Mountview Alumni News September and October 2025

September and October 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

Benjamin Payne is the Assistant Musical Director for the Blood Brothers Tour in the UK and Ireland.

Mathilda Bonnevier portrayed Maria in The Sound of Music at Grieghallen in Bergen, Norway. 

Stewart Arnott has published his memoirs: Beginners to the Stage, Please: Secrets of Life Backstage in London’s Magical West End.

Dean Read completes the new West End cast of Moulin Rouge! The Musical. 

Charlie Preston made their West End debut in the role of Leonard Vole in Witness for the Prosecution, joining the cast alongside Finn Torkington.

Ash Weir debuted their musical comedy show Fiasco! at the Canal Café Theatre.

Tim Jasper performed their show Songs and Stories with Tim Jasper at The Union Theatre. 

Samuel Winner performed as a Gang Member in the Amazon film Deep Cover. Samuel wrote and directed None of Them Will Get Out Alive, which premiered at The Hen and Chickens Theatre as part of the Camden Fringe. Samuel also wrote and premiered Love and Human at the Wanstead Fringe (Bull Theatre) and Lambeth Fringe (Bread and Roses). Additionally, Samuel acted in his self-penned play Almost… at the Old Red Lion, produced by Flywheel Theatre Company.

Edward Handoll joined the lineup of rock ‘n’ roll band Showaddywaddy at the beginning of 2025. 

Tom O’Brien will play Ted Wheeler in Stranger Things: The First Shadow, along with Lola Adaja, Adéoré Edwards and Ben Skym, who complete the cast. 

Thomas Rogers won a second Emmy award as a Co-Executive Producer for the series Formula 1: Drive to Survive with Box To Box Films. 

Richard Campbell filmed The Revolutionaries Season 1 for Amazon Prime, a Bollywood production set to be available in 2026.

Kai Davies joined the cast of Clarkston at the Trafalgar Theatre, marking his West End debut.

Jack Maddison portrays Jordan Pickford in Dear England National Tour.

Paris May Grassi performs in Greatest Days the official Take That musical. 

Simi Jolaoso performed in UK premiere of Little Dancer – A New Musical in Concert at Theatre Royal Drury Lane.

Lowri Sara Jones is starring as Rapunzel in Rapunzel pantomime at Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds.

Wills Mercado and Rebecca Demmer perform in Hal Chambers’ new production of The Last Five Years.

Jax Guerrero has been announced as joining the cast of the upcoming film The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping, as Tibby, due for release in November 2026.

Meg Atherton performed in Absent Friends for Sheringham Little Theatre.

Luke Azille filmed for the upcoming series of Casualty.

Esalan Gates directed and produced Maybe I Should Stop by Oscar Brudenall-Jones. Esalan also directed and co-produced Ruthless by Katherine Moran. 

Shashank Budhia acts in a play Sepoys at the Palace, this November as part of Rifco Theatre Company at the Hampton Court Palace.

Matt Rawle will replace Lee Mead in Barnum 2026 tour, reprising his acclaimed 2024 Watermill Theatre performance.

Sorrel Jordan completes the cast of Sunny Afternoon UK tour with Sonia Friedman Productions and ATG Productions.

Adrian Der Gregorian will portray Mr Brown and James Hameed joins the cast as Young Man/Paddington in Paddington The Musical at the Savoy Theatre.

Matthew Spalding is a Musical Director for Treasure Island: A New Musical Adventure at Bristol Old Vic.

Zack Guest and Ryan Jupp join the West End cast of Elf the Musical at Aldwych Theatre.

Sarah Earnshaw portrays Tanya alongside Lydia Hunt as Sophie Sheridan in Mamma Mia! Tour. Richard Vorster joins them as an Ensemble. 

Chumisa Dornford-May will portray Cinderella and Gracie McGonigal will play Little Red Riding Hood in Into the Woods at the Bridge Theatre.

Timo Tatzber performed at concerts of The Book Thief.

Will Close performs in the world premiere of Sophia Chetin-Leuner’s Porn Play at the Royal Court Theatre.

Emily Drewett performed in the BBC series Babies. 

Hayden Coward has been working on audiobook narration for Dragonblade Publishing.

Grace Doyle Flaherty performed in Performing Memory, a partnership project between CoisCéim Broadreach, Proto Produkciia Agency and Arte Sella, adapted for the Dublin Fringe Festival by choreographer Simone O’Toole.

Velvet Brown will appear in A24’s upcoming movie The Moment. 

Marlowe Chan-Reeves played Gary Ming in ITV’s I Fought the Law.

Kirsty Campbell Ritchie will be portraying Betty in The Crucible with South London Theatre.

Lucy Edington-Brown appeared in Emmerdale and EastEnders.

Charie Keable joins the cast of Cockfosters at Southwark Playhouse, co-written and directed by Hamish Clayton.

Josh Bryant-Jones plays Hamlet in Sh!t Faced Shakespeare: Hamlet.

Marlowe Chan-Reeves performs as Chiron in the RSC transfer of Titus Andronicus at The Hampstead Theatre.

Claire Llewellyn is a Fight/Intimacy Coordinator for Rose Theatre’s Cinderella.

Bronté Barbé played the lead role in the new musical Maid Marian and Her Merry Men workshop.

Lara Denning is taking over the lead role of Caz in Here and Now musical.

Nick Holder plays Geppetto in Pinocchio at the Globe Theatre.

Giles Terera will play Mary’s Husband in Oh, Mary! at the Trafalgar Theatre.

Peggy-Ann Fraser wrote an opinion piece, Unequal hair and make-up provision can stifle Black actors’ success for The Stage.

Lucas Hopgood performed in Macbeth for the Young Shakespeare Company.

Alex Morgan Edwards performed Motion Capture as Rusty Egan for Blitz: The Club That Shaped The 80s’ exhibition at the Design Museum.

Ntabiso J. Bhebhe performed in Penned Up, a new play by Danusia Iwaszko.

Owen Dagnall toured in War Horse for the National Theatre.

Bartek Kraszewski plays Misha in Ride the Cyclone the Musical, with Ben McQuigg as Musical Director.

Lucas Koch performs as Ernst Ludwig in Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club, West End.

Fergus Murphy joined the cast of in Jack And The Beanstalk at the Dundee Rep Theatre. 

Theo Hristov and Oscar Nicholson performed in Working Class Hero at VOILA! Theatre Festival produced by Emma Novak.

Caitlin Morgan serves as Co-musical Supervisor for public workshop presentation of new musical Midnight.

Tim Jackson is directing new Macbeth-inspired pop musical Weird, with music supervision and co-arrangement by Joe Beighton.

Ivi Moravcová and Jess Vince-Moin perform a new piece, Side Effects May Include, at the Voila! Theatre Festival and have also been included in the 29th Made In Prague Festival.

Freya McMahon will perform in Unfortunate: The Untold Story of Ursula the Sea Witch as Ensemble. 

Aidan Garrett Wilkins joined the new cast of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child as Swing and 2nd Cover for Scorpius Malfoy, alongside Tamia-Renée Alexander as Rose Granger-Weasley. Thomas Aldridge continues their role as Ron Weasley, with Sophie Matthew and Helen Power completing the cast.

Simbi Akande will play Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady revival directed and choreographed by Joseph Pitcher. 

Ellen Lawford returns to the company of The Sound of Music at Pitlochry Festival Theatre.

Finella Waddilove wrote and directed the play Doughnut Drive.

Iain MacRae stars in the BBC drama An t-Eilean.

Sarah Mayfield performs in Warner Bros.’ new immersive production, Believe! The Polar Express Experience.

Florian Clare recently appeared in The Strangers: Chapter 2, directed by Renny Harlin and now in theatres. Florian performed in Season 2 of Apple TV’s Silo and The Bombing of Pan Am 103 on Netflix and BBC.

Ian Hallard performed in Our Cosmic Dust at the Park Theatre and will return to The Townsgate Theatre for this year’s Sleeping Beauty pantomime.

Issy Wroe Wright will perform in UK tour with musical comedy group Flat and the Curves.

Connor Hęnrýk Fogel is currently Cover Conductor / Keys 2 for the Royal Shakespeare Company production of The BFG. Connor’s new CD titled Rediscovering Liszt is out on the Prima Facie label.

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Production Arts

Mic Pool designed sound for the UK and Ireland tour of Death on the Nile.

Lola Glading is an Assistant Stage Manager (Book Cover) on the RSC transfer of Titus Andronicus at The Hampstead Theatre.

Phil McCandlish is a Production Manager for To Sir, With Love musical in concert.

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Awards and Other News

Conor Murray and Hannah Power’s Edinburgh Fringe show Don’t Tell Dad About Diana sold out and earned a spot on Rolling Stone’s Top Ten Shows list.

Anne Odeke won Best Playwright at The Black British Theatre Awards for her outstanding work on Princess Essex at The Globe. 

Rebecca McKinnis & Rakesh Boury won UK Theatre Awards 2025 for Best Performance in a Musical for The Parent Agency, a Scenario Two & Storyhouse co-production.

Kat Ronney is a nominee for Best West End Debut Performer at The Stage Debut Awards 2025.