The Maydays is a great resource for actors; trained experienced professionals specialising in comedy and improvisation. We have TV, radio, commercial and internet credits plus years of performance in sketch, improv and stand-up comedy live on stage. Take a look at our individual performers below and get in touch to book.
Liz trained at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts and has worked extensively on stage and screen, with roles ranging from divas to doctors to an actual pig! In 2014 she wrote and produced Toybox, a musical comedy show, for which she was nominated Best Female Performer at Brighton Fringe Awards. Further comedy credits include Newsrevue, The Treason Show, WTP and other independent sketch productions.
She has featured in advertising campaigns for MoreThan and Barclaycard, for whom she co-wrote and shot 20 personalised songs over 5 days. As well as filming a number of music videos, in house training films and shorts, Liz is a regular character voice on post apocalyptic comedy podcast The Holiday After Tomorrow.
An experienced compere, she is the creator and host of Unplanned Cabaret, and has played many flamboyant characters for immersive theatre productions with Twisted Dreams and Beggar’s Velvet.
Liz has been improvising with The Maydays since 2010 and has toured worldwide, as well as performing regularly at Komedia and throughout the UK. She also works with Theatresports and was a special guest performer in Whirled News Tonight and The Musical Armando at iO Chicago.
Jen trained at A.C.T. Brighton where she now teaches and directs. She’s soon to play Grandma in George’s Marvellous Medicine (88LondonRoad) and will perform in Somewhere in England (Quarry Theatre, Bedford) by Mark Burgess, in September.
Recent Theatre: Mistress Quickly, Merry Wives (Brighton Open Air Theatre), The Lad Himself (Rialto Theatre), Elephants and Oranges (Hackney Empire 2) and as the Witch in Sleeping Beauty (Emporium). She has worked with the BAFTA-nominated Treason Show; Seven Studies in Salesmanship (The Foundry Group); and in the Read Not Dead season in The Widow’s Tears (Shakespeare’s Globe).
Recent online content/film: Nice Media and Futurelearn (Cancer Research UK).
She is very at home with immersive and street theatre, having performed with Dreamthinkspeak, FLUXX and regularly with H2Oh!/Twisted Dreams as a dry-land synchronised swimmer, mouse puppeteer and a reluctant hula-hooping starlet.
Jenny has been performing and teaching improvisation for the past 10 years both with The Maydays (Happily Never After), Impromptu Shakespeare (Attic Theatre (Stratford-upon-Avon) and Bristol Shakespeare Festival) and Two Seats Four Cheeks.
In 2015, she directed a one-man show about Hamlet’s Uncle Claudius (Something Rotten) and is writing a one-woman show about sci-fi writer James Tiptree Jr. She can play the
accordion, slowly.
www.jennyrowe.co.uk
Showreel/agent: http://mahoney.agency/jennyrowe.html
Spotlight: http://www.spotlight.com/4815-1205-8126
CCP: http://www.castingcallpro.com/uk/actor/profile/jenny-rowe
Rhiannon is an actor, writer and improviser living in London. As well as regularly performing with the Maydays, she sings with improvised musical team Dreamweaver Quartet, performs space themed two-person improvised theatre with Sitting In A Tin Can, sings with The Concept, and appears regularly as part of the core cast on improvised podcast, Destination. She also writes prolifically and has written two character comedy solo shows: Doors To Manual and Office Meltdown, both performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe (2014, 15 and 16) and Canal Café Theatre in London.
Rhiannon has trained in improvisation at UCB in New York, iO Theatre in Chicago, and in both sketch writing and musical improvisation at the PIT Theatre, NYC. She has also studied and performed alongside a host of acclaimed improvisation teachers including The Annoyance Theatre, The Showstoppers (Susan Harrison, Adam Meggido, Dylan Emery), Hoopla, Cariad Lloyd (Austentatious, Peep Show) and American musical sensation Baby Wants Candy.
As a Mayday, she is proud to be have performed as a guest with long running, sell-out show Whirled News Tonight at iO Chicago, and has performed on international stages from New York to Dublin to Barcelona.
