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Bear Trap and Kosky Productions in association with Park Theatre present the World Premiere of
A Pupil
SIMONA I FLORA SPENCER-LONGHURST
YE I LUCY SHEEN
MARY I MELANIE MARSHALL
PHYLLIDA I CAROLYN BACKHOUSE
Simona | Flora Spencer-Longhurst
Theatre Includes: The Real Thing (Rose Theatre Kingston & UK tour), Much Ado About Nothing, Love’s Labour Lost and A Christmas Truce (RSC), Titus Andronicus (Globe Theatre), Once (Phoenix Theatre, London), The Importance of Being Earnest- The Musical (Riverside Studios & Theatre Royal Windsor), Wonderland (Riverside Studios & Assembly Rooms Edinburgh), Ghosts (Young Vic), The Beggar’s Opera (Regent’s Park), A Christmas Carol (King’s Head), Girl With a Pearl Earring (Theatre Royal Haymarket), The Children’s Hour (Royal Exchange Theatre), The Member of the Wedding (Young Vic).
TV and Film includes: Oasis (Amazon), The Bastard Executioner (FOX 21), Midsomer Murders (ITV), Father Brown (BBC), Leonardo (CBBC) Unforgiven (ITV), Wallander: One Step Behind (BBC), The Real Deal (BBC), Losing It (ITV), The Family Man (BBC), Lewis (ITV), Dalziel and Pascoe (BBC). Recession (Porcupine Pictures), Walking with the Enemy (Liberty Studios).
Ye | Lucy Sheen
Lucy Sheen trained at The Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama, one of the first if not the first British-Chinese actress to be accepted into a recognised UK adult drama school, graduating with a BA in Theatre Arts.
Lucy’s first theatre job in 1986, Russell Hoban’s Riddley Walker (The Royal Exchange). Followed by Portia in Julius Caesar At BOV directed by Roger Rees. Recent stage work includes Snow in Midsummer (RSC), The Scar Test (Soho Theatre).
TV includes EastEnders (BBC), Julia Davis’ black comedy Nighty Night, more recently Call The Midwife (BBC) and Casualty (BBC).
Films Include: British feature film PING PONG directed by Po Chi’h Leong. The first British feature film to explore the complex issues of the British-Chinese community. Mike Leigh’s Secrets & Lies (1995), Luca Barbareschi’s The Mercury Incident: Something Good(2013).
Lucy is also a published playwright, poet and author
Mary I Melanie Marshall
Theatre includes: Bertha in Jane Eyre (Bristol Old Vic; NT & International Tour 2016; UK Tour 2017); General Cartwright in Guys & Dolls (UK Tour; Manchester Royal Exchange Theatre); Muna in The Infidel (Theatre Royal Stratford East); Vocalist in Monty Python Live at the O2 & NT 50th Anniversary (National Theatre); Funmilayo in FELA! (National Theatre, Broadway & World Tour); The Mikado in Hot Mikado (Watermill Theatre / UK Tour); Cindy Lou in Carmen Jones (Sheffield Crucible Theatre / Old Vic Theatre); Rent Party (Stratford East); Kiss Me Kate (Old Vic and Savoy Theatre); Ain’t Misbehavin’ (Tricycle Theatre / Lyric Theatre West End); Bayo in Any Which Way (Directed by Maggie Norris); Maria in Porgy and Bess (Glyndebourne & Savoy Theatre); Miss Sherman in Fame (Aldwych Theatre); Featured Vocalist in Elsa Canesta & L’Eveil (Rambert Dance Co.); The Diva in The Fat Lady Sings (Kit & The Widow, UK & International Tour); Madam Butler & Miss Mamie in Simply Heavenly (Young Vic & Trafalgar Studios).
TV and Film includes: Florence Foster Jenkins; Grace Draper in Cuffs (BBC One); Soloist in Wide Sargasso Sea (Kudos); Susan Hibert in Casualty (BBC Television); Vocal Soloist for Songs of Praise (BBC Television); Featured Singer in Alice in Wonderland (B.S Films).
Recording includes: Clement Ishmael’s Poetry in Song, Featured vocalist for Feel The Spirit, A Christmas Festival, Messiah and Distant Land, all conducted by John Rutter (Collegium Records), and her solo jazz album Cocktail.
Concerts includes: The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by John Rutter, Guest soloist with the Halle Orchestra, The Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, and all of the BBC orchestras. Melanie also performed Feel The Spirit & Distant Land at New York’s Carnegie Hall.
Phyllida | Carolyn Backhouse
Theatre includes: Storm in a Flower Vase (Arts Theatre), A Busy Day (Lyric, West End), Hobson’s Choice (Lyric, West End) The Magistrate (The Savoy Theatre), A Dream of People, The Beaux’ Strategem, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (RSC), The Governess (Windsor and tour), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet (Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park), Windows, Notebook of Trigorin (Finborough), The Handyman, Mrs Warren’s Profession, Rebecca, Richard ll ,Richard lll, The Breadwinner, Naked Justice, Entertaining Angels, Hobson’s Choice (National tours) National Hero,(Edinburgh and tour), The Real Thing (Shanghai) Hobson’s Choice, Hay Fever, Miranda, Beethoven’s Tenth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Human Error and a double bill of Educating Rita and Oleanna (Chichester Festival Theatre). Larkin with Women, Leaving, Private View, Greenwash, How to be Happy, The Actor’s Nightmare (Orange Tree Theatre), A Kind of Alaska (Bristol Old Vic), Private Lives, Closer, Racing Demon, Absence of War, Murmuring Judges (Birmingham Rep), Hobson’s Choice, Larkin with Women (Stephen Joseph), Crash (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Ideal Husband, Pleasure and Repentance (Theatr Clwyd), Venus and Adonis (Orchard), Merchant of Venice, Colombe, The Crucible , Fallen Angels (Salisbury Playhouse).
Television and film includes: Brides in the Bath, Robin Hood, Scoop (Woody Allen), Orla’s Song, A Short Film About John Bolton (Neil Gaiman), Us and Them, Virgin and Martyr, Man Down, Hollyoaks, Rosemary and Thyme, Blue Murder, Midsommer Murders, Casualty, The Bill, Heroes and Villains, Jupiter Moon (series), Rides, Absent Friends, Doctors and Coronation Street.
Carolyn has worked extensively on the radio.