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Michael Mayne has performed with the Tower for a year having played the title role in Julius Caesar
last year and more recently Sidney in Smells of Wee. Over the last five years he has also acted with in other companies, with parts ranging from
a boy in Blue Remembered Hills, a drunken lawyer in Family Affairs
to Shylock in The Merchant of Venice and Fred in Fred & Madge.
Michael is a classically trained actor. As a child he attended the CORONA stage school, and then went on to the London Academy of
Music and Drama Art (LAMDA) where he gained an MA Hons diploma.
He worked in the professional theatre for 20 years before family commitments moved him into the commercial world;
now those commitments are fulfilled he is working his way back into the Business.
He has a dark secret : "think confectionery" !
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Jane Dodd's theatre credits include leads in Airswimming (Hen & Chickens Theatre), 4Play (Lilian Bayliss Theatre), Colder than Here (Courtyard Theatre), Widows (Arcola Theatre) and Make You Mine (Soho Theatre).
Jane trained at E15 Acting School, The Actors’ Temple, London and Meisner Centre, LA.
Jane lives in Battersea, but is originally from Lancashire. She worked extensively in financing in the private sector before training as an actor. She also has military experience having been an Officer in the Territorial Army and the Regular Army reaching the rank of Major.
Jane has written her first play, Super Manic and her first screenplay, Angel Cake, both of which are currently in development.
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Meryl Griffiths studied drama at ALRA and toured for some years before merging
theatre with business and becoming a presentation skills trainer. A
Tower member since 1998, she is developing a good line in psychiatrists
– previously Dr Eve Bollinger in Sordid Lives – as well as those who
may or may not be completely barking mad - Jessica in Hysteria and
Bertha in Jane Eyre. Other favourites include Mrs Mercy in The Killing
of Sister George, Grace in Faith Healer, Winsome in Bombshells and most
recently Mrs Robinson in The Graduate.
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Louisa Norman joined the Tower in 2007 and has since appeared in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The York Realist, Blood Wedding and Lark Rise , touring to Minack in summer 2010. She recently played Lady Macduff in the Tower's production of Macbeth at St Leonard's and in Paris. She is also a member of the Questors where she recently enjoyed taking part in the Open Stages RSC workshop. She has a BA in drama from the University of Wales and was also a member of The Questors student group from 2007-9. In her spare time Louisa enjoys travelling, playing the saxophone and reviewing London theatre for Offwestend.com.
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Jennifer Quinn studied acting at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, New York, where she performed in
I Am A Camera, Crimes of The Heart and Boy's Life. In London, she has worked on radio, short films and most recently
performed in Proof for the Tower Theatre Company having joined the Company 8 months ago.
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Anna Dimdore was active in university theatre in plays ranging from Aristophanes to Douglas Adams, though it
may have been her role as a cardboard rhinoceros that prompted her to take a 15 year break from the stage. Since her return she has played
roles such as Tessa in Funeral Games, Linda in Play it Again Sam, Mary in The Memory of Water and
Eva in Absurd Person Singular. She has also directed Twelfth Night and co-directed The Memory of Water. This is
her first production with the Tower Theatre having joined the company in March.
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A member since 2010, this will be Stephanie Urquhart’s first full length production with the Tower Theatre Company, having
taken part in the rehearsed reading of Vanity Fair earlier this year. With other companies in London she has appeared in
An Experiment with an Air Pump (Isobel Bridie), Gross Indecency (Wood), Fox Girl Five (Chloe), An Actor's
Nightmare (Ellen Terry), The Lonesome West (Girleen Kelleher) and not forgetting Molly (12) in a previous production of
Jake’s Women.
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Charlotte Adams is excited and nervous about making her Tower - and stage! - debut with Jake's Women,
after appearing in several short films and music videos. In her spare time she likes to sing and play music, and is a keen writer.
She's particularly chuffed to be working alongside her "Partner In Crime", Stephanie Urquhart.
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