Sean Foley is an actor, writer and director. A double Olivier Award winner and Tony nominee, his work – as lead creative on 14 West End shows: as co-writer/star; writer/director; adaptor/director; and director – has also been Olivier nominated multiple times. He has – uniquely – been personally nominated in the acting, writing and directing categories.

Sean is the Artistic Director of Birmingham Rep, and his next production at the theatre is a new stage adaptation of Withnail & I. Sean’s other directing credits for The Rep include Idiots Assemble: Spitting Image Save The World – Live On Stage and The Play What I Wrote.

Theatre credits include: the Olivier nominated The Upstart Crow, (director), starring David Mitchell and Gemma Whelan; The Play What I Wrote, (co-writer/director), first major revival guest starring Tom Hiddleston, Adrian Lester, et al; ; his Olivier Award winning production of Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense, (Duke of Yorks), starring Stephen Mangan and Matthew MacFadyen; Olivier Award nominated The Miser, (co-writer and director, Garrick Theatre), starring Griff Rhys Jones; The Painkiller, in Kenneth Branagh’s West End season, (as adaptor/director, Garrick Theatre), starring Kenneth Branagh and Rob Brydon; the 5 times Olivier nominated The Ladykillers (as director and script associate), including Best Director, Best New Play and Whatsonstage Award for Best New Comedy, Gielgud, starring Peter Capaldi; the Olivier nominated, Arturo Brachetti: Change, (as writer/director, Garrick); the Olivier Award winning Do You Come Here Often? (as co-writer and actor, Vaudeville); the Olivier Award winning The Play What I Wrote, (as co-writer and actor – further jointly nominated as Best Actor, Wyndham’s). The play was also Tony Award nominated on its Broadway transfer); the Olivier Award nominated, Ducktastic, (as co-writer and actor, Albery). The Walworth Farce, with Brendan, Domhnall and Briain Gleeson, Olympia Theatre, Dublin.

Further directing work includes: The Man In The White Suit, (as writer/director, Wyndhams), starring Stephen Mangan; The Dresser, (Duke of York’s); his RSC debut, adapting and directing Thomas Middleton’s A Mad World My Masters, (Swan Theatre, Stratford, and Barbican); Harry Hill and Steve Brown’s, I Can’t Sing! at The London Palladium, starring Cynthia Erivo; Present Laughter, The Critic, and The Real Inspector Hound, (Chichester Festival Theatre); Joe Orton’s What The Butler Saw, (Vaudeville); Ben Hur, (Watermill); Pinter’s People, (Theatre Royal, Haymarket); as writer only, his adaptation of Eugene Ionesco’s Amedee, or How To Get Rid Of It, debuted at Birmingham Rep.

Sean has also directed the live shows of leading comedians, including: Joan Rivers: A Work In Progress, (Leicester Square); Armstrong and Miller Live (UK Tour); Catherine Tate Live (UK and Australian Tour)

As co-artistic director of the right size, he created, co-wrote and starred in ten original stage comedies 1990 to 2000. The company played in over 25 countries around the world, winning many international awards.

His feature film directing debut, Mindhorn, written by and starring Julian Barratt & Simon Farnaby, was first seen at the London Film Festival and won the London Film Comedy Award for Best First Feature. TV directing includes episodes of Sky’s anthology series, Urban Myths: Marilyn and Billy, starring Gemma Arterton; and, Diana and Freddy. 

Al Murray with his alter-ego, The Pub Landlord, is one of the most recognisable and successful comedians in the UK.

For over 20 years Al has filled arenas and the largest theatres around the world as The Pub Landlord, and won numerous awards and accolades, including the Edinburgh Comedy Award (formally Perrier Award, after a record four successive nominations) and secured Olivier Award nominations for both of his sell-out West End runs. He has hosted countless TV series, including the acclaimed entertainment chat show Al Murray’s Happy Hour (ITV) and the ground-breaking sitcom Time Gentlemen Please (Sky). Al has made multiple appearances on The Royal Variety Performance (ITV) and hosted Live at the Apollo (BBC) and Live at the Palladium (ITV).

Swapping his comedy stage persona for himself, Al authored and presented the Broadcast Award-winning five-part series Al Murray: Why Does Everyone Hate the English? and Al Murray: Why Do The Brits Win Every War? (both Sky). Combining his passion for film and history he filmed two specials for BBC Four: Al Murray’s Great British War Movies and Al Murray’s Great British Spy Movies. Al also co-hosts the hugely popular WW2 history podcast, We Have Ways of Making You Talk with fellow bestselling military author James Holland.

As a writer, Al has also enjoyed great success with his books including Book of British Common Sense, Think Yourself British, Great British Pub Quiz Book, Watching War Films with My Dad and, most recently, Command, an entertaining and sharp analysis of the key allied military leaders in WW2, which was released this autumn.

Matt Forde is one of the country’s most in-demand satirists. After 70 sold out Political Party podcast live shows at Westminster’s The Other Palace, Matt moved to the West End’s Duchess Theatre in 2021 for a twice extended fortnightly residency continuing in to 2023. He has brought Parliament to life with his stand-up and debate with some of politics’ most powerful figures including Keir Starmer, Nicola Sturgeon, Tony Blair, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Angela Rayner, Michael Heseltine, Anthony Scaramucci, Alastair Campbell, Gordon Brown and Gary Neville. The UK’s leading political podcast has amassed over 7 million downloads, received numerous nominations from award bodies including the British Podcast Awards and Chortle Awards and is regularly highlighted as a top podcast pick in the press.

He has hosted four series of Unspun with Matt Forde on Dave, receiving several Broadcast Digital Award nominations and adding to numerous broadcast credits including: Have I Got News For You (BBC One), The Royal Variety Performance (ITV), Channel 4’s Alternative Election Coverage, Mock The Week (BBC Two), 8 out of 10 Cats (Channel 4), Hypothetical (Dave) Rory Bremner’s Coalition Report and Rory Bremner’s Election Report (BBC Two), Question Time (BBC One), This Week (BBC One), Newsnight (BBC Two) and Daily Politics (BBC Two). He currently presents Absolute Radio’s weekly Rock ‘n’ Roll Football Show. Following this Matt wrote and voiced characters for Spitting Image (BritBox/ITV) including Boris Johnson, Keir Starmer and Donald Trump.
Matt is also the co-host of the 2022 British Podcast Award winning British Scandal with Alice Levine, telling the stories of the murkier side of the British elite, from Phone Hacking to Saville to Profumo.

His first book Politically Homeless was listed by The Sunday Times as one the Best Political Books of 2020.
Also described as “our foremost satirical stand-up” by The Sunday Times, Matt regularly plays sold-out critically acclaimed nationwide tours, including his recently wrapped Clowns To The Left of Me, Jokers To The Right.

Sean Foley is an actor, writer and director. A double Olivier Award winner and Tony nominee, his work – as lead creative on 14 West End shows: as co-writer/star; writer/director; adaptor/director; and director – has also been Olivier nominated multiple times. He has – uniquely – been personally nominated in the acting, writing and directing categories.

Sean is the Artistic Director of Birmingham Rep, and his next production at the theatre is a new stage adaptation of Withnail & I. Sean’s other directing credits for The Rep include Idiots Assemble: Spitting Image Save The World – Live On Stage and The Play What I Wrote.

Theatre credits include: the Olivier nominated The Upstart Crow, (director), starring David Mitchell and Gemma Whelan; The Play What I Wrote, (co-writer/director), first major revival guest starring Tom Hiddleston, Adrian Lester, et al; ; his Olivier Award winning production of Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense, (Duke of Yorks), starring Stephen Mangan and Matthew MacFadyen; Olivier Award nominated The Miser, (co-writer and director, Garrick Theatre), starring Griff Rhys Jones; The Painkiller, in Kenneth Branagh’s West End season, (as adaptor/director, Garrick Theatre), starring Kenneth Branagh and Rob Brydon; the 5 times Olivier nominated The Ladykillers (as director and script associate), including Best Director, Best New Play and Whatsonstage Award for Best New Comedy, Gielgud, starring Peter Capaldi; the Olivier nominated, Arturo Brachetti: Change, (as writer/director, Garrick); the Olivier Award winning Do You Come Here Often? (as co-writer and actor, Vaudeville); the Olivier Award winning The Play What I Wrote, (as co-writer and actor – further jointly nominated as Best Actor, Wyndham’s). The play was also Tony Award nominated on its Broadway transfer); the Olivier Award nominated, Ducktastic, (as co-writer and actor, Albery). The Walworth Farce, with Brendan, Domhnall and Briain Gleeson, Olympia Theatre, Dublin.

Further directing work includes: The Man In The White Suit, (as writer/director, Wyndhams), starring Stephen Mangan; The Dresser, (Duke of York’s); his RSC debut, adapting and directing Thomas Middleton’s A Mad World My Masters, (Swan Theatre, Stratford, and Barbican); Harry Hill and Steve Brown’s, I Can’t Sing! at The London Palladium, starring Cynthia Erivo; Present Laughter, The Critic, and The Real Inspector Hound, (Chichester Festival Theatre); Joe Orton’s What The Butler Saw, (Vaudeville); Ben Hur, (Watermill); Pinter’s People, (Theatre Royal, Haymarket); as writer only, his adaptation of Eugene Ionesco’s Amedee, or How To Get Rid Of It, debuted at Birmingham Rep.

Sean has also directed the live shows of leading comedians, including: Joan Rivers: A Work In Progress, (Leicester Square); Armstrong and Miller Live (UK Tour); Catherine Tate Live (UK and Australian Tour)

As co-artistic director of the right size, he created, co-wrote and starred in ten original stage comedies 1990 to 2000. The company played in over 25 countries around the world, winning many international awards.

His feature film directing debut, Mindhorn, written by and starring Julian Barratt & Simon Farnaby, was first seen at the London Film Festival and won the London Film Comedy Award for Best First Feature. TV directing includes episodes of Sky’s anthology series, Urban Myths: Marilyn and Billy, starring Gemma Arterton; and, Diana and Freddy. 

Born in Holland, Paul studied Stage Management at Central School of Speech and Drama graduating in 1981.

Credits amongst others:

National Theatre: Anything Goes, His Dark Materials, My Fair Lady, Hamlet (1987, 2011), Candide, Oklahoma!, Oh, What a Lovely War!, A Little Night Music, Lady in the Dark, Guys and Dolls (1990); Sunday in the Park With George, Sweeney Todd, Carousel, Follies, Buried Child, All my Sons.

For Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures: Nutcracker, Highland Fling, Sleeping Beauty, Edward Scissorhands, Play Without Words, Red Shoes, Dorian Gray, The Carman, Romeo and Juliet, The Midnight Bell.

For Chichester Festival Theatre: Pajama Game, Private Lives, Neville’s Island, Gypsy, Guys and Dolls, Sweeney Todd, Mack and Mabel, The Young Chekhov’s, Damsel in Distress, Sweet Bird of Youth, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead; Kiss me Kate, Travels with my Aunt, Ros, Oklahoma!, South Pacific!, The Sound of Music.

For Hampstead Theatre: Loyalty, 55 Days, Chariots of Fire, Rabbit Hole, Good People, Cost Of Living, Filthy Business, I and You.

Also

The King and I (Palladium/UK tour); Oliver! (Palladium, Drury Lane, UK Tour); Mary Poppins;
Marguerite (WestEnd and Tokyo); Acorn Antiques; Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (Sheffield/Westend/UK/US tour), The Height of the Storm (Westend and Broadway), A German Life (Bridge Theatre), Showboat (Sheffield/New London), The Band’s Visit (Donmar)

Paul is a Creative Associate with Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures

Tim is an Associate Artist for Royal Shakespeare Company and Chichester Festival Theatre and is a Fellow of Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama.

In 2015 he won a Knight of Illumination Award for Taken at Midnight (Chichester). He was nominated for an Olivier Award for Henry IV Part 1 and 2 (RSC), Green Room Award for Singin’ in the Rain (Australia) and Critics Award for Theatre in Scotland for Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Royal Lyceum). In 2018 he was nominated for Best Lighting Design in the 53rd Fleur Du Cap Awards for King Kong and in 2020 for Kinky Boots (both Fugard Theatre).

For Birmingham Rep: Spitting Image: Idiots Assemble (& West End), The Play What I Wrote, Nativity! (also tour), The Snowman, The Exorcist.

Recent Theatre: Sister Act (UK Tour); Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (UK Tour); Upstart Crow (Gielgud Theatre); A Streetcar Named Desire (Nashville Ballet).

Credits include: Spitting Image puppeteer

Rayo trained in physical theatre at East15 and loves mime, mask and puppetry.

His favourite credits include Satyagraha (Improbable), Madame Butterfly (Blind Summit) and A Brave Fave, Finding Joy (Vamos Theatre).

Al Murray with his alter-ego, The Pub Landlord, is one of the most recognisable and successful comedians in the UK.

For over 20 years Al has filled arenas and the largest theatres around the world as The Pub Landlord, and won numerous awards and accolades, including the Edinburgh Comedy Award (formally Perrier Award, after a record four successive nominations) and secured Olivier Award nominations for both of his sell-out West End runs. He has hosted countless TV series, including the acclaimed entertainment chat show Al Murray’s Happy Hour (ITV) and the ground-breaking sitcom Time Gentlemen Please (Sky). Al has made multiple appearances on The Royal Variety Performance (ITV) and hosted Live at the Apollo (BBC) and Live at the Palladium (ITV).

Swapping his comedy stage persona for himself, Al authored and presented the Broadcast Award-winning five-part series Al Murray: Why Does Everyone Hate the English? and Al Murray: Why Do The Brits Win Every War? (both Sky). Combining his passion for film and history he filmed two specials for BBC Four: Al Murray’s Great British War Movies and Al Murray’s Great British Spy Movies. Al also co-hosts the hugely popular WW2 history podcast, We Have Ways of Making You Talk with fellow bestselling military author James Holland.

As a writer, Al has also enjoyed great success with his books including Book of British Common Sense, Think Yourself British, Great British Pub Quiz Book, Watching War Films with My Dad and, most recently, Command, an entertaining and sharp analysis of the key allied military leaders in WW2, which was released this autumn.

Credits include: The Impressions Show, Dead Ringers, Rich Hall’s Election Breakdown, Newzoids, Coronation Street and Bad Girls

Credits include: Spitting Image puppeteer

Credits include: The Tracy Ullman Show, The Mash Report and Horrible Histories: The Movie and Borg Mcenroe

Credits include: Spitting Image, The Last Leg, Stars in Their Ears, and The Rise and Fall of Little Voice and Britain’s Got Talent

Credits include: Josh Berry’s Fake News, NewsJack, Dead Ringers, The Tracey Ullman Show and The Michael McIntyre Show

Credits include: Bridgerton, Meghan Markle in The Windsors, Christmas on Mistletoe Farm, The Bubble, The Queen and I and Plebs

Credits include: Mrs Tembe in Doctors, Aggie in Coronation Street, Getting It Straight and A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Birmingham Rep

Credits include: Spitting Image, Steph’s Packed Lunch, The Last Leg, Stand-up Sketch Show and The Imitation Game

Matt Forde is one of the country’s most in-demand satirists. After 70 sold out Political Party podcast live shows at Westminster’s The Other Palace, Matt moved to the West End’s Duchess Theatre in 2021 for a twice extended fortnightly residency continuing in to 2023. He has brought Parliament to life with his stand-up and debate with some of politics’ most powerful figures including Keir Starmer, Nicola Sturgeon, Tony Blair, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Angela Rayner, Michael Heseltine, Anthony Scaramucci, Alastair Campbell, Gordon Brown and Gary Neville. The UK’s leading political podcast has amassed over 7 million downloads, received numerous nominations from award bodies including the British Podcast Awards and Chortle Awards and is regularly highlighted as a top podcast pick in the press.

He has hosted four series of Unspun with Matt Forde on Dave, receiving several Broadcast Digital Award nominations and adding to numerous broadcast credits including: Have I Got News For You (BBC One), The Royal Variety Performance (ITV), Channel 4’s Alternative Election Coverage, Mock The Week (BBC Two), 8 out of 10 Cats (Channel 4), Hypothetical (Dave) Rory Bremner’s Coalition Report and Rory Bremner’s Election Report (BBC Two), Question Time (BBC One), This Week (BBC One), Newsnight (BBC Two) and Daily Politics (BBC Two). He currently presents Absolute Radio’s weekly Rock ‘n’ Roll Football Show. Following this Matt wrote and voiced characters for Spitting Image (BritBox/ITV) including Boris Johnson, Keir Starmer and Donald Trump.
Matt is also the co-host of the 2022 British Podcast Award winning British Scandal with Alice Levine, telling the stories of the murkier side of the British elite, from Phone Hacking to Saville to Profumo.

His first book Politically Homeless was listed by The Sunday Times as one the Best Political Books of 2020.
Also described as “our foremost satirical stand-up” by The Sunday Times, Matt regularly plays sold-out critically acclaimed nationwide tours, including his recently wrapped Clowns To The Left of Me, Jokers To The Right.

Credits include: Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom and Krays: Code of Silence, Doctor Who and Episodes

Credits include: Rishi Sunak in This England, Emmerdale and Pennyworth