CAST & CREW

Theatre includes: Romeo & Juliet (Kenneth More Theatre); The Sound of Music, Oliver! (York Theatre Royal); Edmonds (York Theatre Royal & Edinburgh Fringe); Spring Awakening, Fragments (Alexandra Palace Theatre); Juliet & Romeo - Offie Award for Best Show at Camden Fringe (The Cockpit, Upstairs at the Gatehouse); Chop Me Up Or Let Me Go (UK Tour); Hay Fever (New Forest Open Air Theatre); The Age of Consent, The 39 Steps (Helmsley Arts Centre); God of Carnage, Doubt (Yorkshire Tours) Film includes: Jay Kelly (currently in post-production for Netflix directed by Noah Baumbach); Something About You (Best Indie Feature at New York Indie Film Awards) Television includes: Casualty (BBC) Radio includes: Anatomy of a Friendship; Charlie the Chimp; The Mallows Training: The American Academy of Dramatic Arts, New York; National Youth Theatre; Jamie Lloyd Company: Academy; Alexandra Palace Young Actors Company

Anashe trained at American Academy of Dramatic Arts and Arts Ed, before graduating with a Bachelor's degree in Acting for Stage and media from University of West London. She is represented by BBA Management. Her theatre credits include: We Need New Names UK Tour (New Perspectives/Fifth Word Theatre). Credits whilst training: Earthquakes in London (Iain Jones) and The Crucible (Carlos Santos). Her screen credits include: Nine Night (LFS/Remi Moses), Daddy's Girl (NFTS/Joel Vargas), and Where Was I? (Joka Films). Anashe is delighted to be part of The War of The Worlds family!

Ashley has previously worked in immersive theatre before in THE MURDÉR EXPRESS and JEWEL OF THE EMPIRE with Funicular Productions. Earlier this year, he finished performing in NYE for The National Theatre Olivier stage, and at the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff. Ashley grew up in Wales and trained at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts.

Aurelia is an actor and experimental theatre maker. She graduated from RADA & Birkbeck in 2018 and went on to train at the Identity School of Acting. Her writing credits include the critically acclaimed, Sisters of Charity and Offie finalist, All This Must Pass. Her immersive theatre credits include Ghostbusters: The Gates of Gozer (Secret Cinema) and Dirty Dancing (Secret Cinema).

Grace Haydn is an actor, musician and writer, trained at the RCSSD. Most recently, Grace took part in a workshop at the Young Vic for the new play ‘Gwen & Arddwr’ and appeared in ‘Still Lives’ with ‘Lost Text / Found Space’ in the Old Waiting Room. Grace was part of the Trojan Women’s Project at Playground Theatre and the Financial Times Festival and appears in the multi award-winning AAA video game, Baldur’s Gate.

Loussin-Torah debuted as BABY to the song, “Cry Me A River,” by Ella Fitzgerald, The Black Burlesque School 2024 (The Hippodrome). Aladdin Sane 50 Years - Queer House Party - Dancer (Southbank Centre). Captain Hook in Wendy: A Peter Pan Story - (The Egg Theatre, Bath) 2024. Lil/Big/Old Sal - In The Basement (The Glory) Brooklyn Rep Theatre 2023. Sunny/Warren; Albatross (The Playground Theatre); UK premiere of Interruptions (Jacksons Lane Arts Centre), represent. theatre 2021. Emcee at Barnet's First Black History Month Celebration October 2022. Drag King & THE SPIRITUAL F*CKBOI The Mighty Hoopla 2023. Directed Chiaroscuro by Akadi Sankofa (Theatre Deli) 2022.

Matthew is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. His first West End role on graduating was the part of Detective Sergeant Trotter in the 50th Anniversary of The Mousetrap where he performed in front of Her Magesty the Queen. His theatre credits include Claudius in Hamlet and the Knight in The Canterbury Tales both for REL productions, Lysander in A Midsummer Nights Dream, Lucentio in The Taming of the Shrew, Westmorland in Henry V and Paris in Romeo and Juliet all for the British Shakepeare Company. Tesman in Recording Hedda for the Ibsen Stage Company. Then back to Agatha Christie playing Oliver Costello in Spiders Web and Thomas Clegg in Witness for the Prosecution both for the Agatha Christie Theatre Company and back to The Mousetrap to play Giles Ralston in Shanghai. He also played Gilbert in the National tour of the award winning comedy The Sinking of the Titanic. Other national tours include a revival o RC Sherriffs Home at Seven with Brian Capron and Jenny Funnel and earlier this year Murder Trial Tonight 2. In 2022 he appeared at the Edinburgh festival in 3 5 star shows, The Giant Killers, The Actress and Arty’s Animagination. His screen work includes Alain in the feature film Sink, Albert DeSalvo in the Boston Strangler in an ITV documentary and the award winning horror short Devil Town. Radio work includes the award winning Dead London. He also rejoined The Mousetrap for 2 a tours of India.

Maya Manuel graduated from Goldsmiths university in 2020 in theatre and devising alongside training with identity school of acting and since then credits include, Beauty and the Beast - Theatre Clywd, Atypical Rainbow - Turbine Theatre, Romeo and Juliet - Young Shakespeare Company, The Instrumentals, Little Angel Theatre and devised a Digital Project with Punchdrunk Enrichment (2024).

Credits Include Theatre: Merry Wives of Windsor OVO,JUDY! Arts Theatre West End, Freddie Ted & The Death of Joe Orton, KRAY KRAY, BAD GIRLS, Through The Mill, Leader of The Pack, American Idiot Immersive Theatre: HUMBUG, The Witcher Season 3 Launch, Jeff Wayne’s War of The Worlds: The Immersive Experience, SAW: The Experience, Tomb Raider The Live Experience, AREA 404, The Legitimate Peaky Blinders Festival, Alcotraz. Film: Mama Mia: Here We Go Again.

Ryan Winsley is an Actor from Dagenham who recently appeared in A Town Called Malice, Ryan started his professional acting career at the early age of 15 on stage at The Royal Court Theatre. After various TV appearances in The Bill, Henry VIII and In Deep, he then went on to train as an Actor at the Northampton School of the Arts. Continuing to work throughout his studying, Ryan appeared in feature films such as Crusade a March Through Time, Essex Boys Retribution and Piggy. More film and TV appearances followed, such as Behind the Line - Escape to Dunkirk, He Who Dares - Downing Street Siege, Robin Hood, Silk, and many more.