Cast

  • Herbert

    Credits (include): War Horse (NT); Quality Street (Northern Broadsides & New Vic Theatre); Beauty And The Beast, Aladdin (Georgian Theatre); Body Snatcher, Invisible Man, Count of Monte Cristo, 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, Hyde (Harrogate Theatre); A Clockwork Orange (Volcano); Seeds (Oldham Coliseum) and Tales From The Blackjack (The Lowry).

  • Norma

    Credits (include): Hollyoaks (Lime Pictures); Coronation Street (ITV); Lookers (commercial); Brewdog (commercial); The Long Shadow (New Pictures); Thank You For Doing Nothing (Silent Uproar); Jack and the Beanstalk (Theatre Royal Wakefield); Sans Merci (Hope Mill Theatre); Snow Queen (New Vic); Doctors (BBC); So Awkward (CBBC); Be More Martyn (UK Tour); The Royal (ITV) and Emmerdale (ITV).

  • Jack

    Credits (include): Yizkor (New Vic); Hobson’s Choice (MT Prod.); Love Hurts (New Vic); 100 Years On (Everyman Theatre); Dark Side Of The Moon (Greenhouse Theatre); Spring And Port Wine (Oldham Coliseum); Hollyoaks (C4) and England Is Mine (Honlodge).

  • Karras

    Credits (include): Miss Julie (Gulbenkian); The Wizard of Oz (Plowright); The Little Mermaid (Kings Theatre); Candide, La Traviata (Kent Opera); Showboat, Pirates of Penzance, Pajama Game (Marlowe Theatre) and Tea with the Reaper (Bright Night Films).

    Writing credits (include): Hoods (Leicester Square Theatre); Waiting for the Dawn (Arts Theatre); A Christmas Carol and Around the World in 80 Days (produced globally for IT&M).

  • The Darkness (Voice)
    Voice Acting credits (include): 50 plays for BBC Radio 4, including: The Midnight Cry of the Death Bird (Nosferatu); The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari; The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

    Animation Feature Films: Cattle Hill; Christmas at Cattle Hill, The Long Long Journey; The Daily Fables and the CBBC series Kate & Mim Mim.

    Directing credits (over 30 productions including): The Count of Monte Cristo; the 2022 production of Shock Horror (for Thunder Road); Coward; The Dopplegang; (for Just Some Theatre); Angels in America; Dying For It; Jerusalem; One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest; Clybourne Park, Posh and The Ferryman.

  • Writer/Director

    Ryan is a Yorkshire based playwright and film maker, he took inspiration from the classic horror films of the 70s and 80s when writing Shock Horror.

    He trained as a writer with Hull Truck and his television work includes Eastenders, Emmerdale and Spooks. His plays include Merlin and The Magic Mirror and Bottoms Up. His horror films Seizure and Demon Eye have been released theatrically in America and Europe, distributed in thirty territories globally. His recent short film Tea With The Reaper won four prestigious awards after initial release.

  • Composer

    Ben Parsons composes music for TV, films and theatre.

    He has scored for many series and programmes for TV including Charlie Cooper’s Myth Country, Bear Grylls and received an Emmy nomination for Netflix’s The Hidden Lives of Pets. Ben has also scored feature films including Demon Eye and a number of shorts.

    Theatre work has included Cascade’s Frankenstein dance piece. Ben used to tour and record with bands including Cherry Ghost and Arctic Monkeys and now lives and works in North Manchester.

  • Lighting Designer

    Andrew Crofts is a visual designer and technologist who works with lighting, video and interactive tech for theatre, dance and mixed-media companies. As well as working with Thunder Road previously on Shock Horror, Andrew has worked with a range of other artists and companies including Imitating the Dog, Jasmin Vardimon, Blast Theory, Every House Has A Door, Invisible Flock, Streetwise Opera, Geraldine Pilgrim Performance, Belarus Free Theatre and Spymonkey.

  • Lighting Designer

    Matt trained at Rose Bruford College in Lighting Design and specialises in lighting for theatre, dance, and touring productions. Previous theatre credits as lighting designer include: The Light House (Leeds Playhouse/UK Tour, Red Ladder Theatre Company); Tomorrow Is Already Dead (Soho Theatre, Hackney Showrooms), Force of Nature (International Tour, Bloom Dance Project); 122 Love Stories (Harrogate Theatre, All Points North).

    Theatre credits as associate/programmer include: A Thousand Splendid Suns (Birmingham Rep & Tour), National Youth Dance Company, (Sadlers Wells & tour), All Blood Runs Red (UK Tour, Imidating the Dog), Now (UK Tour, Jasmin Vardimon Company), Nutcracker (Southbank Centre, McOnie Company); The Clothes They Stood Up In (Nottingham Playhouse); ALiCE (UK Tour, Jasmin Vardimon Company), Here & Now (UK Tour, McNicol Ballet Collective).

  • Set Designer

    Ethan is a performance designer working across theatre, film, and music. A graduate of The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, they are the current Maria Björnson Bursary recipient at the National Theatre and was recently shortlisted for The Arts Foundation Fellowship in Theatre.

    Recent theatre credits include This Is My Family (Southwark Playhouse), Twelfth Night (National Youth Theatre), Little Shop of Horrors (The Egg), Constellations (The Barn) , £1 Thursdays (Finborough), and Rabbit Hole (The Union Theatre).

    Their assistant and associate design credits include Here We Are, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Other Place (All National Theatre), The Principles of Deception (Theatre Royal Northampton), My Son’s a Queer (But What Can You Do?), and Millennials (The Other Palace).

  • Production & Vision

    Georgia is a graduate in Drama and Film Studies at the University of Kent, and has since pursued a career in Production and Stage Management.

    Having worked with Thunder Road in 2023 and 2024, she is looking forward to bringing excitable thrills to their audience again this year.

    Her credits include: 

    BIG STRONG MAN (UK Tour, The Growth House), HUG (UK Tour, Levantes Dance Theatre), Lewisham Lyricists and A Night in Sign (Deptford Literature Festival) and Quality Street (Northern Broadsides).

  • Technical Manager

    Dominic is a Lighting Designer and Production Technician based in Greater Manchester.

    He’s been working within music and theatre since graduating from The University of Hull in 2019. He's worked alongside a variety of producers, playwrights and education establishments to share their stories and works with the wider world. And joined Thunder Road last year for their UK Tour of Shock Horror: A Ghost Story.

    Design credits include: BUFF (UK Tour); BI-TOPIA (UK Tour), Macbeth (IC Theatre); A Night with Me; Myself and Bi-polar Brenda and The Formidable Lizzie Boone (UK Tour).

    Production credits include: Shock Horror: A Ghost Story (Thunder Road Theatre); SO UNFAIR (One Tenth Human)and ROTTEN (Emmerson & Ward).

  • Illusion Designer

    John is UK Illusions Associate on Harry Potter & The Cursed Child (Palace Theatre, London) and The Ocean at the End of the Lane (National Theatre). 

    West End credits include: A Tupperware of Ashes (National Theatre); Rough Magic, A Midsummer Night's Dream (Globe); The Cherry Orchard (Donmar); Death of a Salesman (Piccadilly); Robin Hood (Regent's Park Open Air); The Worst Witch (Vaudeville) and Oi Frog! (Lyric).

    Further illusion design credits include: A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Magician's Elephant, #WeAreArrested (RSC); Piaf (The Gate, Dublin); Into the Woods (Theatre Royal Bath); Doctor Who: Time Fracture (Immersive London); Dirty Dancing and Wishmas (Secret Cinema).

  • Director of Photography

    Dave works internationally across features, documentary, corporate, short film, and time-lapse. For Dave, Shock Horror represented a truly unique and exciting opportunity to weave cinematic content into a live theatrical narrative.

    Over the past five years, he has collaborated on a number of award-winning projects including: Polterheist (2018), Seizure (2018), Demon Eye (2019), Tea with the Reaper (2022), his own directorial debut - Hide (2023). He’s currently working on a number of virtual production 'volume' productions.

  • Marketing Manager

    Jess is a Yorkshire-based arts marketing specialist with a focus on touring theatre and dance. She studied Psychology before completing an MA in Advertising and Design at the University of Leeds. She is Northern Broadsides’ Marketing and Communications Manager and has previously worked at Leeds Playhouse, Yorkshire Dance and Theatre Royal Wakefield. 

    As a freelancer, Jess has worked with companies including Northern Rascals, Claybody Theatre, Stute Theatre, Filament Projects, Beggars Belief Collective, Restoke and Watershed Productions, as well as supporting shows at the Edinburgh Fringe.

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