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Christmas at the Kringles
2026
The Severson family move to a suburban neighborhood where their next-door neighbors, the Kringles, celebrate Christmas year-round. But when their son becomes increasingly attached to the unusual family, Mark and Julie begin to suspect that their neighbors aren't quite what they seem.
Jason Fernandes
Jason Fernandes is known for Cruel Summer (2021) and Christmas at the Golden Dragon (2022).
Doireann May White
Doireann is a graduate of the RADA BA in Acting. She recently appeared in the Rose Theatre productions of ROMEO & JULIET and RICHARD III. Prior to this she understudied the role of Mairead in a highly successful West End run of Martin McDonagh's THE LIEUTENANT OF INISHMORE alongside Aidan Turner and directed by Michael Grandage at the Wyndhams Theatre. Other recent theatre roles include Ciara in Erica Murray's THE CAT'S MOTHER directed by Jackie Fisher for Wildcard Theatre, Miss Prism in THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST and Jane Bennett in PRIDE & PREJUDICE directed by Nona Shepphard for Classic Cuts, Vicky in CHRISTMAS AT MILDRED'S directed by Rosie Jones for Dollygrip Productions, Olive Day in Mark O'Rowe's CRESTFALL directed by Sara Joyce for Whispering Beasts, Mari in THE SWEETHEARTS directed by Daniel Burgess for the Finborough Theatre, and Sara in THERE IS NO FAILURE, ONLY FEEDBACK directed by Dan Jennings for Huntley Street. Roles in short films include the title role in MAEVE directed Alexander M. Martinez, Leah in THOSE WHO ARE LOST and the Girl in NOTHING SURROUNDED BY US directed by Sam McMullen, and Jackie in IMPACT directed by Ed Hicks. She also appeared in the role of Ciara in web series STALLING, directed by Bryan Moriarty and as Hazel in the RTE Storyland web series STUDENT/TEACHER, directed by Giles Brody. Doireann is based in London.
Ava Jean
Cast · Known for Vampirina: Teenage Vampire
Ava Jean is an American actor, singer, and dancer who began her professional career in 2018 with A Carolina Snowbelle Christmas at The Kennedy Center. The daughter of a Radio City Rockette, Ava was immersed in dance performance from an early age. Her dance training included studying under Amanda Edge of the New York City Ballet and Brad Parquette of the Joffrey Ballet. She began acting in 2019, training with Zak Barnett and made her on-camera debut at 14 in the pilot Childish. Her most recent credits include an upcoming holiday film All Is Merry and Bright as well as a guest-star on the 26th season of on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. In 2025, she will portray Savannah in A Week Away, a musical series from Angel Studios.
Vincent Ross
Vincent Ross is a Filipino-Canadian actor based in British Columbia, Canada. He started his career with The Song To My Heart (2021), Sweet as Pie (2021) and Christmas at the Retreat (2022). He is also known for his voice over work as the recurrent character, Marty, in Where the Leaves Fall Purple (2021). Vincent has always been a performer. He has been a singer and musician since childhood and has grown into acting through extensive training and coaching. He continues to pursue interests in film, voice over, commercial and print.
Janyse Jaud
Cast · Known for Andromeda
Janyse Jaud (born November 26, 1969) is a Canadian actress, voice actress, singer, musician, and author. Her major voiceover roles include Hulk Versus, My Little Pony, Inuyasha, Ed Edd n Eddy, Batman: Black & White, Baby Looney Tunes, War Planets, Spider-Man Unlimited, and Strawberry Shortcake. She is also the narrator of the Emmy Award-winning TV series Adoption Stories. She has worked with companies such as Warner Bros., Alliance Atlantis, Hasbro, Marvel, Paramount, Cartoon Network, and Universal Pictures in both on-camera and voice. As a singer and songwriter, she has received many awards including Winner of Best Song ‘This Day Is Mine’ in the Contemporary Christian category at the Hollywood Music in Media Awards, Winner of Best Jazz CD ‘The Magic of Christmas’ at the Toronto Exclusive Magazine Awards, three Nominations at the Hollywood Music in Media Awards for Best Jazz Song ‘That’s What I Love About You’, Best Dance Song ‘Best Friend Forever’, and Best Contemporary Christian Song ‘Dreamers’ as well as two nominations at the Toronto Exclusive Magazine Awards for Best Song ‘Dreamers’ and Artist of the Year, as well as a nomination for Best Children's Song ‘Stomp’ at the Independent Music Awards USA, and a nomination for Best Song ‘Blessed Is This Holy Night’ at the Hollywood Music Awards. She was chosen as a finalist (one of the top 4 rated songwriters) by the Song of the Year international songwriting contest. She has had many of her original songs chosen for movie soundtracks.
Graham Cole
Cast · Known for The Bill
Graham Cole OBE (born Graham Coleman-Smith on 16 March 1952) is an English actor. Cole was born in Willesden, Middlesex in 1952 to Victor and Freda Coleman-Smith (née Coleman), the youngest of three children. He appeared in numerous episodes of Doctor Who in the early 1980s, often in uncredited roles, such as Marshman and then a Cyberman in Earthshock. He has also played Melkur in The Keeper of Traken and finally a Jacondan in The Twin Dilemma. He also made a guest appearance in the final series of Sooty and Co as a detective called Maurice and in Only Fools and Horses as a Spanish customs official. His first film appearance was in the James Bond film The Living Daylights in 1987. Cole then appeared in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade as one of Walter Donovan's henchmen, who escort Indiana Jones to their boss's New York apartment. He is best known as PC Tony Stamp in the ITV police drama The Bill, a role he played initially as a recurring character from 1984, and then as a regular from 1988 until 2009. Cole appeared in more episodes of the programme than any other actor, appearing in 1,202 episodes. He had previously spent 12 years in Repertory Theatre, and musicals. He presented and narrated the police video programme Police Stop!. He appeared regularly on Noel's House Party in sketches with Andrew Paul. Cole has also made a guest appearance in ITV series Law & Order: UK as a barman in one episode. Cole in costume after appearing in a pantomime in Lichfield in 2015 In his early career in the late 1970s Cole appeared as the Emperor of China in a season of Aladdin at the Grand Theatre in Swansea. Other pantomime appearances have included the role of "Beast" in Beauty & The Beast at the Woodville Halls in Gravesend, Kent. He played Scrooge at Garrick Theatre, Lichfield in 2012 and Abanazer for Theater Royal, Norwich, 2013–2014. He played General Waverley in Irving Berlin's White Christmas at The Festival Theatre, Edinburgh. He later returned to the role at The Dominion Theatre, London. Cole starred in the gangster-horror film Evil Never Dies in 2014, as DI David Bracken, a film that also starred Katy Manning, P.H. Moriarty and former The Bill colleague Tony Scannell. Cole made appearances in Doctors (2015) and Holby City (2018), before starring in the romantic-drama film 23 Walks in 2020 with Alison Steadman.
Nico Christou
Nico Christou got the acting bug while performing on stage in A Christmas Carol at the Denver Center for Performing Arts. After enjoying two seasons, his love for acting was solidified. In 2014 Nico was cast in the lead role of Oliver in the independent feature Run the Tide, co-starring Taylor Lautner. A few months later Nico was cast in the lead role of Caleb Burns in Sweet Sweet Summertime, another independent feature co-starring David DeLuise, Markie Post and Kayla Ewell. Nico enjoys school, surfing, singing, hanging out with friends, writing and acting.
Kevin P. Gabel
Kevin P. Gabel is a Toronto-based actor, writer, and film-maker working in both film and theatre. He most recently performed as Young Scrooge in A Christmas Carol at the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre.
Mary Tanner Bailey
Mary Tanner (born 21 May 1963) is an actress whose career includes over 100 professional roles in film, television and theatre. After high profile roles for CBS and PBS in the 1980s, she returned to her native Nashville in the early '90s and began writing and producing local productions. She eventually went into puppeteering and puppet building with Wishing Chair Productions and, later, Brianimations, with Brian Hull. Tanner continues to act, and in 2019, she was seen in Dolly Parton’s Smokey Mountain Christmas Carol at the Emerson Colonial Theater in Boston, MA and God, Help Us!, co-starring Ed Asner, at the Franklin Theater in Franklin, TN.
Robert Lankesheer
Robert Lankesheer (1914–1993) was a British stage, radio and television actor, best known for playing the character Leamington Sparr in the radio soap The Dales between 1963 and 1966 and Chamberlain in the television series Doctor Who in 1965. He was born on 28 April 1914 in Southampton, England. Whilst working for the local government in the land registry department he took evening classes and qualified in law. He served in the army during World War II as an officer in the Royal Artillery. After the war he decided to take up acting professionally. On stage, in addition to his repertory theatre work, Robert Lankesheer played Sir Henry Burke in Templeton at the Arts Theatre in 1958 and Mr Quelch between 1960 and 1963 in the Billy Bunter Christmas shows at the Victoria Palace Theatre and Queen's Theatre, London. He had a long association with The Royal Opera, Covent Garden, performing roles in Carmen (1973), A Midsummer Night's Dream (1974, 1976, 1984) and Die Zauberflöte (1979, 1980, 1983, 1985, 1986,1987,1989, 1991). In films, Robert Lankesheer appeared in David Copperfield (1970) and Young Winston (1972). Robert Lankesheer died on 29 December 1993 in London, England of emphysema
Julie Barclay
Julie Gibbs was born in Hertfordshire in August 1961. She has one brother, Graham, who joined the army when she was 13. Her mother Jenny was a corsetier/sales assistant and her father was in public relations before being ordained as an Anglican vicar. Julie attended Woodmansterne Primary school in Streatham, where she was keen on all aspects of dance and drama and ice skating. She moved to Aylesbury to attend the Grammar School where she developed her love of acting until she was 16. She moved to Sychdyn in Clwyd, North Wales and joined the Sixth form at Mold Alun Comprehensive School and The Clwyd Youth Theatre performing in plays in the community and at Theatr Clwyd where she worked as an usherette and in theatre admin before studying Acting at Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff in 1981-1984. Julie began working in stand-up comedy to apply for her Equity Card through 1985/86 and then joined the Sherman Theatre Company in Cardiff for 3 productions: A murder mystery musical - Something Afoot and two Christmas productions written by Mike James - The Amazing Mr Toad and The Emperors New Clothes. She toured Britain with Hull Truck Theatre Company with an award winning production of Salt The Earth by John Godber which went on to represent Britain at the International Theatre Festival in New York in 1989, having won a coveted Fringe First award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 1988. After working on two further Christmas productions at Northcott Theatre, Exeter and at Leeds Playhouse, Julie worked in Denmark through 1990 with The English Speaking Theatre Company of Copenhagen. She returned to Wales to begin a successful run in various comedy radio productions including as a regular guest panellist for Weekending on BBC radio 4 and various Light Ent comedy plays. She enjoyed voicing animated films and worked extensively in post-production dubbing for foreign language films. In 1995 Julie returned to studying and gained a PG qualification in Lecturing in FE/HE and went on to teach Performing Arts at Coleg Glan Hafren and at Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama for BA Actors and Young Actors Studio - returning to the place where she studied. Julie married Martin Barclay , a university lecturer, and had sons Lewis and Tommy in 1999 and 2003 returning to her first love acting in 2005. Julie toured south Wales with Theatr Na'Nog introducing secondary school children to Shakespeare. She also worked with local theatre companies Theatr Iolo and Theatr Y Byd and developed new writing as an actor and director with On The Edge company produced by Michael Kelligan. In 2007 Julie began to work in TV/film alongside her theatre and teaching work. She made several appearances for Black Rat Productions - including performances in Romeo and Juliet, Boeing Boeing ,Loot and Spanish Lies for Grassroots Productions written and directed by Frank Vickery. Julie developed skills adapting literature for the stage - Fresh Apples, a wonderful collection of short stories by Rachel Trezise was adapted by Julie in 2010 and she directed A Kind of Alaska by Harold Pinter for Be:Spoken Theatre. In 2014 Julie was cast in an award winning production 'Maudie's Rooms written and directed by Louise Osborn. In the same year when Julie was 52 she was diagnosed with breast cancer and following 6 months of successful treatment happily returned to work.
Nathan Davis Jr.
Nathan Davis Jr. is an American stage, film and television actor, singer, songwriter and musician. As a small child, Nathan left California with his mother, Sofea Watkins, to move to Memphis, TN, his mother's hometown. He was fond of Comedy TV and live performances while growing up. He use to marvel at performances by Michael Jackson, Will Smith & Jamie Fox. He started singing before he could talk at just 10 months old, which gave him his first stage and a lot of attention. He would entertain the family at Christmas dinners and summer vacations while visiting his family in Houston, TX. At the age of 11, he appeared in his debut acting performance of "Annie Jr" as Mr Warbucks. His love for performing grew and he started impersonating his idol, Michael Jackson, in his teen years. While in high school he was trained and competed as a classical vocalist, under the direction of his Music Teacher, Dr. Billy Rayburn, which garnered him three All-West Tennessee Honors Awards. He also had supporting roles in musical theater productions. It was in his Senior year of high school, after failing to book a lead role in a theater production and after being told he would not make it as an actor, by the drama teacher, when he decided to pursue a professional career in acting. In September of 2012, Davis, along with his mother, took a leap of faith and moved back to California. He had asked her to quit her job as a Special Education Teacher, to manage his singing and acting careers. After only a few weeks back in LA, he landed roles on Criminal Minds, The Soul Man, and Glee. He also booked a national campaign, singing along side Justin Timberlake that same year. That jump started his career in commercials, voiceover and television. As an actor, he has a wide range of dramatic and comedic versatility. Not only was he a big hit in television, but he also gained attention in his community. Nathan took first prize at the Taste of Soul LA StarQuest in 2013 to an audience of more than 300,000 people. Shortly after, he was cast as "Diego" in Nickelodeon's, Chase Champion, as a series regular. He was recently cast in his debut silver screen performance as "Aubrey Pollard" in the multiple Oscar Award winning Director, Kathryn Bigelow's "Detroit" movie and "Ricardo" in Hotel Artemis. He also stars in TV One's two Christmas movies, Miss Me This Christmas and You Can't Fight Christmas and guest stars in Hulu's, Marvel Runaways, all in 2017. A charismatic and natural born performer, he is focused on furthering both his acting career and as a musical headliner. Nathan's comedic timing has been likened to a young Will Smith and his stage presence and musical talent as that of a young Michael Jackson.
Rickie Wang
Rickie Wang lives in Vancouver, Canada. He is in grade five, and his favourite subjects are drama and social studies. He loves singing, dancing, acting, songwriting, DJing and scratching. He also enjoys playing piano and guitar. At a young age, Rickie has an impressive resume with numerous credits in film, television and theatre. Select theatre credits include Mr. Mistoffolees and Quaxo in Children’s Theatre of Richmond’s production of Cats, and Tiny Tim in Dolly Parton’s Smoky Mountain Christmas Carol at the Arts Club Theatre, directed by Bobby Garcia. Rickie voiced the character Min in Heroes of the Golden Mask, alongside Christopher Plummer, released in 2022. Other credits include Vancouver Children’s Musical Festival, 6th Small Golden Bell Music Festival, CCTV Youth Talent Show (China), and Love Global Peace Charity Concert (SinoMedia). Film and television credits include Gumboot Kids (CBCKids) and Missed You at Rose Terrace. Most recently, in recognition of his talent and high achievement, in , he received three 1st place awards and two medallions in the Junior Voice Competition at Vancouver Kiwanis Music Festival. Next Rickie will perform his original songs in Gateway Theatre’s Songs of Summer Concert, and play Kurt in the Arts Club Theatre production of The Sound of Music, directed by Ashlie Corcoran in the winter of 2022.
Raye Birk
Cast · Known for The Wonder Years
Raye Birk (born May 27, 1943, Flint, Michigan) is an American film and television actor best known for playing the role of Pahpshmir in the first and last of the Naked Gun movies. He was the main villain in Naked Gun 331⁄3: The Final Insult. He has also starred in Due South as the terrorist Francis Bolt in the Episodes "All the Queens Horses", "Red, White and Blue", "Call of the Wild Part One" and "Call of the Wild Part Two". He also had roles in the X-Files and Babylon 5. His other film credits include roles in Best Defense (1984), Amazon Women on the Moon (1987), Throw Momma from the Train (1987), Doc Hollywood (1991) and Star Trek: Insurrection (1998). In addition to these roles, he had a frequently occurring role as the assistant principal on The Wonder Years; starting with the pilot episode, when he had a conference with Kevin Arnold's parents for throwing food in the cafeteria. While generally antagonist, a more sympathetic role on the show was seen in the award winning episode "Goodbye" where he confides in Kevin that he is Kevin's new math teacher as Kevin's hardnosed algebra teacher has just died. He was also on a pair of Home Improvement episodes as one of Tim's poker buddies. Raye appeared in several episodes on the TV series Night Court. He appeared twice on The Golden Girls, both times playing a wedding caterer. Furthermore, in 1985, 1986 and 1992, he appeared on three episodes of Cheers as Walt Twitchell, a mailman who got into minor altercations with Cliff Clavin. Birk reprised the role of Twitchell in a 2002 episode of the Cheers spinoff series, Frasier, in which the title character (played by Kelsey Grammer) returned to Boston and re-acquainted himself with old friends from the bar. He played a recurring role on Coach as university band director Riley Pringle from 1989 to 1993. He also appeared in an episode of Mr. Belvedere as an accordion player. In 2004–2008, he played Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis. Raye has been married to his wife Candace Barrett for 41 years. They have one son, Joshua, who is a professor of medieval history.
Meagan Moore
Cast · Known for Ben 10
Meagan Moore is known for The Polar Express (2004), House (2004) and Mickey's Magical Christmas: Snowed in at the House of Mouse (2001). Meagan began dancing at the age of 2 and soon moved on to the wonderful world of acting at age 11. She has performed in numerous musicals such as "The Wizard of Oz", "Mame", "Bye Bye Birdie", and "The Music Man", just to name a few at regional theatres all over the country. She has also done a staged reading for "Little Foxes" at the Pasadena Playhouse. In 2000, she got her first on camera role in the independent film "Up Against Amanda" and soon began starring in commercials for SBC, MTV, and The Home Depot as well as a co-starring spot on "Close To Home". Meagan has also done many voice overs including some for the San Diego Zoo, Doritos, Carl's Jr., and "Adventures in Odyssey". Her latest project is the upcoming cartoon network show "Ben 10" where she plays Gwen.
Ian Petrella
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Ian Petrella (born December 17, 1974) is an 80s American child actor. His most memorable role is that of Randy Parker (Ralphie's little brother) in the 1983 film A Christmas Story. Petrella currently resides in Los Angeles, California, working on animation and puppetry. During 2010 Christmas Season, Petrella served as special tour guide from November 4th through the first week of January 2011 at A Christmas Story House in Cleveland, Ohio. This house is found on West 11th St., Cleveland, Ohio and is the original house used for the filming of A Christmas Story. Ian interacted with visitors and recounted his firsthand experiences at the house during the filming of the movie in 1983. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ian Petrella licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Victor Holstein
Victor Holstein was born on April 9th, 1980 in Springfield, Illinois, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Chicago Med (2015), Chicago P.D. (2014), Good Genes (2019) and Adventure Tom (2025). He is the youngest of five children, including triplet sisters. He graduated from Glenwood High School in Chatham, Illinois in 1998. He was four years old the first time he performed - as a singing cowboy in his family's traveling musical evangelism act, The Holstein Herd. Prior to a shift in his world view, he believed he was destined to be a music minister in the Nazarene Church, and actually attended two semesters of theology school before moving to Chicago to study theater at Columbia College Chicago where he earned a BA in Theater Arts in 2004. There he studied under Sheldon Patinkin and his gifted staff. Shortly after college, he moved to Los Angeles, where he worked as a set PA on the NBC show Las Vegas (2003). During this time, he also worked on many indie films, TV shows & soap operas, including a recurring role as a cop on Days of Our Lives (1965). He also continued his studies there at Second City Hollywood and Elizabeth Mestnik Studios for on-camera training, taught by Brad Greenquist. In 2014, he moved back to Chicago. He played Charles Lyon in the hit immersive show Southern Gothic in 2018-19 and then was in Timeline Theatre's Production of Oslo at the Broadway Playhouse downtown. In 2021, Victor understudied Steppenwolf Theatre's critically acclaimed remount of Bug, written by Tracy Letts, starring Carrie Coon & Namir Smallwood. Victor's most recent stage role was the ghost of Elvis Presley in Terry Spencer Hesser's play "Christmas With Elvis" at the Chopin Theatre in Chicago's Wicker Park, directed by Dexter Bullard. He has a supporting role in the upcoming feature film Adventure Tom (2025), which has already screened at two festivals and is slated for release next year.
Gary Barlow
Gary Barlow OBE (born 20 January 1971) is an English songwriter, singer, record producer, and television personality. He is the lead singer of the pop group Take That. Barlow is one of the United Kingdom's most successful songwriters, having written thirteen number-one singles (ten with Take That, two solo, one with the Robbie Williams song "Candy") and twenty-four top-ten hits. As a solo artist, he has had three number-one singles, six top-ten singles and three number-one albums, and has additionally had seventeen top-five hits, twelve number-one singles and eight number-one albums with Take That. Barlow has also established himself as a talent show judge and television personality. He has judged on The X Factor UK (2011–2013), as well as Let It Shine (2017) and Walk the Line (2021). Barlow has received six Ivor Novello Awards from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors, including the award for Outstanding Services to British Music. He has sold over 50 million records worldwide. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) at the 2012 Queen's Birthday Honours for his services to the entertainment industry and charity. According to the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), Barlow as a solo artist has been certified for 1.1 million albums and 1.8 million singles in the UK. Gary Barlow was born on 20 January 1971 in Frodsham, Cheshire, the second son of Colin (died 15 October 2009) and Marjorie Barlow (née Cowan). He attended Weaver Vale Primary School and moved on to Frodsham High School in 1982. In Barlow's autobiography, he relates that his love of music began at an early age, and calls himself "one of those kids that's forever dancing in front of the TV looking at [his] reflection". He was heavily influenced by late 1970s and 1980s pop music. At age 10, after watching Depeche Mode perform on Top of the Pops, Barlow acquired his first keyboard; he practiced constantly thereafter. Barlow has also identified Trevor Horn, and future collaborators Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD), as important early influences. He has credited Elton John with inspiring him to play the piano. The first CD he bought was by the Pet Shop Boys, who later supported Take That on the Progress Live tour in 2011. In 1986, when Barlow was 15 years old, he entered a BBC Pebble Mill at One Christmas song competition with "Let's Pray for Christmas". After reaching the semi-finals, he was invited to London's West Heath Studios to record his song. This inspired him to perform on the northern club circuit, singing cover versions and his own songs. Barlow's first performance was in Wales, at the Connah's Quay Labour Club in the late 1980s, and he was paid £18 per performance on Saturday evenings where he performed songs such as Michael Jackson's "The Way You Make Me Feel" and "The Power of Love" by Frankie Goes To Hollywood. ... Source: Article "Gary Barlow" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Seán Carlsen
Sean trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama. He has worked extensively in theatre, audio drama, television and film. Recent TV credits include Mudtown (BBCiplayer/S4C), Dal y Mellt (Netflix), His Dark Materials (BBC1), All Creatures Great and Small (Channel 5), A Mother's Love (Channel 4) and Series 5 of Stella (Sky1). Films include supporting leads in Boudica - Rise of the Warrior Queen, cult horror The Cleansing, Forgotten Journeys and Never Never Never directed by John Sheedy. Sean is perhaps best known to Doctor Who fans as Narvin in the Doctor Who audio series and has appeared on TV in Doctor Who - The Christmas Invasion and Torchwood.
John MacNeill
John Macneill trained at the (Royal) Central School of Speech & Drama on the three-year acting course. Upon graduation, and after an appearance at the Edinburgh Fringe, he joined Bedside Manners to play Bob Cratchet in A Christmas Carol, a small-scale musical tour of community venues in London. As an associate director of the company, John acted in, wrote and/or directed a further ten productions with the company, which ultimately toured to venues nationwide, including The West Yorkshire Playhouse, The Barbican Centre, and The Lyric Hammersmith. He appeared in Buddy and She Loves Me in the West End, as Tony in West Side Story at the National Theatre of Kenya, and has worked in various scales of theatre all over the UK. In 2002 he became Kneehigh's admin and marketing co-ordinator, then as co-director of Mundic Nation, he played Jack in Hell Fire Corner co-produced with Hall for Cornwall. John also played Pilia Borza in Barabas (Marlowe's Jew of Malta) and Helyar Jan in Never Say Rabbit in a Boat by Nick Darke at HfC. He played Rooster in Jerusalem touring outdoors for Common Players with Exeter Northcott. He played two shows back-to-back at the 2023 Edinburgh Fringe: Polko, and award-winning The Interrogation. A South West tour of one-man play The Coastguard in which he played Peter, received a five-star review. Television work includes Black Books, The Bill, Doc Martin, His Dark Materials, Beyond Paradise, and The Diplomat, as well as numerous commercials, while John is probably best known as Jacka Hoblyn in Poldark Series 2, 4 and 5. At AMATA John has worked closely with 2nd and 3rd Year students on performance, and acting for camera since 2015. His final productions The House of Bernarda Alba (2016) and The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (2017) won Best Actor/Actress awards, with the cast of Ui also winning Best Ensemble Company at the AMATA festival.
Chloe Breen
Cast · Known for Obsession
Chloe Breen started acting at the young age of four after being cast in a local commercial for a community hospital. Since then, it has been her passion and her dream to entertain, enchant, enlighten, and make people laugh. Chloe respects the profession, at all levels, and right out of college, she worked as a PA on the film Down Low and worked closely with the cast, directors, producers and staff. Learning the business from behind the scenes right out of the gate gave Chloe a greater respect for all that goes into the making of a film. More recently, Chloe has been cast in several horror/thriller films, where she has unfurled a new skill-set. Chloe has also been able to pivot quickly between roles and recently was cast as a lead in an independent Christmas comedy film. Bringing all her skills together, Chloe also landed a role in The Mask Reboot. Chloe feels blessed to be part of an industry that is evolving constantly and is eager to share her talent with the world. She credits her successes to date to her unflappable and incredible family who has supported and inspired her dream from the start.
Anna Russell-Martin
Training Anna Russell-Martin trained at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and the Dance School of Scotland. Theatre For the National Theatre: Bacchae Other theatre includes: Macbeth for the RSC; No Love Songs at Soho Playhouse, Dundee Rep and on US and UK tour; Nora: A Doll’s House at the Young Vic; Life is a Dream and Keli at Edinburgh Royal Lyceum; Split the Air for Lepus; The Panopticon and Exodus at the National Theatre of Scotland; Wolfie, Me and My Sister Tell Each Other Everything, Colonel Mustard and the Big Bad Wolf and Bunny for Tron; Bloodbank and Toy Plastic Chicken for Òran Mór; and Nora: A Doll’s House, Cyrano de Bergerac and A Christmas Carol for Glasgow Citizens TV Karen Pirie, Annika and Casualty Film On Falling, Falling Into Place and Ghostlight Radio Venice Preserved, The Servant, The Portal, Rabbit Catcher, The Apple, The Tree and Contemporary Political Ethics Awards 2024 Rising Star Scotland two Ian Charleson Award commendations Theatre Scotland Critics’ Award for Best Performance Offie nomination (Published September 2025) Source: National Theatre
Dmitri Schuyler-Linch
Dmitri began acting at the age of four, performing primarily in commercials. The one exception was a small role in the short film "Livewire" because he knew someone starring in it, the producer saw him, and thought he'd be perfect for the role. When he was seven, he made his feature film debut in the movie "Step Brothers" with Will Ferrell, Adam Scott and John C. Reilly. The part was a small one, but it was a particularly touching scene. Since then he's had leads in a few short films, all of which went to film festivals. "A Border Story" was an official selection of the Tribeca Film Festival, and in "Salvation Road" he played, at the age of nine, a boy unloved by his stepmother, and brutally beaten by his father. He has a chance meeting with an assassin with a conscious and well, I'll leave it at that! Most recently he's co-starred in the feature film "Jessica's Journey", and the TV movie "Christmas Twister". He was seen in a smaller supporting, but adorable and energetic role in the TV movie Rock The House starring Jack Coleman, Cassi Thomson and Andy Milder. On the small screen he's acted in Suburgatory, Eagleheart, Parks and Recreation, NCIS, And Disney's Tasty Time with ZeFronk. Very soon you'll be able to catch him on Nickelodeon's, "Wendell and Vinnie" starring Jerry Trainor.