Ivanno Jeremiah

SIDNEY POITIER

Ivanno Jeremiah is an Ugandan, Rwandese & proud South London TV, Film, Voice and Theatre actor. He studied at the BRIT School of Performing Arts before winning a scholarship to RADA.

Theatre credits include:

The Suit (Peter Brook International Tour); The Convert & Measure for Measure (Young Vic); A Soldier’s Tale (City of London Sinfonia); The Nether (Headlong/Royal Court); Truth and Reconciliation (Royal Court); Julius Caesar (RSC); Constellations (Donmar); Retrograde (Kiln)

Film credits include: Woken, The Flood, Bees Make Honey, Julius Caesar, The Veteran, A Few Miles South, No More Wings (TriBeCa winner), Last Words, Limbo, The Agreement (Producer), Ozi: Voice of The Forest.

Television credits include: Halo 2, Humans, Unaired Game of Thrones Prequel, Lockwood & Co, A Discovery of Witches, Cold Feet, Counterpart, Black Mirror, Injustice, The Jury, Julius Caesar, The Hollow Crown, The Jury.

Upcoming Work: We Go Again (BBC)

Stanley Townsend

MR PARKS

Stanley Townsend was born in Dublin, Ireland. He is co-founder of Rough Magic Theatre Company.

Recent theatre work includes; Solar Bones (Abbey Theatre Dublin), All About Eve (Noel Coward Theatre), Incantata (Galway International Arts Festival), Glengarry Glen Ross (The Playhouse, London), Girl From the North Country (Old Vic), King Lear, Phedre, Gethsemane, Happy Now, Remember This, Guys and Dolls at the National Theatre, London; The Alice Trilogy, Shining City (for which he won the Irish Times Best Actor Award), The Nether, Under the Blue Sky, The Weir and Tribes at the Royal Court, London; The Dead, The Wake, Trinity for Two and Sacred Mysteries at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin; The Gingerbread Mix-up at St Andrews Lane, Dublin; A View from the Bridge (Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh), Prayers of Sherkin at the Old Vic, London; Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me at West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds; The Plough and the Stars at the Young Vic, London; Democracy at the Bush Theatre, London; Speed-the-Plow for Project Arts Centre, Dublin; Saint Oscar for Field Day Theatre Company, Derry; Who Shall Be Happy…? for Mad Cow Productions, Belfast, London and tour; and Art in the West End at the Wyndham Theatre.

Townsend’s television credits include: The Regime, Balck Shore, Kaos, Zen, Whistleblower, He Kills Coppers, Prosperity, Saddam’s Tribe, Rough Diamond, Waking The Dead, Spooks, The Virgin Queen, Hustle, Omagh (film), The Brief, Murder Squad, Fallen, Wire in the Blood, The Commander, Menace, Seventh Stream, Heartbeat, Station Jim, Table 12, Casualty, Best of Both Worlds, Active Defence, DDU (Making the Cut), Ballykissangel, Peak Practice, Jonathan Creek, A Touch of Frost, The Governor, The Bill, Parnell, Nighthawks, Fortycoats & Co., Lost Belongings, Lapsed Catholic, Glenroe, Ashes to Ashes, Mad Dogs, Sherlock, Call the Midwife, Quirke, Ripper Street, 24: Live Another Day, Galavant, The Collection, Redwater, Informer, The Spy and Dangerous Liaisons.

Film includes: Jay Kelly, The Teacher, Song of Names, The Girl from Mogadishu, The Current War, Florence Foster Jenkins, The Voices, One Chance, Standby, The Physician, Lovely Louise, Killing Bono, Happy Go Lucky, Nativity, Flawless, The Tiger’s Tale, Isolation, The Libertine, Inside I’m Dancing, Tulse Luper II, Suzie Gold, Wondrous Oblivion, American Girl, Monsieur N, Mystics, The Van, My Friend Joe, Moll Flanders, Jake’s Progress, Beyond Reason, Good Girls, In the Name of the Father, Blue Ice, The Miracle and Taffin.

Oliver Johnstone

BOBBY

Theatre includes: The Real Thing, All My Sons (The Old Vic); Imperium, Oppenheimer (RSC/West End); Duchess of Malfi, Henry V (Headlong/Shakespeare’s Globe); Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (ETT/UK tour); The Haystack (Hampstead); Tribes (Sheffield Crucible); Cymbeline (RSC/Barbican); King Lear (RSC/Barbican/BAM); Teddy Ferrara (Donmar); Spring Awakening (Headlong/UK tour); Another Country (Chichester).

Television includes: Endeavour, Loaded, The Syndicate, Inspector George Gently, Whitechapel, Lewis.

Film includes: The Courier, Open, On Chesil Beach, The Inbetweeners Movie 2, Skyfall.

James Alper

UNDERSTUDY - MR PARKS & BOBBY

Theatre includes: The Deep Blue Sea; Greenland; Much Ado About Nothing; The Hothouse;  (National Theatre); Captain Stewart – War Horse (UK Tour); Jock Colville – Three Days in May (Trafalgar Studios, Theatre Royal Windsor & UK Tour); White House Murder Case (Orange Tree Theatre); Pages (Union Theatre); Cressida Among the Greeks (White Bear Theatre).

Screen includes: It Came From The Desert; Vendetta; Send Help; Cheetah Kingdom; Doctors, Poirot (Cards on the Table); Casualty.

Voiceover includes: Batlin – Metaphor: ReFantazio (Game Awards Winner – Best RPG 2024); Harry – Fragments of Him; Peter – Roberta, Peter & Phyllis (BBC Radio 4)

Brett Curtis

UNDERSTUDY - SIDNEY POITIER

This is Brett’s West End debut.

Training: Royal Central School of Speech & Drama

Previous credits:

Television: The Nevers (HBO), Jungle (Amazon), The Outlaws (BBC)

Film: The Nobody (Prime Video), Don’t Hang Up(Element Films)