CAST BIOGRAPHIES DANIEL WILLIAMS
SAM LAYDON
Father Christmas / Aslan
Leopard / Dryad / Wolf / understudy
TRAINING Central School of Speech and Drama (Lawrence Olivier Behrens Award) THEATRE CREDITS include Rough Crossings (Headlong Theatre Co./ Lyric Hammersmith); Nakamitsu (The Gate Theatre); Journeys to Work (Red Room Theatre Co.); Macbeth (English Touring Theatre); In Darfur (Donmar Warehouse); Watership Down (Lyric Hammersmith); Romeo and Juliet (Birmigham Rep). TELEVISION CREDITS include In and Out (Tiger Aspect); Tea with Betty (BBC); The Bill (ITV). FILM CREDITS include The Grind (Rishi Opel); Broken Lines.
OWAIN RHYS DAVIES Dwarf / voice of Rumblebuffin TRAINING Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts THEATRE CREDITS include The Wizard of Oz (The Royal Festival Hall); Dylan Thomas Abridged (Black Mountain); An Epic Portrayal of Mundane Love, My People (Sherman Cymru); Imagine This (Theatre Royal Plymouth); The Exquisite Corpse (True/Fiction Theatre); Amazing Grace (Wales Theatre Company); Fiddler on the Roof (Aberystwyth Arts Centre); Abigail’s Party (3D Theatre); A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (The National Theatre); Wolfskin (Sgript Cymru); Soldiers’ Nativity (Royal Court Theatre); Mamma Mia! (Prince Edward Theatre). TELEVISION CREDITS include Y Pris (Fiction Factory/S4C); Dawns-Tastig, series 1&2 (Apollo/ S4C); Cowboys AC Injans (Opus TV/S4C); Moben Kitchens, Heineken, Nationwide (National Commercials); YCHA-V (Calon TV/S4C); Floodline (HTV). TELEVISION VOICEOVER CREDITS include Spendaholics (BBC 3); Swingers (Channel 5); QVC Christmas (QVC); Stenaline, BT (National Broadcast); The Solarium (ITV); Great Britain (National Geographic). FILM CREDITS include He Used to Love (The Lousy Company).
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TRAINING Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Arts and Glasgow University THEATRE CREDITS include Apeneck Sweeney (Arches Theatre); The Canterville Ghost (Nonsenseroom); The Tempest (Theatre Alba); Further than the Furthest Thing (Prime Productions/ Byre Theatre); Always The Bigot (Pavillion Theatre); Merlin and the Winter King (Derby Playhouse); Wild Specimens (Pitlochry); The Life of Jesus Christ (Cutting Edge); The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Theatre Set-Up); After the Fact (Soho Theatre Studio/Net Curtains); The Diary of Anne Frank (Chelmsford Civic Theatre); This Happy Breed (Wimbledon Theatre); A Murder is Announced (Leeds Grand/ Croydon Ashcroft); Rewired (Qualia Theatre); A Kind of Life (St Pancras Chambers); Circus (Tobacco Factory/Reigen Productions) FILM CREDITS include White Butterfly (RSAMD/STV); Kol Nidrei (Redhead Productions). RADIO CREDITS include Darwin and the Water of Leith (BBC Scotland).
LAUREN SILVER Leopard / Dryad / understudy TRAINING Queen Margaret University THEATRE CREDITS include Masterclass with Julian Ovenden – Claude-Michel Schönberg Musicals (Theatre Royal Haymarket); The Butler Did It?! – The Musical (Gilded Balloon, Edinburgh Fringe); Bye Bye Birdie (QMU/Brunton Theatre); Electra (QMU/Citizens’ Theatre); The Wind in the Willows, The Tempest, The Caucasian Chalk Circle (QMU). FILM CREDITS include Roast Me: A Love Affair with Liquid Gold (Adam Knight); Friends Reunited, Life Class (QMU).