Global Productions

Meet The Players

	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.
	Keith Cummings Keith has been treading the boards for about 32 years now and as the juvenile leads have now passed him by, he is reduced to "character" roles, which Keith has found to be much more fun. Among his favourite roles are Serge in Art, Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit and Nils Bohr in Copenhagen (lots of words in this one). Keith has performed at the Minack Theatre three times with Global.
	Jennifer Dorian Currently studying Drama Theatre and Performance Studies at Roehampton University. Jennifer is a keen actress, roles include Cordelia in King Lear and Lady Tilehouse in The Sea with the Guildhall Summer School of Speech and Drama. Open Air productions include Ellen in Robin Hood, Anne in Spring 1600 and Constance Bonacieux in The Three Musketeers. Roles with other societies include Alice in Easy Stages, Nancy in Gaslight, Maureen in Hard to Swallow and the role of Queen Elizabeth the 1st at Waltham Abbey to mark the 450th anniversary of the day of her accession. Jennifer has appeared in 11 associated Gilbert and Sullivan operettas in the past three years, playing roles such as Ruth in Ruddygore, Isobel in The Pirates of Penzance, 1st Bridesmaid in Trial by Jury, Maid in Cox and Box and a part specifically written in for her in Patience. She has undertaken narration work in Thespis, Patience and Hansel and Gretel. In between shows, a keen entertainer she performs various monologues and songs at local events. Jennifer will be appearing with the Chapel End Savoy Players at the international Gilbert and Sullivan festival in Buxton later in the year.
	Elaine Elliott Elaine has been performing in musicals and plays since she was a child. As a qualified drama teacher and an artistic director of the Waltham Forest Youth Theatre, she has written and directed plays and pantomimes for young people, often composing her own music. She is an examiner for the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts and has run a number of Adult Education classes, including a successful teacher training course for which she wrote a book of drama ideas for teachers. Her favourite roles with Global Theatre Company include Stella in September Tide, Madame Dubonnet in The Boyfriend, Margrette 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.
	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.
	Chris 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.
	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.
	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.
	Alison Roberts Alison has been actively involved in dramatics since appearing in The Liepidopterist while at school and has performed many and varied plays over the years. Her favouites part were those in 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
	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.