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Park Theatre presents the World Premiere of

Winner's Curse

By Daniel Taub with Dan Patterson

(OLD) HUGO LEITSKI I CLIVE ANDERSON

ROZHINA FLINTOK I WINNIE ARHIN

YOUNG LEITSKI I ARTHUR CONTI

TYLER I GREG LOCKETT

ANTON KORSAKOV I MICHAEL MALONEY

VASLIKA KRENSKAYA I NICHOLA MCAULIFFE

GENERAL VOLVISCH GROMSKI I BARRIE RUTTER 

Clive Anderson  

Clive Anderson is a broadcaster, performer and writer who has presented many series of programmes on BBC1, BBC 2, Channel 4, Sky Arts and other television stations. As well as on BBC Radio 4, Radio 2, Radio 5 Live and Radio Scotland.

He spent about fifteen years as a barrister before becoming a full-time broadcaster. Shows he has hosted include Whose Line Is it Anyway? (Radio 4, Channel 4 TV, and recent stage versions), Clive Anderson Talks Back (Channel 4), Clive Anderson All Talk (BBC1). He has also made numerous guest appearances on other TV shows such as Have I Got News for You, QI and Would I Lie to You.

In addition to these comedy and chat shows he has presented more serious programmes and documentaries covering law, politics, arts, history, pre-history, the environment, sport and books.

Recent and current projects include many years presenting Loose Ends on Radio 4, Mystic Britain on the Smithsonian TV channel, performing his one-man stage show, Me Macbeth & I and his podcast My Seven Wonders.

Clive has extensive experience making speeches at a variety of live events, hosting award ceremonies in the UK and elsewhere in the world, and hosting and chairing conferences, debates and discussions.

Winnie Arhin

Winnie Arhin is a multidisciplinary artist; she’s an actress, writer and founder of The Writers' Corner, a theatre collective which champions new writers from across the UK through online and in person scratch nights. Winnie trained at Rose Bruford College and has a BA (Hons) in Media and English from the University of the West of England.

In 2019-2020 she was invited to complete the Soho Theatre Writers Lab course, where she created her debut play Big Girl Words. This comedy-drama was a part of Fringe Futures Festival (2021) at The Pleasance Theatre, this was then transferred to The Vaults where it had a sold out run. Last year Winnie also had a run of Big Girl Words at Brixton House Theatre as part of their opening season.

Recently, Winnie has become a published writer. She created a monologue for LIT; an anthology containing new monologues written by and created for underrepresented voices. This new collection was curated by the writer and director Rikki Beadle-Blair. Theatre credits include: Big Girl Words (The Pleasance Theatre, The Vaults and Brixton House Theatre), LIT Launch (The Bush), Shine Black (The Bush), River Land (Theatre Alibi) Low Level Panic (The Lion and the Unicorn Theatre), White Noise (The Lyric Hammersmith).

TV credits include: Sections (Tualen Pictures), Anxiety (Sky One).

Arthur Conti

Arthur is a member of the National Youth Theatre.

Theatre credits include: Machinal (Phoenix Theatre/King Alfred), Crazy For You (Phoenix Theatre/King Alfred) and Blithe Spirit (Phoenix Theatre/King Alfred).

Television credits include: House of the Dragon (HBO)

Greg Lockett

Training: LAMDA

Theatre credits include: The Mousetrap (St. Martin's Theatre), The Boys in the Band (Vaudeville Theatre & Park Theatre), Holes (Nottingham Playhouse), Brave New World (Theatre Royal & Derngate & Touring), African Americana (Theatre 503), Don’t Smoke in Bed (Finborough Theatre), Romeo & Juliet (The Vaults), Secret Cinema: Back to the Future
Film & TV credits include: Midsomer Murders (ITV), Venom: Let The Be Carnage (Marvel Entertainment), Treadstone (Universal), Living The Dream (Sky One), Chimerica (Channel 4), The Crown (Netflix), Cinderella (Walt Disney Pictures), Florence Foster Jenkins (BBC Films), Doctors (BBC), Hoff the Record (Dave TV), Intrigo: Death of an Author (Enderby Entertainment)

Voice Credits include: Horizon: Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games), Dying Light 2 (Techland), The Nox (Audible Originals), The Quarry (Supermassive Games), Morphle (Moonbug Entertainment), Hidden Agenda (Supermassive Games), Hell Cats (Audible Originals), Auris (Audible Originals), Hollywood Endings 2 (Radio 4), Babycakes (Radio 4) & numerous audiobooks.

Twitter: @GregLockett

Instagram: @Greg_Lockett

Michael Maloney

Theatre includes: Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike (Charing Cross Theatre), Hamlet (Plymouth/Barbican) Mouth To Mouth (Royal Court/Albery), King Lear (RSC), Sleuth (National Tour), Hamlet (Greenwich/Tour), Alice's Adventures Underground (National Theatre), A Woman Killed With Kindness, Romeo And Juliet, Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2 (all RSC), Once In A While (National Theatre) In Lambeth (Donmar Warehouse), All My Sons (Royal Exchange), Built On Sand (Royal Court), Peer Gynt (Cambridge Theatre), The London Cuckolds (Lyric Hammersmith), Two Planks & A Passion (Greenwich Theatre), The Perfectionist (Hampstead Theatre), Can You Hear Me At The Back (Piccadilly Theatre), Taking Steps (Lyric Theatre), Derek, Anthony & Cleopatra, The Tempest, Lear, The Roaring Girl, Macbeth (all RSC), In the Blue (National Theatre)

Film includes: Belfast, Where Is Anne Frank, A Brixton Tale, Born Of War, Summer In February, The Iron Lady, Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll, Young Victoria, Notes On A Scandal, I See You, Kisna, Battle Of The Brave, Bienvenue Au Gite, American Reel, Hysteria, Hamlet, Othello, In The Bleak Midwinter, Hamlet, Truly Madly Deeply, Henry V, La Maschera (The Mask ), Ordeal By Innocence, Richard's Things

Television includes: Dalgliesh, All Creatures Great and Small, Magpie Murders, The Trial Of Christine Keeler, Shakespeare And Hathaway, The Crown, Midsomer Murders, Victoria, Paranoid, Mr Selfridge, The Five, River, The C Word, Utopia, By Any Means, Fleming, The White Queen, Father Brown, The Thick Of It, The Accused, Death In Paradise, Margaret: Long Walk To Finchley, Heartbeat X V I I, Empire, Twelfth Night, The Last Place On Earth, Waking The Dead 7, Lawrence: After Arabia, Warriors, Wire In The Blood, Driving School, Futureshock: Comet, The Bill, The Baker Street Irregulars, Spooks, Rise & Fall Of Rome, Miss Marple, New Tricks 3, Pinochet's Last Stand, Hotel Babylon, Lewis, Rosemary & Thyme, Carnival, Monarch Of The Glen, Messiah I I I, Murder Rooms, The Last Detective, Henry V I I I, The Forsyte Saga (series 2), Lawrence Of Arabia, Believe Nothing, The Jury, In Deep, Me And Mrs Jones, The Swap, A Christmas Carol, Dalziel And Pascoe V, Ransom, Heartbeat, Children Of The New Forest, The Painted Lady, Macbeth, Sex And Chocolate, The Writing Game, Conversation With John Keats, You Know My Story, Signs And Wonders, For More Than A Touch Of Zen, Love On A Branch Line, Trafford Tanzi, Mickey Love, Young Indie 'Paris, May 1919’, The Complete Guide To Relationships, Mr Wakefield's Crusade, Snow Snow, Relatively Speaking, Starlings, Scoop William, The Rivals, Naming The Names, What If It's Raining, Mountain Men, The Bell, Telford's Change, Tartuffe, Living With Dinosaurs

Nichola McAuliffe

Recent screen credits include Black Eyed Mog in Hugo Blick’s series The English, Mrs  Blake the feature film Living, with Bill Nighy, Lorraine in The Man Who Fell To Earth (CBS/Showtime) & Midsomer Murders for ITV. On television she  appeared as The Duchess of Cumberland in the ITV series Victoria, Maria Borrow in Agatha Raisin for Sky TV, Druisilla in Blandings for BBC TV and was seen with Russell Kane in The Only Way Is Shakespeare for his series  Live at the Electric. Nichola also appeared as Anita Scott in Coronation Street (ITV) as journalist Vivian Rook in Dr. Who, & guest leads in My Family, Randall &Hopkirk (Deceased) & Doctors.  She is probably best known as Sheila Sabatini in seven series of ITVs Surgical Spirit.

Film credits include Madame Aldonza in Stephen Frear’s film Cheri with Michelle Pfeiffer and Kathy Bates, and the voice of James Bond’s BMW in Tomorrow Never Dies.

Nichola’s extensive theatre career has included winning an Olivier Award for Kate in the RSC's production of Kiss Me Kate, she was also nominated for an Olivier for her role as The Baroness in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at the London Palladium. Other awards include The Clarence Derwent Award for Queen Victoria in the RSC's Poppy, the Manchester Evening News Award for Gina in Peter Hall's production of The Wild Duck and she  is the only person to win the Edinburgh Stage Award twice, for Alan Bennett's Bed Among the Lentils and for Katy in Maurice’s Jubilee.. Nichola was also nominated for a TMA award for her performance in Bryony Lavery’s Goliath

Nichola is also a published playwright including Maurice’s Jubilee (National Tour with ATG, Edinburgh Fringe, & The Moscow Art Theatre winning their Award & Medal) and A British Subject which was nominated for an Amnesty Award (Edinburgh Fringe, New York and London 2009). Further plays include:   Revenants (Edinburgh 2018), The Silver Gym (Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch), and National Hero (Edinburgh & National Tour. Her screenplay of Maurice’s Jubilee won the 2019 Glo time Award..

Her radio plays for BBC R4 include A British Subject, The Incomparable Witness and My Brother’s Keeper. Her novels 'The Crime Tsar’ and children's book 'Attila Loolagax and the Eagle' are published by Bloomsbury and 'A Fanny Full of Soap - the story of a West End Disaster' by Oberon. Nichola has also appeared in a number of radio plays and comedies for the BBC.

Barrie Rutter

Barrie Rutter is the Founder, and formerly Artistic Director, of Northern Broadsides. He was born in Hull and since leaving school in 1964 his acting career has stretched from Hamburg to Helsinki, Bradford to Beijing and includes film, television and radio. He is best described as a 'theatre animal' and has had his happiest moments on the stage, whether in Shakespeare's Globe London, the amphitheatre of Epidaurus in Greece or the stone cellar that is the Viaduct at Dean Clough in Halifax.

Work for Northern Broadsides as director and actor includes: Richard III, The Merry Wives, Poetry or Bust, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Cracked Pot, The Blood of Dracula, The Passion, Romeo and Juliet, Antony and Cleopatra, Samson Agonistes, The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus, Twelfth Night, King Lear, The Mysteries 2000, Much Ado About Nothing, Alcestis, King John, Oedipus, Macbeth, Henry V, Antigone, The Merchant of Venice, The Comedy of Errors, Sweet William, School for Scandal, The Wars of the Roses, The Man With Two Gaffers, The Tempest, Lisa's Sex Strike, Othello, Medea, The Game, We are Three Sisters, Love's Labour's Lost, Rutherford and Son, An August Bank Holiday Lark, King Lear, When We Are Married, Richard III, For Love or Money and The Captive Queen.

Other theatre includes: Henry IV, Henry V, Coriolanus, The Taming of the Shrew (RSC), The Mysteries, The Crucible, Guys and Dolls, The Oresteia, The Rivals, Animal Farm, Martine, The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus (National Theatre).

Television includes: The Royal (Yorkshire TV), Fat Friends series 1-4 (Yorkshire TV), Kavanagh QC (Central TV), Heartbeat (Yorkshire TV), The Bill (Talkback Thames), Casualty (BBC), Coasting (Cinéma Verité), Countdown to War (Granada TV/PBS), Boon (Central TV), Way Upstream (BBC), Porridge (Black Lion Films), Our Kid (Yorkshire TV), Queenie’s Castle (Yorkshire TV), The Liver Birds (BBC).

Barrie was awarded an O.B.E. in 2015 for Services to Drama and Creative Briton in 2000.