Full Cast of Murder at Midnight Revealed
If you couldn’t tell by now we’re REALLY excited about this upcoming season of Murder Mysteries and Thrillers here at The Rep.
And since we just announced the full cast of our chilling new murder-mystery, Inspector Morse: House of Ghosts last week, we thought what a better time to announce the cast of the brand-new comedy thriller, Murder at Midnight joining us at The Rep from Tue 16 – Sat 20 Sep!
The cast includes previously announced soap and stage favourites Jason Durr (Heartbeat, Casualty) who’ll be playing Jonny ‘The Cyclops’; Susie Blake (Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV, Coronation Street) who’ll be playing Shirley; and Max Bowden (best known for his role as Ben Mitchell in EastEnders) who’ll be playing Paul.
They will be joined by National Television Award-winning actress Katie McGlynn (best known as the bubbly Sinead Tinker in Coronation Street) as Lisa.
The cast is completed by Callum Balmforth as Russell, Peter Moreton as Trainwreck and Iryna Poplavska as Cristina. With Bella Farr and Andy McLeod as Police Officers/Understudies.
Meet The Cast
Jason Durr
After training at LAMDA Jason headed straight to Stratford and the Royal Shakespeare Company, working with director Trevor Nunn in Measure For Measure and The Blue Angel, followed by Macbeth directed by Adrian Noble.
Some of Jason’s other theatre credits include: Louis in Losing Louis (Hampstead Theatre/Trafalgar Studios), Guy in Volcano (West End – Vaudeville Theatre), Tony Blair in Follow my Leader (Hampstead Theatre/Birmingham Repertory Theatre), Sherlock in Sherlock Holmes – The Best Kept Secret (West Yorkshire Playhouse and UK Tour), Matthew in Contact.com (Park Theatre), Hercule Poirot in Black Coffee (Theatre Royal Windsor and UK Tour), Zack in A Chorus Line (Sheffield Crucible), Vince in Way Up Stream (Chichester Festival Theatre), Colonel Mustard in Cluedo 2 (Tour), Nick in Wrong Side of The Rainbow (Donmar Warehouse), Ben in The Destiny Of Me (Haymarket Theatre), Quine in Donkeys’ Years (Rose Theatre)
TV credits include: Above Suspicion, Inspector Morse, Midsummer Murders, Lewis, New Tricks, Numb3rs, Agatha Christie’s Marple: The Blue Geranium, Mysterious Island, The Paradise Club, Femme Fatale, Medics, Summer Solstice, Christmas, A Dark Adapted Eye, Fooling Hitler, Winter Solstice, Sharpe’s Battle, Iphigenia at Aulis, Bugs, Gawain And The Green Knight, The Chief, Jupiter Moon, Heartbeat, Holby City, Casualty and Shakespeare and Hathaway.
Film credits include: Young Soul Rebels,The Killer Tongue,True True Lie, and Down Dog.
Susie Blake
Theatre includes: Fisherman’s Friends: The Musical (Dominion Theatre & Hall for Cornwall); My Fair Lady (Grange Festival); The Mirror Crack’d (UK Tour); Some Mothers Do Av Em (UK Tour); Murder Margaret and Me (York Theatre Royal); Grumpy Old Women Live 3 (UK Tour); Cider with Rosie (UK Tour); Aladdin (Yvonne Arnaud Theatre); The Importance of Being Earnest A New Musical (Riverside Studios); When We Are Married (Garrick Theatre); Pygmalion (Chichester Festival Theatre); Grumpy Old Women Live 2 (UK Tour and Novello Theatre); Bertha in Boeing, Boeing (on Tour); Snake in the Grass and Life and Beth (Stephen Joseph Theatre and on Tour); Wicked (Apollo Victoria); High Society (UK Tour); Noises Off (National Theatre); A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum (Regents Park Theatre); Virtual Reality (Stephen Joseph Theatre); The Shakespeare Revue (RSC); Absent Friends (West Yorkshire Playhouse and the Lyric, Hammersmith); Prin (Lyric, Hammersmith); Blithe Spirit (Royal Exchange).
Television includes: Silky Hotel for BBC iPlayer; Kate & Koji (Series 1&2) for ITV; Not Going Out for BBC One; The Real Marigold Hotel for BBC One, Casualty for BBC One, Murder on the Blackpool Express for UKTV, The Cockfields for BBC Cuckoo (Series 3); New Tricks for BBC; You, Me and Them for UKTV Gold; Murder on the Homefront for Carnival Film and Television; Mrs Brown’s Boys (Series 3&2) for BBC; Series regular Beverley Unwin in Coronation Street for ITV. Great Night Out for ITV; Parents for Sky; The Crossing for BBC; House of Rooms for Channel 4; Doctors for BBC; Judith in Wild At Heart for ITV; Eve Beckett in Roger for BBC; Mrs Buchanan in Sunburn for BBC; Beverley in two series of A Prince Among Men for BBC; Louise in April Fools’ Day for ITV; Eleven Men Against Eleven for Channel 4; Wake up with… for ITV; Susan Hopkins in A Year in Provence for the BBC; Fay Morgan in The Wail of The Banshee for Central TV; Mrs Jerebohm in The Darling Buds Of May for YTV; Blore for BBC 4; 4 Series of Singles for YTV and The Victoria Wood Show for BBC.
Film includes: Nativity 3 and Fierce Creatures with John Cleese.
Max Bowden
Max just finished starring in Midnight Cowboy at Southwark Playhouse playing the iconic role of Ratso. Prior to this he starred in the national tour of Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks’s epic tale of love and loss, returning to the stage in celebration of the 30th anniversary of the internationally best-selling novel, playing the role of Jack Firebrace.
He is best known for playing series regular ‘Ben Mitchell’ in BBC One’s long-running series, Eastenders, from 2019 -2024.
Before that, he played a leading role in season 10 of the first incarnation of the BAFTA nominated popular drama, Waterloo Road on BBC One.
His theatre credits include: Elegies For Punks & Raging Queens at Charing Cross Theatre, Only The Brave at Soho Theatre, in addition to roles in Punk Rock and Billy Elliot.
Katie McGlynn
NTA award-winning actress Katie McGlynn has been captivating audiences since she was just 16-years old, landing her first lead role in the hit BBC drama Waterloo Road as the fiery, rebellious Jodie ‘Scout’ Allen filmed in her hometown of Rochdale. After three incredible series, she was then cast as the bubbly Sinead Tinker in ITV’s flagship soap Coronation Street.
It was in this role that Katie truly made her mark, receiving a National Television Award for Best Serial Drama Performance and even gaining a BAFTA TV nomination for their ‘Must See Moment’ award for Sinead’s death scenes. Over her seven years on the cobbles, Katie brought a dynamic blend of humour and heart-wrenching emotion to her character, proving her incredible versatility as a performer.
More recently, she has taken on some bold and complex roles. She played the troublemaking Georgina in the late Kay Mellor’s final instalment of The Syndicate (BBC), starred in a gripping, nine-month storyline as conspiracy theorist Becky Quentin on Channel 4 soap Hollyoaks – and embarked on her professional stage play debut as lead Cleo in acclaimed thriller author Peter James’ Wish You Were Dead tour.
Beyond acting, Katie has made numerous TV appearances including competing in the 2021 series of Strictly Come Dancing (BBC), featuring in a Sport Relief special of The Greatest Dancer (ITV), and mastering the art of comedy on the Stand Up 2 Cancer charity special, Stand Up and Deliver (Channel 4).
She also fronted a powerful self-shot smear test segment for ITV’s Lorraine, encouraging women across the UK to prioritise their cervical health – and joined BBC Morning Live fronting various features across the show as a guest presenter.
Callum Balmforth
Training: RDDC (Redbridge Drama and Dance College)
Theatre credits include: Box of Delights (RSC Stratford); Hey Christmas Tree (Chichester Festival Theatre); Wendy and Peter Pan (Leeds Playhouse/Bunkamura) and Dick Whittington and His Cat (Cambridge Arts Theatre).
Television credits include: Doctors (BBC).
Film credits include: Queen Cleopatra (Netflix).
Peter Moreton
Training: The Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Theatre credits include: Witness For the Prosecution ( London County Hall ); Shakespeare in Love (West End); The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Chichester and West End); ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore (Cheek by Jowl, Barbican and international tour); i am Mark (Leicester Square Theatre, Arena Theatre Wolverhampton); In the Land of Uz – Sixty Six Books (Bush Theatre); The Three Musketeers (Rose Theatre); Love From a Stranger (The Mill at Sonning); The Pros, the Cons and a Screw (Derby Live); Berlin Hanover Express (Hampstead Theatre); Hound of the Baskervilles (National Tour); My Night with Reg and Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle and Dick (New Vic Theatre Newcastle); Tales From the Vienna Woods (National Theatre); All My Sons (Theatre Royal York); The Prince of Homburg (RSC & Lyric Theatre Hammersmith); As You Like It (Sheffield Crucible and Lyric Theatre Hammersmith); Good (Donmar Warehouse); The Comedy of Errors (Propeller, International tour); Peter Pan and Rogues to Riches (Watermill Theatre Newbury); Measure for Measure (Barbican, Nottingham Playhouse and Edinburgh Festival); The Duchess of Malfi and Hamlet (Cheek by Jowl, international tours); Temptations and Betrayals (one-man shows, New End Theatre and Edinburgh Festival) and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Aldeburgh Festival).
Television credits include: Doctors, Vexed, Rosemary and Thyme, The Glass, Big Bad World, Grafters, Under the Moon, EastEnders, As Time Goes By, Van Der Valk, Dead Romantic and Lovejoy.
Film credits include: The Secret Garden, Bodywork and Brides of Desire.
Radio and voice work credits include: Cat of Bubastes, the Dragon and the Raven, A Patriot for Me, Sir Knight of the Splendid Way, Silas Marner, Basket of Flowers, In Company with Sondheim, The Chronicles of Narnia and Ben Hur.
Iryna Poplavska
Iryna hails from Ukraine. Shortly after graduating from drama school in Kyiv, her career took off when she landed the lead role of Betty in the Ukrainian version of the worldwide TV franchise Ugly Betty. Iryna headlined the show to critical acclaim and starred in all 48 episodes.
In 2023 Iryna relocated to London, where she was accepted into the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. There, she completed an MA in Acting for Screen and directed her first short film, A Knock Away.
Iryna is thrilled to be making her theatrical debut in the UK in the premiere of Murder at Midnight.
Bella Farr
Bella graduated from Drama Studio London in 2019. She made her professional and West End debut in The Mousetrap.
Theatre credits include: Relatively Speaking, Noises Off (Theatre Royal Bath Productions).
Film credits include: When the Screaming Starts (Riotous Films).
Andy McLeod
Theatre credits include: Cosmic (Royal Court Liverpool); Children of the Night (CAST Doncaster); There Should Be Unicorns (Middle Child); User Not Found (UK & International Tour, Dante Or Die); Secret Life of Humans (Off Broadway Transfer, New Diorama); Down & Out in Paris and London, The Universal Machine, Kubrick3, The Dark Room (New Diorama); Macbeth (Kenneth More Theatre); Vassa Zheleznova, Enduring Song (Southwark Playhouse); Border Men (Kings Head Theatre) and Happy Dave (Smoke & Oakum).
Television credits include: A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder (Season 1 & 2), The Gathering, The Outlaws, The Beast Must Die and Eastenders.
Short film credits include: OCD & Chips, Eat Chips Love, Past Tense, The Nest and The Introduction.
Guaranteed to keep you guessing until the final stroke of midnight…
It’s New Year’s Eve in a quiet corner of Kent and a killer is in the house. We meet Jonny ‘The Cyclops’ – the notorious gangster, his glamorous wife, his trigger-happy sidekick, his mum – who’s seeing things, her very jittery carer, plus a vicar who’s hiding something, and a nervous burglar dressed as a clown. Throw in a suitcase full of cash, a stash of deadly weapons, and one infamous unsolved murder…what could possibly go wrong? Join the murder mystery with a difference. One house. Seven suspects… and a murder at midnight.
Murder at Midnight marks the second production joining this gripping season full of twists, chilling suspense and wickedly dark humour, followed shortly after by The Faction‘s stage adaptation of psychological thriller The Talented Mr. Ripley (Mon 22 – Sat 27 Sep); Thunder Road Theatre‘s haunting love letter to classic theatre ghost stories and cinema’s greatest frights, Shock Horror (Fri 31 Oct – Sat 1 Nov); and culminating with our World Premiere of our laugh-out-loud festive murder mystery Sherlock Holmes and The 12 Days of Christmas (Fri 14 Nov – Sun 11 Jan) made in association with Heartaches Ltd.