Gabbie (she/her) is Producer and Director of Gabriella Sills Productions, which both focuses on new writing in the Off West End and is the home of Alfresco Actors. She previously ran the open-air touring troupe, Tethered Wits. Her shows have won Best Production at the Off West End Awards and Scottish Theatre Awards, been nominated for The Stage Debut Awards and Off West End Awards, and received critical praise. 

 

Gabbie is also General Manager & Associate Producer at Seventh Productions under The Partnership Group, where she plays a pivotal role in developing fresh productions and leveraging the group’s acclaimed talent and IP. She recently moved from Fiery Angel, an award winning international production company based in London’s West End. 

 

Selected credits include: 

 

As Producer - Breeding (King’s Head Theatre, produced with Seabright Live in association with Mark Gatiss); Agatha (Theatre503); 1902 (Union Theatre, UK Tour); Blackout (Theatre503, Old Joint Stock); Bits ‘N’ Pieces (Leith Arches); The Great Gatsby (UK Tour); Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves (UK Tour); The Railway Children (UK Tour); Doctor Dolittle (UK Tour).

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As Associate/Trainee Producer – The 39 Steps (Trafalgar Theatre, UK Tour); Starry (London Workshop, The Other Palace); And Then There Were None (UK & China Tour); Murder on the Orient Express (UK Tour); Rob Brydon: An Evening of Songs & Laughter (Lyceum Theatre, UK Tour); Amy Dowden & Carlos Gu: Reborn (Adelphi Theatre, UK Tour); Everybody Dance with Claire Richards (London Palladium, UK Tour).

 

With a commitment to innovative storytelling and experience across diverse production formats, Gabbie combines creative vision with commercial savvy. She is also a recipient of the prestigious Stage One Bursary, a mentor for Westminster City Lions, and on the Board of the League of Independent Producers.

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Chris (he/him) is the Adaptor of the 2026 Alfresco Actors' production of 'Around the World in 80 Days'.

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Chris Fung is an East Asian Migrant playwright and performer with West End credits. Originally from Sydney, Australia, Chris is a qualified teacher, holds 4 degrees in music and performance, and runs a private singing studio for professional singers. Chris is the Artistic Director of Fun Guy Theatre, and of Camino Meets. He is a graduate of the Musical Theatre program at the QAEMT under Paul Sabey, and is represented by Kristian Evans at Carlton West Artists.

 

Selected credits include:

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As Writer - The Society for New Cuisine dir. Rupert Hands (EdFringe ‘23, Omnibus’25, Chichester Festival/UK Tour ‘27); Global Majority dir. Rupert Hands debut run in London TBA ‘26; Frank and Jen - in development.

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As Performer - The Society for New Cuisine (EdFringe/Omnibus); Your Lie in April (West End); Frozen (West End); Cyrano De Bergerac (West End); Evita (Regent's Park); The King and I (Australian Tour).

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Schemes and Awards include - Offies Assessor’s Choice 2025, 5 Fringe Theatre Award Nominations, OffFest Best Solo Show Nom 2023 (for The Society for New Cuisine); Tony Craze Award Winner 2025 (for Frank and Jen); Rafia Hussain Productions Early Commission (for Frank and Jen); The Ilfeld Prize Shortlist 2026 (for Global Majority); Criterion Theatre New Writing Program; Affiliate Playwright Pint-Sized Theatre; Pentabus Jerwood Associate Longlist; Soho Theatre Writers Lab; New Earth Theatre Writers; ATG Surrey Musical Theatre Program; Junior Member - League of Independent Producers.

Tara (she/her) is the Director of the 2026 Alfresco Actors' production of 'Around the World in 80 Days'.

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Tara is a director and facilitator from South London. Immediately after graduating with an MA in Directing with Distinction from Mountview, she directed the social media smash hit musical Diary of a Gay Disaster at the King's Head, a show that later went on to win the WhatsOnStage Award for Best Studio Production.

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She has been workshopping new plays and musicals for the last three years, including Bollywood Rose by Ajay and Sumerah Srinistav, Worn Out by Zoë Morris and Meg McGrady for BYMT, Between The Sheets by Joel Priest, and others that have gone on to professional productions.

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Selected credits include:

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As Director: The Gardening Club at the New Wimbledon Theatre; The Musical Medea Upstairs at the Gatehouse; Spring Awakening at Phoenix Arts Club; and Strings at the Lion & Unicorn Theatre.

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As Assistant/Associate Director: Dick Whittington and his Catford Cat (Broadway Theatre Catford); Floella Benjamin's Coming To England (UK tour); Songs for a New World (Upstairs at The Gatehouse); Batboy and Bare (London Palladium); and Close Enough To Touch (Theatre503).

Tom (he/him) is the Composer and Musical Director of the 2026 Alfresco Actors' production of Around the World in 80 Days.

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Tom is an Offie Award-Nominated Musical Director, Orchestrator, Composer and Writer. He is also an unhealthily obsessive fan of the 2004 movie adaptation of Around the World In 80 Days starring Steve Coogan and Jackie Chan.

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Selected credits include: 

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As a Composer and Writer: Sense and Sensibility (British Youth Music Theatre, 2025), The House of Edgar (Seven Dials Playhouse, 2024).

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As a Musical Director and Orchestrator: The Musical Medea (Upstairs at the Gatehouse, 2025), Jack and the Beanstalk (Lichfield Garrick, 2024), A Song of Songs (Finsbury Park Theatre, 2024), Beauty and the Beast (Lichfield Garrick, 2023), My Fair Lady (Frinton Summer Theatre, 2023), Robin Hood (Exeter Northcott, 2022).

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Tom is also the resident Musical Director of The Crazy Coqs Presents and Mickey Jo Theatre Live!. He is the Musical Director on the Musical Theatre performance course at the University of Winchester.

Damien (he/him) is the Set & Costume Designer of the 2026 Alfresco Actors' production of Around the World in 80 Days.

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Damien is a London-based designer working across performance, events, installations and experiences. He was Set Designer on Brainiac Live at the Marylebone Theatre, which won the 2025 Olivier Award for Best Family Show.

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Recent design credits include: Aggy (Park Theatre); Tell Me Straight (Park Theatre); Jamie Allan’s Amaze (New World Stages, Off-Broadway & Criterion Theatre, West End); Once Upon a Time in Key West (Rose Bruford); Invasive Species (King’s Head Theatre); Bury The Hatchet (Pleasance Queen Dome); Amélie (ArtsEd); Machinal (Mountview); Concord Floral and Borders of Paradise (LAMDA); Transport Explorers (London Transport Museum); The Acts (Barbican); Wonderland in Alice (Octagon Theatre); Brainiac Live (Marylebone Theatre & Dubai Opera House); Spectrum Roundel Installation (Transport for London); Stephen Mulhern – Beyond Belief (UK Tour); Paddington™ LoComotion (Blenheim Palace) and Peter Rabbit™ Easter Adventure (Covent Garden).

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Associate design credits include: The Yellow Wallpaper (Sadler’s Wells & Czech National Theatre) and Lisbon Floor (Copenhagen Opera Festival).

Marina (she/her) is the Movement Director of the 2026 Alfresco Actors' production of Around the World in 80 Days.

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Marina is a professional dancer, teacher and creative, originally from Barcelona. She trained as a dancer while studying Primary Education and Special Needs at the University of Barcelona.

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Her dance credits include : Theatre Dance Lab Ensemble (Regents Park Open Air, London, 2025); Woodhill ( Uk Tour, 2023); Wonderland in Alice (London, 2023); Pumpkin Lab (Wales, 2022); the film Tara vs Vilal (Netflix, London, 2021), The Greatest Dancer (2019); and the dance show IDENTITY (Edinburgh Fringe, Turbine Theatre and Theatre Peckham 2019 & 2020).

 

Her creative credits include: Jasper in Deadland (Choreographer, Artsed, 2026); Àmelie (Associate Choreographer, Artsed, 2025); Sense & Sensibility (Choreographer, BYMT, 2025); Alice by Heart (Choreographer, Artsed, 2025); 'Sister Act’ (Associate Choreographer, Artsed, 2025); Alice in Wonderland (Associate choreographer, BYMT, 2024); Rent (Associate choreographer, 2024); A Chorus Line (Associate choreographer, 2023); Merrily We Roll Along (Assistant choreographer, 2022) and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Assistant choreographer, 2022). 

 

She is thrilled to bring this amazing story into different open air theatres around the country and to work with this amazing creative team and company. 

Oliver (he/him) is the Adaptor & Director of the 2026 Alfresco Actors' production of Jeeves and Wooster in 'Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves'.

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Oliver is a graduate of The Royal Academy of Music, MA in Musical Theatre and Durham University, BA in English Literature. He is currently performing in ‘Oh Mary!' at Trafalgar Theatre as part of the Original West End cast.

 

Selected credits include:

 

Cabaret at The Kit Kat Club (ATG); The Great Gatsby (Tethered Wits), which was nominated for an Offie; Don’t Say Macbeth and Sex With Friends - And Other Tiny Catastrophes (GOYA), both of which were nominated for Best Musical at the Musical Theatre Review Awards; Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends: A Celebration (Cameron Mackintosh/Sondheim Theatre); and Maria Friedman & Friends (Sonia Friedman Prods/Menier Chocolate Factory).

Jonathan (he/him) is the Composer & Musical Director of the 2026 Alfresco Actors' production of Jeeves and Wooster in 'Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves' and 'Kaspar: Prince of Cats'.

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Jonathan graduated as an actor from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, and has since performed in a range of theatrical productions. Jonathan is a multi-instrumentalist, playing the piano, guitar, trombone, and is currently fine tuning his harmonica skills. He is also a composer, and has performed his own songs for Anthroplay Theatre’s Femme Night, and is currently writing a musical.

 

Selected credits include:

 

Robin Hood (Applecart Arts), The Great Gatsby / Dr Dolittle (Tethered Wits), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Young Shakespeare Company), and Much Ado About Murder / Twelfth Night (Heartbreak Productions). ​

Lynne (she/her) is the Adaptor & Director of the 2026 Alfresco Actors' production of 'Kaspar: Prince of Cats'.

 

Lynne (BA Hons English Literature) was Director of Drama at Dean Close School, Cheltenham and LAMDA teacher for 20 years.

 

Selected credits include:

 

As Director - Our Town, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Private Peaceful, The Tempest, The Wind in the Willows, Aladdin, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat, The Wizard of Oz, Annie, Beauty and the Beast, The Jungle Book, Dahl’s Diabolical Dramatic Dilemmas, Oliver!, Honk!, Archie Dobson’s War, Godspell, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Bugsy Malone, Imaginary, Shakespeare on Trial.

 

As Adaptor - Elephant in the Garden and The Railway Children for Tethered Wits Theatre Company.​

Layla (she/her) is the Puppetry Designer of the 2026 Alfresco Actors' production of 'Kaspar: Prince of Cats'.

 

Layla is a Designer & Theatre-maker. She trained at Central St Martins and has since worked as an Art Director for BBC Studios, and as Associate Designer for Dorsetborn Theatre. In 2024, Layla was the recipient of the prestigious MGC Futures Bursary and the Boost Bursary from Eastern Angles. She was previously a Catapult Artist at Polka Theatre and a Creative Associate for Jermyn Street Theatre. Layla is excited to work on her first project with Alfresco Actors.

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Selected credits include:

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Theatre includes - Last Rose of Summer (MAST Studios), Sophia (Eastern Angles), Lessons from Teacher X, Fort, A Shipwreck Story, Georgia & the Iceberg (Dorsetborn), The Misbehaving Letters (Polka), Right of Way (Salthouse Arts), Regeneration (Brockley Jack).

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Recent screen includes - Casualty (BBC Studios), Away with the Fairies, Dancing with Dracula, Wink (BBC New Creatives) and I’m not in Love.

Tom (he/him) is an actor in the 2026 Alfresco Actors' productions of 'Around the World in 80 Days' and 'Kaspar: Prince of Cats'.

 

Tom Crabtree is a performer who trained on the esteemed actor-musician course at Rose Bruford College. Musically, Tom specialises in singing and brass playing.
 

Credits include: Oh What a Lovely War! (60th Anniversary Tour – Black-Eyed
Theatre), History Riot’s Spirit of Christmas (Tower of London), Too Much Too Young (UK tour), Juggernaught (Barons Court), Seussical the Musical (Greenwich
Theatre). 

Tali (she/her) is an actor in the 2026 Alfresco Actors' productions of 'Around the World in 80 Days' and 'Kaspar: Prince of Cats'.

 

Tali Nishihara Jones is a multidisciplinary actor-musician. She trained in vocal studies at Trinity Laban. Her work as a singer, violinist and pianist has spread across multiple genres in projects around the UK. She was a member of the 2025 New Earth Theatre Performance Academy. As a choral scholar at St Martin-in-the-Fields, she has worked with leading classical music ensembles and recorded for BBC Radio 3.

She is currently working as a lead performer in an experimental, deconstructed opera project, ‘Prometheus Rising', to be performed at Raleigh Chapel, Stoke Newington, this spring.

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As a composer, her music has been used as part of productions in Lambeth and Brighton Fringe Festivals and New Earth Theatre’s Twisted Roots Festival.

Felix (he/him) is an actor in the 2026 Alfresco Actors' productions of 'Around the World in 80 Days' and 'Kaspar: Prince of Cats'.

 

Felix trained at The Brit School .

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Theatre includes: Medea The Musical ( Upstairs At The Gatehouse),  Aladdin (Ramsgate Granville Theatre), She Said The F Word (Tete A Tete Opera Festival London), Amahl And The Night Visitors (Brampton Opera), Oliver (Frinton Summer Theatre) .

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Radio: This Is Your Country Now Jack ( BBC Radio 4).

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TV: The Crown (Netflix) , Music video “For The Brotherhood”.

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Composition: Felix wrote the score for ‘A Word For Mother ‘ by Tim McArthur which played at The Gatehouse Spring 2024. He wrote the title song for the one man show ‘From Drugs To Drag’ at Above The Stag and he is currently composing the score to children’s show ‘Monty And Mirabella’ touring 2027

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Felix plays accordian, piano, mandolin, bass …. and the fool, all to professional level! He plays keys/vocal for PR4 a fusion world music funk band. 

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Lucy (she/her) is an actor in the 2026 Alfresco Actors' productions of 'Around the World in 80 Days' and 'Kaspar: Prince of Cats'.

 

Lucy is an actor, writer and theatre-maker from the East Midlands. She trained at Mountview, where her credits included Let the Right One In (Eli) and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Helena).

 

Other theatre credits include A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Titania, UK tour), All’s Well That Ends Well (Helena, UK tour), Lord of the Flies (Maurice, Gala Durham), and 3 Billion Seconds (Daisy, Backstage Theatre).

Lucy is an Associate Artist with Silly Billy and also works as a movement facilitator. Her debut short film as writer and performer, The Taste of Salt, is due for release this summer.

Shaun (he/him) is an actor in the 2026 Alfresco Actors' production of Jeeves & Wooster in 'Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves'.

 

An ex-professional ballet dancer, then trained at LAMDA, Shaun’s previous theatre credits include Alonzo and Munjojerrie in CATS The Musical (RCCL), Stick Man in Stick Man Live (Lowry and Bloomsbury Theatre), Benvolio in Romeo & Juliet (ballet tour), and Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (ballet tour).

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Shaun is a prominent voice actor, and has appeared in BAFTA-winning projects, including Scratch in Baldur’s Gate 3, Caelus (protagonist) in Honkai: Star Rail, and Calyx (antagonist) in Final Fantasy 14, as well as Fortnite, Crimson Desert, and Wuthering Waves.

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Other notable work includes BFI short Plaggy Bag, Netflix’s Nero (English dub), Joffrey in Netflix’s anime Love Through a Prism, and pranking Bradley Walsh in Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway!

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He also wrote/directed The Jacket (BBC4), The Guest (Southwark Playhouse), and produced audio series Cloud 9, released 2026.

Shaun is delighted to be performing with Alfresco Actors, tooting his flute in his first Actor-Muso role!

Chioma (she/her) is an actor in the 2026 Alfresco Actors' production of Jeeves & Wooster in 'Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves'.

Shortlisted for the Evening Standard and TikTok Future Musical Theatre Fund, Chioma Uma is a Rose Bruford College graduate with a degree in Actor Musicianship. Additionally, Chioma has composed and musically directed for theatre in the past, co-commissioned to compose for Ockham’s Razor’s This Time (2019).

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Recent credits include: Little Shop of Horrors (Derby Theatre); 101 Dalmatians (Hammersmith Apollo); A Knight’s Tale: The Musical (World Premiere, Manchester Opera House); Once: In Concert (International Tour); Oh What A Lovely War (60th Anniversary UK Tour); Brief Encounter (UK Tour); The Witcher S3 Maze Experience (Netflix); Doctor Who: Time Fracture (BBC); Dirty Dancing (Secret Cinema); Kiss Me Kate, Camelot, Othello (Watermill Theatre); The Panto That Nearly Never Was, Robin Hood, Mother Goose, Cinderella (Theatr Clwyd); The Nornen Project (Site-Specific); Alice in Wonderland (Derby Theatre).

Scott (he/him) is an actor in the 2026 Alfresco Actors' production of Jeeves & Wooster in 'Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves'.

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Scott Slocombe is an actor, musician, writer and composer from South East London. He trained in Actor-Musicianship at Mountview and graduated in 2024. In the past year he has been performing in the original cast of Elvis Evolution at Scotty Moore. In 2025 Scott founded SLEAZE Theatre, a company dedicated to creating original actor-musician work with a punk rock n' roll ethos. They are currently developing their first production called Six Kinds of Wednesday.

Lowenna (she/her) is an actor in the 2026 Alfresco Actors' production of Jeeves & Wooster in 'Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves'.

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Training: Guildford School of Acting 

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Lowenna is a Cornish Actor Musician who is thrilled to be joining Alfresco Actors this Summer. She would like to thank her friends and family for all the continued love and support!  
 
Credits include: The Polar Express (Twisted Reality Productions), Yours Sincerely (Living Portrait Productions), Richard III (Kernow Chamber Players), Butterbum J (Stargaze Theatre at the Edinburgh Fringe.)