Julie Mayhew
Julie is an actor turned writer who still acts, mostly on BBC Radio 4 and at reading aloud events just like this one. Her debut novel Red Ink is on the 7-book shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award 2014 and her most recent radio drama A Shoebox Of Snow, in which she appeared opposite Richard Briers and Edna Dore, was nominated for a BBC Audio Drama Award. She’s currently writing a new play commission for BBC Radio 4, called The Electrical Venus, about the circus acts of the 18th Century.More at www.juliemayhew.co.uk.
Rose Scarborough - Production Manager
Liz Penny - Executive Producer
William Rycroft
William is also an experienced narrator of audio books recently recording If I Should Die for Penguin and The Way Inn for Harper Audio. His passion for books also extends to the book blog he has been writing for several years, Just William’s Luck. The blog is now a “vlog” so you can see him chatting about books on YouTube.
Richard Henders
Richard's theatre credits include 55 Days at Hampstead Theatre, The White Guard, The Cherry Orchard, Summerfolk, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Caroline or Change, The Merchant of Venice, Candide, Oh! What a Lovely War and Anything Goes all at the National Theatre. Pacific Overture (Olivier award Nomination) at the Donmar Warehouse.
Television credits include Holby City, Kingdom, The Inspector Lynley mysteries, The Chronicles of Narnia, Oranges are not the only fruit and Cadfael.
Richards is co- director of MTC which a musical theatre course, in Berkhamsted, for children and young people.
Claire's other Theatre credits include Cinderella at The Old Vic, The Prince of Fire, Greenwich Theatre and The Cinderella Hunt at BAC.
Claire currently co- directs (see Richard Henders!) MTCwhich is a musical theatre course for young people, based in Berkhamsted.
Will Harrison Wallace
This is Will's second appearance at The Berko Speakeasy.. His various stage work includes: Richard III (UK Tour); The Water Engine (Old Vic Tunnels); View from the Bridge (Broadway Theatre, Catford); Marriage (Brady Arts); Save Me (Union Theatre); A Respectable Wedding (Waterloo East Theatre); Peckham: The Soap Opera (Royal Court); A Woman of No Importance (Clandon Park); Merchant of Venice (The Cambria). He will soon be starting rehearsals for The Corruption of Dorian Gray (The Lion and Unicorn) playing Lord Henry Wotton and later in the Summer will be playing Baron Wildenhaim in Lovers' Vows in various theatres in Surrey.
He has played a number of diverse characters in several short films and will shortly be seen as J.Edgar Hoover in an adaptation of the Stephen King short story The Death of Jack Hamilton. His varied voice work includes Radio, Animation, Corporate voiceovers, Exhibitions and Narrations.
Will trained at ALRA (The Academy of Live and Recorded Arts).
Matt Rippy
Keith Drinkel
Keith Drinkel started his television work for Granada as Philip Ashton in A Family At War. Other television work has included the title role in The Higgler; Carter Brandon in two series of I Didn't Know You Cared and more recently in Casualty; EastEnders and Judge John Deed. Recent television performances were Bob, Liz Macdonald's dodgy boyfriend in Coronation Street, and Terry Kinney in Midsomer Murders. He guest-starred in an episode of Doctors which was seen last year.His stage work has included seasons at Chichester and with The Actors' Company. Favourite parts have included the title roles in Volpone and Cyrano de Bergerac (Salisbury); Claudius in Hamlet (Ipswich); Iago in Othello(Chester). In London he starred opposite Rula Lenska in Double Double at the Fortune Theatre; and opposite Joanne Whalley in Kate at the Bush.
Keith has worked extensively on radio and has been a member of the Radio Drama Company twice. His own adaptation of Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray as a one man stage performance has played successfully throughout England and at the 2009 Edinburgh Festival. He has played Laurence Olivier in a new play at the Old Red Lion, which he repeated on Radio 4 with Roy Hudd as Max Miller.
Jaz has performed in theatre: Snookered (Bush/Tamasha Theatre), Snow Queen (Unicorn/Trestle Arts), King Lear (Young Vic), Doctor Faustus (Present Moment) and Cymberline (NYT); in film: Cleanskin (UK Film Studio PLC), Halal Chai (Color Pictures); and on radio: Salman Tassar (BBC Radio 4). Jaz is a two times winner of the Triforce Promotions Monologue Slam.
Adam Loxley
Adam Loxley’scredits include: Mucky Kid / Theatre 503, Big Ask / Riverside Studios, Bush Bazaar / Bush Theatre. Adam has also featured in Lee Nelson's Well Good Show on BBC3 and is one third of This Glorious Monster a comedy group who have recently been commissioned to produce original comedy for Hatrick Productions and PIAS comedy.
Anna Savva
Adrian Scarborough
Adrian Scarborough lives in Berkhamsted. He is best known for his television appearances in Upstairs Downstairs, Gavin and Stacey and Mrs Biggs. Film roles include The Kings Speech and Vera Drake. No stranger to the stage, he won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Supporting Performance in 2011 for his role in After The Dance at the National Theatre.Ursula Campbell
Ursula Campbell is a Toronto-born, London-based Actor and Director. She is producer and co-founder of TRANSMISSION, a workshop for actors, writers and directors which runs weekly at PARK Theatre, London. Recent acting credits include That’s English (Spain), Generation Earth (BBC), The Rabbit Hole (Catnip, UK) and commercials for Colgate and Weight Watchers. She is also currently appearing as half of comedy duo CHINFINGER with Ben Green in venues across London. Directing credits include Shoe Horn by Aaron Anthony Wallace for The Theatre Breaks Festival and Things That Go Bump by Elizabeth Rutherford-Johnson for Little Pieces of Gold.John Lynn
Matt Rippy John Lynn trained at the Irish Films Actors Studio and works as both an actor and stand-up comedian. John has been invited to perform at the Montreal Just For Laughs festival and has appeared on RTE’s Liffey Laugh’s, BBC’s One Night Stand and TV3’s The Third Policeman’s Ball. He is also in the process of completing his first novel.