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Emma also works extensively as one of London’s top cabaret compères, under the guise of her alter-ego, ‘Chastity Belt’. She hosts in several of the top cabaret venues across London, including the RVT, Kettner’s and The Aeronaut. She is also a resident at Proud Cabaret, where through stand-up comedy and song, she hosts shows containing the finest burlesque and vaudeville stars from around the country.
MARCIA MANTACK
WIZARD, UNDERSTUDY ROSE
Training: Arts Educational Schools.
Theatre includes: Broken (Chats Palace), Routes (Millennium Theatre, Cardiff), The Black Panto Movement (Stratford Circus), Pumpkin Soup for the Soul (Chats Palace), Praise Singer Workshop (Hackney Empire), Stamping, Shouting and Singing Home (Nuffield), Cinderella (Wolverhampton Grand), Little Red Riding Hood (Theatre Royal Stratford East), Stepping Out (Albery), Fruit Salad (Greenwich Theatre), Once on This Island (Island Theatre), Sex or Marriage (Catford Theatre), First Steps (Kool Muzik Productions) and Romeo and Juliet (Cafe Theatre International, Far and Middle East Tour). Film includes: All Stars 3D, The Girls, First Steps and Missing.
Television includes: Paradise Heights, Magnificent Seven, After You’ve Gone and London’s Burning.
Radio includes: Jingles, Fruit Salad (BBC Radio 4) and Kokonaughts in Space.
Other work includes: various commercials and voice-overs for Starred Up and The Second Coming.
KATIE VERNER
UNDERSTUDY MAVIS & VERA
Training: Arts Educational Schools, Tring and Bird College.
Theatre includes: Stepping Out (UK tour), I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Sing! (Upstairs at the Gatehouse), Build Me a Bridge (Bridewell), My One and Only (Chichester Festival Theatre and Piccadilly Theatre) appearing as Mickey on several occasions, Lady Jacqueline in Me and My Girl (Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham), Guys and Dolls (Lyceum, Edinburgh),
A Musical Night (Hampton Court Palace Music Festival), Sylvie Hauser in Move Over Mrs Markham, written and directed by Ray Cooney (Theatre Royal, Windsor), Patty Symcox/Rizzo in Grease (original UK tour), Godspell (UK tour), original cast of Crazy for You (Prince Edward Theatre), Oklahoma! (Liverpool Playhouse), Blitz (Tyne Theatre, Newcastle), Golden Musicals of Broadway (European tour), Underneath the Arches (UK tour) and principal boy in various pantomimes throughout the UK including King’s Theatre, Edinburgh. Katie originated the role of Miss Frost in the world premiere of Happy Days – a New Musical (UK tour). She also understudied Marti Webb in The Goodbye Girl (UK tour).
Katie has co-created and co-produced a pre-school music TV show which is now currently under development with Jungle Productions.
NICK WARNFORD
COMPERE, UNDERSTUDY GEOFFREY
Training: London Studio Centre.
Theatre includes: Stepping Out (UK tour), Lotty’s War (UK tour), The Boy From Oz (original production and Hugh Jackman arena tour), Crazy for You (West End), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Cabaret and Oliver! (Sheffield Crucible), Two Gentlemen of Verona (Stage Right Theatre, Sydney), The Shallow End (New Theatre, Sydney), Accidental Death of an Anarchist (Cut Theatre, Melbourne), Mammon Inc (Singapore Festival Theatre), West Side Story (Leicester Haymarket), The Importance of Being Earnest, Season’s Greetings and A Slice of Saturday Night (Gaiety, Isle of Man) and On the Town (UK tour). Whilst living in Australia, Nick founded Scorch Theatre with Helen Tonkin for whom he has acted, written and directed. Productions include Anorak of Fire – The Life and Times of Gus Gascoigne, Trainspotter (Zenith Theatre, Sydney), Power Lunch (Tap Gallery, Sydney), Love That Dog (Belvoir St Theatre, Sydney) and The Night Heron (Griffin Theatre, Sydney). Nick’s own play Hope Gap was also developed under Griffin Searchlight and later received a run in the UK. Nick is also an associate member of theatre collective Two Bins. His directing work with them includes After Party and Cuckoo, both of which received Argus Angel Awards for Excellence in Theatre, and WWI drama To the Green Fields Beyond. He played Mike in Joe Penhall’s The Bullet and Gaffer Hexham in Franklyn McCabe’s adaptation of Our Mutual Friend. Nick’s next play FICWAS is in development. Film includes: Garage Days, The Pact, Kill Keith and The Treatment.
Television includes: All Saints, Escape of the Artful Dodger, Two Twisted, Teddy Loves Dolly and Guiltology.