Cast Biographies
Rufus Hound
Peter
Rufus Hound is an award-winning actor, presenter and comedian. In 2026 he can be seen as the lead in The Mesmerist at Watford Palace Theatre and playing William in Jack & Sarah at The Mill at Sonning.
Theatre credits include: One Man Two Guv’nors (National Theatre, West End & UK Tour); Wind In The Willows (London Palladium & UK Tour, Winner Best Actor in a Visiting Production, MEN Theatre Awards); The Boy in the Dress, The Provoked Wife, Don Quixote, (RSC/The Garrick); Neville’s Island; Present Laughter (Chichester Festival Theatre); What The Butler Saw (Leicester Curve); It’s Headed Straight Towards Us (Park Theatre -“Best Actor” Offie nominated); A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to The Forum (Lido 2, Paris).
As an actor, Rufus has appeared in Doctor Who (BBC); Cucumber (Channel 4); Zapped (Dave); Trollied (Sky); A Touch of Cloth (Sky) and Hounded (CBBC). His film career includes parts in Lost on the Road (2026); Preschool (2025), Lore (2024); Beautiful Devils (2020); My Big Fat Gypsy Gangster (2017) and The Wedding Video (2012).
As himself, Rufus’ TV credits include Celebrity Juice (ITV2), Argumental (Dave), Mad Mad World (ITV), Never Mind The Buzzcocks (BBC2), Lip Synch Battle (Channel 5), Countdown (Channel 4), Richard and Judy (Channel 4), Top of The Pops (BBC Two), Glastonbury (BBC), Let’s Dance for Comic Relief (BBC1, winner, 1m+ views on YouTube), Strictly Come Dancing at Christmas (winner), Dancing on Ice (ITV1), Famous & Fearless (Channel 4), Celebrity Mastermind (BBC1), Pointless Celebrities (BBC1), Richard Osman’s House of Games (BBC2), Countdown (Channel 4), Tipping Point (ITV), and The Weakest Link (BBC2).
An accomplished voice artist, his voice actor credits include Ronja the Robber’s Daughter (Studio Ghibli); Sadie Sparks (Disney); Doctor Who Audio Adventures (Big Finish); Waffle the Wonderdog (Cbeebies). He also provided voiceover for Extreme Cakemakers (Channel 4), SEAT, KFC, and Mythbusters (BBC)
Rufus also hosted My Teenage Diaries for 15 series on Radio 4, winning a silver Sony award.
Susie Blake
Miriam
Theatre includes: Fisherman’s Friends: The Musical (Dominion Theatre & Hall for Cornwall); My Fair Lady (Grange Festival); The Mirror Crack'd (UK Tour); Some Mothers Do Av Em (UK Tour); Murder Margaret and Me (York Theatre Royal); Grumpy Old Women Live 3 (UK Tour); Cider with Rosie (UK Tour); Aladdin (Yvonne Arnaud Theatre); The Importance of Being Earnest A New Musical (Riverside Studios); When We Are Married (Garrick Theatre); Pygmalion (Chichester Festival Theatre); Grumpy Old Women Live 2 (UK Tour and Novello Theatre); Bertha in Boeing, Boeing (on Tour); Snake in the Grass and Life and Beth (Stephen Joseph Theatre and on Tour); Wicked (Apollo Victoria); High Society (UK Tour); Noises Off (National Theatre); A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum (Regents Park Theatre); Virtual Reality (Stephen Joseph Theatre); The Shakespeare Revue (RSC); Absent Friends (West Yorkshire Playhouse and the Lyric, Hammersmith); Prin (Lyric, Hammersmith); Blithe Spirit (Royal Exchange).
Television includes: Silky Hotel for BBC iPlayer; Kate & Koji (Series 1&2) for ITV; Not Going Out for BBC One; The Real Marigold Hotel for BBC One, Casualty for BBC One, Murder on the Blackpool Express for UKTV, The Cockfields for BBC Cuckoo (Series 3); New Tricks for BBC; You, Me and Them for UKTV Gold; Murder on the Homefront for Carnival Film and Television; Mrs Brown's Boys (Series 3&2) for BBC; Series regular Beverley Unwin in Coronation Street for ITV. Great NightOut for ITV; Parents for Sky; The Crossing for BBC; House of Rooms for Channel 4; Doctors for BBC; Judith in Wild At Heart for ITV; Eve Beckett in Roger for BBC; Mrs Buchanan in Sunburn for BBC; Beverley in two series of A Prince Among Men for BBC; Louise in April Fools’ Day for ITV; Eleven Men Against Eleven for Channel 4; Wake up with... for ITV; Susan Hopkins in A Year in Provence for the BBC; Fay Morgan in The Wail of The Banshee for Central TV; Mrs Jerebohm in The DarlingBuds Of May for YTV; Blore for BBC 4; 4 Series of Singles for YTV and The VictoriaWood Show for BBC.
Film includes: Nativity 3 and Fierce Creatures with John Cleese.
Aisha Jawando
Laura
Training : The Urdang Academy
Theatre includes: Angelica Schuyler in Hamilton The Musical (UK Tour), Tina in Tina- The Musical (Aldwych Theatre), Triple Bill: Everywhere (UK Tour), Jill in Jack and the Beanstalk (Alhambra Theatre, Bradford), Cinderella in Cinderella (Hackney Empire), Pilar in Legally Blonde (Monaco), Carmen in The Life (Southwark Playhouse), Martha Reeve in Original London Cast of Motown (Shaftesbury Theatre), Original London Cast of Beautiful (Aldwych Theatre), Book of Mormon (Prince of Wales), Original London cast of Fela (National Theatre), Lion King (Lyceum theatre) and Ikette in Soul Sister (Savoy/ UK tour).
Film and Television credits: Wicked (Universal Pictures), Still Up (Apple TV), Sex Education Series 4 (Netflix), Big Night at the Musicals (BBC), The Show Must Go On (BBC), This Morning (ITV)
Aisha would like to thank her family and friends for their continued support.
Beth Lilly
Jen
Beth Lilly trained at LIPA. Since graduating her theatre credits include 'Phyllis' in THE RAILWAY CHILDREN (York Theatre Royal/Kings Cross Theatre London) ANNIE in THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG (Duchess Theatre/UK No 1 tour), JACKIE in HAYFEVER (Mill at Sonning), ROSE in MAKESHIFTS AND REALITIES (Finborough Theatre) and LISETTE in THE GAME OF LOVE AND CHANCE (Arcola) Beth made her TV debut in GRANTCHESTER (ITV) and has since enjoyed a guest lead role in SISTER BONIFACE MYSTERIES (BBC). Most recently Beth played TORI in several sell-out runs of COCKFOSTERS (Southwark Playhouse) Beth also recently graduated with a first in her MA in voice studies at CENTRAL, and works as a voice and dialect coach.
Andy McLeod
Jason & Understudy Peter
Theatre credits include: Murder At Midnight (Original Theatre); Cosmic (Royal Court Liverpool); Children of the Night (CAST Doncaster); There Should Be Unicorns (Middle Child); User Not Found (UK & International Tour, Dante Or Die); Secret Life of Humans (Off Broadway Transfer, New Diorama); Down & Out in Paris and London, The Universal Machine, Kubrick3, The Dark Room (New Diorama); Macbeth (Kenneth More Theatre); Vassa Zheleznova, Enduring Song (Southwark Playhouse); Border Men (Kings Head Theatre); Happy Dave (Smoke & Oakum).
Television credits include: Emmerdale; A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (Season 1 & 2); The Gathering; The Outlaws; The Beast Must Die; Eastenders.
Short Film credits include: OCD & Chips; Eat Chips Love; Past Tense; The Nest; The Introduction.
Sarah Lawn
Understudy Susannah & Miriam
Training: Guildford School of Acting and Middlesex University
Theatre includes: Noises Off, Woman in Mind and Blithe Spirit (all West End); Noises Off (Bath TR and UK Tour), Ruth – the Musical (Wiltons), Princess Caraboo (Finborough Theatre), Dick Whittington (Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds); Absent Friendsand Peter Pan (both Gordon Craig Theatre); Seasons Greetings (Rhodes Theatre); Farndale Avenue… Murder Mystery (Frinton Summer Theatre); Anyone Can Whistle (Bridewell); Much Ado About Nothing (Tour).
Screen work includes: Bridgerton (Netflix); Bergerac (UKTV); Eastenders (BBC); Slave Market (MBC); and feature films The Flash, The Real Charlie Chaplin and Mumbo Jumbo.
Sarah has been an actor volunteer for the child mentoring charity Scene & Heard for the last 24 years.
Maddy Banks
Understudy Laura & Jen
Theatre credits include: Cigarettes and Alcohol (Criterion Theatre); The Band (UK Tour/Theatre Royal Haymarket); Oh, Calm Down (Summerhall Edinburgh Fringe); Reputation (The Other Palace); Closer to Heaven (Above The Stag); When Harry Met Barry (Above The Stag).
Agent: Katy Henderson at 33 Entertainment Group
Oliver Byng
Understudy Jason
Oliver trained at ALRA and Rose Bruford and is delighted to be making his Original Theatre Company debut.
Theatre includes: Twelfth Night, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Wind in the Willows and Alice in Wonderland (Theatre on Kew/Australian Shakespeare Company), Romeo and Juliet (Ravenna Shakespeare Company), Thought Fox (Royal Court: Court in Progress), Amadeus (Here to There Productions), Endurance: The Ernest Shackleton Story (Spontaneous Productions), A Midsummer Night's Dream (TNT Theatre, European Tour), The Weir (Malvern Theatres), The Railway Children (Edinburgh Fringe), The Ladykillers (Hereford Courtyard), Henry V (Festival Players International), Mr Popper's Penguins (Kenny Wax, Pins and Needles), NewsRevue (Canal Café Theatre), DNA (Yvonne Arnaud Mill Studio), Cinderella, Dick Whittington (Lyric Hammersmith) Macbeth (Cheltenham Everyman) Sleeping Beauty (Leatherhead Theatre) and The Tempest (Glastonbury Festival). Television includes World's Most Evil Killers (Sky TV).
Screen work includes: Once a Year on Blackpool Sands, Still Life, Dead Drop and Silvertown.