Mill at Sonning), Oranges & Ink (Tristan Bates Theatre and touring), Pal Joey and Lulu Smoking With Lulu (Citizens Theatre, Glasgow), The Life & Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby Parts I & II (Chichester Festival Theatre/West End/Toronto), Tales From Hollywood, Phedre and Great Expectations (Perth Theatre), Volpone (Theatre Babel), Restoration (Salisbury Playhouse), Boeing Boeing (Oldham Coliseum), Love Bites (Southwark Playhouse), Frankenstein (The Space Theatre), Jack’s Goodbye (Everyword Festival, Liverpool Everyman), My Romantic History (Old Red Lion), Madame Bovary (Hope Theatre), Miniaturists (Arcola Theatre), and Shutters: A Lesbian Rock Opera (Clapham Omnibus). Radio includes Something Understood, E.M. Forster’s The Machine Stops, A Grain of Wheat, The Petticoat Vote and Red Lines (all for BBC Radio 4). Sarah has recorded a number of audio dramas for Big Finish Productions (including Doctor Who and Star Cops) and has recently recorded her first audiobook.