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Engine House in association with Park Theatre present

Bomber's Moon

By William Ivory

James Bolam | Jimmy

James Bolam has enjoyed a career that encompasses television, film and theatre. Trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama, Bolam made his professional stage debut at the Royal Court in 1959. 

Theatre includes: How to Succeed in Businesss Without Really Trying (Dir Martin Duncan, Chichester Festival Theatre), Semi Detatched (Dir Christopher Morhahan, Chichester Festival Theatre), The Fool And His Money (Nottinghm Playhouse/Birmingham Rep), Wild Oats (Dir Jeremy Sams, Royal National Theatre), Enjoy (Dir Jeremy Sams, Nottingham Playhouse), Glengarry Glenross (Dir Sam Mendws, Donmare Warehouse – nominated for Olivier Award 1995, Best Actor), Jerrey Bernard Is Unwell (Dir Ned Sherrin, Apollo Theatre), Victory! (Dir Matthew Francis - Chichester Festival Theatre), Macbeth (Dir Graham Watkins, Redgrave Theatre, Farnham), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Birmingham Rep), Cheapside (Dir Ted Craig - Warehouse Theatre, Croydon & Half Moon, London), Run for Your Wife (Dir Ray Cooney, Criterion Theatre) and Arms And The Man (Dir Jonathan Lynne, Cambridge Theatre).

Television: His first television appearance came in an episode of the Granada detective series The Odd Man (ITV, 1963). Since then he has appeared in many popular series which include New Tricks (BBC), Born and Bred (BBC), Close and True (ITV), Pay & Display (BBC), Second Thoughts (LWT), The Beiderbecke Tapes/Affair ( YTV), Only When I Laugh (YTV), When The Boat Comes In (BBC) and The Likely Lads (BBC) and familiar to younger audiences as Grandpa in my Pocket (BBC).

Film includes: A Kind of Loving (dir John Schlesinger, 1962), The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (dir Tony Richardson, 1962), the Miss Marple thriller Murder Most Foul (1964), La Frenais and Clement's Otley (1968) and O Lucky Man! (dir Lindsey Anderson, 1973). Later films include Clockwork Mice (dir Vadim Jean, 1995), Stella Does Tricks (dir Coky Giedroyc, 1996), The End of the Affair (US/Germany, dir Neil Jordan, 1999) and To Kill a King (UK/Germany, dir Mike Barker, 2003).

 

Steve John Shepherd | David

Steve John Shepherd is known to may as Michael Moon in Eastenders first coming in to the public eye in the role of Jo in two series of This Life.

Theatre includes: Piaf (dir Jamie Lloyd, Donmar Warehouse & West End), Five Wives of Maurice Pinder (dir Sarah Frankcom National Theatre), Sing Yer Heart Out For The Lads (dir Paul Miller, National Theatre), Original Sin (dir Peter Gill), Twelfth Night (dir Michael Thomas), Dangerous Corner (dir Laurie Sampson).

Television includes: Michael Moon in Eastenders (BBC) Walking The Dead – Care (BBC),  Danny in Lunch Monkeys (series 1 & 2, BBC3), Taggart (ITV), On Expenses (BBC),  Being Human II (BBC 3), Material Girl (BBC), Plus One (pilot and series, Channel 4), Cold Blood (Granada Television Ltd),  Bonkers (Series 1, BBC), Lilies (Series 1, BBC), Daiziel & Pascoe (BBC), New Tricks (BBC)George Kyprainou in Maisie Raine (Series 1 & 2, BBC 1), Jo in This Life (Series 1 & 2, BBC2).

Film includes: Romance (Short), The Best Man, Too Much Too Young, Layer Cake,(dir Matthew Vaughan) Boudicca, Spy Hole (Short), Star Wards Episode II – Attack of the Clones (dir George Lucas), Now You See Her, Me Without You, From Hell, Greenwich Mean Time, Virtually Sexuality, RPM, I Want You (dir Michael Winterbottom).