Actors at Fresh Ink

Actors

Meet the company of actors who will perform our plays, script-in-hand, at Fresh Ink: Hull Playwriting Festival 2024
Alice Beaumont, a white woman in her 30s with dark brown hair, wearing a black jumper and blue jeans, leaning towards the camera.

Alice Beaumont

Alice is a freelance actor based in Hull. She trained at Arts Educational Schools London, where she lived and worked for 4 years. After being cast in Middle Child’s production of Apples in 2012 ,she left the capital and moved to Hull. For Middle Child Alice has appeared in Weekend Rockstars, All We Ever Wanted Was Everything, This One’s For Us and Modern Life Is Rubbish, as well as performing in 10 of Middle Child’s annual pantomimes, often being booed as the baddie.

Appears in:

Can We Be Friends? by Hannah Scorer
A Play and a Plate

Cassiopeia Berkeley-Agyepong, a black woman with dark brown eyes looks to the camera. She wears a blue collared shirt and has black box braids styled into a bob.

Cassiopeia Berkeley-Agyepong

Cassiopeia Berkeley-Agyepong is a director, writer and performer from Croydon, passionate about new writing. Her creative practice focuses on collaborating with others to reimagine canonic material and creating original work which champions underrepresented voices. Training: Royal Academy of Music; University of York. Selected Highlights as performer include: Just For One Day (Old Vic); Into The Woods (Theatre Royal Bath); Earth Makes No Sound (Southbank Centre & Hull Jazz Festival); The Phantom of the Opera (UK Tour); Caroline, or Change (Playhouse Theatre, West End)

Appears in:

Senzeni Na? by Prince Kundai

Charlie, a white man, with shoulder length dark blonde hair in a windswept style. He has blue eyes and is wearing a navy t-shirt. He has a stubble. He is looking at the camera with a poised expression.

Charlie Blanshard

Charlie is a Hull born actor and writer, who trained at Rose Bruford College. Since graduating last year, he has worked with companies such as Hull Truck, Middle Child, and The English Theatre Company. Recently touring Europe for three months performing three new pieces of writing. Charlie is super excited to work with Middle Child again as he is passionate about bringing quality theatre to the North and celebrating its voices.

Appears in:

Isabelle by Marc Graham
Can We Be Friends? by Hannah Scorer

Emma Bright, a white woman, with long brown hair half up half down, wearing a black shirt stares straight in to the camera with a neutral expression. She has green eyes.

Emma Bright

Emma’s theatre credits includes: All We Ever Wanted Was Everything (Middle Child/The Bush/Paines Plough) 25, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Cinderella, Dick Whittington, Modern Life is Rubbish, The Dancing Dead and Tomorrow Never Happens all for Middle Child. Other work includes: Consequences (Hull Truck Theatre), Close (Sheffield Theatres), Flood Part 3: To The Sea(Slung Low/BBC Performance Live), Flood Part 4: New World(Slung Low), Gobble (Bellow Theatre), A Super Happy Story About Being Super Sad (Silent Uproar), Dancehall (Cast, Doncaster). Emma is a founding member of Middle Child.

Appears in:

Isabelle by Marc Graham

Ione Brown

Ione Brown

Appears in:

Senzeni Na? by Prince Kundai

Jack Chamberlain, a white man of slim build with brown hair wearing glasses and a green t-shirt smiles at the camera. He has hazel eyes.

Jack Chamberlain

Jack is an actor, musician and theatre maker based in Hull. Jack is an advocate for new writing and regularly performs in new writing events in Hull, enjoying the opportunity to be part of the development of work in its early stages. Theatre credits include 71 Coltman Street (Hull Truck Theatre), 101 Dalmatians (Birmingham Repertory Theatre), Bomb Happy (Everwitch Theatre), Dancehall (CAST) & six Middle Child pantomimes.

Appears in:

Isabelle by Marc Graham
A Play and a Plate

Sophie Clay, a white woman with blonde hair, wearing a black top looking at the camera. She had green eyes.

Sophie Clay

Sophie is a Hull based actor, theatre maker and founding member of Middle Child Theatre company. Her recent credits include: GRIMM (Sugar Punch), Leviathan (From Below), GRIMM (Sugar Punch), A Great Pirate Adventure (Hull Truck),Three Wise Women (SHE Productions) All The People Who Are More F***D Than Me (Middle Child), Dungeons and Dragons: Yorkshire Nerdiest and Naughtiest Christmas Show (Silent Uproar), The Whispering Jungle (Concrete Youth), Beverly Does Broadway (She Productions), Ducklings (The Herd), Ten Storey Love Song (Middle Child), A Super Happy Story About Feeling Super Sad (Silent Uproar)

Appears in:

Can We Be Friends? by Hannah Scorer
Van Man by Sid Sagar
A Play and a Plate

Rachel Dale, a 40 something white woman in a black top, with short curly brunette hair and green eyes, is looking to camera with a slightly smiling/ slightly knowing look

Rachel Dale

Theatre includes: To Have and To Hold (Hampstead Theatre): Absolute Hell (National Theatre); The Hypocrite (RSC/Hull Truck); The Gaul; Pub Quiz is Life (Hull Truck); The Love Project (EdFringe – Ideastap Underbelly Award); You Once Said Yes (EdFringe – Fringe First); Talking in Bed (Theatre503); Fuente Ovejuna (Southwark Playhouse); The Caravan (Fringe First Award/Royal Court). TV work includes Miss Scarlet and the Duke; Hollyoaks; Hullraisers; The Bay; The A Word; Doctors; Four Lives; Coronation Street; Silent Witness; Girlfriends; Casualty; In the Club. Rachel also writes and performs character comedy and is a regular performer and dramaturg for Scene and Heard.

Appears in:

No Woman Is An Island by Rosie Race
Jack & Gill by Grace Waga Glevey

Marc Graham, a white man, black hair, wearing a blue jumper, looking directly at the camera

Marc Graham

For Middle Child Marc has appeared in All We Ever Wanted Was Everything; Ten Storey Love Song; Weekend Rockstars; Saturday Night & Sunday Morning; Modern Life Is Rubbish; When You Cure Me; 25; and the dame in multiple Middle Child pantomimes. Other theatre credits include: The Climbers (Theatre by the Lake); A Very Expensive Poison (Old Vic); Brighton Rock (UK Tour); Flood (Slung Low); The Gaul; Dancing Through the Shadows (Hull Truck); and Another Someone (RashDash). Film credits include: England is Mine.

Appears in:

Van Man by Sid Sagar
A Play and a Plate

Kate Hampson

Kate Hampson

Kate Hampson was born, brought up and lives in Yorkshire. She trained at York St John University and the Utrecht School of Arts. Kate’s theatre experiences include: Romeo & Juliet (Manchester Royal Exchange), The Coppergate Woman (York Theatre Royal), The Railway Children (Hull Truck), Tapestry (Northern Broadsides), Mary Barton (Alnwick Playhouse & tour), Trouble (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Gaudette (Obra Theatre Company), Not Yours Mine (Oldham Coliseum), Vignettes (Hope Mill Theatre). Television credits include: Happy Valley (BBC), Doctors (BBC), I’m With Stupid (BBC), Emmerdale (ITV), Eternal Law (Kudos/ITV), Hollyoaks (Channel 4), Where The Heart Is (ITV), 4 O’ Clock Club (CBBC), Coronation Street (ITV), Better (BBC), The Bay (ITV).

Appears in:

Isabelle by Marc Graham

Elle Ideson

Originally from Hull, Rosie Race trained in choreography and visual performance at Dartington College of Arts, before graduating from RADA in 2018. She is a freelance actor and writer and a core member of Quirk Theatre in Devon. She works as a movement director and is associate artist at Theatre Royal Plymouth, where her first full length show Us Against The World opened in February 2024.

Appears in:

Can We Be Friends? by Hannah Scorer
A Play and a Plate

Karabo Magooa, a black woman of petite build with dark brown eyes, long black locs and wearing a green shirt gazing at the camera

Karabo Magooa

Karabo is a South African actor currently located in Hampshire and London. She is skilled in singing, as well as speaking several languages including English, Sotho and Zulu. Since she was a young girl she has always admired the performing arts, which led to her studying acting and performance in university. Karabo’s love for acting has continued to grow since then and she is constantly working to improve herself and her craft. She is deeply passionate about storytelling and committed to bringing honesty and life to every character and story.

Appears in:

Senzeni Na? by Prince Kundai

Dan McGarry, a white male in his early 40s with a shaved head and closely cropped greying beard looks at the camera with his brown eyes and a half-smile. He wears a maroon t-shirt.

Dan McGarry

Originally from Hull, Dan McGarry is an actor, writer and director who has been making theatre for over 20 years. He has toured all over the UK and Europe as well as taking shows to the US and the Middle East. As an actor, his most recent credits include Humans at Work (Warwick Arts Centre), Seeking Isolde (National Tour for Standing 8), 60 Miles by Road or Rail and The Night Before Christmas (Royal and Derngate, Northampton), Urban Astronaut (Highly Sprung), Fighting Irish (Belgrade Theatre, Coventry) and Baby, He Loves You (Middle Child, Hull).

Appears in:

Phobia by Andrew Houghton

Josie Morley, a white woman of slim build with blonde hair and blue eyes, is smiling at the camera. She is wearing a green jumper and is resting her head on her hand.

Josie Morley

Hull born and bred, actor musician Josie trained at the University of Hull and graduated with a degree in Drama and Theatre Practice in 2013. With over ten years experience, she has worked at venues including Hull Truck Theatre, Birmingham Rep, Liverpool Everyman, Derby Theatre & Theatre Royal Wakefield and has performed in award-winning & critically acclaimed productions with companies such as Middle Child Theatre, The Roaring Girls and the John Godber Company. Josie most recently appeared as Jack Lumber in Red Riding Hood – her tenth rock and roll Panto with Middle Child.

Appears in:

Isabelle by Marc Graham
No Woman Is An Island by Rosie Race
A Play and a Plate

Jo, a white, androgynous looking, non-binary woman with short dark brown hair and hazel eyes, looks into the camera with a gentle closed-mouth smile. She is wearing a mustard coloured knitted jumper against a dark grey background.

Jo Patmore

Jo (She/They) is an LGBTQ+ identifying actor, singer and musician from the East Riding of Yorkshire. Jo trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and graduated in 2020. Credits include: Ladies Down Under (New Vic Theatre), Romeo & Juliet (ActionToTheWord), Beverley Does Broadway (East Riding Theatre), Ladies Day (New Vic Theatre & Bolton Octagon), The Pirates of Christmas Island (She Productions), As You Like It (Northern Broadsides), Frost Hollow Hall (East Riding Theatre), Queen Mab (Flux Theatre), Rogers and Hart and Hammerstein (BBC Radio 3), Buzzing (BOVTS), Her Naked Skin (BOVTS), The Snow Queen (BOVTS).

Appears in:

Phobia by Andrew Houghton

A British East and Southeast Asian woman, of medium build, black hair with a few visible grey strands, long hair done up in a bun, wearing a black round neck top. She has dark brown eyes and is smiling slightly.

Lucy Sheen

Made in Hong Kong, exported to the UK as a transracial adoptee. A dyslexic actor, published playwright, poet, short story and non-fiction writer, (nom de plume Lucy Chau Lai-Tuen). An award-winning filmmaker. Activist, advocate of British East & Southeast Asians working on stage and screen. An advocate for transracial adoptees.
Lucy loves Dim sum, Yorkshire puddings and tea. But not necessarily in that order. She is of East and Southeast Asian heritage, (Hong-Kong Chinese colonial era, and from the D’ai minority). Trained at The Rose Bruford College of Speech & Drama graduated in ‘84 with a BA(Hons) in Theatre arts.

Appears in:

Jack & Gill by Grace Waga Glevey

Matt Sutton

Matt Sutton

Theatre work includes: Big, Big Sky (Hampstead); The Culture (Hull Truck); Utility (Orange Tree); The House They Grew Up In (Headlong/Chichester); The Hypocrite (RSC); Toast (Park Theatre/UK tour/Off-Broadway); Cinderella (Lyric Hammersmith); The Ladykillers (Hull Truck/New Vic); Jumpers for Goalposts (Paines Plough/Bush Theatre); Steve And Then It Ended (Theatre 503); King Lear (RSC – UK tour/New York); The Game (Northern Broadsides); Romeo and Juliet (Northern Broadsides); Up on Roof (Hull Truck); The Magic Paintbrush (Leeds Playhouse); Me & My Friend (King’s Head) and Night Cellar (BAC). Film work includes: The Duke; A Royal Night Out; Peter – Portrait of a Serial Killer and Goal! 2 – Living the Dream. Television work includes: Funny Woman; Hullraisers; Alma’s Not Normal; FBI: International; The Irregulars; Breeders; Outlander; Emmerdale; Guerrilla; BBC: The Secret Files (series 1 & 2); Our Zoo; Hoff the Record and No Offence.

Appears in:

Jack & Gill by Grace Waga Glevey
No Woman Is An Island by Rosie Race

Fresh Ink Co-Founder and Producer: Middle Child. Fresh Ink Co-Founder and Sponsor: Wykeland Group. Fresh Ink Supporters: J F Brignall Charitable Trust. Hull and East Riding Charitable Trust. I Am Fund. Two Ridings Community Foundation. The Warren Youth Project. Hull Truck Theatre. Garrick Charitable Trust.