Niamh trained at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts. 

Professional Credits: Onstage Swing (Cover Marie, Augustus and Madame Hex) in Beauty and the Beast at The Theatre Chipping Norton. Jemima Puddleduck/Mrs Mcgregor/Mrs Rabbit In Happy Birthday Peter Rabbit 2025 and Peter Rabbit in Happy Birthday Peter Rabbit 2024! Both at The Victoria Wood Theatre.

Credits while training: Desiree Armfeldt (A Little Night Music), Mary Poppins (Mary Poppins), Understudy Ariel (Disney’s The Little Mermaid), Rory/Claire (Bare: a pop opera) Judith Brewer (The Welkin), Ensemble (Spring Awakening) and Violet Baudelaire (A Series of Unfortunate Events: Immersive)

Niamh is so excited to be a part of The Lion Inside and hopes that everyone enjoys the show! She would love to thank her amazing family and friends for their constant support. 

Richard trained at ALRA, London. Previous theatre includes Spindleberry (with Erica Whyman), A Christmas Carol (Antic Disposition), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Iris theatre), Til Death do us Part (Theatre 503), Rain & Zoe Save the World (Jermyn St), Apples and Angels (Wassail Theatre), United Queendom (Les Enfants Terribles, LET), When Swallows Cry (Rada Festival), Mr Popper's Penguins (Kenny Wax, UK and USA), Romeo and Juliet (Insane Root); Alice's Adventures Underground (LET 2015, Company Associate 2017); Partners in Crime (Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch); Swallows and Amazons (West End and Tour); The Game's Afoot (LET); Captain Flinn (Speigeltent, Edinburgh); The Light Princess (Tobacco Factory); Macbeth (UK Tour); The Pillowman (New Theatre, Oxford), Curiosity Shop (UK Tour), Bloody Poetry (White Bear); Love’s Labour’s Lost (RoseTheatre, Kingston); Three Musketeers (Pleasance, Edinburgh); Romantics (Keats House). Screen work includes Liaison (Apple TV), Sherlock Holmes: An Online Adventure (LET), Theresa v Boris (BBC), Captain Webb (feature, Marathon Films), RU-486 (feature, Xylomancy Films), Wrestling Yetis (short, Ben Mills), Puppy Pulling Power (Sony Commercial, Irresistible Films), and audio productions with the Wireless Theatre Company. [richardholt.co.uk]

Aidan is an actor and singer/songwriter based in North Somerset. Since graduating from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire (MA Acting 2020) he has worked extensively in children's theatre. Most recently, Aidan performed in the children's musical Pirates Love Underpants at The Sydney Opera House.

Other Credits include: Pirates Love Underpants (UK Tour), Dear Zoo (UK and Ireland Tour), Cinderella (Buxton Opera House), Jack and the Beanstalk (Buxton Opera House), Dead End (UK Tour).

Training; Cornish College of the Arts & Royal Academy of Music

Credits include; Lead Vocalist in Thursford Christmas Spectacular, Jennie in Jubilee(BBC Radio 3), Millie in Four Felons and A Funeral (Pleasance Theatre & Edinburgh Festival), J. Pierrepont Finch in How to Succeed in Business (Southwark Playhouse), Jo in Little Women (Dugdale Arts). 

Lauren is an actor/ facilitator from the North East of England with a wealth of experience in stage, screen and voiceover.

Training: LIPA & NYT

Theatre Credits: The Bounds (Royal Court/Live Theatre), Jack and The Beanstalk, Hey Diddle Diddle (Kitchen Zoo), No 9 (Northern Stage/Alphabetti Theatre), The Secret Garden (Tour), Wor Bella (NE Tour), The Snow Queen, The War of The Worlds (Northern Stage), The Importance of Being Earnest (Hangfire Theatre), Skellig (Nottingham Playhouse), Wormtown (The Customs House/Alphabetti), Faustus (The Globe, Sam Wanamaker Festival), Sleeping Beauty, Robinson Crusoe, Snow White, Robin Hood (Durham Gala), Pericles (Brighton Open Air Theatre).

TV/ Radio: The World’s Worst Dinner Party (Channel4), The Dumping Ground (CBBC), Vera (ITV), The Infirmary (Amazon/Audible).

Other: Hylton, We Have a Problem (Tiny Dragon Productions)

Lauren is thrilled to be joining Nicoll Entertainment and the rest of this fabulous cast and crew for The Lion Inside

Aaron trained at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts on the Postgraduate Acting Course. 

Performance Credits: The Jolly Christmas Postman (Northampton Royal and Derngate), Trueman and the Arsonists (Camden Roundhouse/Represent Theatre), Paddington Lo-Commotion (Blenheim Palace), Stick Man Live (Leicester Square Theatre), Cruise (Apollo Theatre, London), Twelfth Night (East London Shakespeare Festival), Interruptions (Jacksons Lane), Albatross (Playground Theatre), Money (Southwark Playhouse), Kensuke’s Kingdom (Pleasance Theatre), A Family Affair (Vienna’s English Theatre), Passing (Theatre Royal Haymarket & RADA Studios), Girlboss (Southwark Playhouse) and Wonder Boy (Arcola Theatre). 

Screen credits: The Proletarians (Bench Productions), How To Die (Flux Theatre and Mann Bros) and Primrose (Bench Productions).

Simon was raised in rural Essex and trained in contemporary dance in Leeds. Having made his home in cities such as Bristol, UK, and Shanghai, China, he is now based in London where his passion for storytelling stretches across the realms of movement, acting and puppetry. He has appeared in several works for Theatre Rites, Luca Silvestrini’s Protein, and Tilted Productions, as a dancer, actor and puppeteer.

Other work includes Sleep No More Shanghai and The Drowned Man (Punchdrunk),TheLittle Match Girl and Ten Sorry Tales (Ballo Arthur Pita), Betrayal: A Polyphonic Crime Drama (I Fagiolini), Mucky Pup (Theatre Alibi), Benvenuto Cellini (Terry Gilliam/ENO). He has worked with Secret Cinema, Tom Roden, Sweetshop Revolution, Hannah Buckley, Kim Brandstrup, and Shobana Jeyasingh.