Cast

HANNAH AZUONYE - Marion Macara / Alex

Earlier this year, Hannah starred as the lead in Noel Coward’s Brief Encounter at the Royal Exchange, adapted for the stage by Emma Rice and directed by Sarah Frankcom.

Previously, she appeared in the original West End transfer of Girl From The North Country and completed a season with the RSC appearing in Measure For Measure and The Taming Of The Shrew.

She also starred as Lady Macbeth in Macbeth at Shakespeare's Globe. Other theatre credits include; Alice In Wonderland at the Mercury Theatre, Colchester, The Ruff Tuff Cream Puff Estate Agency at Cardboard Citizens/Belgrade Theatre, Though She Be But Little, She Is Fierce at the RSC and Everything That Rises Must Dance with Complicité.

LARA LEWIS - Shannon / Annabelle

Lara trained at the Guildford School of Acting, and is also a classically trained Violinist.

Theatre Credits include: Brief Encounter (Theatre by the Lake/Stephen Joseph Theatre), Snow White (Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds), The Mozart Question by Michael Morpurgo (The Barn Theatre), Cinderella (Greenwich Theatre), The Hired Man (Queen's Hornchurch, Hull Truck, Oldham Coliseum), Me and the Girls (UK Tour), Daisy Pulls it Off (Charing Cross Theatre), We Need Bees/Gwarchod y Gwenyn Gweithgar, The Arandora Star, The White Feather/Y Bluen Wen (Theatr na nÓg), The Scarlet Letter (Dumbwise Theatre) and Little Red Riding Hood (All-In Productions).

TV Credits include: New Beginnings (BBC Wales) and Hen Wragedd a Ffyn (S4C).

GERARD MCDERMOTT - Eddie / Captain

Gerard is an extremely experienced Radio Actor and has worked on hundreds of audio dramas both for Audible UK and BBC Radio 4 - most recent credits include 'Moriarty' in Sherlock Holmes - The Voice Of Treason, Doctor Faustus, Clare in the Community, One Flat Summer (lead) and King Lear which was recorded live at The Globe.

Theatre includes :-
Much Ado About Nothing (Sheffield Crucible) Richard III (Kronborg Castle, Denmark), Frankenstein (Royal Exchange, Manchester), Reasons to be Cheerful (Graeae), Merry Wives of Windsor, King John and Antony & Cleopatra (Northern Broadsides), Blood Wedding (Graeae/Derby Theatre/Dundee Rep), Bunny’s Vendetta (The Glass Works Derry Northern Ireland), Being Tommy Cooper (Franklin Productions), Fool for Love and Richard III (Riverside Studios), Calendar Girls (West End/Chichester), Blasted (Soho Theatre), The Bells (National Tour), A Christmas Carol (Vasa Theatre, Stockholm), Whistle Down the Wind (West End), Neville’s Island (Dukes, Lancaster) and Northern Trawl (Remould Theatre Company).

Film and Television includes :-
Father Brown, Doctors and Casualty (BBC), Vera (ITV) Eyes and Prize (Brod Productions) and Set the Thames on Fire (Blonde to Black Pictures).

TOM MOORES - Charles Macara / Jack Ross

Tom is thrilled to be part of the wonderful team bringing With Courage to life. He most recently appeared as The Bureaucrat in The Trial of Josie K (The Unicorn Theatre) and as the White Rabbit in Alice in Wonderland (The Mercury Theatre). He has previously toured with Horrible Histories, played Raoul Duke in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and worked on several immersive shows for Secret Cinema and Les Enfants Terribles. He writes for television with his wife Holly Morgan, has written and performed a one-man show, Major Tom, and is one half of the comedy double act Morgan & Moores, with whom he co-hosts and produces the podcast Big Diva Energy. He also produced hit podcast Out for Blood.

OLIVIA THOMPSON - Mrs Johnson / Liz Ross

Since graduating from Mountview Olivia’s performing credits include: Whose Life Is It Anyway (Pinter Theatre), Piaf (Brighton Fringe), Indecent Proposal (Southwark Playhouse), Before The Night Is Through (Landor Theatre), The Baltimore Waltz (Brighton Fringe) Silent Witness (BBC TV), Spirit Rangers (Netflix) and La Maupin (Lion and Unicorn).

As a writer her works include Before The Night Is Through (Landor Theatre), Mother Must Die?! (Pleasance Studio), Up The Bunty! (Lion and Unicorn) and La Maupin (Lion and Unicorn) which won the Off West End Award for Best New Musical in 2023.