Darren is a leading stage and screen actor, who has an extensive career in the West End and in theatres across the UK .

West End credits: Vince Fontaine in Grease (Dominion Theatre) and Alternate/Cover Lawrence and Andre in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Savoy Theatre). Darren also appeared in the role of Christopher Wren in the 39th year cast of The Mousetrap at the St Martins Theatre.

National Tours include: Caractacus Potts in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Byron Mayo in An Officer And A Gentlemen, Bobby Child in Crazy For You, Don Lockwood in Singin’ In The Rain, Billy Lawlor in 42nd Street, Spring in Hot Shoe Shuffle, Riff in West Side Story, Steve in Summer Holiday, Rum Tum Tugger in Cats, Glitterboy in Hot Stuff, Wayne/Rock Hard in Hold Tight It’s 60’s Night, Gideon in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and Pierre in The Boyfriend.

Other theatre includes:  Pat Denning in 42nd Street (Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris), Karl Lindner in A Raisin in the Sun, Lieutenant Shrank in West Side Story, Fezziwig in Scrooge, Lane & Merriman in The Importance of Being Earnest and Callahan in Legally Blonde (all for Curve Leicester), Abanazar in Aladdin (O2), Ivor Novello in Two Most Perfect Things (Riverside Studios), Joe Josephson in Merrily We Roll Along (Theatre Clywd), Rooster in Annie (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Gary Strong in Radio Times At (Watermill, Newbury),  Feste in Twelfth Night, Max in Lend Me A Tenor, Cheviot Hill in Engaged, Bill Snibson in Me and My Girl (Perth Theatre, Scotland), Frederic in Pirates of Penzance (The Barn Theatre, Brighton), Valentine in You Never Can Tell, Dan in Night Must Fall, Jan Warwick in The Unexpected Guest, Seymour in Little Shop Of Horrors, Gary in A Slice of Saturday Night (Mercury Theatre, Colchester), Don Lockwood in Singin’ In The Rain (Courtyard Theatre, Hereford), Company in Fiddler On The Roof (West Yorkshire Playhouse), The Serpent in Back To Methuselah, Lexy Mill in Candida, Squarcio in The Foundling and Tombes in The Twelve Pound Look (Shaw’s Corner, Ayot St Lawrence).

Film & TV: Better Man directed by Michael Gracey (Saban Films), The Sound of Music Live directed by Coky Giedroyc (ITV1) and Cinderella with Camila Cabello (Columbia Pictures/Amazon Prime).

Workshops include: Armitage in Love Birds, King Connelly in Build Me Up Buttercup (Dominion Studio), Man in Longer Than It Takes To Say Goodbye, Boromir/Company in Lord Of The Rings, Mr Gault in Whatever Happened To Baby Jane and Gene Kelly in Ol’ Blue Eyes.

Instagram: @darrenbennettactor

Lauren Drew is from South Wales, Port Talbot, and trained at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts. 

Her theatre credits include; Lizzie Borden in Lizzie the Musical (Hope Mill Theatre and Southwark Playhouse), Fantine in Les Misérables (UK Tour), Brooke Wyndham in Legally Blonde (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), Catherine of Aragon in SIX the Musical (UK Tour), Cover Eva Peron in Evita (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), Suzanne in Sweet Charity (Donmar Warehouse), Cover Heather Chandler / Heather Duke in Heathers the Musical Original Cast (The Other Palace and Theatre Royal Haymarket), Cover Nicola in Kinky Boots (Adelphi Theatre), Cover Molly in Ghost the Musical (UK Tour).

Lauren won the 2023 WhatsonStage Award for Best Supporting Performer in a Musical for her performance as Brooke Wyndham in Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre revival of Legally Blonde. She also won the 2024 Broadway World Award for Best Leading Performer in a Musical for her performance as Lizzie Borden in Lizzie the Musical.

Lauren competed in “The Voice UK” in 2021 where she made it to the semi-finals.

Jordan recently filmed indie Alchemy of the Word and has recently been seen as a series regular in new Sky series “Royal Kill List” alongside Jared Harris and Joseph Fiennes. Jordan has also recently penned a new musical Redcliffe, which is currently in development. 

A leading man on London’s West End, Jordan recently led two sold out concert events at the London Palladium: Bare the Musical and Batboy. Jordan originated the role of Romeo in Luke Sheppard’s & Juliet; he then followed this by originating the titular role of Clyde Barrow in the gangster musical Bonnie & Clyde in London’s West End for two West End runs at the Arts Theatre and the Garrick Theatre.

After making his West End stage debut as Strat in the Meatloaf inspired Bat out of Hell at London’s Dominion Theatre, Jordan starred as Jason ‘J.D.’ Dean in Heathers: the Musical (Theatre Royal Haymarket London), The Pride with Omari Douglas (Fortune Theatre) and played Fabrizio Naccarelli in a staged concert version of The Light in the Piazza at Alexandra Palace.

On screen, Jordan’s credits include Cilla (ITV) and Cucumber (Channel 4), and the feature film How Not To Disappear Completely. He has also just appeared as a lead in the hotly anticipated workshop of Thelma & Louise. 

Stephen is well known as the over-the-top Derrick in “Happy Endings” (ABC), Sully in Jim Carrey’s drama “I’m Dying Up Here” (Showtime,) as well as his 3 time Emmy-nominated performance as Quincy in the Netflix dramedy “EastSiders.” He has appeared in over 60 TV shows and films including as a supe on this year’s “Gen V” (Amazon), “Bookie” (HBO), “Running Point” (Max), and the animation “Florida & Dang” (Netflix). 

Other highlights include: “Sex Lives of College Girls” (HBO), “This Is Us” (NBC), “Kenan” (NBC), “The Goldbergs” (ABC), “Dr. Ken” (ABC), “2 Broke Girls” (CBS), “The Comeback” (HBO), “Big Gay Sketch Show” (MTV), “BearCity” (OutFest Award), and the upcoming feature films Nuked with Anna Camp and Reagan opposite Dennis Quaid.

Off Broadway credits include: Around The World in 80 Days, The Awesome 80s Prom, Kenny’s Tavern and co-created the cult hit improvised musical The Nuclear Family.

Regional credits: TITANÍQUE (LA), Title of Show, Handjob. 

He was a recipient of the CBS Diversity Talent Deal and served as the director of the showcase for 3 years. With CBS he produced a sketch comedy series starring Tiffany Haddish as well as directed SNL’s Kate McKinnon’s one woman show. Stephen is a graduate of FSU and The Public Theatre’s Shakespeare Lab.

Theatre credits include: Alfie Boe & Friends (Tokyo Theatre Orb), Sondheim’s Old Friends (Sondheim Theatre & Universal), South Pacific (Chichester Festival Theatre, Sadlers Wells & UK Tour), Marry Me A Little (The Barn Theatre), City of Angels (Garrick Theatre), The Light in the Piazza (Royal Festival Hall, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles and Lyric Opera, Chicago), Les Misérables All Star Concert (Gielgud Theatre), Eugenius! (The Other Palace), Broken Wings (Theatre Royal Haymarket), Les Misérables 30th Anniversary (Japan), Titanic (Charing Cross Theatre), Les Misérables (Queen’s Theatre), The 12 Tenors (World Wide Events), Godspell in Concert (The Lyric Theatre), Candide in Concert (Cadogan Hall), Peter Pan (Harlow Playhouse). 

Television/Film credits include: ‘Tony’ in “West Side Stories: The Making of a Classic” (BBC), “Les Misérables The All Star Concert” (Universal). 

Rob’s original music can be found on all major streaming platforms. 

Twitter & Instagram: @robhouchen

Kat is Glaswegian actor who trained at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts. 

Theatre includes: Rose in Hex (National Theatre) and Laertes in Hamlet (National Theatre) 

Workshops includes: Hex (National Theatre) and The Throwaways (Colour & Light Productions)

Film includes: CC Emily (Working Title)

Television includes: “Karen Pirie” (ITV), “Dinosaur” (Two Brothers/BBC3/Hulu), “Casualty” (BBC), “Royal Mob” (Sky), “Unfair” (All4), “Rebel Cheer Squad” (Netflix) and “McDonald & Dodds” (Mammoth Screen/ITV)

Short Film includes: Congratis (Sixteen Films), Hot Young Geek Seeks Blood-Sucking Freak (Flower Punk Films), Muse (NFTS) and Mute Milton (NFTS) 

She is thrilled to be making her West End debut as Rose in TITANÍQUE.

Charlotte made her West End debut starring in Spring Awakening (Lyric Hammersmith / Novello Theatre). Most recently Charlotte has starred in The Great British Bake Off the Musical at the Noel Coward Theatre, The Boy in the Dress (RSC), The Dreamers Abbey Road Studios, Crazy For You (UK Tour) as Polly Baker, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang as Truly Scrumptious, The Herbal Bed (Royal & Derngate / No.1 Tour), Monsieur Popular (Theatre Royal Bath), and the UK Tour of Oklahoma. She played Maria in The Sound of Music at Regent’s Park Theatre. Charlotte played Sophie in the West End and toured in the international Production of Mamma Mia! Other theatre credits include Juliet in Such Tweet Sorrow (RSC), Child in Merlin, and Mowgli in The Jungle Book (Chester Gateway Theatre).

Charlotte’s film and television appearances include May in An Angel for May (Portman Films), Lost In Austin (Hallmark), Cassie Turner in “Waterloo Road” (BBC), Ruby Heddon in “The Royal” (Yorkshire Television), Jess Swift in “Occupation” (BBC), “Leap of Faith” (BBC) and the semi-regular role of Holly Cullen in “Holby City” (BBC).

Charlotte has been nominated twice for Best Actress In A Musical – Olivier Awards 2010 for Spring Awakening and 2014 for The Sound Of Music. 

Layton Williams was born in Bury, Manchester and he began his career at the age of 12 playing the title role of Billy in the West End production of Billy Elliot. He made his debut TV appearance as Kylie in the BBC comedy “Beautiful People.” He went on to train at Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts which was documented on CBBC’s “School for Stars.”

Most recently, Layton was seen on the West End playing the Emcee in London’s seven-time Olivier Award winning Cabaret, for which he has since received 2 Black British Theatre Award nominations. 

Earlier this year he also toured his dance extravaganza, Layton & Nikita: Live with Strictly Come Dancing partner Nikita Kuzmin, after wowing audiences and becoming a finalist on the show in 2023.

He has also recently been seen reprising his iconic role of Stephen in “Bad Education” on BBC One and as the narrator of hit BBC Three LGBTQ+ dating show, “I Kissed A Boy.” Other recent TV roles include parts in Billie Piper’s BAFTA-nominated “I Hate Suzie,” Greg Davies’ “The Cleaner,” Johnny Vegas’s “Murder, They Hope” and ITV’s popular “Benidorm.”

Other theatre credits include Jamie in Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (Apollo Theatre, UK/international tour); Paul in Kiss Me Kate (Sheffield Crucible); Seaweed in Hairspray! (2018 UK Tour); Angel in RENT (London/UK Tour); The Car Man (Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures); Simon in The Lord of the Flies (Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures) and Young Michael in Thriller Live! (West End).

Film credits include Rocketman; The Bad Education Movie; Everybody’s Talking About Jamie 

Layton is the director of ‘Pros from The Shows’ which provides high quality workshops for young performers. They have reached thousands of students across the country hoping to inspire the next generation and nurture talent. 

A regular supporter of the charities Stonewall and Ditch the Label, Layton regularly visits schools and makes speeches at events to raise awareness of LGBTQIA+ issues and bullying. Layton recently won the Culture Award at this year’s Attitude Awards, having also picked up the LGBTQIA+ Champion Award at the Black British Theatre Awards in 2020. 

Training: London School of Musical Theatre

Freddie played Jason ‘JD’ Dean in the West End production of Heathers – The Musical at The Other Palace.

Theatre credits include: Prince Devin in Bliss – The Musical for ATG/Dominion Theatre, Henrik in A Little Night Music (Opera Holland Park), The Danish Girl (Workshop), Henry in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (The Union Theatre), Fender in Hairspray, Gilbert in Betty Blue Eyes and Seymour in Little Shop of Horrors all for Grange Park Opera.

Other credits: The Light in the Piazza (Quick Fantastic), Pride at the Palace (Palace Theatre), Harry in Pieces of String (Workshop), Peter in Peter Pan, Otto in Grand Hotel (LSMT), Matthew Bourne’s Edward Scissorhands for New Adventures and Farmer in Oklahoma! for John Wilson’s Sinfonia of London. Freddie also appeared in the WhatsOnStage Awards – Jerry Herman Tribute.

Twitter/Instagram: @freddieking_

Training: London Studio Centre

Credits include: Sherrie / Janis Jopin in Sixties Girls (Capital Theater, Dusseldorf), Lead Vocalist in Marquee / Once Upon A Time (Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines), Vocalist for George Michael by Candlelight, Vocalist / Cover for Twist and Shout – Theatre Tour, Vocalist in Rock Goddess (P&O Ventura), Lead Vocalist for MSC Bellissima (Carousel Productions), Amelia Parker in Stop The Show (Hundred Acre Productions).

Training: Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts

Theatre Credits include: Princess Carmella in Bliss The Musical (Workshop), Pageant Rosemary in Miss Wales (Workshop), Tina Turner in We Will Rock You (London Coliseum), Fairy Godmother in Cinderella (Imagine), Ensemble in Saving Grace (Riverside Studios), Kinky Boots The Musical, Concert (Theatre Royal Drury Lane), Princess Diana in Tony! The Musical (Park Theatre) written by Harry Hill and Steve Brown, Martha in Heathers the Musical (West End), Ugandan Ensemble in The Book of Mormon (West End) and Rafiki in Mickey and the Magician Original Cast (Disneyland Paris).

Training: Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts

Theatre credits include: Understudy Hans in Frozen (Theatre Royal Drury Lane), Dick McGann In Street Scene (Opera North), Evita (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), Tina: The Tina Turner Musical – original West End cast (Aldwych Theatre), Understudy General in The Book of Mormon (Prince of Wales Theatre), Prince Richard in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Hoxton Hall), Branom/Marty in A Clockwork Orange (Norway tour), Avis White – Oresteia III: Eumenides (Camden People’s Theatre), Americana, Facehunters (Edinburgh Festival Fringe).

Television Credits include: Chad in “Patterns” Series 2 (Amazon Prime).

Training: Montclair State University 

Theatre includes: Female Swing/Dance Captain in Titanique (Off Broadway), Regina Kuntz in Rock of Ages 10th Anniversary (US National Tour), Mary Delgado in Jersey Boys (White Plains), Katherine Plumber in Newsies (Forestburgh Playhouse), Olive Ostrovsky in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Studio Playhouse), Cindy Lou in Marvellous Wonderettes: Dream On (Millbrook Playhouse), Kim MacAfee in Bye Bye Birdie (Forestburgh Playhouse), Ginnette/Sandrine/Hope/Deena in Almost Maine (New London Barn Playhouse), Gretchen in Boeing Boeing (New London Barn Playhouse), Swing in Six (Norwegian Cruise Lines) and Rusty Rehearsal Swing in Footloose (Norwegian Cruise Lines).

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