Michael Philips (DIRECTOR)
Michael is an associate of The London Academy of Dramatic Art and has had extensive experience as a performer in theatre and television.
He is one of the artistic directors of the Waltham Forest Youth Theatre and also runs drama classes for adults with learning difficulties.
Michael formed Global Theatre Company in 1997 and has directed plays for performance in a number of venues in and around the London area, including Harlow Playhouse, the Miskin Theatre, Westminster Theatre, Etcetera Theatre and the King's Head Theatre in Islington. He has produced Pygmalion, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and The Happiest Days of Your Life at the Minack Theatre in Cornwall.
His favourite productions include Educating Rita, Art, Pygmalion, Copenhagen and On Tidy Endings.

Simon Billig
Simon's has performed three productions with Global Productions at Harlow Playhouse, following on from Relative Values and the Headmaster in Please Mrs Butler. He has appeared in numerous Wadham Players performances, but favourite have been the sheriff in Robin Hood and Lord Buckingham in The Three Musketeers, when he got to do some sword fighting. Simon also enjoys writing and adapting scripts for use in his school.

Stephen Balchin
Stephen has written, directed, and appeared in a range of plays over the last 15 years, mainly with the Leytonstone-base Woodhouse Players. Acting credits include: Valmont in Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Paris in The Crucible, Mr Samsa in Metamorphosis and the Wolf in Red Riding Hood and the Three Little Pigs. His performances with Global Productions include John Cristow in The Hollow and Alan Ayckbourn's Round and Round the Garden.

Keith Cummings
After nearly 40 years treading the boards, Keith has long since 'progressed' from juvenile leads to character studies. And it's these 'characters' that have provided him with his most enjoyable moments as an actor. Among his favourites are Serge in Art, Bilbo in The Hobbit, Niels Bohr in Copenhagen and Charles in Situation Comedy. Keith has also performed at the Minack open-air Theatre in Pygmalion, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and The Happiest Days of Your Life.

Jennifer Dorian
Previous roles include Cordelia in King Lear and Lady Tilehouse in The Sea (Guildhall Summer School of Speech and Drama), Ellen in Robin Hood, Anne in Spring 1600, Constance Bonacieux in The Three Musketeers and Cinderella in Cinderella (Open Air Productions). She has also appeared with Global Productions in the Happiest Days of Your Life (Minack Theatre) and in 14 Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, playing Isobel in The Pirates of Penzance, Ruth in Ruddygore and Fleta in Iolanthe. In 2009 she appeared in Spectre Knight at the International Gilbert and Sullivan festival in Buxton.

Elaine Elliott
As a teacher, examiner and co-director of the Waltham Forest Youth Theatre, Elaine has led drama workshops and classes for all ages, including teacher training courses for which she wrote a book of drama ideas for teachers. She has written and directed plays and pantomimes for young people, often composing her own music. Her favourite roles for Global Productions include Stella in September Tide, Madame Dubonnet in The Boy Friend, Margrethe in Copenhagen and Felicity in Relative Values.

Lucy Elliott
Lucy trained at the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts in London and has since taken on a variety of professional work ranging from Jim Cartwright's Two on the fringe circuit to puppeteer for Sooty!
Having spent a lot of time on tour Lucy has performed in most theatres in the UK including venues such as Bath Theatre Royal and The Liverpool Empire. However, she most treasures performing at The Minack Theatre having performed there four times.
Lucy is the creative force behind TheatreSkool, a children's theatre workshop in Hertfordshire which encourages young people to develop theatre skills and confidence.

Elliott Fisher
Elliott has been acting and performing from a young age, when he began completing LAMDA (London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts) examinations and taking part in school productions of Oliver and Joseph and his Technicolour Dreamcoat.
More recently, Elliott pass the Grade 8 Solo Acting Award with Distinction. Since then, he has performed in the shows Have a Nice Day and an adaptation of Pygmalion with youth acting groups. Elliott has also enjoyed taking part in performances of Henry V, with the Greek Theatre Players, and Cause Célèbre.

Rose Floyd
For the last eight years, Rose has appeared in outdoor and indoor productions playing a wide variety of parts. Her particular favourites have been Ruth in Jimmie Chinn's But Yesterday, Moxie in Noel Coward's Relative Values and Mrs Martin in an award winning production of Eugene Ionesco's The Bald Prima Donna at Waltham Forest Drama Festival in 2008. Rose has also appeared at the Minack Theatre three times with the Global Theatre Company.

June Gray
June has appeared in numerous productions from pantomimes - including title roles in Aladdin and Dick Whittington - to Lady Montague in Romeo and Juliet. June has appeared twice at the Minack Theatre in An Italian Straw Hat and Pygmalion. Particular roles she has enjoyed are Alma Rattenbury in Cause Célèbre, Mistress Page in The Merry Wives of Windsor and Evelyn in Absent Friends.

Robert Gray
Bob first trod the boards while at school where he played Bill Bobstay in H.M.S. Pinafore. Since then he has worked with a number of theatre groups in east London. He is a founder member of Wadham Players Theatre Company based in Walthamstow, where he not only acts, but builds most of the their sets. Now retired from his job in marketing, Bob enjoys occasionally directing, particularly theatre of the absurd, and has won a number of drama festival awards. He has appeared at the Minack Theatre three times with Global Theatre Company.

Zoe Grist
Zoe first trained with Anna Scher Drama School and the National Youth Theatre. She then studied drama at De Montfort University. Zoe has appeared in numberous productions including, at the Minack Theatre. The Tempest and The Recruiting Officer and with Global Productions in Lord Arthur Savile's Crime. Zoe has also worked for Wall to Wall as Production Manager on TV hits The 1940s House and Ian Hislop's Not Forgotten.

Christine Holliss
Chris is one of the founder members of the Lansbury Players and has over 30 years experience in treading the boards. She has performed in a wide variety of plays including the lead roles in Don't Drink the Water (Woody Allen), The Anniversary (Bill MacIlwraith), The Killing of Sister George (Frank Marcus) and Relatively Speaking (Alan Ayckbourn).
The voice of Mrs Gamble in the BBC Radio Series To Be Continued..., Chris has also been on stage in Flat Pack Radio's Happy Hour (Flat Pack Productions).
The role of Miss Whitchurch in The Happiest Days of Your Life marked Chris's third appearance at the Minack.

Richard Holliss
After sixty productions with the Lansbury Players, Richard joined Global to play Professor Higgins in Pygmalion (Bernard Shaw) at the Minack Theatre in 2005, and the reluctant hero Lord Arthur in Lord Athur Savile's Crime (Minack 2007). In 2006 he won the Best Actor award for the role of Frank in Educating Rita (Willy Russell) at the Thurrock Drama Festival.
Richard's other credits include writing and broadcasting for BBC Radio, conducting onstage interviews at the National Film Theatre, co-authoring several books on the cinema and providing voiceovers for Paramount Pictures audio CD's and DVD commentary for both BBC/2 Entertain and Warner Brothers.

Suzanne Macpherson
After leaving Southend High School for girls she completed two seasons at Butlins in the children's theatre performing in shows such as Ghostbusters, Peter Pan and Alice in Wonderland.
Suzanne has performed in numerous pantomime seasons touring in Northern Ireland, Wales and England.
She joined Global Theatre Company and performed Billy Liar, 1066 and All That, Round and Round The Garden, and The Boyfriend.
After a five year break, during which she has set up her own theatre school and achieved her B.A. English Degree, she has now performed again in The Happiest Days of Your Life.

David Mason
David has worked as a lighting technician or designer on over 150 productions since 1995. London fringe productions include Copenhagen, Educating Rita and The Brylcreem Boys. Occasionally he takes time out to both direct and act. David has worked on the lighting and sound at the Minack Theatre four times.

Kirsten McHarg
Kirsten had been studying drama throughout her school life at Sheredes, and has just passed her BTEC Drama course with a double distinction. Over the past two years she has worked with the theatre company Razed Roof at Harlow Playhouse performing in Billy Elliot and Brave New Food. See How They Run will be her first performance with Global Productions

David Millard
David originally trained as a LAMDA drama tutor before working with youth and adult groups directing both scripted and improvised plays.
Recent performances include Landlord in Two (Pentameters Theatre); Derek in Brighton Beach Scumbags (Pleasance Theatre); Herr Winklekopf in Lord Arthur Savile's Crime (Minack Theatre); Yvan in Art (Harlow Playhouse) and Henry in The Anniversary (Greenwich Playhouse). He has also written for and appeared in comedy show Flat Pack's Radio Happy Hour at Art's in Camberwell.

Chris Millington
Chris started acting in 1982 and has worked with a number of companies including Drama E4, The Woodhouse Players and Global Productions.
He has performed in a wide variety of plays including Copenhagen, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Dumb Waiter, A Visit from Miss Prothero, In Praise of Love, Zoo Story and The Philanthropist.
Chris has won several best actor awards at both Waltham Forest and Thurrock Drama Festivals. In 1991 he performed at the Edinburgh Festival in a play for children The Magic of Me.

Mike Mungarvan
Mike was born in London and studied acting at the famous E15 acting school. He has worked in rep at Derby, Sidmouth and Bexhill. Among his favourite parts are Colin in Absent Friends by Alan Ayckbourn and as Bill Robson in I Thought I Heard a Rustling.

Lee Ocsko
Lee is a previous winner of the Havering Best Supporting Actor Award, and has starred as Romeo in Romeo and Juliet at the Willow Cottage Open-air Theatre. Lee represented Great Britain at the Australian Rules Football International Cup in Melbourne in 2008. More recently Lee has won the Best Actor Award at Waltham Forest Festival of Theatre for his role in Edward Albee’s Zoo Story in 2009, and again in 2010 for the role of Gus in The Dumb Waiter, where they reached the All England Finals as Eastern Area Champions and the All Winners Final in 2010.

Terry Perkins
Has his own film editing company. Trained with LAMDA, City Lit and London Centre for Theatre Studies, has most recently stage directed The Happiest Days of Your Life at the Minack Theatre in Cornwall, played various roles in Footloose, The Wedding Singer and Big musicals at The Kenneth More Theatre Ilford.
Other theatre work includes, Kentley in A Certain Library in Bath at Theatro Technis, London, Buzz in The Brylcreem Boys (semi-finalists of the All-England Festival of Theatre). He has filmed for the National Geographic Channel’s Ancient Megastructures II involving green screen work.

Amanda Powell
Amanda started her theatrical life as a young child appearing in professional pantomimes. She then went on to study at Italia Conti Academy of Dance and Theatre Arts. She has been in numerous plays and musicals ever since. her favourite roles are Anne in The Diary of Anne Frank, Mavis in Stepping Out and, most recently, Jean in Lucky Sods.

David Reed
A keen musician, David has written and directed two musicals, including a version of The Boyfriend with director Michael Philips at the Harlow Playhouse. David has also performed at the Minack Theatre as Ariel in the award-winning The Tempest; as Colonel Pickering in Pygmalion, and in the title role in The Recruiting Officer. Shakespearean roles include Mercutio, Prince Hal and Edgar (with the Greek Theatre Players) and Puck in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Willow Cottage.

Alison Roberts
Alison started off her career as an extra in the film Yanks. Actively involved in theatre since appearing in The Liepidopterist her favourites include Jack the Ripper, From Here To The Library, Mistress Ford in The Merry Wives of Windsor and Laura Doddington in Time and Time Again, she has performed many times at the Waltham Forest Drama Festival of Theatre and been nominated for best actress for Time and Time Again. A regular performer with Wadham Players, Alison has also performed in numerous plays with Global Productions, including; Murder In Company, Prescription For Murder, Relative Values, Time and Time Again and An Inspector Calls. Alison's TV credits include The Bill in 2009.

Mark Simons
Mark has had a passion for acting from a very young age. His first major part was playing Jack in Jack and the Beanstalk at the age of 9. Since then he's gone on to studying acting at both college and university, where he gained a HND in Performing Arts.
Mark has played a various selection of parts in both Global Productions and Wadham Players, from a selfish and un-loving husband in Absent Friends, to a camp and cheeky nephew in Relative Values. But his favourite part to date has been the guilt ridden son, Eric Birling in An Inspector Calls.
When Mark is not acting, he helps to run local drama classes for children, which involve drama games and acting out scenes.

Le'Voy Wilson
Le'Voy joined Global Productions as Music Producer for their pantomimes, Mother Hubbard and the Haunted Castle in January 2008. He also takes an active role in filming the more recent productions under ZedCapricorn Multimedia Services at the Minack Theatre and Harlow Playhouse.
Le'Voy is also currently working on his own album. His website is www.levoy.co.uk/