CAST

EMILY ALTNEU

Emily trained at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts and graduated in 2009 with a Postgraduate Diploma in Musical Theatre. Prior to Mountview, she studied English Literature and Theatre at Warwick University. Whilst training, she played Hermia in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Mary in The Secret Garden and Tina in Personals. Since graduating, she has been performing with OperaUpClose in the ensemble of La Boheme (Cock Tavern Theatre) and has shot two short films (London Film School). Emily is delighted to be playing Maria Elena in Buddy Holly The Musical. After performing in Buddy, Emily will be playing the part of Lucy in the first stage adaptation of the book Guess How Much I Love You. This will be a UK tour. For more information about Emily please see www.ktalent.co.uk

ANDREW ASHFORD

Born and brought up in London, Andrew was a teacher in a London comprehensive for ten years before
embarking on a two year Actors Training Course at The Poor School, London. This is his first time
Upstairs at The Gatehouse and he is delighted to be working here. Recently he made his professional debut as Lennie in Of Mice and Men (The Dukes, Lancaster), a performance that received much critical acclaim.

Other theatre credits include Macbeth; Saturday, Sunday, Monday; A Chorus of Disapproval; The Cherry Orchard; and Oliver. TV credits Londoners

JASON BLACKWATER

DEANNA FARNELL

Deanna graduated with an MA in Musical Theatre from Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts & BCA Music from Wesley Institute, Sydney. Theatre credits include: Joanne in the South Australian premiere of Rent (Catchy Title Productions); Pitti-Sing in The Hot Mikado (Wesley Musical Productions); the Soul Diva in Davenport's Christmas Wondershow; Herself in the stand up comedy act, My Family Is Strange with Jess McKenzie for Adelaide Fringe Festival; and recently for Thomas Spencer Wortley's Christmas Tour and Believe concerts.

Other credits include backing vocals on Alex Lloyd's album, Distant Light; choreographing an original 'Pop-Tap' show called, TapCats and singing the Australian, South African and New Zealand National Anthems at the Rugby World Cup. ... So now she can add the American anthem to her repertoire!!

SEAN GREEN

Sean completed a postgraduate diploma in Musical Direction at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts last year. Whilst there he was assistant musical director on various productions including The Life, Steel Pier, Children of Eden and he musically directed and arranged Getting it Together, a unique promenade musical that was performed in various venues around Central London. Since graduating he has musically directed Honk! at the Edinburgh Fringe with Pendulum Productions and arranged and musically directed Pages: Promised Land for MokitaGrit Productions (Union Theatre). He was also assistant musical director on Eyebrow Production's 48 hour Showtime Challenge performance of Crazy For You (London Palladium) and most recently musical director for Aladdin (Theatre Royal Stratford East).

RICHIE HART

Richie graduated from Southampton University in 2007 and trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Since then he was worked as both an actor and musician in Major Barbara (Olivier/NT); David Glover in The Inbetweeners (E4, Series 1 &2); Burnt By The Sun (Lytellton/NT); Delivery Boy in The Persusaionists (E4); and The Importance Of Being Earnest (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre)

ROGER ROWLEY

PATRICK ROWE

Patrick trained at Mountview Academy in London. Theatre credits since graduating include: Word Play Box of Tricks, (Union Theatre); Word:Play2' Box of Tricks, (Theatre 503); and Captain of the School Football Team Box of Tricks, (Latitude Festival). Film credits include: The Man I Married (London Film School/National Gallery). Television credits include a pilot episode of Home Again/All About Us (BBC). Patrick has also been involved in the development of new plays Porcelain and Collapsing Colonies, which have had staged readings at the Arcola Theatre and the Old Red Lion.

JOS SLOVICK

Jos appeared in the original London production of Spring Awakening playing the part of Georg (Lyric Hammersmith & Novello); and X the Musical (Drury Lane).

Other Credits: appeared as Dean Martin on Stars in Their Eyes Kids (ITV)

Jos Is thrilled to be part of the Buddy cast and to be performing Upstairs at the Gatehouse. He has just been cast as Matt in a brand new musical Love Story, based on the Erich Segal novel, which opens in May at the Minerva Theatre Chichester, as part of the Chichester Festival.

NICKY SWIFT

Nicky graduated from Birmingham University with a BMus Hons and then continued her studies in Musical Theatre at The Royal Academy of Music, where she received the Ian Fleming Musical Theatre Award and the LRAM. She has performed extensively with The National Youth Music Theatre, shows include: Whistle Down The Wind (Edinburgh Fringe, Sadlers Wells, West Yorkshire Playhouse); Charlie (Buxton Opera House), Creation and Warchild (UK Tour). Also with the NYMT, Nicky performed as a soloist at St James’ Palace for HRH Prince Edward and at The Royal Albert Hall. She performed with Dame Judi Dench in An Enchanted Evening at Drury Lane Theatre. Other credits include: Sniffer in Her Benny (Liverpool Empire); Agnes in David Copperfield The Musical, (UK National tour), Oolie in City of Angels (Jack Lyons Theatre), Mrs Birling in An Inspector Calls (MTS Productions),;Sixteen Gobs (Kings Head), Felicity in Haebeas Corpus and The Blue Room (RAM). She made her Off-Broadway debut in 2005/06 in A Broadway Diva Christmas at The Julia Miles Theatre, New York, and has played Fairy Godmother in the Liverpool Everyma Theatre’s Jack And The Beanstalk, Aladdin, Mother Goose and Dick Whittington. Last year she appeared as lead vocalist with Toccata Music in a musical cabaret in Zambia, and most recently Nicky played the factory girl in Les Miserables In Concert at venues in the Channel Islands, and Jellylorum in Cats on the 2009 arena tour.

ALEX WADHAM

Alex trained at Guildford School of Acting on the MA Acting course, finishing in September 2009 with a Distinction, following a BA (Hons.) in Drama and Theatre Studies from Aberystwyth University. Recent credits include: George Kittredge in High Society (Upstairs at the Gatehouse); Sir Dexter in On The Rocks (Pentameters Theatre); Ensemble in Crazy For You (London Palladium); The Peddler in The Peddler’s Tale – a new play by Liz Thaler for LAMDA; The Man in Angel Rust (Edinburgh Fringe 2009 Bedlam Theatre) for Total Theatre Award winning company; The River People. Whilst training at GSA Alex was nominated for the Hobson’s Prize Voiceover competition, and some of his roles include Gangster 1 and understudy Fred in Kiss Me Kate; Husband and others in Machinal; Bottom and Egeus in A Midsummer Night’s Dream; and he was Fight Captain and ensemble in My Favorite Year. Previous work includes Leontes, A Winter’s Tale; Sir Charles Sedley, Compleat Female Stage Beauty; Dentist, Little Shop of Horrors; Jesus, Godspell. This will be Alex’s second consecutive production at Upstairs at the Gatehouse and he is delighted to be back so soon! For more information visit: alexwadham.com