Annabel Leventon

Actress, Singer, Director, Writer.

Oxford graduate, trained at LAMDA and Café La Mama, New York.

Nominated Actress of the Year for her lead role in the original London cast of Hair!
Theatre includes:

(Oxford Playhouse) Vera Alexandrovna in A Month In The Country, Desdemona in Othello, Shen Te/Shui Ta in The Good Woman of Sechzuan, Viola in Twelfth Night; seasons at The Traverse, Bristol Old Vic, Salisbury; Victoria Wood’s Good Fun (Sheffield).

West End Theatre includes:

Sheila in Hair! (London and Paris), Celia in The Philanthropist, Belle in Rocket To The Moon, Daisy in Spokesong, Milady in The Dresser (for Sir Peter Hall), Gertrude Lawrence in Coward’s Noel and Gertie, Liliane in Shadows of the Evening, Lily in Red Peppers, Dear World (for Gillian Lynne), Something Unspoken, Muriel Belcher et al in Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell with Peter O’Toole, I Am Shakespeare (Old Vic, 2022). Honk! The Ugly Duckling and Pillars of the Community (National); Sir Andrew Aguecheek in Twelfth Night, Prioress in Comedy of Errors (RSC)

Television includes:

The White Rabbit
Crown Court
Hugh and I Spy
Strike It Rich (series),
Janna in Penmarric (series)
Minder
Bergerac
Dixon of Dock Green
The New Avengers
Second City Firsts
Anglia Play of the Month
On Giants’ Shoulders
London Bridge (series)
Vera, Chivalry (2022).

Films include:

Mussolini with George C Scott and Robert Downey Jr, Defence of the Realm, Le Mur de l’Atlantique (Marcel Camus) M Butterfly (David Cronenburg), Shock Treatment, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Oscar-winning short Work Experience (Ian Hendrie), Wimbledon, The Nest, This Camera Is Broken, Peter O’Toole Documentary (Jim Sheridan) – awaiting release 2023.

Directing includes:

Morecambe (Edinburgh and Hampstead), Elvis (West End) Good Fun (Kings Head, 2022)

Cabaret:

Annabel is a regular performer at Brasserie Zedel’s Crazy Coqs and Pizza Express’s
The Pheasantry.

Creator and co-founder of three-girl rock group Rock Bottom, on which the Bafta winning TV
series Rock Follies and Mamma Mia are based. Her memoir The Real Rock Follies was short-
listed for the Myslexia Memoir Prize, and Book of the Week (The Bookseller) and awaiting
the stage version in 2023.

Annabel is also a Trustee for the Shakespeare Authorship Trust and performs Shakespeare
annually for them and the De Vere Society with Mark Rylance and Derek Jacobi, and
developing a Masterclass Series on Shakespeare’s Women for the DVS.
Representation: Thomas Bowington Management; Damn Good Voices (Audio)

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Caroline Blakiston

Caroline trained at The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She has acted with many of the major Repertory Companies in the country. Played leading roles with The Royal Shakespeare Company, The National Theatre and in several West End productions. Playing leads in Shakespeare, Shaw, Wilde and Chekhov leads.

Her One – Woman Show Black Bread And Cucumber was performed at London’s Jermyn Street Theatre.

Caroline was part of the Ian McKellen touring repertory company The Actors Company.

She has been directed in the theatre by most of the major directors Sir Peter Hall, Sir Trevor Nunn, Adrien Noble, Steven Pimlott, Max Stafford – Clark, David Thacker and Toby Robertson.
Famously played Mon Monthma in Star Wars VI : Return of the Jedi.

Other feature films include:

The Fourth Protocol

The Trygon Factor

Yanks

The Magic Christian

Les Miserables

Woody Allen’s Scoop.

She has numerous television credits that include three separate Midsomer Murder episodes – the most recent in 2016. She also played Aunt Agatha in the Poldark series from 2015 – 2018. As Time Goes By opposite Judi Dench and Geoffrey Palmer. Father Brown, Poirot, Chancer, The Line of Beauty, Department S opposite Peter Wyngarde, Brass, Out of the Unknown, Holby City, Casualty, Doctors, Till We Meet Again, Crown Court, The Sweeney, The Avengers, Wives and Daughters, The Saint, The Grand, The original 1967 series of The Forsyth Saga. Emergency Ward 10, The Champions, Private Schulz opposite Ian Richardson, Emergency Ward 10, City Beneath the Sea. The television version of Eduardo Filippo’s play Saturday, Sunday, Monday acting opposite Sir Laurence Olivier.

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Rosie Baker

Rosie Baker trained at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.

Rosie is doing a UK tour theatre of The Hound of the Baskervilles in the spring of 2024.

Other stage credits are War of the Worlds Play and A Tale of Two Theatres.

She has made a series of short films with writer and director David Mansell, including Warning Signs, Long Weekend, Perfect Day and Breaking Point – acting opposite amongst many Guy Siner, Freya Copeland, Kim Hartman and Richard Gibson.

Audio work for Big Finish includes reading the story The Doctor and his Amazing Technicolour Nightmare Coat.

Torchwood: The Sins of Captain John opposite Murray Melvin.
Doctor Who audio dramas Doctor Who: The Vanity Trap
Doctor Who: The Demon Song
Doctor Who: The Incherton Incident
And the audio drama The Lone Centurion – The Glowing Warrior

Television credits include – Bullet Proof Series 2 and The Five (ish) Doctors Reboot.

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Clifford De Spenser

Graduated from Oxford University with a BA (Hons) in English Language and Literature. Received the Advanced Diploma in Voice Studies from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
Clifford is one of the UK’s foremost voice and dialect coaches.

Beginning with Peter Brook’s theatrical masterpiece The Mahabharata in 1987, Clifford has worked on and off sets on many major domestic and international film, television and theatre productions.

He is a specialist in effective spoken and written communication. Comprehensively skilled in voice, language and pronunciation training, with forty years experience within educational, professional and business environments.

He is much in demand for his combination of skills and extensive experience, which give him a unique insight into the spoken and written language, a broad cultural perspective and a flexible and practical approach to working with actors, directors, screenwriters, singers and producers.
Also much sought after at international film festivals and drama schools, sharing his experience and expertise with both established and up-and-coming film professionals and actors in the form of Masterclasses and practical workshops.

A personal voice coach to many of our finest actors. Both for auditions and the various film and theatre projects they are working on. He has his own production company Clemency Films.

Film credits include:

Emperor
Hercules
47 Ronin
The Book of Vision
The Devil’s Double
Arn: The Knight Templar
Kingdom of Heaven
Highlander: The Sorcerer
Hannibal Rising
Four Feathers
The Constant Gardner
The House That Mary Bought,
X-Men: First Class
Clash of the Titans
Saving Private Ryan

Television credits include:

Outlander
SAS : Rogue Heroes
Tyrant, Humans
The Spanish Princess
Spies of Warsaw,
Marple: 4.50 from Paddington
Poirot, A Tale of Two Cities
The Borgias
Queen of the South

Directors he has worked with include: Steven Spielberg, Ridley Scott, Lee Tamahori, Peter Brook, Matthew Vaughn, Martha Coolidge, Shekhar Kapur, Neil Jordan, Peter Webber and Werner Herzog.

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Contact

E-mail: contact@bowingtonmanagement.co.uk

Representation

We only accept submissions by email.

Please include a covering letter, recent headshots, showreel link to your Spotlight page or examples of your most recent work. All applications will be considered very carefully. You will be contacted within two weeks of your application if we wish to arrange an interview with you or attend a show.

Autograph Requests

We do not deal with autograph requests. Autographs can be found on most actors personal websites. The actors regularly attend autograph events and shows around the world

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Dave Prowse M.B.E.

01.07.1935 – 28.11.2020

David Charles Prowse was British Heavyweight Champion bodybuilder and, for many years, fitness consultant to Harrods. He had three of his own gymnasiums in London, and had been the personal trainer to many celebrities and Royals – most famously, Christopher Reeve, who he helped prepare for his role in Superman.

Dave was the Green Cross Code Man between 1971 – 1990, and known around the world as the man who played one of cinemas most iconic characters – Darth Vader in the original Star Wars trilogy: Star Wars: A New Hope (directed by George Lucas), Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back (directed by Irvin Kershner), and Star Wars VI: Return Of The Jedi (directed by Richard Marquand).

His numerous other film and television work include the James Bond spoof, Casino Royale playing Frankenstein’s creature (directed by John Huston, Robert Parrish and Ken Hughes); Crossplot (directed by Alvin Rakoff), Carry On Henry (directed by Gerald Thomas), Doctor Who: The Time Monster, The Tomorrow People, Arthur Of The Britons, Callan, Hammerhead, Departments S, The Saint, The Champions, Space 1999, Deadly Sweet (directed by Tino Brass), The People That Time Forgot (directed by Kevin Connor) Gulliver’s Travels (directed by Peter Hunt), Jabberwocky (directed Terry Gilliam), The Kindness Of Strangers (director Deborah Hadfield), Shakespeare’s As You Like It with Helen Mirren for the BBC, and A Clockwork Orange (directed Stanley Kubrick).

Some of his many television comedy appearances are: Hark At Baker, The Two Ronnies, The Benny Hill Show, The Morecambe and Wise Show, The Kenneth Williams Show. For Hammer Films he appeared in the Vampire Circum (directed by Robert Young), The Horror of Frankenstein (directed by Jimmy Sangster), and Monster From Hell (directed by Terence Fisher),

His final piece of work was playing Professor Henry Wales in the mini series, Mission Backup Earth, in the epsiode, ‘Eva’.

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Jenny Runacre

Jenny has just completed the feature film My Burning Baby, directed by Paul Kindersley. She also recently appeared in his film, The Image, and also the Channel 4 film, Taglioni. She also recently performed in the short, Emily’s Hands. Her other recent forays onto the screen include, an interview for Criterion in America about the making of John Cassavetes’ Husbands.

She made her film debut in Herbert Ross’ Goodbye Mr. Chips with Peter O’Toole, but her first major roles were in Cassaventes’ Husbands, and in two films directed by the legendary Freddie Francis, namely The Creeping Flesh – with Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee – and Son of Dracula.

She has work with some of the most respected film directors over the past 40 years, including:

The Canterbury Tales (Pier Paolo Pasolini).
The Final Programme and Three Dangerous Ladies (Robert Fuest)
Joseph Andrews (Tony Richardson)
The Mackintosh Man opposite Paul Newman (John Huston)
The Lady Vanishes (Anthony Page)
The Passenger with Jack Nicholson (Michelangelo Antonioni)
Jubilee (Derek Jarman)
The Duelists (Ridley Scott)
Spectre (Clive Donner)
The Witches (Nicholas Roeg)

Some of Jenny’s other film credits include: Restoration with Robert Downey, Jr (directed by Michael Hoffman), Hussey, opposite Helen Mirren, All Creatures Great And Small, The Edge Of Love, Dyn Amo, Boogie Woogie and Shady – directed by Philip Saville).

Television credits include: Brideshead Revisited – directed by Charles Sturridge, The New Avengers, Taggert, Play For Today, Call Me Mister, and Romance. She most recently played Prudence Duvornoy in The Lady Of The Camellias in London, and Enter Queen Lear as Amanda (Queen Lear).

Other recent theatre productions are Alice In Wonderland, 14 Seconds, Fantasy Bonds, and The Ghost Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore.

Jenny trained at The Actors Workshop Notting Hill Gate. Training in The Stanislavski System (Method Acting). She has her self also conducted numerous workshops in film and theatre acting.

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Creatives

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Composers

John Cameron

Dialect & Dialogue Coach

Clifford De Spenser

Casting Directors

Stephanie Hume

Directors

Jason Farries

David Mansell

Producers

Raza Mallal

Malcolm Winter

Stephanie Hume

Casting Director

Stephanie is an independent Casting Director based in London specialising in theatre, film, commercial and corporate work. She has been casting for over 5 years having initially trained as an actor at The Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts.

After a periodic tussle with her own casting as a graduating actor, Stephanie set to work exploring what casting meant and what worked and didn’t. This resulted in an unexpected but fervent passion for putting actors in the right roles and discovering exciting talent. She started finding work in casting and has never looked back! Stephanie believes that her training as an actor has given her the intuition, understanding and appreciation of actors needed to deliver really attentive and passionate casting.

Notable credits include the Royal Television Society and EVCOM award winning short film Kayleigh’s Love Story, Bolton Film Festival (Winner Best UK Film) award winning short film Daughter, Unchosen Charity Film Competition (judged by Ken Loach) award winning short film Slaved and the Offie Award winning play The Glasshouse (Grindstone London, Tristan bates Theatre). Stephanie was also Casting Associate for the Offie nominated world premiere of Philip Ridley’s new show Angry at the Southwark Playhouse starring Georgie Henley and Tyrone Huntley.

Stephanie has strong links with theatre and arts hub 53Two in Manchester as well as video production agencies, Affixxius Films and Big Button.

In addition to casting, Stephanie is also the Industry Liaison Officer for the BA Acting course at Italia Conti, a role she very much enjoys. She also regularly delivers casting workshops and sessions on independent reflection for actors at other institutions, including Fourth Monkey Actor Training Company and Identity School of Acting.