The Grand Babylon Hotel

Shelley Atkinson

Miss Spencer, Baroness Zerlinski, Messenger, Nanny Heidi

Theatre credits include: Marvellous (New Vic Theatre, and at Soho Place Theatre, West End); The Borrowers, The Wicked Lady (New Vic Theatre); Martha, Josie and the Chinese Elvis (Stephen Joseph Theatre); Granny Jackson’s Dead (Big Telly UK, Ireland and New York); Cinderella: A Reimagining (Derby Theatre); A Christmas Carol, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Creation Theatre); The Faerie Thorn, Gulliver, One Sandwich Short Of A Genius, Melmoth The Wanderer (Big Telly Theatre Company); Oliver Twist, Hansel & Gretel, Merlin (Dukes Theatre, Lancaster); The Nutcracker Prince, Blithe Spirit (Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough); The Fair Maid Of The West, Dr Faustus (Third Party Productions) and Up The Duff (York Theatre Royal).

Screen credits include: Pistol (Netflix); Wolf (NBC Universal); Wellbeing, Buried Alive.

Shelley also narrates audiobooks and writes plays.

Thomas Cotran

Reginald Dimmock, Prince Albert of Posen, Rocco

Theatre credits include: One Man, Two Guvnors (New Vic Theatre); Love’s Labour’s Lost (Shakespeare North Playhouse and Stephen Joseph Theatre); Song of the Sytch (Claybody Theatre); The Great Gatsby, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Chester Storyhouse); Raising Agents, Red Sky at Night, Atalanta Forever, A Dogs Tale (Mikron Theatre Company); The Snow Queen, HUMBUG, Aladdin and the Stolen Stories (Wrongsemble); Frankenstein in Baghdad (R&D National Theatre Studio); Harvest (New Perspectives Theatre Company); Footloose (UK Tour); The Glass Menagerie, Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen, James and the Giant Peach, Titus Andronicus, Great Expectations (Dundee Rep Theatre); Not About Heroes (Eden Court Theatre, Tour); King John (Oran Mor); Loserville (Union Theatre).

Screen credits include: Catch 22 (Paramount/Hulu/Channel 4).

Thomas trained at The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

Bill Champion

Theodore Racksole

Bill trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama.

Theatre credits include: Habeus Corpus, Golden Girls, Hard Times, The Comedy Of Errors, Tom & Viv, Cabaret and The Boyfriend (Wolsey Theatre); Macbeth; Company; Woman In Mind; Cabaret (Octagon Theatre, Bolton); Pickwick; Alfie (The Oldham Coliseum); Wild, Wild Women (The Orange Tree, Richmond); House And Garden, Design For Living (Salisbury Playhouse); If I Were You (Library Theatre in Manchester).

In the West End, Bill has played John in Calendar Girls; Ramsden in Rough Justice (Apollo Theatre); Mr Myers in Fame (Cambridge Theatre); and understudied and played the role of Joe Gillis in Sunset Boulevard (Adelphi Theatre).

Bill has had a very long and successful relationship with Alan Ayckbourn’s Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough where he has appeared in: They’re Playing Our Song; Love Songs For Shopkeepers; Roleplay, Flat Spin, Game Plan (the Damsels In Distress trilogy which subsequently transferred to the Duchess Theatre in the West End); A Chorus Of Disapproval; Haunting Julia; Moby Dick; Comic Potential, which had a critically acclaimed run in the West End; Welcome To The Family; Show And Tell; and Intimate Exchanges, which took him to New York where he was nominated as Best Actor at the Drama Desk Awards.

TV credits include: Birds Of A Feather; Eastenders; 2 series of Rockcliffe’s Babies; Casualty; Messiah; Island At War; If Only; The Bill; Wallis And Edward, playing George VI; Return To Rose Abbey; Holby City; Father Brown; and the short film Fear My Kingdom and in Blitz, directed by Elliott Lester.

Michael Hugo

Jules, Tom Jackson, Detective Marshall, Porter, Ticket Collector, Prince Eugen of Posen

Theatre credits include: The Wizard of Oz (Theatre by the Lake), Marvellous (New Vic Theatre and at Soho Place Theatre); Tom, Dick & Harry (New Vic Theatre and at Alexandra Palace); Around The World In 80 Days (New Vic Theatre with the Royal Exchange; UK tour, New York and Florida; winner of the Cameo Page to Stage Award); A Matter of Life and Death, One Man, Two Guvnors, Alice In Wonderland, Coppelia – A Mystery, The 39 Steps, Astley’s Astounding Adventures; Peter Pan In Scarlet, The Borrowers, Far From the Madding Crowd, Where Have I Been All My Life, The Admirable Crichton, Proof, The Rivals, Peter Pan, The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe, The Wicked Lady, Great Expectations, Stags and Hens, Christmas Carol, Pinocchio, Kes (New Vic Theatre); What the Butler Saw (London Classic Theatre); Operation Global Cheer (Filament Projects); Pinocchio (Hull Truck Theatre); Cinderella (Dukes Theatre, Lancaster); Cinderella (Lawrence Batley Theatre); Frozen (Fingersmiths); The Hunt for the Scroobius Pip (Sticks Theatre Co.); Wind in the Willows (Birmingham Rep); Broken Time (Three Stones Media); Peter Pan (Spiller’s); Babes in the Wood, The Rise and Fall of Little Voice (Oldham Coliseum); Breaking the Code (Chester Gateway); They Don’t Pay? We Won’t Pay!, The Winter’s Tale, The Grand Gesture, Accidental Death of an Anarchist, The Canterbury Tales, Lisa’s Sex Strike, The Tempest, Vacuum (Northern Broadsides); Cyrano (Northern Broadsides and New Vic Theatre) and The Ladykillers (New Vic Theatre co-production with Hull Truck).

Television & Commercial credits include: Coronation Street (ITV); Hero Goalie (Abbot Mead Vickers BBDO); I’m With Stupid (BBC); Sir Gadabout (Alibi Productions); A Right Charlie, The Collector.

Alice Pryor

Nella Racksole

Theatre credits include: Inferna (Riverside); BLEACHED (Etcetera Theatre – Standing Ovation Award Nominated production).

Theatre credits whilst training include: A Streetcar Named Desire, Three Sisters, Richard III, Absolute Hell.

Alice trained at Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music and Performance, before completing her BA (Hons) in Acting at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.