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ADÈLE ANDERSON (Lady Olivia and Mrs Candour)

Adèle recently performed at the Adelaide Cabaret Festival and toured the UK with Fascinating Aida as they celebrate 40 years of the group, and most recently saved the day as emergency cover in the play The Cabinet Minister at the Menier Chocolate Factory. Early 2025 saw the FA 40th Anniversary Show at the Southbank Centre.

Adèle Anderson is best known as a member of the acclaimed cabaret group Fascinating Aida and co-writes much of their material with founder member Dillie Keane. Fascinating Aida have played in more than 100 theatres in the UK and Eire, with London seasons at the Donmar Warehouse, Lyric Hammersmith, Piccadilly, Vaudeville, Garrick, Apollo and Comedy theatres and the Theatre Royal, Haymarket. They have toured Australia three times, including a month at the Sydney Opera House, and also played New Zealand, San Francisco, New York, Berlin, Watamu (Kenya) and Singapore. They have made numerous television appearances and radio recordings. They have been nominated for the Perrier Award, the Olivier Award (three times) and the New York Drama Desk Award.

Theatre credits: The Cabinet Minister (Menier Chocolate Factory), Nul Points (Union Theatre), She Loves Me (Sheffield Crucible), Closer to Heaven (Above The Stag), Doctor Dolittle (UK tour), Follies (Landor Theatre), Into the Woods (Derby Playhouse and The Forum, Wythenshawe), Achilles in Heels (Landor Theatre), When Florence Met Isadora (Rosemary Branch), Eminent Victorians and The Art of Love (Battersea Barge), Let’s Kick Arts (The Bridewell), Ken Hill’s Phantom of the Opera (national tour), Die Fledermaus (European Chamber Opera tour), Wasp (Edinburgh Fringe Festival), Salad Days (national tour), Plan 9 from Outer Space – The Musical (national tour), Sunset Boulevard (Sydmonton Festival), Nine (Royal Festival Hall), House of Obsession (Half Moon), Girls Who Wear Glasses (national tour) and Tales My Lover Told Me (King’s Head). She has appeared in numerous pantomimes around the country and directed two at The Theatre, Chipping Norton.

Writing credits: Many Fascinating Aida lyrics. Co-writer of Dillie Keane’s solo shows, Single Again, Citizen Keane and Back with You. Song “The English Lesson” (with Dillie Keane) for The Shakespeare Revue (Vaudeville Theatre and world tour). As a member of the Mercury Workshop she wrote (with Sarah Travis) a section of the collaborative musical The Challenge (Shaw Theatre). With Warren Wills, she co-wrote the Ninth Commandment for the Mercury Workshop’s production of The Ten Commandments (The Place). She and Warren have performed jazz/cabaret together at Pizza on the Park and the Langham Hilton and also played the Hong Kong Fringe Festival.

Adèle has recorded two solo CDs with Warren: Why Try to Change Me Now? and Everything Happens to Me. In 2018, her solo show Songs of Disappointment, Depression and Death enjoyed a sellout season at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Film credits: Lady Jane (directed by Trevor Nunn) and Company Business, in which she serenaded Gene Hackman and Mikhail Baryshnikov.

TV credits: Gemma Masters in Fish (BBC1) and the voice of Sydney the cassowary in The Whingeing Pom (LWT); Cecily Watkins in New Tricks (BBC1); Candace Burrows in The Romanoffs (Amazon Prime).

Audio credits: Commodore Tamasan in various Doctor Who adventures (Big Finish Productions).

Workshops include: Southbound (CFT) and Coven.

KATIE BUCHHOLZ (Lady Sneerwell)

Katie trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA).

Her work in theatre includes: Witness for the Prosecution (London County Hall), Leaves of Glass (Park Theatre), Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, Lemons (Pinter Theatre), The Seagull (Pinter Theatre), Mary Stuart (Almeida), The Peregrine (Stockwell Playhouse), If We Were Older (National), Eigengrau (Waterloo East), Inherit the Wind (The Old Vic), A Little Night Music (Garrick Theatre) and Mary Poppins (Prince Edward Theatre).

Television includes: Bibaa and Nicole: Murder in the Park, Deceit, Father Brown and Eastenders.

CLARK DEVLIN (Charles Surface)

Clark trained at Rose Bruford College.

Theatre includes: Peter Pan Goes Wrong (Lyric Theatre West End & UK tour), Goodnight Mister Tom (Duke of York’s Theatre, West End & UK tour), Seussical the Musical (Arts Theatre, West End), Glee! Live On Stage (Gaiety Theatre), The World According to Bertie (world premiere, Edinburgh Festival), George’s Marvellous Medicine (UK & international tours), Horrid Henry – Live & Horrid! (Trafalgar Studios, West End & UK tour).

Clark is an accomplished voice actor with extensive credits, these include: Digby Dragon (Blue Zoo Productions for Nick Jr – twice BAFTA-nominated), Rhyme Time Town (DreamWorks for Netflix), Word Party (The Jim Henson Company for Netflix), Eurovision Song Contest 2023 – voice of Flag Parade (BBC Studios), I Can See Your Voice – show introduction announcer (BBC), as well as numerous campaigns for brands such as Moonpig, Travis Perkins and Scottish Rail.

NICK HOWARD-BROWN (Joseph Surface)

Theatre includes: Hey! Christmas Tree (Chichester Festival Theatre); Do You Believe in Ghosts? (Entertainers/UK Tour); The Gunpowder Plot: Immersive Experience (Layered Reality); Hamlet, The Cherry Orchard (starring Sir Ian McKellen, Theatre Royal Windsor); Four Thieves’ Vinegar (The 42nd Theatre Company); Hansel and Gretel, Macbeth, Treasure Island, Much Ado About Nothing, Pinocchio, Twelfth Night, Alice Through the Looking Glass, Richard III, Alice in Wonderland, Julius Caesar (Iris Theatre); The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare’s Globe); Before the Fire Burns Out (Cheltenham Everyman); Othello (Othello Peckham); Mephisto (Sheffield Drama Studio & Oxford Playhouse).

Television includes: D-Day: The Unheard Tapes.

Films include: Hamlet, Make Piece.

Trained at East 15 Acting School.

FILIP KRENUS (Sir Benjamin Backbite and Rowley)

Filip trained at East 15 and Drama Centre. Filip formed Honey-tongued Theatre Productions in 2012 and is a co-founder and Creative Director of Midsummer Scene. He has also produced for Vault Festival, London.

Theatre credits include: Conundrum (The Young Vic), Around the World in Eighty Days, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet (Midsummer Scene) and Twelfth Night (Midsummer Scene and Vienna’s English Theatre); Uncle Maroye (Gdansk Shakespeare Festival); A Poor Player (co-written with Sean Aita – European tour), School for Scandal (directed by Jessica Swale); The Winter’s Tale (LittleBIG Shakespeare); King Lear and Dido, Queen of Carthage (Greenwich Theatre); Bent (Landor/Tabard); Orestes – Re-Examined (Southwark Playhouse); and Peer Gynt (Riverside Studios).
On TV, he recently appeared on I Hate Suzie (Bad Wolf / Sky Studios).

OLIVER SENTON (Sir Peter Teazle)

In London’s West End: Mamma Mia! (Prince of Wales Theatre); Peter Pan Goes Wrong (Apollo Theatre and UK tour); Showstopper! The Improvised Musical (Olivier award for Best Entertainment 2016, also Apollo Theatre, UK tour and 8 Edinburgh Festivals); All’s Well That Ends Well (Gielgud Theatre, RSC, also Swan Theatre Stratford). RSC Stratford: Coriolanus (also world tour), A Christmas Carol and, with Slung Low, The Fairy Portal Camp. National Theatre: Coriolanus.

Other Theatre: Twelfth Night and The Merchant of Venice (Theatre Royal, Bury St.Edmunds); The Count of Monte Cristo (Leeds Playhouse); The Lady’s Not For Burning (Minerva, Chichester); The Tempest (Norfolk & Norwich Festival); The Three Sisters (Harrogate Theatre); Sodom (BAC & Drill Hall); The Experiment (Soho Theatre); Ripper and Sweetmeat (Union Theatre); Beauty & The Beast (Rose Theatre, Kingston); Arsenic and Old Lace (Derby Playhouse); The Invention of Love (Salisbury Playhouse); The Mob and The Taming of the Shrew (Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond); Macbeth (Greenwich Studio); Romeo & Juliet (BAC); The Warp, a 24-hour play cycle at Deptford Albany; Cosmic Trigger (Cockpit Theatre); The Jew of Malta (Rose Bankside); Season’s Greetings (Everyman Cheltenham & tour); War Correspondents (Birmingham Rep, Abbey Theatre Dublin and tour); Henry VI Part 3  (HMP Pentonville); The Scarecrow and His Servant (Southwark Playhouse); performances with The School of Night in Edinburgh, London, Germany, Texas and Malaysia. Also The White Whale, Flood, Camelot: The Shining City, Mapping The City, The Knowledge Emporium (also NT Watch This Space and Gate Theatre), The Johnny Eck and Dave Toole Show and 59 Minutes to Save Christmas, all for Slung Low.

 TV: Trigger Point, Call The Midwife, White Heat, Should We Bomb Auschwitz?, Doctors, Bear Behaving Badly, Voyages of Discovery, Hollyoaks, EastEnders, Cathedral, Nuremberg: Goering’s Last Stand, My Dad’s The Prime Minister, Casualty, The Battle of Hood & Bismarck, Strange But True.

 Film: Sink, Seagull, Wimbledon

 Radio: The Duchess of Malfi, The Roads to Freedom, Safe Havens, The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes, Bomber, Ben Hur, The Life of Galileo, The Strange Case of Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde, The Life of Galileo, A Pocketful of Rye, two series of Trodd en Bratt Say ‘Well Done You’, Showstopper! The Improvised Musical and others for BBC Radio. Inconstancy, The Boy That Time Forgot and The Cannibalists for Big Finish Doctor Who Adventures; The Essential John Milton for Naxos; the Cosmic Trigger trilogy and Prometheus Rising for Audible.

JESSICA SPALIS (Maria)

Training: LIPA
Socials: @JessicaSpalis

Theatre: Swing/Cover Deb in Elf The Musical (Dominion), Nina in Mamma Mia The Party and Sue/Swing in original London Cast (O2 London), Hermia in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (UK and Saudi Tour), Jim’s Mum/Captain Flint in Treasure Island (UK Tour), Puppeteer/Ensemble in the original cast of Circus 1903 (Royal Festival Hall, Sydney Opera House, Pantages LA, Madison Square Gardens NYC), Ensemble in Faust ENO (London Coliseum), Alisa/Dance Captain in Thoroughly Modern Millie (Adelphi), Astrid/Helen Shapiro/Dance Captain in The Beatles Musical (Italian Tour), Ophelia in Shakespeare Shorts (Action To The Word), Queen of Hearts/Dance Captain in Alice In Wonderland (Greenwich Theatre), Fire Tuck/Dance Captain in Robin Hood (Worthing Theatre), Aladdin in Aladdin and Dick in Dick Whittington (Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds), Cheshire Cat in Alice in Wonderland and Ensemble in A Christmas Carol (Lichfield Garrick), Puppeteer/Ensemble in CBBC Arena Tour (UK), Vocalist for Blues Brothers (UK Tour), Vocalist for P&O (Australia), Aerialist in OneTen and Pirates Live (Hippodrome Circus).

TV/Film: The Royal Variety Performance 2018 (ITV), This Morning (ITV), The Today Show (NBC), The Late Show (CBS), Explore The Universe (CBBC) and Shell Girl in The Harry Hill Movie.

EMILY WATERS (Lady Teazle)

Training: The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.

Theatre includes: Cockfosters (Southwark Playhouse); Spy Movie: The Play! (Pleasance); Bleak Expectations (West End, Criterion Theatre); The Play That Goes Wrong (West End, Duchess Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Guildford Shakespeare Company); The Gruffalo (Tall Stories, UK Tour); The Wind in the Willows (Calf2Cow, UK Tour); Water Borders (New Perspectives); Macbeth and Much Ado About Nothing (The Three Inch Fools, UK Tour).

Television includes: A Confession (ITV).

Short film includes: Love Hurts (earning a nomination for Best Actress at the Comedy Short Awards).

FRED GRAY (Director)

Fred trained as an actor at RADA and spent a number of years performing in the West End in The Play That Goes Wrong. He has since been Director on the Peter Pan Goes Wrong 2024 UK Tour and the current production in Latvia.

Before this he was Associate Director of the Australia, New Zealand, UK Tour 2017, Italy, Canada and most recently on the Broadway production.

Other directing credits include: Joy Division (RADA Studios), Game Theory (Traverse Theatre), Not Just My Story (Theatre 503), The Garden (Tristan Bates), The Peregrine (Stockwell Playhouse), Past Perfect (Etcetera Theatre + Theatre Row NY). 

ROBERTO SURACE (Set and Costume Designer)

Roberto returns to Midsummer Scene, having designed costumes and set for Around the World in 80 Days in 2023 and 2024. Originating from Melbourne, Australia, he was nominated for the 2023 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design of a Play for PETER PAN GOES WRONG on Broadway and was also nominated for a Royal Television Society Award Costume Design – Entertainment & Non-Drama for his work on THE GOES WRONG SHOW (Series 1) on BBC 1.

Broadway costume designs include: The Play That Goes Wrong (Lyceum & New World Stages), Peter Pan Goes Wrong (Barrymore), Mind Mangler: Member of the Tragic Circle (New World Stages).

West End costume designs include: Mind Mangler: Member of the Tragic Circle (Garrick), Magic Goes Wrong (Vaudeville & Apollo), Groan Ups! (Vaudeville), The Comedy About a Bank Robbery (Criterion), Peter Pan Goes Wrong (Apollo & Lyric) and The Play That Goes Wrong (Duchess).


Off West End costume designs include: Lily Aitkinson at the St James (St James) and The Trial of Jane Fonda (The Park).

UK tour costume designs include: Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None, The Play that Goes Wrong, Peter Pan Goes Wrong, The Comedy About a Bank Robbery, Groan Ups!, Magic Goes Wrong, Mind Mangler: Member of the Tragic Circle.

Television includes: A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong, Peter Pan Goes Wrong The Goes Wrong Show Series 1&2 all on BBC1.

Roberto dedicates his work to his late parents, Rocco & Silvana.

Instagram: @robrob77 – www.robertosuracedesign.com

ALEKSANDAR MONDECAR (Lighting Designer)

Aleksandar spent forty years as lighting designer, and he is a household name in Croatian theatre.  He has worked on all main Midsummer Scene productions since 2015 and last year, he was honoured with the Award for Outstanding Contribution to Theatre at the Croatian Theatre Awards.

Aleksandar worked on more than 800 shows to date. Abroad, he worked at International Theatre Festivals in Jerusalem, Gent and Berlin, Street Festival Graz, Vienna’s English Theatre and many more. Aleksandar taught at Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts in 1996. 

He won several awards and prizes including the prestigious Varaždin Baroque Evenings Award, and Special Awards at NAJ Festival and the ASSITEJ (International Association of Theatre for Children and Young People).

He was commended by the Minister of Culture of Croatia.

Aleksandar wrote the first book about lighting design in Croatia, Introduction to theatre lighting in 2001. He is a Member of Croatian Freelance Artists’ Association.

PHILIP PARR (Composer)

Primarily a director of theatre, opera and festivals. Philip is Artistic Director of Parrabbola, which makes community theatre projects in the UK and across Europe, Director of the York International Shakespeare Festival and Chair of the European Shakespeare Festivals Network.

His theatre work has ranged from main house productions to small-scale rural touring, with a particular focus on site-specific and promenade theatre, and on Shakespeare.

His most recent premiere was Codename Othello, a new play by the Ukrainian playwright Olga Annenko, which premiered in York in April 2025 while his 2024 production of Pericles Prince of Tyre premiered  at the Hungarian State Theatre Csiky Gergely in Timisoara and was selected for the National Theatre Festival in Romania.  Other recent festival appearances include Budva (Montenegro) Hong Kong, Chisinau, Craiova and Verona. His most recent large scale projects were a site-specific cross-border production of The Winter’s Tale which travelled between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, and Shake Fear | Break Walls in Gdansk – an exploration of borders real and imagined.

As a composer he has written music for numerous productions – ranging from Shakespeare, to new writing, and musical theatre. He has also written string quartets, church music and song settings – all of which have a theatrical persuasion.

ŽARKO DRAGOJEVIĆ (Sound design and musical arrangement)

Born in Dubrovnik, Žarko Dragojević has been an active presence on the cultural and artistic scene for over fifteen years. His musical journey began in 2006 as the frontman of the band Embassy 516. A former member of the permanent staff at the Marin Držić Theatre, he has had the pleasure of working on more than eighty productions over the past decade, collaborating with some of the most prominent directors from Croatia and the wider region.

As a composer, he has created music for numerous productions by Paolo Tišljarić (Priče iz davnine, A Streetcar Named Desire, Maškarate ispod kuplja, Šenoa and Slava, Fireflies, A Doll’s House, See How Lokrum Brushes Its Teeth, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, La Bottega del Caffè, Vasilisa the Wise, Uncle Maroye: Re-Examined), Livija Pandur and Tibor Hrs Pandur (Hamlet – Records of a Monarchy’s Crimes), Darijo Harjaček (The Chairs), Aleksandar Švabić and Vedrana Klepica (Južina), Hrvoje Korbar (Pigs and Candide, or Optimism), Jasna Jukić (Art and The Happy Man’s Shirt), as well as for international collaborations with Sean Aita and Filip Krenus (A Poor Player / Midsummer Scene) and dramaturg Mila Pavićević (Elegies of the Lost and Found, Uferstudios Close Ups, and Extinction Room / Hopeless).

His work also spans radio drama, television, and a wide range of multimedia projects. Notable among them is the documentary The Hidden Side of the Medal, which tells the story of Dubrovnik-born swimmer Mihovil Španja, Croatia’s most decorated Paralympic athlete and recently named Paralympian of the Decade by the Croatian Paralympic Committee.

In addition to his musical work, 2024 saw the publication of his debut novel, Passage to the Southeast.

Since 2013, Dragojević has served as Artistic Programme Director of the Dubrovnik Audiovisual Centre and is a long-term collaborator of Art Workshop Lazareti. He has coordinated a number of EU-funded projects (European Capital of Culture 2020, Active NGOs / URBACT, Keep Learning / ESF, United Generations / ESF, EPIC / ERASMUS+, HER.CUL, DU CHECK, among others). He currently holds the position of Acting Director of the Centre for Children, Youth and Family Dubrovnik.