Little Wonder Players

Sonia Backers

Sonia is an English/Australian actor based in Paris. She studied in Australia and started acting with the theatre troupe Shakespeare Where You Like It, also playing Ophelia in Shakespeare by the Sea’s Hamlet and Viola in Iron Cove Theatre’s Twelfth Night. On television she was in SBS’s English at Work, the TV film Les Amants du Flore (2006) and made every Australian’s obligatory appearance in Home and Away; in the cinema she had parts in Les Fanatiques and The Man in the Iron Mask (1998). Since arriving in Paris her works has including a wide array of theatre, from the classic to the modern, as well as many short films, commercials, and voice overs.

Emily in Space Station Zeta
Helene Ivanova Popov in The Boor
Michell in Outside

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Jolaine Beal

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Jolaine Beal, a Californian native, was trained at the American Conservatory Theatre of San Francisco and the Berkeley Repertory School of Theatre. In the beginning, she was either on the high school stage, with her favourite role being Viola of Twelfth Night, or auditioning for commercial work. Jolaine’s adult life has been mainly dedicated to her career as an American family physician, but she nonetheless appeared on stage frequently, starring roles including Betty Meeks of The Foreigner and Suzanne in Don’t Dress for Dinner. Now, residing mainly in France, she has contributed to English readings and discovered VoiceOver opportunities.

Annie in Non-Figurative Sculpture
Caroline Shirt in The Candidate
Mrs Peters in Trifles
Nancy in Outside

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Kay Bourgine

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Dr Annabel Grundy in The Candidate

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Mary-Anne Cafferkey

Alice in Dumped

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Nicolas Calderbank

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Nick Calderbank has lived in Paris for over 30 years, during which he has worked extensively in film, TV, and theatre as an actor and director. He is a founder member of The On Stage- New Open Space Theatre Company, producing works by Shakespeare, Pinter, Mamet, Ayckbourne, and more. He has played both Prospero and King Lear directed by Rona Waddington at The Theatre de Nesle, and scores of credited television appearances as well as dubbing for films, cartoons and documentaries.

The Sheriff in Trifles
Grigori Stepanovitch Smirnov in The Boor

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Stephanie Campion

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Stephanie comes from the south of England, a country which she Brexited 28 years before it became fashionable, and has recently acquired French nationality to stop them getting at her. For a living she does a couple of things beginning with A : acting and accountancy. Guess which one pays the rent… Surprisingly, teaching finance is a lot like acting: you stand in front of an audience and make it up as you go along. She has done a bit of everything, including voiceovers and a month onstage at the Theatre du Chatelet as Mrs.Eynsford-Hill in “My Fair Lady”, and can be seen on television in “Versailles” (s3 ep 7 – viewable in 126 countries so you have no excuse). She runs a playreading workshop called “Moving Parts“ in which actors have lots of fun giving life to authors’ new work and helping the audience tell the author how to rewrite the play.

BA in Birth of a Hero
Miranda in Chordata (Coming Soon)
Ameila in Driverless
Vee in The Fall
Margo in Final Goodbye
Scott in First Officer
Katie in Operation Semen
Eva Craig in Nanas are Forever (Coming Soon)
Miss Takes in Space Station Zeta
The Slut in Two Slatterns and a King
The Voice in Voices
Jane in Walking the Halls
Mother in The Witch of Coos

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Damian Corcoran

Damian Corcoran is an actor, director, voice artist and language coach. He has been acting in France for over 25 years and has wide experience in theatre, film dubbing and voice overs, primarily in English. An accomplished voice actor and dubber, he has worked from some of the biggest production companies in Paris including Dubbing Bros, Arte and Canal+. His theatre work has ranged from Shakespeare to Neil Labute, in theatres such as Le Nesle, L’Atelier, and Le Sudden. He performs public readings for Moving Parts Paris, his own poetry for Spoken Word Paris, and is co-founder of Brava Productions and Open Globe Theatre Paris.

Boyle in Space Station Zeta
The County Attorney in Trifles
John in Outside
Luka in The Boor

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Hannah Coyle

Ess in The Fall
Lena and Bonnie in Like Candy from a Baby (Coming Soon)

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Ivy Davies

Olivia in Jesus in the Fridge

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Carey Downer

Brenda in Birth of a Hero
Pippa in Driverless
The Tannoy in Final Goodbye

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David Gasman

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David Gasman is an actor and director from Seattle, Washington who currently lives in Paris. He received a B.F.A from the professional actor training program at the Cornish College of the Arts, and studied with Polish theatre director Jerzy Grotowski. He has performed in more than fifty theatrical productions, including taking Shakespeare across the western United States, many small film roles, and works extensively as a voice actor and director in cartoons, video games, commercials and documentaries. As a collection of massive geeks, Little Wonder are very excited to be working with the voice not only of Rayman and characters from Dragon Ball Z!

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Armen Georgian

Randy in Birth of a Hero
Nick in Final Goodbye
Florus in Gladiator
Tom in Driverless

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Tuvana Hizarci

Rose in Play the Game (Coming Soon)
Bernhardt in Chordata (Coming Soon)
Dina Craig in Nanas are Forever (Coming Soon)

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Clément Jézéquel

Brittany is where my journey begins. It was on a Friday of January 1993. I was born like Caesar but it’s the only thing we share. During my childhood I rapidly gain an interest for stage, it felt like a new home, warm and blank like imagination sometimes. After graduating from high school, I took a degree in international trades, highly interesting but not my cup of tea. That’s why I decided to change my aim and finally embrace my childhood dream. Theatre. It has always been a part of me. So during the fall of 2015 I applied for Cours Florent. I graduated last June from the classical and “acting in English” courses.Since that I have performed in both French and English via my French company “Je pose ça là” and with “Cygnet theater”.

Hammerhead in Play the Game (Coming Soon)
ALL THE MEN! (seriously, it’s amazing) in Nanas are Forever (Coming Soon)

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Mollie Keane

Emily in Inside Me
Cerise in No New Messages
Wendy in Numbers
Enid Chilworth in Saint Martin’s Summer

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Dominic Kelly

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Meagan Lopez

Meagan Adele Lopez has been acting since she was five years old when she starred as the talking dog in Buster Brown and Tige. By day, she works at the New York Times as their international digital director in Paris managing teams in Hong Kong, Paris, and London. By night, she is finishing her second novel and acting with the theatre troupe International Players. She’s trained at the renowned Baltimore School for the Arts, University of Southern California and Cours Florent in Paris. Other credits include: CBS’ Numb3rs, independent film Sleepy Hollow High, and an upcoming film by filmmaker Penny Allen. You can follow her on Twitter simply @meagan.

Meagan’s first novel is available here: THREE QUESTIONS: because a quarter life crisis needs answers

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Kester Lovelace

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Born in London, and trained in the UK, Kester has been living and working in Paris for over 25 years. He is associate artistic director of Drama Ties – a professional theatre company, which he founded in 1999, and he directed the first French production of Jonathan Harvey’s Beautiful Thing in 2009 in Paris, and on tour. In 2011, he played the role of prison sergeant, in Jeanne Captive, directed by Philippe Ramos. He can currently be seen in the film The Translators, directed by Régis Roinsard. He is also a voice artist, working daily on commercial, corporate and documentary projects, and active member of Les Voix, a group of professional voice artists in France. He’s a coach and acting teacher at theatre schools in Paris, including the Conservatoire National Supérieur d’Art Dramatique.

Derek in No New Messages
Liam in Numbers
Martin in Inside Me
Colonel Hawkhurst in Saint Martin’s Summer
RAF Pilot in Loopie-Loop

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Meg McNaughton

Jas in No New Messages
Jenny in Numbers
Mrs Allingham in Saint Martin’s Summer
Mrs Hale in Trifles

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Johnny Palmer

Dad in Pride of Rotterdam (Coming Soon)
Brian in Flamingo (Coming Soon)
The Monk in Buddha Hat (Coming Soon)

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John Romano

Son in Pride of Rotterdam (Coming Soon)
Rory in Like Candy from a Baby (Coming Soon)
The Waiter in Flamingo (Coming Soon)

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Taylor Scott

River in Like Candy from a Baby (Coming Soon)

Roger Surridge

Roger Surridge is a London-born graphic designer, illustrator, translator and voice artist who can often be found cycling around the Paris area. He makes frequent appearances in International Players stage productions and at Moving Parts readings. He naturally speaks in the most neutral Received Pronunciation ever recorded, which is probably why he enjoys the challenge of identifying and adopting regional accents from around the English-speaking world. At weekends he amuses himself, and sometimes others, by singing and playing the harmonica and ukulele.

Atticus in Gladiator
Cometus in Battle of the Bards
Rainbow Man in Birth of a Hero
The Car in Driverless
Fawkes in First Officer
The King in The Beggar and the King
Sid in Mine
Nathaniel in Walking the Halls

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Chris Taylor

Chris Taylor has many years’ experience of local bands, theatre and film-making. Chris has a passion for audio drama and joined the Little Wonder production team to explore and enjoy the creative process. He and anyone else he can enlist (his children, his parents, his household objects, colleagues, passers-by) have contributed musically, vocally, technically and critically to these exciting projects. His subsequent awakening as a writer has been thrilling for everyone at Little Wonder and we are all looking forward to big projects on the horizons.

Chance in Two Slatterns and a King
Dean in Jack and Calliope
Kenu in Kenu Kenu Hear the Wild Birds Sing

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Alexandra Tomko

Abbie in Buddha Hat (Coming Soon)
Sidney in Like Candy from a Baby (Coming Soon)

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Kate Tulloch

Olivia in Mixed Gender Dorm

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Joe Wilkins

After graduation as a theatre major, Joe moved to Boston where he was cast in a production of a play entitled The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel starring Al Pacino. Over the next seven years, Joe worked as a stage actor with The Theatre Company of Boston, The Charles Playhouse, and a grass-roots theatre company called The Boston Repertory Theatre where he appeared in dozens of productions including The Little Prince, Uncle Vanya, God and Mrs Satan, Animal Farm, P.S. Your Cat is Dead, Sexual Perversity in Chicago and many others.

He spent nine years in New York doing film, soap opera and odd-broadway productions, and thirteen years in Atlanta doing film and TV work including Blue Sky directed by Tony Richardson, In the heat of the Night, I’ll Fly Away, and Savannah. In 2000 he followed his wife to Paris, performing in Theatre and feature film work here in France. In 2011 she passed away from lung cancer; in 2014 he returned to the city of lights to emerge from his funk and put his life back together.

Lacon in Battle of the Bards
The Manservant in The Beggar and the King
Eric and King Arthur in Mine
Ronald Dump in Space Station Zeta