Theatre credits include: The Nutcracker (St Martin’s Theatre); The Unbelievers, Living Newspaper (Royal Court Theatre); 0800 Cupid (Dublin & Soho Theatre); Little Bulb: Listen Dance (UK Tour); As You Like It (Shakespeare’s Globe); Modest (UK Tour & The Kiln); Hamlet (Bristol Old Vic); Romeo and Juliet (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Meatballs (Hampstead Theatre); Dear Elizabeth (Gate Theatre); The Provoked Wife, Venice Preserved (RSC); Brood (Arcola).

Television credits include: Heartstopper (Netflix); Cheaters, Eastenders (BBC); Foundation (Apple TV)

For her performance as Juliet in Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s production of Romeo and Juliet , Isabel won Best Female Actor at the 2021 Black British Theatre Awards. Isabel is also a founding member of Pecs Drag Kings.

Lottie recently graduated from Urdang (Professional Dance & Musical Theatre) and previously trained at Tring Park School for the Performing Arts. Lottie is also a member of the National Youth Theatre.

Credits whilst training include: Linda in The Wedding Singer (Urdang); Ron Taylor/Maggie in Batboy (Urdang); Muriel in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Tring Park School for the Performing Arts); Chess (NYMT, The Curve Leicester); The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (NYMT, The Other Palace); Paperboy (Lyric Theatre Belfast) and Jabberwocky (Theatre Royal, Margate).

Concerts include: 13 (Cadogan Hall).

This marks Lottie’s professional debut, and she would like to thank her family and friends for their continued love and support

As a Birmingham native, Adam is overjoyed to be joining the company of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in a full-circle moment performing on the stage they first experienced live theatre on thirty-something years ago (yes, it was The Snowman).

Television credits include: Stepping Up (Channel 4/Roughcut); The Voice (ITV) and memorably, Joe Lycett’s Pride Party (Channel 4/Rumpus Media).

Theatre credits include: Send In The Clowns (National Tours 2024 & 2025); Christmas Carole, Southend Palace Theatre (Trafalgar Entertainment/Tuckshop).

Adam is also an independent cabaret artist, vocalist & performance-maker more widely known as Fatt Butcher. They are the director of Birmingham-based queer performance company Fatt Projects, and have developed a range of performance work including MOBILISE, a large-scale participatory protest performance commissioned by the Birmingham Commonwealth Games. Adam is a regular performer on the UK’s cabaret and festival circuits, and was made an associate artist of Warwick Arts Centre in 2024. They are currently developing ‘Congregational’, an original choral oratorio for the nightclub (workshop presented at Fierce Festival 2024).

Keiren Hamilton-Amos is a native of Birmingham’s inner city. A graduate of the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, Keiren’s journey has been marked by participation in numerous National Award-winning productions and his role as a founding member of the internationally acclaimed Strictly Arts Theatre Company and That’s A Rap.

Other theatre credits include: Grimeboy and Peter Pan (Birmingham Repertory Theatre); Poor (Gate Theatre); Big Aunty (Belgrade Theatre) Champion (BBC/Netflix); Freeman (Belgrade Theatre/UK Tour); Our Country’s Good (UK Tour).

Qasim trained at Rose Bruford.

Theatre credits include: the Red Rogue of Bala (Theatr Clwyd); Duck (Broccoli Arts); First Encounters and Romeo and Juliet (RSC); Park Life (Birmingham Rep/Sky Comedy); Linck & Mulhahn (Hampstead Theatre); Tartuffe (Birmingham Rep); One Man, Two Guvnors (Liverpool Everyman/Bolton Octagon/Theatre By The Lake); Aladdin (Lyric Hammersmith) and Trojan Horse (Lung Theatre).

TV credits include: Doctors (BBC).

Film credits include: We Can Be Heroes (Heroes Production).

Radio credits include: This Little Relic (BBC).

Omar trained at the Manchester School of Theatre.

Stage credits include: Marriage Material (Lyric Hammersmith/Birmingham Rep); Abigail’s Party (Theatre Royal Stratford East); My Beautiful Laundrette (Leicester Curve/Leeds Playhouse); East Is East (Nottingham Playhouse/Northern Stage); Gangsta Granny UK Tour (Birmingham Stage); Feverdream: Southside (Citizen’s Theatre); Wanted! Robin Hood (The Lowry/The Library Theatre).

Television credits include: The Tower Series 3 (ITV); Hollyoaks and No Offence (Channel 4); The Tracey Ullman Show Series 2 (BBC & HBO); Behind The Filter, Doctors, The Dumping Ground Series 6 & 8, Hounslow Diaries, Call The Midwife, Holby City, Moving On and Young Dracula (BBC); Coronation Street (ITV).

Hannah is also an experienced writer and director, Associate Artist of Theatr Iolo and yello brick, and co-founder of multi-award winning gig-theatre company Gagglebabble.

Training: Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.

Theatre credits include: Nye (National Theatre), Hamnet (RSC & West End), Romeo & Juliet and The Knight of The Burning Pestle (Shakespeare’s Globe), Stranger Beasts, I Am Kevin And Kneebone Cadillac (Wild Works), Tales Of The Brothers Grimm, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Christmas Carol, Alice In Wonderland, The Wind In The Willows, Maudie’s Rooms, Cinders and Plum [And Me, Will] (Sherman Theatre), Silly Kings, Wonderman and Red Man//Green Woman (National Theatre Wales), I Am Thomas (Told By An Idiot, National Theatre Scotland And Lyceum Edinburgh), Rapunzel (Glasgow Citizens Theatre), The Gamblers (Greyscale, Dundee Rep And Northern Stage), The Flop (Spymonkey And Hijinx Theatre), The Story And Seanmhair (The Other Room), The Shape Of Pain (China Plate Theatre), Double Vision (Wales Millennium Centre And Gagglebabble), The Forsythe Sisters, The Bloody Ballad (Gagglebabble), My Name Is Sue & Songs From Across The Sueniverse (Daf James Productions).

Television and film credits includes: Casualty (BBC), Trollied (Roughcut TV for SKY1), Skins (Company Productions Ltd for E4) and Where I Go (When I Can’t Be Where I Am) (China Plate).

Training: Guildford School of Acting. The University of Birmingham (MPhil)

Theatre Credits include: Willy Wonka in Charlie and The Chocolate Factory (Grimaldi Forum Monaco); Sam in Mamma Mia! (Novello Theatre); Bob in How The Other Half Loves (Salisbury Playhouse); Lord Evelyn Oakleigh in Anything Goes (Barbican Theatre/UK Tour); Joseph Smith/Jesus in The Book of Mormon (Prince of Wales); Bob Cratchit in A Christmas Carol (Middle Temple Hall); Henri Baurel in An American in Paris (Dominion Theatre); Terry Connor in Side Show (Southwark Playhouse); Artie Green in Sunset Boulevard (London Coliseum); Matt Spenser in The Smallest Show on Earth (UK Tour); Carlos in Women on The Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Playhouse); Gilbert Chilvers in Betty Blue Eyes (UK Tour); Original Cast of The Book of Mormon (Prince of Wales); Frank Lippencott in Wonderful Town (UK Tour); Lend Me a Tenor (Gielgud); Stephen Sondheim’s Passion (Donmar Warehouse); The Secret Garden (Festival Theatre, Edinburgh and Royal Alexandra, Toronto); Porridge (UK Tour); Monty Python’s Spamalot (Palace); Wicked (Apollo Victoria); Woman in Mind (Gawsworth Open Air Theatre); We Will Rock You (Dominion); The Bomb-itty of Errors (New Ambassadors).

 Film & Television credits include: Shearings (Commercial); Anything Goes (Cinema Release); Terence Abel in Home Alone (TV); Knock Knock (short); McDonald’s Lonely Hearts (advert); An American in Paris (Cinema release); Visa-Travel Happy (Commercial); INK (short); Inflatable (Music Video) and Japanese Girl (Music Video).

Workshops credits include: Sherlock Holmes and the Twelve Days of Christmas; The Time Traveller’s Wife; Coraline; Mr Vertigo; Sherlock; Doctor Dolittle; Send for Mr Plim; Simon Amungem; Tina the Musical; The Mirror Crack’d; The Monster Bride; A Penguin’s Tale; Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown; Dusty; Through the Looking Glass; Departure Lounge and Pandemonium.

Recordings include: Women on The Verge of a Nervous Breakdown; The Monster Bride; Through the Looking Glass; Navigator; Rameo & Eweliet; Barry The Penguin’s Black & White Christmas; Sherlock and A Christmas Carol

Voiceover credits include: Asterix & Obelix and the Big Fight (Netflix); Lead Children (Netflix); Cryptoboy (Netflix); The Calendar Killer (Amazon Prime); Silver Skates (Netflix)

Theatre credits include: Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged), Private Peaceful (National Production Company); Horrible Histories: Wicked Warwick (Birmingham Stage Company); Sweeney Todd, The Wizard of Oz, Pride and Prejudice, Wind in the Willows, Henry V, Othello, Not About Heroes (Tread The Boards); Lady Chatterley’s Lover (Blue Orange Theatre); Loyalty Binds Me (Noble Ox Theatre Company).

Theatre credits include: Romeo & Juliet (Belgrade Coventry/Hackney Empire/Bristol Old Vic); The Book of Grace (Arcola); Sylvia (The Old Vic); Hamilton (West End); Aladdin (Lyric Hammersmith); 20th Century Boy (UK tour); Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax (The Old Vic); One Love (Birmingham Rep); The Book of Mormon (West End); Jane Eyre (National Theatre); Little Shop of Horrors (Royal Exchange Manchester); Avenue Q (UK tour/South Korea).

Television credits include: Silent Witness; Coronation Street, EastEnders, Doctors.

Ellena was nominated for BEST FEMALE LEAD ACTOR IN A PLAY at the 2024 Black British Theatre Awards for her role in The Book Of Grace

Charlotte is thrilled to make her professional stage debut in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Raised in Wolverhampton, her training includes The Birmingham Rep 18–25 Company, The Oxford School of Drama Foundation Course, and Drama Studio London, from which she graduated in 2025. During her training she received both the Sir Peter John (CBE) Professional Acting Scholarship and the Lillian Baylis Award.

Her training credits include Olivia in Twelfth Night and Nell Gwynn in Nell Gwynn.

Evie Ward-Drummond is a British actor, director and writer who trained at Guildhall School of Music and Drama for three years, graduating in 2023. Originally from Sheffield and is now based in London.

Evie stars as ‘Ella Grace’ in the hit BAFTA-nominated comedy series G’WED for ITV and Disney+. The show debuted in early 2024 to critical and audience praise, becoming one of the most streamed comedies on ITVX platform. The second series premiered in early 2025, going on to receive a nomination at the 2025 BAFTA Awards for ‘Best Scripted Comedy’. Series three is slated for release in 2026.

Further acting credits include a guest lead in the BBC series Doctors.

As a filmmaker, Evie’s debut short film Laundreams was released in October 2025. Evie wrote, directed and stars in the film alongside her collaborator Amber Gadd, supported by a BAFTA-winning creative team, and also starring BAFTA-nominated actor Paapa Essiedu, with BIFA and BAFTA-nominated actor Maxine Peake serving as executive producer. The script was awarded the Oscar-Winning Slick Films Prize at Bolton Film Festival.

Evie is currently in development on her first original TV series with BAFTA-nominated team Golden Path Productions.

Andy Watkins trained at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts.

Theatre credits include: Judd in Bouncers (Worcester Swan), Harry in To the Streets (Birmingham Hippodrome), Troll in Our Teacher’s a Troll (Lesnes Abbey), Mr Price in Kinky Boots (UK Tour), Duncan in Love and Money (Soho Theatre), Jeremy Corbyn in Brexit the Musical (Edinburgh Festival), Ensemble and Understudy in Breakfast at Tiffanys (West End and UK Tour), Laurence in Abigail’s Party (Stantonbury Theatre), Barman in Brighton Rock (Almeida Theatre), Don Baker in Butterflies are Free (Vienna’s English Theatre)

Screen credits include: Cabbie in Call the Midwife (BBC), Kidnapper in The Crust (CBBC), Keith in Sleeping with Fishes (Stray Monkey Productions)

Other Credits: Narrator for a series of London crime thriller audiobooks by Scottish writer Owen Mullen.

Lisa Zahra is British/Iranian.

Theatre credits include: Safe Haven (Arcola Theatre), Snake In The Grass (Theatr Clwyd/Bolton Octagon), Odyssey 84 (Sherman theatre), Baba Joon (Grand Theatre/ San Jose), GRENFELL, The Boy with Two Hearts, Macbeth (National Theatre), Trouble in Butetown (Donmar Warehouse), ISLA (Theatr Clwyd), Mission Control, Before I Leave (National Theatre Wales), The Kite Runner (West End/Dubai Opera/Notts Playhouse), A Thousand Splendid Suns (Birmingham Rep/Northern Stage), Before I Leave (National Theatre Wales), Out Of The Dark (Rose Theatre), Death And The Maiden (The Other Room), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Torch Theatre), The Voyage (Theatr Clwyd/ Poland tour), Cymbeline & The Merchant of Venice (Wales Theatre Company), One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (Torch Theatre)

TV/Film credits include: Crow Girl (Paramount), Phoenix Rise (BBC), Anfamol (S4C), ISLA (BBC), Requiem (Netflix), Casualty, Dr. Who (BBC), Twelfth Night (iMovie), Myths of Ancient Greece (Ch 5), Skellig (Sky movies)

Radio & VO credits include: Mothercover, Baba Joon, All Change, Land of My Father, The Learners, We Are Displaced, Bayeux Embroidering the Truth, Home Fire (BBC Radio 4), We Still Have Our Feet (ETT/ Storyglass), Fall to Earth, (Torchwood), Assassins Creed (Ubisoft), The Persistence (Firesprite).

Lisa is also a writer, her Radio 4 play Baba Joon can be heard on BBC Sounds.