Without further ado, here's the full cast...
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| Sherry Baines |
Sherry Baines - Beatrice
Sherry has an extensive theatre career including I am a Camera (Southwark Playhouse), Round the Horne…Revisited, Angela Carter’s Cinderella with Improbable Theatre at the Lyric, Hammersmith, Beauty and the Beast at the Young Vic and Euripedes’ Orestian trilogy Agamemnon’s Children at the Gate. Sherry worked for 18 months with Alan Ayckbourn’s company at Scarborough and on tour, appearing in the 25th anniversary production of Bedroom Farce and Callisto 7, both directed by Ayckbourn.
Her TV credits include The Royals, Call the Midwife, Waterloo Road, Doctors, Casualty, EastEnders, A Touch of Frost, William and Mary, As Time Goes By and the voice of Cherie Blair in the award-winning satirical series, Double Take.
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| Philip Bretherton |
Philip Bretherton - Benedick
Most recently, Philip has been playing Tony Benn in a one man play by Andy Barrett Tony's Last Tape, directed by Giles Croft. Other recent theatre work includes Somewhere In England, God of Carnage and As You Like It at Theatr Clwyd, Educating Rita at the Lowry theatre Manchester, Hayfever at West Yorkshire Playhouse and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at the Royal Exchange Manchester.
His television work includes Young Dracula, The Syndicate and Strikeback. He also played the German team manager in the first two series of Footballers' Wives, spent six months in Casualty, was one of Sally's flings for seven months in Coronation Street and played Alistair for ten series of As Time Goes By with Judi Dench and Geoffrey Palmer.
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| Dan De Cruz |
Dan de Cruz - Borachio
Since performing to critical acclaim as Tybalt in the 2012 Stafford Festival Shakespeare production of Romeo and Juliet, Dan has been in numerous productions, including; Beast/Prince Promising in Beauty and the Beast at the New Wolsey Theatre, Mortello in The Man Who Stole The Circus at the Iris Theatre, Vincent in Lemon the Musical at the Arts Theatre, and DS Troughton in Run For Your Wife at Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch. Dan recently worked on Jackie The Musical (Gardyne Theatre) as Assistant MD to Ben Goddard.
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| Jake Ferretti |
Jake Ferretti – Don Pedro
Jake trained at Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts. His theatre credits include Julian in Polly at Theatre 503, Grainer in Fijiland at Oxford Playhouse/Southwark Theatre/Three Streets, Ensemble in Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time at the Apollo Theatre / National Theatre. His Film credits include The Other Boleyn Girl and television credits include Sense and Sensibility for BBC.
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| James Haggie |
James Haggie – Balthasar / Watch / Friar
James has performed with Stafford Festival Shakespeare in Romeo and Juliet 2012 (Balthasar), A Midsummer Night’s Dream 2013 (Flute) and in As You Like It 2014 (Le Beau / Silvius)
His theatre credits include: Simon Zealots in the international tour of Jesus Christ Superstar, Seymour in Little Shop of Horrors at the New Wolsey Theatre and the Birmingham Rep, Titch in Mods and Rox at the New Wolsey Theatre, Joe Vegas in the national tour of Fame, two national tours of The Roy Orbison Story playing Bobby Vee, Paul McCartney and Bruce Springsteen, Emmo in Our House National Tour and Vernon Hopkins in The Tom Jones Story.
He can also be seen as a Russian Gulag Prisoner in the Disney movie Muppets Most Wanted.
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| Phylip Harries |
Phylip Harries – Dogberry
Phylip was last in Stafford performing in A Midsummer Night’s Dream 2013 as Quince / Peaseblossom. His theatre credits include The Eye of the Storm, Jack and the Beanstalk, Somewhere in England, Midsummer Songs, Tom the Musical, Rape of The Fair Country, Blavatsky's Tower, Aesop’s Fables, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Secret of Belonging, A Tale of Two Dogs, Cyrano De Bergerac, Contender, A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum, The Merchant Of Venice, The Winter’s Tale and Under Milk Wood.
Phylip’s television credits include a tribute to Tommy Cooper, The Kennedys, Hinterland, Noson Lawen, Torchwood: Children of Earth, The Story of Tracy Beaker and Axon. His voice credits include the animations Ben 10 and Otherworld.
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| Genevieve Helson |
Genevieve Helson - Ursula
Genevieve trained at Rose Bruford graduating with a BA Actor Musicianship, First Class.
She composed, arranged and played the music for Twelfth Night, arranged the music for Lady In The Dark and was a Musician in The Seagull all whilst training. Genevieve was also a dancer in McBusted’s Air Guitar Video.
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| Catherine Lamb |
Catherine Lamb - Hero
Catherine may be recognised from her recent appearance in the television show Cucumber for Channel 4. Her other television credits include Frankenstein & The Vampyre – A Dark and Stormy Night for Oxford Scientific for BBC 2.
Her theatre credits include Somewhere in England at Theatr Clywd, The Flame Haired Dynamo at Hull Truck Theatre and Machinal at the Edinburgh Festival 2012.
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| Tom Palmer |
Tom Palmer - Claudio
Tom trained at The National Youth Theatre. He began work in the sketch duo Totally Tom (nominated for the Foster’s Comedy Award in 2011). He has written and performed in various comedy pilots including E4’s Comedy Lab and High Renaissance Man. His television includes Hutchinson in Dr. Who, Adam in Siblings, Dan in Bamboo, Tom in Live At The Electric, Crispin in Common Ground. Other credits include Cardinal Burns and Uncle. His stage credits includes Waiting for Godot at The Arcola, Romeo and Juliet for the Thelma Hoult Japan Tour, Totally Tom at Soho Theatre, Wreckers at The Underbelly and most recently, Posh at Nottingham and Salisbury Playhouse.
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| Kate Robson Stuart |
Kate Robson Stuart – Margaret
Kate completed an MA Hons in English Lit and Music at Glasgow University before going on to drama training at Guildford School of Acting, graduating in 2006.
Her theatre Credits include: Mrs Fezziwig/Mrs Cratchitt/Beth in A Christmas Carol at Derby Theatre, Mrs Roach/Princess Elizabeth in Betty Blue Eyes at the Mercury, Colchester/West Yorkshire Playhouse/UK Tour, LV in Little Voice at Queens Theatre, Hornchurch, Singer/Actress and Musician in Craig Revel Horwood's Strictly Confidential UK Tour, and the title role in Cinderella (King’s Theatre, Glasgow);
Kate has worked with a variety of music artists in the UK as both a vocalist and violinist.
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| Charlie Tighe |
Charlie has just finished a year's run in the Disney/SFP co-production of Shakespeare in Love as a part of the original cast performing the roles of Nol, Musician, as well as the shows Counter Tenor. This July he appears in the BBC One drama A Song for Jenny. Charlie was a member of the NYMT and the NYT before going on to train at the Royal Academy of Music. As a singer Charlie has performed as a backing singer with Elton John at the Royal Opera House, and on Britain's Got Talent and The X Factor. He has sung in venues all over the world including the Royal Albert Hall and has performed for Classic FM and BBC Radio 3. Film and TV credits include The Slammer, series 1 & 2 for BBC TV.
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| Jon Trenchard |
Jon Trenchard – Don John / Verges
Jon trained at the London Academy of Performing Arts and was part of the cast of the 2010 Stafford Festival Shakespeare production The Merry Wives of Windsor. His theatre includes The Caucasian Chalk Circle for Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, Fiddler On The Roof National Tour, She Stoops To Conquer, A Government Inspector for Northern Broadsides, A Midsummer Night's Dream for Bristol Old Vic, Handspring Puppet Company, Swallows and Amazons for West End and National Tour, Great Expectations for the New Vic Theatre and Leonardo's Last Supper for Regent's Park Open Air Theatre.
His Film credits include The Da Vinci Code and television credits include My Family.
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| David Westbrook |
David Westbrook – Antonio / Sexton
David studied piano for a year at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama followed by a degree in English and Drama at Sheffield University. He was a core member of Sheffield’s Compass Theatre Company for many years, performing in (among many others) The Dumb Waiter, Waiting for Godot, A Christmas Carol, The Caretaker, The Wind in the Willows, The Merchant of Venice, Measure for Measure, King Lear, Hamlet and The Tempest.
His TV credits include: DCI Banks, Prisoner’s Wives, Waterloo Road, Stepping Up, Coronation Street, Emmerdale, Heartbeat, Cold Feet, Extreme Rescue and Nature Boy.
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| Edward York |
Edward has worked at theatres all over the country and also with some of the leading touring companies, including Hull Truck, Paines Plough and Communicado. His one man show comprises Alan Bennett's "A Chip in the Sugar" and Samuel Beckett's "Krapp's Last Tape". In 2002 he played Tevye in an award-winning, actor/musician production of "Fiddler on the Roof" at the Watermill Theatre in Newbury.
Eddy is delighted to be back in Staffordshire, his old stomping ground. He lived in Tunstall, in Stoke on Trent, for 15 years and appeared in nearly 40 productions at the New Victoria Theatre in the '90's.
They will be lead by Director Pete Rowe and Musical Director Greg Palmer, who both have many wonderful ideas in place already for the show.
Tickets for Much Ado About Nothing are proving popular and you can book yours by clicking here or by calling our friendly team on 01785 619080. The show opens on Thursday 25th June and runs until Saturday 11th July at Stafford Castle.
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