Make Good: The Post Office Scandal

A new musical by Jeanie O'Hare (book) & Jim Fortune (music & Lyrics)

CAST

Charlotte Delima as Indira

Charlotte is a British Indian actress and writer. She trained for 3 years at RADA (BA Acting) and was a Spotlight Graduate Finalist in 2023. She was the recipient of the Lilian Baylis Award and The John Gielgud Charitable Trust Award.

She recently collaborated with Honey Theatre and Stoke the Embers on Ships in the Night for Global Majority actors, writers and directors.

Make Good is Charlotte’s professional stage debut.

Samuel Gosrani as Mohandas

Sam graduated from Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in 2019.

Theatre credits include: Robin Hood (Regents Park Open Air Theatre); Waste: The Refusal Collector’s Play (Almeida); Hedda Gabler, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Machinal and Rage (The Richard Burton Theatre Company). The Lovely Bones (Birmingham Repertory Theatre).

Television credits: Without Sin (ITVX).

Radio credits: Foiled (Rubber Chicken); Gallifrey Time War Volume 2 (Big Finish Productions).

Victoria Brazier as Elsie

Theatre credits include: We're Not Going Back (Red Ladder); A Little Princess (Theatre by the Lake); The Song of the Sytch (Claybody Theatre); A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Great Gatsby, Pride and Prejudice, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Jungle Book (Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre/ Storyhouse); Alice in Wonderland, The Snow Queen, The Borrowers (the New Vic); The Book Thief (Bolton Octagon); Abigail's Party (Watford Palace Theatre); The Secret Garden (York Theatre Royal); Hard Times (Northern Broadsides); Treasure Island, Beauty and the Beast, Oliver Twist (The Dukes, Lancaster); Crossings (Pentabus & New Perspectives); The Man without a Past (New Perspectives).

Television credits include: Coronation Street, Emmerdale, All At Sea, Doctors, Craven, Heading Out, Hollyoaks, Land Girls, Boy A, Vincent and The Street.

Radio credits include: Ann Veronica, Jezebel, The Thrill of Love, New Grub Street, Home Front, Tyre, Deadheading, The House of Bernarda Alba, Sense and Sensibility, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Angel Pavement, Everyone Quite Likes Justin, Cottonopolis, Bell in the Ball, Writing the Century, Mr Maugham’s Journey Home, The Crowded Street, Second Changes, Germinal, Dido, Early Music Show, The River Girl and Sophie.

Ed Gaughan as Postman

Ed Gaughan is a critically acclaimed, award-winning writer, comedian, actor, director, musician and composer.

He’s the voice of Baron Greenback in BBC’s Dangermouse, Gideon in Sky TV’s Brassic (to which he’s also a contributing writer) and the Co-creator, co-writer and star of the BAFTA and BIFA nominated movie Skeletons, which won the ‘Michael Powell Award For Cinema’ at The Edinburgh Film Festival. Ed is a ‘Peter Sellers Award For Comedy’ nominee

As a screen actor, Ed has appeared in numerous films and TV shows including Black Mirror (CH4) The Regime (HBO) and Fantastic Beasts 2. A prolific voice actor, he has given life to a multitude of characters in animation (Dangermouse, Q Pootle 5, Capture The Flag), and regularly appears on BBC Radio 4. He was one of the writer/performer/musicians in BBC Radio 3’s much acclaimed Beautiful Cosmos Of Ivor Cutler.

A regular on the London and UK comedy scene for many years, Ed works as a solo standup, in double act with Andrew Buckley, and in regular collaborations with Will Adamsdale and cult favourites The London Snorkelling Team.

Ed has performed at many UK and international comedy festivals and venues including Edinburgh, Vault, Latitude, Glasgow Comedy, The Big Chill, Brisbane, Galway, Soho Theatre, Camden Roundhouse and The Bill Murray.

Much in demand as a comedy director, Ed has created shows with some of the UK’s most loved stand ups, sketch teams and clowns, including Josie Long, Milton Jones, Pappy’s, Barry Cryer and Spymonkey.

Ed works in the theatre as an actor, writer, director and composer with many of the UK’s leading Theatre’s and companies including Shakespeare’s Globe, NT Studios, NT Scotland, Filter Theatre, Lyric Hammersmith, Manchester Royal Exchange, Bristol Old Vic, Northern Stage, Liverpool Playhouse, and BAC (where he was an associate artist for many years).

As a musician, Ed has performed numerous gigs including Glastonbury, London Jazz and Porto Jazz Festivals, and as a composer for stage, screen and audio. His scoring work includes Hamlet for Shakespeare’s Globe and the award-winning Symphony from Nabokov.

CREATIVE TEAM

Jeanie O’Hare, Writer (Book)

Jeanie O’Hare is a writer, dramaturg and creative producer. She collaborates on books for musicals, edits classical texts and writes original plays. She is the co-author, with Elizabeth Freestone, of 100 Plays to Save the World a collection of essays detailing the current climate science alongside dramas that tackle the climate emergency.

She was Director of New Work Development at the Public Theater in New York, and Chair of Playwriting at Yale School of Drama. She trained at the Royal Court Theatre and worked as Company Dramaturg for the Royal Shakespeare Company where her work included over thirty large-scale productions by writers such as Tarell Alvin McCraney, David Adjmi, debbie tucker green, Margaret Attwood and Ukrainian

writer Natal’ya Vorozhbit. She commissioned and developed Matilda the Musical. In 2018, her play Queen Margaret, premiered at the Royal Exchange, Manchester, rescuing Queen Margaret from four Shakespeare history plays and creating a single drama. She is a published short story writer. Current Projects in development as story consultant include Gatsby (musical), composed by Florence Welch & Thomas Bartlett with a book by Martyna Majok. She is a regular judge on major playwriting prize juries.

Jim Fortune, Composer (Music & Lyrics)

Jim’s recent work includes the musicals The Odyssey, Hex, Pericles and Mr Gum and the Dancing Bear: The Musical! (Olivier Award nomination 2020) (National Theatre); We Begin Again (National Theatre and The Guardian); The Beautiful Cosmos of Ivor Cutler (winner of Best Music and Sound at the Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland) (Vanishing Point and National Theatre of Scotland). Cowbois (Royal Court, RSC); Mother Courage and her Children (Royal Exchange); Twelfth Night and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare’s Globe); Teh Internet is Serious Business and Posh (The Royal Court). Shibboleth (Abbey Theatre, Dublin).

As a singer and musician, Jim Fortune has toured the world, working with, amongst many others, Tom Jones and Blondie. He has recorded sessions for BBC Radios one, two and three and has been an EMI recording artist appearing on many tv shows and festivals. Jim Fortune was a BAFTA music judge 2022.

Maimuna Memon, Composer (Additional Music)

Maimuna is a Lancashire born musician, composer, writer and performer.

Acting theatre credits include: Into the Woods and Hobson’s Choice (Manchester Royal Exchange); Buskers Opera (The Park Theatre); Lazarus (Kings Cross Theatre); Jesus Christ Superstar (Regents Park Open Air); Electrolyte (Edinburgh Fringe); Band Plays On (Sheffield Crucible); Ghost Quartet (Boulevard Theatre); Nine Lessons and Carols (Almeida Theatre) and Standing At The Sky’s Edge (National Theatre and Sheffield Crucible), for which Maimuna received an Olivier Nomination for ‘Best Supporting Lead In A Musical’.

Writing credits include: Music and Lyrics for Electrolyte (Edinburgh 2018/19 and National Tour), Nine Lessons and Carols (Almeida Theatre), Welcome to Iran (Stratford East, National Theatre, BBC Radio 3), Henry VIII (Globe Theatre) Manic Street Creature (Edinburgh Fringe and Southwark Playhouse) and Portia Coughlan (Almeida Theatre). 

Maimuna’s first EP More Than I Bargained For was released in October.

Ed Gaughan, Additional Material

As above.

Elle While, Director

Elle is the Artistic Director of Pentabus Theatre and an Associate Artist of Shakespeare's Globe, she received an MFA in Theatre Directing from Birkbeck College.

Directing includes One Of Them Ones & Idyll (Pentabus); A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merry Wives of Windsor, As You Like It and Hamlet (Shakespeare’s Globe)Twelfth Night & As You Like It (cbeebies); Private Peaceful (Nottingham Playhouse & UK Tour); The Silence and The Noise & DESTINY (Pentabus/Rural Media); Blue Stockings (Storyhouse); 2017/2018 Revival director UK and International tour of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and West End (Gielgud); What The Moon Saw (2Faced Dance); Dance Nation, Blindsided and RAGE- UK Premiere (RWCMD); Wretch (Shoreditch Church and tour of London homeless shelters); Glory Dazed (Soho Theatre, Adelaide Festival and Underbelly, Edinburgh-Winner of Holden St. Theatre award and Critics Choice award); Country Music (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Frisky and Mannish: Just Too Much (Udderbelly, London and Edinburgh); That Face (BOVTS); and recording director for the Old Vic’s production of Cause Celebre on Radio 4.

Carla Goodman, Designer

Carla trained in Nottingham, London and New York.

Design credits include: Pride and Prejudice (Nottingham Playhouse and York Theatre Royal); Looking At Lucian (Theatre Royal Bath); 23.5 Hours (The Park Theatre); Blue (Seven Dials Playhouse); The Book Of Will (Octagon Theatre Bolton, Shakespeare North Playhouse); Guy Fawkes (York Theatre Royal); Bystanders (Cardboard Citizens); Martha, Josie and the Chinese Elvis (Stephen Joseph Theatre); Lunatic 19’s (Finborough Theatre); Lose Yourself (Sherman Theatre); Romeo & Juliet (Orange Tree); Wolves Are Coming For You, As the Crow Flies (Pentabus/Everyman Theatre/Salisbury Playhouse); Joy (Stratford East); Gabriel (Richmond Theatre and UK Tour); Ariodante (Royal Academy of Music); Heartbreak Hotel (The Jetty, Greenwich); Miss Nightingale (The Vaults); How To Date A Feminist, Kitchen to Measure (Arcola Theatre); Rise (Old Vic New Voices); Jack and the Beanstalk (Cast Theatre Doncaster); Miss Julie (Etcetera Theatre); Pig Farm, Exposure (The Other Palace); Truce (New Wimbledon Theatre); What Flows Past The Baltic (Nottingham Playhouse); Theatre Uncut (Traverse Theatre & UK Tour); Listen, We're Family (Wiltons Music Hall); Mush and Me (Bush Theatre); I Am Your Neighbour, Ondisting (Oval House); A New Face For Fast Times (Soho Theatre); The Love Project (Arts Depot & UK Tour); Nola (Underbelly, Edinburgh); Step Live! (Southbank Centre); Mr Happiness (Old Vic Tunnels); Bud Take The Wheel (Shaw Theatre & Underbelly, Edinburgh) Footloose, Our House, A Change Of Seasons, The Protecting Veil (Trinity Laban) Don Juan Comes Back From The War (RADA); Julius Caesar (Guildhall); Saturday Night, Sunday Morning (LAMDA).

Neil Bettles, Choreographer & Movement Director

Neil is a Theatre Director, Choreographer and Movement Director.

As co-founder and Artistic Director of ThickSkin, his directing credits include Peak Stuff, Driftwood, How Not To Drown, Chalk Farm, The Static, Blackout, Boy Magnet, White Noise. Recent work includes Movement Director for James IV, Queen Of The Fight, (Raw Material and Capital Theatres) Scottish tour 2022. Choreographer for Disney’s Bedknobs and Broomsticks, UK and Ireland tour 21/22. Movement Director for Private Peaceful, UK tour 2022. Neil was Associate Director for Frantic Assembly and was nominated for the Off West End award for Best Director for The Unreturning (2019). As Movement Director, Carmen (Opera Wuppertal, Germany); The James Plays 1, 2 & 3 (National Theatre of Scotland, EIF and National Theatre); Blood Wedding and The Bacchae (Royal & Derngate). As Associate Movement Director, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016 - 2021; Heisenberg (Wyndhams Theatre); The Light Princess (National Theatre) and The Full Monty (Sheffield Theatres and West End).

Jenny Roxburgh, Lighting Designer

Jen was awarded the BBC Performing Arts 'Ones to Watch' fellowship in Lighting Design with English Touring Theatre.

Theatre credits include: Gluck (Theatre West); Handful of Nothing (The Lowry Studio); A Spectacle of Herself (Contra Production, European tour); Trip the Light Fantastic (Bristol Beacon /Limbic Cinema /Paraorchestra); One Of Them Ones and Back To The Light (Pentabus); Section 28 and Me (Wardrobe Theatre); The Odyssey: The Four Winds (Trowbridge Townhall & National Theatre); Destiny (national tour); Blame Game (Kundle Cru, European Tour).

Dan Balfour, Sound Designer

Dan is a London based Sound Designer and Dramaturg from the East Midlands. He was nominated for Best Sound Designer in the 2024 Olivier and WhatsOnStage Awards for his work on Dear England at the National Theatre.

Theatre includes: The Cherry Orchard (Donmar Warehouse); Vanya (Duke of York’s Theatre); Dear England (National Theatre, Prince Edward’s Theatre); Stranger Beasts (Wildworks, Cornwall); My English Persian Kitchen (Traverse Theatre/Soho Theatre); Dear Annie I Hate You (Zoo Playground, Edinburgh Festival Fringe); Mrs Caliban (Theatre Technic); Wuthering Heights (Royal & Derngate/National Tour); One Of Them Ones (Pentabus Theatre Company/National Tour); I Am Kevin (Wildworks/Carlyon Bay Cornwall); How To Break Out of a Detention Centre (Riverside Studios); Private Peaceful (Nottingham Playhouse/National Tour); Two Character Play, Wilderness (Hampstead Theatre); The Hatchling (Trigger Productions); hang (Sheffield Crucible); Counting Sheep (Belarus Free Theatre); Sugar Syndrome (Orange Tree Theatre); Operation Mincemeat (New Diorama Theatre/Southwark Playhouse); Effigies of Wickedness (Gate Theatre); Great Apes (Arcola Theatre).

Zac Gvi, Musical Director

Zac Gvi is a composer, sound designer and multi-instrumentalist.

Theatre credits include: Richard III, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Titus Andronicus, The Merchant Of Venice and Twelfth Night (Shakespeare's Globe). The Winston Machine, Dinomania, Trap Street, Still Ill and Dog Show (Kandinsky Theatre); From Here On (Gecko/Good Chance); The Cherry Orchard (Donmar Warehouse); The Odyssey: The Underworld (National Theatre); Trueman and the Arsonists (Roundhouse); London Labour (LAMDA); Romeo & Juliet, Moulin Rouge (Secret Cinema).

Máth Roberts, Associate Musical Director

Màth is a Musical Director, Composer, Pianist, and Performer. After completing his BA in music at Oxford University, he trained at the Royal Academy of Music. Credits as MD include The Enormous Crocodile (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre & Leeds Playhouse), Four Felons and a Funeral (Goya Theatre), Corn Gwlad (Cwmni Theatre Franwen), Ble Mae Trennau’n Mynd Gyda’r Nos a Chwestiynnau Mawr Eraill Bywyd (Theatr Ieuenctid yr Urdd), Peter Pan [Navigates the Travel Ban] (OSO Arts), Sex with Friends [and other tiny catastrophes] & Don’t Say Macbeth (Goya Theatre), and Merrily We Roll Along (Oxford Playhouse).

As AMD: O.G. Prince of Wales Workshop (Sherman Theatre, NTW), The Light in The Piazza (Alexandra Palace), Berlusconi: A New Musical (Southwark Playhouse).

As Composer: Four Felons and a Funeral (Goya Theatre), Ble Mae Trennau’n Mynd Gyda’r Nos a Chwestiynnau Mawr Eraill Bywyd (Theatr Ieuenctid yr Urdd) and Don’t Say Macbeth (Goya Theatre).

Outside of the theatre, he is a published composer in both chamber and choral music, and leads MOSAIC vocal ensemble.

Tom Robbins, Production Manager

Tom is a Production Manager experienced in working across physical and digital spaces to provide technical solutions that facilitate authentic storytelling. Tom’s work sees him working with companies and festivals across the country to deliver memorable and high quality events, and he is always striving to develop new solutions to push the boundaries of what an audience might expect.

Tom has recently worked with companies including National Theatre, Sheffield Theatres, Site Gallery, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam University, ThickSkin, Common Wealth, Barrel Organ, Cement Fields, Pilot Theatre, Megaverse, RivelinCo, Roots Touring, Andro & Eve, Paperfinch Theatre, Roots Mbili Theatre, Thunder Road, Migration Matters Festival, Cambridge Literary Festival, Sheaf Poetry Festival, SICK! Festival, WOW Festival, Estuary.

Tallulah Harris, Stage Manager

Tallulah is a Northern based Stage Manager, specialising in rural and non traditional touring theatre. They love to work on theatre with heart, bringing it to communities where it will have a positive impact. Credits include: On The Beach UK Tour (Spare Tyre); Besharam [shameLESS] (Kala Sangam); One Of Them Ones (Pentabus); The Killer Question (Just Some Theatre); Treasure Island, Earthquakes in London (ALRA North); Tales From Star City (Idle Discourse); Cinderella (Enchanted Entertainment); Pericles, Prince of Tyre (Idle Discourse); A Christmas Carol (Dukes Theatre).

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