THE TRUTH

Stephen Mangan has enjoyed a long and varied career in the theatre, working extensively in the West End and around the world. In 2008 he played the title role in The Norman Conquests at The Old Vic and then on Broadway. Stephen was nominated for a Tony Award and the play won Best Revival.

His most recent theatre credits include The Man in the White Suit (Wyndham’s Theatre); Private Lives opposite Rachael Stirling (Donmar Warehouse) and Mike Bartlett’s Unicorn (Garrick) alongside Nicola Walker and Erin Doherty.

Other theatre includes: Birthday and The People Are Friendly (Royal Court Theatre); Much Ado About Nothing (Cheek By Jowl); Jeeves and Wooster (Duke of York’s); Hayfever (Savoy); Midsummer Nights Dream (RSC); The Birthday Party (Harold Pinter); A Christmas Carol (Old Vic) and Rules For Living (National Theatre).

Television includes: Green Wing; Adrian Mole; Free Agents; Dirk Gently; Houdini & Doyle; Episodes opposite Tamsin Greig and Matt LeBlanc; the lead role of Richard Pitt in the comedy he co-wrote; Hang Ups; and BBC’s The Split which ran for 4 seasons.

Film includes: Billy Elliot; Birthday Girl; Postman Pat: The Movie; Rush; Beyond The Pole; Confetti; Festival and A Gaza Weekend.

Irish actor Ardal O’Hanlon is best known for his leading roles in BBC hit series DEATH IN PARADISE, long running sitcom MY HERO, and the much loved Channel 4 comedy FATHER TED.

An Olivier nominee, Ardal’s stage work has included GOD OF CARNAGE at the Gate Theatre, Dublin; DANCING AT LUGHNASA at the National Theatre and THE WEIR at the Donmar Warehouse/West End for which he received the Best Supporting Actor nomination.

Ardal has just been seen on screens in Netflix’s HOW TO GET TO HEAVEN FROM BELFAST, and in SHERLOCK AND DAUGHTER opposite David Thewlis. Other television work includes the critically acclaimed BBC drama THE WOMAN IN THE WALL opposite Ruth Wilson, the smash hit DERRY GIRLS and in comedy ROSIE MALLOY GIVES UP EVERYTHING, opposite Sheridan Smith. Ardal has written and presented a number of documentaries, including the celebrated LEAGUES APART and IRELAND WITH ARDAL O’HANLON.

As well as acting, Ardal continues to perform worldwide as a stand-up comedian. His tour NOT HIMSELF will continue in the UK and Ireland this Autumn. Ardal’s third novel A PLOT TO DIE FOR will be released later this year by Simon & Schuster.

Sarah Hadland is best known as Stevie in BBC’s BAFTA nominated Miranda.

Theatre includes: Broken Water (Arcola)

Film and television: Horrible Histories; Daddy Issues; The Job Lot; Burton and Taylor and Quantum of Solace.

She was also a finalist in Strictly Come Dancing 2024.

Most recently, Janie played Betty Dullfeet in the RSC’s The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Swan Theatre, Stratford) and Julia Steroll in Noel Coward’s Fallen Angels (Menier Chocolate Factory).  She premiered and performed her own work “Moonwatch” at the Women’s Festival at The Playground Theatre in March this year.

Other theatre highlights include The Motive and the Cue (National Theatre), Blithe Spirit with Dame Angela Lansbury (Gielgud Theatre); the UK premieres of Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Theatre Royal Bath, Charing Cross Theatre) and Hand to God (Vaudeville Theatre), the title role in Linda (Manhattan Theatre Club), Arkadina in The Seagull (Open Air Theatre Regent’s Park), NSFW (Royal Court, Olivier Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress), Noises Off (Old Vic, Novello Theatre), Shadowlands opposite Charles Dance (Wyndham’s Theatre); Three Sisters and A Month in The Country (both Chichester Festival Theatre). Shakespearean roles include Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare’s Globe at the Barbican and The Hollywood Bowl), Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Countess of Roussillon in All’s Well That Ends Well (both Shakespeare’s Globe), Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing (The Peter Hall Company, Theatre Royal Bath), Olivia in Twelfth Night and Lady Capulet in Romeo and Juliet, directed by Judi Dench ( Open Air Theatre Regent’s Park).

In 2023, Janie was invited to be The Globe’s ambassador at the 400th Anniversary of the ‘First Folio’ Celebration (Marbach, Germany). The role of Jacie Triplethree in Comic Potential was written by Alan Ayckbourn for Janie, winning her an Olivier Award for Best Actress, an Evening Standard Award, and a Critics Circle Award in London, and an Obie Award and Theatre World Best Newcomer Award in New York. Other Ayckbourn credits include Woman in Mind and House/Garden (Stephen Joseph Theatre, Vaudeville Theatre). Her collaborations with Peter Hall include Harold Pinter’s Betrayal (Duchess Theatre/Tour), Old Times and Celebration (Gate Dublin, Albery Theatre, Tour), Noel Coward’s Design for Living and George Bernard Shaw’s The Apple Cart (both Theatre Royal Bath/Tour). Other Pinter credits include the double-bill Moonlight/Night School, part of The Jamie Lloyd Company’s Pinter at The Pinter Season (Harold Pinter Theatre).

Janie’s many musical theatre credits include Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends (Gielgud Theatre), Phyllis Rogers Stone in Follies (National Theatre – Olivier, Evening Standard and WhatsOnStage Award nominations for Best Actress in a Musical, Desiree Armfeldt in A Little Night Music (Palace Theatre, Buxton Opera House, Holland Park Opera), the London premiere of Putting It Together (St James Theatre), Fosca in Passion (The Cantiere Festival in Montepulciano, Italy), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels in Concert (London Palladium), My One and Only (Chichester Festival Theatre, Piccadilly Theatre, Olivier Award nomination for Best Actress in a Musical), Mack and Mabel (Criterion Theatre), The King and I (Curve Leicester) and Hello, Dolly! (Curve Leicester – UKTheatre Best Performance Award), and Carrie Pipperidge in Nicholas Hytner’s celebrated production of Carousel (National Theatre – Olivier Award for Best Supporting Performance  in a Musical).

Television credits include The Burning Girls (Paramount +), You & Me (ITVX),

Chimerica by Lucy Kirkwood ,Crashing by Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Harold Pinter’s ‘Celebration’ opposite Colin Firth( all for C4),P.D. James’s Death in Holy Orders  and The Murder Room (BBC) Films include:- Me and Orson Welles, Official Secrets, Dare to be Wild, The Trouble with Dot & Harry opposite Neil Morrissey.

Radio dramas include Bryan Friel’s Afterplay and BBC Radio 4’s series of Ian Fleming’s James Bond dramas as Moneypenny and the title role in Celia’s Secrets. All for Martin Jarvis and Ros Ayres.

Janie founded The London Climate Change Festival in 2019 to inspire, inform and bring hope. She created and produced a series of Beautiful World Cabarets (Edinburgh Fringe, Crazy Coqs, Newbury Spring Festival, Wales Millennium Centre) which transferred to Charing Cross Theatre in July 2025.  Previously in 2021 she produced ‘A Song for Nature’ for Sky Arts tv at the London Coliseum.

Also as Producer:-

The Wayne Sleep 75th Birthday Celebration (Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House)

Marvellous Party – The Angela Lansbury Farewell Dinner and Cabaret (Café de Paris, London); On Reflection with the Follies Company for Underbelly on the Southbank and Concert for Peace /anti-Iraq War  starring Dame Judi Dench, Sir Ian McKellen, Adrian Lester, Sharon Lee Clarke, Joanna Riding , Clive Rowe, Samantha Bond, David Tennant and almost the entire theatrical profession in London ! (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane).