Meet our Cast and Team of Amy's View
Harry Aspinwall
Meet Harry Aspinwall who is playing Dominic in Amy’s View.
Harry Aspinwall grew up in Scotland. After graduating from Brown University in Rhode Island, he worked as a deckhand and historical tour guide before becoming an actor and filmmaker full time.
As an actor, he co-starred on AMC's Turn: Washington's Spies, was the voice of Hasbro's Mr Monopoly, and was a lead in Disney's The Quest and Netflix’s The Sleepover opposite Joe Manganiello, Malin Akerman, and Ken Marino.
As a writer and filmmaker, he won Fresh Voices 2020 and has placed in Sundance, ScreenCraft, AFF, and many other competitions. He’s a writer in residence emeritus of The Studios of Key West and ArtFarm. His fantasy satire Orcs of New York created a cult following of over 80,000 and was featured in The Huffington Post, The Observer, Buzzfeed, and The Nerdist (and once got tweeted out by "Goosebumps" author RL Stine, Harry’s proudest accomplishment). His first produced feature, Eradication, was distributed as a Tubi original in 2022.
Outside of film and TV, he loves D&D and knows a lot of sea shanties, for some reason.
Suzanne Bowen
Meet Suzanne Bowen, playing Evelyn.
Suzanne trained at The Webber Douglas Academy in London. For many years, she worked mostly in fringe and educational theatre in London and the South, performing, writing, directing and teaching. She has also lectured in higher education, was an Open University tutor, and more recently worked as a LAMDA curriculum teacher, and in role-playing.
Roles include: Angela in Abigail’s Party; Anne in Annie Wobbler by Arnold Wesker (Showcase - Dir. Chrys Salt) at Tristan Bates Theatre, London; Madame in Genet’s The Maids (The Hornpipe Arts Touring); Marge and Grandmother in Cider with Rosie (Dir. Brian Cook Chichester Festival Fringe open air production).
Radio: Under Milk Wood (Commercial Radio Production) Mrs Dai Bread Two, Mrs Organ Morgan, Gossamer Beynon.
Suzanne’s strangest role has been appearing on Channel 4’s Come Dine With Me as ‘the entertainment’ at a dinner party.
Nick Downes
Meet Nick Downes, playing Frank in Amy’s View. Nick Downes is a graduate of Oxford University. After 7 years’ teaching, he co-founded the professional Scat Theatre Co., where for 10 years he wrote, directed and performed in a wide range of shows.
After leaving Scat, he worked extensively as a freelance actor, writer, director, workshop leader, teacher and coach. Nick continues to act, direct, teach and coach aspects of performance.
As an actor, Nick has performed in London at The Brockley Jack Studio, Theatre 503, Southwark Playhouse, Curtains Theatre and Theatre Delicatessen, as well as in many venues locally.
Favourite acting roles include Estragon in ‘Waiting for Godot’, Dogberry in ‘Much Ado’, Feste in ‘Twelfth Night’, Ben in ‘The Dumb Waiter’ and Lockit in ‘The Beggar’s Opera’.
Nick’s directing credits include ‘The Winter’s Tale’ (Best Director of a Shakespeare Play) and ‘Besieged’ at The Square Tower and co-directing ‘Black-Ey’d Susan’ and ‘Roseliska’ at Portchester Castle.
Janet Rawson
Meet Esme of Amy’s View, Janet Rawson.
Jan Rawson has been a professional actor since 1975. TV highlights include playing Louise Clayton in Coronation Street for three months, Polly in Brookside for two years, Tracy in Daughters of Albion (Willy Russell’s first TV play) Fran in Whale Music (Anthony Minghella’s first TV play), Hilary Nutt in Residents written by Tony Basgallop. She was also a Children’s Presenter on Let’s Pretend, for six years.
Her most enjoyable theatre performances have been playing Juliet in Romeo and Juliet for the Cheung Ying Theatre Company in Hong Kong, Janet in the Rocky Horror Show. Bernadette in Stags and Hens - Willy Russell, Jane in Absurd Person Singular - Alan Ayckbourn. She also loves all the cookie Good Fairies she has been allowed to play in pantomimes.
Jan is a published playwright: Gesang der Spinnen (English title: Mopsy, Flopsy and Death). And co-writer with Andrew Baguley, of a short story anthology, Angels with Bruises…..selling well on Amazon!!
In 1992, alongside Robbie Swales and Richard Wilkes, she was one of the three founders of Steps Drama Learning and Development. The company is now seen as the leader in experiential drama-based training across the globe with offices in the US, UK and India. Her present business, Twisted Events Presents, set up in 2009, uses drama to bring large corporate events to life.
Joseph John Scatley
Meet Joseph John Scatley, playing Toby.
Joseph Scatley trained at Rose Bruford College, where he received his MA in Actor Performer Training in 2021. He has been performing since he was a child, with experience working with the BBC, ITV, The National theatre and Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre.
He is a founding member of international company ‘Lightshed Theatre Company’.
April Singley
A New England native, April Singley trained at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, obtaining her MFA in Acting after more than a decade of film and theatre work, and many many Shakespeare productions. Previous theatrical roles range from the titular role of Hamlet, Juliet, Charlotte Bronte, Beatrice, Prospero, Miss Julie, Romeo, Honey in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and Tess in Tess of the D’Urbervilles to name a few. April’s film credits include award-winning BBC short The Body With No Face, Lady Macbeth in Armes Movie Factory’s Macbeth, The Water in the Bay, Anima Sola, and Valholl with Dark Tower Films directed by Christian Masters. April will be appearing as Amy in Amy’s View, Mary Rose Production’s first production set for 2024. April is also a founding member of the Crowbait Club US and Crowbait Club UK, an organisation for playwrights and actors to develop their craft with a sense of play.
Alex Taylor
Meet the director of Amy’s View, Alex Taylor.
Alex Taylor has worked extensively in the UK, USA and South East Asia as a director, an actor and as a voice specialist. From 1984-1990 he was the Director of the School of Theatre, Manchester Metropolitan University. He created one of the first honours degree courses for intending actors in Britain. Subsequently, he became one of the Master Teachers at the Juilliard School, New York. In 1993 he joined the School of Drama at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. While in Hong Kong, Alex starred as Sweeney Todd in Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and as Albin in Jerry Herman’s La Cage Aux Folles at City Hall. He also directed productions for the Academy, the National Theatre of Korea and led masterclasses in Acting and Voice at the Shanghai Theatre Academy and the University of Korea. He has worked for the Royal Shakespeare Company as a voice coach on a range of productions and directed productions of Once On This Island and Martin Sherman’s Bent, which won a Best Production award (Hong Kong Drama Federation). Alex was also Nominated in 2020, by the Hong Kong Drama Federation, as Best Director by the Hong Kong Drama Federation for his production of The Normal Heart.
Ace Merriott
Meet our Stage Manager. Ace Merriott has been working in and around the Live events industry for the last 3 years across the South Coast. They trained at Chichester college in their Technical Theatre and Stage Management course. Some of their worked highlights include Stage Managing "Legally Blonde The Musical" and Assistant Stage Managing "Grease".
Alice Kristina Rose
Meet our Set and Costume Designer. Alice is a designer/maker, specialising in bold, tactile costumes and immersive environments. She loves colours, layers, and details, producing visually-rich and stimulating costumes and sets. Her work often focuses on young audiences and those facing barriers to inclusion, creating textiles-based sensory wonderlands, to encourage imaginative play and communication. She works regularly with companies such as Oily Cart, the English Touring Opera, Spare Tyre, Groundswell Arts, and the Little Angel Theatre. Alongside her career as a freelance costume maker and painter, Alice also works as a storyteller and facilitator, facilitating various community outreach projects and creative workshops, both for other companies and through her own small company, Tigerboat Theatre - and has two excitable small children!
Colin Merrin
Meet our artist, Colin Merrin. Originally from East London, Colin has lived and worked in East Sussex and Hampshire since 2007. He studied at Maidstone College of Art, Kingston Polytechnic and the University of London, Institute of Education.
He was a freelance illustrator and animation artist prior to teaching art in a number of London secondary schools, becoming headteacher of a pupil referral unit and eventually working as a behaviour management advisor, teacher trainer and consultant to schools. He has always been a working artist.
Colin has exhibited throughout the UK and Europe in many solo and group exhibitions since 1981 and has work in private collections all over the world including the royal collection and the British Museum. He was elected to the Royal Watercolour Society in 2009. A successful landscape painter for many years, he painted largely around the South Downs and the New Forest, also in Dorset, Devon, Cornwall and the Cotswolds, as well as Derbyshire, Yorkshire and Northumberland. His painting was very much in the impressionist style up until 2016 when he made a deliberate change to paint more figurative subjects.
Anna Francesca
My name is Anna Francesca, and I am an enthusiastic Fareham-based nonfiction filmmaker with an MSc in Film and Television and a BA in Animation. I am passionate about environmental sustainability, and what that means for the film industry. I try my best to be up-to-date with all the news on greening the screen sector, and I am currently BAFTA Albert trained in Sustainable Production and Editing. I am excited to venture more into the theatre industry and assist in making Amy's View a green production.