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MISCHIEF THEATRE Mischief Theatre is a comedy theatre company based in London, first formed in 2008 by a group of graduates and students of The London Academy of Music & Art. Since first forming, the company has created and presented a number of productions across the UK and in Europe. Mischief Theatre’s ensemble members are: Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, Dave Hearn, Harry Kershaw, Charlie Russell, Josh Elliott, Mike Bodie, Nancy Wallinger, Henry Shields, Niall Ransome, Bryony Corrigan & Rob Falconer. The company is led by Artistic Director Henry Lewis and Company Director Jonathan Sayer.

Mischief Theatre is dedicated to creating engaging and exciting, improvised and scripted comedy theatre of an excellent standard through well honed improvisational and comedic technique and strong theatrical ensemble work

HISTORY Mischief Theatre performed their first show "Let’s See What Happens" on Tuesday 15th July 2008 at The Questors Studio Theatre in Ealing. "Let’s See What Happens" ran at The Questors Theatre for a week before it moved to The Edinburgh Festival the following month. Since then Mischief Theatre has produced three more of its own improvised shows: "Lights! Camera! Improvise!", "Late Night Impro Fight" and "Improvaganza" and scripted shows including; "The Murder Before Christmas", "Mogic" and "The Buffoons".

'''CURRENT PRODUCTIONS "THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG"''' Mischief's hit comedy is currently playing at London's West End’s Duchess Theatre; opening in September 2014 until February 2015 and has now been extended twice until February 2016!

ABOUT the show: The Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society attempt to put on a 1920s murder mystery, but as the title suggests, everything that can go wrong… does, as the accident prone thesps battle on against all the odds to get to their final curtain call.

The production won the Whatsonstage.com award in 2014 for 'Best New Comedy' and the Olivier Award in 2015 for 'Best New Comedy'

CAST Dave Hearn, Rob Falconer, Henry Lewis, Alys Metcalf, Charlie Russell, Jonathan Sayer, Henry Shields, Greg Tannahill, Len Cook & Nancy Wallinger DIRECTOR Mark Bell DESIGNER Nigel Hook LIGHTING DESIGNER Ric Mountjoy COSTUME DESIGNER Roberto Surace Kenny Wax Ltd & Stage Presence Ltd present a Mischief Theatre Production

"PETER PAN GOES WRONG" Peter Pan Goes Wrong is the next comedy in the ‘Goes Wrong’ range Mischief Theatre has toured throughout the UK since November 2014. ABOUT the play: Adapted from the original stage play Peter Pan By J.M. Barrie. The inept and accident prone Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society set out to present J.M. Barrie’s classic tale of Peter Pan. Two acts of hysterical disaster ensue.

MISCHIEF THEATRE COMPANY MIKE BODIE Bodie is currently at LAMDA, and is a founding member of The Mischief Theatre Company. He has trained as an improviser at LAMDA and Rose Bruford College. Productions with The Mischief include, Let’s See What Happened, Lights! Camera! Improvise!, and Late Night Impro Fight. Theatre Credits include Stoning Mary, Closer, and Playing The Victim.

BRYONY CORRIGAN Bryony graduated from LAMDA’s 3 year BA (Hons) Acting course in July 2014. It was during her training here that she discovered her love of improvisation and met the founders of Mischief Theatre which led to her joining the company in 2011. She has performed in over 100 shows of ‘Lights! Camera! Improvise!’, at the Edinburgh Fringe 2011-2014, Arcola Theatre, Trafalgar Studios, Poland Impro Festival and at numerous venues on the 2012 UK Tour. Bryony also played Illonka Borbala in The Nativity Play That Goes Wrong. TV includes: Inspector George Gently, Downton Abbey, Harlots Housewives and Heroines. Theatre while training: Celeste Fiddler Something Cloudy Something Clear, Peter Quince A Midsummer Nights Dream, Johanna Sweeney Todd, Olwen Peel Dangerous Corner.

JOSH ELLIOTT Joshua Elliott trained at LAMDA in 2007, where he co-founded Mischief Theatre. He has performed in Lights! Camera! Improvise! to sell-out audiences at the Edinburgh Fringe and in London since 2008. He is also a multi- instrumentalist in the three-piece the Joker and the Thief, who have been featured in the Evening Standard, NME, Clash and live on BBC Radio London, and played at places such as Ronnie Scott’s, KOKO and Glastonbury Festival.

ROB FALCONER Rob trained as an actor musician before entering the West End as ‘Bull Bill’ and Magic Consultant in Cool Hand Luke. He has been with The Mischief for just over a year, recently becoming Musical Director for the company. Other roles include; ‘Sam Byck’, Assassins; ‘Micky’, Playboy of the Western World; ‘Benico’, Benico TV.

DAVE HEARN Dave is one of the founding members of Mischief Theatre, he trained at LAMDA on the foundation course before completing a 3 Year acting course at Rose Bruford. For Mischief Theatre Dave has performed at 6 Edinburgh Fringe Festivals, their UK Tour, the Improfest in Poland as well as; Lets See What Happens, Lights! Camera! Improvise!, Late Night Impro Fight, Buffoons, Mogic and The Murder Before Christmas (The Play That Goes Wrong) & Peter Pan Goes Wrong. Other credits include; Grease (Secret Cinema), Prometheus (Secret Cinema), Body of Water, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Herons, The Playboy of the Western World, Twelfth Night & The Master and Margarita.

HENRY LEWIS Henry trained at LAMDA and is the artistic director of Mischief Theatre. Henry writes and performs for the company as well as producing Mischief’s in house work. Recent credits include: The Play that Goes Wrong (UK/International Tour/West End – writer/actor – Winner Best New Comedy – What’s On Stage Awards 2014), Peter Pan Goes Wrong (UK Tour/Pleasance London – writer/actor – Nominated Best Production & Best Ensemble Off West End Awards 2014) Lights! Camera! Improvise! (Pleasance Edinburgh/Soho Theatre/Arcola/Underbelly -actor), Mercury Fur (Trafalgar Studios – actor), The Improvised Ad Break Live (Comedy Central – actor), The Boy with the Cuckoo-Clock Heart (Pleasance – actor), Beasts & Beauties (Hampstead Theatre – actor). The Nativity Goes Wrong (Reading Rep – writer). Outside of Mischief Theatre Henry teaches at LAMDA and is the co-artistic director of The Trick for who Henry produced Mercury Fur – (Old Red Lion Theatre/Trafalgar Studios) – Nominated Best Production & Winner Best Design in The Off West End Awards 2013 and the UK Premier of Tracy Letts’ Superior Donuts at The Southwark Playhouse – Winner of Mark Marvin Award & 2013 Empty Space Awards).

NIALL RANSOME Niall trained at Guildhall School of Music and Drama and joined Mischief theatre back in 2011. Since then has performed regularly in Mischief shows around the UK. For Mischief theatre he has appeared in Lights! Camera! Improvise! (The Duchess, The Soho Theatre, Trafalgar Studios, Arcola Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe 2011-2014 and UK Tour), The Nativity That Goes Wrong (Reading Rep) and The Play That Goes Wrong (Trafalgar Studios) Other experience includes The Exclusion Zone (Southwark Playhouse), Poppycat (King Rollo Films Limited), Shakespeare For Breakfast (Edinburgh Fringe) and This Is Soap, The Improvised Soap Opera (Edinburgh Fringe) Theatre while training: Benny Southstreet in Guys and Dolls, George H. Jones in Machinal, Dromio of Syracuse in The Comedy of Errors, Edward Grey in Her Naked Skin, Nash in True Dare Kiss

CHARLIE RUSSELL Joined The Mischief in January 2009. Trained at CSVPA with fellow member Jonathan Sayer, and then trained at LAMDA on the 3yr Acting course, graduating in 2012. Has performed in Lights! Camera! Improvise! at the Edinburgh Fringe, in Poland, in London and around the UK since 2009, and played Sandra in The Murder Before Christmas at The Old Red Lion, December 2012. Charlie works with Dave as Press Officer for Mischief Theatre. Since graduating from LAMDA Charlie has appeared on Radio 4, in ‘Taste’ A Twist of Dahl and Doctors on BBC1 and at The Watermill Theatre, in Molières’ The Miser, directed by Nancy Meckler. Charlie also works part-time selling beautiful handbags.

JONATHAN SAYER Jonathan is the Company Director of Mischief Theatre and works for the company as a writer, a producer and an actor. Training: Lamda Theatre: Peter Pan Goes Wrong (Mischief Theatre), The Play That Goes Wrong (Mischief Theatre), Happy Birthday Simon (Orange Tree Theatre), Across the River (Soho Theatre), Radio: Not a Love Story (BBC Radio Four) Television: A life less Ordinary (Pilot), The Anti-social Network (Channel 4), Holby City (BBC 2)Holby City (BBC), Improvisation: Lights! Camera! Improvise! (Various), Late Night Improv Fight! (Edinburgh festival), Bristol Thirty Hour Improvathon (Bristol Old Vic theatre) The Improvised Ad Break Live (Comedy Central/MTV) Writing: Peter Pan Goes Wrong (Mischief Theatre), The Nativity goes Wrong (Mischief Theatre), The Play that Goes Wrong (Mischief theatre), The Butterfly Defect (Hiatus Theatre) Mogic (Hiatus Theatre). Outside of the company Jonathan teaches improvisation and has taught at LAMDA, Mountveiw and CSVPA respectively.

HENRY SHIELDS Henry joined Mischief Theatre in 2010, having been taught improvisation at LAMDA. As well as working as a professional actor, Henry has performed in Mischief Theatre’s shows ‘Lights! Camera! Improvise!’, ‘Mogic’ and ‘Late Night Impro Fight’, and co-wrote and performed in ‘The Play That Goes Wrong’. When not improvising on stage, Henry also performs as one of the company’s pianists.

NANCY WALLINGER Professional Credits include; Bus Life (Disney Channel), Stupid CBBC, Shadow Language (Theatre 503), My Ghost Roommate, Welcome to Neverland. National Youth Theatre Credits Include; White Boy (Soho Theatre), Measure for Measure (Liverpool Playhouse), Razia (Tramway, Glasgow). Nancy joined The Mischief in 2009. Shows include; Lights! Camera! Improvise! (Arcola), Late Night Impro Fight, The Murder Before Christmas and The Butterfly Defect. She is currently working as a Director/Producer at We Free The Box.

RICHARD BAKER Richard originally trained as a secondary school music teacher, but then retrained at LAMDA as a musical director due to his passion for live performance. He has been with Mischief Theatre for only a few months, performing as one of the company’s pianists for Lights! Camera! Improvise! (Underbelly). Professional MD credits include: The Wandering Scholar (King’s Head, Islington), Damsel In Shining Armour (Underbelly), Princess Ida and Iolanthe (Buxton Opera House), The Last Five Years, City Of Angels, Kiss Me Kate, Dick Whittington, The Pirates Of Penzance, Hot Mikado, Glorious! and Godspell.

HARRY KERSHAW Harry trained at RADA. He is a founding member of Mischief theatre. Film includes- Exhibition, Skyfall, Great Expectations, Rufus Stone, Blue Monday and Unrelated. TV includes- The Interceptor, Cuckoo, Omid Djalili’s Little Cracker, Switch, Endeavour and Wallander. Theatre includes- One Man Two Guvnors (Theatre Royal Haymarket), Peter Pan Goes Wrong (Pleasance Islington) and Lights! Camera! Improvise (Various).

TOM PLATT Tom is the Production & Stage Manager for Mischief Theatre, and has been a member of the company for just under 2 years now. Tom trained at Guildhall School of Music and Drama and has worked on many mischief productions in London, Edinburgh, Dubai, UK Tour and West End.

LAURA KIRMAN Laura is an Associate Artist for Mischief Theatre, she trained at LAMDA on the foundation course before completing a 3 Year acting course at Rose Bruford. For Mischief Theatre Laura performed this year at Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Lights Camera Improvise and is currently part of their UK Tour of Peter Pan Goes Wrong. Other Theatre includes: Confetti (The Last Refuge, Bussey Building) Match Girls (Wilton’s Music Hall) Beauty and the Beast ( Library Theatre) Frida Khalo Of Penge West (The Rosemary Branch) Television includes Our Girl (BBC1). Laura also has recorded numerous Audio Books for Audible and Whole Story Books.

MATT CANVENDISH Matthew graduated from LAMDA in July 2012 where he was awarded the Richard Carne Trust Scholarship and also competed as a finalist in the Stephen Sondheim Society Student Performer of the Year Competition (Queen’s Theatre). Credits since graduating include: NewsRevue (Canal Café Theatre), the guest soloist in An intimate evening with Ruthie Henshall (Apex, Suffolk), The Borrowers (Northern Stage – TMA award winner for Best Children’s Show 2012), ‘Romeo and Juliet’ and ‘Still Life’ (both at The Old Red lion Theatre), The Boys from Syracuse (The Union), Sleeping beauty (Park Theatre), Naughty Pour Homme (workshop at Park Theatre) Lights, Camera, Improvise! The improvised movie! (Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh), Peter Pan Goes Wrong (UK Tour).

ELLIE MORRIS Ellie is currently in her final year of LAMDA’s 3 Year Acting course. It is here she was introduced to improvisation which led to her joining the company in 2014. Ellie performed in Lights Camera Improvise at last year’s Edinburgh Fringe. Credits whilst training include: Barbra Pitts in ‘The Laramie Project’, Mimi in ‘Rent’ and Sandra in ‘Love, Love, Love’.

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