Synopsis
Daniel trained in rep at the Fourth Monkey Theatre Company. An actor and physical theatre maker, Daniel has toured in multiple productions all over the world, including Germany, France and China in roles such as Malvolio and Shylock (White Horse Theatre). His first UK tour was in the role of Joseph Merrick in the ‘Elephant Man’ (Fourth Monkey) where he was Offie nominated for Best Performer after he graduated.
Daniel also has a martial arts background spanning over ten years before he started acting. This has led to training as a dancer and physical performer in many different styles of acting, including mime, puppetry and clown. He also has started pursuing a career in motion and performance capture.
Most recently he has toured with his company Flabbergast Theatre, as an associate member, in their Arts Council funded production of ‘Macbeth’ in the role of Macduff. He has appeared in the Ludlow Fringe and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival as well as many other venues across the UK.
Emily is an actor and singer based in York.
She trained with Both Feet Actor Training and
Clown Space.
Most of Emily’s work revolves around children's theatre, championing young voices and bringing theatre to different communities.
She’s very excited to bring the wonderful story of Burglar Bill to life, and to work on her first production with Pied Piper!
Most recent credits include:
Alice in Wonderland (Same Difference Arts),
I Can (Night Light Theatre), Green Shoots (York Theatre Royal), Around the World in 80 Days (Rusticus Arts).
Tina Williams is the Artistic Director of Pied Piper Theatre Company, which she set up in 1984 having trained as both an actor and a teacher.
Tina has written, adapted, directed and produced over twenty five plays for the company including a large scale national tour of Anne Fine's "The Book of the Banshee", and "A Little Princess" involving eight actors and eight young people.
Tina's recent original plays include ‘My BIG Little Sister’, Robin’s Winter Adventure’, ‘The Big ENORMOUS Present’ and ‘DIG’ Pied Piper’s current play for babies and young toddlers which she wrote together with Nicola Sangster.
For more details about Tina's work visit 'About Us'.
Nick is an actor, stage manager, puppet and scenery maker and puppetry director. Nick is the co-founder of Scratch Built Productions, based at Proteus in Basingstoke. website:-scratchbuiltproductions.com
Nick has made sets and puppets for Pied Piper for the last six years and in this year's production takes the role of stage manager and puppetry director for ‘Zoom!’
Nick has appeared in two Pied Piper productions for babies and young toddlers ‘DIG!’ and ‘BEACH’.
Movement Direction credits include: The Wonderful World of Dissocia (Stratford East); Everyday (Deafinitely Theatre); Kerbs (Graeae & Belgrade Theatre); The Long Song (Chichester Festival Theatre); The Tyler Sisters (Hampstead Theatre); Macbeth (Chichester Festival Theatre); Blood Knot (Orange Tree Theatre); Frankenstein (The Royal Exchange); It Is So Ordered (The Pleasance); Bunny (White Bear); Wish List (Royal Exchange & Royal Court); Redefining Juliet (Barbican); See Bob Run (Bread & Roses); Sizwe Banzi is Dead (Young Vic and UK Tour); Love is Easy (music video; McFly); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Custom/Practice); Faith, Hope & Charity (Southwark Playhouse); Emma Thompson Presents: Fair Trade (Shatterbox - Latitude, Rich Mix).
Direction Credits include: Jon Udry Punches Gravity in the Face (Jon Udry); Life on Wheels (Bella Kinetica).
Angela teaches at RADA.
Princess and Pea (Tutti Frutti), The Fever Chart (Pilot Theatre), The Diver (Soho Theatre and Setagaya Public Theatre, Tokyo), Fly in the Ointment, Cover her Feet (Stephen Joseph Theatre), King Arthur, As You Like It, The Crucible (costume design), Wind In The Willows,Coram Boy, 1984, Keys to the Kingdom, Bouncers, September in the Rain, The Trial, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (York Theatre Royal). For Pied Piper, Burglar Bill, Robin’s Winter Adventureand Hare and Tortoise.
Julian is an associate artist of Pied Piper Theatre Company. As well as music for Pied Piper he has composed music for lots of theatre shows for children and young people, including Charlie and Lola's Best Bestest Play, Charlie and Lola's Extremely New Play and Gorilla (Polka Theatre, directed by Roman Stefanski), Up and Down (GaGa Theatre Company), The Paper Washi Wish and Little Sunshine, Little Rainfall (A Thousand Cranes Theatre), and A Christmas Carol (Lakeside Arts, Nottingham). He has written several musicals for young people including Beauty and the Beast, Red Riding Hood and Flat Stanley(with Mike Kenny, Engine House Theatre) and Run! A Sports Day Musical (with Lisa Evans, Polka Theatre).
Most recently Julian has adapted The Everywhere Bear for the Polka Theatre and on tour.