CAST AND CREATIVE TEAM
Harvest
Cast
Tom Edward-Kane
Tom trained at RADA and makes his professional debut in Harvest. Theatre credits whilst training: A Crazy Little Thing Called Love (Or Modern Romance), Mr Puntila & His Man Matti, The Broken Heart, In Arabia Wed All Be Kings, The Bright & Bold Design, Alls Well That Ends Well, The Provokd Wife, Lily Dale, Agamemon, I Am A Camera. Film credits include: Peterloo.
Thomas Cotran
Thomas is from Huddersfield in West Yorkshire and is a graduate from The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow. Credits whilst in training include, The Whos: Tommy!, The Last days of Judas Iscariot, Betty Blue Eyes, Legally Blonde and A Man of No Importance. Whilst in training Thomas also performed professionally in King John (Oran Mor), Sleeping Beauty (Citizens Theatre) and Freakshow (Actors Church, Camden Roundhouse and Edinburgh Fringe). Upon graduating, Thomas earned a place in the Dundee Rep Ensemble at Dundee Rep Theatre where he performed in, The Glass Menagerie, Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen, James and the Giant Peach, Titus Andronicus and Great Expectations. Other recent credits include Not About Heroes (Eden Court Theatre and Scottish Tour), Loserville (Union Theatre) Footloose (Sell a Door Theatre Company, UK Tour) and Sleeping Beauty (Theatre Royal Wakefield). Thomas is delighted to be working with New Perspectives for the first time with Harvest.
Matthew Brown
Matthew has been acting professionally for 17 years since graduating in his home town of Newcastle upon Tyne. Theatre credits include:The Beaux' Stratagem, Hedda Gabler and Much Ado About Nothing (Lichfield Garrick), The Riddle of the Sands (Jermyn Street Theatre -Off West End Theatre Award Nominee), The Machine Gunners (Polka Theatre, London),Romeo and Juliet and Othello (Vienna's English Theatre) and Blue/Orange (Theatre Royal Brighton/ATG No. 1 Tour) TV Credits include: The Revenge Files of Alistair Fury (BBC) and Grandpa In My Pocket (BBC) Matthew can also be found scattered all over your ad break, in commercials including Go Compare, Mars, Sainsbury's, Europcar & The Food Network. He is thrilled to be joining New Perspectives for this tour of Harvest.
John Askew
Trained at ArtsEd. Theatre credits include: Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights, Ladies in Lavender (Theatre Royal Windsor); The Revengers Tragedy (Nottingham Playhouse), Darkness Darkness (New Perspectives/Nottingham Playhouse); Romeo and Juliet (Buxton Opera House); An Ideal Husband (New Street Jersey); Hay Fever, Rope, Out Of Order(Theatre Royal Windsor); The Importance Of Being Earnest, Office Xmas, Romeo and Juliet (St James Theatre); The Glasshouse (Tristan Bates Theatre); Travesti (Pleasance Theatre); Christopher And His Kind, Sing Sing Sing, The Tempest, Don Juan (UK Tours) and 40 Years On (York Theatre Royal). Television credits include: Spooks Liberty (BBC) and Shameless (Channel 4). Film credits include: Wasted and Two Sides.
Zoe Iqbal
Zoe trained at Salford University. Theatre credits include: The Welcome Party (Contact Compacts, Contact Theatre), Goldfish (24:7 Theatre Festival), The 10-10 Shift (Spark Plug Productions, The Lowry). Radio credits include: Brief Lives (BBC Radio 4), Sex, Blood and Moneyby Emile Zola (BBC Radio 4), The Barbara Nice Show (BBC Radio 2), The Dad Who Fell To Earth (BBC Radio 4). TV credits include: The Dumping Ground and All At Sea(CBBC). Film credits include: Finding Fatimah (British Muslim TV). Zoe was a semi-finalist in the Funny Women Awards in 2011, and the Norman Beaton Fellowship in 2015. Always the bridesmaid never the bride. Zoe is delighted to be playing Maudie in the New Perspectives production of Harvest.
Elizabeth Twells
Elizabeth trained at Birmingham School of Acting. Theatre credits include: POT(Ovalhouse Theatre/Stratford Circus), Darkness Darkness (Nottingham Playhouse/New Perspectives), Anna Karenina, Aloe Aloe (Arcola Theatre), Pygmalion, The 39 Steps (Vienna's English Theatre),Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Hare and Tortoise (Mercury Theatre, Colchester), Bells (Soho Theatre), Three Sisters, Blood Wedding, Fiesco(The Faction, New Diorama Theatre), Bush Bazaar (Bush Theatre), A Midsummer Night's Dream, Othello (The Faction, UK Tour), Two Boys (ENO, London Coliseum), Into the Woods, The Winter's Tale (Crescent Theatre). Film credits include: Eva's Legacy (Red Stable Films), You're It (Cavalry Films), Stalker (Invisible Darkness), The Situation Is (RM Films).
Creative Team
Writer - Richard Bean
Director - Jack McNamara
Designer - Amy Jane Cook
Lighting Designer - Alexandra Stafford
Sound Designer - James Atherton
Theatre as composer/musical director includes: Around the World in
Eighty Days (UK & USA Tour Kenny Wax Family Entertainment,
New Vic Theatre); 39 Steps; Astley’s
Astounding Adventures; Treasure Island; The Snow Queen, Peter
Pan in Scarlet, Kiss Me Quickstep, (New Vic Theatre); A Tiger’s Tale (M6 Theatre); Harvest;
The Giant Jam Sandwich, The Tigers Bones (New Perspectives - National
Tour); Fight Like A Girl (Youth Music Theatre UK); The Tragical Tale
of Romeus and Juliet (Oldham Coliseum); Robin Hood & Marian, the
Hoard Festival, The Borrowers (New Vic Theatre); Ramshackle House;
Bedtime Stories, Tamburo (Upswing); Miss Interpreted (Square Chapel,
Halifax); The Hundred and One Dalmatians, Stones in His Pockets, A Christmas
Carol (New Vic Theatre); According To Brian Haw (Riverside Studios);Phoenix From the Flames (Olympic
torch relay)
Television as
composer includes:The History Of Christianity, Tales From the National Parks,The Lives
of Gandhi, Around theWorld in 80 Faiths, Olaudah Equiano, Greater Love Hath NoMan
and Brick Lane (BBC); Survivors, Tonight With Trevor
McDonald andKenny Everett: Licence to Laugh (ITV1); The Unseen Eric Morecambe (Channel
4); Roger to the Rescue (Cosgrove Hall); Colleen’s Secrets (Channel
5) and All in the Game, starring Ray Winstone (Film4).
James is also the
artistic director of the renowned Oldham Theatre Workshop.
Movement Director - Kitty Winter
