Kymberley Cochrane
Jean
Kymberley is an award winning actor, singer and musician. After winning the BBCs Norman Beaton Fellowship, she joined the BBCs Radio Drama Company in 2023.
Theatre credits include: Billie The Kid ,directed by Kerry Kyriacos Michael (West End); Americana, directed by Matthew Reynolds; English Dirt directed by Natalie Quartermass; Leah, directed by Stephen Brennan.
Audio drama includes: Georges directed by Gary Brown; The Lion directed by Saha Yevtushenki; Plane Speaking directed by Saha Yevtushenko; First of Millions directed by Gemma Jenkins; Downstream directed by Tracey Neale; Nightmare(ish) directed by Sally Avens; Undercover directed by Nadia Molinari; All Bleeding Stops Eventually directed by Sally Avens; Emperor and Galiean directed by Carl Prekopp; Exposure directed by Anne Isger.
Games credits include: Scuttled directed by James Steventon for Bamalam Productions; Revealed - The Pit Camp directed by Judi Alston for One to One Development (Virtual Reality); Jekyll & Hyde directed by Simon Collier and Samantha Boffin for Evcol Entertainment; The Strata directed by Mark Healy for Beyond The Dark Productions (award nominated 2023 & 2024); Umbraclaw directed by Diana Garnett for Inti Creates (Game); Theda in Age of Darkness: Final Stand directed by Kevin Powe for Playside Studios (Award Nominated).
Kymberley is over-the-moon and reaching for the stars THRILLED to join the company for Bright Lights Over Bentilee as Jean.
Phil Corbitt
Albert
Phil has been a jobbing actor and theatre musician since 1988, both at home and internationally and has played most of the theatres in the UK. He first worked in Stoke in 1999 and has been back half a dozen times over the years. He loves it.
Theatre tours include: MAMMA MIA (Uk & International); CALENDAR GIRLS THE MUSICAL; HAMLET, THE TEMPEST (UK & China), THE CANTERBURY TALES, WARS OF THE ROSES, THE BELLS ( Northern Broadsides); ROUND AND ROUND THE GARDEN (Malaysia); THE MURDER OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (Europe); ASTREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (Europe, Hong Kong, Japan); MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (UK); ELECTRIC LIPSTICK (UK); RETURN TO THE FORBIDDEN PLANET (UK and West End); TWELFTH NIGHT (UK); THE SECRET AGENT for which he also composed the music (UK).
Theatre Seasons at: Storyhouse, Northern Stage, Live Theatre Newcastle, Bolton Octagon, Oldham Coliseum, Haymarket Basingstoke, Queen’s Hornchurch, Stephen Joseph Scarborough, Theatre by the Lake, Bristol Old Vic, New Vic Stoke, Harrogate Theatre, Customs House, Tyne Theatre, Theatre Royal Newcastle, Royal Court Liverpool, Contact Manchester and Theatre Royal Stratford East.
Shows include: KINKY BOOTS; MANIFESTO FOR A NEW CITY; GEORDIE THE MUSICAL (twice); RENDEZVOUS, TYNE (twice); Alan Plater’s last play LOOKING FOR BUDDY; CLOSE THE COALHOUSE DOOR; BRASSED OFF (twice); WAKE UP LITTLE SUZIE; GOOD GOLLY MISS MOLLY (twice); Chris Monks’ CARMEN and DON GIOVANNI; EIGHT MILES HIGH; THE FIREWORK MAKER’S DAUGHTER; THE HIRED MAN; SPEED-THE-PLOW; THE GOOD COMPANIONS; BOUNCERS; HAMLET; FROM A JACK TO A KING; THE NORMAN CONQUESTS; TEARS OF A CLOWN; MACBETHl; RETURN TO THE FORBIDDEN PLANET; SWEET CHARITYl; A FAMILY AFFAIR; LEONARDO’S LAST SUPPER; AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE (West End); WORLD STORY TIME. Twenty Pantomimes including three of the Liverpool Everyman’s rock n roll pantos.
Television includes: UNDERCOVER; CREEPED OUT; INSPECTOR GEORGE GENTLY; ALL AT SEA; VERA; EMMERDALE (8 times); WATERLOO ROAD; CORONATION STREET (twice); DOCTORS; SHAMELESS; THE ROYAL; THE ROYAL TODAY; DALZIEL AND PASCOE; MOBILE; HARRY; THE CINDER PATH.
Film includes: PETERLOO; BLISS; ALMOST MARRIED.
Polly Lister
Beverley
Polly trained at Manchester Metropolitan University Theatre School and with The National Youth Theatre.
For Claybody Theatre: Alice Oakes in SONG OF THE SYTCH (2023)
Theatre includes: Unexpected Twist (Royal & Derngate/CTP Tour), Jekyll & Hyde (Derby Theatre/Queen's Theatre Hornchurch); Animal Farm, Around The World In 80 Days, One Man Two Guv'nors, Hound Of The Baskerville's (Bolton Octagon); Beauty and the Beast, Table, Votes For Women, Playhouse Creatures, The Snow Queen, The Borrowers, 101 Dalmatians, As You Like It (New Vic, Stoke); The Snow Queen, The Rise And Fall Of Little Voice, Di and Vi and Rose (Stephen Joseph Theatre), Blue Stockings (Storyhouse, Chester), The Wizard Of Oz (Leeds Playhouse); The Worst Witch Live! (Olivier Award Winner for 'Best Family Show', West End/Theatre Royal Northampton/UK Tour); Great Expectations, Solace Of The Road, Cooking With Elvis (Derby Theatre); A Christmas Carol (Hull Truck), To Sir With Love, Transmissions (Birmingham Rep); I Was A Wife, Hansel and Gretel, Beauty and The Beast (Dukes Theatre, Lancaster), Much Ado About Nothing (Mercury Theatre, Colchester), Don't Dress For Dinner, Private Lives, Boeing Boeing (Eastbourne Theatre/Harrogate Theatre), Abigail's Party - UK Theatre Award Winner for Best Performer - Fallen Angels, Suddenly Last Summer, Dancing at Lughnasa, Midsummer Night's Dream, The Blue Room, Hayfever, Chorus Of Disapproval, Loot, After Miss Julie, The Recruiting Officer, Our Country's Good, Private Lives, Cinderella, Keep Smiling Through (Theatre By The Lake, Keswick), Hayfever (Oldham Coliseum), The Heretic (Library Theatre, Manchester), Much Ado About Nothing, Dangerous Corner (Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds), Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty (Roses Theatre, Tewkesbury); Saint Joan (Royal National Theatre), Marilyn The Musical (Greenwich Theatre), Romeo & Juliet (English Shakespeare Company). The Warp (Ken Campbell)
Television includes: Coronation Street, Emmerdale, Doctors, Martina Cole's Ladykillers, Casualty.
Film includes: The Murder of Stephen Lawrence, Polterheist, London Unplugged.
Radio includes: The Archers, Ladies’ Delight, Aromatherapy, Tree Splitting, Distance Between, Lulu, Something Blue (all for BBC Radio)Theatre credits include:
Ava Ralph
Sylvia
Ava was born in Stoke and grew up in Newcastle-u-Lyme, where she started performing at the age of 12 in Christmas shows at the New Vic Theatre. She trained professionally at Rose Bruford College, graduating with a BA Hons in Actor Musicianship in 2023.
While training Ava was cast in a wide range of roles, including Astrov in Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, Mrs Peachum in Dead Dog In A Suitcase, and Mellissa Milcote in Coram Boy.
Theatre includes: 40 Elephants, (Barnfield theatre, Front room theatre, The Gateway Theatre) directed by Lucy Betts; 40 Elephants, Seussical, (Greenwhich theatre), directed by Lucy Betts.
Music: Ava is a gifted singer and musician. She has had a gig residency in Camden, singing her own songs and covers from alternative MT to Folk and Jazz.
This is Ava’s first professional appearance for Claybody Theatre, though she was a member of our Community Cast on DIRTY LAUNDRY and THE D ROAD.
Eddy Westbury
Michael
Eddy trained at ArtsEd, graduating in 2018.
For Claybody Theatre: Danny Kelly in SONG OF THE SYTCH (2023); Jock and Ensemble in The Card (New Vic and Claybody Theatre 2023)
Theatre includes: Tom Dick And Harry (New Vic Theatre); Peaky Blinders: The Rise (Riyadh). The Comedy About A Bank Robbery (UK tour & West End).
Eddy is delighted to be back in Stoke working with Claybody Theatre at The Dipping House, playing the enigmatic Michael.
Jack Wilkinson
Sidney
Jack Trained at Drama Centre London.
For Claybody Theatre: Liam in THE D ROAD
Theatre Includes: The Woods (Company of Angels): The Good Soul of Szechuan (Watford Palace); Close the Coalhouse Door (Northern Stage and Live Theatre); Deadkidsongs (Theatre Royal Bath); David Copperfield (Oldham Coliseum); Larissa and the Merchants (Arcola Theatre); King Lear (Northern Broadsides); Dreamplay (Hightide/The Vaults Festival); Twelfth Night, Macbeth (The Globe); Grimms Ditch, Oh Whistle And I’ll Come (New Perspectives); All of Me (Vault Festival); Island Town, Sticks And Stones, How to Spot an Alien (Paines Plough); Love Lies Bleeding (The Coronet Theatre); The Bolds (Unicorn Theatr).
Television and Film includes: Doctors, Holby City, The Love Punch, Casualty, Marvellous, The Doll Maker, Biff and Chip, This is going to Hurt, The Girlfriend,