Meet the Cast.
Chris Bean – Inspector Carter, Director
Chris is the newly elected head of the Drama Society. For tonight's show, he served as the voice coach, dialect coach, fight choreographer, casting director and costume designer. He also plays the lead role and, of course, directed. The Society would like to thank Chris for his remarkable passion and efforts. Credits within the University: Hamlet in Hamlet, Macbeth in Macbeth and Othello in Othello. |
Max Bennett – Cecil Haversham
Max is in his first year at Cornley University where he is studying human geography and crime. He is an avid fan of films, and his favourite is the Legend of Bagger Vance, which he's seen 27 times. This is Max's first production with the Drama Society and he is very glad to have donated a large portion of his recent inheritance to help the show. |
Jonathan Harris – Charles Haversham
Jonathan works as a model and is therefore excited to learn transferrable skills by appearing in The Murder at Haversham Manor. He is no stranger to acting and appeared in Casualty when he was just five years old. Jonathan also performed with Emote, another local theatre company in A Midsummer Night's Stamina, which featured a cast of fourteen pedalling exercise bikes for the full 2-hour performance. |
Sandra Wilkinson – Florence Colleymore
This is Sandra's eleventh season with the Cornley University Drama Society, during which she had proudly performed roles such as Snow White in Snow White and the Tall Broad Gentleman, Virginia Woolf in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and The Cow in Jack and the Bean. Sandra has been performing from a very young age, since her mother appeared in A Winter's Tale pregnant. |
Robert Grove – Thomas Colleymore
A member of the Cornley Drama Society for three years Robert uses the Stanislavsky method. Credits include: Lame Horse in Black Beauty, Victorian Policeman in Madame Tussauds Chamber of Horror - Live! Dopey in Snow White and the Tall Broad Gentlemen and Augustus Gloop in Charlie The Chocolate Factory. Robert's next performance will be as Godot in a newly self written sequel to Beckett's classic. |
Dennis Tyde – Perkins
After failing tryouts for the football, cricket, volleyball and basketball teams, Dennis decided to join the Drama Society. Dennis does not live in the Cornley Halls of Residence and commutes daily from his parents' house. He hopes the society will give him the chance to meet like-minded people. Dennis' only stage credit dates back to 1995 when he appeared in his primary school nativity, Credit: Shepherd |
Annie Twilloil – Stage Manager
The unsung hero of the Society. Annie has designed, built, painted, stage managed and costumed every single Society show in the last three years. Her hard work and dogged determination behind-the-scenes lies behind so much of the Society's success. After The Murder at Haversham Manor, Annie will begin an internship at the Bolton Octagon. |
Trevor Watson – Lighting & Sound Operator
Trevor is only participating in The Murder at Haversham Manor to earn much needed extra credit for his electronics module in order to pass his engineering course at Corley University. Once he has passed the course, he will not continue to work with the Drama Society. Trevor credits his success to his sunny disposition and his positive outlook on life |