Olivia Jubber
Publicity photographer, Actor

Aged 5, Olivia gave another child chickenpox in order to steal the role of “The Rain” in “The Enormous Turnip”. From such underhand success she caught the acting bug, and fourteen years later finally sought treatment by taking a degree in Drama and Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University. There she played body parts, a dead Eskimo, fairies, men and even occasionally a woman. At 28 she is still plagued with dreams of winning an Oscar… for which we are seeking therapy.

The first was Harold Pinter’s ‘The Birthday Party’ where she was the official teapot bearer between Acts II & III. Following the success of teapot placement, she was cast as Councillor Mrs Pearce in Alan Ayckborne’s ‘Gosforth’s Fete’. Louise proved herself to be a massive hit when Charlie Jubber (Gosforth) omitted to catch her as she fell off the podium backwards.

In Schnitzler's ‘La Ronde’, she played a prostitute which was lucky as Louise was concerned about being typecast! Louise also appeared in the production, "The Accrington Pals" by Peter Whelan. Here, she played Sarah, a hardworking but fun loving mother in her late twenties.This is very far removed from her own existence as a single, grumpy trainee mortgage advisor in Canterbury!!

Louise is seeking film extra work, her public profiles on casting websites can be found HERE and HERE.

Andreas Lowson
Actor: La Ronde; Play It Again Sam; Fallen Angels

Andreas is descending the ladder of nobility. In La Ronde, he was only a count whereas the previous year he was a duke (Twelfth Night) and before that a prince (Caucasian Chalk Circle). He has, however, deigned to play mere commoners in such roles as a dotty priest (Gosforth’s Fete), a burglar, an inspector (Disposing of the Body), a solicitor, a boss and an eccentric puppeteer uncle and now, a husband, for Noel Coward's "Fallen Angels".

Mark Charles Smith
Actor: Gosforth's Fete; La Ronde; Fallen Angels; The Accrington Pals (For Canterbury Players);
Seasons Greetings (For Chilham Players)

Mark joined the RAF in 1974 and left in 1987. He performed his first stage piece - in a wind-blown tent in the Falkland Islands - in 1982. This was as one of the Three Degrees song trio, miming to a recording and dressed in chiffon - a dangerous thing to do with several hundred other airmen removed from their wives and girlfriends for some months. He is now a director of the succesful online marketing company, Internet Marketing Kent Ltd.

Mark has appeared in end of year short films at universities in Canterbury and Hastings and also as a film extra for various productions filmed in Kent including "The Other Boleyn Girl" and "Wild Child". Mark is looking for more extra work to get him out of the office once in a while.

See his profile pages on Extras.co.uk or Universal Extras.

Sarah Gooch
Performance Director (Blue Remembered Hills), Stage Manager, Social Secretary & Actor

Sarah has been involved in theatre since the age of thirteen and has been a member of Canterbury Players for the past ten years. Recent acting roles with Canterbury Players include Meg in “The Birthday Party”, the actress in "La Ronde", Viola in “Twelfth Night” and May in "The Accrington Pals".

Geoffrey began his acting career as Professor Theophilus Brainwave in a sci-fi play at his junior school in the 1930s.

After being Secretary of his college dramatic society at university, he became a junior school teacher and over his career directed more than twenty plays on the school stage.

Retiring to Canterbury in 1989, he joined the Canterbury Dramatic Society in 1998 for a production that never reached performance.

As Secretary, he helped to bring about the reuniting of C.D.S. with Playcraft in 2003 and established the pattern of regular performances before the public at the Gulbenkian Theatre, the Whitstable Playhouse and other venues.

He has appeared in seven productions of the group and directed the performance of the play ‘597’ connected with the unveiling of the statues, in Canterbury, of Ethelbert and Bertha by Prince Michael of Kent in May 2006.

Tony Johnson
Actor

I made my acting debut in the first year at Grammar school, when I was cast as the Virgin Mary in a Nativity play. The embarrassment of this put me off acting for about twenty years, until I joined the Charing Guild of Players with the proviso that I would play only male roles.

This seems to have worked reasonably well for the last 40 years, with a couple of best actor awards sprinkled amongst the fifty productions I've appeared in since.

Derek Standing
Set Design & Construction

Some 42 years ago, Derek responded to an urgent advert from Canterbury Dramatic Society and although only 18 he got a job and even survived giving the cast a nightmare on his first set because he did not know that one has to add size glue to the powder paint.

Recent productions: RolePlay; The Birthday Party; The Accrington Pals; Play It Again Sam; Fallen Angels

Liz Findlay
Actor: Play It Again Sam
Stage Manager (The Birthday Party, La Ronde, The Accrington Pals, Gosforth's Fete, Play It Again Sam, Fallen Angels, Blue Remembered Hills.)

Liz joined the players in 2005 as prompt for Roleplay, rose to the position of chief of teapot bearing and has been stage managing since then in Pinter's "Birthday Party", Ayckbourne's "Gosforth’s Fete", Schnitzlers "La Ronde", Whelan's " The Accrington Pals" and Woody Allen's Play It Again Sam in which she also took the part of Vanessa.

Liz is trained in Fine Art and has exhibited locally. She designed the posters for Fallen Angels and Blue Remembered Hills.