STEPHANIE HOCKLEY
CATHERINE
Bio
Trained at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts.
Theatre credits include: Blue Beard (Wise Children, UK Tour); Wuthering Heights (Royal National Theatre/UK Tour); Malory Towers (UK Tour); Robin Hood (Watermill Theatre); A Christmas Carol, Julius Caesar, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream(Storyhouse); The Show Must Go On (St Luke’s Bombed Out Church); Return to the Forbidden Planet(Upstairs at the Gatehouse); Robin Hood, the Rock n’ Roll Panto; Sleeping Beauty; The Little Mermaid; Beauty & the Beast; and Rapunzel (Liverpool Everyman); Sleeping Beauty (Mercury Theatre, Colchester).
JOHN LEADER
HEATHCLIFF
Bio
Trained at East 15 Acting School.
Theatre includes: The Little Mermaid (Bristol Old Vic); Merry Wives of Windsor, The School for Scandal (RSC); Wuthering Heights (Wise Children/ National Theatre); A Monster Calls (The Old Vic); The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Bridge Theatre); Henry IV Part 1, Henry IV Part 2, Henry V, Doctor Faustus, Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons: A Reimagining (Shakespeare’s Globe); Peter Pan, War Horse (National Theatre); Chigger Foot Boys (Tara Arts); Running Wild (Regent’s Park); Romeo and Juliet (Orange Tree); Beasty Baby (Theatre Rites/ Polka); Alice’s Adventures Underground (Les Enfants Terribles)
Television includes: The Sandman (Netflix); Doctors (BBC); Britannia (Sky); The Girlfriend Experience (Amazon)
Film includes: Femme (BBC/Netflix)
NANDI BHEBHE
THE LEADER OF THE MOORS
Bio
Trained at Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts.
Theatre credits include: The Little Mermaid (Bristol Old Vic); Twine (Yard Theatre); Robin Hood: The Legend Re-Written (Regent’s Park Theatre); Mimi’s Shabeen (KVS Brussels); Wuthering Heights (St Anne’s Warehouse Brooklyn/National Theatre); Bagdad Café, A Monster Calls (The Old Vic); Europeana (RSC); Faultline (Gate Theatre); Mid Life (Diverse City); Ubu, The Tin Drum, 946(Kneehigh); Torch (ANU Productions); Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Globe); Boy Breaking Glass (Sadler’s Wells Theatre); A Season In The Congo (Young Vic); Fela! (Al Hirshfeld Theatre, New York/The Royal National Theatre); 5,6,7,8 (The Royal Court Theatre).
Screen credits includes: The Thing with Feathers (Film4); Cyrano (MGM/Working Title Films); The Jetty (BBC); Emmerdale(ITV).
REBECCA COLLINGWOOD
ISABELLA LINTON / LINTON HEATHCLIFF / THE MOORS
Bio
Trained at Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts.
Theatre credits include: The Little Mermaid (Bristol Old Vic); Twine (Yard Theatre); Robin Hood: The Legend Re-Written (Regent’s Park Theatre); Mimi’s Shabeen (KVS Brussels); Wuthering Heights (St Anne’s Warehouse Brooklyn/National Theatre); Bagdad Café, A Monster Calls (The Old Vic); Europeana (RSC); Faultline (Gate Theatre); Mid Life (Diverse City); Ubu, The Tin Drum, 946(Kneehigh); Torch (ANU Productions); Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Globe); Boy Breaking Glass (Sadler’s Wells Theatre); A Season In The Congo (Young Vic); Fela! (Al Hirshfeld Theatre, New York/The Royal National Theatre); 5,6,7,8 (The Royal Court Theatre).
Screen credits includes: The Thing with Feathers (Film4); Cyrano (MGM/Working Title Films); The Jetty (BBC); Emmerdale(ITV).
SAM ARCHER
LOCKWOOD / EDGAR LINTON / THE MOORS
Bio
1st Class BA(Hons) degree from Bird College, London.
Theatre credits include: Wuthering Heights (Wise Children); Wise Children (Wise Children); Earthquakes in London (UK Tour); Chariots of Fire (London); An Ideal Husband (London); Wonder.land (National Theatre); The Happy Prince(The Place); Mary Poppins (UK Tour); We Will Rock You (London); Oklahoma! (Chichester Festival Theatre); Oliver!(London).
Television credits include: Humans (Channel 4); Mr Selfridge (ITV).
Film credits include: La Traviata (Opera Glass Works); Allied (Paramount); Muppets Most Wanted (Disney); Life is a Buffet.
Dance credits include: The Soldier’s Tale (Tokyo); Metamorphosis (New York); The Wind in the Willows (Linbury Theatre, London).
Opera credits include: La Bohème (Royal Albert Hall); Gloriana (Royal Opera House).
Sam has also performed as a principal dancer with Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures Company. Credits include: Romeo & Juliet; The Red Shoes; Lord of the Flies; Swan Lake; Cinderella; The Car Man; Nutcracker; Play Without Words; and creating the title role in the original production of Edward Scissorhands.
MATTHEW CHURCHER
HINDLEY EARNSHAW / HARETON EARNSHAW / THE MOORS
Bio
Trained at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
Theatre credits include: Peak Stuff (ThickSkin); The Secret Garden (Pitlochry Festival Theatre); Brief Encounter (Pitlochry Festival Theatre); Gypsy (Pitlochry Festival Theatre); A Streetcar Named Desire (Pitlochry Festival Theatre); Animal Farm (Birmingham Rep); Wolves in the Walls (Little Angel Theatre); Pippi Longstocking (Royal & Derngate); Peter Pan (National Theatre/Bristol Old Vic); White Teeth (Kiln Theatre); War Horse (National Theatre); The Good Person of Szechwan (RCSSD); Hamlet (RCSSD); Tartuffe (RCSSD); Twelfth Night (RCSSD).
Screen credits include: The Burning Girls (Paramount Plus); The Great (Amazon Prime).
Further credits include: Motion Capture for RODI (East City Films), MARION (East City Films), and DORIS (East City Films); Dancer in Foals – Wake Me Up (Music Video); Drummer in Rigs of Our Time (Music Video).
ROBYN SINCLAIR
FRANCES EARNSHAW / YOUNG CATHY / THE MOORS
Bio
Previous theatre credits include: Four Felons and a Funeral (National Tour); The Grapes of Wrath (National Theatre); Blue Beard (Wise Children/National Tour); The Enormous Crocodile (Leeds Playhouse & Regents Park Open Air Productions); The Suspicions of Mr Whicher (Watermill Theatre); Wildfire Road (Sheffield Theatres); The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (National Tour & the Gillian Lynne Theatre); Amélie (Criterion Theatre); Mog (The Wardrobe Ensemble, Royal and Derngate & Old Vic); A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Macbeth (The Watermill Theatre); Electrolyte (Wildcard Theatre); The Wind in the Willows (New Vic Theatre); Mood Music (Old Vic); The Snow Queen (Theatre Clwyd/Paperfinch Theatre); Much Ado About Nothing (Oxford Shakespeare Company).
Film credits include: Not Knowing, Needing, and Fledgeling (Lightbox Films).
TOM FOX
MR EARNSHAW / THE MOORS
Bio
Previous credits as director include: Waste Busters (Lyric Theatre Belfast); Ungentlemanly Combat (National Theatre Studio); Generation Zero (Theatre 503/Edinburgh Festival); Remote by Stef Smith and Ailie and the Alien (National Theatre); Who Gives A Toss? and The Pet Shop (Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh); There Be Giants (Eastern Angles); Treasure Island; Alice in Winterland; Robin Hood; Suitcase Shakespeare; and Peter Pan (UK Tour, Lamphouse Theatre).
Assistant directing credits include: The Twelfth Player (Royal & Derngate); Somewhere in England; River Lane; and Dark Earth (Eastern Angles).
Tom is the Artistic Director of Lamphouse Theatre and is actively involved in performing and teaching clowning. Most recently, he performed in War of the Worlds (On a Budget), which enjoyed a sell-out Edinburgh Fringe run and subsequent UK tour.
Wise Children first met Tom through The School for Wise Children when he applied for the Summer School. He was an absolute joy, and they knew he’d make a great addition to the Blue Beard creative team.
FREDERICK DOUBLE
ROBERT / THE MOORS
Bio
Trained at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts.
Theatre credits include: Pinocchio (Watermill Theatre); Much Ado About Nothing (Watermill Theatre); Wuthering Heights (Wise Children, DeLaMar Theatre); Aladdin (Hackney Empire); Lord of the Flies (New Adventures, Norwich Theatre Royal).
Whilst training: Alice in Wonderland; Once; The Tempest (Mountview).
Other credits include: Jazz at the Movies: A Swingin’ Christmas (Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club).
STEPHANIE ELSTOB
ZILLAH / THE MOORS
Bio
Choreography credits include: Grantchester Season 10 (Director: Rob Evans); Lucky Stiff (Hope Mill Theatre); Kiss Me, Kate! (Emil Dale Academy).
Assistant Choreography credits include: Whistle Down the Wind (Watermill Theatre); Grantchester Season 9 (Directors: Tom Brittney & Rob Evans; Choreographer: Sammy Murray Brown); Mr Selfridge (Director: Anthony Byrne; Choreographer: Caroline Pope).
Performing credits include: Wuthering Heights by Emma Rice (USA Tour & Amsterdam); Whistle Down the Wind (Watermill Theatre); Cinderella (New Wimbledon Theatre); Merry Widow (London Coliseum); Aladdin (The Orchard Theatre, Dartford); Kiss Me, Kate! (Swing, UK Tour, London Coliseum & Ravenna Festival); The Bodyguard (International Tour); Victoria (Marie Taglioni); Beauty & the Beast (Anthony Van Laast); Edward Scissorhands (Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures, UK Tour); Amadeus(Chichester Festival Theatre); Humans (Channel 4, ‘Veronica Synth’); Anna Karenina (Joe Wright & Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui).
TJ HOLMES
DOCTOR KENNETH / THE MOORS
Bio
Theatre credits include: Robin Hood (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Wuthering Heights (Wise Children & National Theatre); Two Gentlemen of Verona (Shakespeare’s Globe and Liverpool Everyman); La Strada and Cinderella (Sally Cookson); The Hired Man (Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch); One Man, Two Guvnors (Derby Theatre); Mother Courage(Red Ladder); The BFG (Birmingham Rep); The Jungle Book (Max Webster); The Threepenny Opera (Graeae); Spend Spend Spend (Watermill); As You Like It (Curve Theatre); Hansel and Gretel (Kneehigh); and Cider with Rosie (Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds).
TV appearances include: Doc Martin (ITV); A Rogue and a Patriot (Channel 5); The Harry Hill Show (Channel 4).
He also works as a historical interpreter with HistoryRiot.