Meet Our Alumni
Maria Aberg
Director
Credits Include: Days of Significance and
As You Like It (Royal Shakespeare Company),
Hotel (National Theatre) and Little Shop of Horrors (Regent's Park Open Air Theatre)
Emily Aboud
Director
Emily is a Trinidadian theatre director.
She was shortlisted for RTST Peter Hall Award in 2023 and shortlisted for the JMK Award in 2022, and 2021.
She is a recipient of the Evening Standard Future Theatre Award.
Recent credits include Tender and Pink Lemonade (Bush Theatre), Rock DJ and Three Other Songs That Saved the World (New Diorama Theatre), Haemosporidian (Lyric Hammersmith), Flip! (Regional tour/Soho Theatre), Lady Dealer (Paines Plough Roundabout, Bush Theatre), SPLINTERED (Soho Theatre Mainhouse, also writer), and BOGEYMAN (Edinburgh Fringe 2022, also writer).
Emily’s work draws inspiration from the political community theatre she grew up making in Trinidad – a combination of music, movement, direct audience address and theatricality.
Kelly Adams
Actor
Credits Include: Death in Paradise, Hustle and Holby City (BBC).
Anthony Adjekum
Actor
Born in Wood Green, North London, Anthony took a BTEC at Chickenshed Theatre and graduated in 1997, before attending Mountview in 2001 on the Tottenham Grammar School Foundation Scholarship, which offered scholarships for people who wanted to attend drama schools but could not afford it.
Upon graduating, he performed in improvised comedy at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival before moving into film and TV work, with roles in Mood, Jack Right, Starred Up, In Fabric, County Lines and The Man Who Fell To Earth. With numerous appearances in hit shows like Not Going Out, Holby City, Casualty and Silent Witness, Anthony was a beloved and respected member of the industry until his sad passing in 2024.
Simbi Akande
Actor
Credits Include: Fiddler On The Roof (Chichester Festival Theatre), Ghost The Musical (UK Tour), and Show Boat (New London Theatre)
Thomas Aldridge
Lucy Anderson
Actor
Credits include:
Zoe Murphy (Dear Evan Hansen - 2019 & 2021)
2020 Olivier Awards Nomination - Best Supporting Actress in a Musical - for Dear Evan Hansen.
2020 The Stage Debut Awards Nomination - Best Performer in a Musical - for Dear Evan Hansen.
Paul Anderson
Lighting Designer
Credits Include: A Taste of Honey, The Amen Corner (National Theatre), The Producers (national tour), The Master and Margarita (Complicite – Olivier Award nomination).
Mina Anwar
Actor
Credits Include: Happy Valley, The Thin Blue Line (BBC), Shameless (Channel 4) and Everybody's Talking About Jamie (Apollo Theatre)
Julie Atherton
Actor
Credits Include: The Grinning Man (Trafalgar Studios), Avenue Q (Noel Coward Theatre), Sister Act The Musical (London Palladium) and the original West End production of Jonathan Larson’s Tick, Tick… BOOM! (Menier Chocolate Factory)
William Banyard
Actor and Puppeteer
Credits Include: Muppets Most Wanted (Disney), Zingzillas (BBC), Solo: A Star Wars Story (Lucasfilm) and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (Amblin)
Bronté Barbé
Actor
Credits Include: Hairspray (Kuala Lumpur/Singapore Tour), Shrek the Musical (UK Tour), Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (UK Tour).
Glynis Barber
Actor
Credits Include: Dempsey and Makepeace, Emmerdale (ITV), Blake’s 7 and Eastenders (BBC).
Callum Blue
Actor
Credits Include: Dead Like Me, The Tudors (Showtime) and Smallville (WB).
Alecky Blythe
Writer
Credits Include: London Road (National Theatre), Cruising (Bush Theatre), Little Revolution (Almeida Theatre).
Simon Bowman
Actor
Credits Include: Les Miserables (The Palace Theatre), Phantom of the Opera (Her Majesty's Theatre), Original Cast of Miss Saigon (Theatre Royal Drury Lane)
Philip Bulcock
Actor
Credits include: Jersey Boys (Prince Edward, London), The King and I (UK tour) and The Dark Knight (Warner Bros.)
Jonathan Butterell
Director and Choreographer
Credits Include: Everybody's Talking About Jamie (Apollo Theatre), Company, Into The Woods (Donmar Warehouse) Fiddler on the Roof, The Light in the Piazza (Broadway)
Gerard Carey
Actor
Credits Include: Monsieur Thénardier in Les Misérables (Sondheim Theatre) The Merry Widow (ENO), Twelfth Night (Young Vic), The Jungle (Playhouse Theatre), A Christmas Carol (RSC), Half A Sixpence (Chichester and Noël Coward Theatre), Shrek the Musical (UK Tour), Dickens Abridged (Arts), Soho Cinders & Ex (Soho Theatre), Master Class (Vaudeville), Invisible Man (Menier Chocolate Factory), Noises Off, Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland, The Wizard of Oz (Birmingham Rep), His Dark Materials (UK Tour), Spamalot (Palace), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Taming of the Shrew, High Society, Leonardo’s Last Supper, The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre) and Mary Poppins (Cameron Mackintosh/Disney).
Rikki Chamberlain
Actor
Credits Include: Captain Mack (CITV), Interview with a Hitman, The Backseat.
Lois Chimimba
Actor
Credits Include: Holby City, Trust Me (BBC), National Theatre Live: Peter Pan, Wonder.land (National Theatre)
Joanna Christie
Actor
Credits Include: Equus (Gielgud Theatre), Once (Broadway), Narcos (Netflix), Misfits (E4), Holby City (BBC).
Oscar Conlon-Morrey
Actor
Oscar Conlon-Morrey is an award-winning Actor, Singer, Compère, Comedian and Cabaret Artist.
His performance credits include: Mr Bumble in Matthew Bourne and Cameron Mackintosh’s production of Oliver (Gielgud Theatre), Mother Goose opposite Sir Ian McKellen (Duke of York Theatre and UK Tour), Only Fools and Horses the Musical (Theatre Royal Haymarket), Nativity the Musical (Hammersmith Apollo/UK tour), Rehab the Musical (Neon 194, Piccadilly), Treason (London Palladium/UK tour), The Toxic Avenger The Musical (The Arts Theatre, Leicester Square).
Oscar was the winner of the Julia McKenzie prize at the Stephen Sondheim Society Student Performer of the Year Award 2017, the same year he received the Gyearbour Asante Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts Valedictorian Award for achieving the highest scoring degree in his graduating year.
Splitting his time between England and France, Oscar is writing a one man show which will tour internationally in English and French in 2027.
Lindsey Coulson
Actor
Credits Include: EastEnders, The Street (BBC) and Bulletproof (Sky 1).
Brendan Coyle
Actor
Credits Include: Starlings (Sky), Lark Rise to Candleford, Requiem (BBC), Downton Abbey (ITV)
Will Close
Actor
Will is an actor who grew up in a single-parent family on a council estate in Worcestershire.
He attended the University of Manchester to study Literature & Drama, before enrolling at Mountview to undertake the postgraduate in Acting.
Soon after graduating, he moved into the live comedy world with a group of fellow Mountview grads, performing at festivals including Edinburgh and Adelaide. He then joined the theatre company 1927 to make Golem for the Young Vic and its subsequent world tour.
Most recent credits include Man Mountain (Soho Theatre), Dear England (National Theatre/Prince Edward Theare), for which he won the Olivier for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and Porn Play (Royal Court). He was also nominated for a WhatsOnStage Award as Best Supporting Performer in a Play, a Stage Debut Award for Best West End Debut Performer and won the Broadway World Award for Best Supporting Actor.
His plays for BBC Radio 4 include Mediocre White Male and Slease.
Josh Dallas
Actor
Credits Include: Zootopia (Disney), Thor (Paramount Pictures) and Once Upon A Time (ABC).
Sha Dessi
Actor
Credits include: Eponine in Les Misérables (West End). Nominated to The Stage 25 by Sir Cameron Mackintosh (January 2022)
Chumisa Dornford-May
Actor
Credits include: Here We Are (National Theatre), Natasha Pierre and the Great Comet of 1813 (Donmar), Evita
(Curve, Leicester – nomination for Best Supporting Performance, UK Theatre Awards)
Tim Downie
Actor
Credits Include: The Royal Bodyguard (BBC), This Is Jinsy (Sky Atlantic), Paddington (Heyday Films) and The King’s Speech (See Saw Films).
Lauren Drew
Actor
Theatre credits include: Celine Dion in Titanique (Criterion Theatre) - Olivier Award nominee for Best Actress in a Musical, Lizzie Borden in Lizzie the Musical (Hope Mill Theatre and Southwark Playhouse), Fantine in Les Misérables (UK Tour), Brooke Wyndham in Legally Blonde (Regents Park Open Air Theatre) - WhatsOnStage Award for Best Supporting Performer in a Musical, Catherine of Aragon in SIX the Musical (UK Tour), Cover Eva Peron in Evita (Regents Park Open Air Theatre), Suzanne in Sweet Charity (Donmar Warehouse), Cover Heather Chandler/ Heather Duke in Heathers the Musical Original Cast (The Other Palace and Theatre Royal Haymarket), Cover Nicola in Kinky Boots (Adelphi Theatre), Cover Molly in Ghost the Musical (UK Tour).
Lauren made the semi-finals of The Voice UK in 2021.
Tim Dutton
Actor
Credits Include: Genius, Death in Paradise, Midsummer Murders, Bonkers, The Bourne Identity, Ally McBeal, In the Name of Love, Darkness Falls.
Justin Edwards
Actor
Credits Include: The Duchess (Paramount), Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive (Radio 4), The Death of Stalin (Gaumont), The Ferryman (Gielgud Theatre)
Hiba Elchikhe
Actor
Credits Include: Disney's Aladdin (Lyric Theatre Brisbane) and Antony and Cleopatra (National Theatre).
Kit Esuruoso
Actor
Credits Include: Mark Colvin's Kidney (Upstairs Theatre), Showboat (New London Theatre), Tina the Musical (Aldwych).
Alice Fearn
Actor
Alice started her career onstage in 2004 as an understudy in The Woman in White. She then understudied Cosette and Fantine in Les Misérables before starring in Into the Woods and joining the original UK cast of Shrek The Musical in 2011. In 2017, she made her debut as Elphaba in Wicked, and later took over the role of Captain Beverley Bass in Come From Away until the show closed in January 2023. She starred in the original musical Then, Now and Next at the Southwark Playhouse and went on to join the cast of Diana the Musical for the UK premiere concert version of the show.
Alice played Evan's mum, Heidi Hansen, in the UK tour of Dear Evan Hansen and recently played Glinda’s mother in the Wicked movie. She has had a long career as a singer/voice artist in major films, such as Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Mamma Mia! and Les Misérables and released her album Where I've Been...Where I'm Going in 2016.
Michael Fentiman
Director
Credits Include: Amelie The Musical (West End and Tour. Nominated for three Olivier Awards including Best New Musical), The Windsors: Endgame (West End), The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (UK Tour)
Connie Fisher
Actor
Credits Include: The Sound of Music (Palladium and UK tour), They’re Playing Our Song (Menier Chocolate Factory) and Wonderful Town (UK tour).
Michael French
Actor
Credits Include: Eastenders and Casualty (BBC).
Peggy-Ann Fraser
Actor and Campaigner
Peggy-Ann Fraser trained in Acting at Mountview. She has campaigned with Equity and BECTU to improve training for hair and make-up artists in afro hair and Black skin tones.
Don Gilet
Actor
Credits Include: Babyfather, Eastenders and 55 Degrees North (BBC).
Graham Gill
Director
Credits Include: Associate Director for Les Miserables, Oliver!, Wicked and Lend Me A Tenor.
Sean Green
Musical Director
Sean has a classical music degree from Birmingham University and a postgraduate degree in Musical Direction from Mountview.
He is currently Musical Director on MJ the Musical (Prince Edward Theatre), and recently composed the original music for the play This Bitter Earth (Soho Theatre), directed by Billy Porter. Musical Supervisor and Arranger credits include The Wiz (Hope Mill Theatre), Aladdin (Corn Exchange Newbury), Turn Up, a streamed concert from Cadogan Hall in aid of BLM affiliated charities, and the 54 the Musical Workshop.
Musical Director Credits include Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) (Kiln Theatre), Brokeback Mountain (Soho Place), Sylvia (Old Vic) Get Up! Stand Up! (Lyric Theatre), Priscilla Queen of the Desert (UK tour), Leave to Remain (Lyric Hammersmith), Jack and the Beanstalk (White Rock Theatre), Twelfth Night (Young Vic), Liver Birds: Flying Home (Liverpool Royal Court), The Wedding Singer (UK tour), One Love (Birmingham Rep), Murder Ballad (Arts Theatre), The Buskers Opera (Park Theatre), Into The Woods (Manchester Royal Exchange), Soul Sister (Hackney Empire, Savoy Theatre and UK tour), Britain's Got Bhangra (UK tour) , and Little Red Riding Hood, Five Guys Named Moe and Aladdin (Stratford East Theatre Royal).
Assistant MD credits include the European tour of The Rocky Horror Picture Show with BB Promotions, and I Was Looking at the Ceiling and then I Saw the Sky, a joint production between Stratford East and the Barbican.
Keyboard credits include Jesus Christ Superstar (Regents Park Open Air Theatre), Wicked (UK and International tour), Stephen Ward the Musical (Aldwych Theatre), Cabaret (UK tour), Evita (UK and European tour), The Phantom of the Opera (UK tour), Whistle Down the Wind (UK tour) and Peter Pan with Michael Rose Productions (Dublin and Southampton).
As well as concerts and one night events in various venues across London, Sean provided music for West End Bares: Stripped (Troxy) and was Musical Director for West End Bares: Top Off The Pops at the Shaftesbury Theatre which is the first time that a Bares event featured a live band. Other charity events include two Eyebrow 48 Hour Showtime Challenges – Crazy For You and Thoroughly Modern Millie.
Workshop Credits include Samson, Zelda - a Postmodern Musical, Hot Fuzz the Musical, This Is A Love Story, Sylvia with the Old Vic, Studio 54, The Sorcerers Apprentice with Seabright Productions, Miss Littlewood with the RSC, Leave Hitler To Me Lad with Duck Egg Theatre Company (UK Tour), Laila with Rifco Arts, The Diary of Me with Perfect Pitch, and Fanny Hill at the Jermyn Street theatre.
Sean previously held the position of Deputy Head of Music Theatre at the MTA and has taught at Mountview, Guildford School of Acting, Arts Educational London, the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, Trinity Laban Conservatoire, Urdang, Tring Park School and the Performance Preparation Academy. Sean also composed the original music for the feature film Softlad released by Pecadillo Pictures and has produced and mixed the album High Time with his long-time collaborator Portia Emare.
Edward Hall
Director
Blithe Spirit (StudioCanal), Gentleman Jack (BBC), The Durrells (ITV). Artistic Director of Hampstead Theatre.
Ian Hallard
Actor
Credits include: The Boys in the Band (Park Theatre, Nominated for the Whatsonstage Award for Best Actor in a Play 2017), The Crown (Netflix), The Vote (Donmar) and Mary Queen of Scots (Focus Features).
Louisa Harland
Actor
Credits include: Lost in London (Waypoint Entertainment) and Derry Girls (Channel 4)
Douglas Henshall
Actor
Credits Include: Primeval (ITV), Shetland (BBC), Network (National Theatre) and Betrayal (Harold Pinter Theatre).
Beth Hinton-Lever
Actor
Beth Hinton-Lever trained at Mountview after she studied Classical Archaeology and Classical Civilisations at University College London.
She has recently served on the inaugural Inclusive Working Group at the National Theatre, she was a Panellist on the Sir Peter Hall Award for Directors in 2022, and she won the Evening Standard Future Theatre Award in Musical Theatre Award in 2021.
Beth is also a choreographer who won the NSDF Award for Best Choreography in 2015 while studying at UCL, which launched her performing career, she has since choreographed the phenomenon that is SMOOSH! for the Paraorchestra, performing all over the UK including the Southbank Centre and Glastonbury Festival. Beth is a passionate advocate and activist for inclusion and inclusivity and is a very proud member of the disabled and queer communities.
Her work in theatre includes: Otherland (Almeida Theatre), Hadestown (Lyric Theatre/National Theatre), Dick Whittington (National Theatre), Macbeth (Shakespeare’s Globe), The Doncastrian Chalk Circle (National Theatre/CAST), As You Like It (National Theatre/Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch), West Side Story and A Chorus Line (Leicester Curve), Living Newspaper and Maryland (The Royal Court), Millennials (MTFest/Turbine Theatre), Treasure Island (Derby Theatre), Reasons to be Cheerful (Graeae/UK Tour), Spring Awakening (Hope Mill Theatre), Dancehall and Sleeping Beauty (CAST).
TV includes: Eastenders (BBC), Disclaimer (Apple TV), All The Light We Cannot See (Netflix), Big Night of Musicals (BBC), The Suspect (ITV), and Silent Witness (BBC).
Film includes: Wicked (Universal Pictures), Men in Black: International (Sony).
Audio includes: Vergil! (Audible), The Blind School: Pioneering People and Places (History of Place/Museum of Liverpool).
Helen Hobson
Actor
Credits Include: Blood Brothers (Phoenix Theatre), Heathcliff (Hammersmith & UK Tour), Cats (UK Tour) and Aspects of Love (Prince of Wales Theatre).
Grace Hodgett Young
Actor
Credits include: Sunset Boulevard (West End and Broadway), Hadestown (West End), winner of the WhatsOnStage Award for Best Professional Debut and an Olivier Award nominee for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical for Sunset Boulevard
Amanda Holden
Actor and TV Presenter
An award-winning actress, talent show judge, presenter, singer, fashion designer and author; Amanda Holden truly defines the term 'household name', soon to celebrate 30 years in the entertainment business.
Credits Include: Thoroughly Modern Millie (Shaftesbury Theatre), Shrek The Musical (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane), Wild at Heart and Britain’s Got Talent (ITV1).
With a career spanning three decades she firmly sits on the judging panel of Britain's Got Talent, hosts the biggest commercial radio show Heart Breakfast alongside Jamie Theakston, has her own clothing collection with Fenn Wright Manson, her own homeware collection Bundleberry on QVC and released her debut studio album Songs from My Heart in 2020.
Nick Holder
Actor
Credits Include: Threepenny Opera, Everyman, London Road, Sweeney Todd (National Theatre), Peaky Blinders (Tiger Aspect), Parade’s End (HBO/BBC)
Jim Howick
Actor
A BAFTA-winning actor, and multi-BAFTA nominated writer, Jim is best known for his work in the hit BBC comedy Ghosts, which he co-writes, and exec-produces, as well as stars in. He also executive-produces the hit US version (CBS).
Jim also co-created, wrote and starred in Yonderland (Sky One). His numerous TV and film credits include Sex Education, Peep Show, Horrible Histories, Hellboy, Bill, Stag, The Change, Loaded and Inside No 9.
Jim is currently starring in Here We Go (BBC One) and will be filming series 4 in 2026.
Tyrone Huntley
Actor
Credits Include: Dreamgirls (Savoy Theatre), Jesus Christ Superstar (Winner of the Evening Standard Emerging Talent Award 2016) and The Book of Mormon (Prince of Wales Theatre).
Cameron Jack
Actor
Cameron was born into a working-class shipbuilding family in Partick, Glasgow, and in 1992 received the Margaret Rutherford scholarship to study acting at Mountview.
He went on to appear in numerous West End musicals, including Les Misérables, the original West End cast of We Will Rock You, and Broadway transfers of The Drowsy Chaperone and South Pacific, but is best known for his varied work across film and television.
After securing his first feature film role in The Dark Knight Rises, he went on to appear in The Last Vermeer, Guy Ritchie’s Wrath of Man, What Happened to Monday, iBoy, and the award-winning Glasgow-set short film Boys Night, amongst many other major features.
For TV, Cameron has worked on Waterloo Road, Man Down, Trust Me, Outlander, Call the Midwife, Patrick Melrose, Emmerdale, Victoria, Casualty, Unforgotten, Shetland, Rain Dogs, The Chemistry of Death, The Wheel of Time, and recently shot his third series of Jamie Johnson FC, to name just a few.
Ibinabo Jack
Actor
Credits Include: Dreamgirls, Legally Blonde (Savoy Theatre), The Bodyguard (Dominion Theatre), Vera (ITV)
Dean John-Wilson
Actor
Credits Include: Disney's Aladdin (Prince Edward Theatre), The King and I (London Palladium)
Leanne Jones
Actor
Credits Include: Hairspray (Olivier Award Winner for Best Actress in a Musical 2008), Tick, Tick... BOOM! (Union Theatre)
Ben Joyce
Actor
Frankie Valli in Jersey Boys (West End), Marty McFly in Back To The Future (West End)
Iqbal Khan
Director
Credits Include: Macbeth (Shakespeare’s Globe), Othello, Much Ado About Nothing (RSC), The Killing of Sister George, Othello, East is East (Birmingham Repertory Theatre).
Ayub Khan Din
Writer and Actor
Credits Include: East Is East, Sammy and Rosie Get Laid, Rafta Rafta.
Emma Kingston
Actor
Credits Include: 21 Chump Street (Tristan Bates Theatre), In the Heights (Southwark Playhouse/King's Cross Theatre), Grease (UK tour), Evita (International tour).
Beverley Klein
Actor
Credits Include: Ivanov and Platonov (Chichester Festival Theatre), Mr Selfridge (ITV), Call the Midwife (BBC1) and original cast of Les Miserables London.
Ashley Kumar
Actor
Credits Include: EastEnders (BBC), The Level (ITV) and Doctors (BBC).
Leigh Lawson
Actor, director and writer
Credits Include: Being Julia (Sony Pictures), Brother Sun, Sister Moon (EIA) and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (RSC).
Perryn Leech
Musical Director
Credits Include: Musical Director (Houston Grand Opera), Production Manager (English National Opera) and Technical Director (Welsh National Opera).
Michael Longhurst
Director
Artistic Director of the Donmar Warehouse. Credits include: Amadeus (National Theatre), Constellations (Royal Court and Duke of York’s Theatre) and If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet (Roundabout Theatre, New York).
Charlotte Loughnane
Visual Effects Artist
Credits include: Avatar (20th Century Fox), the Harry Potter Series (Warner Bros) and Spectre (Columbia).
Simon HJ Lupini
Producer
Simon is an accomplished live entertainment and events executive with an extensive international career spanning theatre, touring productions, immersive experiences and large-scale cultural venues.
A graduate of Mountview in 1984, where he specialised in Technical Theatre, Design and Stage Management, Simon went on to build a distinguished career in some of the world’s most innovative performance environments.
He began his professional journey at the Royal Albert Hall, progressing from Event Manager to Head of the Event Department, then joined Cirque du Soleil, serving first as Tour Services Director and later as Company Manager across Europe, Macau and Las Vegas.
Simon returned to London to manage Le Crazy (Crazy Horse Paris) before joining Moment Factory in Montreal, as Executive Producer overseeing their productions on Royal Caribbean Cruise Ships and helped establish the company’s London office. His expertise later took him to MSC Cruises, overseeing their new partnership with Cirque Du Soleil At Sea.
In 2021, post COVID Simon joined ABBA Voyage overseeing the show’s opening as General Manager. Moving to Director of International Development in 2025.
Eddie Marsan
Actor
Credits Include: Vera Drake (Winner of British Independent Film Award for Best Supporting Actor 2004), The World’s End (StudioCanal), War Horse (DreamWorks), Happy-Go-Lucky (Winner of the British Independent Film Award for Best Supporting Actor 2008).
Jill Nalder
Actor
Credits include: Les Miserables (Palace Theatre), Oliver! (London Palladium), Stepping Out (Arts Depot), Valley of Song (Finborough Theatre), Finding Your Feet (Eclipse Films & Power Keg Pictures), It's A Sin (Channel 4).
Arian Nik
Actor
Credits include: Artemis Fowl (Disney), The Ugly One (Park Theatre) and The Village (Theatre Royal Stratford East)
Asan N’Jie
Actor
Credits Include: Bloodlands (Larry Cissé), Emmerdale (ITV), Murder on the Orient Express (20th Century Fox), Ready Player One (Amblin), Mount Pleasant (Sky1).
Anne Odeke
Actor, playwright
Anne Odeke is an actor, playwright and drama teacher.
Anne trained at Mountview and graduated from the establishment with an MA in Acting.
Over the course of her career, she has performed for the likes of Shakespeare’s Globe, the RSC, and at theatres such as The Birmingham Rep, Storyhouse, The Watermill, The Royal Lyceum Edinburgh, and many more, as well as having been on national and international tours.
As a writer, Anne has written for the likes of The Almeida, Storyhouse Theatre, Hightide, The Mercury Theatre Colchester, Audible and BBC Radio 4.
Her play, Princess Essex (in which Anne also played the lead) was performed in 2024 on the main stage of Shakespeare's Globe, making her the first woman of colour to ever have her play on its main stage and to be in it.
The play went on to be nominated for Best New Play at the WhatsOnStage Awards, and Anne was also nominated for Best Performer in a Play alongside the likes of David Tennant and Tom Holland. It then received five nominations at the Black British Theatre Awards, again including for Best Playwright, which it won, and Best Female Lead in a Play.
Scott Paige
Actor
Credits Include: Eurobeat (Turbine Theatre and Online), Fanny in Cinderella: The Socially Distanced Ball (Turbine Theatre), Mr Poppy in Nativity! (UK Tour), George in The Wedding Singer (South Korea), Horton the Elephant in Seussical the Musical (Southwark Playhouse), Theo in Eugenius! (The Other Palace), Emperor Nero Ancestor and Uncle Fester in The Addams Family (UK tour / Asia), Goran in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (UK Tour/West Yorkshire Playhouse) Harry in Made in Dagenham (Adelphi Theatre)
Craig Parkinson
Actor
Credits Include: Misfits (E4), Whitechapel (ITV), Line of Duty (BBC), Four Lions (Film4).
Laura Pitt-Pulford
Actor
Credits include: Side Show (Southwark Playhouse), The Sound of Music (Leicester Curve), Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre - Nominated: Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical) and Barnum (Menier Chocolate Factory).
Dan Poole
Actor
Credits include: Jerusalem (Royal Court), The Dark Earth and the Light Sky (Almeida), King Lear, Henry V, Othello (Shakespeare’s Globe).
James Powell
Director
Credits include: Les Miserables (25th Anniversary), Dirty Dancing (Aldwych Theatre) and Mary Poppins (Prince Edward Theatre & UK Tour).
Kelly Price
Actor
Credits include One Man Two Guv'nors (UK Tour), Company (Sheffield Crucible), A Little Night Music and The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole (Menier Chocolate Factory).
Matt Rawle
Actor
Credits include Evita (Adelphi Theatre), Zorro (Garrick Theatre) and Cabaret (UK Tour).
Katy Richardson
Musical Director
Credits Include: Jersey Boys (West End), SIX (West End), Rent (Hope Mill Theatre, Hair (Turbine Theatre)
Jon Robyns
Actor
Credits Include: Jean Valjean in Les Misérables (Sondheim Theatre), King George in Hamilton (Victoria Palace), Galahad in Spamalot (Harold Pinter & Playhouse Theatres), Robbie Hart in The Wedding Singer (UK Tour), Eddie Souther in Sister Act (UK Tour), Emmett Forrest in Legally Blonde (Curve Theatre, Leicester), Caractacus Potts in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Galahad in Spamalot (UK Tour), Enjolras in Les Misérables (25th Anniversary International Tour), Mark Cohen in Rent (English Theatre Frankfurt), Alternate Chris in Miss Saigon (UK tour)
Rebecca Root
Actor, Writer and Teacher
Credits include The Danish Girl (Universal), Boy Meets Girl (BBC) and Doctors (BBC).
Kitty Scott-Claus
Drag Queen
Kitty Scott-Claus was a finalist on Season 3 of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK in 2021.
David Seadon-Young
Actor
Credits Include: An American in Paris (Dominion Theatre), A Damsel in Distress (Chichester Festival Theatre), Assassins (Menier Chocolate Factory).
Matthew Seadon-Young
Actor
Credits Include: Big Fish (The Other Palace), Billy Elliot (Victoria Palace Theatre), Les Miserables (Film and Musical), Sweeney Todd (ENO).
Cleve September
Actor
Credits Include: Bonnie and Clyde (Arts Theatre), In The Heights (Southwark Playhouse/King's Cross Theatre), Hamilton (Olivier Award Nominee for Best Supporting Actor in a Musical 2018).
Sharon Small
Actor
Credits Include: The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, Trust Me (BBC), Threepenny Opera (National Theatre), Still Alice (West Yorkshire Playhouse).
Rhashan Stone
Actor
Credits include: Desmond's (Channel 4), The Smoke (Sky One) and Our Town (Almeida Theatre).
Ken Stott
Actor
Credits Include: The Hobbit Trilogy (New Line Cinema), Café Society (FilmNation) and Rebus (ITV).
Giles Terera MBE
Mountview Live Host, Season 1
Giles Terera trained at Mountview. His career has included Candide, Hamlet and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (National Theatre). He was in the original casts of Avenue Q and Book of Mormon. Most recently he originated the role of Aaron Burr in the London production of Hamilton, for which he won the 2018 Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical and appeared in Rosmersholm at the Duke of York’s Theatre. In his 2013 documentary Muse of Fire Giles interviewed many of the world’s leading actors about acting Shakespeare.
Noah Thomas
Actor
Credits include Jamie in Everybody's Talking About Jamie.
Oliver Thornton
Actor
Credits include: Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (Palace Theatre), Phantom of the Opera (Her Majesty’s Theatre) and The Rocky Horror Show (UK Tour).
Emily Tierney
Actor
Credits include: The Wizard of Oz (London Palladium), Wicked (UK Tour) and All The Fun Of The Fair (Garrick).
Rebecca Trehearn
Actor
Credits Include: Dogfight (Southwark Playhouse), City of Angels (Donmar Warehouse), Show Boat (Olivier Award Winner for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical 2017)
Amy Trigg
Amy is an actor and writer from Essex. She trained at Mountview where she was the first wheelchair user to graduate from a performance course.
Her theatre credits as an actor include: The Little Big Things (West End - 2024 Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Musical), Medea (West End), Reasons You Should(n't) Love Me (Kiln Theatre/Paines Plough), The Taming of the Shrew (RSC), Measure for Measure (RSC), Goth Weekend (The Stephen Joseph Theatre/Scarborough/Live Theatre, Newcastle), The Who's Tommy (Tour), The Glass Menagerie (Nottingham Playhouse), Shakespeare Within The Abbey (Westminster Abbey with Shakespeare's Globe), The Sonnet Walks (Shakespeare's Globe), Fusion (Lilian Baylis Theatre, Sadler's Wells), The Joy of Dance (Lyric Hammersmith) and Sadler's Wells Takeover Weekend (The National Theatre's River Stage).
Her screen credits include: Babies (BBC), The Couple Next Door (Season 2, Channel 4), Such Brave Girls (season 1 and 2, BBC), Amandaland (BBC), Death Valley (BBC), Grace (ITV), Father Brown (BBC), Everything Now (Netflix), The Reckoning (BBC), Unforgotten (ITV), Casualty (BBC), The Other One (BBC), Feel Good (Netflix), Unprecedented (BBC/Headlong), Stella (Sky One), Doctors (BBC), ReCall Me Maybe (FT Drama), Pas De Deux (Resource Productions), Luther: The Fallen Sun (Netflix) and Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (Universal).
She can be heard in Chloe's Ark (BBC Radio 4), The A-Z of Things: A is for Award (BBC Radio 3), Found (45North) and Reasons You Should(n't) Love Me (Audible).
As a writer, Amy’s theatre credits include: Reasons You Should(n't) Love Me (Kiln Theatre and tour - winner of The Women's Prize for Playwriting 2020), It's Not Like It's Illegal (Theatre Royal Stratford East as part of their 'Burn It Down' series) and Burnt at the Stake (Shakespeare's Globe as one of thirteen anonymous writers). She is the book writer for a new musical adaptation of Jean-Dominique Bauby’s memoir The Diving Bell and The Butterfly in collaboration with Laurence Connor and Charli Eglinton. Amy is currently on attachment with the National Theatre.
For TV, Amy has written on Toxic Town (Netflix) and Ralph and Katie (BBC). Amy has original projects in development with Chapter One, Studio Canal, Little Door, Channel 4 and BBC. Writers' rooms include work for CBeebies and The Bureau.
Her TV training includes: BBC TV Drama Writers' Programme 2021, 4Screenwriting 2021, BBC Drama Room 2020/21, BBC Writers' Access Group 2020/21, the Royal Court Introduction to Playwriting Group 2020/21 and BBC Children's New Voices 2020.
Amy’s essay An Ode to Improv (and Poehler and Fey) features in the book Feminists Don't Wear Pink (and other lies), curated by Scarlett Curtis and published by Penguin. She won Colchester New Comedian of the Year 2016 for her one woman sketch The Rebrand.
www.amytrigg.com
Jack Wolfe
Actor
Jack Wolfe is an Olivier Award nominated actor, who is currently making his Broadway debut playing Orpheus in Hadestown.
He recently played the part of Gabe in Next To Normal (Donmar Warehouse / Wyndham’s Theatre) which was filmed for Great Performances and shown on PBS. This role also garnered him a Critic’s Circle Award, a Stage Debut Award, an Evening Standard Theatre Award nomination, and a win at the WhatsOnStage Awards for Best Supporting Performer in a Musical. Some of Jack’s other stage credits include The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (Chichester Festival Theatre), The Magician’s Elephant (Royal Shakespeare Company) and Pinocchio (National Theatre) among others.
Jack led Florian Sigl’s feature film adaptation of Mozart’s The Magic Flute and joined the hit fantasy show Shadow and Bone for Netflix in season 2, playing Wylan.
His other TV work includes Inside No 9, Father Brown and Hetty Feather for The BBC and The Witcher for Netflix.