Lauren Grace Thompson
Lauren Grace Thompson is a guest writer on season 5. She is an actor, producer, writer, and all-around audio drama enthusiast. She is the co-creator and producer of Fawx & Stallion, an audio mystery-comedy about the residents of 224B Baker Street. Audio drama voice acting credits include: Two Flat Earthers Kidnap a Freemason (Gayle), That Vampire Show (Kat), Midnight Burger Presents: Young Leif (Young BertBert), The Pasithea Powder (Dir. Moon), Voiders (Artemis), Forgive Me! (Dame Judi Dench), and others. She was also a guest writer on the most recent season of Where the Stars Fell. Directing credits include: Unwell, a Midwestern Gothic Mystery; The Strange Case of Starship Iris. She is also a production assistant for Alba Salix with Fable and Folly, and was a producer of Rusty Quill's Neon Inkwell. She has acted on the stage with Utah Shakespeare, Montana Shakespeare, the Michigan Shakespeare Festival, and other theatres in the Chicago area.
Ian Geers
Ian (He/Him) is guest writer on season 5. He is an actor, writer, director, educator, producer, and general fan of all things creative and fun. He is the co-creator/writer/director of the audio comedies Fawx & Stallion and The Vanishing Act with his creative partner, Lauren Grace Thompson. Additional writing credits include guest work on Where the Stars Fell and Forgive Me! Audio drama voice acting credits include Fawx & Stallion (McMurphy), The Vanishing Act (Klaus, Ensemble), and the Reincarnated Radio Hour (Various). Additional producing credits include Rusty Quill’s Trice Forgotten. Hosting/Panel Credits include Not Another Film Podcast (Host), Enthusigasm! (Panel), and What a Movie Podcast (Panel). He has acted on the stage with the Michigan Shakespeare Festival, Montana Shakespeare, Utah Shakespeare, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Virginia Stage Company, and Olney Theatre Center.
Jack Marone
Jack Marone is a guest writer on season 5. He a North Carolina based writer, director, and voice actor. He is the co-creator of the comedic audio drama Forgive Me, from Rogue Dialogue Productions, which he has been co-writing and directing since 2019. Jack is a proud dad of a busy toddler who is already 10x funnier than he could ever dream to be. IG/TW: @oldgoofus
Adam Courting
Adam is thrilled to join the Amelia Project family playing the role of Bakewell.Previous experiences of engaging in childlike play with like-minded adults in a non-visual medium include voice acting for Gemma Arrowsmith's Emergency Broadcast, Tom Crowley's Crowley Time, and Jen & Chris Sugden's Victoriocity.When not behind, around, or in conflict with a microphone, he can be found engaging in childlike play with like-minded adults while storytelling around a fire circle, alongside Richard Skrein, as the dynamic and daft duo 'Tongues in Trees'.
Kate Fleetwood
Kate plays Elizabeth and Mary. Kate stars in Amazon Prime's fantasy TV series 'Wheel of Time' , Netflix British horror 'Choose or Die' and has recently starred in the TV adaptation of Aldous Huxley's book 'Brave New World' alongside Demi Moore. She played Nancy Birch in 'Harlots' and Princess Feodora in ITV's 'Victoria'. Kate played the lead role in the much acclaimed production of 'Medea' at The Almeida Theatre. Kate starred in ITV's 'The Widower' showing off a flawless New Zealand accent playing 'Felicity Drumm' and played Young Sister Hildegarde in Oscar winning film 'Philomena'. Kate also played Mary Cattermole in 'Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows' and won Best Principal Performance, Female for her performance as 'Goneril', 'King Lear' at The National Theatre at The Falstaff Awards 2014. Voiceovers include various documentaries for the BBC and Channel 4 including 'The Rise and Fall of Boris Johnson' and 'Rise of the Nazi's'. Commercials include 'Tesco Mobile' and 'Weetabix' campaigns plus various characters for video games including 'Mass Effect: Andromeda' and 'Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag.
Jonathan Kyd
Jonathan Kyd plays Copernicus. Jonathan is an actor, writer, filmmaker, musician and revered voiceover artist. Credits include 'Norsemen', 'World of Warcraft: Battle of Azeroth (Game)', 'Toy Story That Time Forgot (Pixar Short)', 'The Harry Potter Game Series - Multiple Voices including Peeves, Hagrid, Elklings, and Death Eaters', 'Assassin's Creed (Game)', 'Noddy, Toyland Detective (Animation)', 'Mr Bean (30 Separate Characters)', 'Warren United (Animation) plus hundreds more. http://www.jonathankydd.com
Ben Galpin
Ben Galpin plays Miller. His audio credits include Julius Bell in Victoriocity, Jonathan Harker in Re:Dracula and Orryn Quill in Dungeons & Dragons podcast No Small Rolls, which he also co-produces. On stage Ben has appeared in the West End, as well as touring the UK, USA, Austria and Australia. His theatre credits include Olivier award nominated Dragons & Mythical Beasts, The Hunting of the Snark, Tabby McTat, Potted Sherlock, Baba Yaga, A Christmas Carol, The Tempest, Twelfth Night and playing William Shakespeare in Bard in the Yard. Other credits include Belgravia (ITV), The Undeclared War (Channel 4), Qualms (BBC Radio 4), Restricted Intelligence (Twist & Shout) and online tennis comedy No Point. He graduated from Drama Studio London in 2009, having first studied Chemistry at St John's College, Oxford.
Erika Sanderson
Erika plays Gruoch. She trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London.A highly versatile character actor, Erika has created a myriad of roles in a variety of genres from children's theatre to classical plays and musical theatre. An award-winning voice actor, she can regularly be heard on The NoSleep Podcast as a narrator and voice actor, as well as appearing in other audio dramas and video games.
Méabh de Brún
Méabh de Brún plays Basilia. She is an award-winning writer and actor for page, stage, audio and screen. As a voice actor, she has performed in video games, radio plays and commercial voice-over work. Méabh particularly enjoys performing in audio drama, and can be heard in such award-winning shows as ‘The Silt Verses’, ‘The Secret of St. Kilda’ and ‘Omen’. Méabh also writes for audio, and has written and performed in a number of audio projects, such as the interactive adventure 'A Dark Night In Dublin' for games developer Six to Start, her radio play 'High Spirits' for NearFM and a one-woman guest episode for Realm.fm's horror anthology ‘Undertow’. Find out more about her work at meabhdebrun.org and @meabhdebrun.
Patrick Lamb
Patrick Lamb plays several parts in season 5. Since 2013, Patrick Lamb has written and performed three solo stand-up comedy programmes. Dave Thompson asked him to co-produce a monthly English-language stand-up show in Vienna in 2016, which ran successfully for almost two years. Other stage performance includes roles in Noel Coward’s ‘Relative Values’ (Art for Charity) and Open House Theatre’s 2022 production of Dicken’s ‘Christmas Carol’. He is also a ‘True Story Night’ regular in the Volkstheater’s Rote Bar, produced and hosted by BBC writer, director and producer Turan Ali. Patrick has worked full-time as a voiceover since 2011, mainly for advertising and corporate clients, delivering voice recordings to clients across Europe from his studio in Vienna. When not working, he loves travel, cooking with family, laughing with friends and playing pool.
Anne Weiner
Anne plays the barmaid. She lives and works in Austria as an an actress, improvisor, voiceover artist and translator. Favourite music productions include ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’, ‘Die Dreigroschenoper’, ‘Vorwärts in die Fifties - Die Peter Kraus Show’ and a Volksoper production of ‘Kiss Me Kate’. Plays with Vienna’s Open House Theatre include ‘The Glass Menagerie’, ‘Twelfth Night’ and ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’, and on TV she has appeared in the ORF ‘Orpheus Awards’ as a dancer and ‘Die Heiße Spur’ as an actress. As a founding member of The English Lovers, Anne has been improvising on stage in Vienna and abroad for over 20 years, co-creating productions like ‘Exposure’ and the fully improvised film ‘Another One Opens’ (Equinox)). Anne also narrates documentaries, including the award-winning ‘Golden Genes’ (LucFilm) and ‘Wings of Samothraki’ (Kipos Productions), and has lent her voice to numerous projects ranging from the stage production ‘On Earth’ (The Loose Collective), to online videos for the Innovation in Politics Institute, and the art-horror film ‘Razzennest’ (Monochrom Film). She recently narrated the art video ‘Lactans’ (Claudia Lomoschitz), which can currently be seen at the Kunsthalle in Vienna.
Thomas Crawley
Tom is part of the chorus. He is a Vienna-based actor, director, writer and translator. Born in London, he studied English at Leeds University and made his professional acting debut while still a student, at the Etcetera Theatre in Camden Town. Since moving to Vienna he has appeared on stage with Open House Theatre (A Christmas Carol, The Importance of Being Earnest, An Inspector Calls), at Vienna’s English Theatre (Private Lives) and with toxic dreams (I Was an Elephant Once in Cambodia). Previous voice work includes a film noir-style historical documentary for the Austrian national broadcaster, ORF. Tom has also appeared in ORF’s Universum History TV series, and will appear alongside Saoirse Ronan in Steve McQueen’s feature film about the Blitz in London during WWII, to be released in cinemas in 2024. Directing credits include Iz by Oliver Emanuel and Bella and the Beautiful Knight, by the same author, at Theater Drachengasse in Vienna, and Sarah Kane’s Blasted.
Peter Steele
Peter Steele is part of the chorus. He is an actor and puppeteer from West Sussex and trained at Drama Studio London.
Recently he has worked with three English-language theatre companies in Vienna. He took on multiple roles in a one-man version of Dracula (Open House Theatre), played Jim in The Glass Menagerie (Vienna's English Theatre) and most recently played Eugene O'Neill in N (Vienna Theatre Project).
Previous theatre credits include the West End production and UK tour of Julia Donaldson's Room On The Broom (Tall Stories), A Christmas Carol (Open House Theatre, Vienna), Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream (Southwark Playhouse), Spike (King's Head Theatre), Just So Stories (Yvonne Arnaud Theatre), two seasons with Leatherhead and Swanage Rep companies and UK tours of The Wind In The Willows, The Importance Of Being Earnest and Macbeth.
Peter has also written, directed and produced three short puppetry films: The Bird, which was co-produced with Dublin Smartphone Film Festival and premiered at The Irish Film Institute in 2022; ROY, which has won multiple best short film awards; and The Scaryglow, which was commissioned and co-produced by Little Angel Theatre, London.
Anne Marie Sheridan
Anne Marie plays “Woman who is owed money”. Anne Marie trained at the Conservatory of Music Dublin where she received the Paul McNamara gold medal for excellence in performance and subsequently graduated with an MA in advanced vocal studies from the Wales International Academy of Voice.
Roles include First Mother (Dead Man Walking) and Handmaiden (Turandot, Opera Ireland), Fiordiligi (Cosi fan tutte, Longborough Opera Festival on tour), Vitellia (La Clemenza di Tito, Giornata Opera), Angelica (Suor Angelica, Zezere Arts Festival), Melva (Sortilegio, (Sortilego Opera Montréal). CD credits include The Silver Hound: songs by Betty Roe.
Anne Marie’s acting credits include A Christmas Carol (Open House Theatre) and The Suitcase (Open House Theatre). Anne Marie is delighted to reprise the role of Sofie Moriarty for the 60th anniversary season of Vienna’s English Theatre.
Beus Lunaire
Beus plays a villager. She is currently living in Austria. She is a professional cellist specialised in Early music, but she enjoys learning and is involved in many other areas: as a teacher in various disciplines, barista, cosplayer, vocalist, swing dancer, martial artist...
She is passionate about poetry, language, declamation and theatre, which, in part, led her to the world of podcasting. She has participated with her voice in Patient Zero: An Apollyon Story, Roguemaker, Radio Story Hour and Public Domain Plays, among others.
You'll always make her happy if you bring croissants with you.
She can be found on twitter/instagram as @madambeus
Lara Bozkurt
Lara Bozkurt, better known as Pigeon on social media, plays one of the villagers. They are a university student and artist based in Vienna, who has already collaborated with other podcast creators in the past. You can find them on social media under @aaron_sciencia.
Rhys Lawton
Rhys Lawton (he/him) plays Gruffud. Rhys has been performing on stage, screen and around your ears for the last few years. Appearing in Ethics Town, The Secret of St Kilda, Eeler's Choice, The Silt Verses & Monstrous Agonies, he's also written Paddleboat and the limited series 9ft². A keen role play gamer he has featured on various live play channels: Who Lives, Who Dice?, RPGeeks and the superb Realms of Perils and Glory. He is currently developing an art installation and interactive storytelling experience based on immortality, folk tales and defunct technology. He has one cat at present.
Sveinung Oppegaard
Sveinung plays Thorfinn in the episode "The Battle of Stiklestad". He works as an actor, voice-actor, podcaster and drama teacher. He loves to tell stories, and finds the concept of writing bio's extremely difficult. Hence the short bio.