Jordan Akkaya

TREVOR

Jordan Akkaya is a mixed British-Turkish actor from Wigan, Greater Manchester and trained at ALRA North (The Academy of Live and Recorded Arts).

Credits include: The Family Pile (ITV); Coronation Street (ITV); Hollyoaks (Channel 4); Casualty (BBC); Doctors (BBC); Yizkor (New Vic Theatre Borderlines); Billy Shakes: Wonder Boy! (Wrongsemble)

The Play That Goes Wrong will be his West End debut.

Daniel Anthony

DENNIS

Danny started acting at the age of nine, starring as one of the first Young Simbas in the theatre adaptation of The Lion King, at the Lyceum Theatre. Since then he has appeared in numerous radio, film and television roles, including the Doctor Who spin off, The Sarah Jane Adventures – which ran for a very successful 5 years.  He also appeared as nurse Jamie collier in BBC’s Medical drama casualty and as Royston Peel in Brotherhood. This isn’t Danny’s first stint in a goes wrong show – he was also part of Magic Goes Wrong, which toured the UK in 2021. He’s very excited to be back in the West End where his acting career began!

Joe Bolland

JONATHAN

Joe Bolland trained at Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

Television and Radio credits include: GRACE (ITV), SHETLAND (ITV), SHERWOOD (BBC), THE TRAIL OF CHRISTINE KEELER (BBC), THE FAMILY BUSINESS (Radio 4)

Film credits include: CHOOSE OR DIE (Netflix), MARTYRS LANE (BFI)

Theatre credits include: PAPERCUT (Park Theatre)., OTHELLO (National Theatre), OUR GENERATION (National Theatre/Chichester Festival Theatre), HOW HE LIED TO HER HUSBAND (The Orange Tree)

Daniel Fraser

CHRIS

Daniel trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama. 

Theatre credits include: The Mousetrap (St. Martin’s); Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies (RSC Swan/Aldwych/Winter Gardens on Broadway); Chariots of Fire (Hampstead/Gielgud); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Lyric Hammersmith/UK Tour); Flare Path (Oxford Playhouse/UK Tour); Hayfever (Mill at Sonning); Jack & The Beanstalk (Lyric Hammersmith); Oh, To Be in England (Finborough); Orpheus: The Mythical (Royal Opera House); Batchelor Boys (Jermyn Street) and After Lydia (Watermill).

TV credits include: Grantchester; The Crown, Doctors and Holby City.

Film credits include: The Book of Clarence (Legendary); The Art Lovers (Hallmark); Frequencies; The Patrol; Scar Tissue; Happiness and Lab Rats.

Daniel is one half of award-winning comedy duo “Maris Piper,” and also voices the title role in the gothic horror podcast, The Strange Tales of Virgil Kaylock.

Billie Hamer

ANNIE

Billie is originally from Lancashire and trained at Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts and Rose Bruford College. 

Theatre credits: Wishmas (Secret Cinema), Ghostbusters (Secret Cinema), White Lillies (Liverpool Everyman), Lone Star Diner (Clapham Omnibus), The Little Fir Tree (Kings Place, Kings Cross), Jeff Waynes the War of the Worlds (Dotdotdot), The Affairs (Home House) 

The Play that Goes Wrong will be Billie’s West End Deb(oo) and she is thrilled to be joining the Mischief team! 

Owen Jenkins

ROBERT

Owen trained at Oxford School of Drama. 

His theatre credits include Doctor Who: Time Fracture (Immersive Everywhere/BBC), David Walliams First Hippo on the Moon (International tour), Enemy of the People (UK tour), David Baddiels Animalcom (UK tour), One Duck Down (UK Tour), Stranger Things and Wishmas (Secret Cinema), The Jolly Christmas Postman (Oxford Playhouse), Raymond Briggs The Bear (Birmingham MAC) The Games Afoot and The Marvellous Imaginary Menagerie (Les Enfants Terribles). 

Owen is also a director, writer and Voice-over artist. He is artistic director and writer for award-winning theatre company FacePlant Theatre and co-creator of critically acclaimed audio series At Your Peril. 

This is his West End debut and he’s excited to work for Mischief so here’s to hoping nothing goes wrong…

He’d like to thank his wife, friends and family for their love and support.  

Jay Olpin

MAX

Jay was raised in Sheffield and trained at Manchester School of Theatre.

Credits include: Steve in Mind Mangler: Member of the Tragic Circle (Mischief Worldwide/Virgin Cruises), Understudy in Magic Goes Wrong (UK + Ireland tour), Nathan in The Full Monty (UK + Ireland tour), Boy in Boy and Girl go to a Party (Short film), Macduff’s son in Macbeth (Sheffield Theatres),  Danbrin’s Crew in Skepta’s DYSTOPIA987 (Manchester international Festival), Lawrence in The Lord of the Flies (Matthew Bournes New Adventures/Bradford Alhambra), Boy in An Enemy of the People (Sheffield Theatres), Billy’s Friend in Kez (Sheffield Theatres). 

Jay is very excited and feels so lucky to be working with this company!

Hannah Sinclair Robinson

SANDRA

Hannah Sinclair Robinson is a London based actor and trained at East 15 Acting School and Bath Spa University. 

Her work in theatre includes: Grete in Metamorphosis on the 2023 UK Tour for Frantic Assembly, Bianca in Othello on the 2022 UK Tour for Frantic Assembly, Mrs Shears/Mrs Gascoyne in The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time on the 2021/22 UK & Ireland Tour for NTP; Rockets and Blue Lights at the National Theatre; Helena in A Midsummer Nights Dream for Shakespeare in the Squares, Mandela in Water, Bread and Salt for Tangle International, Annette in Timothy at Vault Festival for Joyous Guard and Benvolio in Romeo and Juliet for Shakespeare in the Squares. 

TV includes Doctors, Eastenders, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Killer Cops. 

Alex Bird

UNDERSTUDY

Alex trained at The Arts University Bournemouth.

Theatre credits include: The Changeling (Southwark Playhouse); Ghostbusters (Secret Cinema); Romeo and Juliet (UK Tour/Edinburgh Fringe Assembly Rooms); I’d Be Lost Without It (UK Tour); Pride and Prejudice (China Tour); Great Expectations (UK Tour); Boys (Lost Theatre, London).

This will be Alex’s West End debut, and he can’t be more thrilled that it’s with The Play That Goes Wrong. 

Munashe Chirisa

UNDERSTUDY

Munashe Chirisa is a UK-based Zimbabwean actor, comedian, and writer. He debuted his stand-up comedy career at the African International Comedy festival in 2013. Munashe has had various theatre roles, with recent credits including New Apostles – Young Vic, Volpone – Tangle theatre, and We Need New Names – Fifth Word & New Perspectives theatre. Recent film credits include Time To Dance, in which he became the first Zimbabwean actor in a Bollywood cinematic production. He supported the world tour of the Family Meeting Comedy Show which closed at Leicester Square Theatre, West End.

Colm Gleeson

UNDERSTUDY

Colm Gleeson is an actor, voice actor, writer, and musician from Dublin. Having studied Drama Studies and English Literature in Trinity College, Dublin, he subsequently moved to London to train at LAMDA. Since graduating in 2019, he has appeared in The Commitments (UK & Ireland Tour); The Sandman Act IV (Audible); Bleak Expectations (Watermill Theatre); This Be The Verse (Hen & Chickens Theatre) and I Have Heard You Calling In The Night (Union Theatre Southwark), both of which he also co-wrote; The Wife of Michael Cleary Songbook (Royal Court Liverpool); and Puckoon (BBC Radio 4). He also co-wrote and performed in an award-winning short film adaptation of I Have Heard You Calling In The Night, which has been screened in film festivals around the globe, and received its UK premiere in May 2022. Colm couldn’t be happier to be making his West End debut.

Dumile Sibanda

UNDERSTUDY

Dumile graduated from Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.

Her recent role was playing Jill in Oxford playhouse’s Jack and the beanstalk. Woodnut in Carl Grose’s ‘Robin Hood the Legend rewritten’ directed by Melly Still at the Regents Park Open Air Theatre.

 Her credits include playing Nina in ‘The Three Seagulls’s directed by Sally Cookson at Bristol Old Vic. 

Ava in Sheffield theatres ‘Rock, Paper, Scissors’ directed by Anthony Lau, Robert Hasties and Elin Schofield. Leilah in Theatre centre’s UK tour of Birds and Bees directed by Rob Watt and written by Charlie Josephine. And Gretel in Insane Root Theatre Companies ‘Hansel and Gretel.

Alice Stokoe

UNDERSTUDY

Alice is originally from Jarrow and trained at Italia Conti.  

Theatre credits include: Jessie in Recognition (Talawa Theatre Co), Shannon in Sorry You’re Not a Winner (Paines Plough), Jessie in When the Boat Comes In (The Customs House), Sister Mary Robert in Sister Act (UK Tour), Extraordinary Girl in American Idiot (West End & UK Tour) (winner of Broadway World’s Understudy of the Year award), Sophie in Mamma Mia! (West End), An Evening with Sir Tim Rice and Friends (Sage Gateshead), Weather to Fly (OddManOut), Moving Family (Northern Nomads), Juliet in Romeo and Juliet (Complete Works Theatre Co), Robin Hood (Salisbury Playhouse), Dick Whittington (Newcastle Theatre Royal), Puss in Boots, Aladdin and Dick Whittington (all The Customs House).

Tv & film credits include: The Duke (feature film), Poised (feature film), and various adverts for NatWest.