Chris Edgerley
Chester the Jester
Chris presented the hit children’s TV Show Hi-5 which aired on CiTV/ITV4/Cartoonito/and Boomerang Channels for many years. All episodes are now on YouTube ‘Hi-5 UK Chris’. Other TV shows include Emmerdale (Yorkshire Television).
Chris trained at Arts Educational School of Acting (3 Year BA Hons) and East 15 Acting School.
Chris theatre credits include The Bodyguard the Musical (UK Tour 2018-2020 with Alexandra Burke), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Regent’s Park Open Air), Macbeth (Regent’s Park Open Air), Enjoy (Watford Palace), Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (France Tour), Lady Be Good (Regent’s Park Open Air), Aida/La traviata/Falstaff/Don Pasquale/Così fan tutte/Flames of Paris/La Bayadère/Idomeneo/The Tales of Hoffmann (all at The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden), Again and Against (Royal Court Theatre Upstairs), Lean (Theatre Royal Stratford East), Hi-5 (West End/Hammersmith Apollo/UK & International Tour).
You can currently spot Chris on commercials for BWM, Premier Inn and Verisure Alarms. Other commercials include GAME, Visit Britain 2022, HolidayCottages.com, Ford, Snap Fitness, VO5, Evercade, Synergy, Vision Direct, Listers Windows & Doors, Karcher, HP Notebook, Panasonic, Hyundai, Paddy Power and Birds Eye Potato Waffles.
Chris loves Panto and says he has had the thrill of playing the roles Fleshcreep in Jack and the Beanstalk (Horsham), Aladdin in Aladdin (three years for UK Productions in Malvern, Mansfield and Rhyl), Jack in Jack and the Beanstalk (Lowestoft), Dick in Dick Whittington (Dorking), Robin Hood in Robin Hood (UK Easter Tour), Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz (Blackpool/and Liverpool), Hawkins in Treasure Island (Eastbourne), Wishee Washee in Aladdin (Fareham), Dandini in Cinderella (Liverpool Arena), and Buttons in Cinderella (Maidstone).
Chris would like to dedicate this performance to his young nephews Ethan and Mason, and thank his loving family and wonderful friends for their support. You can find Chris @ChrisEdgerley and visit his website www.ChrisEdgerley.com. Enjoy the show!
Gemma Brodrick
Carabosse
Last year’s Snow White has a very different role to play!
Gemma trained at Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts where she graduated with a BA (Hons) in Acting.
Television and Film credits include: ‘Pauline’ in Cilla (ITV) ‘Karen’ in The Good Karma Hospital (ITV) ‘Shona’ in 4 O’Clock Club (CBBC) ‘Michaela’ in Sex & the Chippy (Lime Pictures) ‘Mrs Lyons’ in Blood Brothers In Focus (Digital Theatre) ‘Maisy’ in Crownton Dobbie ‘Young Annie’ in Stalin My Neighbour and ‘Julie’ in Suburban Gothic.
Theatre credits include: ‘Alyssa’ in Our Lady Of Blundellsands (Everyman Theatre, Liverpool, original cast) ‘Donna Marie / Miss Jones / US Mrs Lyons’ in Blood Brothers (UK Tour) ‘Pauline’ in Cilla The Musical (UK Tour, original cast) ‘Amy’ in Lost Soul 2 (Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool) ‘Dot’ in Yellow Breck Road (Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool) ‘Polly Nichols’ in RIP (Kings Head Theatre, London) Ghost of Christmas Past, Present and Future in A Christmas Carol (53Two, Manchester) ‘Sasha’ in Secrets (Epstein Theatre) ‘Paris’ in Desperate Scousewives (Floral Pavillion Theatre) ‘Princess Aurora’ in Sleeping Beauty (Echo Arena) ‘Sasha’ in Escorts the Musical (Tour) ‘Balladeer’ in Assassins (Chelsea Theatre, London) ‘Mary McGinty’ in Once a Catholic (Landor Theatre, London) ‘Tina’ in Beside the Seaside (Unity Theatre) ‘Little Red’ in Red Riding Hood (Liverpool Actors Studio Theatre) ‘Fuscia Groan’ in Gormenghast (Edinburgh Fringe Festival) ‘Lead Vocalist’ in Be Our Guest (Tour) ‘Lead Vocalist’ in Musicals in the Night (Tour). Additional theatre credits include: Twopence to cross the Mersey (Empire theatre); Oliver! (Playhouse Theatre); A Christmas Carol (Playhouse Theatre).
Gemma wrote and performed the critically acclaimed one woman musical comedy Don’t Cha Wish Your Scouser Was Boss Like Me at 53Two, Manchester and The Kings Head Theatre, London.
Follow Gemma on Twitter and Instagram @GemmaBrodrick
Sean Luckham
Queen Gertie the Gorgeous
Sean was born in the Swinging Sixties in the seaside city of Portsmouth trained at the Hampshire specialist drama course gaining a diploma in theatre studies and a London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts gold medal. He got bitten by the theatre bug working backstage at the wonderful Edwardian Kings Theatre in Southsea, sweeping the stage and dreaming of one day performing on it. Watching some of the greatest live performers such as Leslie Crowther, Bill Maynard and the wonderful Lionel Blair, his dream come true when in 2001 he joined the New Pantomime productions as Widow Twankey in a star-studded production of Aladdin
At the age of 19 Sean had the fantastic opportunity to don the famous redcoat and join the legions of legendary performers at Butlins, he started at the Ocean Hotel Brighton before moving to Bognor Regis to continue to entertain and mould himself into the performer he is today: short, fat and in a frock
Sean has been lucky enough to have been given the opportunity to tour extensively throughout the UK at some of the country’s biggest and best theatres and abroad including Dubai, Syria, Abu Dhabi and many others with the award-winning Shakespeare 4 Kidz theatre company, giving his Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Stefano in The Tempest, Lord Montague in Romeo and Juliet and a critically acclaimed performance of the grave digger in the national and international tour of Hamlet.
This is Sean’s 20th pantomime with New Pantomime Productions (hopefully he will get it right this time) performing all over this wonderful country of ours with the most talented casts with the likes of Ian Bishop (Harold from Neighbours), Anne Hegerty (The Governess from ITV’s The Chase) and many, many more.
Sean still lives in the seaside town of Bognor Regis with his amazing, incredible, marvellous, perfect, fantastic children Dean, Emma and Jamie, and is delighted to be back performing at the wonderful Elgiva theatre spending this Christmas season with the wonderful audiences of Chesham.
Laura Bazely
Princess Beauty
Laura is a graduate from Emil Dale Academy and is bringing her wonderful vocal talent, wealth of highly-skilled dance styles and sparkling Musical Theatre skillset to the Elgiva stage this December.
Laura has choreographed several music videos, as well as dancing and performing in the same, and she has a wide range of stage experience including Made In Dagenham, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Into The Woods, Julius Caesar, Nell Gwynn and Me & My Girl.
Laura is currently performing in Stranger Things: The Experience in London as Dance Captain, as well as swinging several roles including Eleven.
Nicola Blackman
Fairy Sparkle
Nicola Blackman trained at Guildhall School of Speech and Drama.
Nicola’s theatre credits include Romeo+Juliet, Little Women (both Storyhouse Chester) The Mousetrap (2022 St Martin’s Theatre – the first diverse ‘Mrs Boyle’), The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (James Seabright Prods), The Suicide (Storyhouse), Beauty and the Beast (Theatre By The Lake), Thoroughly Modern Millie (No 1 tour), Just To Get Married (Finborough Theatre), Babe The Sheep Pig (Polka Theatre/No 1 tour), Shutters (Park Theatre, London), Snakes and Ladders (Arcola Theatre and UK tour), Treasure Island / The Borrowers / Tiger Tail / A Christmas Carol / Wind in the Willows (Nuffield Theatre Southampton), Romeo and Juliet (Stafford Shakespeare Festival), Funny Girl, (Revolution Theatre, New York), The Music Man (Chichester Festival Theatre), The Lion King (Lyceum Theatre, West End), Animal Farm / Measure For Measure / The Pied Piper (National Theatre), The Comedy of Errors (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Destry Rides Again (Donmar Warehouse – nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actress), Little Shop of Horrors (Comedy Theatre, West End), The Crucible (Leicester Haymarket Theatre) and Showboat (West End).
Nicola’s TV and film credits include EastEnders (BBC), Trollied (Sky), Madam Manhattan (Lead role in a pilot for MVD), Casualty (BBC), Killer Net (C4), The Bill (ITV) and Us Girls (BBC).
Bradlee Wetherill
Prince Valiant
Hailing from Glasgow, Bradlee Wetherill read English Literature at university and completed a year of Fashion Studies at college before setting off to do Musical Theatre.
Bradlee is a graduate of the Emil Dale Academy where he obtained a BA (Hons) in Musical Theatre.
Bradlee’s credits at the Emil Dale Academy include Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Into The Woods, Macbeth, Bluestockings and The Pajama Game.
And Bradlee is no stranger to panto, having been in Jack and the Beanstalk in 2018; he can’t wait to tread the boards at The Elgiva this Christmas as the dashing Prince Valiant!
Amie Butler
Dance Captain
Amie trained professionally at Bird College Conservatoire of Dance and Musical Theatre for three years, and graduated in 2019.
Dance credits include Dancer for P!NK at the Brit Awards 2019 (ITV), Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway (ITV), BGT The Champions (ITV) , Candy Crush Advert for Cole Anderson (Social media campaign), Robyn in an award-winning short film, Robyn (Movement films).
Amie’s theatre work includes Dance Captain/Ensemble – Cry Baby (Bird College), Dance Captain/Ensemble – Snow White (New Pantomime Productions).
Her TV and film credits include Horrible Histories (CBBC), The Witcher – body doubling (Netflix), Devil’s Hour (Amazon Prime), Endeavour (ITV), ITV Hub Advert 2022 – Vicky McClure’s body double, Call The Midwife (BBC). Most recently Amie filmed with Bukayo Saka as a footballer for his ‘Level The Playing Field’ campaign for Fiverr.
Instagram: @amiebutler96
