Benedict has performed the role of Basil since 2013, and has toured extensively in the UK and worldwide to five-star reviews, playing in Toronto, New York, Kenya, Australia, and throughout Europe. He has been acting professionally for 15 years, working extensively on stage and screen, and recently performed the lead role in the music video ‘Money Right’ for Dizzee Rascal and Skepta. His numerous credits include a tour with Kenny Wax Ltd and a one-man show portraying composer Peter Warlock. More recently, he has branched out into corporate and voiceover work. Benedict is also a passionate historian, and has appeared as a consultant for History Channel’s ‘Titanic: Beyond the Curse’.
XAs the son of a magician and jazz singer, David realised young that a proper job was out of the question. David studied Drama, Film and Television at Roehampton Institute London and at the Academy of Creative Training. Theatre credits include ‘Dying For It’, ‘The Cherry Orchard’, ‘The Homecoming’, and the title role in Patrick Marber’s ‘Don Juan in Soho’. He became a cast member of the long-running satirical sketch show ‘The Treason Show’, and returned to his love of classic British comedy in the Tony Hancock play ‘The Lad Himself’. He featured in a sold-out run of ‘The Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show’ at Edinburgh Fringe, then collaborated with ITI in 2014 on an Australian tour of ‘Bite-Size Comedies’. David plays Basil Faulty and co-devised ITI’s ‘The Wedding Reception’ (now ‘Confetti & Chaos’).
XHayden's theatre credits include Chris in ‘The Play That Goes Wrong’ (London West End), Burke in ‘Burke and Hare’ (Watermill/Jermyn Street), Bagot in ‘Richard II’ (Arcola), Mad Hatter in the Olivier-nominated ‘Alice's Adventures Underground’ (Vaults), Dowitt in ‘The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance’ (Park Theatre), Brennan in ‘The Owls Are Not What They Seem’ (Theatre Delicatessen), Sherlock in ‘Sherlock Holmes: A Working Hypothesis’ (UK Tour), ‘The Bunker Trilogy’ (Adelaide Fringe Best Theatre 2014), ‘Girl With The Imagination’ (Greenwich Theatre), ‘Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty’ (Hawthorne Theatre), ‘The Boy James’, ‘Outland’, ‘Tartuffe’, ‘Lorca Is Dead’ (with Edinburgh International Festival award winners, Belt Up Theatre). For ITI, Hayden has won many 5-star reviews for his roles as Basil in ‘Faulty Towers The Dining Experience’, and for Ricky/Ray in ‘Confetti & Chaos’. He also directs ‘Faulty Towers: A One Night Stand’.
XJack trained at LAMDA. Theatre credits include: ‘The Play that Goes Wrong’ (London West End); ‘The Comedy About a Bank Robbery’ (London West End); ‘Hamlet’ (Park); ‘The Sessions’ (Royal Albert Hall); ‘Messiah’ (the Bunker); ‘The Exquisite Corpse’ (Southwark Playhouse); ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ (Chelsea); ‘10x10x10’ (Pleasance); ‘The Shakespeare Conspiracy’ (Chelsea); ‘Twelfth Night’ (Cockpit); ‘Darker the Night’ (Hen & Chickens); ‘The Expeditionary Force’ (national tour); ‘Henry V’ (Kew); ‘The Time of Your Life’ (Finborough). Film credits include: ‘The Rochdale Pioneers’; ‘Henry IV’; ‘A Political Life’. For ITI, Jack plays Basil in ‘Faulty Towers The Dining Experience’ as well as Ricky/Ray or Marvin/Will in ‘Confetti & Chaos’, a show he also directs.
XJonathon is a graduate of East 15 Acting School, and has worked both in the UK and overseas in theatre and TV. A highlight was performing at the Cambridge Shakespeare Festival and playing the role of Philip in White Horse Theatre's tour of The Shape of Things. He has appeared on the small screen in a host of commercials, both in the UK and overseas, as well as in short film roles. At 6’6" he is delighted to be playing Basil, one of the rare roles for which he is perfectly suited! Jonathon’s been touring with the show since 2014, and has won plaudits in the Netherlands, Ireland, and London’s West End.
XLuke received a scholarship to train at The Oxford School of Drama. His professional stage debut was at The Royal Court in prison drama ‘The Barred’, and he has been nominated twice for ‘Best Performance of the Year’ in the Royal Television Society Awards for ‘Remora’ (Creative England film, 2017) and ‘Rise’ (playing the father of tennis player Fred Perry, 2018). Luke plays the lead in short film ‘Puddles’, selected by the Palm Springs Encounters Festival, and is a regular participant of ‘Monologue Slam’ UK, reaching national finals in 2015, 2016 and 2018. Additional highlights include playing Richard in ‘Richard III’ and Domas in ‘Yoke Farm’, winner of the Unchosen Film Festival selected by Ken Loach and Justin Chadwick. For ITI, Luke’s Basil Faulty continues to win acclaim around the world, he also plays Boycie in ‘Only Fools The (cushty) Dining Experience’.
XMeredith (aka Merry) is a graduate of Brighton University and has a background in live performance and film. He first set up a film company, Gallivant Film, producing mostly music videos and documentaries; he himself has appeared in over 20 films, and in 2012 starred in the feature film, ‘The Scandalous Four’. But Merry’s main passion is live performance, particularly puppetry and devised, interactive and immersive theatre. With two others he set up SlashTheatre, staging successful comedies like ‘Buddhism, is it just for losers?’ and ‘The Room In The Elephant’. For ITI, he performs in ‘Confetti & Chaos’ and ‘Only Fools The (cushty) Dining Experience’ – as well as in ‘Faulty Towers The Dining Experience’ as Basil, for which he’s won 5-star reviews in London and on tour in Australia and the UK.
XPaul spent four years working and travelling around India, Asia, New Zealand and Australia and ‘fell into acting’ in Brisbane. Returning to London, he studied at Central School of Speech and Drama and has been working in theatre, film and TV ever since. In between tours with ITI as Basil Faulty, Paul has been involved in several other projects, most notably in the title role in ‘Nikola Tesla and The End of the World’, which was nominated at 2015’s Raindance Festival WebFest in the category of Best British Independent Series and is now on Netflix. Other credits include ‘The Beatles Musical’, various Shakespeare productions, and ‘Spitfire – The One Show’ (BBC). Paul took on the role of Basil in ‘Faulty Towers The Dining Experience’ in 2012 and has since won 5-star reviews around the world.
XRob is a graduate of Drama Studio London. He has been involved in many exciting theatre projects – such as the hit site-specific theatre production ‘You Me Bum Bum Train’, the Ibsen Theatre company's ‘Peer Gynt’ at London’s Riverside Studios, and the improvisation group ‘The Improdigies’ at The Roundhouse. A massive fan of British comedy from a young age, Rob also writes comedy himself, co-writing and co-performing in the comedy podcast ‘Jim and Rob's Podcast Rambles’. He also produced and starred in the short film ‘Sock’, which showed at the London Short Film Festival and Colfilmic Festival in Manchester. Rob plays Basil in ITI’s ‘Faulty Towers The Dining Experience’ and has toured extensively, appearing in the UK, mainland Europe, Scandinavia, South Africa, Thailand, the Philippines, India, Barbados, Portugal and Australia. Rob has also appeared with the show at the Edinburgh Fringe and in London’s West End.
XStan has acted on stage and film for 10 years, having training briefly at RADA. He has appeared in Shakespeare, Pinter and too many comedies to mention. Stan is also co-artistic director of theatre company, Lock the Doors. Stan grew up with shows like Fawlty Towers on in the background on a near constant basis and is a huge fan of the TV show; he joined ITI in 2018 to play Basil in ‘Faulty Towers The Dining Experience’.
XStephen didn't discover his performance skills until he was 49, stepping in to fill a major role for a panto he'd written. Laughter and applause became addictive. In the four years since, from his Cardiff base, he has appeared on the big and small screen, working with established creative minds such as Mark McGann, Sally Phillips, Sylvia and Dee Anderson and young star Ashleigh Harley. The Whovians web series introduced him to a whole new audience and led to further comedy sketch shows for Watchers Productions. His stage stock peaked with his highly acclaimed performance as farmer Owen Newitt in the record breaking run of The Vicar of Dibley at Everyman Cardiff's Open Air Festival 2017. It seems inevitable now that one day he would perform as his boyhood favourite Basil Fawlty: in 2016 he found himself goose-stepping for a charity event, then joined ITI in June 2018.
XAyesha is an actress and creative producer who studied classical acting at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London and Ecole Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris. She has worked for the RAF, Garnier, Allanah Madeline Foundation, Met Police, MKA: Theatre of New Writing, Les Foules, Miriam Austin, and One Taste Cabaret. Production credits with her company, HOAX, include ‘The Ugliest Buildings in London’ for the London Festival of Architecture, ‘Please Don’t Talk About Me When I’m Gone’ (Origins Award for Outstanding New Work), and absurd comedy 'stuck'. Ayesha joined ITI to co-devise and act in ‘Pamela’s Palace’. She now also plays the role of Sybil in ‘Faulty Towers The Dining Experience’.
XAmy is a Brisbane-based performer and writer with a strong background in comedy and improvised theatre. As the former artistic director of Queensland’s ImproMafia, Amy appeared everywhere from New York to Beijing, and represented her home state at the Australian Theatresports™ National Championships. Amy is a regular at the Brisbane Comedy Festival, and played Old Rose in Act/React Theatre’s sell-out immersive parody, ‘Titanic: The Movie: The Play’. She co-wrote and appears in the award-winning two-woman comedy, ‘Love/Hate Actually’, which makes its UK debut at Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2019. Amy loves a good wig and thus loves playing Sybil in ‘Faulty Towers The Dining Experience’.
XDanielle is from the West Midlands and began acting and singing as a child. She has now been acting professionally for seven years. She originally trained at Sir Paul McCartney’s School for Performing Arts, LIPA, in Liverpool, before moving to London to study acting further at ALRA. Danielle joined ITI in 2015 as an original member of the writing team and cast of ‘Confetti & Chaos’, then known as ‘The Wedding Reception’. She was a cast member for the debut Edinburgh Fringe run and Australia tour and has enjoyed training new actors who have joined the team in recent years. Danielle has been playing the role of Sybil since 2018 and has since performed in ‘Faulty Towers the Dining Experience’ around the UK and Ireland.
XDonna studied Musical Theatre at London Studio Centre, and Acting (MA) at Drama Centre. She worked on shows including ‘With Alan Partridge’, ‘Harry Enfield & Chums’, ‘Pride & Prejudice’ (BBC), and ‘Top of the Pops’, and travelled the world with her own dance show performing in Bosnia, The Falklands, Belize and The Gulf. After a career break to raise her children she returned to play Sybil in ‘Faulty Towers The Dining Experience’. Donna is author of ‘High Kicks’ and after publishing her first book went on to write and perform one-woman, stand-up show, ‘Pamela’s Permanent Wave’. She’s delighted that her script has been developed into the 5-star comedy ‘Pamela’s Palace’, and toured Australia’s Adelaide Fringe, MICF and Assembly’s The Box at Edinburgh Fringe 2019.
XKarina Garnett graduated from Middlesex University where she trained with John Wright. Since then she has had a varied and exciting career touring with theatre companies all over the UK, Ireland, the US, the Netherlands, Germany, Turkey, Egypt and Singapore. She has performed mask theatre with Trestle and Strangeface, brought to life children's classics such as ‘The Gruffalo’ and ‘Room on The Broom' with Tall Stories, and worked extensively with Young Vic-based performance and installation company Fevered Sleep. Karina is also a puppeteer and has worked with theatre-rites, Blind Summit, Polka, Indefinite Articles, The Little Angel, RSC, The Globe and Scratchbuilt productions. She has been playing Sybil Faulty since 2012, and in that role has won 5-star reviews in Denmark, Europe and Australia, as well as at Edinburgh Fringe and in London’s West End.
XKat trained at the Guildford School of Acting, graduating and setting up her own theatre company in 2004. She has produced and performed in shows both in the UK and internationally, including an adaptation of popular children’s book ‘Vampirates’, smaller shows like comedy parody 'Escape From The Planet Of The Day That Time Forgot', and larger scale immersive shows such as ‘Oh What a Lovely War’, ‘Metamorphosis’ and ‘Woyzeck’. Kat regularly tours her solo show ‘Mata Hari – Female Spy' and performs as a puppeteer with street theatre troupe, the ‘Flying Buttresses’. TV credits include playing Julia in the award winning BBC1 drama ‘Pompeii – The Last Day’, and playing Ellie alongside Josh Widdecombe in BBC’s ‘Josh’. Kat joined ITI to co-devise and perform in ‘Only Fools The (cushty) Dining Experience, and also plays Sybil in ‘Faulty Towers The Dining Experience’.
XTo date, Katie has specialised in dramatic acting, comedy, physical theatre and singing. Since graduating from London’s W.A.C Arts, she has performed at The Young Vic, Southbank Centre, Assembly Rooms, BAC, Greenwich Theatre and many more. She has also worked with top puppetry and clown companies, and written and produced Mrs McMoon, a 5-star sell-out show for children. For ITI, she has been playing the role of Sybil Faulty since 2016, winning rave reviews around the UK, including London’s West End. She is also one of the three devisers and actors in Pamela’s Palace.
XLaura is from South Yorkshire and trained at the Rose Bruford College. Her theatre work is extensive, most notably including ‘Dinner Ladies’ and ‘Dinner Ladies, 2nd Helpings’ (No.1 Tours/DGM), the original touring adaptation of Jacqueline Wilson's highly acclaimed children's novel ‘Double Act’ (Polka Theatre/Watershed), the revival tour of the Broadway musical ‘I Do! I Do!’, and the national touring production of ‘Whistle Down The Wind’ (Bill Kenwright Ltd). Laura also provided vocals for the award-winning animated feature, ‘Don Quixote’ (BBC/HBO), and performed in a one-woman show of songs from Broadway musicals, Songs From Shows. As Sybil Faulty, Laura has toured the UK, Ireland and Australia, and performs regularly in the show’s London West End residency. She also appears in ITI’s Confetti & Chaos.
XLiz trained at The Birmingham School of Acting. Theatre credits include: ‘Birdsong’ (Birdsong Productions & Original Theatre Company/National Tour), ‘Gangsta Granny’ (Birmingham Stage Company/West End & National Tour), Julia in ‘The Ghost Train’, Jo in ‘Murder With Love’ and Captain Henrietta in ‘Secondary Cause of Death’ (Talking Scarlet/National Tour), Madame Crummles in ‘Beauty and the Beast’ (New Theatre Royal Portsmouth), Fairy Godmother in ‘Cinderella’ (Sheringham Little Theatre), The Girl in ‘Don’t Misunderstand Me’ (The English Theatre of Hamburg), Lula in ‘The Dutchman’ (Arcola Theatre), Teresa in ‘The Jeweller’ (Leicester Square Theatre), and Portia in ‘Julius Caesar/Wasted’ (Intermission Actors). TV and Radio credits include: ‘Down to Earth’ (BBC), ‘Milkshake Mums Campaign’ (Channel 5) and ‘Josh Howie’s Losing It’ (Radio 4). She is thrilled to be performing with ITI in ‘Faulty Towers The Dining Experience’.
XMonique has worked for over 20 years both on- and off-stage for various Australian musicals. On-stage, performance highlights include the musicals ‘My Fair Lady’, ‘Wicked’, ‘Mary Poppins’ and ‘The Phantom of the Opera’, plus a national tour with Artes Christi Australia of ‘The Jeweler’s Shop’, and appearing in their productions of ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ (as Lady Bracknell) and ‘Fiddler on the Roof’. Off-stage, she has worked in production, wardrobe, and direction, and, in 2001, she was Associate Producer for ‘Simply Weill’ at the Sydney Opera House. Monique also releases her own albums, which sell internationally. Performing as Sybil Faulty since 2016, Monique currently tours Australia and Asia, she also plays Lynn and Marge in ‘Confetti & Chaos’.
XNerine grew up in East Grinstead and at 14 gained a place at The Brit School for Performing Arts, before studying Musical Theatre at The Arts Educational Schools in London. It was here that Nerine discovered her love of comedy and performing stand-up, before her acting career took her in other directions – pantomimes, devising wacky international immersive productions, working at sea for P&O, and dancing in Abu Dhabi. Her main focus now is comedy, and with Franks and Skinner she has devised and staged two 5-star shows, ‘Myself and Myself’, and ‘MindfulMess’, and has most recently been creating a comedy cabaret show called ‘The Dots’. Nerine has performed as Sybil Faulty since 2017, and also plays Stacey/Val and Lynn/Mel in Confetti & Chaos, as well as Marlene/Cassandra in Only Fools The (cushty) Dining Experience.
XRebecca holds a double degree in Law/Arts (majoring in Theatre and Drama) from La Trobe University. She has been performing since she was 7 years old and has trained at Stella Adler (LA), Q44 Theatre, Sixteenth Street and CPCA. She also has over 10 years’ vocal/acting/accent training with coach Suzanne Heywood, and singing with Darren Wicks of Total Voice Studio. Theatre credits include lead roles in touring productions of ‘Medea’, ‘Romeo and Juliet’, ‘Messenger Dogs’, and the ‘ANZAC Centenary Road Show’. Other theatre credits include lead roles in ‘Gao Xingjian’s Weekend Quartet’ (VCA – Open Stage), Sam Shepard’s ‘Fool for Love’ (Q44 Theatre Co.), and Gordon Graham’s ‘The Boys’ (Nice Productions – Gasworks). Screen credits include lead roles in feature films ‘Nova Star’, ‘No Such Thing as Monsters’, plus guest roles on TV series: ‘Rostered On’ (Netflix & 7 Mate), ‘Utopia’ (ABC) and ‘Lowdown’ (ABC). Rebecca also runs Red Theatricals, an acting and performance school in Melbourne. Rebecca joined ITI in 2018 to play Sybil.
XRebecca's early work involved outdoor pursuits, adventure training, and competition shooting (in which ranked 60th in the world) – not a natural start for a stage career! But she’d always loved comedy and found a particular flair for comedic performance while at The Academy of Creative Training. This dramatic change in direction was well-judged: she excelled at drama school, graduating with distinction in 2012 and top of her year. Among her first performances was a radio adaptation of ‘Caught In The Net’, before finding her feet in live comedy as a cast member of satirical comedy sketch show ‘The Treason Show’, and appeared at Edinburgh Fringe and in Australia in 'The Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show'. For ITI, Rebecca co-wrote 'The Wedding Reception' (now ‘Confetti & Chaos’) with David Tremaine and she’s been playing Sybil Faulty since 2014.
XHailing from the Welsh Valleys, Rhîan trained at the Birmingham School of Acting. Theatre credits include ‘Spring Reign’ (Lowry Studio & National Tour), ‘Taming of The Shrew’ (TNT Theatre, China & Europe), ‘Comedy of Errors’ (Worcester Rep & International Shakespeare Festival, Romania), ‘Suitable for Shop Work’ (Swan Theatre), ‘A Midsummer Night's Dream’ (Worcester Rep), ‘Rosie's Magic Horse’ (Southwark Playhouse & National Tour), C'Tait La Nuit (Greenhouse Theatre Project UK), ‘Three Sisters’ (Greenhouse Theatre Project, USA), ‘Alice in Wonderland’ (Heartbreak Productions, Open Air National Tour), ‘Don Juan; After The War’ (Greenhouse Theatre Project, USA), ‘The Interview: Story of the Holocaust’ (Bradford Playhouse) and ‘Poisoned Pool’ (Royal Albert Hall). Since 2016, Rhîan has played Sybil, performing at Adelaide Fringe, Fringe World Perth, Sydney Opera House, and around Ireland and the UK.
XSuzanna joined Interactive Theatre in 2012 to play Sybil Faulty and has performed all over the world, from Australia and Singapore to Bahrain, Belgium and Ireland, Edinburgh Festival Fringe and London’s West End. Suzanna is also co–producer of Interactive Theatre’s ‘by popular demand’ shows including Only Fools The (cushty) Dining experience, and is a Senior Sales Executive for the UK. Other credits include Jeff Wayne’s ‘War Of The Worlds’, Sky 1’s ‘Thorne’, US TV drama ‘Suspicial’, Channel 4’s ‘My Mad Fat Diary’, the worldwide launch of ‘Hitman’ video game and numerous commercials, voiceovers and corporate films. Suzanna especially loves character work, accents and comedy, so playing Sybil is her perfect role.
XAndy started his professional performance career young, while studying at London’s Italia Conti Stage School and working with Bing Crosby and Morecambe & Wise. Since then, he has featured in film, TV and live theatre in the UK, Canada, Australia and Europe. His first love is improvisational theatre and, as artistic director of Out On A Limb, he has devised many successful interactive shows and created roving characters for festivals and corporate events. Andy began performing as the ITI’s original Manuel in ‘Faulty Towers The Dining Experience’ in 1997. He has since toured around the world in the role, including London's West End, Sydney Opera House, and Fringe Festivals in Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne and Edinburgh. In addition to Manuel, he also currently works as a Clown Doctor and corporate entertainer, has developed The StoryLine improv app, and has recently finished his screenplay, now in pre-production.
XOriginally from the north west of England, Anthony has worked extensively in film and theatre. He has performed in many of the UK’s leading repertory theatres and in London’s West End, including The National Theatre and The Almeida. His most recent productions include ‘A Midsummer Night's Dream’ at London’s Regent’s Park open air theatre, and Hull Truck’s production of ‘The Glee Club’. Also recently, Anthony has completed filming a pilot for ‘Extreme’, a new television series. He is also embarking on a new and exciting journey as a feature film writer, having developed a coming of age thriller that is currently receiving some welcome attention. Anthony has been touring as Manuel in ‘Faulty Towers The Dining Experience’ since 2015, winning great reviews and audience acclaim.
XBorn and living in Melbourne, Anthony is a graduate of Sydney Theatre School, with qualifications in Theatre Performance. His experience takes in comedy, drama, contemporary and classic film and stage. He secured the role of Manuel in 2010 and has received high accolades for his portrayal of this iconic character ever since. He has toured with the show around Australia, the UK, Scandinavia, mainland Europe – moving to Europe for two years – and Cyprus. He has also performed at prestige events and venues like Sydney Opera House, London’s West End, and the Fringe festivals in Perth, Melbourne, Adelaide, Brighton and Edinburgh.
XBen trained at the University of Salford and works predominantly in theatre, most recently in a tour of Hunter S. Thompson's ‘Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas’, playing 10 characters. Other work includes the role of Jason in ‘Medea’ at the UK International Physical Theatre Festival. Ben works extensively in interactive theatre, both in the UK and internationally for companies such as Heritage Arts and Bearded Kitten, and in ads for Bacardi and 3 Mobile. He has been a performance director for Secret Cinema, has performed for BBC afternoon radio plays, appeared in BBC 1's ‘Doctors’, and is a festival entertainer for Secret Garden Party and Glastonbury. With ITI, he wins 5-star reviews playing Manuel in ‘Faulty Towers The Dining Experience’, and Ricky/Ray in ‘Confetti & Chaos’.
XJames is a performance graduate from The City Lit in London and is trained to an advanced level in stage combat. His many theatre, musical theatre, TV and film credits include ‘Batman Begins’, ‘The Paul O'Grady Show’, appearing as Frank Sinatra in ‘Sinatra: The Final Curtain’, and as Edgar in Sir Jonathan Miller’s production of ‘King Lear in Covent Garden’. In Venice, he took on two roles for five months in Italy’s longest running theatre show, ‘Venezia: The Show’, and in France he toured for three months with Quorum Theatre Company, performing and leading workshops daily. He is also a photographer, artist, poet and songwriter. James joined ITI in 2016 to play Manuel in ‘Faulty Towers The Dining Experience’; he has won great reviews for his role ever since.
XJonathan trained at The Oxford School of Drama. Credits include ‘White Fang’ (for Park Theatre), ‘Alice's Adventures Underground’ (Les Enfants Terribles), ‘The Bunker Trilogy’ (Jethro Compton Productions), and ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ (New Wimbledon Theatre). Jonathan joined ITI in 2018 to play Manuel in ‘Faulty Towers The Dining Experience’.
XLeigh trained at LAMDA. His theatre work is extensive, and includes Ken Campbell's ‘The Warp’ (the world's longest play at 24 hours) and ‘Pidgin Macbeth’ (The National) [fans of Fawlty Towers might remember Ken Campbell playing Roger, who insists on calling Basil ‘Bas’ in ‘The Anniversary’], as well as Daisy Campbell’s ‘Cosmic Trigger’ (The Cockpit). Leigh’s other stage work includes ‘The Southwark Mysteries’ (Shakespeare’s Globe), ‘Othello’ (Nottingham Playhouse), ‘Julius Caesar’ (Barbican), and children’s theatre such as ‘The Dream Space’ (Shakespeare's Globe). TV and film work includes ‘A Confession’ with Martin Freeman (ITV), two Bollywood films, and even an episode of ‘The Bill’. Leigh has been playing Manuel in ‘Faulty Towers The Dining Experience’ since 2013, winning critical and audience acclaim around the UK and Europe, at Edinburgh Fringe, and in London’s West End, New York and Canada.
XNicholas is a Sydney-based performer with eight years’ professional experience across stage, screen, voice-over and stand-up comedy. He gained extensive experience in puppetry as the voice and puppeteer of Hoot the Owl on the ABC Kids' wrapper programme, ‘Giggle and Hoot’, from 2012 to 2017, as well as the voice and puppeteer of Nicky and Trekkie Monster in the Sydney Comedy Festival 2015 return season of ‘Avenue Q’. Among a number of independent film projects, Nicholas starred in the Australian comedy web-series ‘In Transit’ (T. Butler Productions), which won international acclaim and awards in 2013 at the Indie Soap Awards, LAWebFest and Marseille Web Fest. Nick joined ITI in 2018 to play Manuel in ‘Faulty Towers The Dining Experience’, and now also plays Ray/Ricky in ‘Confetti & Chaos’.
XNick is an actor, comedian and impressionist. He began his professional acting career over 20 years ago when he started working as a stunt artist in a jousting tournament. Since then Nick has accumulated many roles, not just within theatre and musicals but also in the film industry where some of his credits include ‘Brighton Mob’, ‘Home for Christmas’, and ‘Further Ed’. His character work has made him one of the most sought-after impersonators on the touring circuit, winning critical and audience reviews. Nick also freelances as a producer and a director. Nick joined ITI in 2018 to perform as DelBoy/Uncle Albert in ‘Only Fools The (cushty) Dining Experience’, as well as Manuel in ‘Faulty Towers The Dining Experience’; he wins five-star reviews for both.
XAfter training at the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts, Oliver continued his professional training with comedy and clown experts such as Philippe Gaulier, Spymonkey, Dr Brown and Mick Barnfather. He is an accomplished solo and collaborative performer of comedic, devised and physical work, and is co-founder of Wildheart & Lyric, a successful touring theatre company that devises raucous physical comedy. Oliver has a passion for making original, dynamic theatre that incorporates clown, slapstick and expert stupidity, and he continues to work with other brilliant companies like Dreamthinkspeak, Bureau of Silly Ideas, Gomito and Long Nose Puppets. He has also enjoyed great success in his solo show, Signor Baffo’s Restaurant – which is now co-produced with ITI. As Manuel in ‘Faulty Towers The Dining Experience’, he tours the UK and Europe, and appears in London’s West End to fantastic reviews.
XPhilip spent three and a half years working for Disney, playing the hysterical hyena Ed in ‘The Lion King’. He went on to play Timon, Zazu, and the deliciously evil Scar. Other non-human roles include a hobgoblin in ‘The Sorcerer’s Apprentice’, a stag in ‘Robin Hood’ (Greenwich Theatre), the King of the Trolls in ‘Peer Gynt’ (Hackney Empire), and a mardy 1932 Fordson N Type Tractor in the NTC tour of ‘These Things Do Happen’. Philip played Marcel Marceau in his West End debut in ‘The Vaudevillains’ (Les Enfants Terribles); in this freaky burlesque meets Cluedo, Philip originated the role of Gaston Garceau, the ‘silent but deadly’ mime artist. He says he’s extremely grateful to ITI for allowing him to perform as a human who speaks! A very physical Manuel in ‘Faulty Towers The Dining Experience’, Phillip also plays Ray/Ricky in ‘Confetti & Chaos’.
XSimon trained at LAMDA and has a wide range of comedic and dramatic roles to his credit, including a lot of Shakespeare, some Oscar Wilde, ‘Secret Cinema Presents: Star Wars’, and much new and original writing too. Simon has been performing as Manuel in ITI’s ‘Faulty Towers The Dining Experience’ since 2016, winning 5-star reviews around the UK, including the show’s London West End residency.
XTerence has worked in all aspects of the acting profession since graduating from ALRA. His most notable theatre work includes annual excursions into the world of panto with the likes of ‘Mother Goose’ and ‘Jack & The Beanstalk’ (Watford Palace), as well as serious work like ‘Lord of the Rings’ (Drury Lane), ‘Wait Until Dark’ (Southwold), and ‘Richard III’ (Third Party). TV and film credits include ‘Hugo’ (Martin Scorsese); BBC’s ‘Call the Midwife’, ‘Holby City’ and ‘Eastenders’; ‘Harry Hill’s TV Burp’ (Avalon); and ‘Mal Appétit’ (Ainsley Maurin). Among all this, Terry’s work as Manuel in ‘Faulty Towers The Dining Experience’ has taken him around Europe and the Caribbean, as well as to Edinburgh Fringe and London’s West End, winning 5-star reviews throughout.
X