Barbara trained at the Arts Educational Schools, Tring & London. She made her West End debut in 42nd Street at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane where she starred as Peggy Sawyer for 2 years with great personal and public success. She's also probably best known for her time in the hit musical Cats where she has played Rumpleteazer, Demeter & Grizabella in the West End, UK Tours and more recently as Jennyanydots /Dance Captain in Cologne and Frankfurt.

Other credits include the RNT's Carousel, Which Witch, Hey Mr Producer, Dick Whittington, The Musical at Sadler's Wells. Great Expectations, The Girlfriend, The Mikado, Side by Side by Sondheim, Godspell, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, and West Side Story. The Restoration Comedy The Contrast at the Cochrane & Katherine Howard in The Marital Woes of Henry VIII for The American Bar Association.

In concert she has appeared with Sacha Distel in Golden Songs of the Silver Screen, on board the QE2 with The Wonderful West End and The Best of Broadway and with Alvin Stardust in his 70's & Christmas Show.

Barbara has made two films for the The British Youth Film Project, Treasure of Albion, as Mrs Morgan alongside Todd Carty and The School that Roared with Phil Cool.

Laura trained at Bird College and graduated with a first class BA (Hons) in Dance & Theatre Performance.

Theatre credits include: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Gielgud Theatre & Leicester Curve); Jersey Boys (Prince Edward Theatre); The Plested & Brown Perfect Wife Roadshow (UK Tour); Linda in Blood Brothers (Madinat Theatre, Dubai); Perfect Pitch in Concert (George Square, Edinburgh Festival); understudied/played the role of Eponine in Les Miserables, (Queens Theatre); Rumpleteazer in Cats (UK Tour); Lead Singer in The Music of Dirty Dancing, Miranda in The Tempest (Studio Theatre).

Workshops include: Matilda (RSC); From Up Here (Perfect Pitch); Therese Raquin (Mercury Musicals).

Laura was a backing singer for the band Tarras on their Walking Down Main Street album (Topic Records) and also took part in the 25th Anniversary of Les Miserables at the O2. She recently helped the RSC celebrate its 50th Anniversary with a rehearsed reading of Poppy.

Karen trained at the Poor School where her roles included Paula in The Positive Hour, Marie in Yard Gal and Princess in Sweet Bird of Youth.

Theatre work includes Like a Fishbone- Cockpit Theatre, The Green Room- Etcetera Theatre, Best of Three- The Miller, My Gatsby the Great- Mook Theatre, Cybersensual- Chilli in the Eye, and two touring seasons with Hurricane Productions.

She has also been in involved in rehearsed readings of new writing at Battersea Arts Centre, Jackson's Lane Theatre and The Cock Tavern Theatre.

Karen has also been in several short films.

Training: Geoff Colman, Head of Acting at Central School of Speech and Drama.

Theatre credits: Understudy Dead Mum in Billy Elliot (Victoria Palace); Shenshen and 1st understudy Madame Morrible in Wicked (Original London cast, Apollo Victoria); Mrs Bixby in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (UK Tour); The Full Monty (Original London cast, Prince of Wales); Judith in Elegies (Bridewell); The Narrator in Joseph (UK Tour); Mona Kent in Dames At Sea (Prince Regent).

Other credits: Storm in Chewing The Scenery (Filmed screenplay reading based on the novel); Mother in Little Women (Workshop); Mrs Capaldi in Ricki and Julie (Short Film); Madame Delila/Mrs Thatcher in Dr Who – The Ultimate Adventure (Audio, Big Finish); Mrs Anderson in Waiting For The Dawn (Rehearsed reading, Arts Theatre); Samsung (Viral, Featured actor); Lidl (Trudi, Commercial).

Recordings: Love Never Dies (Really Useful Group); Elegies, Judith (Okai Collier Productions).

Nadine also spent a year at The Sorbonne, Paris as part of her BA Hons French degree at UCL.

She is thrilled to be part of this production and is so happy she spent all her early years training at Morgan Aslanoff where they excel in tap. It's certainly come in handy for this show!

Ruth trained at New College of Speech and Drama and Birmingham School of Acting.

Theatre credits include Salford Tales at Bridgewater Hall and Media City UK (BBC Philharmonic), Crying in the Chapel, Women, Newspaper Boy (Contact Theatre, Manchester), Nevermind (Old Red Lion), JB Shorts 1,2 & 5 (Real Life Theatre Company); Matryoshka (Landor Theatre), Derek's Birthday (Studio Salford), Wit (Lauriston Studio); Goodwill, Fake (Chester Literature Festival), Funny Business (Green Room).

Ruth won a Manchester Evening News Theatre Award for her performance in Ways to Look at Fish by Colette Kane at the Manchester 24:7 Festival and reprised at Bolton Octagon, Theatre 503 and The Library Theatre, Manchester.

TV credits include Coronation Street and Waterloo Road.

Alexander trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.

Theatre credits include: 'Joel' in the British Premiere of James Sherman's US comedy Beau Jest as Hackney Empire. Other recent theatre: Pera Pelas (Arcola), Midsummer Night's Dream (Comedy Theatre, West End, and BAM, New York, Henry V and Macbeth (Tour de Force), Pygmalion (ADG World Tour) and Love in a Wood (New End, Hampstead).

Musicals: H.M.S Pinafore (UK Tour, Carl Rosa Company), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (UK Tour), Victor/Victoria (The Bridewell) and The Cradle Will Rock (BAC). New writing: Dorian (Arts Theatre, West End), DM Thomas's Cornish rugby and tin-mining saga Hellfire Corner (Hall for Cornwall), Mark Ravenhill's Close To You, and a new awards winning musical about terrorism Failed States (Pleasance, London). He has also done children's theatre, and many pantomimes; most recently as Sgt Ping in Aladdin (Radlett Centre).

T.V. credits: The Bill (Thames), Galois' Legacy (BBC), Shameless (Channel 4). As assistant Director: British premiere of the musical Rags (The Bridewell).

Film Credits: Clash of the Titans (Gorgon Productions, directed by Louis Leterrier).

Helen's credits as a performer are many and varied. They include Miss Skillon in See How They Run and Pools Paradise (UK Tours), Ruth in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (National Tour), Red Riding Hood in Into the Woods. Rigoletto and La Forza del Destino (Royal Opera House), Waitress in Don't Look Now (UK Tour), Adriana in Comedy of Errors, First Fairy in A Midsummer Night's Dream (St Leonards Church), Star in One September Night (Arcola), Ruby Hammerstrom in The Miniaturists (Southwark Playhouse), Mary Mooney in Once a Catholic, Mary Tilford in The Children's Hour (Diorama), Karen in Murder in the Tarot Cards (Kenneth Moore), Buskers (Kings Head), May Contain Nuts and Love in the Insecurity Zone (Hen and Chickens), Essence of Ireland (UK Tour).

Work as a choreographer includes productions of The Blues Brothers Party (UK Tour), The Rat Pack Party (UK Tour), Assistant on Menopause the Musical (UK Tour), Summer Spectacular (Bournemouth, Lowestoft, Clacton), and Step into Christmas (Jermyn Street). Helen has appeared in and choreographed pantomimes for many years, and this year will be performing as Carabosse in Sleeping Beauty at Broxbourne.

Catherine graduated with a BA Hons in Acting from Italia Conti.

Theatre credits include: Scaramouche- The Zany Commedia Musical (Hoxton Hall); Silence! The Musical (ATS Theatre); Oh No It Isn't! (Union Theatre); Facebook: The Musical (CTheatre & Wilde Theatre); The Sister Wendy Musical (Jermyn St & Hackney Empire Studio); Shakespeare For Breakfast: Romeo & Juliet - The Panto! (Pleasance); Tess Of The D'Urbervilles (Landor); The Emperor's New Clothes (CTheatre); Dick Whittington (Leatherhead Theatre); Closer Than Ever (Jermyn St & Ctoo); and the Olivier nominated Cinderella (Theatre Royal, Stratford East).

Last year Catherine played Lynne in the UK tour of Stepping Out. She is very happy to be playing Sylvia in this production, as it's a role she's always wanted to play…ever since she saw Mummy Millsom in the role 20-something years ago!

For more information on Catherine, please see www.ktalent.co.uk

Evadne is an Actor/Producer/Director. After training at Guildford School of Acting she has worked extensively in both theatre and television.

She started her career working in TIE, community and regional theatres before moving to Paris, where she hooked up with a bunch of Le Coq students. Whilst in Paris, Evadne directed and performed in various devised street theatre productions.

On returning to London, Evadne decided to take a break from acting and turned her talents to producing documentaries and factual entertainment programmes on television.

Theatre credits include: Madam Decoy in A Lady of Pleasure (White Bear); Rose in Stepping Out (Brewhouse Theatre); Em in Keeping Mum (Brockley Jack Theatre); Mum in Be Patient While You Love Me (New Britannia Theatre); Vera in Flora (Theatre 503).

Short films include: Cathy in End of the Line and Mary Bateman in The Birth of Shiloh.

Helen trained at the Birmingham School of Speech and Drama.

Theatre credits include: Donna Lucia in Charley's Aunt (National tour); Teiresias in The Bacchae (Chris Vervain Productions); Mary Kranky in George's Marvelous Medicine (Geneva); Lechery in Everyman: An Immorality Play (International tour); Sheherezade in Arabian Nights (Midlands Arts Centre Productions); Mari Gaila in Divine Words (Birmingham Hippodrome); Rapunzel and A Christmas Carol (Clydebuilt Puppet Theatre Company,Touring); Teresa in An Event in the City of Goga (National Theatre, Slovenia).

Dance credits include: Pastforward (White Oak Dance Project/Mikhail Baryshnikov, Edinburgh Festival Theatre); Immanence (National Theatre, Montreal).

Short films include: Pandora's Box (B S Films); The World Turns (Saloon Films); 5 Needles (Neath Films).

Commercials include: Activia, Mini car, WKD, Sky+, Sky Movies, John Lewis

Helen also writes and performs Stand Up Comedy and Character Sketches - with successful shows at Henley, Buxton, and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals.