The Creatives

Formed from a group of good friends, Amicantus is a synergy of some of the best voices and musical talent in the Warwickshire area.
They are available for everything from weddings to corporate events to almost any kind of function. Just contact them via email or Twitter to discuss your requirements.

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Theatre work includes: Shoot The Bugger  (Firebox Theatre); Alice’s Tea Party, Aladdin and Snow White (All for Head2Head Theatre); Don Q and The Government Inspector (Both for Flintlock Theatre), The Snow Queen (Pegasus Theatre), Oh! What a Lovely War (Guildford Theatre Company), Hergé’s Adventures of Tintin (Young Vic) and Young Dick Barton: The Devil Wears Tweed and Young Dick Barton: The Making of a Legend (both for the Croydon Warehouse).

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Vivi Bayliss is a freelance theatre-maker from the Midlands, specialising in inter-disciplinary performance. Her experience covers musical theatre, opera and devised performance, as well as an extensive background in providing theatre for young people at companies including Chipping Norton Theatre and Millfield School. Directing credits include Bard from the Barn S3 E3 for Barn Theatre, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Love and Information for Millfield School and Euridice/Jonas/Jephte for Ensemble OrQuesta. Choreography credits include 7 Ways to Calm the F**k Down and Road for 3BUGS Fringe Theatre, Mamma Mia Medley for Birmingham University Dance Society and Grease and Twelfth Night for Alcester Grammar School.

Elliott is an actor, voice artist and youtuber.
His channel Hakuna Machatter discusses representation and diversity in the film and TV industry.

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Geraldine loves contributing to the new writing scene as an actor and writer and her voice was heard in the Sainsbury’s 2020 Christmas campaign. She has performed regularly in The Space’s ScriptSpace online season during lockdown and played the Giant Seal and Mrs Claus in The Space live stream Christmas 2020 production of The Saving of Santa. She also performs regularly with Shake-Scene Shakespeare (2021 roles include Mistress Quickly in The Merry Wives of Windsor and Henry V). Geraldine also writes solo performance pieces (most recently Art History at the Tristan Bates, London in February 2020) and co-curated a series of solo performance events, Monorogue, at the Old Red Lion and Hen and Chickens in London.  Other stage credits include Anfisa in The Three Sisters, Alonso in The Tempest (Cockpit Theatre) and Die Alte in A Bright Room Called Day (Bath Fringe Festival). Film includes Bardo with Feature One and Hi, How Are You? with Valmore Productions (supporting roles). Geraldine trained with the Actors Temple and the Salon:collective.

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Fran Burgoyne is an actor and voice artist. Stage work includes almost playing Girl in Theatre Hullabaloo’s Baba Yaga (postponed by the pandemic), the deliciously awful Natasha in Three Sisters (Union Theatre), the youngest of The Railway Children and the oldest wife in Communicating Doors (Leatherhead and Swannage rep), and the world’s worst tour guide in the ground-breaking immersive show Madhouse Re:Exit (Access All Area’s). She can be heard on Audible reading The Ordshaw series – an urban fantasy series with really great monsters and seriously rude fairies. She can be seen talking to herself on her Instagram.

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Jackie is an award-winning playwright, novelist, musician and designer. She has twice been a winner of the Kenneth Branagh Award for New Drama, and was shortlisted for the Fringe Guru Audience Choice Award at the Brighton Fringe. She is Artistic Director at QuirkHouse Theatre, an independent company she founded with her husband, actor AJ Deane. She lives in Suffolk in a house apparently owned by two cats. They allow her to keep a lot of books, as long as she keeps feeding them.

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Artistic Director at QuirkHouse Theatre Company

Tristan trained in Musical Theatre at Guildford School of Acting, has a Theatre Studies Degree from Rose Bruford University and a Teaching Diploma from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
He is the Director and Head of Acting at Curtain Up Theatre School and Bath School of Acting and has an extensive directing CV from Dr Faustus to Les Miserables for both youth and adult groups.
Tristan also has varied acting credits including commercial, theatre, corporate, promenade and screen.
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John trained at Glyndwr University.
He is an Actor Combatant with the APC

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Danica is an actress, producer and theatre maker from Wednesbury, West Midlands. After studying acting at Arts Educational Schools London, she co-founded theatre company Wonderbox.
With Wonderbox, she has produced and developed a series of feminist theatre pieces including A Womb of One’s Own, (Trying out new) Material Girl and FFS! (Feminist Fable Series).
Recent credits include Late Night Horror (Pleasance London) and audio play Night Shift (Calling the Shots / BBC New Creatives).
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Zoe is a film actor and voiceover artist.

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Rebecca is an actor, singer, and advanced level actor combatant with the APC. Her specialist areas include theatre in the community, Shakespeare, feminist theatre, musicals, and improvisation. Rebecca is new to sound and voice work and is excited to be a part of it.

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Jeannie is an actor, voiceover artist and mindset coach for others in the arts industry.

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Maisie started her training at Guildford School of Acting in musical theatre.
Alongside performing, she is also as stage combat instructor and fight performer.

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Richard has been writing for the theatre for several years, has had success at festivals and has had his work produced in and outside of London, including; The Pleasance, Theatre 503, The Red Lion, The Bread and Roses, The Chiswick Playhouse and in Brighton and Chelmsford.
In 2019 he had a play, Room Service, produced which received 5-Star reviews and was commended for an Offie. In the same year he also had another play, The Great Escapers, performed that received 4-Star reviews.
Originally from a village in Warwickshire, he left school at eighteen and worked on a building site. Other jobs include; bar work, a courier and working on a tobacco farm for an ex-member of the SS. He has distilled his strange time working for an ex-Nazi into a play that had a rehearsed reading in November 2021.

Nigel was born into a family with significant focus on the performing arts – music, drama and radio broadcasting – although largely on the amateur side. Nigel spoke his first lines on stage at the age of 9, and subsequently took increasingly major roles each year throughout his school career, acting in Shakespeare, Gilbert & Sullivan, Oscar Wilde, and – during his first year at Uni – in Georg Buchner. Fate took a twist when he dropped out of Uni, and he found himself instead pursuing a career in business management, all his subsequent performances then being purely within the family. This opportunity to write for Theatrephonic is his first ever venture into script writing.

Peter Foster (1923-1998) was father to Nigel Foster. When going through his personal effects, Nigel found some pieces of creative writing. It wasn’t until beginning to write for Theatrephonic, that Nigel thought it would be nice to have some of Peter’s works adapted for the podcast.

Helen is delighted to be working with Theatrephonic. It was Emmeline who introduced her to podcasts around 18 months ago when they worked together in Rain or Shine theatre‘s As You Like It.  So it feels exciting to be working on these audio plays together.
Recent performances include: Aunt Lil by Catherine O’Hanlon; Eppie by Burtie Welland. On podcasts you can hear her in a recent bonus episode of The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret (a Terry Pratchett discworld podcast) playing the Granny Wetherwax inspired “Crone”. And out on the 29th April 2021 she has several cameos on the Musical pirate podcast The Ballad of Anne and Mary by Longcat Media.
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Mollie trained at Birmingham Theatre School.
She is also a singer and plays the ukelele.
Mollie founded Second Best Bed Theatre Company, which produces role-reversal Shakespeare, offering up a new perspective on his works.

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Kaitlin is a professional actress, director and singer who trained at The Bridge Theatre Training Company. In 2014 she won a Studio Theatre Award and a Manchester Theatre Award for her performance in the one woman show The Alphabet Girl. She is also a Senior Stage Combat Instructor and Examiner with The Academy of Performance Combat, and one of only three women on the Equity Register of Fight Directors.

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Having been a jobbing actor for over twenty years, two years ago Sally returned to drama school to do the MA acting course at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.
She has co-developed a film with a difference about Alzheimer’s, written by Vanessa McCartney: Confessions of a Memory Thief.

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Carolyn has been a full-time writer for TV, radio and theatre for over twenty years, including contemporary, historical and political drama, and children’s television.
She was a regular writer on the TV police series, The Bill, The Archers and Radio 4, and is now working with BBC TV Doctors.
She wrote Tales from the Edge as a series of monologues featuring characters who find themselves living at the edge of society. Filmed by the actors themselves at home in lockdown, you can watch the entire series via the website.
In children’s television, she wrote episodes for CBBC’s BAFTA-winning Pig Heart Boy and received BAFTA and Royal Television Society nominations for her own original Victorian mystery drama, Shadowplay.
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As an actor, Tom’s recent credits include Dracula and A Christmas Carol for Truestory Theatre Company. As a director he has worked on various Shakespeare plays, a ghost story and a series of classic novels and novellas turned comedy… As a fight choreographer Tom’s recent credits include ‘The Merry Wives of Windsor’ – RSC, ‘Timon of Athens’ – RSC, ‘Macbeth’ – Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru, ‘Frankenstein’ – Truestory, ‘Romeo and Juliet’ – Handlebards, ‘Hamlet’ – Handlebards.
He is an experienced Stage Combat Instructor, recognised as an RSC Associate Practitioner and also works regularly as an acting tutor for the Institute of Contemporary Theatre.

Rob Studied at The Bridge Theatre Training Company.
He holds advanced performance combat qualifications with the APC.
Rob also runs The Growlery which builds sets and other projects.

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Lydia is a saxophonist and actor-musician. She is currently studying for a BASc in Arts and Sciences at University College London.

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Danielle worked in radio in 2012 and is delighted to be returning to audio drama with Theatrephonic. She is currently working with a fellow criminologist practitioner in Los Angeles on a syllabus for ‘Criminal Profiling as a Theatrical tool’, and runs workshops on the subject, most recently for Shoebox Theatre. She is also working with a European team on an educational programme that she created currently called the CLADE process, hoping to bring mental health to the forefront of school age learning.
As well as her passion for education, Danielle has been Company Director (and resident Tweeter) for Rain or Shine Theatre Company since 2015 and runs The Action Emporium, providing Stage Combat and Theatrical events and training. She writes for ‘Gaming Mommies’ magazine in the US and is one third of the Paranormal Podcast Paranormal Tourists. 

Recent acting credits include VESTIGE (Hopwood Films), Winner Best Actor CKF International Film Festival 2020, Winner Best Acting Duo Hollywood Blood Horror Festival 2020; TO BUILD A WOODEN O (Malvernbard), The Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon.
Recent directing credits include MEDEA (Worcester Young Rep); Macbeth (Tread the Boards) WIND IN THE WILLOWS (Rain or Shine); SOMEONE WHO’LL WATCH OVER ME (Tread the Boards); AS YOU LIKE IT (Rain or Shine); TWELFTH NIGHT (Worcester Rep); LOST THE PLOT (Malvernbard/Worcester Rep); RICHARD III (Tread the Boards). Jon has also presented and produced on BBC local and National radio.

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Jayne trained at Rose Burford College (RBDip Ed) and University of Kent (BA Hons) She started Rain or Shine Theatre Company in 1998 and has produced every play since, as well as acting in most of them!

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Tilly Lunken is a writer and dramaturg. Graduate of the Royal Court YWP and Criterion WP. BA from the Melbourne University and MA Creative Writing from UEA. Recent credits: World King (Miniaturists, Arcola Theatre), Beastly Belle (Norwich Puppet Theatre, National Tour) and Hip. Hip. Hippo. (Drunkplays, Twitter). She is currently writing Undermined: The Fatberg Musical! With Michael Clulow.

Honey McKenna is an actress & creative from and based in South East Wales. Some of the things she does for money or sometimes just for fun include: singing, dancing, DJing, photography, videography, Doing Events, making music and voice acting. When not doing these things she likes talking to her cats in daft voices & is rediscovering the ancient arts of “reading for pleasure” and “writing things”. 

Chris Meekings is a writer from Gloucester. 
Several of his works have appeared on Bizarro Central’s Flash Fiction Friday. His bizarro novella, Elephant Vice, was released in 2015 as part of the New Bizarro Authors’ Series. His novel, Ravens and Writing Desks, was published in 2016 by Omnium Gatherum. He is a founding member of the British Bizarro Community who recently released the anthology The Bumper Book of British Bizarro, all profits of which go towards the Mermaids Trust. 
This is the first play he’s ever written.

Pippa trained in Musical Theatre at The Hammond, Chester
Other skills include: Intermediate Combat (APC), Horse Riding, Musical Theatre.

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Hereward is a software engineer who occasionally moonlights as an actor. He also sings and plays double bass, even when asked not to. He is part of the Softwire Musical Collective and The Box is his second radio play.

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Heath trained at the Identity School of Acting.
As well as an actor, she plays guitar, drums and is a singer songwriter. Her one-woman show Definitely Louise received high acclaim at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2019.

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Jason is a writer, director & artist from Northern Ireland who does a bit of acting on the side. He holds a B Ed. drama & literature from Cambridge University and is a facilitator in each of those areas. He has held artist and writer residencies at 2 national museums, 3 regional theatres, a hospital, several care homes & the national arboretum. He co-founded Theatre Without Walls with Genevieve Swift in 2002 and has won several awards including for work in drug & alcohol rehabilitation, projects with adults with learning difficulties and an NHS commendation for work with dementia patients. He continues to undertake research alongside creative projects and has created education and social programmes for numerous arts organisations, local authorities and charities incl. early intervention and childhood literacy projects, work in interface/divided communities and studies on the impact of arts on health in care settings. Jason has written over 30 scripts including work for stage, theatre in education, Forum/Theatre of the oppressed, film & audio. Other writing includes short stories, poetry and journalism. He has directed over 70 professional, youth and community theatre productions and produced numerous site specific & street theatre events around the UK & Ireland. 

Robert trained at East 15 Acting School and Circomedia: Centre for Contemporary Circus and Physical Theatre.
His other skills include: Gymnastics, Tumbling, Acrobatics, Aerial, Stage Combat (Honours level with the APC), Physical Theatre and Music (Saxophone/Clarinet).

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Jackson trained at the University of Bristol and The Bristol Academy of Performing Arts.
Writer, Composer, Instrumentalist, and excellent coffee companion!

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Franco-American Victorine Pontillon is as a freelance director, writer and producer. After obtaining her BFA in Theatre Performance from FAU, she completed her MA in Acting (International) at East 15, and is currently an Artistic Director, co-producer and director for In Souliloquy. 

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Jasmine is an Actor and recent ArtsEd graduate. She is also loves audio dramas and cannot wait to get behind the mic with Theatrephonic.

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A proud Welshman and native of Swansea, Luke studied acting at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. Since graduation he has followed a path typical of many young actors trying to gain experience across as many genres as possible, ranging from a Torchwood radio play to an advert for Ford Motor Company. On the big screen, Luke played the part of Nathan (a psychopathic killer) in Ruthless, a feature length film by a new director. On stage, Luke has recently finished A Prayer for Wings, written and directed by Sean Mathias, at the Kings Head Theatre, London. An expert in stage combat, Luke has also taken part in a range of combat related projects. 
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Mary is an Australian/ Greek actor who trained at Drama Studio London. 

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Matt Salmon trained at East 15 Acting School and has mainly worked in touring interactive theatre and has travelled throughout the UK, Italy, Malaysia and China over the last 6 years. Matt’s acting credits include working as a presenter for SAMAJAM, a puppeteer for The Sooty Show and an evil singing octopus for Penguins of Madagascar Live! He is based in Somerset and loves to travel the world at any opportunity!
Matt also loves to write fantasy and science-fiction books, short stories and plays. He is self-publishing his novel Gifted in May 2021 and currently producing several audio plays to be released later this year.
Matt founded Robert Solomon Management in 2018 and works as a talent agent representing several artists and has got them work in commercials, interactive theatre and voiceover projects.
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While attending a demonstration in radiology, Ashley Shiers was bitten by a radioactive actor. Through a miracle of science, Ashley soon found that he had gained the actor’s powers…and had, in effect, become a human actor!
Ashley is a former professional wrestler trained by Lance Storm in Calgary, Canada, and has a strong background in stage combat with several qualifications with the APC. He is also an accomplished guitarist having toured UK, Europe and Canada with several bands.
Ashley has a YouTube channel where he posts videos of Shakespeare’s sonnets with modern translations.

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Silvandar writes speculative fiction, primarily with LGBTQ+ characters, and often features mental health difficulties,  social issues, and disabilities.
She regularly submits short stories and flash fiction to online magazines, and is open to contact from publishers and agents.
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Tracey Sinclair is a freelance writer and editor. She writes regularly for a range of publications including The Stage and Exeunt and is the author of several books, including Doll, The Bridesmaid Blues and the Dark Dates series. After living in Glasgow, Sheffield, London and Brighton, she recently returned to her home city of Newcastle, where she is now based full-time. Bystanders is her first play. 

Andrew trained in Directing ARTTS International

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Dru trained at The Royal Birmingham Conservatoire (previously known as The Birmingham School of Acting).

Dru is also a singer, has intermediate performance combat qualifications and as of October 2020, has just recorded for The Archers.

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Genevieve is an actress, voice-over artist and storyteller. Her television work includes roles in Dr Who, Casualty and Doctors for the BBC whilst on stage she has appeared in numerous plays including (most recently) ‘Desert Island Books’ and ‘Blood Brothers’ and a 6 person Romeo and Juliet. She started radio voice over work at the age of 5 with an ad campaign for Aladdin thermos Flasks followed later by adverts for Longleate Safari Park, several audiobooks and work on BBC Radio 4’s The Baldi Mysteries.
In 2002 Genevieve co founded Theatre Without Walls, a small scale theatre company focused on using site specific drama and storytelling to educate and entertain all ages from early years to adults. 
I love radio drama and helping to develop new work so working with Theatrephonic has been an absolute pleasure

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Joanne graduated from Exeter University in 2003 with a degree in History and Ancient History. She now lives in Aotearoa New Zealand with her husband and cat. She is a mild mannered civil servant by day, and at night fills her life with her hobbies; playing bassoon, going to Sci-Fi meetings, board gaming and occasionally squeezing in the time to write.

Raised in Belfast, Gareth is a classically trained actor whose recent work includes Angelo in The Show Must Go Online’s Measure For Measure, O’Driscoll in Humza Arshad’s Badman, and co-starring in a soon-to-be-announced Netflix show. Gareth is a versatile voice actor with a wide range of accents at his disposal. Known for his dramatic and comedic range, he specialises in character voices for video games, radio plays and animations.

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Michael trained at ArtsEd. Theatre includes Edmund in King Lear, Trigorin in The Seagull), Malvolio in Twelfth Night), Steve in Connections. Michael has starred in Captives (a Netflix production) and several short films including The Sting of the Martyr and Seven Dials. He has also been an announcer on Soho Radio and written cabaret, stand-up comedy, his own solo show, Local and various short solo works at the Old Red Lion and the Hen and Chickens.
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Chloe Wade is an actor, writer and proud northerner from Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. She trained at The International School of Screen Acting and is an alumna of WoLab’s Actor-Writer course. Having worked in film, tv and theatre for over 10 years, Chloe is a versatile actor best known for playing Joanne Grantham in BBC’s Doctors, and the lead role of Emily Davis in the British independent film Honeycomb Lodge (Winner of Best Film at Delhi International Film Festival), directed by Lesley Manning (BBC’s Ghostwatch). Chloe’s passions include female driven narratives, stories that give a voice to the voiceless and work that utilises humour to explore serious issues. Chloe is the reigning champion at Birmingham Rep Theatre’s Monologue Slam with her self-penned comedy piece ‘May I Take Your Order,’ and has just completed her full length play As She Likes It, inspired by the story of #MeToo pioneer Patricia Douglas, which is currently being developed for production as part of the Mercury Theatre Creatives Programme. Chloe recently performed the role of Ophelia in The Secret Love Life of Ophelia, alongside Helen Mirren and will be next seen playing the role of Emily in the film The Fall, directed by Robert Bathurst (Cold Feet/Downton Abbey), airing on ITV later this year, as part of World Suicide Prevention Day.

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Emma is an actress, wife and mother of 3 teenagers. She trained with Bristol Acting Academy at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and made her professional stage debut playing the lead in A Woman’s Life, written by BAFTA-nominated writer Carolyn S Jones in Cheltenham in 2019.  Emma also made her professional screen debut in 2019, playing the lead in a mini docu-drama Domestic Abuse, directed by BBC broadcaster and TV filmmaker Sankha Guha. 
She received praise most recently for Blue Raincoat, part of the Tales from the Edge lockdown monologue series. Amongst other reviews, Simon McBurney (Actor, Co-founder/Director of Complicité ) wrote: “Emma Wilkes’ performance is compelling, beautifully understated and utterly truthful.”
An active member of Everyman Actors’ Lab, Cheltenham, Emma is also gradually building her Voice Over and Radio/Audio career, and was thrilled to have been asked to perform with Theatrephonic!

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Anthony trained at The Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
He is also an accomplished singer, regularly performing for weddings and other events.
For some reason, he keeps on getting cast as ‘Frank’…

In other news – Anthony starred in a musical short film ‘Stuffed‘ which was nominated for a BAFTA!

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