Ryan graduated with a First Class BA Honours in Drama from Bretton Hall. Ryan has expanded his creative career beyond his established acting work to become a playwright and filmmaker. He further developed his writing skills through specialised training with Hull Truck.

Stage credits include: Firebird (Lawrence Batley Theatre); Kes (Perth Theatre Royal); Crap Dad (West Yorkshire Playhouse); The Tale of Teeka (York Theatre Royal); Chameleon (Sheffield Crucible); Lord of the Flies (Pilot Theatre Company).

Television credits include: EastEnders (BBC), Emmerdale (ITV), The Royal Today (ITV Studios), Line of Beauty (BBC), and the television movie Booze Cruise 3 (Yorkshire TV).

Writing/Directing credits include: She Sells (Mikron), It’s Not A Game (Fine Entertainment), Shock Horror: A Ghost Story (Thunder Road), Merlin and The Magic Mirror (Lawrence Batley Theatre), and Bottoms Up (Liverpool Actors’ Studio).

His transition into filmmaking has proven equally successful, with horror films Seizure and Demon Eye receiving theatrical releases in America and Europe and distribution across thirty territories globally.

Ryan’s recent short film Tea With The Reaper garnered four prestigious awards following its initial release.

Ethan is a Performance Designer working across Theatre, Film and Music. They are currently the Maria Bjornson Bursary recipient at The National Theatre.

Training: The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.

Their recent theatre credits include: The Principles of Deception (Theatre Royal Northampton, Associate Designer); Little Shop of Horrors (The Egg). Constellations (The Barn); My Sons A Queer (Broadway, Associate Designer); £1 Thursdays (The Finborough); Into The Woods (Playground Theatre); Borders (VAULTS); The Scar Test, Little Sweet Thing, Blister (LAMDA); Millennials (The Other Palace, Associate Designer); The Concrete Jungle Book (The Pleasance); Rabbit Hole (The Union, OFFIE Nominated); The Bridges of Madison County (Quick Fantastic) and Spring Awakening (RCSSD).

Ben Parsons composes music for TV, films and theatre.

He has scored for many series and programmes for TV including Charlie Cooper’s Myth Country, Bear Grylls and received an Emmy nomination for Netflix’s The Hidden Lives of Pets. Ben has also scored feature films including Demon Eye and a number of shorts.

Theatre credits include: Cascade’s Frankenstein dance piece.

Ben used to tour and record with bands including Cherry Ghost and Arctic Monkeys and now lives and works in North Manchester.

Andrew Crofts is a visual designer and technologist who works with lighting, video and interactive tech for theatre, dance and mixed-media companies. As well as working with Thunder Road previously on Shock Horror, Andrew has worked with a range of other artists and companies including Imitating the Dog, Jasmin Vardimon, Blast Theory, Every House Has A Door, Invisible Flock, Streetwise Opera, Geraldine Pilgrim Performance, Belarus Free Theatre and Spymonkey.

Matt trained at Rose Bruford College in Lighting Design and specialises in lighting for theatre, dance, and touring productions.

Previous theatre credits as lighting designer include: The Light House (Leeds Playhouse/UK Tour, Red Ladder Theatre Company); Tomorrow Is Already Dead (Soho Theatre, Hackney Showrooms); Force of Nature (International Tour, Bloom Dance Project); 122 Love Stories (Harrogate Theatre, All Points North).

Theatre credits as associate/programmer include: Now (UK Tour, Jasmin Vardimon Company); Nutcracker (Southbank Centre, McOnie Company); The Clothes They Stood Up In (Nottingham Playhouse); ALiCE (JVH.o.m.e/UK tour, Jasmin Vardimon Company); Roundabout Theatre (Paines Plough) and Young Associates (Sadler’s Wells).

Dave is a multidisciplinary filmmaker whose work spans narrative film, documentary, live theatre, television advertising, time-lapse and branded content. Each form informs the way he approaches visual communication.

Shock Horror and The Void have given Dave the opportunity to bring cinematic imagery into a live theatrical setting, blending screen and stage while exploring the creative possibilities of rapidly evolving technology.

His credits include the award-winning films Polterheist (2018), Seizure (2018), Demon Eye (2019) and Tea with the Reaper (2022). In 2023, he made his directing debut with the short film Hide.

Dave‘s favourite projects are those that fuse techniques old and new to serve a story’s central themes. Virtual production, LED volumes, projection mapping, motion control and emerging visual technologies meet traditional lighting, shadow, scenery and practical in camera effects, while cinematography, music and animation draw the whole into one distinctive visual language.

Dominic is a Lighting Designer and Technical Stage Manager based in Greater Manchester.

He’s been working within music and theatre since graduating from The University of Hull in 2019. He’s worked alongside a variety of producers, playwrights and education establishments to share their stories and works with the wider world. He joined Thunder Road in 2024 for their UK Tour of Shock Horror: A Ghost Story and has been a Member of their Technical Team since.

Design credits include: Beauty and the Beast (Performers College), Daddy’s First Gay Date (UK Tour), BUFF (UK Tour), BI-TOPIA (UK Tour), Macbeth (IC Theatre), A Night with Me; Myself and Bi-polar Brenda (UK Tour) and The Formidable Lizzie Boone (UK Tour).

Production credits include: BBC’s First Homosexual (Inkbrew and Emmerson & Ward Productions), Shock Horror: A Ghost Story (Thunder Road Theatre), SO UNFAIR (One Tenth Human) and ROTTEN (Emmerson & Ward).

His works can be viewed at www.dompateltech.com

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Georgia is a graduate in Drama and Film Studies at the University of Kent, and has since pursued a career in Production and  Stage Management.

She’s worked with Northern Broadsides, Bradford Literature Festival, Deptford Literature Festival and Rose Bruford, exploring all aspects of backstage, whilst also having the chance to continue her love for performing. Having worked with Thunder Road in 2023, she is looking forward to bringing excitable thrills to their audience again this year.

Jess is a Yorkshire based arts marketing specialist, with a focus on touring theatre. She studied Psychology and then an MA in Advertising and Design at the University of Leeds.

She has worked in marketing roles at Leeds Playhouse, Northern Broadsides and Theatre Royal Wakefield. She has also worked on a freelance basis for companies such as Northern Rascals, Claybody Theatre and Stute Theatre, as well as shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Jess first worked with Thunder Road in 2019 on The Body Snatcher when it toured to Theatre Royal Wakefield. She is delighted to return to Shock Horror for its biggest tour yet.