Cast and Creatives

Gabrielle Friedman

Traing; Cornish College of the Arts & Royal Acadeny 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 Waine

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 Douglas

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 Palmer

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.

Rianna Kellman

Rianna trained on The Global Majority Puppetry Intensive Course by Fuel Theatre. 

Theatre credits include: Shut Up, I’m Dreaming (National Theatre). Television credits include: Malice (Prime Video). 

Makay Walker

TRAINING: 

Bird College 

Theatre credits include:

The Paw Patrol Race To The Rescue International Tour. Love Stepz Theatre 503.

TV:

Casualty

Makay is very excited to be back on tour performing in some of her bucket list countries!

 

Tom Watson

Training: Bird College Conservatoire of Dance and Musical Theatre

Theatre credits include: My Name Is Gef (The Golden Goose Theatre), Something Rotten (The English Theatre Frankfurt), 2020 The Musical (Cowbarn, EdFringe) The Wizard of Oz (Curve Theatre), Bird Brigade (The Other Palace)

 

Credits whilst training include: Follies, Move it 2022 (ExCel) and The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

 

Tom is very excited to be working in China and would like to thank his family, friends and his agent for their continued support.

 

Follow Tom on social media:

Instagram - @tom.watson2022