Bindweed

Josie Brightwell — Nina, Siobhan, Belinda

Josie trained at The Central School of Speech and Drama graduating with a 1st Class BA (Hons) Acting degree.

Credits include: Judy Porter in ‘Call The Midwife’ (BBC); Alison in ‘Mum’s The Word' (UK Tour); Spa assistant in ‘Michael McIntyre’s Big Show’ (BBC); Factory Girl in 'Les Misérables’; Eulampia Petrovna in ‘Black Snow’ (Moscow Art Theatre); ‘The Emperor of the moon’ workshop (NT Studio); ‘Made in Dagenham 25th Anniversary Concert’ (The Palladium); Peggy in ‘The War of the Worlds’; Baba Yaga in ‘Hansel and Gretel’; Flora in Tennessee Williams’ ‘27 wagons full of cotton’.

Simon Darwen — Mike, Ed

Theatre credits include: 'Of Mice and Men' (Birmingham Rep/Leeds Playhouse); 'Beginning,' 'The Invincibles,' 'A Different Class' (Queens Theatre Hornchurch); 'Sirens' (Mercury Theatre); 'After Birth' (North Wall); 'Missing People' (Leeds Playhouse/National Theatre Tokyo); 'Skellig' (Nottingham Playhouse); 'Much Ado About Nothing' (Jamie Hendry Productions/NESC/International Tour); 'The Here and This and Now' (Plymouth Drum/Southwark Playhouse); 'The Pitmen Painters' (New Vic); 'Our Country's Good' (Out of Joint); 'Lizzie Siddal' (Arcola); 'The Armour/Hotel Plays' (Defibrilator); 'Flare Path' (National Tour); 'Catch 22' (Northern Stage); 'Virgin' (Watford Palace); 'King Lear' (Theatre Royal Bath); 'Mad About The Boy' (Young Vic/Bush Theatre); 'SourLips' (Oval House); 'The Fifth Column,' 'The Taming of the Shrew,' 'What the Women Did' (Southwark Playhouse); 'Love Love Love' (Original Cast) (Paines Plough); 'Unrestless' (Old Vic Tunnels); 'Accolade' (Original Revival Cast) (Finborough Theatre); 'Ramshackle Heart' (Public Theatre New York); 'Arse, Shove' (Theatre 503); 'Mad Forest,' 'The Wonder' (BAC); 'The Merchant of Venice,' 'The Tragedy of Thomas Hobbes,' 'The Taming of the Shrew,' 'A Midsummer Night’s Dream' (RSC); 'Fanny & Faggot' (Trafalgar Studios); 'Nikolina,' 'Bedtime for Bastards' (nabokov).

Television credits include: 'Top Boy,' 'Years and Years,' 'Britannia,' 'Call the Midwife,' 'Silent Witness,' 'The Bletchley Circle,' 'The Bill.'

Film credit: 'The Great Escaper' (released 2023).

Simon has also recorded numerous audiobooks and radio plays

Shailan Gohil — Peter, Charlie

Theatre Includes: 'Love’s Labour’s Lost' (RSC); 'Mother Goose' (UK Tour); 'Jack Absolute Flies Again' (Royal National Theatre); 'Sunset Boulevard' (Royal Albert Hall); 'South Pacific' (Chichester Festival Theatre); 'Mamma Mia! London' (Novello Theatre); 'Dick Whittington' (Qdos Entertainment).

Trained at: Bird College of Dance, Music & Theatre Performance.

Laura Hanna — Jen

Laura Hanna (she/her) trained at LAMDA and most recently performed in 'The Comedy of Errors' (Shakespeare’s Globe, 2023.)

Other theatre credits include: 'Hakawatis: Women of the Arabian Nights' (Sam Wanamaker Theatre/Shakespeare's Globe); 'Once Upon a Time in Nazi Occupied Tunisia' (Almeida);  'Living Newspaper Edition 5' (Royal Court Theatre); 'Signal Fires' (Fuel Theatre); 'Karaokay' (Bunker Theatre); 'A History Of Water In The Middle East' (Royal Court Theatre); 'The Sweethearts' (The Finborough Theatre/Raising Dark); 'A Bright Room Called Day' (Southwark Playhouse); 'Lean' (Strip Theatre/Tristan Bates Theatre); 'Beasts And Beauties' (The Hampstead Theatre).

Television credits include 'Heartstopper' (Netflix) and 'Casualty' (BBC).

Sean Kingsley — Brian, Alistair

West End: Jean Valjean Les Miserables (Queens/Palace Theatres), George The Drowsy Chaperone (Novello), Braithwaite Billy Elliot (Victoria Palace), Tom Jenkins Scrooge (Dominion), Admetus and Munkustrap Cats (New London), Me and My Girl (Adelphi).

Other theatre includes: Ursus The Grinning Man (Trafalgar Studios/Bristol Old Vic); Oxy and the Morons (New Wolsey); Annas Jesus Christ Superstar (Regent’s Park); Gyp Decarlo Jersey Boys (UK tour); Max  Jackie the Musical (Dundee Gardyne); Khashoggi We Will Rock You (10^th anniversary world tour); Judas Jesus Christ Superstar (Minack); Eddie/Dr Scott The Rocky Horror Show (European Tour); Frederick Trumper Chess, 20th Anniversary Concert (Oslo); Bill Austin Mama Mia (International Tour); The Man in Some Girls are Bigger than Others (Lyric Hammersmith, National Tour, Dublin); Mike Hot Pants (Oldham Coliseum); Cyrano de Bergerac Cold Moon Rising (Jermyn Street); Tom Jenkins Scrooge (National/European Tours); Mike Costa A Chorus Line (Derby Playhouse); Slap Hot Shoe Shuffle (National Tour); Gabey On the Town (National Tour); Joe Matchgirls (Bromley); A Month in the Country, The Rivals and Toad of Toad Hall (Liverpool Playhouse); Fiddler on the Roof (Liverpool Empire). Workshop From Here To Eternity.

Actor/Musician: Merlin in Sword In The Stone; Sarah the Cook Dick Whittington; Fleshcreep Jack & The Beanstalk, King Camelot Sleeping Beauty (Ipswich New Wolsey Rock Panto); Orin Little Shop Of Horrors (Birmingham Rep).

Film/TV: Alan London Road (Cuba Pictures), PC Harrison Poirot (LWT), Stuart Ambrose Wire in the Blood (Coastal); Colin Piper Merseybeat, (BBC); Gary Stephens The Bill, (Talkback).

Moray Treadwell — Frank

Theatre includes - internationally: 'The Beatles LOVE show' (Cirque Du Soleil/Apple, Las Vegas); 'The Ruling Class' (English Theatre Frankfurt); 'The Importance of Being Earnest and Corpse' (Vienna’s English Theatre); 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead' (Moving Theatre/National Theatre of Macedonia); 'Waiting for Godot' (Italian tour. Il Palchetto/Good luck Prods).

In the UK: 'The Railway Children' (Theatre Tracks, Kings Cross London/York Theatre Royal); 'Macbeth' (Colchester Mercury); 'Romeo and Juliet' (Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds); 'Twelfth Night' (Contexture Theatre); 'Wait Until Dark,' 'The Little Foxes' (Perth Rep); 'Amadeus,' 'Cause Celebre,' 'Absurd Person Singular,' 'Charley’s Aunt,' 'Wuthering Heights,' 'Man and Superman' (Pitlochry Festival Theatre); 'The Caretaker,' 'The Last Yellow' (Nuffield Theatre, Southampton).

National tours of: 'Some Mother’s Do ‘Ave ‘Em' (Limelight); 'No Man's Land and Hysteria' (London Classic Theatre); 'Arsenic and Old Lace' (Kenny Wax); 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' (Michael Rose).

Television includes: 'The Witcher – Blood Origin' (Netflix); 'Eastenders,' 'Manchild,' 'My Family,' 'Murder Most Horrid,' 'Beck' (BBC and associates); 'Whose Baby?' (Channel 4); 'Downton Abbey' (Carnival); 'Planespotting' (Granada); 'Wuthering Heights' (LWT).

Film: 'Don’t Move' (Hammerstone, Capstone, Raimi Productions, Netflix); 'Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest' (Bruckheimer/Disney); 'Round Ireland with a Fridge' (Tony Hawks, Ed Bye); 'People We Hate at the Wedding' (Amazon.)