CHRISTIE’S
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Training: LAMDA.
Theatre credits include: ASBO BOZO (Crafted by Fools/ Riverside Studios), This Be The Verse (Crafted by Fools/Hen and Chickens Theatre), Sally Cookson’s Stick Man (UK Tour and Rose Theatre Kingston), Looking Good Dead (Richmond Theatre/ Josh Andrews Productions).
Television and film credits include: Downton Abbey(Movie), Belgravia (ITV), SAS: Rogue Heroes (BBC), All Those Things (Whoever Films).
Georgina previously understudied on The Mousetrap (St Martin’s Theatre) and is thrilled to be returning to Monkswell Manor.
Training: ArtsEd.
Theatre credits include: The Mousetrap (St Martin’s Theatre), Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Comedy of Errors, As You Like It, Henry V, The Tempest (Petersfield Shakespeare Festival).
Screen credits include: Once Upon a Riot (Broken Flames Productions/ Dreamotion Studios), Bob’s Casino (Partisan Records), Albion (New Saint Pictures), Take Over (Pukka Films), Afterimage (Norwich Arts), Skin (Channel 4 Random Acts), Kemi (ArtsEd).
Training: RADA.
Theatre credits include: The Coral (Collide Theatre/ Finborough Theatre); Spring Awakening, Pomona, Against, The Winter’s Tale, The Busie Body, Women of Trachis, Much Ado About Nothing (RADA).
Television and film credits include: Alma’s Not Normal Series 2, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Powers Series 2, Van Gogh by Vincent, Masters of the Air, Wake.
Radio credits include: Growing Up Brent.
Theatre credits include: And Then There Were None (No1 UK Tour and tour of China), Witness for the Prosecution (London County Hall), A Parisian Salon (Senate House), Room (Stratford East, Abbey Theatre), Cocktail Sticks (Watermill), The Silver Sword (Tour), Relatively Speaking, Much Ado About Nothing, The Real Thing, The Memory of Water (Library), Coriolanus, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, A Woman Killed with Kindness, Romeo and Juliet, The Virtuosos (RSC), The Country Wife (Haymarket), By Jeeves (Scarborough, Duke of York, Lyric), Three Sisters (Chichester), Middlemarch, Seven Year Twitch, The Conspirators, Court in the Act, Lips Together, Teeth Apart, The Way of The World, Low Flying Aircraft, Portrait of a Woman, Flora the Red Menace (Orange Tree), Twelfth Night, Measure for Measure (USA Tour), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Exeter), The Taming of the Shrew (Dukes), The Winter’s Tale (Royal Exchange), Lady Betty (Cheek By Jowl).
Television credits include: Coronation Street, Manhunt Series 2, The Robinsons, Footballers’ Wives, Family Affairs, Between The Lines, Peak Practice.
Radio credits include: Patricia’s Progress, The Decameron, Here, Early Morning, The Indian Gentleman, Let Me Help.
Film credits include: Romeo and Juliet, The House of Knives.
Training: Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama.
Theatre credits include: Ladies Night (No.1 UK Tour), Routes (Welsh Millennium Centre Cardiff), Our Little Hour (Ustinov Theatre, Bath and UK Tour), Generations (Nottingham Arts Theatre), The Bodyguard Musical (No.1 UK Tour), The Color Purple (Menier Chocolate Factory), One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (No.1 Tour), The Blacks (Young Vic), The Green Room (Theatre Peckham), The Dispute (RSC), The Merchant of Venice, Pinocchio, Playland, The Dutchman Birmingham Rep), Two Tracks, Text Me (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Ticket to Write (Paines Plough), Tracey Beaker (Nottingham Playhouse and Hackney Empire), The Big Life (Theatre Royal Stratford East and Apollo Theatre West End).
Television credits include: Holby City (BBC), Emmerdale (ITV), The Bill (Thames TV), The Locksmith (BBC), Tough Love (ITV), Doctors (BBC), Nature Boy (ITV), Body Story (Ch4), Dr Who, The Detectorists, EastEnders, Casualty, The Level (ITV).
Film credits include: Hard Time Bus, Losing Innocence, IF, Pearls of Africa, An Ill Wind, Almost Saw the Sunshine, Birthday Treat. Neil has won The BFI Best Actor Award for his portrayal of Darren in Birthday Treat and was nominated for a Best Actor Award for his portrayal of Mark in Hard Time Bus at The American Black Film Festival Awards (ABFF) in New York.Neil has recently written, directed and performed a one-man show called Without at The Omnibus Theatre (Clapham), Courtyard Theatre (Camden) and The White Bear Theatre (Kennington), and was nominated for Best Lead Actor in a play at the prestigous Black British Theatre Awards 2024 held at the Lyceum Theatre Strand. Neil can be seen in his featured role as Officer Ruud in the award-winning Netflix series Narco Saints.
Training: RADA.
Theatre credits include: Chloe made her West End and Broadway debuts as Oswald in King Lear, directed by Kenneth Branagh (2023–24). She played Benvolio in the RSC’s First Encounters production of Romeo and Juliet (2024).
Film credits include: Ellen Hazel in The Last Disturbance of Madeleine Hynde (2024), directed by Kenneth Branagh.
Training: RADA.
Theatre credits include: How to Survive Your Mother (King’s Head Theatre), The Habit of Art (UK Tour, 59E59 New York), The Mirror Crack’d (Palace Theatre), Dead Sheep (UK Tour and Park Theatre), Toast (59E59 New York, UK Tour and Park Theatre), The Cocktail Party (The Print Room), Keepers of Infinite Space, Thark (Park Theatre), The Fear of Breathing (The Finborough), Jamie the Saxt (The Finborough), Nobody Will Ever Forgive Us (National Theatre of Scotland – Directed by John Tiffany), The Only Girl in the World (Arcola Theatre), Tamburlaine (Bristol Old Vic/ Barbican), Dog in the Manger, Tamar’s Revenge, Pedro the Great Pretender (RSC), The Torch Song Trilogy (The Tron), The Winter Guest (Almeida Theatre/West Yorkshire Playhouse – Directed by Alan Rickman), Annie Get Your Gun (The Kings Glasgow/ Edinburgh).
Television credits include: Lockerbie: A Search for Truth, Star Wars: Andor, Asterix & Obelix: The Big Fight, Stan Lee’s Lucky Man, Outlander, Holby City, The Ten Commandments, Robin Hood, Taggart, G-Force.
Film credits include: Queen of The Desert (Directed by Werner Herzog), A Little Chaos (Directed by Alan Rickman), The Fitzroy, The Oxford Murders, Late Night Shopping, Breaking The Waves (Directed by Lars von Trier).
Radio credits include: Never Mind the Ballocks, The Machine Stops, The Antiquary, The Talisman (BBC Radio 4). John is also a prolific audio performer and has recently lent his vocals to productions such as Mr Bates vs The Post Office, Dr Who, House of Dragon, The Witcher: Blood Origin, Slow Horses, Black Mirror, Avenue 5, The Crown, SAS: Rogue Heroes, The Silk Road Rally.
Training: RADA.
Theatre credits include: Noughts & Crosses (Pilot Theatre, UK Tour), East (Kings Head Theatre), If. Destroyed. Still. True. (The Hope Theatre), Cinderella (Not Too Tame, UK Tour), Rehearsing For Planet B (North Wall Arts Centre).
Television and film credits include: Artemis Fowl (Disney), Silent Witness (BBC).
The Mousetrap is Jack’s West End debut.
Training: Oxford School of Drama.
Recent stage credits include: A Doll’s House (New Rep Theatre), Love and Information (Cockpit Theatre).
Theatre credits while training include: The Watsons (Jermyn Street Theatre), Romeo and Juliet (OSD). She has also appeared in the short film Kick Me Under The Table with IGM.
Training: Laban Centre. Recent theatre credits include: Mrs Boyle (Understudy) in The Mousetrap (St Martin’s Theatre and Tour), Mrs Warwick in The Unexpected Guest (Hastings), Mary Highland/Janet Oram (Understudy) in The Southbury Child, Gunhild Borkman (Understudy) in John Gabriel Borkman (The Bridge Theatre), Sheila Carter in Relatively Speaking (Shrewsbury), Laura Stratton in Time of My Life (Brockley Jack), Gerlinde/ Kate in Where Will We Live (Southwark Playhouse), Duchess of Gloucester in Play of Thrones (Union Theatre), Jean Perkins in Funny Money (Vienna English Theatre), Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest (Tour), Jacques in As You Like It (Tour), Nerissa in The Merchant of Venice (Tour).
Recent television credits include: Margaret Nicholson in The History of Bedlam, Rose West and Amelia Dyer in Martina Coles Ladykillers.
Recent radio credits include: Janet Braid in Peace in our Time.
Recent film credits include: Zoey in Joshua and Zoey, Charlotte in The Estate Agent, Old Lady in Tales from Pussy Willow (Animation). Hilary is very happy to be returning to The Mousetrap family at St Martin’s Theatre in 2025
Training: The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts.
Theatre credits include: The Mousetrap (St. Martins Theatre), Suitcase Shakespeare: Macbeth (UK Tour), Suitcase Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet (UK Tour), Blockbuster (Key Theatre, Peterborough, Wild Boy (UK Tour).
Television and film credits include: Brexit – The Uncivil War, Henry VIII and the Men Who Made Him.
Workshops include: The Mysteries of Milton Hall (National Theatre). Richard is also an Artistic Associate with Lamphouse Theatre and has been involved in devising, reimagining and performing a variety of shows, including A Christmas Carol, The Jungle Book and Peter Pan.
Richard is delighted to be returning to The Mousetrap.
Training: Guildford School of Acting.
Theatre credits include: The Mousetrap (St. Martin’s Theatre), Macbeth: A Tale of Sound, Fury (6FootStories/Brighton Fringe), A Christmas Carol, Carrie’s War, Our Town, Blue Remembered Hills (Apollo Theatre Company/Yvonne Arnaud Theatre),A Midsummer Night’s Dream Macbeth (Shooting Stars Theatre Company), Back to Back, Flickbook (Poleroid Theatre/Theatre 503/White Bear). Ben has also toured extensively with the award-winning Ten Ten Theatre and the Young Shakespeare Company and has starred in several short films with The Lacuna Works.
Training: Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. West End credits include: The Hobbit (Fortune), Fiddler on the Roof.
Understudy credits include: The Woman in Black (Fortune Gross Indecency. Clive has also worked in Stockholm for the last 20 years in A Christmas Carol.
Other stage work includes: The Sound of Music, South Pacific, Twelfth Night, Pravda, A Chorus of Disapproval.
Radio and television credits include: Vicars, Football Referees, Tax Inspectors and other pillars of the community!
Clive received an award as a Covid-19 Local Hero for his work as a homeless navigator on the Restart Homeless Project in Welwyn Garden City.
Philip’s work as a Director includes: In the West End: The Duchess of Malfi, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (Parts One and Two), Taking Sides, Collaboration, Dear Lupin. At the National Theatre: Private Lives, The Heiress, Early Morning National Tours: The Habit of Art (also New York), The Croft, The Mirror Crack’d, Murder in the Dark.
At Chichester Festival Theatre: Twelfth Night, The Cherry Orchard, The Master Builder, The Deep Blue Sea, Separate Tables, Rattigan’s Nijinsky, A Marvellous Year For Plums.
Other: Dr Faustus, Hamlet, The Browning Version (Greenwich), The White Devil ( Lyric, Hammersmith), The Comedy of Errors (Regent’s Park), The Cocktail Party (Edinburgh International Festival), The Duchess of Malfi (Leeds), The Tempest (Shakespeare’s Rose, York), Four of the 66 Books (The Bush). Online: A Cold Supper Behind Harrods, The Haunting of Alice Bowles (which he also wrote), Barnes People.
Radio includes: A Patriot For Me, A Soldier and a Maker, An English Tragedy, and his own adaptation of E M Forster’s The Machine Stops.
Philip is also an actor.
www.philipfranks.co.uk
Denise trained at Guildhall School of Music and Drama and began her career as an actress and singer working in the West End, film, television, and radio. She began her relationship with The Mousetrap by playing Miss Casewell in 1994 and then again in 2001. She became Production Supervisor for the show in 2009 and then Artistic Director in 2018. She has cast every West End production since 2009, tours since 2015 and has cast and directed productions in China, the Far East and India.
Other production and casting credits include: Cinderella and Jack and the Beanstalk (feature films), Bloody Difficult Women (Riverside Studios), The Pargetter Triptych (podcast), Musik (Edinburgh and West End), The Dame (Park Theatre and National Tour), Dead Sheep (Park Theatre and National Tour), An Audience with Jimmy Saville (Park Theatre and Edinburgh), The Roundabout (Park Theatre and New York), Twitstorm, Deny Deny Deny and Twilight Song (Park Theatre), Alex Salmond Unleashed (Edinburgh and National Tour), Once Seen on Blue Peter (Edinburgh Festival), All or Nothing (Arts and Ambassadors Theatre), Don’t Call Me Nigel (National Tour), The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber (National Tour), The Watcher (Waterloo East Theatre), The Translucent Frogs of Quuup (Edinburgh Festival, Ambassadors Theatre, Kings Head), Burton, Clown in the Moon, Wilde Without the Boy (Edinburgh and St James’s Theatre), The Man Called Monkhouse (National Tour), Starting Here, Starting Now (Jermyn Street Theatre).
She is also a recipient of both Stage One Bursary and Start Up Fund for producers and is a member of UK Theatre and the League of Independent Producers.
Peter Saunders’ first job was as a very junior assistant cameraman. He graduated to cameraman and film director.
He then produced his own films and lost all his money. He worked as a reporter on the Daily Express for four years; then as press agent to bandleader Harry Roy. He joined the army when war broke out, rising from private to captain.
He jumped in at the deep end and put on his first play in 1947. He then produced more than 150 shows all over the world including the world record breaking The Mousetrap. In 1981 he was knighted for his services to the theatre. In April 1994 he transferred the management of The Mousetrap to Mousetrap Productions run by Sir Stephen Waley-Cohen. Sir Peter’s hobbies included chess, photography, the music of George Gershwin, telephoning, and collecting wills. He was married to Katie Boyle.
Sir Stephen has been a theatre owner and manager since 1984 when he was Joint Chief Executive of Maybox Group which acquired and managed the Albery, Criterion, Donmar Warehouse, Piccadilly, Whitehall and Wyndham’s Theatre, as well as developing the first British owned multiplex cinemas.
Maybox was sold in 1989, in which year he became Director of the Victoria Palace Theatre but sold it to Cameron Mackintosh in 2014. Sir Stephen became the Producer of The Mousetrap in 1994. Since then he has also taken on the management of the St Martin’s Theatre as well as the Vaudeville from 1995 – 2002 and the Savoy from 1997 – 2005. In April 2007 Sir Stephen purchased the Ambassadors Theatre, the sister theatre to the St.Martin’s and the original home of The Mousetrap for the first 21 years of it’s run. Before entering the theatre business Sir Stephen was a financial journalist and a founder director of Euromoney Publications. Sir Stephen was President of the Society of London Theatre from 2002 to 2005; and he was a Trustee of The Theatres Trust 1998 – 2004. In 2007 Sir Stephen became Chairman of RADA, The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
He founded Mousetrap Theatre Projects in 1996 which each year takes thousands of young people, who would not otherwise have the opportunity, to the best of West End Theatre, and is the industry’s leading education charity.
Over the past 25 years, Adam Spiegel has produced extensively in London’s West End as well as various tours throughout the UK and internationally. Most recently Adam has taken over as producer of the world’s longest running show The Mousetrap (St Martin’s Theatre), upholding its prestigious legacy within the West End.
West End credits include: Motown The Musical (Shaftesbury Theatre); The Last Tango (Phoenix Theatre); Hairspray (Shaftesbury Theatre); Fame (Aldwych Theatre and Shaftesbury Theatre); Sister Act (London Palladium); Saturday Night Fever (Apollo Victoria); High School Musical – Live on Stage! (Hammersmith Apollo); Midnight Tango (Aldwych Theatre, Phoenix Theatre); Dance ‘Til Dawn (Aldwych Theatre); Love Story (Duchess Theatre); Crazy for You (Novello Theatre); The Mysteries (Queen’s Theatre) and Birdy (Comedy Theatre).
UK touring credits include: Motown the Musical (2018); Fat Friends the Musical (2017); Tango Moderno (2017); Shirley Valentine (2017); The Mousetrap 60th anniversary tour (2012–2016); To Kill a Mockingbird (2014 and 2015); Love Me Tender (2015) The Producers (2015); Fame; Saturday Night Fever; The Last Tango (2015-2016); Dance ‘Til Dawn (2014 and 2015); Midnight Tango (2011, 2012 and 2013); Strictly Come Dancing Live; High School Musical – Live on Stage!; High School Musical 2; the Creole Choir of Cuba; The Mysteries; Lady Salsa and Five Guys Named Moe.
International touring credits include: Saturday Night Fever (Australasian and Scandinavian tours); Fame (Scandinavian and US tours) and the Creole Choir of Cuba (worldwide).
Other theatre credits include: To Kill a Mockingbird (Barbican Theatre); Amadeus (Wilton’s Music Hall, London); Lady Salsa (Pleasance Theatre) and Promises, Promises (Sheffield Theatres).
Adam produced the annual Laurence Olivier Awards for the Society of London Theatre for five years running from 2004 to 2008. Adam has also previously acted as an arts consultant for both The Sunday
Times and Tate Britain. Adam now sits on the board of SOLT and the League of Independent Producers.
www.adamspiegel.com
