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James Seabright in association with Jason Haigh-Ellery and Park Theatre presents the Birmingham Rep production of

The Way Old Friends Do

By Ian Hallard

MIRIAM MARGOLYES | VOICE OF ‘NAN’ 
PAUL O'GRADY | VOICE OF THE ‘RADIO DJ’
ANTON TWEEDALE | UNDERSTUDY PETER / EDWARD 

TOBY HOLLOWAY | UNDERSTUDY CHRISTIAN / ASM
TARIYE PETERSIDE | UNDERSTUDY SALLY / MRS CAMPBELL / JODIE
 

Donna Berlin

Donna Berlin is an Actress, Choreographer and Movement Director. She started dancing at the age of 3 and her love of the performing arts grew when she later attended stage school. At the age of 11 she appeared in her first film, Pink Floyd’s The Wall, and since then she has never looked back. Donna’s theatre credits include The Clinic (Almeida), The Gift (Belgrade/UK Tour), Chasing Rainbows (Hoxton Hall), Princess and the Hustler (Bristol Old Vic/Hull Truck tour - nominated for ‘Best Supporting Actress’ at Broadway World Regional 2019 Awards), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Sheffield Crucible), The Chalk Garden (Chichester Festival), Great Apes (Arcola), Of Kith and Kin (Sheffield Crucible/ The Bush), Anna Karenina (Manchester Royal Exchange/WYP), Rolling Stone (Royal Exchange/WYP), Blood Wedding and The Bacchae (Royal & Derngate), Keeping Mum (Brockley Jack), Counted/Look Right Look Left (County Hall/ UK Tour), Puffins (Nabokov/ Southwark Playhouse), and The Vagina Monologues (Pleasance).

Donna’s television credits include Nolly, Doctors, Breeders, Requiem, Game Face, Eastenders, Todd Margaret, Drifters, Coronation Street, Hollyoaks, New Tricks, Extras - Series B, Lead Balloon, Casualty, Judge John Deed, and Beautiful People. Donna’s credits in feature films include In Darkness, Monochrome, Dinner With My Sisters, Press Your Lips (LFS short), Blinda (short). Donna’s choreography and movement direction credits include Dick Whittington (Nottingham Playhouse), Trouble in Mind (NT), Aladdin (Mercury), Waves and Attempts on Her Life (NT), and The Merry Widow and Carmen (Opera UK). Donna spent 6 years as Resident Choreographer at The Queens, Hornchurch and has done many in-house productions at LAMDA where she was a member of the movement department for over 30 years.

James Bradshaw

James trained at the Birmingham School of Acting and is perhaps best known in recent years for the role of Dr Max DeBryn in the popular and critically acclaimed series Endeavour. He is also remembered for playing Gordon Grimley in The Grimleys and DS Geoff Thorpe in Hollyoaks. James’ other television credits include Four Lives, Doctors, The Reluctant Landlord, Close To The Enemy, Lucan, Primeval IV, Eastenders, Garrow’s Law, Casualty, The Line Of Beauty, Heartbeat, Afternoon Play, Mile High, Afternoon Play, Mile High, In a Land Of Plenty, Longitude, and Oliver Twist. James’ film credits include The Car: Road To Revenge, Convenience, Brideshead Revisited, Minotaur, Irish Jam, Undefeated and Recompense.

James’ theatre credits include Heather Gardner (Birmingham Rep), Breakfast At Tiffany’s (Royal Haymarket), Plunder (Watermill/ Greenwich), The Hobbit (UK Tour), Violent Outing (Soho), The Wind In The Willows (Birmingham Rep), House and Garden (NT), and Terracotta (Hampstead).

James’ radio credits include What Hetty Did, The Rotter’s Club and Summer Of Love. James’ short film credits include Scenes From The Life Of A Priest and Kebab Land.

Sara Crowe

Scots born Sara is known for her iconic comedy roles across both screen and stage. Her work across the West End has been met with great critical acclaim. Sara’s theatre credits include most recently A Touch of Danger (Royal, Windsor) and Sheila’s Island (UK Tour). Also on tour How the Other Half Loves, Fallen Angels, Acorn Antiques the Musical, Calendar Girls the Musical, and The Constant Wife (Lyric/ UK tour). West End credits include Queers, One Voice: Monologues (Old Vic), Bedroom Farce (Duke of York’s), The Real Inspector Hound and Black Comedy (Comedy), Calendar Girls (Noel Coward), Twelfth Night (Playhouse), Plunder (Savoy), Hay Fever (Albery - Olivier nomination for best comedy performance), Private Lives (Aldwych - Olivier Award for best supporting actress, Critics Circle most promising newcomer Award and Variety Club best actress award) and The City Madam (RSC).

Sara’s television credits include Midsomer Murders, Eastenders, Skins, Big Meg in Big Meg/Little Meg, Born and Bred, The Harry Enfield Show, The Rory Bremner Show, Alas Smith and Jones, and the Christmas ghost story Martin’s Close. Sara’s film credits include Four Weddings & A Funeral, Carry on Columbus, Scarlett and Round Ireland with a Fridge. Sara has written two novels, Campari For Breakfast and Martini Henry published by Transworld. Sara has written for the stage, Siobhan Basset’s Hound of the Baskervilles (Yvonne Arnaud).

Ian Hallard

Ian’s credits for theatre include The Boys in the Band (Park/Vaudeville - Whatsonstage Awards Best Actor nomination), Scenes From An Execution and Great Britain (NT), Hogarth’s Progress (Rose, Kingston), Tonight at 8:30 (Jermyn Street), Lovesong of the Electric Bear (Hope/Arts), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Clwyd), Lilies (Greenwich), The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (West Yorkshire Playhouse), The Vote (Donmar Warehouse), Tumulus (Soho), and Donkeys’ Years (UK Tour). Ian’s television credits include Doctor Who, Sherlock, Endeavour, The Power, The Crown, Poirot, Marple, Doctors, Crooked House, and The Worst Journey in the World. Ian’s film credits include Mary Queen of Scots, The Act and The Dark Room. Ian has written and been script associate on three episodes of Poirot for ITV. Ian’s first play Adventurous was produced online by Jermyn Street in March 2021.

Further writing for theatre includes Steenie, about the relationship between King James I and the Duke of Buckingham (Turbine), and Horse-Play (Riverside Studios). 

Twitter/Instagram: @IanHallard www.ianhallard.co.uk

Andrew Horton 

Andrew Horton trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. Andrew is best known for his starring role as Brandon Sampson / Paragon in Jupiter’s Legacy, released in 2021. His credits for film include How To Talk to Girls at Parties and Slotherhouse. Andrew’s stage credits include playing the title role of Dorian Gray in The Picture of Dorian Gray (English Theatre, Hamburg) and Jonathan Harker in Dracula (Touring Consortium).

Rose Shalloo

Rose trained at Musical Theatre Academy, with recent theatre credits including A Christmas Carol (Old Vic), Malory Towers (UK Tour), The Selfish Giant (Vaudeville), Fiddler On The Roof (Chichester Festival), and A Pacifist’s Guide To The War On Cancer (NT).

Her television credits include Holby City, The Scandalous Lady W, Call The Midwife, and The Five. Rose has also appeared in the film Emma.  

Miriam Margolyes 

Miriam is a British-Australian actress who has achieved incredible success on both stage and screen. Miriam is an award-winning actress whose accolades include winner of the BAFTA Best Supporting Actress Award for The Age of Innocence, Best Supporting Actress in the LA Critics Circle Awards for Little Dorrit, and a Sony Radio Award for Best Supporting Actress for her recording of Oliver Twist. Her voice work has been internationally acclaimed, and she is regarded as the most accomplished female voice in Britain: she has recorded many audio books including Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, Alice in Wonderland, and Alice Through the Looking-Glass, Matilda, Pinnocchio, The Worst Witch series, and The Queen & I, which is one of the best-selling audio books in the world.

She has voiced many TV documentaries, including The Human Body, and numerous commercials, the most famous probably being the Manikin Cigar ads, the Cadbury's Caramel Bunny & Dolly, the Chimp in the PG Tips Campaign. She is now the voice of Mama in the Dolmio TV commercials. She is also Nana Sheila in the Disney Miniseries NINA NEEDS TO GO. Her credits from her extensive and celebrated career include, for film Professor Sprout in the Harry Potter series, Baz Lurman’s Romeo and Juliet, Yentl, Little Shop of Horrors, I Love You To Death, End of Days, Sunshine, Scorsese’s The Age of Innocence, Cold Comfort Farm & Magnolia. She starred in Stephen Hopkins' The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, Modigliani, Istvan Szabo's Being Julia, and Ladies in Lavender. Miriam’s credits for television include Old Flames, Freud, Life and Loves of a She Devil, Blackadder, The Girls of Slender Means, Oliver Twist, The History Man, Vanity Fair, Supply & Demand, Merlin, and Trollied.

Miriam’s stage credits include The West End and Broadway production of Wicked, Sydney & The Old Girl (Park), The Lady in the Van (Melbourne), Me & My Girl (The Duchess), Endgame (The Duchess), The Vagina Monologues (Arts), and She Stoops To Conquer (West End).

Paul O’Grady

Paul is an English comedian, presenter, actor, writer and former drag queen. He is most known from his time presenting The Paul O’Grady Show and Paul O’Grady Live which aired on ITV. Paul O’Grady began his comedy career in the pub and club circuit via his alter ego Lily Savage. Lily’s television career includes hosting The Lily Savage Show, Lily Live, and Lily Savage’s Blankety Blank. Her theatre career has seen her touring nationally with her own live show, a twelve-week run in the West End and national tour in Prisoner Cell Block H – The Musical, and playing Miss Hannigan in Annie at the Victoria Palace Theatre and on national tour. Paul has also had an incredibly successful television career as himself.

He presented two travel shows Paul O’Grady’s Orient and Paul O’Grady’s America in the early 2000s. In 2004 he launched his highly successful chat-show The Paul O’Grady Show which ran for twelve series and featured countless all-star guests. Paul will be reprising his role as Miss Hannigan in a new production of Annie on a national tour next year.

Anton Tweedale

Anton lives in South London with his cat, Nomi Malone. His favourite ABBA song is (currently) ‘My Love, My Life’. Anton’s credits for theatre include The Mousetrap (West End), Death Knell (UK Tour), Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest (UK Tour), Looking For Gatsby (The Other Palace), It’s A Wonderful Life - A Live Radio Play (Old Joint Stock, Birmingham), Alright B*tches! (Above The Stag), Miracle on 34th Street - A Live Musical Radio Play (Town & Gown, Cambridge), and Ordinary Days (London Theatre Workshop). Anton has also appeared many times in Paul Taylor-Mills' weekly repertory seasons at Theatre Royal Windsor and Sidmouth’s Manor Pavilion, playing characters ranging from Oscar Madison in The Odd Couple to Alfie the octogenarian waiter in One Man, Two Guvnors.

He made his debut as a director in the Manor Pavilion Sidmouth’s 2021 repertory season with a production of Neil Simon’s California Suite that also played at the New Peterborough, and he returned last year to direct The Perfect Murder by Peter James and Shaun McKenna.

Toby Holloway

Toby trained at Queen Margaret University and Napier University simultaneously, graduating with Honours in 2020 during lockdown. In 2022 he toured the UK for 4 months with the critically acclaimed Trainspotting Live as an Understudy and Assistant Stage Manager, his first professional credit. He is excited to be part of the debut tour of The Way Old Friends Do and to be working with such renowned creatives both on and off stage.

Tariye Peterside

Tariye is an Actor and Voiceover Artist from Nigeria who has worked both in the UK and internationally across stage, screen, video games and audio dramas. Tariye’s stage credits include Second Person Narrative (Arcola Women’s Company), Lysistrata (Waterloo East), The Gauntlet (Karamel Club), and The Games Afoot (Waterloo East).

Tariye’s audio credits include Season 2 of The X-Men Audio Drama, Batman: The Long Halloween, All We Left Unsaid, Dele Weds Destiny, Sade And Her Shadow Beasts, as well as numerous voiceovers for the BBC. Tariye has also appeared as a vocal artist in Company of Crime (Resistance Games). Social Media: @tariyepeterside