Cast & Crew
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Rachel Pickup - Laura
Rachel is a London and New-York based actor, and co-founder of Wild Pursuit. Rachel’s first love is the theatre where the audience are active collaborators: “The chemistry that occurs between us, the shared experience is the thrill and drive at the heart of Wild Pursuit.”
Theatre includes: London & UK: Springwood for Richard Nelson, Hampstead Theatre; Still Life and Twelfth Night for Tam Williams at The Mill At Sonning and beyond; Dear Liar, Jermyn St Theatre; Merchant of Venice, (Globe theatre / International tour); 39 Steps, (Criterion); Hamlet for Calixto Bieito, (UK / International tour); Troilus & Cressida for Peter Stein, (RSC complete works and International tour); The Sea, (Chichester, Minerva); Fortune’s Fool, (Chichester Festival Theatre); Midsummer Night's Dream, Two Gentlemen Of Verona, Julius Caesar, Paradox, (RSC); Dr Foster, (Chocolate Factory); The Three Sisters for Bill Bryden, (Birmingham Rep); Miss Julie (Rose Theatre); Bedroom Farce for Sir Peter Hall (West End); Twelfth Night for Terry Hands; King Lear, (Old Vic / National tour). Time & The Conways, Royal Exchange; And Barefoot In The Park, directed by Sally Hughes at Jermyn St Theatre. New York: King Lear, (TFANA); Private Lives for Darko Tresnjak; Play, Breath, Act Without Words, Dancing At Lughnasa, Airswimming, London Assurance, The Home Place, Irish Repertory Theatre; An Ideal Husband, (Shakespeare Theatre).
TV & Film includes: The Gilded Age, (season 2 and 3); The Beast Must Die; Elementary; Madame Secretary; Victoria & Albert; A Small Island; Midsomer Murders; Sister Boniface; Grantchester; Wonder Woman; Schadenfreude; Chronic, (winner Un Certain Regard, Cannes).
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Alasdair Craig - Alec
Al is a co-founder of Wild Pursuit Theatre. Much of the first part of his career was spent with Edward Hall’s all male Shakespeare company, Propeller. This involved tours that circled the globe from Newbury to China, via residencies at The Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York and London’s Old Vic. The experience instilled in him a love of ensemble theatre, powered by collaborative and imaginative story telling.
Theatre includes: Sunny Afternoon (UK tour) Twelfth Night (The Mill at Sonning & QM2). Still Life (The Mill at Sonning) The Dark Room (Theatre 503) War Horse (National, West End); Not About Heroes, (Trafalgar Studios) A Few Man Fridays (Riverside Studios) Arcadia, (The Lowry) All My Sons, (Leicester Curve) Major Barbara, (National Theatre) Don Quixote (Leeds Playhouse) Black Comedy (Colorado Festival of World Theatre) The Rivals (Ustinov, Bath). For Propeller Theatre Company: The Comedy of Errors, Twelfth Night, The Taming of the Shrew, The Winter’s Tale, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Pocket Dream. (National/International tours West End & NY).
TV & Film includes: Here; The Royal Mob; The Crown; Doctors; Eastenders; The Royal; Lawless Heart.
Al is an experienced voice over artist, including having voiced numerous campaigns for Volkswagen.
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Elizabeth Elvin - Myrtle
Liz trained at the Arts Educational Schools. Her extensive and varied career, spanning theatre, musical theatre, TV and Film, began at the Glasgow Citizens Theatre in the Gorbals. She then went on to spend a glamorous year Stateside under contract to MGM in the biggest stage show in the world, Hello Hollywood Hello! More recently Liz played Pam Stubbs in Glitch, (a drama about the Post Office scandal) at The Minghella Studios for Rabble Theatre.
Theatre includes: Calendar Girls, Still Life, We’ll Always Have Paris, High Society, Born Yesterday and Stepping Out, The Mill At Sonning. West End credits include The Mousetrap, St Martin’s Theatre; The Bells (opposite Steven Berkoff), Lyceum Theatre; Hello Dolly, Prince of Wales Theatre; A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum (with the legendary Frankie Howerd), Piccadilly Theatre. Off West End: The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, Lyric Hammersmith; US, Hampstead Theatre. Regional theatre includes: Votes For Women and Hoard, New Vic Theatre; Out Of Order, UK tour, directed by Ray Cooney. Anything Goes, Sister Act, Kilworth House Theatre; Noises Off, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Liverpool Playhouse; Intimate Exchanges, Macbeth, Everyman Theatre Cheltenham; The title role in Shirley Valentine (Best Regional Actress Award); Volcano by Noel Coward, Twelfth Night, The Merchant Of Venice, Palace Theatre, Westcliff; An Enemy Of The People, UK Tour; The Story Of Doris Day, Wilton’s Music Hall/El Portal Theatre in Los Angeles; One Hundred And One Dalmatians, tour; How The Other Half Loves, Bristol Old Vic.
Film & TV includes: Nina Forever, directed by the Blaine Brothers; Hot Fuzz, directed by Edgar Wright; H.G. Wells: War With The World opposite Sally Hawkins & Michael Sheen, directed by James Kent; Wickham Road directed by Oliver Nash. For the BBC: Eastenders, (recurring role of Shona The Registrar) Doctors; Testament Of Youth; State Of Play; Pandemic – Horizon; Family Portrait (Winner of Best Online Drama) and Footballers Wives for ITV.
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Antony Jardine - Albert (and others)
Antony trained at the Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts and Goldsmiths: University of London.
Theatre Includes: Witness For The Prosecution (West End), Pocket Dream (Propeller); Still Life/ Twelfth Night (The Mill at Sonning); We’re Going On A Bear Hunt (International Tour); The Secret Garden (Theatre By The Lake/ York Theatre Royal); Extra Yarn (The Orange Tree); Pocket Comedy (Propeller); Strangers On A Train (West End); A Christmas Carol/ Alice In Wonderland (New Vic Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Oxford Shakespeare Company); The Dead Of Night/ Not Half Bard/ The Petworth Plays (Hotspur Theatre); Six Seeds (National Theatre/ Told By an Idiot); The Venetian Twins (Bolton Octagon); The Deep Blue Sea (Theatre Royal Bath/ Tour/ West End); The Robbers/ TheTempest (The Faction); Twelfth Night (Creation); Bonnie & Clyde/ A Picture of Dorian Grey (Ruby In The Dust); The Glass Menagerie (English Theatre of Hamburg); Richard III/ Our Day Out (York Theatre Royal); Peter Pan (Kevin Wood Productions).
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Seren Sandham-Davies - Beryl (and others)
Seren studied at Laine Theatre Arts, with further training at National Youth Theatre and NYMT.
Theatre includes: Katie Brown in Calamity Jane (UK & Ireland Tour), Cora in Calendar Girls (Aberystwyth Arts Centre), Nicola in Kinky Boots (Storyhouse), Gloria in Brassed Off (Derby Theatre), Agnes in Gypsy (The Mill, Sonning), Cynthia Weil in Beautiful the Carole King Musical (UK tour), Cherry Sundae in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Aberystwyth Arts Centre), Patsy/ 1st cover Polly in Crazy for You (UK Tour and The Watermill Theatre), Ensemble in Zorro: The Musical (Hope Mill Theatre), Stacey in Beauty and The Beast (Theatr Clwyd), Beauty and Choreographer in Beauty and The Beast (Sutton Coldfield Town Hall), Consuela/Dance Captain in West Side Story (Victoria Warehouse), Eileen in The Same Sky (Derby Guildhall), Ensemble in Rock Around The Clock (UK and international tour), Singer/ Dancer (MV Voyager), Princess in Aladdin (Stafford Gatehouse), Genie of the Ring in Aladdin (Wyvern Theatre).
Seren is also a member of the all-girl rock and roll group ‘The Daisy Chains’.
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Tam Williams - Director
Tam is an associate artist with The Orange Tree Theatre and co-founder of Wild Pursuit.
Theatre includes:The Tempest (Jermyn Street Theatre; The Fantastic Follies of Mrs Rich, Miss Littlewood (both RSC Swan Season 2018); The Lottery of Love (Orange Tree Theatre); Sunny Afternoon (Hampstead Theatre & West End); Chariots of Fire (Hampstead Theatre & West End); The Rivals (West End, A Midsummer Night’s Dream both directed by Sir Peter Hall; Twelfth Night, The Taming of the Shrew (for Propeller at Watermill, Old Vic, RSC Complete Works, National & International Tour); The Winter’s Tale (for Propeller at Watermill, National & International Tour); Remember This (National Theatre); Birdy (Lyric Hammersmith & West End); Henry the Sixth, Part III (Regional & International Tour), The Park (both for the RSC); The Matchmaker (Chichester Festival Theatre);
Film & TV includes: 1242: Gateway to the West, Dragonheart V, Spectre, Holby City, A Touch of Frost, Killer Net, Casualty, The Trench.
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Sally Hughes - Producer
Sally Hughes is Artistic Director of The Mill at Sonning Theatre in Oxfordshire, where this production of STILL LIFE was first performed in The Mill’s Waterwheel Bar.
In 1994 she took over as Artistic Director of The Mill which has continued to operate as a commercial theatre since it opened in 1982. The Mill frequently punches above it’s weight and in recent years has garnered five star national reviews for its musicals, including Gypsy, which won the UK Theatre Award for Best Musical in 2024.
Sally is also a director and actor. Productions she has directed include THE RAINMAKER, STEPPING OUT, FRENCH WITHOUT TEARS, A PIECE OF CAKE, ENCHANTED APRIL, CALENDAR GIRLS, PASTIMES (National Tour), BAREFOOT IN THE PARK (Jermyn Street Theatre) and many more.
She graduated from the Webber Douglas Academy and was first employed as an actress in COMING OF AGE (National Tour); ARE YOU NOW OR HAVE YOU EVER BEEN? (Bush); CATCHPENNY TWIST (King’s Head); DAMES AT SEA (Royal Gala); A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY - THE STORY OF DORIS DAY - The Mill, Wiltons Theatre, Edinburgh Festival and the El Portal Theatre, Los Angeles U.S.A; TOO MARVELOUS FOR WORDS (director, Alvin Rakoff); ALPHABETICAL ORDER and THE HEIRESS (director Anthony Valentine).
TV appearances include KEEPING UP APPEARANCES, LAURA AND DISORDER, LATE EXPECTATIONS, MULBERRY, BRUSH STROKES, DON’T WAIT UP, and KIDNAPPED ABROAD.
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Andrea Duncan - Stage Manager
Andrea originally trained as an actress, winning the coveted Guildhall School of Music and Drama Acting Gold Medal. She went on to appear in many onstage roles, including working alongside Derek Jacobi in Kean at the Old Vic.
But the call of backstage was too strong, and for the last 35 years Andrea has been a Stage Manager in the West End and regionally. Shows include The Phantom of the Opera, Cats, Starlight Express, The Rocky Horror Show and many more plays and musicals. For 18 years she was the Presenters Stage Manager for the Olivier Awards. She has done seasons at Garsington Opera and is a Technical team mentor at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. For eight years she ran an Arts Centre Venue in Buckinghamshire and most recently was the resident Deputy Stage Manager at the Mill at Sonning.
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Graham Weymouth - Sound Designer
Graham trained at the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts in Technical Theatre, and has been creating soundscapes for theatre productions ever since. He is Technical Manager at the Mill at Sonning, where he has had the pleasure of recording and compiling all the music, SFX and voice-overs for the in-house productions, capturing such voices as Brian Blessed and Debbie McGee.
He is at present recording his fourth audio play for La Bonne Crepe Productions, adding to plays like The Game Goes On and Revenge of the Atomic Zombie Things from Hell.
The soundscape for Still Life was created with the assistance of Henry Horn.
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Max Marchment - Sound Operator
Max Marchment is the Co-Company Director of Industrial Sound Light & Stage, through which he has become Head of Sound and now Technical Director for Fundamentally Dance.
Max works across a variety of projects ranging from Theatre, Dance, Live Music, Film, Event and Outside Broadcast. His recent credits include Associate Sound Designer for Wilko: Love And Death and Rock N Roll, Associate Sound Designer for Ruth: A Noir Musical, Senior Audio Engineer for the BAFTA’S 2026 Red Carpet Hologram Experience, and A2 on the Paris Olympics 2024 Opening Ceremony.
Max is now set to make his solo creative debut in September 2026 as Sound Designer and Technical Director for The Brown Suite, an unmissable dance-theatre experience to the sound of James Brown, touring both national and international venues.
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Samuel Gillingham-Laine
Samuel is Co-Company Director of Industrial Sound Light & Stage. He has worked in the industry as a Sound Engineer, Stage Manager and Lighting Technician on productions such as Ballet Nights, Live Odyssey, Wilko: Love and Death and Rock 'n Roll, Ruth: A Noir Musical, The FA Cup, and many more. He also takes on Producing, Sound Design and Crew contributions for Film and TV.
Samuel now looks toward the release of his short film, Unto the Mouth of Hell, a medieval horror, and Stage Management role on the large scale touring production of The Brown Suite.
Producers
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The Mill at Sonning
Set majestically on the banks of the River Thames, The Mill at Sonning is a celebrated producing house, creating outstanding theatre and entertainment for over 44 years.
Renowned for the quality and ambition of its work, The Mill brings together leading directors, designers, actors and musicians. Award-winning productions have included Gypsy and My Fair Lady, alongside an ambitious programme of plays, musicals, concerts and new work.
The Mill is also known for its innovative approach to theatre. Still Life, Noël Coward’s classic play which inspired Brief Encounter, was first produced here as an immersive production in our Waterwheel Bar — the first of three immersive projects directed by Tam Williams for The Mill.
Our intimate 218-seat, semi-round auditorium brings audiences close to the action, while our restaurant overlooking the Thames completes the unique Mill experience of fine dining followed by a first-class theatre performance.
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Bob & Co.
Bob Benton founded Bob and Co. with the intention of telling great stories via theatre .
Currently in development: Rachel Wagstaff’s adaption of The Good Liars; The Last Romantics, a play set against the life and music of Ivor Novello; Kidson, a play about an inspirational teacher .
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The Noel Coward Foundation
The Noël Coward Foundation was set up as a charitable trust in 2000 by Graham Payn and Dany Dasto. Its aim is to award grants to educational and professional development projects across the performing arts, and to continue the keen interest Coward himself took in charitable work during his lifetime.
The Foundation is proud to support a diverse range of outstanding organisations working in theatre, music, playwriting, technical training, academic research and many other areas.