Waleed Akhtar - Prab (Chasing Hares)
Waleed is a resident member of the Actors for Human Rights network and seasoned comedy improviser.
Theatre credits include: A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS (Birmingham Rep), WHAT SHADOWS (Bimingham REP/ Park Theatre); FRACKED! (Chichester Festival tour); COLD CALLING: THE ARCTIC PROJECT (Birmingham REP); WIPERS (Leicester Curve); BACK DOWN (Birmingham REP); VELOCITY (Finborough); THE KITE RUNNER (Nottingham Playhouse); RE:HOME, (The Yard) A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM (Tooting Arts Club); UNDER 11'S (Soho Theatre); LOVE MATCH (Cheltenham Everyman); MAKE AND MODEL: RADAR FESTIVAL, (Bush Theatre); BETRAYED (Tron Theatre); BLACK I (Kali Theatre); SCREWFACE (Tristan Bates)
Doreene Blackstock - Esther (Esther)
Theatre credits include: #846LIVE (Theatre Royal, Stratford East), Unknown Rivers (Hampstead Theatre), Equus (Trafalgar Studios), Noughts and Crosses (Pilot Theatre Tour), Bullet Hole, Distance (Park Theatre), Much Ado About Nothing (The Globe), Roundelay (Southwark Playhouse), Cymbeline, Hamlet, Noughts & Crosses (RSC), Antigone, Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (Pilot Theatre Company), Holloway Jones (Synergy Theatre Project), The Container (Young Vic Theatre), Any Which Way (Only Connect Theatre), One Under, The Gift (Tricycle Theatre), 25/7 (Talking Birds Theatre Company), Document Given To Me By a Young Lady from Rwanda (Ice & Fire Theatre Company), The Carver Chair (Contact Theatre), Leave Taking, Girlie Talk (Belgrade Studio), Rosie & Jim’s Big Adventure (Ragdoll Theatre Company), Leonora’s Dance (Black Theatre Co-operative)
Cayvan Coates - Peeper (Great Northern Divers)
Cayvan graduated from RADA in 2019, then toured in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time as Christophe Boone and recently filmed for Vera (ITV) and for Expectation’s The Chelsea Detective with Adrian Scarborough (BBC)
Rina Fatania - Chellam (Chasing Hares)
Trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
Theatre Credits include most recently Brenda Highthorpe in The Man In The White Suit (Wyndham’s Theatre); Mrs Peachum in Dead Dog in a Suitcase (2019 UK Tour); Sameena in Approaching Empty (Kiln Theatre, Tamasha & Live Theatre); Panna in The Village (Theatre Royal Stratford East); Anna Bronski in The Tin Drum (Kneehigh Theatre, UK Tour); Charlotte /Monks in Oliver Twist (Regents Park, Open Air Theatre); Jean in Roller Diner (Soho Theatre); & Nanima in Anita & Me (UK Tour).
Seren Fflyr Hamilton - Lucy (Playfight)
Seren is a Welsh speaking actress from Cardiff and from a young age has had a passion for performing. She has been a member of National Youth Theatre Wales and GB, and she was a student of the Young Actor’s Studio at Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama for three years. Most recently, she played Snowflake in a children’s production A Christmas Visit, and is now currently one of Theatre Na Nog’s young associates.
Aysha Kala - Kajol (Chasing Hares)
Last year, Aysha played the role of ‘Peg’ in The Welkin at the National Theatre. She is perhaps best known for playing the role of ‘Sooni Dalal’ in two series of the channel 4 drama, Indian Summers and as ‘Sita’ in Shameless.
Aysha won a BAFTA Breakthrough Brit Award in 2015 and was nominated for an ‘Offie’ award for Khadija Is 18 at the Finborough Theatre, directed by Tim Stark.
Meghan Mabli - Keira (Playfight)
Meghan Mabli is a pint-sized Welsh actress just graduated on a scholarship place from Fourth Monkey. Cardiff born and raised in Australia, she’s lived in Japan and the US and is now based in North London. She previously trained back home at RWCMD and is a keen mover and creator of her own physical theatre work. Meghan loves a good coffee, cake and a chat; speaks fluent Japanese and is currently studying Italian.
Olivia Onyehara - Stink (Great Northern Divers) / Nia (Esther)
Previous theatre credits include: SHUCK N JIVES (SOHO THEATRE) TWELFTH NIGHT/ A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM/MACBETH (SHAKESPEARE'S ROSE THEATRE YORK) JACK LEAR (HULL TRUCK/NORTHERN STAGE) PRIDE AND PREJUDICE/ TIME & THE CONWAYS (NOTTINGHAM PLAYHOUSE/YORK THEATRE ROYAL) , OUR AMERICAN COUSIN (FINBOROUGH THEATRE), THE LONELY SOLDIER MONOLOGUES (LIMINAL SPACE) THE WATCHERS (SOUTHWARK PLAYHOUSE)
Bhavik C. Pankhania - Daveesh (Chasing Hares)
Bhavik C. Pankhania is a London based Actor and Filmmaker. His most recent credits include: 'The Band' (CHANNEL 4), ‘Cursed’ (NETFLIX), ‘Years and Years’ (HBO/BBC) and ‘The Feed’ (AMAZON)
Kia Shah - Zainab (Playfight)
Kia studied at East 15 and is a Welsh learner. She most recently performed with The Other Room on their Emerging Writers project. This is Kia’s first engagement with the Sherman and is excited to work with Theatre Uncut.