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Rapunzel
Rapunzel/Queen | Aretha Ayeh
King Gerard | Rolan Bell
The Great Gazombees | Mark Cameron
Dobson/Prince Corbyn | Alex Hope
Dr Chuff | Avita Jay
Biographies
Aretha Ayeh | Rapunzel/Queen
Theatre credits include: Love Me Tender (No.1 UK Tour); Barnum (Chichester Festival Theatre); Dick Whittington and his Cat (Lyric Theatre Hammersmith); Pendragon (Rose Theatre Kingston); Red Hunter (Youth Music Theatres UK); and Orvin-Champion of Champions (National Youth Musical Theatre).
Film and TV credits include: Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them (Warner Bros. David Yates); The Quiet Ones (Hammer Films); Russell T Davies’s Cucumber (Channel 4).
Rolan Bell | King Gerard
Rolan Bell’s theatre credits include: Memphis (West End); We Will Rock You (West End and 40th Anniversary International Arena tour); Ragtime, A Midsummer Night's Dream (Regent's Park Open Air Theatre); Fela!, and Liberation Day (National Theatre); 1936 (Arcola); The Harder They Come - nominated for Best Newcomer, What's On Stage Award (Playhouse, Theatre Royal, Stratford East and Barbican); An African Cargo and An Evening of Soul Food (Greenwich Theatre); Carmen Jones (Royal Festival Hall); The Lion King (Disneyland, Paris); Cinderella and Jack and the Beanstalk (Cambridge Arts Theatre). Television credits include: Doctors, series regular in Eastenders and WPC 56 (BBC).
Mark Cameron | The Great Gazombees
TV credits include: regular characters in Coronation Street, Steel River Blues, Emmerdale, Doctors and guest roles in Law and Order, The Royals, Waterloo Road, Casualty, Holby City, Eastenders, The Roman Mysteries, Vincent, Mayo, The Royal, The Bill, Fifty Five Degrees North, Extreme Endurance, Brookside.
Film credits include: D.I. Hackman in Scar Tissue, The Boss in The Boss, (Reed Festival short film winner), Norman Hunter in The Damned United, Lord Pembroke in Casanova’s Love Letters, John in Tomo (Sundance Film Festival Winner) and Brooks in The Other Side.
Theatre credits include: Dean in Hurling Rubble at The Moon (Park Theatre, London), The DAFTAS Ceremony Host in Park Theatre Review (Park Theatre), Nurse Ottom in Sleeping Beauty (Park Theatre) Chancer in Mathematics of the Heart (Theatre 503 and winner of Brighton Fringe festival – Best Play), The Dame in Sleeping Beauty (Salisbury Playhouse), Tom in Life Imitates Art (Camden Peoples’ Theatre), Dorante in The Game of Love and Chance (National Tour), Alfredo in The Breakfast Soldiers (Contact Theatre, Manchester), Johan in The Bergman Project (Tristan Bates Theatre), Harcourt in The Country Wife (The Gatehouse), Scott in Blue Funk (Old Red Lion), Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare in the Park), Romeo in Romeo and Juliet (Cannizaro Park), Robin Hood in Robin Hood (Swansea Grand), King Rat in The Pudding Pirates (Durham Gala Theatre).
Radio: Daniel Chadwick, Home Front, BBC
Comedy Pilots: Horror House, Sportstalker, Barry Brown, Singed and Quimble, Double Act.
Writing: As an Associate Artist of Park Theatre Mark co-writes the theatre’s Christmas shows with Jez Bond the Artistic Director: Sleeping Beauty in 2013 and Jack and the Beanstalk in 2014. Both plays were published by Methuen. They have been commissioned to write this year’s show, Rapunzel.
Mark has co-written three sitcoms currently in development, The Lycra Ladies and Twiddles and Bonk Bonk and Monsters and has co-written and performed in numerous sketch comedy shows including Too Big To Play with Jez Bond and Three Men and a Squid and Squidfellas (Japan tour).
Mark also works extensively as a voice-over artist for television and radio.
Alex Hope | Dobson/Prince Corbyn
Alex graduated from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. Theatre credits include: Scripps in History Boys (National Tour); First Episode (Jermyn Street Threatre); The Witness and Riot Squat (Thrive Theatre).
Avita Jay | Dr Chuff
Avita trained at Drama Studio London. Theatre credits include: Spare (New Diorama Theatre), Toad (Southwark Playhouse), Sunday Morning at the Centre of the World (Southwark Playhouse, Battersea Arts Centre), The Merry Wives of Windsor (National Tour), Londonee (Rich Mix), Secret Cinema’s Brazil, Unsung (Wilton's Music Hall), The Tragicomedy of Mac-Beth (National Tour), Warde Street (Park Theatre), Pioneer (National Tour), Peer Gynt (Crossrail Place) and The Man Who Found His Freedom (The Space Theatre). TV and Film credits include: Emmerdale (ITV), L8R (BBC2), Generation Z (Matador Pictures) the Bollywood feature London, Paris, New York and Twenty8K (Formosa Films). Avita also regularly narrates audiobooks and is a reader for InterAct Stroke Support.