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Elphin Productions and Leigh Porter in association with Park Theatre presents 

Beirut

By Alan Bowne

LOUISA CONNOLLY-BURNHAM | l BLUE
ROBERT REES | TORCH


Louisa Connolly-Burnham | l Blue

Theatre: includes TRIBES (Crucible Theatre).

Television: includes Call The Midwife (BBC); Death in Paradise (BBC); Midsomer Murders  (ITV); Outnumbered (BBC); Drifters (E4); Little Crackers (Sky1); Casualty (BBC); Wolfblood  (CBBC); House of Anubis (Nickelodeon); Suspicion (Investigation Discovery); Holby City (BBC) and Doctors (BBC).

Film: includes Marine 6: Close Quarters, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Time Will Tell, David  and Bathsheba, Beneath Water, Odilo Fabian Or ThePossibility of Impossible Dreams, Granatë, Are We Alone, Friday Download: The Movie, Breathe.

Nominations: Louisa Connolly-Burnham was nominated for Best Actress at the Queens World Film Festival in New York for her role as Daisy in Beneath Water directed by Charlie Manton (Duelling Productions).

 

Robert Rees | l Torch

Robert trained at the Arts Educational School of Acting and the Royal Academy of Music, where he received the Graham Norton Scholarship.

Robert originated the part of Andreas on the UK tour of Ladies in Lavender opposite Hayley Mills and Belinda Lang, directed by Robin Lefevre. It was his performance in this play that earned Robert a Broadway World UK Award for 'Best Featured Actor in a Play'. 
Other stage credits include: Fugitive Kind (Donmar Warehouse); The Mousetrap (St Martin’s Theatre) Macbeth (UK & Middle East Tour); Robin Hood (Watford Palace); The Governess (UK Tour);All The Fun Of The Fair (Garrick Theatre); State Fair (Trafalgar Studios); Hobson's Choice (Broadway Theatre); The Full Monty (Charing Cross Theatre); Shakespeare Sonnet Walk directed by Mark Rylance (Globe Theatre) and Perchance to Dream (Finborough Theatre).

Television includes: the face of the O2 commercials as 'Brian the O2 Guru'.

 

Simon Mendes da Costa | The Guard 

Simon trained at the Bristol Old Vic theatre school. He worked as an actor for ten years before turning to writing. His first play, Table For One opened at the Hen and Chickens Theatre in Highbury, London, in 2001.

Simon then wrote Losing Louis, which premiered at The Hampstead Theatre directed by Robin Lefevre and starred Lynda Bellingham and Alison Steadman. It went on to a West End run, UK and international tours. It had a separate Americanised production which opened on Broadway the following year. 
Simon was nominated for Most Promising Playwright at the Evening Standard Awards for this play. He has also written a couple of plays for children, which played at The Hampstead theatre studio.

His most recent play A Better Woman opened at The Marlowe studio, Canterbury in December 2015.

Simon was The Marlowe Theatre’s Literary Associate from 2013 to 2016.