Rebekah McLoughlin
Rebekah plays Lorraine. She is an actress, voice artist and a recent graduate from Guildford School of Acting's MA Acting course. A native Northerner, but currently London based, she is a frequent voice on radio commercials for Global Media, and has most notably voiced the character of Jenny in videogame 'Eternal Threads'. She is also a co-founder of theatre company 'Crew of Patches' and has recently performed her one woman show 'Around the World in 72 Days: The Story of Nellie Bly'.
Laurence Owen
Laurence Owen plays Thuggy and Elvis. Laurence began acting as a child, appearing in Wilde with Stephen Fry and Jude Law, Mumbo Jumbo with Brian Blessed, the BBC drama serial Berkeley Square, and an array of adverts and stage productions. Laurence is also an accomplished composer and sound designer. Past productions include Cat & Mouse (Village Underground), My Left/Right Foot (National Theatre of Scotland), 1927’s Golem (Young Vic/Trafalgar Studios) and 1927's Please Right Back (Burgtheater, Vienna). His film composing credits include the Sundance Film Festival-selected White Morning. Laurence has co-written and performed in many Edinburgh Fringe productions, including the Malcolm Hardee Award-winning Cinemusical (2015), Cinemusical High (2016), HG Wells' The Time Machine (2017), and Jekyll vs Hyde (2019), winner of the Wilton's Music Hall Fringe Foundations Award. With writer-performer Lindsay Sharman, Laurence is the co-founder of fiction podcast production company Long Cat Media, and the co-creator of its three series: British Podcast Award-nominated theme park thriller Mockery Manor, BBC Audio Drama Award-nominated musical pirate epic The Ballad Of Anne & Mary, and tragically-overlooked-by-the-critics drunken psychic chat show Madame Magenta: Sonos Mystica.
Dino Kelly
Dino Kelly plays Alfred. He graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 2015 with a BA (Hons) in Acting. His television credits include Peaky Blinders, Inside No 9 (BBC) and Invasion (Apple TV). Films include The Good Liar, One Shot and Cliffs of Freedom. Most recently he played Mili in the Olivier-winning production of Igor Memić’s “Old Bridge” at the Bush Theatre.
Caroline Mincks
Caroline Mincks plays Betty. She is a voice actor, writer, director, and consultant known for making too many podcasts and showing no signs of slowing. They are best known for creating Seen and Not Heard, SHIFTS, and the upcoming SIlly Old Bear, and for co-creating Hughes and Mincks: Ghost Detectives, Light Hearts, Surreal Love, Hubris: A 24-Hour Podcasting Project, and the upcoming {Queer} Pride and Prejudice. They can also be heard on This Planet Needs a Name (Zahava), Desperado (Zylla), Great & Terrible (Lacey), Forgive Me! (Emily), and on Empty the Queues as the co-host of the Avatar: The Last Airbender track. Find them on Twitter @saucymincks or visit their website at carolinemincks.carrd.co for more.
J.K. Robbins
J.K. Robbins plays Mark the CIA agent. He is an actor, voice-actor, and writer from Nashville, Tennessee. Voice-acting for ten years, he realized he also wanted to act for the camera after his car got more screen time than he did as an extra on NBC’s Constantine. He can be heard as Quince in the video game Fantasy Strike, as Horus Traver (and a variety of others) in the video game Eternal, and as Dr. Weiss in the dystopian audio fiction series Apollyon. He also writes for and stars in the audio fiction series Peculiar Radio, a show he created for the voice-actor run production house known as Lengthy Tangent. When he’s not making hot sauce review videos via J.K.’s Hot Take or watching soccer matches (City ’til I die), he and his wife Raven run a metaphysical shop in the converted attic level of an artist’s loft, and take care of 3 feline children. They are currently preparing for their first human child.
James Hare
James Hare plays “Client” and “Humphrey”. He is a versatile and creative actor and voice actor who likes to bring his own particular method and style to each role he takes on and each character he plays. He enjoys working across multiple genres in animation, audio dramas, feature films, TV and web series. In his most recent roles he plays the part of Councillor Harris in independent feature film Falkland Square (2022) and the part of The Stooge in upcoming comedy film Wager Danger (2023). His most recent work in voice acting has been the animated series Transportation Station (2021) as Bernard, the Phone Guy in FNAF: Sister Location animation (2022) and The Battle of the Leylines Podcast (2021) and sci-fi drama The Binary Saga (2022). He is also appearing in recently released animated feature film Esther in Wonderland (2022). Previously he has also played the lead 'Ben' in comedy short 'Is this a Stupid Question?' (2020), and several roles for the Greenlands Podcast (2021) and the web series 'Series of Mana' (2018-2020).
Cliff Huizenga
Cliff plays Bud the pilot in The Amelia Project Audio Advent Calendar. He is a designer and developer with nearly two decades of experience creating digital experiences across the web. He co-owns The Confetti Bar with his wife, spreading little bits of happiness all over the world (while also sharing the confetti spirit with their daughter, Emilia Joy). Most recently, he’s taken up learning the guitar, dabbling in voice over work, and building his own computer keyboards. He hopes to continue adding voices to creators’ projects just for fun…when he’s not drinking cocoa and listening to his favorite podcast.
Lydia Orange
Lydia Orange plays Prudence. She has been working as an actress and voice artist for the last 10 years, working in TV, Film and Theatre. Voicework includes working with Zizzi, Adidas, Simpy Be, Playstation and Diesel. She regularly advertises on Amazon Alexa, Sonos Music and Spotify. Having trained as an Actor, her favourite kind of is audio drama and video games. Audio Drama credits include playing the lead in This Air We Breathe for The Space Theatre and Frequency Theatre, Being Kenzie by Sixty-6 Media and narrating the audiobook for Angels & Avalon for Audible. Lydia is the voice of Maureen Black in Grim Tales by Elephant Games.
Some of her Acting screen credits include playing Sarah opposite David Tennant in the feature film Mad To Be Normal, the guest lead in BBC’s Doctors and lead Jess in The Cutting Room currently on Amazon Prime. Theatre credits include playing a lead in Bill Kenwright’s UK tour The Governess, Garnet in Double Act at The Polka Theatre and Juliet in Romeo & Juliet at The Leicester Square Theatre.
Jason Nemor Harden
Jason Nemor Harden plays H. He is a musician and actor. His non-conventional path into the entertainment world is a combination of being self taught and on the job training. While playing professional basketball in Iceland in 2002, a thirst to create music developed. Fast forward to 2013, Jay found himself on stage in Oslo, Norway as a musician in Nordic Black Theatre’s Motown Revisted. He was given a few lines to recite and has been at it ever since. Director Cliff Moustache soon after gave Jason the daunting task of writing a manuscript about Paul Robeson. He was the narrator, Robeson himself and performed a collection of songs by the formidable singer. Other roles of note are leads as Muhammad Ali, Gil Scott Heron and Martin Luther King Jr., the two latter manuscripts written by Jason. He has one theatrical musical to credit in Stephen Sondheim’s Assasins at Den Nationale Scene in Bergen, Norway. He has appeared in a few short films, done a range of voice work and is the host and co-producer of House of Words podcast.
Hayley Evenett
Hayley plays Marie Antoinette. She has been working as an actor, voice actor and presenter for 15 years. Whilst she trained in theatre, she has loved diversifying into audio drama. It started with a role in an experimental radio play at university and now she voices twins JJ and Bette Armstrong in Long Cat Media’s British Podcast Award-nominated Mockery Manor, cabin boy Bob and little Wren in Long Cat Media’s BBC Audio Drama Award-nominated musical The Ballad Of Anne & Mary. Hayley co-runs REDuck Productions which sold out at 2018’s Edinburgh Fringe with Ministers of Grace: The Unauthorised Shakespearean Parody of Ghostbusters which was then commissioned for the Adelaide Fringe in 2019. Past credits include The Three Musketeers (Constance), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Puck), Alice in Wonderland (Alice), The Tempest (Ariel) and The Importance of Being Earnest (Cecily). Hayley also worked as a reporter for Norfolk’s T.V channel Mustard TV where she interviewed TV personalities like Storage Hunters, Lizard Lick Towing and Ice Road Truckers. While working for Mustard, she reported from an inflight aerobatics plane as it did frequent loops during her segment. Since then, she feels like she can handle anything!
David Ault
David Ault plays Barker. The Entire Cast of Shadows at the Door for its first season, David Ault is a veteran in the world of audiodrama. He began his journey on board star cruisers in 2004, becoming the eponymous Byron in The Byron Chronicles shortly after. Through the years he's been seen in a lot of places, from Pendant Audio to Fool & Scholar, though you may know him best for his work on the NoSleep Podcast. He can be found wherever there is whisky, ghosts and Doctor Who - and he's played one of them, too.
Ursula Anna Baumgartner
Ursula Anna Baumgartner plays Anita. Born in Austria, Ursula trained professionally as an actress and a musical performer. After landing a series of roles in major musicals all over Germany (including Mamma Mia!, Hair, Aida, West Side Story, Buddy Holly), she moved back to her home country, where she is now an active member of the theatre and improv scene. Ursula founded the ensemble „Salon Spontan“ to bring fully improvised musicals to the stage, and she also delves into the world of dreams with her improv duo „Bemme & Melange“, as well as vying for Vienna's most... erm, „illustrious“ improv title as one of the „All-Stars“ at the TAG theatre. When Ursula isn't making things up as she goes along, she might be found in a studio working as a voice actress, or on tour with her duo „Baumgärtner“, which explores the parallels between humans and trees via original songs and scenes.
David S. Dear
David S. Dear plays Granville T. Woods. He is the producer, writer, and voice of the protagonist Januae in the audio drama A Ninth World Journal, co-producer of Listen, Rinse, Repeat and Deconstructive Criticism podcasts, and ensemble cast member of several other audio dramas including OZ-9, Moonbase Theta Out, and SPECTRE. His voice can also be heard on several other shows such as Mission: Rejected, The Dex Legacy, The Silt Verses, Rise of King Asilas, and Witchever Path, and has narrated over 30 audiobooks. When he’s not in front of a mic he indulges in various games and talks incessantly about his wife and furbabies.
Jonathan Sims
Jonathan Sims plays Jack. He is a voice artist, writer and games designer. He is voice and pen behind multi-award-winning horror podcast The Magnus Archives, as well as the writer of social horror novels Thirteen Storeys and Family Business, out now from Gollancz. He also makes TTRPGs as one half of story-game design duo MacGuffin & Co.
Josh Rubino
Josh Rubino plays Billy Gritt and Filip. He is a Vermont based voice actor who loves playing the most bombastic characters possible. You can find him starring in VALENCE as Liam Alden, Kingmaker as Telesphore Winterlich, and Forgive Me! as Father Klem. He can also be found sprinkled throughout a ton of other shows as a spice generally held in the same regard as cilantro.
Lindsay Sharman
Lindsay is one of the guest writers and a guest director on season 5. She also plays Rosalie. She has worked as a performer, writer and theatre producer for over ten years. She has written seven original Fringe shows and racked up hundreds of performances as a character act and MC on the British stand-up and cabaret circuit. In 2020, Lindsay co-founded Long Cat Media, a podcast production company. She is the writer and director of Mockery Manor, The Ballad of Anne & Mary, and Madame Magenta: Sonos Mystica.
Eugenia Caruso
Eugenia Caruso plays Fiorella. Bilingual actress based in London, Eugenia hails from Rome. After training at East 15, she went on to win The Stage Award for Acting Excellence at the Edinburgh Fringe, jointly with Janet Bamford who played her mother in Truckstop for Eastern Angles and Co. Of Angels. Since then notable work includes:
Theatre: Berberian Sound Studio ( Donmar Warehouse), Redefining Juliet (Barbican);
Screen: Berberian Sound Studio; (by Peter Strickland ); Youth (by Oscar winner Paolo Sorrentino) The Witches ( by Oscar winner Robert Zemeckis), In Fabric (by Peter Strickland); The Duke of Burgundy (by Peter Strickland); The Baby (HBO), Avenue 5(by Armando Iannucci for HBO); The Alienist season 1 ( Paramount and Netflix ).
As a voice artist Eugenia voiced Giulietta in BBC4 The Len Continuum by Peter Strickland. She also has extensive voiceover experience.
Anna-Maria Everett
Anna-Maria plays Katharina. She is a London born & raised Actor and Voice Artist, currently celebrating 30 years in the Industry. Thanks to her southern Italian parentage she is also bilingual Italian/Neapolitan.
Alongside a career working extensively across stage,screen & audio drama, she also enjoys the joy & privilege of teaching Improv & LAMDA to 6-18 yr olds in various theatre schools in east London. Somnium marks her podcast debut with Imploding Productions and she is thrilled to have finally become a member of the Amelia Project Family.
Recent audio drama:
Killer by Nature, (Audible original); Behind The Mask (Wild Rose Press/Audible) ;The Tony & Cassandra Mysteries Vol 1-4 ( Big Finish). Skin Deep(Penguin Books)
Recent screen credits:
Killing Eve (BBC America); Fool Me Once & The Beautiful Game (Netflix); Bloods 2 (Sky Comedy); The Split (BBC); The Durrells, (ITV); The Wedding Veil Unveiled (Hallmark); Hitman’s Wife’s Body Guard (Lionsgate)
Ciara Baxendale
Ciara Baxendale plays Joan. Ciara is an actor and voice-over artist hailing from Lancashire, UK. They made an impact in the world of audio drama for their role as Georgie Crusoe in the hit podcast sitcom “Wooden Overcoats”. Their work extends to Audible’s “Algorithms” by Sadie Clarke, BBC Radio 4’s “The Latvian Locum”, and the horror D&D podcast “Dark Dice” Beyond their achievements in audio fiction, Ciara enjoys a varied career in television, film, and theatre. Notable roles include Izzy in E4's acclaimed series, 'My Mad Fat Diary,' and Amy in Apple TV's, 'Trying.' Ciara will grace the silver screen as 'Emily' in Neil Burger's upcoming feature film, 'Inheritance,' set to premiere sometime in the new year.
Photo: Phil Sharp
Dallas Hawthorn
Dallas Hawthorn (he/they) plays Antoni. He is a writer, voice actor, and director who has appeared on shows like Windfall, Forgive Me!, Let the Old Wives Tell It, Witchever Path, White Vault: Iluka, and Moonbase Theta, Out. When he isn't voicing murderous Fae creatures or disgruntled scientists, he spends time directing his own shows on the Fireside Folktales podcast and experimenting with makeup techniques. In lieu of a headshot, he hopes that you enjoy his most recent attempt at transforming into a skeleton.
Nathan Peter Grassi
Nathan Peter Grassi plays Rocco. He is a performer, writer, producer and director originally from Western Australia, where he trained in physical theatre with Annie Stainer at Total Theatre. He directed three seasons of the podcast Victoriocity (Best Vocal Direction, Audio Verse Awards) and is the voice of Prince Albert (among other characters). Other podcast credits include Zombies Run!, Marvel Move (Six to Start), and Burnt Toast (Everybody Panic). Nathan is half of the award-winning comedy duo Nathan & Ida, who have toured the UK and Europe with their shows Nathan & Ida’s Hot Dog Stand, Tropez!, and TEMPUS FUGIT, and have released a short film George & the Dragon, commissioned by the Universities of Bristol and Oxford. He co-founded Troika Theatre; performance roles include Romeo (Romeo & Juliet), Rupert Cadell (Rope), Lord Arthur Savile (Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime), and Brindsley Miller (Black Comedy). He directed their production, Kindertransport, and produced their documentary, Troika: Recollections. Troika Theatre is a 2023 Offbeat Supported Artist. Nathan is one of The Dead Secrets, an award-winning comedy group that has toured the UK with their sketch shows and improvised murder mystery, Hickory Dickory Murder. Nathan is the Concert Manager for the Oxford Bach Soloists, leads improv comedy and character workshops and hosts a regular Comedy Scratch Night in Oxford.
Photo: Dom Burke
Alexander Ananasso
Alexander Ananasso plays Adriano. He is a British-Italian actor, coach for acting and personal development, playwright and voiceover artist. He founded the Method Campus in London where he runs his Holistic Acting courses. He is founder and curator of the IL Film Festival (Italian London Short Film Festival). He believes that Theatre is Healing and that by witnessing the Truth, people will grow. Vulnerability and Empathy will save us.
Nina Fog
Nina Fog plays Tomoe Gozen. She is a Japanese-Danish actor born in Vienna. After graduating from The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London, her debut movie role was opposite Academy Award Winner Tim Robbins in Michael Winterbottom’s “Code 46”. She played a Series Regular in Season 2 of “Blue Murder” opposite Caroline Quentin for ITV and has appeared in several series for German, Austrian and Swiss national TV. Nina’s film career continued with independent movies, acting opposite Academy Award Winner Kim Basinger in the Zentropa production “I am here” by Anders Morgenthaler. She also featured in films by Lior Shamriz, Benjamin Heisenberg and was part of the Warner Bros film “Ghost Hunters”. In 2015 Nina was nominated for the Mary Shelley Award for her lead performance in the Swiss-German science-fiction movie “Polder” and won as Best Actress at the Nocturna Festival Madrid, 2016. On stage, Nina joined the Royal Court’s International Season in “The Bethlehem Diaries”, has toured with Scarlet Theatre in Werner Schwab’s “The Chair Women”, and appeared in “Dream Novella” at Vienna’s Josefstadt Theater. Nina has collaborated on several occasions with the art-filmmaker Daria Martin, whose work has been shown worldwide, at the Tate museums, Hayward Gallery, Art Basel:Miami Beach and Robert Wilson’s Watermill Centre, to name a few. In Austria, Nina has continued working with artists, implementing in particular her movement skills and ability to transform. She works regularly with the award winning performance group Toxic Dreams and has guest appearances in Vienna’s theatres.
Chris and Jen Sugden
Chris and Jen Sugden are guest writers on season 5. They are the creators of ‘Victoriocity’, a sci-fi detective thriller comedy fiction podcast set in a reimagined Victorian past in which the city of ‘Even Greater London’ has grown to encompass the entire lower half of England. They were also part of the writing team behind the BBC Sounds weird fiction anthology series ‘Murmurs', and have spent many years writing and performing scripted and improvised comedy around the UK. As well as the next podcast season of ‘Victoriocity’, Chris and Jen are working on two standalone novels set in the same world, to be published by Gollancz.
Bob Raymonda
Bob Raymonda is a guest writer on season 5. He is the co-founder of Rogue Dialogue Productions, which released its first podcast, the science-fiction audio drama Windfall, in 2019, and its second, the Catholic confessional sitcom Forgive Me! in 2020. They are a staff writer on Greater Boston and their other work has been featured in The Truth, Someone Dies in This Elevator, Bello Collective, the Simplecast Blog, and Discover Pods, among others.
David K. Barnes
David K. Barnes is a guest writer on season 5, and plays Will in the episode with the same name. He is the creator of the podcast sitcom 'Wooden Overcoats' and historical comedy 'Cry Havoc! Ask Questions Later'. Other writing credits include Doctor Who (Big Finish Productions), and Outliers (Historic Royal Palaces & Rusty Quill). He is a script & series consultant for Audible and has also consulted on podcasts for BBC Studios, HTM Television, and ITN. As an actor he normally plays doctors, so his role in The Amelia Project is going to be a stretch.
Peter Wicks
Peter Wicks plays Didius. Yorkshire-born and Lancashire-raised, Peter is an award-winning actor who has worked across stage, screen, and audio. As a voice actor and voiceover artist, he enjoys a varied career lending his tones to everything from audiobooks and audio dramas, to commercials and even a self-playing talking piano. He has received multiple One Voice Awards and VOX Awards nominations for his work to date. Videogame credits include World of Tanks (Wargaming), Age of Darkness: Final Stand (PlaySide Studios / Team17), and Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon (Questline / Awaken Realms Digital). He has also been featured in various audio dramas including Wooden Overcoats, Victoriocity, The Strata, Ramon Fear’s Terror Tapes, and Red Odyssey, and can also be heard as the voice of Jarvis in the popular interactive audio fitness app Marvel Move.
Gabriel Urbina
Gabriel Urbina is one of the guest writers on season 5. He is a Costa Rican-American writer and director. Gabriel has been writing professionally since 2013, working in fiction, radio, screenwriting, and media commentary. Best known as the creative director and showrunner for WOLF 359, he served as the series’s executive producer, earning multiple writing awards and nominations in the process. He’s contributed to other ongoing series - such as THE BRIGHT SESSIONS, WOODEN OVERCOATS, THE VAMPIRE SHOW, OUR FAIR CITY, and LIFE ON PAUSE. He also co-wrote and directed the mini-series TIME:BOMBS, the anthology series ZERO HOURS, and the urban fantasy series UINSEEN. On his spare time, he co-hosts the weekly writing game-show/talk show NO BAD IDEAS and DMs 20 TO MIDNIGHT, a biweekly D&D livestream. For more of Gabriel’s work, check out his website.