Time-bomb presentation at BEAM2025 – director and cast

P Burton Morgan

Cassiopeia Berkeley-Agyepong

Cassiopeia studied Music at the University of York before training as an actor at the Royal Academy of Music. In addition to acting, Cassi is a published playwright. Her portfolio of creative work encompasses writing, directing, devising, composition and dramaturgy.

Theatre credits include: Joséphine in A Night With Joséphine (Wimbledon International Music Festival); Rudo/Grace in Senzei Na? (Fresk Ink: Hull Playwriting Festival); Swing, U/S Marsha in Just For One Day (Old Vic Theatre); Earth Makes No Sound (Southbank Centre; Hull Jazz Festival; UCL East); Pan in Lavendern (Crypt on the Green); The Third Man (Menier Chocolate Factory); U/S Rapunzel, Florinda, Lucinda in Into The Woods (Theatre Royal Bath); The Crucible Choral Workshop (National Theatre Studio); Princess Di in Tony! [The Tony Blair Rock Opera] (Park Theatre); Madame Firmin in The Phantom of the Opera (UK & Ireland Tour); U/S Radio 1, Radio 2, The Moon in Caroline, or Change (Playhouse Theatre, West End); Lucy Parsons in Haymarket (Actors’ Church, Covent Garden); Megan in Accounting for Beginners (National Theatre Studio); Becoming Angela (National Theatre Studio); Porgy & Bess (Grange Park Opera); Trees in The Pied Piper of Chibok (Grimeborn, Arcola Theatre); Cappuccino Sister/Flute in Son of a Preacher Man (UK & Ireland Tour).

Sophie-Louise Dann

 
Sophie-Louise trained at Arts Educational Schools London and is a two-time Olivier Award nominee.

West End credits: Madame Morrible in Wicked (Apollo Victoria Theatre); Fergie in The Windsors: Endgame (Prince of Wales Theatre); Celia in The Girls (Best Actress in a musical Olivier nomination; Phoenix) Paula Paxton in Bend it Like Beckham (Phoenix); Barbara Castle MP in Made in Dagenham (Adelphi); Diana Divane in Lend Me a Tenor! (Olivier Award nomination for Best Supporting Role in a musical; Gielgud), 42nd Street (Dominion), Jolson (Victoria Palace) and numerous leading roles for D’Oyly Carte Opera (Savoy).

Favourite theatre credits include Mme. Thénadier, Les Misérables (UK & Ireland tour); Spamilton (Menier Chocolate Factory); A Spoonful of Sherman (UK Tour); Mrs. Lovett, Sweeney Todd (Mercury Theatre, Colchester); Closer Than Ever (Jermyn St Theatre); Widow Corney, Oliver! (Grange Park Opera), Forbidden Broadway! (Menier Chocolate Factory, Jermyn St Theatre & West End); Bernstein Revealed (St. Luke’s), from Classic to Coward (Crazy Coqs), Velma von Tussle, Hairspray (Leicester Curve); Dot, Sunday in the Park with George (Chatelet du Paris); Gay Daventry, Ivor Novello’s Gay’s The Word (Jermyn St) Young Viv, Spend, Spend, Spend (TMA Award Winner; West Yorkshire Playhouse) and seasons at Chichester Festival Theatre and Regents Park Open Air.

TV, Radio and Film credits include Trapped- Ever After (CBBC); Doctors (BBC); Mr. Bean (ITV); The Phantom of the Opera (Warner Bros) and Sunday in the Park with George (Mezzo TV)

Sophie-Louise is a regular guest artiste on Radio 2’s Friday Night Is Music Night and a soloist on all the major concert platforms. Her solo cabaret May I Have A Moment? has played the Menier Chocolate Factory, Crazy Coqs and Lola’s at the Hippodrome.

Instagram: @sophielouisedann

Shobna Gulati

Theatre: In London’s West End: Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (also on tours)

Other theatre includes: A Tupperware of Ashes at the National Theatre; Richard II at Shakespeare’s Globe; Anita and Me at Birmingham Rep and on tour; Grease at Leicester Curve; Hunger for Trade, Pretend You Have Big Buildings, B!rth and Café Vesuvio at the Royal Exchange, Manchester; Mamma Mia!, April in Paris, Crazy Lady and The Rise and Fall of Little Voice on tours; How High is Up? and The Jungle Book at West Yorkshire Playhouse; You’re Thinking of Doughnuts at Nottingham Playhouse; Moti Roti Puttli Chunni at Stratford East; Romeo and Juliet at Leicester Haymarket; and A Midsummer Night’s Dream on tour for Tara Arts

Opera: The Mikado at the New Vic and Stephen Joseph; and The Mahabharata for Year of Opera and Musical Theatre

TV: Vera, Inside No. 9, Brassic, The Serial Killer’s Wife, Hullraisers, Midsomer Murders, My Name is Leon, Murder, They Hope, Doctor Who, Moving On, Hold the Sunset, River City, Casualty, Doctors, Paranoid, In the Club, You Me and Them, Magnolia, The Slammer, Treasure Champs, Jackanory, Bedtime Stories, New Street Law, Where the Heart Is, Coronation Street, EastEnders and dinnerladies

Film: Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, Before I Do, Incompatible, Finding Fatimah, Adulting, Junkhearts, Ashes and Shadowscan

Voice work: The Break, Beena and Amrit, Bess Loves Porgy and Descent

Awards: Richard II – 2019 Eastern Eye ACTA Award for Best Actress in Theatre; Coronation Street – 2003 CRE Race In Media Award for Best Actress in Serial Drama; Shadowscan – 2001 BAFTA Award for Best British Short Film

In 2024, Shobna Gulati received an MBE for services to the cultural industries. Shobna has also authored a book titled Remember Me? Discovering My Mother as She Lost Her Memory.

Amy Parker

Amy trained at Rose Bruford College of Theatre & Performance (BA Acting) and the The Royal Academy of Music (MA Musical Theatre).

Theatre credits include: Rose in Miner Birds (New Vic Theatre); Brundidge & others in Tokyo Rose (Southwark Playhouse & UK Tour); Annie & cover Martha in Ride (Charing Cross Theatre); Anna in Catch Me (filmed musical); The Actress in Hello Again (Union Theatre); Ruth in Keep Calm and Carry On! (New Vic Theatre); Elizabeth in Blue Stockings (The Yard); Nat in Dancing By Myself (Kings Head Theatre) & Pearl in The Host (NYT)

Workshop credits include: Louisa in May (Other Palace); Maria in Time Bomb (Time Productions); and Jane in Reception (Leeds Playhouse)

Jack Reitman

Theatre credits include: Cover Maloney/Waterbury & Courtney in Alfred Hitchcock Presents (Theatre Royal Bath); Mark Cohen in RENT (Landmark Theatres); Joseph Benowitz/Václav in Waldo’s Circus of Magic & Terror (Bristol Old Vic & UK Tour); Richard Loeb in Thrill Me: The Leopold & Loeb Story (Hope Theatre and Jermyn Street Theatre transfer, OffWestEnd Award – Best Actor in a Musical); Doctor/Gendarme in the UK Premiere of Amour (Charing Cross Theatre, OffWestEnd Award – Best New Musical); Giuseppe Zangara in Assassins (Pleasance); Harry in Brass (Union Theatre); The Prince in Cinderella (Mercury); Jewish Hollywood (Upstairs at the Gatehouse); Jack Worthing in The Importance of Being Earnest (Thorington Theatre); French King in Henry V (OVO); Berowne in Love’s Labour’s Lost (RAM, Hackney Empire).

Selected Concert & Recording credits include: Celebrating Don Black (JW3); Jessica Vosk: Live In Concert (Cadogan Hall); Disney’s Broadway Hits (Royal Albert Hall, Disney+); Friday Night is Music Night & 2024 Christmas Jingle (both BBC Radio 2); Subway: A Musical Short (by Gus Gowland), Jack Miles & Friends Live at the Actors’ Church (EP), King The Musical (LMTO Studio Cast Recording), Prodigy and Brass (both NYMT, Original Cast Recordings) – all available to stream on Spotify/Youtube/Apple Music.

Workshop credits include: Bette & Joan & Baby Jane (JW3); Sunshine (Perfect Pitch); Red Book (Seven Dials Playhouse); The Summer Six (Park Theatre); The Highwayman (OVO); Chasing Icarus (The Other Palace); Tainted (music of Marc Almond & Soft Cell).

As a director: Snow White (Key Theatre, Peterborough), [title of show] (Edinburgh Fringe Festival); A Spoonful of Musicals & Showtime: Hits from Hollywood, Broadway & Beyond (The Roman Theatre Open Air Festival); Into The Woods (Winston Theatre, Bristol).

Clive Rowe

Clive’s theatre credits include: The Baker’s Wife (Menier Chocolate Factory), Sister Act (Hammersmith Apollo) The Prince of Egypt (Dominion Theatre); Sweet Charity (Donmar Warehouse); Blues In The Night (Kiln Theatre); In The Willows (UK Tour); Guys and Dolls (Royal Albert Hall); Me and My Girl (Chichester); Jack and the Beanstalk (Wimbledon); The Light Princess (National Theatre); The Hothouse (Trafalgar Studios); The Ladykillers (West End and UK Tour); Kiss Me Kate (Chichester & Old Vic Theatre); No Naughty Bits (Hampstead Theatre); The Wiz (Birmingham Rep/West Yorkshire Playhouse); Company (Donmar Warehouse); The Fantastics (Duchess Theatre); Twelfth Night, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Trolius & Cressida (all Regent’s Park Theatre);Chicago (Adelphi Theatre); Carousel, Fuente Ovejuna, Caroline or Change, The Villains Opera, Money, Candide, Peter Pan, Guys and Dolls, Trackers (all National Theatre); As You Like It (Wyndham’s Theatre); Simply Heavenly (Young Vic/Trafalgar Studio); Zenobia, Measure for Measure, Twelfth Night (all RSC); Once On This Island (Birmingham Rep); Carmen Jones (Old Vic); Just So (Tricycle Theatre); School for Scandal (Royal Exchange Theatre); The Boys from Syracuse, Lady Be Good, Twelfth Night and Carmen Jones (all Crucible Theatre, Sheffield); Clive has returned to The Hackney Empire on numerous occasions to play The Dame in their Christmas pantomime; Dick Whittington and his Cat (Hackney Empire).

Television credits include: The Canterville Ghost (BBC), Midsomer Murders ((ITV), Will (TNT); So Awkward – 4 Series (CBBC); Evermoor – 2 Series(Disney); The Kennedys (BBC); The Fun Police (Roughcut); All the Small Things, Doctor Who, Tracy Beaker, Dalziel & Pascoe, Networked, Casualty, Bloodrights and Say It With Music (all BBC); American Voices (Lodestar Productions); The Bill (ITV); Spatz(Thames); Paper Mask and After the War (Granada); Snakes and Ladders (Yorkshire TV); Entertaining Angels Unaware (Carlton).  

Clive’s film credits include: Beauty and the Beast; Manderlay; Crime Strike.  

Clive’s awards include: 1997 Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Musical for Guys and Dolls; He was nominated for an Olivier Award in 2023 for his performance in Sister Act, 2009 for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre for Mother Goose at Hackney Empire, and in 1993 for Best Supporting Performance in Carousel.

EM Williams

EM (They/Them) is a nonbinary theatremaker & activist from the midlands.

Their credits include: After The Act (New Diorama/Traverse Theatre), Sherlock Holmes and The Poison Wood (Watermill Theatre), My Brilliant Friend (National Theatre), Captain Corelli’s Mandolin (West End), Dream (RSC), As You Like It (Northern Broadsides) & Romeo & Juliet (Hull Truck).