Today's Featured Artists

Jed Buttress (Brad Orbison/Alien Voice/'Sulphuro'):

"For the past five years I've taken part in several plays and productions, in school and nationally, including ‘Drastic Happenings’, which I wrote and performed when I was 12. I studied Drama at GCSE and my most memorable performance to date was in ‘The Child of Snow’, a one-man play about a young boy living in Lapland who enjoys messing around with computers and playing with his reindeer. My main personal interests are reading, writing and drawing anything and everything that isn’t a curtain."

Jonathan Ross (Frank Donohoe/Elvis Presley):

“For seven years I've been studying musical theatre with Tynedale Academy of Performing Arts and have taken lead roles in many of their productions, most recently: Galileo in We Will Rock You; Reverend Shaw Moore in Footloose; and, earlier this year, the role of Fagin in Oliver. Also this year, I've undertaken the part of Schlomo in a production of Fame at the Sunderland Empire Theatre and I am making my Edinburgh Fringe debut in Terror on Presley Beach.  In the future I hope to work as an actor and director in theatre and film.”  

Claire Savage (Cissie Capstick): 

Claire trained at the University of Huddersfield where she received specialist training from vocalist Chris Coe and acting master classes from Sir Patrick Stewart.  Her training led to the completion of her upper second class BA (Hons) Drama in 2011. Roles while training include: Wendla in Spring Awakening; Playing Card in Alice and Mother in The Great Bear.Other theatre includes: 3’s Company (The Dancehouse, Manchester); Parade (Lowry Theatre, Salford Quays); Showcase (Her Majesty’s Theatre, London); Les Miserables (Grand Theatre, Lancaster); and North and South (Grand Theatre, Lancaster).