Mountview Alumni News June and July 2025: Edinburgh Fringe Special

June and July have seen our alumni achieve some truly remarkable successes! Keep reading to discover their latest projects and accomplishments.

Are you an alum with news to share? We’d love to hear from you! Get in touch at [email protected].

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 On Stage and Screen

Tom Durant-Pritchard portrays Nisus Osar in the Disney+ series Andor. 

Robert Rhodes has been cast in 28 Years Later, produced and directed by Danny Boyle and written by Alex Garland.

Harrison Sharpe plays Brent Carradine in the world premiere of The Daughter of Time.

Claudia Kariuki and Paige Miller performed in The Blackprint Concert, with all proceeds dedicated to supporting scholarships, mentorships, and career development programs for the next generation of Black artists. The Blackprint Concert was supervised and orchestrated by Sean Green. 

WhatsOnStage Award winner Jack Wolfe will join the Broadway company of Hadestown later this year.

Tom Lane will play Eric Dier and Luke Azille will portray Jadon Sancho in the Olivier Award-winning play Dear England, which will start a new tour this autumn.

Rebecca Fisher is in the inaugural cast onboard the Disney Adventure as a mainstage performer. 

Will Batty wrote and performed for NewsRevue at the Canal Cafe Theatre, which holds the record as the world’s longest-running live comedy show. Will has also been part of the cast of Last Unicorn Airways, a production that has toured northern England and will be concluding at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield.

Scott Slocombe is in the cast of Elvis Evolution: The Immersive Experience, taking place at Immerse LDN at Excel London Waterfront.

Kirsty Malpass serves as Associate Director in a new musical Maiden Voyage, along with Juliette Artigala who plays Michele/Tanja and Sam DeFeo as Mandi. 

Jim Howick reprises his role in the Here We Go series 3, which is coming back to BBC One.

Harry Mallaghan is part of the cast in a new production of Friends! The Musical Parody.

Harry Attwell joins the cast of the new tour of To Kill a Mockingbird.

Tim Jackson directed a new musical Mona Loser, alongside Katy Richardson as Musical Director. 

The complete cast has been announced for Hamlet at Chichester Festival Theatre’s Minerva space, with Giles Terera taking on the title role.

In the immersive Peter Pan nightclub musical Club NVRLND, Lizzie Wofford takes on the role of Tink while Matthew Gent plays Hook.

George Dyer will serve as an Arranger, Orchestrator and Musical Supervisor in the world premiere of Debbie Isitt’s Military Wives The Musical.

Niall Sheehy will play Mr Bruner in The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical.

Jordan Luke Gage plays Salieri in the UK premiere of Saving Mozart at The Other Palace.

In the London transfer of 101 Dalmatians The Musical, Samuel Thomas takes on the role of Tom while Linford Johnson plays Pongo.

Helen Hobson portrays Madame Giry in the new West End cast of The Phantom of the Opera, alongside David Burilin, Connor Ewing and James Gant as part of the new cast. 

The tour cast for Fiddler on the Roof has been announced. Beverley Klein will play Yente, Natasha Jules Bernard is cast as Tzeitel, Gareth Davies as Avram and Chris Draper as Offstage Swing. 

Tonny Shim and Aimee Yue are both part of the cast of Miss Saigon, which will tour the UK later this year.

Matt Monfort is currently on board Cunard’s Queen Anne playing Alec Harvey in Emma Rice’s Adaptation of Noël Coward’s Brief Encounter, produced by David Pugh. 

Lee Ormsby will play Strickland and alternate Doctor Emmett Brown in Back to the Future the Musical 2025/26 West End cast.

Minal Patel will play Max Detweiler in The Sound of Music revival at Curve Leicester. The cast includes Adam Colbeck-Dunn as Admiral von Schreiber and Christian Cooper as Rolf Gruber with musical supervision and orchestrations adaptation by George Dyer.

Tyrone Huntley played Simon in Jesus Christ Superstar at the Hollywood Bowl.

Jon Robyns will take on the role of Miss Trunchbull in the new cast of Matilda The Musical, alongside Neil McDermott as Mr Wormwood.

Claire Llewellyn is part of the creative team for RC Annie as fight director in The Harder They Come musical at Stratford East alongside Emily Aboud as Assistant Director.

Sharon Small is part of the cast of Bacchae at the National Theatre.

Ayesha Patel will play Lili in Love Quirks: A New Musical, directed by Cecilie Fray.

Rebecca Trehearn will play Gertrude Lawrence in a new production of Noël & Gertie with Michaela Murphy as Ensemble and Actor-musician.

Allie Daniel will feature in Guts + Glitter, a fundraiser musical concert at the Clapham Grand.

Yanexi Enriquez joins the cast of Alice Birch’s Romans: a novel.

Jewelle Hutchinson will play Amy in UK tour of Anne-Marie Casey’s new stage adaptation of Little Women.

Rachel Wells is a Musical Director for Stratford East’s 2025 Pantomime Mama Goose.

Kiera Milward will be a part of the original cast of The Hunger Games stage adaptation as Swing and First Cover Katniss.

Alexander Bellinfantie and Chanté Faucher complete the cast of the world premiere of Black Power Desk, a new Black British musical running from 1 to 28 September.

Ben Joyce plays Quasimodo in the musical adaptation of Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame in concert.

30th anniversary concert of Songs for a New World is directed by Michael Longhurst. 

Justin Williams designed the set for Saving Mozart at The Other Palace.

Ellie Claughton is part of the 2025/26 Clore Fellows: Evolving Cultural Leadership cohort. The Clore Fellowship remains the UK’s most prestigious programme for leadership development in the cultural sector. 

Elliot Pritchard completes the cast of The Importance of Being Earnest at the National Theatre.

The Old Joint Stock Theatre has announced the cast for its upcoming production of Bonnie and Clyde, with Samuel Murray leading the show in the title role.

Sam Ebenezer will perform as Swing in The Choir of Man.

Rebecca Bainbridge and Toby Manley will join the cast of Inside No 9 in the upcoming tour.

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At the Edinburgh Fringe

Aaron Douglas plays Irving in a new musical, Midnight at the Palace.

Kane Oliver Parry plays Steve Jobs and Dan Buckley portrays Bill Gates in musical comedy Nerds.

Alexandra Ricou performs in The Parody of the Rings.

Millie Thorne performs in ComedySportz and The Totally Improvised Musical.

Georgi Bessey produced MacPlebs.

Bea P. Deigh features Arden Winant as Performer and Writer, Grainne Robson as Director and Co-producer and Hannah Jayne Leonard as Producer.

Natalia Izquierdo is the Lighting and Sound Designer as well as Technical Stage Manager for Boiler Room Six: A Titanic Story.

Cilia YinYing Wang produced Journey to the West, which was written and directed by ZhaoYi Ying and co-directed by Jessica Harmer-Smith.

Jakob Creighton, Liberty Ashford and Caroline Kane perform in I’m Autistic: A New Musical.

Joanna Strafford is a Co-producer and Performer in FLUSH.

Beckett Gray is a Writer and Performer for Imprints. 

Story Platform features Isla Fairfield as Writer and Comedy Performer. 

Ophilia Charlesworth wrote and performed You Are African First Before Anything.

Molly Wildsmith performs in Jerry’s Girls. 

I Was a Teenage She-Devil features Sean Arkless.

Hannah Jayne Leonard produced The Queen is Mad.

Semi-Automatic SmokeShow features Delaney Conway as writer and performer, Meghan Bartual Smyth as director, and Sarah O’Neill as Technical Stage Manager.

Sacha Koplewsky performs his professional debut in Vagabond Skies: The Van Gogh Musical.

Rachel Galvo performs in her one-woman show The Shite Feminist.

Alexis Sakellaris performs a solo show, an original comedy musical A Stan Is Born!

Hassan Govia performs in Because, written by Hassan.

Annie Cheung performs in a solo play titled Dots. 

If you’re an alum with news to share, we’d love to hear from you! Get in touch at [email protected].