Esme Bacalla-Hayes
TRAINING: London Studio Centre (Sheila O’Neill Award recipient for Musical Theatre and Dance), Arts Ed Sixth Form.
THEATRE INCLUDES: Onstage Swing/ cover Meat in We Will Rock You (London Coliseum); Swing/Assistant Dance Captain/Children’s Captain in Bugsy Malone (UK tour); Ensemble/Onstage Swing in Hex, Dancer in Pericles (National Theatre); Ensemble in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Union – Offie Award for Best Musical); Princess Anastasia in Sleeping Beauty (Greenwich Theatre – Offie Award for Best Panto). Workshop: Coraline and Hex (National Theatre/Leeds Playhouse).
TELEVISION INCLUDES: Big Night of Musicals (BBC); Britain’s Got Talent (ITV). OTHER: Dancer in London New Year’s Day Parade (FrontRow Records, music video); English Youth Ballet Gala Course (voiceover).
RAKESH BOURY
TRAINING: The Midlands Academy of Dance and Drama.
THEATRE INCLUDES: Fisherman’s Friends (original cast); Anna Jordan’s Pop Music (Paines Plough/Birmingham Rep); Man of La Mancha (Coliseum); We Will Rock You (Dominion); Bend it Like Beckham (Phoenix); Rock of Ages (original UK tour); The Wind in the Willows (original cast); Britain’s Got Bhangra (Theatre Royal Stratford East/original UK cast); The Assassination of Katie Hopkins (Theatr Clwyd). Workshops include: The Doncastrian Chalk Circle (National Theatre).
RECORDINGS INCLUDE: Bend it Like Beckham (original cast recording); Zen and Now (concept album).
FILM INCLUDES: Disney’s Disenchanted (2022); Tehran.
TELEVISION: Better.
OTHER: Rakesh runs one of the UK’s most successful Surprise Entertainment companies – Secret Singers, as well as creating, managing and performing internationally in multiple vocal groups. Rakesh is also Founder and Principal of The Boury Academy CIC, a Lambeth Performing Arts organisation breaking down barriers and increasing diversity in the arts through affordable access to professional training.
THEA BUNTING
TRAINING: Bird College.
THEATRE INCLUDES: Patty Simcox in Grease (UK tour); Graziella in West Side Story (Leicester Curve); Cynthia/cover Jan and Patty in Grease (UK tour); PC in Aladdin (Cheltenham).
FILM INCLUDES: Society Girl 1 in Disenchanted (Disney); Matilda The Musical workshop (Netflix).
Ronan Burns
TRAINING: Arts Educational Schools, London, The Dance School of Scotland.
THEATRE INCLUDES: Johnny Casino/ cover Danny Zuko in Grease (Dominion); Bobby Mills in A Chorus Line, Riff in West Side Story (Leicester Curve); Frank/cover Felicia and Tick in Priscilla Queen of the Desert (UK tour); Bride in Titanic (European tour); 42nd Street (Theatre Royal Drury Lane/Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris); Kiss Me, Kate and Annie Get Your Gun (Sheffield Crucible); Lord Damming/ cover Gerald Bolingbrook in Me and My Girl (Chichester Festival Theatre); Bugsy Malone (Lyric Hammersmith); Sweet Charity (Cadogan Hall). Workshops: Groundhog Day (The Old Vic); The Bow Maker (National Theatre of Scotland); The Osmonds, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cinderella; The Watsons (Chichester Festival Theatre).