Daneka Trained at ALRA. Theatre credits include: The Welkin, All of Us (National Theatre); Alice in Wonderland (HOME/Stockroom); Come To Where I Am (Paines Plough); Acting Leader (Northern Stage); Northern Girls: Lemon Top (Pilot Theatre); Moth to the Flame (Theatre by the Lake); Tinsel Tunes (Octagon Theatre Bolton); BURNOUT (Live Theatre); Miss Julie (CAST); Isolation (The Customs House); The Comedy of Errors (Petersfield Shakespeare Festival) and Under The Market Roof (Junction 8 Theatre). Film credits include: Supernova (BBC/StudioCanal/The Bureau) and I Asked Your Dad If He Could Do It (Northern Broadsides).

Born and raised in Coventry, Lee attended Belgrade Youth as a teen and went on the graduate from The University of Wales, Trinity St. David. Theatre credits include: Common (National Theatre); Lessons in Love and Violence (Royal Opera House); Misfits (The Space Theatre); Wyrd Sisters (The Old Joint Stock Theatre/Tour); Diablo and Blood (Belgrade Theatre).

Laura studied BA (Hons) Theatre Arts, Education and Deaf Studies at the University of Reading with further training at The International School of Corporeal Mime. She is co-founder at Handprint Theatre including co-directing award winning Moonbird by Joyce Dunbar and Jane Ray at Edinburgh Fringe 2019 and A Tale of Two Houses – Borough of Culture. Laura is a Trustee at Prime Theatre. Integrated/interpreted theatre credits include: In The Willows (Metta Theatre); Snail & the Whale (Tall Stories); Punk Rock (Prime Theatre); Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World (Kenny Wax); Mavra/Pierrot Lunaire (Royal Opera House) and Stig of the Dump (Storyhouse).

Amy trained at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, graduating in 2021. Theatre credits include: Robin Hood (Cumbernauld Theatre), Antigone (Storyhouse), Class Act (Traverse Theatre), Like Flying (National Theatre of Scotland) and Dinosaurs in Love (Traverse Theatre). Other Credits include: Diagnonsense (Short Film) No Hero (Short Film).

Karina is an actor with a vision impairment from Wales. Karina trained at Liverpool Hope University and Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Theatre credits include: Macbeth (Leeds Playhouse), Curtain Up (Theatre Clwyd), As You Like It and Measure for Measure (Royal Shakespeare Company), Wait Until Dark (Original Theatre Company, UK Tour), The Tragic Life and Triumphant Death of Julia Pastrana (Hope Mill Theatre), In Water I’m Weightless (National Theatre Wales), Flower Girls (Graeae Theatre Company/New Wolsey Ipswich), On Blindness (Young Vic/Paines Plough), Crystal Clear (The Lowry) and The Fly (Royal Exchange Manchester). Film and Television: Foreign Skies (Channel 4), Off Their Rockers (ITV) and The Bill (Thames Television) Radio: SoloParentpals.com (Series 2-4, BBC Radio)

Karina is also an aerialist and began her career in 2012 when she answered a call out for disabled artists to train for the Paralympic Opening Ceremony. Karina continued her training full time with Green Top Circus in Sheffield and Circus Oz in Australia. Karina has performed with various circus companies such as Extraordinary Bodies and Rogue Play Theatre Company and also as a solo performer at The Cerebral Palsy World Games Opening Ceremony. Karina is a theatre maker, Clore Fellow, NLP Practitioner, Voice coach and audio description consultant.

Kit is a recent graduate of the Rose Bruford College of Performance where he trained as an Actor Musician. Much Ado About Nothing marks his professional debut and he is very excited to share this performance. His recent credits at college include: London Road by Alecky Blythe and Nell Gwynn by Jessica Swale.

Leo Long is a musician who has performed with the London Youth Folk Ensemble and National Open Youth Orchestra. This autumn, Leo makes his screen debut in the role of ‘STEVIE’ in the Netflix film, I Used To Be Famous. Being neurodiverse, Leo has experienced and succeeded in overcoming many challenges and is determined to make the music and film industries more people-friendly for disabled musicians and actors.

Theatre credits include: Richard III (Kronborg Castle, Denmark); Frankenstein (Royal Exchange, Manchester); Reasons to be Cheerful (Graeae Theatre); The Merry Wives of Windsor, King John and Antony and Cleopatra (Northern Broadsides); Blood Wedding (Graeae Theatre/Derby Theatre/Dundee Rep); Crows on the Wire (Verbal Arts); Bunny’s Vendetta (Blue Eagle Productions); Billy Liar (Macho Productions); Being Tommy Cooper (Franklin Productions); Fool for Love and Richard III (Riverside Studios); The Calendar Girls (West End/Chichester); Sleeping Beauty (Mercury Theatre, Colchester); Blasted (Soho Theatre); The Bells (National Tour); Marley (Vasa Theatre, Stockholm); Confusions (Bridewell Theatre); Whistle Down the Wind (West End); House at Pooh Corner (Polka); Neville’s Island (The Dukes, Lancaster) and Northern Trawl (Remould Theatre Company). Television credits include: Father Brown, Doctors, Casualty and EastEnders (BBC) and Vera (ITV). Film credits include: Set the Thames on Fire (Blonde to Black Pictures). Gerard is an experienced voiceover artist and has worked on hundreds of audio and radio dramas both for Audible and BBC Radio 4.

Taku grew up in Chelmsford, Essex, England. He’s an alumnus of Drama Studio London, where he trained on the three-year Professional Acting course, graduating in 2019. He has worked on various screen, voiceover, and stage productions including: The Prophetic Soul (Salisbury Playhouse), Salome (The Bunker Theatre), and Lazy Ace (Her Majesty’s Theatre). Taku also recently narrated the audio book Child Soldier: When Boys and Girls Are Used in War for Listening Books.

Fatima, who is deaf and of British-Nigerian heritage, is a BBC Class Act alum and hails from London. Theatre credits include: Antigone (Storyhouse Theatre); The Tempest (Graeae Theatre Company); Medicine’s Monstrous Daughters (Vital Xposure); Small Island (National Theatre) and Mirror Mirror (Oily Cart). Television credits include: I Hate Suzie (Bad Wolf/ Sky Studios), Something Special (BBC) and Supersonic (Neath Films/BSLBT).

Theatre credits include: Oliver Twist (Ramps on The Moon/Leeds Playhouse); Cinderella (CAST) and Twelfth Night (Southwark Theatre). Television credits include: Moving On, Doctors, Murphy’s Law, Switch (BBC). Caroline won 3 Best Actress awards for her role Mabel Morgan in the BSLBT Zone film If I Don’t Lose, I’ll Lose, including Cannes Film Festival. In the cabaret circuit Caroline performs her unique style signed songs. She gave a TEDx talk on Singing Without Her Voice. At the 2012 Paralympic Opening Ceremony she signed the closing number I am What I Am alongside Beverley Knight.

Theatre credits include: Lava (Soho Theatre); The Big Corner (Bolton Octagon); Road (Royal Court); The Kitchen Sink (The New Vic); Around The World In 80 Days, Hamlet, A Christmas Carol, Europe, Road, Romeo and Juliet, Kes (Leeds Playhouse); Weald (Finborough Theatre); Hamlet (Barbican); Britannia Waves The Rules, Scuttlers, Pages From my Songbook (Royal Exchange Theatre); Wanted! Robin Hood (Library Theatre); and DNA (The Lowry Theatre). Film credits include: 2.0 Lucy, The Rise Of the Krays, The Fall of the Krays and Halcyon Heights. Television credits include: Silent Witness, The Musketeers, Rocket’s Island, Casualty, The Crimson Field, and The Village. Dan is also one of the founders of Hear The Picture, an actor-led audio description company, exploring creative access in theatre.

Shreya M Patel is a disabled actor, writer and early career director. Her career started in Leeds with Searching for the Heart of Leeds, and being part of Leeds Playhouse’s Young Company. Most recent credits involve Northern-based theatre The Fairy Who Fell off The Christmas Tree (She Productions) and The Secret Garden (Carole Wears Productions). Television includes: Then Barbara Met Alan (BBC 2) and the upcoming Perfect (Dave). Her passion for fair, inclusive and intersectional disability representation runs through all her work, and she is excited to embark on her first classic-text project
since Hamlet (2019).

Richard P. Peralta (they/he/by name) is a deaf, Filipino-American multidisciplinary artist. Originally from St. Louis, Missouri, they grew up performing at The Muny before training further and later graduating with Master’s degrees in both counselling education (Clemson University) and psychology (University of Huddersfield). As a member of Sheffield People’s Theatre, Sheffield Theatres credits include: Coriolanus (2020) and in residency with Showstopper! The Improvised Musical (2019). Other theatre credits include: Wendy and Peter Pan (Leeds Playhouse); Cruel, Inhuman, and Degrading (ALP Musicals). With a commitment to improving inclusive representation in entertainment, Richard has begun writing, penning their first play Goldfish, and contributing to Titilola Dawudu and Tamasha Theatre’s Hear Me Now, Volume 2.

Guy trained at the Drama Centre. For Sheffield Theatres, credits include: ROCK / PAPER / SCISSORS (Crucible, Lyceum and Studio theatres). Theatre credits include: Mother Courage And Her Children (Headlong Theatre); The Resistable Rise Of Arturo Ui/ St Joan (Donmar Warehouse); Pomona (Orange Tree Theatre); 24 Hours Of Peace, A View From The Bridge (Royal Exchange); Bird (Sherman Theatre); Beyond These Walls (Northern Broadsides); Aesop’s Fables, Grimm Tales, Not Now Bernard, My Father Odysseus, Jason and The Argonauts (Unicorn Theatre); Wendy and Peter Pan (Royal Shakespeare Company); Star Cross’d (Oldham Coliseum); Rafta Rafta (Bolton Octagon); A Streetcar Named Desire (Theatr Clywd); The Ramayana, Murmuring Judges, Transmissions (Birmingham Rep); The Allotment (New Perspectives/Edinburgh); The PowerBook, Mother Courage And Her Children (National Theatre); Hijra (Leeds Playhouse); Mrs Dalloway (Arcola Theatre) and Romeo and Juliet (Chichester Festival Theatre). Television credits include: The Witcher: Blood Origin (Netflix); The Ipcress File (BritBox); The First Team, MotherFatherSon, The Crimson Field, Holby City, Outlaws, Sorted, Doctors, Dalziel and Pascoe (BBC); Disability Benefits, Fallout, No Angels (Channel 4) and Emmerdale, Fat Friends, The Last Detective, A&E, Big Bad World 2, The Bill (ITV). Film credits include: The Festival (Film4), Mary, Queen Of Scots (Universal) and How To Build A Girl (Amazon). Radio credits include: Relativity, Schreber, Zola: Sex, Blood & Money (BBC) and Kukutis In The Dark (ARC).

Ciaran trained at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, graduating in 2018. For Sheffield Theatres, credits include Tribes. Other theatre credits include: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare’s Globe); Pop Music (Paines Plough) and Junkyard (Headlong Theatre). Television credits include: Traces and Dream On! (BBC).

Claire graduated from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland with a BA in Performance in BSL and English. Theatre credits include: Faith (Royal Shakespeare Company/Coventry City of Culture Trust); The Red Tree (Red Earth Theatre) and These Bridges (Deafinately Theatre). Credits whilst training include: The Assumption (RCS/Solar Bear), The Coat, Glory On Earth and Tanya: A New Musical (RCS). Television credits include: BOAT (Film4). Claire can be seen as a BSL on-screen interpreter for ITV Signpost. Claire particularly enjoys working in a company with deaf and hearing actors as well as theatre that is very visual and physical.

Benjamin Wilson is an actor, theatre maker and audio description consultant. For Sheffield Theatres: Associate Director on Guys and Dolls. For the last 5 years he has been the Ramps On The Moon Agent For Change at Sheffield Theatres. He co-founded award-winning theatre company Brick Wall Ensemble and creative audio description company Hear the Picture. Ben trained at Birmingham School of Acting (now Birmingham Royal Conservatoire) and his recent credits as an actor and creative include Macbeth, Oliver Twist and Road (Leeds Playhouse) and Brick Wall Ensemble productions Henry 5 and Mike On The Mic.