Frances Broudie Oldridge is an award winning actor and vocalist. She has worked in film and on stage and toured extensively as a professional session singer. She has voiced and produced audio books and audio drama and is also a successful content creator and sculptor.
Roy R Carruthers
Born and raised in Liverpool, England, Roy experienced life in a variety of jobs, before he came to acting after graduating from University as a mature student at the age of thirty-eight. Previous theatre credits include: the MI5 agent in ‘By The Waters of Liverpool’ (Empire Theatre, Liverpool), as panto villains Abanazar (Dubai Media City),
the Sheriff of Nottingham and King Rat (Gracie Fields Theatre, Rochdale), Tony De Vito in ‘Lennon’s Banjo’ (Epstein Theatre), Victor Franz in Arthur Miller’s ‘The Price’ (Liverpool Unity Theatre), Frank in ‘Ladies Night’, Slater in ‘Funny Money’ and Santa in ‘Night Collar’ (Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool), The Fourth Wall (Old Red Lion, Islington) and Mafioso (Hill Street Theatre, Edinburgh).
On TV he appeared in ‘Longford’ (Granada), ‘Good Cop’ (BBC TV) and as Frank in the Feature Film Sparkle (Magic Light Pictures).
Roy supplied over 50 character voices for 10 unabridged audio books of the Redwall series, by best-selling Liverpool author, Brian Jacques and can often be heard on BBC Radio 4; credits include ‘Cobwebs’ and ‘Brief Lives’, ‘The Sad Story of Jim Thorpe’, ‘William Quilliam: The Sheikh of Liverpool’ and ‘The Strange Case of Oliver Cromwell’s Head’ plus two appearances on the Radio 4 show Pick of The Week.
Edward (Ted) Gray
A man of two parts… one erratic, poetic and picaresque… the other practical, analytical and functional. How these co-exist is a miracle.
As a callow youth, he was launched into theatre as a means of political street protest, and to his great good fortune, eventually studied theatre arts under Professor Gunduz Kalic, who remained his lifelong mentor. It was from him he learnt what it meant to play.
Ted has done physical performance in circus, commedia dell’arte, theatre restaurants, clowning and street theatre as well as a bit of standard TV, stage and film. All enough to know he would rather write than perform.He’s have written for audio, stage and film, as well as prose and recently a little poetry.
He loves words and the pictures they can paint and the feelings they can evoke. Ted has also dabbled in stage direction with a liking for playful high energy absurdist theatre.
Whether it is writing, performance or just living life, it must be infused with the play of a child. Quick, delicate, earnest, unpredictable and spontaneous.
The practical side? Bin man, prisons, warehouses, driver, construction, mines, abattoirs, farming, lighting… and always a clown.