Alex Alderton (performer)
Alex auditioned to take on Jan's role in The Cleansing of Constance Brown. Her first performance was in Bucharest and continued on with the show for a number of years making the part her own. Alex is an excellent singer and an acclaimed actor.

Sarah Archdeacon (deviser / performer)
Studied performance at Dartington College of Arts. She joined Stan's Cafe in 1994 and was integral to the devising of crucial run of shows through until late 2000 when personal commitments led her to reduce her Stan commitments. She is director of Corali Dance company
Selected Stan Work: Bingo, Voodoo City, Simple Maths, It's Your Film, Good and True, Space Station, Framed, Of All The People In All The World

Gerard Bell (deviser / performer)
Gerard works in conventional and experimental performance in the UK and Europe. He has worked with Chris Goode, David Gale, Stacked Wonky, Improbable, and Athina Vahla; and, more briefly, Graeme Miller, Jonathan Burrows and Pina Bausch. Also with A2, dreamthinkspeak, Punchdrunk. He has been at The Sheffield Crucible, the National Theatre, National Theatre Wales and the Orange Tree. There are films and other works with film/installation makers and friends Lucy Cash, Magali Charrier, Shelly Love, and Adam Roberts. More recently he has taken, slowly and intermittently, to developing his own, or solo, work. He has been making a piece with Karen Christopher, of Goat Island, for her new company Haranczak/Navarre, and has just made a new piece, still.here, for What Matters at the Siobhan Davies Studios.

Stan Work: The Cleansing of Constance Brown, The Cardinals, The Just Price of Flowers (revival).

Gareth Brierley (performer)
Gareth is a People Show Regular together with work with a number of other companies including Station House Opera and The Royal Exchange. Gareth stepped bravely into the breach on the opening day of The Cleansing Of Constance Brown when Andy Watson was taken ill and has performed the show many times since then. He has also performed for Stan's Cafe in It's Your Film. He is co-Artistic Director of White Rabbit with Bernadette Russell.

Heather Burton (deviser / performer)
Heather studied at Warwick University. Worked as a performer with Third Angel, Plane Performance and Talking Birds. She has also worked with Gary Stevens on the group project Pieces of People. For Stan's Cafe she has mixed devising with stepping into existing roles.
Stan Work: The Carrier Frequency, Lurid and Insane, It's Your Film (touring), Framed, Of All The People In All The World, Be Proud of Me (touring), Home of the Wriggler

Alison Carney (performer)
Once Birmingham based before going to that London, Ali is a regular performer on Radio Four and for a number of different companies in the Midlands including The Birmingham Rep, Leicester Haymarket and Women and Theatre. She first worked with Stan's Cafe on the world version of Of All The People In All The World and has toured with the show on a number of occasions since then.

Cait Davis (performer)
Performed in our restaging of The Carrier Frequency.

Chris Dugrenier (performer)
Chris is a graduate of Dartington College Of Arts. She first worked with Stan's Cafe invigilating The Black Maze. Since then she has worked on many education projects for the company and is a regular on tour with Of All The People In All The World. She was in the original cast of The Just Price of Flowers and Together With Love We Will Make This Citadel Glorious. You can read more about Chris's solo work here.

Charlotte Goodwin (performer)
Charlotte is a writer and teacher of writing. For Stan's Cafe she has been a reliable workshop leader and valued member of many touring teams. Her work with us includes: It's Your Film (touring), The Black Maze (touring), Of All The People (touring), Education Work and City Adventures.

Charlotte Gregory (performer)
On graduating from University Charlotte volunteered to help with Stan's Cafe in 2008. She has subsequently performed on tour in Of All The People In All The World and The Cleansing of Constance Brown. She is an ever present in The Just Price of Flowers, has toured with It's Your Film and appeared in Together With Love We Will Make This Citadel Glorious. She contributes well to the company's education work and her excellent French regularly proves helpful. She now also works with ACE Dance in Birmingham - but not as a dancer.

Amanda Hadingue (deviser / performer)
Gained a first class theatre degree at Lancaster University in 1988. Amanda has been a key member of Stan's Cafe, helping to shape the company and its work since 1993. She has worked as a performer and deviser with many of Britain's most respected experimental theatre companies including: IOU Theatre, The People Show, Station House Opera, Scarlet Theatre, Pete Brooks's Insomniac Productions, Gary Stephens, Graeme Miller and David Gale.
Selected Stan Work: Canute the King, Bingo In The House Of Babel, Voodoo City, Simple Maths, It's Your Film, Good and True, Lurid and Insane, Space Station, Framed, Of All The People In All The World, Be Proud Of Me, Home Of The Wriggler, Tuning Out With Radio Z, I See With My Eyes Closed.

Amy Ann Haig (performer)
Amy Taylor (in real life) auditioned to take on Heather's role in Home Of The Wriggler in its 2010 trip to Beijing. She impressed so much that she was offered Jan/Alex's role in The Cleansing of Constance Brown.

Mike Kirchner (performer)
Mike is a performer and producer and was a regular with Talking Birds. For Stan's Cafe he gave a fantastically committed performance in The Carrier Frequency and has been a stalwart touring with It's Your Film and Of All The People In All The World. Read Mike's essay

Jessica MacKinnon (performer)
A member of Birmingham based Kindle Theatre Jess has worked on Of All The People In Al The World and on education projects with Ana Rutter.

Ray Newe (deviser / performer)
A graduate of Lancaster University. Ray devised and performed in key shows in the early days as the company was finding its voice. His work for Stan's Cafe includes: Bingo In The House Of Babel, Voodoo City and Dead Body. Ray has gone on to perform on TV and with The Liverpool Playhouse and The National Theatre. He as also appeared in The Cleansing of Constance Brown.

Lucy Nicholls (performer)
Lucy auditioned and gained a part in Of All The People In All The World for its Whole World production in Birmingham. She has subsequently toured with the show, she was in the original production of The Just Price of Flowers and Come Together. She has also appeared in Together With Love We Will Make This Citadel Glorious. There is more information about Lucy here. Lucy as part of Project X.

Jake Oldershaw (deviser / performer)
Studied at Dartington College of Arts. Worked as a freelance performer/deviser for Wendy Houstoun, Kaos Theatre, Reckless Sleepers and BBC Radio. Jake's own work ranges from one to one performance (Intimate History) to street intervention (The M5 Talent Squad) to photographic work (Midland Aquaphiliacs, Re-Inventing the Wheel). He is now Artistic Director of Untied Artists Jake's Website
Stan Work: Simple Maths, The Carrier Frequency, It's Your Film (touring), The Black Maze (touring), Of All The People In All The World (touring), City Adventure, The Cleansing Of Constance Brown

Bhati Patel (performer)
Bhati has one of the longest CVs in the Stan's Cafe team. She has worked as an actor and deviser with many, many companies in the West Midlands Region and Nationally. Her involvement with Stan's Cafe started when she replaced Bernadette in Home of the Wriggler through 2009 (she later took Amanda's role), she has toured with Of All The People In All The World and was in the original cast of The Just Price of Flowers in which Bernadette replaced her.

Jan Pearson (deviser / performer)
We brought Jan back to her native West Midlands to devise and perform in The Cleansing Of Constance Brown. Jan has worked with most of the country's most respected theatre companies and organisations since the mid 1980s, including amongst others Insomniac Productions, Rose English, Gary Stevens, Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey The R.S.C., The Royal Court, Paines Plough, The National Theatre Of Scotland and Scarlet Theatre. She is also a very successful TV actor with appearances in Silent Witness, The Bill, Where The Heart Is and, most famously, Holby City.

Louisa Pearson (performer)
Louisa has toured with Of All The People In All The World. She is currently working on a PhD.

Rochi Rampal (deviser / performer)
Rochi first collaborated with James whilst she was still at school, devising and performing in No Walls Just Doors as part of Stage2 youth theatre. She is now a freelance performer working regularly with companies around the Midlands. Her full Stan's Cafe debut was in The Cardinals. Since then she has also appeared in Together With Love We Will Make This Citadel Glorious.

Kerrie Reading (performer)
As a post-graduate at the University of Kent Kerrie sat in on rehearsals for The Cleansing of Constance Brown becoming an unofficial production assistant. Subsequently she auditioned for Of All The People In All The World and has performed that show on many occasions. She regularly contributes to Stan's Cafe's education program and performed in the original version of The Just Price of Flowers as well as Together With Love We Will Make This Citadel Glorious. She is now studying for her PhD whilst freelancing for companies including Talking Birds, C&T and The Mighty Creative.

Graeme Rose (deviser / performer / education leader)
Founded Stan's Cafe with James in 1991. They worked closely together until late 1995 when Graeme joined the company's board and formed a new company, The Resurrectionists, with Richard Chew. He returned as an Associate Artist in 1999, devised Lurid and Insane in 2001 and took a post as half of the education team 2005-2007. Graeme continues to perform with a range of companies including Bodies In Flight, Red Shift and Talking Birds as well as directing his own work and producing projects with The Resurrectionists.
Selected Stan Work: Perry Como, Memoirs Of An Amnesiac, Canute the King, Voodoo City, Framed, It's Your Film (touring), The Black Maze (touring), The Carrier Frequency, Lurid and Insane, Of All The People In All The World (touring), The Cleansing Of Constance Brown, Tuning Out With Radio Z (touring), The Cardinals.

Bernadette Russell (deviser / performer)
Bernadette first worked with Stan's Cafe on Framed in 2000. Since then she has become a regular collabrator on shows and workshops. Bernadette is co-Artistic Director of White Rabbit, producing long running story telling cabaret "Are You Sitting Comfortably?" which has a residency at Toynbee Studios and has also performed at National Theatre, Thames Festival, Diamond Jubilee Pageant and Jackson's Lane amongst others. She has performed her solo shows "The Lost Property Office", "Somniloquy" and "The Parlour of Lady Indigo" at National Theatre, Freud Museum, Brighton Festival, and Duckies. She has worked with a range of other companies including People Show,David Gale, Penny Dreadful, Gerry Pilgrim, Shunt and Wet Picnic. She was commissioned to write the last two Penny Dreadful plays "The Missionary's Position" and "Etherdome" and Wet Picnic's "Death and Gardening". Her short stories are published by Ether and Pulp Press. She is resident compere for The Cheek Of It! cabaret at Madam Jojos. Her project 366daysofkindness is on going.
Stan Work: Framed, Home Of The Wriggler, The Cleansing Of Constance Brown, Of All The People In All The World (touring), The Just Price of Flowers (touring), Tuning Out With Radio Z (touring).

Benny Semp (performer)
A graduate of Dartington College Of Arts and founder member of Hamfisted! Benny first worked with Stan's Cafe creating People's Radio Freedom for Lurid and Insane with Jonny O'Hanlon. Benny has subsequently left Hamfisted! and is a freelance teacher and performer. He has toured with Stan's Cafe on The Black Maze, It's Your Film and Of All The People In All The World.

Nick Tigg (performer)
A People Show regular, Nick has made a number of showings in The Cleansing Of Constance Brown. He also performed for us in a secret corporate launch event. He has his own excellent company Slot Machine.

Jack Trow (performer)
Jack first appeared with Stan's Cafe as a boy in a mac youth theatre production of Adult Child/Dead Child, adapted and directed by James. After training at Rose Bruford Jack is now a freelance actor and has become a regular touring with Of All The People In All The World, The Black Maze, The Just Price of Flowers, It's Your Film and The Cleansing of Constance Brown. He is the company's current 24 Hour Scalextric chamption and appears in Together With Love We Will Make This Citadel Glorious. He has started doing a significant amount of Education work for the company. His experience as Duty Manager at BAC and MAC is now occasionally deployed @ A E Harris.

Charlotte Vincent (performer)
Artistic Director of Vincent Dance Theatre Charlotte performed in the Stan's Cafe restaging of The Carrier Freuency and led the cast in vigorous physical warm ups.

Nick Walker (performer / deviser)
Nick devised and performed in Simple Maths and Good and True and has toured with It's Your Film Of All The People In All The World. Nick is a member of Coventry based Talking Birds. He is also an acclaimed writer with two published novels and a range of work broadcast on BBC Radio. Read Nick's essay

Andy Watson (deviser / performer)
The charismatic front man for Lurid and Insane and a reliably committed touring man. Andy has a background in experimental performance working with a range of companies including Insomniac and Eddie Ladd, alongside his own work, much of which is now legendary. Andy continues to create his own music and performance work, including collaborations with Nina. Read Andy's essay
Stan Work: Lurid and Insane, The Black Maze (touring), It's Your Film (touring), The Cleansing Of Constance Brown.

Simon Webb (deviser / performer)
A musician and visual artist Simon played the drums and so much more in Lurid and Insane.

Richard Chew (composer / musician)
Birmingham born composer, pianist and singer Richard was an integral element of Stan's Cafe in the formative years, composing a series of stunning soundtracks for Perry Como's Christmas Cracker, Memoirs Of An Amnesiac, Bingo In The House Of Babel Voodoo City and Still. Since then he has formed The Resurrectionists with Graeme Rose and The Shout with Orlando Gough. Rick is a trained opera singer and now lives in Australia and is working as a full time composer. Commissioned with Ian Dixon to write some raw material for The Cleansing of Constance Brown this work is sampled the show's final track.

Brian Duffy (composer / musician)
Described by Mute magazine as a "national treasure" Brian is the artist leader of the acclaimed MODIFIED TOY ORCHESTRA and member of the Sinclair Spectrum Orchestra. Brian is a NESTA Fellow and impossibly clever. He first worked for Stan composing the soundtracks for two of the company's youth theatre shows, No Walls, Just Doors and Adult Child/Dead Child before moving onto the radio piece So Bring Me Down and the soundtrack to Good and True. Brian did an exceptional job as musical director for Lurid and Insane and wrote music in a Weil style to go with Craig's lyrics for the two songs in The Just Price of Flowers. He also worked alongside composer Giles Perrin on the music and sound design for SONIC JOURNEY

Jony Easterby (sound artist)
Musician, sound and visual artist Jony Easterby worked with Brian creating So Bring Me Down and composed the soundtrack to the Head to Head video.

Giles Perrin (composer / musician)
Giles is a composer and musician. His first work with Stan's Cafe was creating the soundtrack for the film Framed. Since then he has wokred on Carnival education projects and was musical director for SONIC JOURNEY

Jon Ward (composer / musician / software engineer)
Jon's interest in manipulating music, voices and ambient sounds started with jumble sale tape machines and is currently pursued using computers, samplers and esoteric electronic devices. His occasional work for BBC News enables him to make field recordings from around the globe. Jon's Site - ditdotdat
Stan Work: Voodoo City (engineer), Bingo (Engineer), Simple Maths (composer), Pieces for the Radio Volume 1, Of All The People In All The World (signalnet composer). Most recently Jon has combined his composing and compuational skills to become much of the cleaverness behind Tuning Out With Radio Z.

Nina West (composer / performer)
Nina was tracked down after a demo track was heard on a compilation CD at a party. With Jane Webster she recorded a rich, evocative soundtrack for Ocean of Storms; a section of which was later appropriated as the soundtrack to It's Your Film. Her skills as a performer and live musician were key to Lurid and Insane and later she demonstrated her instinctive understanding of how sound works in theatre when composing for Be Proud Of Me. She composed the soundtrack for The Cleansing Of Constance Brown for which she is the only team member to have been present at every performance. When required she supplies soundscapes for The Steps Series. You can discover more about her other work by visiting Nina's Site
Read Nina's essay

Mark Anderson (sculptor / sound artist)
Mark created The Black Maze with Craig and James as an equal partner in aesthetic discussions and as leader of the engineering, in both its first flat packed incarnation and then in the lorry. He played a similar role in Broadway Hertz and was commissioned as designer/builder for Home of the Wriggler along with Helen Ingham. He has helped out on various education projects, is regularly called on for advice and co-created Suzie Small Lifts A Car with James.
Mark was a founder member of the acclaimed multi-media performance group Blissbody , he contiues to make spectacular work including the internationally acclaimed collaboration Power Plant.

Paul Arvidson (lighting designer)
Paul has designed and toured lighting with companies to France, Israel and the United States. He has lectured in lighting at Lancaster University and now runs his own company Mulberry Grove doing large and small scale corporate work. He is a qualified pyrotechnician who has been lighting and blowing up Stan's Cafe since 1994.
Stan Work: Bingo, Voodoo City, Ocean of Storms, The Carrier Frequency, Good and True, The Black Maze, Lurid and Insane, Be Proud Of Me, Framed, The Cleansing Of Constance Brown, Tuning Out With Radio Z, The Cardinals.

Miguel Angel Giglio Bravo (artist / designer)
Miguel designed and made the set for Simple Maths in 1997, thirteen years later he returned in trumph from his home in Rome to design and paint all the fantastic scenary for The Cardinals.

Phil Coy (visual artist)
Visual artist Phil made props for Ocean Of Storms. Phil's Website

Simon Ford (graphic designer / deviser)
One of the gang of Lancaster University graduates on which Stan's Cafe is based, Simon and James have been collaborating since 1988, when Simon did both stage and graphic design for a number of student shows. Simon now has his own graphic design business F22 Design where works in collaboration with Eamon Feeney on Stan's Cafe requirements including this website. He has also done education work for the company. In recent years his collaboration with the company has moved to a different level as he has become a lynch-pin of The Steps Series team on location.

Simon Gowan (lighting designer)
Did a heroic job designing and installing lighting for Canute the King in Moseley Road Baths. He then designed the lighting for and toured with Simple Maths.

Helen Ingham (visual artist / costume maker)
Helen designed the set and made the set and costmes for Lurid and Insane and with Mark Anderson designed the costumes, set and power generating machines for Home Of The Wriggler. Helen has also led a number of workshops for us and worked on The School Rulers project.

Jonny O'Hanlon (deviser / maker)
Co-founder and now artistic director of Birmingham based theatre company HAMFISTED!. Jonny first worked with Stan's Cafe creating People's Radio Freedom. He has also toured with The Black Maze and worked on Of All The People In All The World and City Adventure Days.

Billy Hiscoke (stage manager)
Billy won out at interview for the formidable job as Stage Manager for The Cleansing of Constance Brown. He as also helped out the company with work on Final Steps, 24 Hour Scalextric, Of All The People In All The World and It's Your Film.

Helen Kelly (visual artist)
Video and visual artist Helen made props for Ocean Of Storms and has worked on a number of education projects including A Delicate Balance.

Lottie Leedham (maker)
Made props for Framed and for the IETM Courtesy Car.

Ana Rutter (designer / maker)
Ana is a Fine Art Graduate of U.C.E. and more recently a Master Of Art. Ana is a sculptor and video artist with considerable experience of working in education settings and a history of work in carnival. She first worked with Stan's Cafe on the animated film Head to Head and took a half time post as half of the education team in January 2005. This post came to an end in September 2007. She made a number of props for The Cleansing of Constance Brown. She continues to produce and exhibit her own work in both group and solo exhibitions.

Karen Stafford (production manager)
After working principally in project management and marketing for a series of organisations including: Monteverdi Choir & Orchestra, Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Be In Birmingham 2008, Birmingham City Council and Fierce, Karen was given a one-off contract as production manager for Of All The People In All The World in Stuttgart. She fitted perfectly into the team and was asked to return as the company's full time production manager with additional input into show marketing. With less touring in 2008 Karen left to bigger and even better things. Karen's travel lust made her the ideal person to take the Stan's Cafe off on tour. In 2007 she took on the significant challenge of sourcing all the props required for The Cleansing of Constance Brown. She takes photographs and is too modest about her skills in this area. She left Stan's Cafe in 2007 to work for Greenbelt.

Denise Stanton (sculptor)
Denise is an fantastic sculptor and costume maker: for Stan's Cafe she is the 'go to' person for installation work on The Steps Series. You can see her other work here.

Harry Trow (designer / maker / stage manager)
Shortly after graduating Harry gained a job for Stan's Cafe building and sourcing props for The Cardinals. He has also worked as Stage Manager for The Cleansing of Constance Brown.

Kay Wilton (costume designer / maker)
Kay lives in Birmingham, she regularly works with Birmingham Rep and Birmingham Royal Ballet as a costume and hat designer and maker. She made all the period costumes for The Cleansing Of Constance Brown and at incredible speed dressed the whole of The Cardinals. Examples of her other work can be seen Here.

Graeme Braidwood (photographer)
Graeme became Stan's Cafe's principle production photographer in 2009 though impressing the company with his photographs of The Just Price of Flowers. This is his website.

Ed Dimsdale (photographer)
Ed took most of Stan's production photographs between 1999 and 2009 and still collaborates with the company. He also took all the slides that provided the backdrop to Be Proud Of Me and contributed key images to Tuning Out With Radio Z. Ed has worked on a number of education projects including School Rulers, Fruit and Veg Cities, Take It! and A Delicate Balance. Some of Ed's non-Stan photography can be found HERE

Joseph Potts (film maker)
Birmingham based film maker Joseph did on the hoof editing for Framed, has worked with us on a number of film education projects and regularly helps us with video documentation.

Anupam Singha (photographer)
Production photos for Voodoo City.

Mark Taylor (photographer)
Stan's photographer from 1995-1998, responsible for amongst other things great pre-production shots for Voodoo City and Ocean Of Storms