Sleeping Beauty

Craig Anderson — Rosie

Craig trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.

Theatre credits include: Hansel and Gretel (Derby Theatre); Jack and the Beanstalk (Theatre Clwyd and Gatehouse Theatre); The Book Thief - Workshop, Tinsel Tunes (Octagon Theatre Bolton); Cinderella (Dukes Theatre); Open Road, Little Johnny's Big Gay Wedding (National Theatre Scotland); Beauty and the Beast (Citizens Theatre); Macbeth (International Tour); Best Foot Forward, In at the Deep End (Mikron Theatre, UK Tour); Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty (Hazlitt Theatre); Carnaby Street the Musical (UK No:1 Tour); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Bard in the Botanics); Hot Mikado (Landor Theatre);

Film/Television credits include: Milk and Honey (Warrior Film Productions); No Way Back (Music video, Hacktivist) HEDZ, Tonight’s the Night with John Barrowman, Rancid (BBC Television); Gucci Exquisite Stanley Kubrick Collaboration and Walkers Commercial Campaigns.

Mya Fox-Scott — Princess Aurora & Mayor

Mya Fox-Scott trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.

Theatre credits includes: Welfare (Derby Theatre); Standing at the Sky’s Edge (Gillian Lynne Theatre, West End); Peter Pan (Little Wolf Entertainment); Curtains, Julius Caesar, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, A School for Scandal, Sweat, Paradise (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama); Emma Rice Wise Children Workshop (Wise Children).

Max Gallagher — Thornica

Theatre acting credits include: Geordie/Baby Joey/1st Understudy Songman in War Horse (UK/Australia Tour including Lyttelton, National Theatre); Mog (The Old Vic/Royal & Derngate/Wardrobe Ensemble); Marquess of Dorset in Richard III (Hull Truck/Northern Broadsides); Stephen Lynn in Brief Encounter & The Fall of the House of Usher (Watermill); Duke of Amalfi in The Duchess of Amalfi’s Steward (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Globe); Henry Clerval in Frankenstein (Blackeyed UK Tour); Aunt Spiker/Centipede in James & the Giant Peach (Selladoor UK/Hong Kong/Middle East Tour); Marley in A Christmas Carol (Theatre by the Lake, Keswick); Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz (Theatre Royal, Winchester); Beauty and the Beast (CAST, Doncaster); PIAF (Bridewell/Charing Cross); Colin Craven in The Secret Garden, The Comedy of Errors & Witch in Macbeth (Grosvenor Park, Chester); The A-Z of Mrs P (Southwark Playhouse); Scripps in The History Boys (Mercury, Colchester); Love, Lies & Lust (Queen’s, Hornchurch); The Comedy of Babi Babbett, Gods & Dogs and The Dressing Book (Rude Mechanical UK Tours); The Hatchling (Trigger Stuff); Hindley in Wuthering Heights the Musical (MMD); Hello Norma Jeane (Southwold); Jack & the Giant (Chipping Norton); Oh No! Not Snow! (Royal & Derngate); Rapunzel (York Theatre Royal/tutti frutti UK/Ireland Tour); Alice in Wonderland & Grimm Tales’ Winter Gala (Grimm Productions)

TV acting credits include: Home Fires (ITV)

Composer, Lyricist, Arranger & Musical Director/Supervisor credits include: Composer/Co-Lyricist for Robin Good (Norwich Playhouse); Composer/MD for Oh We Do Like To Be (HighTide/Turbine); Assistant Composer/MD for Roots (1927/Edinburgh International Festival/Spoleto Festival USA/HOME Manchester/Théâtre de la Ville International Tour); Musical Supervisor for Mehr Als Auf Der Welt/Please Right Back (1927/Burgtheater Vienna); and Lesbian Pirates: The Musical (Lowry); MD for Centralia (Arcola), The Rotter’s Opera (Astor) & Tomfoolery (Southwold). MD/Arranger for Parade (Rose Bruford); Rehearsal Room Music Copyist/Transcriber for Tammy Faye (Almeida); Show MD for Mog (The Old Vic/Royal & Derngate/Wardrobe Ensemble); Brief Encounter (Watermill); Ovid’s Metamorphoses (Pants on Fire/VAULTS); and Once Upon a Snowflake (Pegasus, Oxford). Keys 2 for Dick Whittington & his Cat (Norwich Theatre Royal); Pianist/Vocalist for Spirit Trio (Spirit of Adventure and Discovery Cruise Ships, SAGA)

Training: Actor Musicianship at Rose Bruford College

Laura Gómez Gracia — Milo the Dragon & Ralph Fiennes

Laura is a Spanish actor, singer and musician who began her training at the ESAD of Murcia in Spain before further honing her craft at The MTA in London, where she moved to pursue her career in the UK.
With experience across both stage and screen, Laura's credits include: Adnausea in Cinderella (The Theatre Chipping Norton); Sheriff/Nurse Nellie in Robin Hood (Outside The Box Productions); Cheerleader on The Last Leg (Open Mike Productions); Gonzala/Juno in The Tempest (Shakespeare in the Squares); Lead Vocalist for TED; Soloist in Sunday Night Socials (The Union Theatre, Night Socials) and Catwoman in By The Bog Of Cats (The MTA).

Last year, her standout performance as one of the Ugly Sisters in ‘Cinderella’ earned her a nomination for a UK Panto Award.

Currently, Laura is an active presence in the London stand up comedy circuit. As a comedian, she was shortlisted for a Funny Women Award and qualified as a semifinalist in the SYTYF Competition in 2023.

Burhan Kathawala — Prince Three, Labour MP & Thorn

Burhan Kathawala is an international Actor-Musician of South-Asian heritage. He grew up in Dubai, training in acting, singing, devising theatre & playing musical instruments. Burhan then qualified in BA (Hons) Actor Musicianship ‘23 after his 3 years at Rose Bruford College in London, where he currently resides. Burhan is also a highly skilled multi-instrumentalist, specialising in Drums, Ukulele, Guitar and Singing.

He’d also like to give special thanks to Papa, Mum, Naaz, Neamah & Taher for their continued love and support!

Theatre credits include: The Bar at The Edge of Time Autumn & Spring Tour (Frozen Light Theatre Company); Dream Emporium & Skybound (Make/Sense Theatre); Navarre (The Cockpit Theatre, Camden Fringe Festival)

MD credits include: Navarre (The Cockpit Theatre, Camden Fringe Festival)

Film/TV credits: The Bar at the Edge of Time: The Multi-Sensory Movie

Training credits include: Seussical! The Musical (Actor-Muso, Greenwich Theatre & Rose Bruford College); Nora: A Doll's House (Barn, Rose Bruford College); & Shakespeare's Twelfth Night (Promenade, Rose Bruford College).

Signe Larsson — The Queen & Jimmy James

Signe grew up in Stockholm, Sweden, and moved to London in 2020 to study Acting Musicianship at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, where she became the first actor-musician to receive the Gyerbour Asante Award for Acting. Since graduating in 2023 and has performed in theatres all over the UK.

Theatre credits include: The Wizard of Oz (The Watermill Theatre); Beautiful, the Carol King Musical (Pitlochry Festival Theatre); Sense & Sensibility (The Roman Theatre); & Footloose (The New Wolsey Theatre).

Meg Narongchai — The King, Prince One & Thorn

Meg Narongchai is an actor musician who graduated from the Guildford School of Acting in 2022.

Theatre credits include: Once (The Hub at St Mary's); Cinderella (Storyhouse); Shanty For an Atomic Town (Obscura Theatre); Aftercare (53two); and most recently All the Fraudulent Horse Girls for Brooklyn Rep UK at the Edinburgh Fringe.

Commercial credits include: campaigns for Student Roost and Wells Fargo.

Emily Pickett — The Chef, Ed Sheeran, Thorn, Prince Two & Ghost

Emily, originally from the North West, is a 2024 Graduate of the Actor Musicianship course at Rose Bruford. She has always loved performing and music and is incredibly excited to be making her professional debut in this production of Sleeping Beauty!

Her credits while training include: Julius Caesar, The Grinning Man & The Sweet Science of Bruising (Rose Buford College)

Alexander Zane — Prince Toby & Courtier

Alexander trained at the Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, graduating 2018.

Theatre credits include: Mr Pope/Foxtrot and Assistant MD in The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe (Birmingham Rep); Clarence Pool in Tarantino Live (Riverside Arts Studios); Dandini in Cinderella (Princes Hall, Aldershot); Assistant MD and Music Swing in Beautiful (UK tour); Sparky in Forever Plaid (Upstairs at the Gatehouse); Dick in Dick Whittington (Princes Hall, Aldershot); Goody in Fame (UK Tour and West End).

Helen Atkinson — Sound Designer

Helen’s credits as a Sound designer includes: The Red Lion (New Wolsey Theatre); SAFEHOUSE (Abbey Theatre); Black Sheep (Curious Directive, Norwich); Face to Face (Marian Consort at Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh Festival 2024); Beauty & The Beast, Dick Whittington and his Cat & Hansel and Gretel (CBeebies Pantomime); Horseplay (The Whitings on the Wall, Norwich); Medicine, Arlington and Ballyturk (Landmark Productions and Galway International Arts Festival); MAM (Teac Damsa Ireland); The Nico Project (Manchester International Festival); Wirewalk (Norfolk and Norwich Festival Launch 2019); Grief is the Thing with Feathers (Complicité : Wayward); The Second Violinist and The Last Hotel (Landmark Productions and Irish National Opera); Salomé (RSC Swan);  The Suicide (Lyttelton, National Theatre); The Village (Theatre Royal Stratford East); All My Sons & Much Ado about Nothing (Queens Theatre, Hornchurch); You for Me for You (Royal Court Upstairs); The Matchbox (Galway International Arts Festival); The Summerbook, ‘Twas the Night before Christmas and 1001 Nights (Unicorn Theatre); Deep Blue Sea, All My Sons and Of Mice and Men (Watermill Theatre); NHS@70, Cuckooed and Bravo Figaro! (Mark Thomas at the Traverse); Macbeth (Cheek by Jowl); A Great Night Out, Wolfschild & Once Upon a Castle (Wildworks)

Podcasts and Projects include: Through the Cracks, F**ked  Up Bedtime Stories, That Podcast (ETT); Living Newspaper Edition 7 (Royal Court); Keywords Podcast & Lockdown Check Up Podcast (Mark Thomas); Re/Collect250 (Norfolk Norwich Festival), Unlocking our Sound Heritage (Norfolk Records Office): Enda Walsh’s - Rooms Installation Series (Galway International Arts Festival).

Helen was awarded Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards - Best Soundscape 2022 for Medicine and Best Sound Design 2014 for Ballyturk.

Myles Brown — Choreographer

Director & Choreographer credits include: Legends The Divas (Adelphi & UK Tour)

Choreographer credits include: Platform, The Other Palace (NYMT); Cinderella (Stratford East Theatre Royal); Aladdin (Hackney Empire); Beauty & The Beast (Little Wolf) for which he won Best Choreography at The Pantomime Awards 2024.

Associate Director/Choreographer credits include: Jerry’s Girls (Menier Chocolate Factory)

Associate Choreographer credits include: SpiceWorld (2019 UK Tour); The Drifters Girl (Garrick Theatre West End & UK Tour)

Dan de Cruz — Musical Director

Dan gained a BMus (Hons) from the University of Surrey before going on to train on the post-graduate course at Guildford School of Acting.

Dan has recently been Musical Supervisor for CAKE opening at the Lyric Theatre and Associate Musical Supervisor for La Bamba! A Musical at the Peacock Theatre and on tour, working alongside Alfonso Casado Trigo.

He has worked extensively around the UK as a Musical Director: most recently on the UK tour of Beautiful – The Carole King Musical, Just So and Kiss Me, Kate! at the Watermill, Our Blue Heaven at the New Wolsey Theatre and as MD and Arranger on Justin Fletcher’s show – Justin’s Band

Other recent work includes the UK No.1 tour of the hit musical, Jackie – The Musical, Dick Whittington at the Wyllyotts, Beauty and the Beast and Red Riding Hood at the City Varieties, Assistant Musical Director for the critically acclaimed production of Made In Dagenham at the Queen’s Theatre/New Wolsey Theatre, and Musical Director & Orchestral Arranger for Aladdin, at the Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch, which was voted one of the Top Ten Shows of 2015 in London Theatre 1, Seussical the Musical, Chicago, The Wedding Singer, On The Streets, Little Shop of Horrors, The Dracula Spectacular, FAME, Back to the 80's, The Pirates of Penzance, Annie, Guys and Dolls, The Wizard of Oz, Jesus Christ Superstar, Joseph, Oliver, The Mikado, A Christmas Carol, Captain Noah, The Evacuees and Sago The Clown.

Dan also has appeared on stage in shows including: Sinbad, Made In Dagenham, Sweet Charity Beauty and the Beast, Dick Whittington, Mods and Rox (New Wolsey); Lemon - The Musical (Arts Theatre); The Man Who Stole The Circus (Isis Theatre); Run For Your Wife, They're Playing Our Song (Queen's Theatre); Cinderella, Aladdin (City Varieties); Much Ado About Nothing, Romeo and Juliet (Stafford Castle); Buddy Vs The Killer (Raffles, Singapore); Robin Hood and the Babes in the Wood (Theatre Clwyd); My Fair Lady, West Side Story (Aberystwyth Arts Centre); Dawlish Road (Soho Theatre); The Far Pavilions, Time's Up (Shaftesbury Theatre); FAME (Palladium).

Zoë Hurwitz — Set & Costume Designer

Zoë is a designer for stage and film based in New York and London.  US venues include: Here Arts Centre, Ars Nova (AntFest), The Wild Project, The Sheen Center, Colgate University and Brown/Trinity Rep.

In the UK, she has designed for venues such as The Orange Tree, Queens Theatre Hornchurch, The Marlowe Canterbury, Arts Ed, Jermyn Street Theatre, Hampstead Theatre, Mercury Theatre Colchester, The New Diorama, Shoreditch Town Hall, Warwick Arts Centre, Lamda, The Bunker, The Royal Court and The Director’s Programme at the Young Vic.

Recent projects include: designing the winning play Barrier(s), for the New Views Festival in the Dorfman Theatre, and acting as Design Associate for the Connections Festival 2022 at the National Theatre.

Selected production design credits include: Assisted Living (web series, NYC) and Pear (music video, NYC).

Two of her designs were selected for World Stage Design 2022 in Calgary, one of which (Tomorrow Will Take Care of Itself) took first place in the Emerging Designer category. A winner of the 2019 Linbury Prize for Stage Design, she has twice been a finalist in the Off West End Awards for best Set Design, most recently in 2022 for Deciphering.  She is a recipient of the 2022 JMK Development Award, with Director Emerald Crankson.

She is a graduate of the MFA Design Programme at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, and holds a BA in Fine Art from Chelsea School of Art, University of the Arts London.

Olivia Jamieson — Associate Set & Costume Designer

Olivia is a performance designer working interdisciplinary in both set and costume design. After studying MA Performance Design at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Olivia was a recipient of the National Youth Theatre's Alan Macdonald Designer Bursary, shortlisted for the Linbury Prize 2023 and is the winner of the JMK Award 2023 alongside director Kalungi Ssebandeke.

Credits include: Meetings (The Orange Tree Theatre); Metamorphoses (The Egg); Those Who Trespass (The Tobacco Factory); Bakkhai (National Youth Theatre); The Last One (Arcola Theatre); Loam (Bristol Old Vic); Is God Is (RADA); and The White Devil (The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama).

Associate/assisting credits include: Black Sheep (Curious Directive); Gone Too Far (Stratford East); and Much Ado About Nothing (The Duke of York’s Theatre).

Callum Macdonald — Lighting Designer

Callum is a freelance lighting designer, associate designer and re-lighter, working across theatre, dance, opera and live events, both around the UK and internationally.

During the early years in his career he started as a lighting technician at The New Wolsey Theatre in Ipswich, spending as much time as possible shadowing incoming designers and touring re-lighters. Throughout the Wolsey years he built on his creative connections and worked his way up the ranks, allowing him to fully invest in a freelance design career in 2012.

More recently, in 2019 Callum was one of 38 emerging designers to be selected for the Association of Lighting Designers’ prestigious ‘Lumiere Scheme’, through which he was paired with the distinguished designer Mark Jonathan for a year of technical and career mentorship.

Over the course of 2021-22, Callum was supported by Arts Council England as part of their ‘Develop Your Creative Practice’ campaign, affording him the opportunity to build on his working practice as an associate to Johanna Town, Mark Jonathan, Matthew Haskins and Lucy Carter on a number of large-scale productions, including drama, musicals, opera and ballet.

Callum is a member of The Association for Lighting Production and Design (ALPD) and of Equity.

Douglas Rintoul — Director

Douglas is an award-winning theatre-maker and cultural leader. He was born in Suffolk, grew up in Essex, read Drama and Theatre Arts at the University of Birmingham and was awarded a bursary on the Regional Theatre Young Director Scheme to Salisbury Playhouse where he trained as a director. He is the Chief Executive/Artistic Director of the New Wolsey Theatre, was the Artistic Director of Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch (2015 - 2022), founder of the national touring theatre company Transport (2010 - 2017), and an associate of Complicité (2004 - 2010).

Vikki Stone — Writer

Vikki Stone is an award-winning writer, composer, comedian and musician.

Writing credits include: co-adapter, writer and music supervisor for the Oliver Nominated Hey Duggee Live, #zoologicalsociety (Royal & Derngate); Cinderella, Aladdin (Lyric Hammersmith); music and lyrics for Alice In Wonderland (Liverpool Playhouse); music and lyrics for Peter Pan (Rose Theatre Kingston); Dick Whittington and his Cat (New Wolsey Theatre); Ten Pieces Special Report for BAFTA Nominated children’s music series BBC Ten Pieces, Our Girls Our Game (British Youth Music Theatre).

Vikki made history when she was the musical director, pianist and band leader of the Saturday night ITV prime-time show Romeo and Duet, making her the first on-screen female musical director of a primetime entertainment show in the UK.

Other TV appearances include: BBC Proms coverage for BBC Four, Romeo and Duet, Richard Osman’s House of Games, Celebrity Pointless, The Dog Ate My Homework, The John Bishop Show, Partners in Rhyme and the BAFTA award-winning Ten Pieces for BBC.

As a composer, classical works include: The Thing That Matters, a massed choral piece commissioned by the National Youth Choir of Great Britain, and The Concerto for Comedian and Orchestra which premiered at Glastonbury Festival.