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Big Bear Theatre Company in association with Park Theatre presents…

Desdemona

A Play About A Handkerchief

Desdemona | Alice Bailey-Johnson

Alice Bailey-Johnson trained at LAMDA and her theatre credits include OH! What a Lovely War (Theatre Royal Stratford East), Solid Air (Theatre Royal Plymouth), Three Lions (Pleasance Theatre, Edinburgh), Noises Off  (Novello Theatre), Stepping Out  (Salisbury Playhouse).  Screen credits include Mike Leigh’s new film MR Turner

 

 

 

 

Emilia | Ingrid Lacey

Theatre: The Astronaut's Chair (Plymouth Drum Theatre), 5@50 (Royal Exchange, Manchester) Elling (The Bush and Trafalgar Studios), Knight of the Burning Pestle (YoungVic/Colchester), Blood, Our Late Night (Royal Court), Gone to LA (Hampstead Theatre), After the Rain (Gate Theatre), Charley's Aunt (Derby), The Railway Children, Touched (Oldham Coliseum), Squaring The Circle, History of Mr Polly, The Last Supper (Contact Theatre, Manchester), Outside Edge, Killing of Sister George (Watermill Theatre), The Magistrate, Enemy Of  The People, Cinderella, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, The Country Wife, Widower's Houses, Good Morning Bill (Bristol Old Vic). 

Television includes: New Tricks, Skins, The Return of Tracy Beaker, The Bill, Doctors, Casualty, Bedtime, The Last Detective, Heartbeat, Getting Hurt, Pie in the Sky, Drop the Dead Donkey, Look at the State We’re In, The Chief, A Woman’s Guide to Adultery,  White Girls on Dope, Harry Enfield's TV Programme, Sweating Bullets (USA), She Wolf of London (USA), Never Come Back, Saracen, The Two of Us, Inspector Morse, Northanger Abbey, Thunder Rock. Film: The Cat’s Meow (USA), In Love and War (USA) and The Funny Man

Ingrid is co-founder of Face to Face which specialises in communication skills coaching in business.  www.facetofacetraining.com

 

Bianca | Ursula Early

Ursula trained at Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Her stage credits include The Endings (Soho Theatre & Nottingham Playhouse), Powerhouse, Last Manor Standing and The Power Of Love (Pleasance Theatre, London & Edinburgh), Wives As They Were Maids As They Are and Animal Magnetism (Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds and Haymarket, Basingstoke), Much Ado About Nothing and Twelfth Night (Cambridge Shakespeare Company), Guests (Hall For Cornwall), Master Of Mayhem (Eastern Angles), Just For Fun (New End Theatre), Diamond (Kings Head), Blame (Sphinx Theatre Company – Tour), The Glimmer (Bristol Old Vic Studio), Closer To God (Old Red Lion), Wild Lunch (Theatre West). On screen Ursula has been seen in The Bill, Life Begins (ITV) and the independent film The Life Class (Through the Fire Productions).

Ursula is the Artistic Director and producer of Big Bear Theatre, for them she has produced Laugh Your Farce Off - a regular night of new farces (Pleasance, Islington and Pleasance Edinburgh), A Bold Stroke For A Husband (Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds & Bridewell) and Big Bear commissioned Double Indignity (Bridewell Theatre). In 2012 she was invited to be a producer on Old Vic New Voices TS Eliot US/UK Exchange.