GREGORY ASHTON (Jack’s Mother / Shadwell Super Sheep)

Studied Psychology at Nottingham University before training at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama (Performer’s Prize & Principal’s Award for Drama)

Theatre includes: Cinderella, The Iron Chest, Aladdin, The Belle’s Strategem (Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds), Romeo & Juliet, Roots & Wings (Sherman Theatre, Cardiff), Dictation (Classworks with Theatre Royal Plymouth), Twelfth Night, Macbeth (English Shakespeare Company), Gulp (Made in Wales), Madam Butterfly (Raymond Gubbay at The Royal Albert Hall / Tour), The Pirates Of Penzance (Dyffryn Open Air Festival) Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth (S4K), The Ingenious Mrs. Behn (Turtle Key Arts), The Tempest (Theatre 506), Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens (The Albany, Deptford) and many shows for family audiences.

For Ripley Theatre: Madam Butterfly’s Child, Dreams Fairytales & Julia McKenzie, The Diva Drag (OFFIE Nomination / Break A Leg Nomination)

Film & TV includes: On The Black Hill, Arthur’s Dyke (Film Four), Being Human, Goodbye Mr.Chips (BBC TV), Week In, Week Out (BBC Wales), Competing to Win (OnScreen productions), and the short film Clutter this October (Sash Productions)

Audio Work includes: Hotel Europe / Black Rock (Loose Tongue) The Sheep Chronicles (Episodes I-IV, Episode VI). Rameo & Eweliet (CD Baby), Mr Solowei and the Unicorn (BBC Radio Drama)

SARAH BAWLER (Chilli Bean)

Training: Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, cumulating with her Masters in Drama at USW.

Theatre work includes Agatha in Guys and Dolls (directed by Greg Ashton), Bottom in Midsummer Nights Dream (directed by Paul Clements), Jack & the Beans Talk & other Sheep Tales (Cardiff Open Air Theatre Festival), Toby Belch in Twelfth Night (directed by David Mercatali), Jack’s Mother in Into The Woods (directed by Richard Tunley), Flip Flop the Flea in Rumpelstiltskin and Trunchbucket in City of the Unexpected with National Theatre Wales. She has also worked with Arts Active in several productions at St Davids Hall and once with Brian Blessed. 

Audio Work: Sally the Salamander in The Sheep Chronicles: Snow White & the 7th Sheep

As a theatre practitioner Sarah currently makes up one half of www.pagetostage.co.uk, and has worked extensively with young people all over South Wales leading workshops and creating work with children and teenagers.  She collaborates with Everyman Youth Theatre to create a variety of work including comedy improvisation, theatre for one and most recently Shakespeare productions including Henry V, Comedy of Errors and Romeo and Juliet which toured to the Willow Globe.  Next Spring they will be participating in NT Connections with a new piece of writing, after gaining the opportunity to perform at the NT Dorfman Theatre with the incredible intergenerational play called Superglue.   

Sarah is absolutely delighted to be working with Greg again on The Supersheep Chronicles where she has been fortunate to perform as Suzy Jo, Rose Red, and now again as Chilli Bean. 

JJ BENNETT (Jack)

Training: Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama (Leverhulme Trust Arts Scholarship)

JJ is a recent graduate of the first BA Honours Musical Theatre course of Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. He’s had the privilege of originating roles in the new musical Luna the Musical which has been performed at the Other Palace Theatre and Wales Millennium Centre.

Theatre Credits while training: Mr/Billy (Cover Boatman and Jules) in Sunday in the Park with George, Nathan Detroit in Guys and Dolls-in Concert, Rapunzel’s Prince in Into the Woods, Stokes/Ensemble (Cover Billy) in Carrie: The Musical, Cover Adam in Make me a Song and Daddy Brubeck (Cover Vittorio) in Sweet Charity

Theatre Credits include: Original Brad (Cover Eugene, Andy and Glen) in Luna the Musical at The Other Palace and the Wales Millennium Centre, Original Jack in Hollywoodland by PT Rose at the Dylan Thomas Theatre

This marks JJ’s debut with The Sheep’s Chronicles and he’s incredibly excited to jump into the mad world of Jack and the Beans Talk!

Instagram: @Jae.J.Bennett

HUGO JOSS CATTON (King of the Ganglions / Broad Bean)

Trained: LAMDA & Guildford School of Acting

Hugo has enjoyed a successful career in Theatre, including international tours, regional theatre and London’s West End, and co-founded touring Burlesque theatre company “Brass Monkey Burlesque”, for which he is Master of Ceremonies.

Theatre credits include:

Romeo & Juliet (Madinat Theatre, Dubai);  The Blues Brothers Live, The Rat Pack Live (Edinburgh Fringe);  The Story of Bart (Hippodrome, Leicester Square);  Treasure Island, Doctor Dolittle, Narnia, The Jungle Book, The Little Mermaid (UAE/Arabian Gulf Tours);  Elegies for Angels Punks & Raging Queens (Charing Cross Theatre);  Little Red (Millennium Centre, Cardiff); Sleeping Beauty (South Wales tour)  Teeth n’ Smiles, Norma Jeane: the Musical (Stockwell Playhouse);  The Jungle Book (Brighton Open Air Theatre);  Duncton Wood (Union Theatre);  Wonderful Town, Out of this World (Ye Olde Rose & Crown);  The Secret Garden (Ambassadors Theatre);  Follies (Yvonne Arnaud Theatre)

Panto credits include:

Cinderella (Key Theatre, Peterborough);  Barry Plopper & the Chamber of Christmas Secrets (Stahl Theatre, Oundle);  Aladdin, Beauty & the Beast, Sleeping Beauty (Billingham Forum);   Alice in Wonderland (Darwen Library Theatre);  Dick Whittington (Lyric Hammersmith), Beauty and the Beast (Newport Riverfront)

Audio Recordings: The Sheep Chronicles (Episode VI)

ELLE DANCE (Gwen the White Fairy / Jelly Bean)

Most recent Elle played Rosalie Mullins in School of Rock  at the New Theatre, Cardiff and Sarah Brown in Guys and Dolls at the Cardiff Open Air Theatre Festival

Elle is delighted to be making her debut into the world of Sheep Chronicles with the cast of Jack and the Beans Talk

With over 15 years of dance and vocal training, Elle has had the opportunity to perform at some of the most prestigious theatres in the UK, including; The Royal Albert Hall, Her Majesty’s Theatre and Sadlers Wells. In the past she has worked with the likes of National Dance Company Wales, Birmingham Royal Ballet and various West End choreographers and directors. 

Elle is currently Musical Director at Bridgend Youth Theatre and head of Musical Theatre at GC Dance Company. 

KATIE FINCH (Jill / Runner Bean)

Katie trained at Bird College & Trinity Laban Conservatoire of music and dance

She is thrilled to be returning to the Sheep Chronicles to play Jill, having played Suzy Jo last year across South Wales and also at the Brighton Fringe Festival (2017) in Sleeping Beauty.

She plays Suzy Jo in The Sheep Chronicles audiobooks Sleeping Beauty & the Ewe’s Duty, Jack & the Beans Talk, King Ram & the Snow Baby, and Snow White & the Seventh Sheep.

Other credits include: Florence in Flipper’s Perfect Present (Gravesend & Sevenoaks), Miss Morris/other roles in A Family Affair tour of Austria.

SHARON JAMES (Big Red)

Currently Principal of Cardiff and Vale College, Sharon has three decades of experience working in both education and the creative industries.

Recent theatre work includes Under Milk Wood (directed by Marilyn le Conte), Fly Me to The Moon (Edinburgh Fringe Festival), and Jack & the Beans Talk & other Sheep Tales (Cardiff Open Air Theatre Festival). Her long standing relationship with Lesley Ross has seen her create several characters written specifically for her, most notably The Shadow from the Barry the Penguin series, Billie in Snow White and the Seventh Sheep, and the female lead in the Offie Nominated Diva Drag. She will record the part of the Shadow later this year alongside Hayden Oakley’s Barry.

JADE JOHNSON (Voice of Baby Bean)

Jade Johnson has worked as performer both on screen and stage. She also produces The Taylor Swift Cabaret.

On Screen: Member’s Club, This Is Going To Hurt, Flaps (Comedy Central), Late Night Mash, Transaction (Comedy Central), World’s End (CBBC),

On Stage:

Jade was in the Original London Cast of Cable Street (Southwark Playhouse)

other work includes; &Juliet (Uk Tour), Help! We Are Still Alive (Seven Dials Playhouse) The Book Of Mormon at the Prince of Wales Theatre. Mel in Club Mex (Hope Mill Theatre), Charity Hope Valentine in Sweet Charity (Leicester Curve), Summer in All Killer: The Midnight Beast Musical(Pleasance)

Jade plays Moo Moo Sheep in the audio recordings of The Sheep Chronicles

JANINE PARDO (Moo Moo Sheep / Voice of Fishwife Sally)

Janine completed her training, at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, with a Masters in Performance, Musical Theatre.

Most recently, Janine has been working on voiceovers for the Xbox computer game Fable (Molinaire) and TV Animation Go Buster (Moonbug Entertainment). She has also enjoyed performing in the latest Music Video for Elephant Kind (Richard Hall/Riff Raff Films), playing Renata in the film, Code of Conduct (Edge Picture Company), El Cruzcampodor for a TV commercial by Ogilvy and an Amazon TV commercial in Italy.

Previous theatre credits include Queen of The Night, Little Red (Weston Studio at Wales Millenium Centre & Brighton Open Air Theatre). Linzi Ellison in Drowning on Dry Land (New Wimbledon Studio Theatre). Angel in the Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (The Landor Theatre). Mimi Mosa in Va Voom (Courtyard Theatre). Rosie, Dancing at Lughnasa (Cameron Mackintosh Studios). Jasmine, Aladdin (Buxton Opera House.) Ensemble, Me and My Girl (London Palladium), Woman One, Closer Than Ever (Chelsea Theatre). Tours of Sleeping Beauty, Alice in Wonderland, Beauty and the Beast and Peter Pan (PMA Productions). Yearly pantomime for PHA Productions, appearing across the country as Princess, Wicked Queen and Fairy.

Other Film/TV credits include Second Chance (Watermill Productions. S.B Productions), Spirit and Loner (Eldritch Productions). Rachel in the USA TV pilot, A Man Walks into A Bar (Expo-project Productions). Flamenco Dancer, Ant and Dec’s commercial, Push the Button (ITV). Carmen in Carmen (VIP Productions/Latin TV). Connie (Casual Films), The Last Call (Flame Visuals). Pearls Of Africa (Shakazi Productions) and Carrie Sadler, in the award winning film, Already Dead (Inspired Monkey Productions)

Audio Recordings: The Sheep Chronicles (Episode III & Episode VI)

HOLLY THOMPSON (Urbella the Spider)

Training: Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts and The Birmingham School of Acting 

Holly is thrilled to be joining the cast of Jack & the Beans Talk. This is her second foray into the world of The Sheep Chronicles, having previously played Victoria Red in Snow White and the Seventh Sheep whilst still at college.  Other roles while training included Barbara in Major Barbara and Lisa the Homeless Lady in A New Brain

With director Greg Ashton she played Mimi in Guys & Dolls and Morticia in The Addams Family, both at the Cardiff Open Air Theatre Festival

Holly joined touring company Wize Productions last autumn playing Winnie Sanderson in Pocus Hocus and Belle in pantomime favourite Beauty and the Beast. She will be returning this Christmas in Cinderella.

Other future work include the research and development project Pick a Ticket – the Call Centre Musical