The Cast of COMPANY

Robin Innes - Robert

Robin began his performance training at Guildhall School of Music and Drama before completing a Postgraduate Diploma in Musical Theatre at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Theatre credits include Assassins (Sam Byck), Passion (Ludovic / Torasso), Cabaret (Victor), Jeffrey (Father Dan), Brigadoon (Tommy), Our Country’s Good (Gov. Philips / Wisehammer), Patience (Bunthorne), Iolanthe (Lord Chancellor) and La Belle Hélène (Calchas). In Scotland he created the roles of Robert Burns and Sir Patrick Spens in newly commissioned works for Opera West. He has been the recipient of the Sir Frederick George Painter Prize and the D’Oyly Carte Opera Award for performances in G&S. Other credits include Taggart for Scottish Television and Friday Night is Music Night for BBC Radio. Robin has performed in several Sondheim cabarets in London and Scotland including Just Another Love Story at the Bridewell Theatre.

David Phipps-Davis - Harry

David trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and has since appeared in three Lost Musicals™ at the Sadlers Wells Theatre, played Emperor Altuom in the British stage premiere of the Berio completion of Turandot and is a critically acclaimed pantomime dame. He has directed seventeen shows on the London fringe (four at Barons Court) including the European premiere of Silence! and the world premiere of The Last Maharajah. David has also worked as a singer and compere on cruise ships on three continents, and is a theatre critic for www.remotegoat.co.uk and www.whatsonstage.com. Straight after Company David goes to Dorset to play Lillas Pastia in Carmen, returns to Barons Court in October to direct the British premiere of Colette Collage and at Christmas returns to Barnstaple to play Abanazar in Aladdin - his first male role in panto!

Olga-Marie Pratt - Sarah

Olga was most recently seen in Silence! The Musical as Catherine and Senator Martin. She is a recent graduate of Richmond, the American International University where she studied art and theatre. Past roles and shows include: Parallel Lives, The Vagina Monologues, Yeah! Way or Jesus y Gomez, My Favorite Year, Fiorello!, Damn Yankees, various musical revues, Sonia in Godspell, Fantine in Les Mis, and Ethel Merman in The Melody Lingers On. She is excited to not be the only token American in this wonderful cast of Company.

Kinloch Anstiss - Peter

Kinloch Anstiss trained at New Zealand’s National Academy of Singing and Dramatic Art, graduating in 2005 with a Bachelor of Performing Arts (music theatre). Since then he has performed in Oliver!, Beauty and the Beast, Seussical, Buddy and Twelve Angry Men. He has also co-directed two musical revues and sung in several concerts and recitals. Since arriving in London last year he has played Abanazer in Aladdin for Chaplin’s Pantomimes and Jack Worthing in Magic Hat Productions’ The Importance of Being Earnest.

Heather Matthews - Susan

Heather Matthews is very happy to be performing with such a great cast. Originally from St. Louis, Missouri in the USA, Heather moved to London 3 years ago and has played Miss Dorothy in Thoroughly Modern Millie with the Cygnet Players and was a soloist in the Heart and Music concert with Imperial Productions. Other credits include the US national tour of My Fair Lady and a two year stint with the New York Gilbert and Sullivan players. Also, if you have a large screen TV with a slow motion feature, you can see Heather's half-second appearance as an audience member in Sex in the City, the fashion roadkill episode!

Marcia Brown - Jenny

Marcia trained in Musical Theatre at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts. Since she graduated Marcia has enjoyed a varied acting career – highlights of this include performing in the Thursford Christmas Spectacular (Christmas 2009), the role of Luisa in Nine (Rose & Crown, Walthamstow, Summer 2009) and various workshops of new writing (Theatre Royal, Haymarket and Stratford Circus). This summer Marcia will be creating the role of Constance in Swing! The Musical at the Edinburgh Festival, a new musical about tennis, and swingers.

Anton Tweedale - David

Theatre includes: The Laramie Project (Dublin and The Space), Edmond (Theatre Royal Haymarket), The Comedy of Errors (Tabard Theatre) and A Peasant of El Salvador (Arcola Theatre).

Musicals include: The UK premieres of Reefer Madness (Bridewell Theatre) and Trey Parker’s Cannibal! The Musical (Edinburgh Fringe), George W. Bush and David Blunkett in Tony Blair – the Musical (Edinburgh Fringe and original cast recording), Crazy For You (London Palladium) and The Scribe Who Wouldn’t Scribble (Royal Festival Hall).

Lowri-Ann Davies - Amy

Lowri is originally from Swansea and moved to London to train at KSA. Previous credits include Joanne in Godspell, Sheila in Secrets and Mae in The Pajama Game. Lowri would like to thank her family and friends for all their help and support.

Daniel Norman - Paul

Daniel trained at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts after completing an MA in Text and Performance with King’s College, London and RADA.

Professional theatre credits include Assassins (Bridewell Theatre), various operas for English National Opera including The Magic Flute and Tosca (The Coliseum), La Bohème with the BYO (Queen Elizabeth Halls) and Oliver! (London Palladium). He recently appeared with dreamspeakthink in their production of Absent at the Royal Opera House. Other theatre credits include Jekyll / Hyde in Jekyll & Hyde: The Musical, and Young Ben in Follies for MAPLO.

Daniel also worked as Dramaturg on Assassins (Bridewell Theatre) and assisted and performed in The New London Musical Theatre Festival 2005. Daniel’s directorial credits include: The Last Five Years (Gielgud Theatre, RADA) and Turkish Delight: The Opera (Rosemary Branch Theatre).

Joyce Lorinstein - Joanne

Joyce Lorinstein began her musical life as a pianist, making her debut at the age of five in a piano recital in Petersburg, Virginia, and continued studying piano until the age of 18. After a very long hiatus from music, she reignited her love of music with a solo singing career which has encompassed appearances in reviews at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2006 and 2007; winning entries in various music festivals; solo and duet recitals in London, Munich and Florence. Musical theatre credits include Phyllis in a production of Follies in October 2009. She continues to study privately and attends various workshops and masterclasses.

Ashley Knight - Larry

Ashley has been a professional actor practically since birth (1959), his father a “Stand Up Comedian”, his mother a “Fire Eater”! As a child and teenager he had feature roles in dozens of TV programmes, series ads and films - most notably as Young Claudius in I, Claudius and 3 years as Ken the inventor of Metal Mickey now on DVD.

Since then countless leading and featured roles in over 40 stage productions including in the West End: Bar Mitzvah Boy, Grand Hotel and She Loves Me. Ashley has just completed two years as Cogsworth in the No.1 tour of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast and will play Drake in the 2010-11 tour of Annie with Sue Pollard.

He is a great Sondheim fan and is himself an accomplished jazz/cabaret pianist and has worked World-wide. In 2002 he played in Elton John’s garden for the celebrity packed “White Tie & Tiara” Charity Ball.

Aideen McCartney - April

Born in Ireland and raised in Australia and New Zealand, Aideen completed her acting training at the Queensland University of Technology in 2003.

Theatre credits include: Mina in Dracula, Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, Where The Waves Crash, Sub-Con Warrior 1 and The Odyssey (Zen Zen Zo Physical Theatre, Australia), Shadow Thief, The Little Dragon and Twelve Animals (LATT Children’s Theatre, South Korea), Six Women Standing in Front of a White Wall (Little Dove), Pinocchio (The Cat’s Grin), Toast and The Lesson (Right Foot Down), Yum Yum in Hot Mikado and Jesus Christ Superstar (QUT).

Anna Brook-Mitchell - Kathy

Anna trained at Mountview Academy where her roles included Sally/Nancy in Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens, Mary Lennox in The Secret Garden and Queen Elizabeth in Richard III. Prior to Mountview, she trained as a classical singer and studied Drama/Music at Hull University. Whilst there, she played Anna Labia in Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens, Oasa in Lovers Suicides (Japan tour) and Assassin in JFK: The Musical at Edinburgh Fringe for which she composed the music.

Amy Anzel - Marta

Originally from New York, Amy now calls London home. She most recently performed at Pizza On The Park in An Evening of Johnny Mercer. Other credits include Lottie Child in Crazy For You at The London Palladium, Marty in the European Tour of Grease, the US National Tour of Annie and Happy Days the Musical directed by Garry Marshall. Film and TV credits include MTV’s Short Circuitz, Witchwise and The Bachelor. Amy has sung over 500 jingles and voiceovers and has appeared in numerous commercials.