Cast
Kym Marsh
Hedy
Actor, presenter and singer Kym Marsh arrived on British TV screens back in 2000 appearing in the hit reality TV show, Popstars and winning a place in the subsequent band Hear'say.
The band achieved two UK number one singles and a number one album - and Kym went on to pursue a successful career as a solo artist.
She went on to star in London’s West End, playing the role of Annette in the critically acclaimed musical, Saturday Night Fever.
An accomplished actress, she appeared in BBC One’s Doctors and Channel 4’s Hollyoaks: In The City before joining the cast of ITV’s Coronation Street in the role of Michelle Connor in 2006. During the subsequent 13 years on Britain's famous cobbles, she won a string of prestigious awards for her work.
After leaving Coronation Street in 2019, she appeared in hit BBC One drama The Syndicate and can currently can be seen on BBC One’s continuing drama, Waterloo Road, where plays the role of Nicky Walters. She is also a regular host of BBC One's Morning Live.
Her love of theatre has not waned and in 2022 Kym returned to tread the boards in the role of bunny boiler Alex Forest in a nationwide tour of box office hit Fatal Attraction. In 2023 she joined the cast of Take That musical Greatest Days and last year played the iconic role of Cruella de Vil in a nationwide tour of 101 Dalmatians: The Musical.
Kym is mum to David, Emilie, Polly and Archie. She lives in Cheshire with her family.
Lisa Faulkner
Allie
Lisa Faulkner is a TV and film actor, presenter and chef.
Her screen credits include; Missing You (Netflix); Archie, Unforgotten, Murdoch Mysteries, A Confession and Murder In Suburbia (ITV); Waterloo Road, The Girl Before, Eastenders, Death In Paradise, Moving On, New Street Law, Hotel Babylon, New Tricks Spooks, Burn It, Holby City and Dangerfield (BBC); The Madame Blanc Mysteries (Channel 5) and Brookside (Channel 4).
Lisa has also carved out a career as a TV presenter and cook, having won Celebrity MasterChef as a contestant in 2010.
She has since built a successful career in food, publishing several cookery books and co-hosting the ITV show John & Lisa's Weekend Kitchen.
Andro
Graham
Andro is an actor and singer/songwriter who was previously a member in the Brit Award winning band, JUNGLE. More recently has embarked on his solo career with the release of 3 EPs with support from BBC 6 Music, BBC Sounds, BBC Introducing, CLASH, Wonderland and many more.
Andro previously starred in the Amazon Prime TV Series; Dead Hot, written by Charlotte Coben, Directed by Sam Harbor (Heartstopper) and produced by Quay Street Productions (Channel 4's 'Its A Sin').
Theatre credits include; Twelfth Night at Regents Park Open Air Theatre. Shake It Up Baby at Epstein Theatre Liverpool. Salome at Royal Shakespeare Company. Dido - Queen of Carthage at Royal Shakespeare Company. The Lion, Witch & Wardrobe at Bridge Theatre. DORIAN at Reading Repp. Red, White & Royal Blue (Amazon Prime).
TV Credits; BAFTA Winning BBC Series - JUICE (Season 2). QUARTER LIFE - Amazon Prime Series 2026. Red, White & Royal Blue (Amazon Prime).
Jonny McGarrity
Sam
Jonny originally studied Law at Newcastle University and worked in Finance in Glasgow and Edinburgh for 15 years before retraining as an actor at ArtsEd in London. He made his professional stage debut in 2015 playing Leo in Joe DiPietro's Fu*king Men at The King's Head Theatre in Islington.
Other theatre credits include The Full Monty (UK no.1 tour), A Midsummer Night's Dream (site-specific UK tour, Butterfly Theatre), The Censor (Hope Theatre), the world premiere of A Little Princess (Theatre By The Lake) and the world premiere of The Whistling (The Mill Theatre, Sonning).
Film / TV credits include A Scottish Love Scheme, Outlander, Emmerdale, Coronation Street, Without Guilt.
Amy Snudden
Bella
Training: West London Drama Training and The Oxford School of Drama.
Theatre Credits: White Christmas (Dominion Theatre), The Sound of Music Live (BBC), The Crucible (West End).
Television Credits: The Reckoning (BBC), Casualty (BBC).
Other Credits: Impact Winter (Audible).
Amy grew up in West London and has a twin brother called Sam!
Francesca McBride
Understudy Bella
After finishing training at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, they are now completing an MA at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
Francesca has a raft of experience across stage and screen, notably appearing as Nicky Bromley in Channel 4's Generation Z, and particularly enjoys the challenge of balancing multiple projects simultaneously - think repertory theatre style! Her work is nuanced, generous, and hopeful and she brings intelligence and energy to the productions she works on.
They are brave in their approach and never complacent, taking every opportunity to develop their skills and knowledge. She is a co-founding Artistic Director for production company left eddy stories, as well as serving as a Young Trustee for National Youth Theatre, and has previously trained with Chichester Festival Youth Theatre, Hampshire Youth Theatre and National Youth Theatre.
Patrick McHugh
Understudy Graham and Sam
Patrick trained with Fourth Monkey.
Recent credits include Much Ado About Nothing (The Festival Players), Henry VI pt II, Richard III (The Show Must Go Online), Dracula, Frankenstein (TRUESTORY), Darwin’s Tortoise, Taxi Girl (Spanish Theatre Company), Before The World Ends (FemFest), Humbugged! A Christmas Carol 2 (The Pantaloons), The Grit of Life (Wigeon Theatreboat).
Anna Ruben
Understudy Hedy and Allie
Anna trained in the US and then moved to London where she was cast in the BAFTA wining film, The Imposter. She moved onto TV roles including parts in, Sex Education for Netflix, Andor for Disney, The Power on Amazon Prime and Secret Service for ITV.
Anna has appeared in many off west end stage productions in London, and is delighted to be joining the cast as understudy to Allie/Hedy.
Creative Team
Rebecca Reid
Adaptor
Rebecca Reid is a playwright, screenwriter and novelist. As a thriller writer her novels include Perfect Liars, Truth Hurts, Two Wrong and The Will. As an award winning journalist she writes a column for the i, and contributes to publications including Stylist, the Times, Glamour, Cosmo and the Telegraph. She is the former digital editor of Grazia and currently adapting her second novel for television.
Gordon Greenberg
Director
Gordon Greenberg has directed on Broadway, Off-Broadway, in London’s West End, written for television and stage, and developed, directed and produced new works for arts institutions across America. Directing work includes the Broadway productions of The Heart of Rock and Roll (James Earl Jones) and Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn (also co-writer, Studio 54, Roundabout, Universal, PBS Great Performances), the Chichester & West End production of Guys and Dolls with Rebel Wilson (Savoy & Phoenix Theatres, 6 Olivier Award noms), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf with Zachary Quinto and Calista Flockhart (Geffen Playhouse, L. A. Drama Critics Award), Piaf/Dietrich (Mirvish Toronto, Dora Award), Dracula, A Comedy of Terrors (also co-writer; Menier, Off-Broadway), The Baker’s Wife (Menier), Crime and Punishment, A Comedy (also co-writer, Old Globe), Jacques Brel… (Zipper Theatre, Drama Desk, Drama League, Outer Critics Award noms), Barnum(Menier), Working (Drama Desk Award, adapted with Stephen Schwartz and Lin-Manuel Miranda), Tangled (Disney), Secret of My Success (also co-writer, Universal), and regional work at Williamstown, Old Globe, Signature, Paper Mill, Huntington, Chicago Shakespeare, MUNY, Goodspeed. For television, he created the NBC television series “Most Talkative” (Co-Executive Producer/Writer with Blumhouse and Andy Cohen) and original movie musicals for The Disney Channel and Nickelodeon. Education: Stanford University, NYU Film School. He is also Artistic Director of the Broadway Teachers Workshop.