Festival Company

  • Alex Blackie

    Alex trained at ALRA South and graduated in 2020. His previous credits include The Play That Goes Wrong (West End), Play Ai (Camden Fringe) and News Revue (Canal Cafe Theatre). A big fan of Shakespeare and sketch comedy, Alex is looking forward to combining the two in The Shakespeare Revue! Read more

  • Becky Hope-Palmer

    Becky Hope-Palmer is a Scottish theatre director and writer, trained at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Directing work includes productions for the Traverse Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, Dundee Rep and the Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh. As a writer, she made her Off-Broadway debut in 2024 as the book writer of… Read more

  • Chenise Lynette

    Chenise is an actor and facilitator from Margate who trained at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts. Stage credits include: Mad Hatters Tea Party (Orange Tree Theatre), Pig Heart Boy (UK Tour) Romeo & Juliet (Petersfield Shakespeare Festival), Romeo & Juliet and Macbeth (Guildford Shakespeare Company and Orange Tree Theatre), Hamlet… Read more

  • Christopher Hollis

    Chris read English at St Andrews University before training at Webber Douglas Academy. Most recently he played Bill in Fallen Angels at The Menier Chocolate Factory. He has appeared as Bill Austin in MAMMA MIA! in the West End and on tour. For the RSC: Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Twelfth Night;… Read more

  • Evie Scott-Walsha

    Evie is honoured to be making her professional debut with the Petersfield Shakespeare Festival as Young Macduff in Macbeth. She is passionate about acting, singing, dancing, Shakespeare, and musical theatre. Theatre credits include: Daniella in Anatomy of Terrors (Guildford Shakespeare Youth Company), Jemima Potts in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Churcher’s College and Petersfield Youth Theatre),… Read more

  • Gemma Stroyan

    Gemma is a Scottish actress with an extensive theatre and voice career. She has an MA in Acting from Arts Educational Schools. Her recent credits include: Picture You Dead, Wish You Were Dead, Looking Good Dead, Not Dead Enough, and Dead Simple (Peter James UK Tours), Woven Bones (Cap-a-Pie Theatre Company), Othello… Read more

  • Georgina Lamb

    Georgina is a Director, Choreographer & movement director. She is an original member of Frantic Assembly, working with the company for 13 years as Creative Associate and performer. Recent theatre includes: Shadowlands (West End); Sherlock Holmes and the Twelve Days of Christmas (Birmingham Rep); The Last 5 Years (UK Tour);… Read more

  • Gina Jamieson

    Gina Jamieson trained at Manchester School of Theatre, LAMDA and The Rambert School of Dance.  Her stage credits include: Good for a Girl (Birmingham Rep and tour), The Railway Children (Hull Truck), Arthur/Merlin (Iris Theatre), Twelfth Night and The Gunpowder Plot (Three Inch Fools UK Tour), My Name is Gef (Phoenix Theatre), Treasure Island (Pleasure Dome), A Christmas Carol (Pleasure Dome/Taunton Brewhouse), Sleeping Beauty (CAST Doncaster), The Monster (New National… Read more

  • Giulia Rose

    Giulia Rose trained at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and at Shakespeare’s Globe. She recently played the role of Nicoletta in Romance Anonimo for which she won Best Supporting Actress at the New York International Film Awards. Her theatre credits include: The Trojan Women of Today [Greek Drama Project], The… Read more

  • Harriet Benson

    Harriet has worked as an actress for over 35 years – in Theatre, Film and Television alongside a very successful voiceover career. She is a seasoned Shakespearean actress and has also worked on many musicals and other theatre productions in the West End, regional theatre and abroad. Her recent work… Read more

  • Jack Condon

    Jack’s an actor & writer from south London. Macbeth is his PSF debut. Training: RADA Theatre credits include: The Mousetrap (St. Martin’s Theatre, West End), Noughts & Crosses (Pilot Theatre, UK Tour), East (Kings Head Theatre), If. Destroyed. Still. True. (The Hope Theatre), Cinderella (Not Too Tame, UK Tour), Rehearsing… Read more

  • Jessica Dennis

    Jessica is an actor, singer and accent coach, she is delighted to be back for her second show with PSF. Her theatre credits include: The Rainbow (Perth Theatre), Romeo + Juliet (PSF), The Merchant of Venice: 1936 (RSC, West End, National Tour), The Habit of Art (Original Theatre, 59E59 Theater),… Read more

  • Joe Bunker

    Joe is the worldwide musical supervisor of the Olivier and Tony Award-winning musical Operation Mincemeat. He spent three years as the show’s musical director – first at Riverside Studios, then on the Original Cast Album, in the West End, and on Broadway – and was nominated for The Stage Debut… Read more

  • Nigel Sudarkasa

    Nigel was born and raised in Johannesburg, South Africa, to American parents. His acting journey has taken him across the globe, from South Africa to Los Angeles, where he earned his Bachelor’s degree and began working professionally as an actor. He later moved to New York, where he continued to… Read more

  • Sadie Pepperrell

    Sadie graduated from The Royal Central School of Speech & Drama (BA Acting). Some Theatre Credits include: The Lodger (Shadow Puppeteer, Old Red Lion) Dr Faustus, Pygmalion, Lysistrata, The Rover, ( Flywheel Repertory Company), Hamlet (Actors From The London Stage, USA Tour), A Midsummer’s Night Dream (UK Tour), Glacier Lake… Read more

  • Sam Hollis

    Training: ArtsEd. Theatre includes: 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). Film includes: Albion (New Saint Pictures) Once Upon a Riot (Broken Flames Productions/Dreamotion Studios), Bob’s Casino (Partisan Records), Take Over… Read more

  • Santino Smith

    Theatre credits include: Sheet/Hook, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Royal Shakespeare Company); Gordon in There’s No Room in Our Bathroom For Lewis Capaldi (Paisley Arts Centre); Tony in A View From The Bridge (Theatre Royal Haymarket/Theatre Royal Bath); Gary in Bridezilla & The Orchid of Sin (A Play, A… Read more

  • Spin Glancy

    Spin recently played the role of Justin in Inspector Morse: House of Ghosts in the Birmingham REP/UK Tour opposite Tom Chambers. Other theatre work includes Forty Years On at Chichester Festival theatre, Toy Soldier at Waterloo East as well as F*cking White Boys for Story Fest at the National Youth… Read more

  • Tara Webb

    Tara is an up-and-coming actress best known for her work as series regular Rani in CBBC/BBC3’s Phoenix Rise, and as schoolgirl Noori Abas in BBC One’s Wild Cherry. Tara has been acting from a young age and has performed in many plays and musicals with the Theatre Royal Plymouth, and… Read more

  • Twyla Doone

    Twyla trained under LAMDA and TRINITY exam boards and has a background in classical and contemporary dance. Recently Twyla has delved into the world of directing and producing where she is currently working on three new projects for theatre and TV. With a diverse career outside of theatre in Development… Read more