Cast

Tom Bradley

Tom has just completed a UK Tour playing Jesus in GODSPELL, his first taste of the professional theatre was at the age of twelve playing The Artful Dodger in ‘Oliver!’ at The Haymarket Theatre in his home city of Leicester. Following this experience he went on to win a scholarship to train at The Sylvia Young Theatre School. After leaving school, Tom spent a season as lead vocalist on ‘Oceana’ with P & O Cruises before returning to the Haymarket Theatre in December 2006 as Scarecrow in Paul Kerryson’s production of ‘The Wizard of Oz’.
Tom was recently seen in ITV’s ‘Grease Is The Word’ where he reached the televised live show stage of the competition.

Tom is also an accomplished pianist and songwriter.



Howard Coggins

Theatre credits include: Around the World in 80 Days, Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland, Beasts & Beauties, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Up The Feeder Down The ‘Mouth, Babes In the Wood, Jack & The Beanstalk, Aladdin, The Great Big Story Mix Up, Myrtle On The Mainline. (Bristol Old Vic) Aladdin (Watford Palace) City of One (Myrtle Theatre Company) The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (West Yorkshire Playhouse)
The Magic Carpet (Lyric Hammersmith); The Wizard Of Oz (Hall For Cornwall); Aladdin (Reading Hexagon);Elsie & Norm’s Macbeth (Show Of Strength); Still Waters (Theatre Gwent) Aladdin (Cheltenham Everyman) A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Watchers Of The Night Sky (Theatre Iolo)

Television: Beautiful People; Moses Jones; Being Human; Doc Martin; Doctors; Jam and Jerusalem; Trevor Island; Beau Brummell; Bleak House; Dream Team; Much Ado About Nothing; The Giblets; Walk Away & I Stumble; Worst Week Of My Life; Casualty; Patrick’s Planet; Every Time You Look At Me; Teachers; Black Books; Dalziel & Pascoe; Mister Charity; Othello; The Bill; Undercover Customs

Film: Dope Opera; The Ghost Of Greville Lodge; La Comtessa Di Castaglione

Radio: She, A City Full of Swindlers

Howard also works with the Bristol based comedy improvisation show, Instant Wit



Natasha Cox

Natasha Cox trained at Lewisham College and Millennium Dance.
 
Theatre credits include: Jill in Jack and the Beanstalk (Watford Palace Theatre) This is Elvis (UK Tour), Jerry Springer- The Opera (National Theatre & Cambridge Theatre). Barnum (Union Theatre), 10th Anniversary Celebrations (Disneyland Paris), Fun Song Factory (Hackney Empire), The Wiz (Hackney Empire), Sex Files TIE Tour (Face Front Theatre/ Chameleon Arts), Making a Difference TIE tour (Theatre Royal Stratford East).
 
In 2004 Natasha won a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Performance in a Supporting Role in a Musical
 
Choreography credits include: The School of the Science of Acting, New Lodge Hip Hop Kru (Belfast), Bigga Fish, East London Dance Youth Company (Stratford Circus), The Night Fever Party (National Tour), Nexus Generation (Hackney Empire), Boy Blue Entertainment, Dance Attic, Liquid Blue (Los Angeles) and various youth projects at Theatre Royal Stratford East (TRSE) and Hackney Empire.
 
Directing: Icon Nation Slam Dunk Youth and ADP 4 Beginners Please (Hackney Empire). Assistant directing: Sleeping Beauty (TRSE) and Fun Song Factory (Hackney Empire 2002).
 
TV: Jumpers (Mars) commercial
 
Natasha is the Artistic Director for her own company called N.C Productions their recent credits include 'Inspire 2 Motiv8' which had cast of over 30 young people held at Stratford Circus home of the 2012 Olympics.
 
 She is currently studying Psychology at the Open University and in her spare time she is a Shape Arts volunteer for deaf and disabled people.


Peter Holdway
Recent Theatre: Brass In Box; Chief Panther in Peter Pan; Albert the Horse in  Wind In The Willows (all Birmingham Rep); Head Waiter in The Witches (Birmingham Rep, tour and West End); Long John Silver in Treasure Island (Coventry Belgrade); Valentine in Goethe’s Faust Pts I and II, Death in The Painter Of Dishonour; Constable in The Relapse; Peter in The Zoo Story (all Royal Shakespeare Company); Escalus, Apothecary in Romeo & Juliet (Greenwich Theatre and UK tour); Theo in Ovo, the central show at the Millennium Dome; Henry Pulling in Travels With My Aunt; Judd in Bouncers (both Salisbury Playhouse); Prunesquallor and Swelter in Gormenghast (David Glass Ensemble).
Television: Auditor in The Hogfather; Death in The Twelve Days Of Hogswatch;  The Bill; Ghost in The Sooty Show.
Film: David in Hello You.  
Peter is movement director and has worked with, amongst others, The Academy of Saint Martins in the Fields at the Purcell School in Bushey. He is also a fluent French speaker.


Alice Jackson

Alice originally trained as a dancer at Gypsy Booth School of Ballet and Theatre Arts before undertaking a Drama Degree at Hull University and latterly an MA in Classical Acting at Central School of Speech and Drama, graduating in 2006.
Alice works regularly as a dancer, assistant choreographer, and dance/movement coach in Film and TV. Credit’s include; Lost in Austen (ITV), The Other Boleyn Girl (Sony Films), Sense and Sensibility (BBC), Inkheart (Newline films - due for release 2009), and Little Dorritt (BBC).
Theatre credits include; The Night before Christmas (Brighton Dome/ Big Wooden Horse), and Jack and The Beanstalk (Watford Palace Theatre). Alice is thrilled to be back at the Palace where she took her first steps onto a professional stage over ten years ago.
Alice runs ‘Shine on Stage’ a performing arts organisation for young people – www.shineonstage.co.uk.



Sia Kiwa

TRAINING: Northern School of Contemporary Dance

THEATRE includes: DIRTY DANCING, Jacobson Entertainment. AIDA, Stage Holding. THE LION KING, Disney Theatrics. ROOTS, Cochrane Theatre. UPRESENTA RAIZES, Royal Court Theatre. 4 WOMEN, London Studio Centre. LEMBRANCES, London Studio Centre. 21 SECONDS, Zion Theatre. A NEW BEGINNING, Ballet Black. THE DEVILS BLUES, Ballet Black. THE BUGALOO ROOM, Ballet Black. REPLAY & NIGHTSONGS, Stratford Circus.

FILM includes: HOME SWEET HOME, Sharon Foster for Calling Card Prods. RELEASE, Harmony Image Productions

 


Jeff Nicholson
Jeff was born in Watford and began acting here at the Palace Theatre at the age of seven. He trained at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts graduating in 2005 with a first class degree in performance. Soon after he gained a place with the cast of Les Miserables playing Grantaire and the Factory Foreman in London’s West End for its 20^th and 21^st anniversary, he also covered and played the role of Javert.
Most recently he played the role of Charles Guiteau in Sondheim’s Assassins at the Landor theatre, Clapham.
Other credits include: Billy Bigelow in Carousel; Dude in Dude, where’s my teddy bear?; Brian in Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queensand Sir Toby Belch in TwelfthNight.
 
Jeff can be heard on the soundtracks of the MammaMia feature film; Tim Burton and Stephen Sondheim’s Film Sweeney Todd; The Pirates of the Caribbean; 10000 BC and The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.
 
Jeff is delighted to be back here at the Palace and wishes you a very Merry Christmas!
 
For more info www.jeff-nicholson.com / www.globalartists.co.uk


Liza Pulman

Liza is a member of the Olivier award winning Fascinating Aida and most recently performed in their latest act Absolutely Fabulous at Pizza on the Park in London and Theater Row in New York where they received a 2005 Drama Desk nomination. She most recently ppeared in the current series of Midsomer Murders on the BBC. Liza trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and her theatre credits include The Black and White Ball (King's Head Theatre) The Fairy Godmother in Cinderella (Theatre Royal,Brighton) The Mother in Take Flight (Menier Chocolate Factory)Mrs

Darling in Peter Pan (Bristol Hippodrome) Little Red Riding Hood in Into the Woods (Derby Playhouse), Fanny in Fanny (Sadlers Wells, Lost Musicals Season), Violet in the original cast of Chitty ChittyBang Bang (London Palladium), Tessa in The Gondoliers, Nephew's Wife in A Christmas Carol (Chichester Festival Theatre), Emma Fairfax in Doctor Dolittle opposite Philip Schofield (No.1 UK Tour), Mrs Darling in Peter Pan(Swindon), Goldilocks in Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Book (Soho Theatre), Lady Nelson in Nelson The Musical (Soho Theatre), Maid Marian in Robin Hood (Nuffield Theatre, Southhampton), Vittoria in The Coffee House (Minerva, Chichester), Tatyana in Eugene Onegin, Adele in Die Fledermaus (Lyric, Hammersmith/Tour), Cathy in Wuthering Height (European Tour), Brenda Blossom in Hollywood Pinafore (Barbican), Belindain Otherwise Engaged (Perth Rep), Yum-Yum in The Mikado (Carla Rosa, Richmond Theatre, Tour), La Vie Parisienne in Gabrielle (D'Oyly Carte). Liza appears on the original cast album of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Fascinating Aida's Absolutely Fabulous and her own album Listen Up! (Dress Circle Records).

 

For more information on Liza please visit www.colekitchenn.com.


Dale Superville
Theatre credits include the roles of Bottom and Peter in MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM and ROMEO AND JULIET at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, Sir Percy Shorter in HABEUS CORPUS and Tony Lumpkin in SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER at the Mercury Theatre, Colchester.  Wishee Washee in ALADDIN at Watford Palace, Ariel in the UK tour of RETURN TO THE FORBIDDEN PLANET (Basingstoke Haymarket),  the role of Fruitella in CINDERELLA (Watford Palace Theatre), George in THE KNIGHT OF THE BURNING PESTLE (Colchester Mercury/ Barbican Theatre), Toad in THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS (Oldham Coliseum), SIMPLY HEAVENLY (Young Vic and Trafalgar Studios), RUMPLESTILSKIN (Unicorn Theatre), OH WHAT A LOVELY WAR (Colchester Mercury Theatre), DICK WHITTINGTON (Colchester Mercury Theatre), EPSOM DOWNS (Nuffield Theatre), DOC FAUST (Forest Forge),  MOTHER GOOSE (Salisbury Playhouse), PINOCCHIO (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), TOM’S MIDNIGHT GARDEN (London and New York), CINDERELLA (Salisbury Playhouse), BIG NOSE (Coventry Belgrade Theatre), HAVING A BALL, FINGS AINT WHAT THEY USED TO BE and OF MICE AND MEN (Palace Theatre Hormchurch), ALADDIN (Salisbury Theatre), PUSS-IN-BOOTS, THE LAST NOO - NOO, STARDOG, CHALOTTE’S WEB and THE PATCHWORK QUILT (Polka Theatre), BABIES (Palace Theatre, Westcliffe), YOU’RE THINKING ABOUT DOUGHNUTS (Nottingham Playhouse), JUNGLE BOOK (Redgrave Theatre, Farnham), A SONG FROM THE SEA (Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich) and A LESSON TO FORGIVE (The Man in the Moon).
 
TV Credits include TICK TOCK (Big Heart Media/Disney), THE WORLD AT THEIR FEET (Disney Channel), BILL’S NEW FROCK (Channel 4) and RAINBOW DAYS - 2 series (ITV).