Hayley has had a long association with theatre first as an actor both at school and as part of the Harlequin Youth theatre, Redhill.

She has also worked with lighting and sound on several productions, as well as stage-managing the Redhill Carnival this year. She had a brief association with the Surrey County Youth Theatre when she was Deputy Stage Manager on their production of Animal Farm in 2005.

She recently became involved with the Canterbury Players and has acted and sung as part of the Palace of Varieties. Hayley is currently studying Drama and Theatre Studies at the University of Kent and is entering her third year. She hopes to have more involvement with the Canterbury Players especially with the lighting and sound. She also hopes to become a director in the future.

Emily Rosen
Actor: RolePlay;

More to come soon.

Richard has been involved in the backstage side of theatre since school and has built sets for Grease and Bugsy Malone. More recently he acted in and helped build the set for the Canterbury Players Palace of Varietes and operated the sound, rigged lights and built set for Gosforth's Village Fete. He has also worked as an assistant stage manager for the Redhill Carnival at the Harlequin Theatre. In the past he has worked backstage and shifted set for two theatre companies.

He is currently studying history at the university of Kent and is entering his third year. He is actively involved in the student union and sits as a member of the Societies Federation Committee and Union Council. He hopes to continue his association with the Canterbury Players and would possibly seek to produce/direct one of his own plays in the future.

Richard is also an accomplished close-up magician and has entertained the likes of Lord Carey as well as the audiences of Gosforth's Village Fete and The Palace of Varieties.

Victoria Pym
Actor

After living such previous lives as queens, ladies, dukes, communists, brothel keepers and strippers for various companies and the Central School of Speech & Drama, Victoria's fall down the social ladder to be reincarnated as Bertha, the well-meaning Accrington tram worker for the Players, can only be due to her sinful deeds... See "The Accrington Pals" for more about that performance.

Joshua Bushell
Actor

Josh is 13 years old, at the time of writing, in March, 2007 and attends the Hasland School Of Dance in Herne Bay, Kent where he studies dance and drama. He is a pupil at Queen Elizabeths Grammar School, currently in year 9 and his interests include rugby and music - he plays the guitar well.

His ambition is to attend a Performing Arts University - and to become an actor. The rest of the cast of "The Accrington Pals" would consider - from his rehearsals to date - that he is a long way towards achieving that goal already. Pip Piacentino, director of "The Accrington Pals" has expressed his great satisfaction of the way Josh has responded to direction and we have all had fun laughing at his antics as "Reggie" during rehearsals, whilst being impressed at how seriously he is taking on the responsibility of playing the part to the best, and his intelligence, friendliness and confidence.

Josh has already appeared in South Pacific and Scrooge, so at the tender age of 13 already has valuable acting experience under his belt.

HP Thomas
Actor

HP’s acting career has been short and uneventful. He enjoys cricket & cycling but is keen to move into the brewing industry as a matter of urgency. His ambition before settling down is to travel to Azerbaijan and continue the good work of the Worldwide Adoption Agency.

Rani Innes
Performance Director, Actor.

Rani joined Canterbury players in 1998, a year after moving to the UK from Japan. Her love affair with theatre started over 30 years ago in India where she founded Spandana, an amateur theatre group, which is still going strong. She’s worked as an actress and director with several amateur and repertory theatre groups in India and the well-known English theatre group TIPS (Tokyo International Players) during her 17 years in Japan.

By profession, Rani is an English language and literature teacher and has worked as teacher and teacher trainer in countries like Japan, Austria, India, Malaysia and the UK. Until recently, she was the vice principal of Stafford House College in Canterbury.

Rani has directed several plays for The Canterbury Players since 1998: Death of a Salesman, Dr Faustus, Habeus Corpus, Whose Life is it Anyway, Desire Under the Elms and the well received Roleplay.

Tony Innes
Sound Engineer, Actor

Member of several village troupes before getting a bit serious with Tokyo International Players as soundman. Joined Canterbury Dramatic Society, as it then was, in 1998. Soundman again for several Gulbenkian productions, including Death of a Salesman, Dr. Faustus, Desire under the Elms, and Roleplay.

Played Sir Percy Shorter in Habeas Corpus, Dr. Emerson in Whose Life Is It Anyway, and a forgetful newspaper reporter in When We Were Married.

Back to soundman again for La Ronde, and recently played the fool in Palace of Varieties.

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.