Ian runs a very successful leatherwork company called LAMIA TRADING, providing costumes for TV and Film, as well for many medieval and LRP events. He makes everything he sells, huddled over a tiny bench in his workshop with the glow of candlelight to keep him working, warm and awake. The few pints of Guinness he consumes also help. You can always tell where Ian is by following the sound of his laugh. If you meet him, ask him to do the trick with his teeth (but preferably not on a full stomach).

Carolyn Edwards

Carolyn desperately wants a TARDIS, preferably with the Eighth Doctor inside. She spends her days tripping over baby toys, while searching for her paintbrushes. She is a freelance illustrator of the highest order, meets up with friends at Doctor Who conventions, snowboards, dances, writes, loves escaping into books and the countryside, and has been seen doing some Irish fiddling on lonely beaches (we didn’t like to ask her what this last bit entails as it sounds rude!). Her one true vice is chocolate. She lives in Manchester with her daughter Rosie and her husband John.

Sue Hosler

Sue is a woman of many talents (though how she plays the trombone without using her mouth is something you need to ask her yourself). She is a professional writer, illustrator, script-editor, director, producer, and make-up artist. She is also ‘Creative Director’ of an Independent Television Company, as well as founding a long line of educational computer games for schools. We asked her the secret of how she stays looking so eternally youthful and she muttered something about monkey glands. This lady is, to be honest, a dynamo of creativity.

Lauren Pittaway

Although Lauren has never trod the boards, she is an unofficially official part of OFFSTAGE in a totally social capacity. She gives lifts to shorter actors, she laughs at bad jokes, she helps with costumes (usually the zips as she’s not as pure and innocent as she claims), and she is always with us in spirit. Usually whiskey, vodka, and gin. Lauren has an aversion to standing up straight.

Dave is our elusive Web Designer, Web Manager, Web Master, and anything vaguely Web related. He’s not a spider, we hasten to add (though, with the amount of stuff he does, we do think he’s probably got eight arms). He can’t act, can’t sing, can’t dance, but does have so many technical skills at his fingertips that we like to refer to him as Technoman, the forgotten Superhero. Sadly, we’ve never seen him in a skin-tight Lycra costume (but it’s only a matter of time). He kindly offered to help OFFSTAGE after seeing them perform and, when he did, we stopped giving him a Chinese Burn and took the G-Clamps off his testicles. He’s Mr Price to everyone else, but he’s Priceless to us. Splendid chap.

Stephen Rix

Mr Rix was Head of Drama at Brockworth School when he thought up the idea of creating a travelling theatre group. He drew from all ages of the Secondary School spectrum and formed The OFFSTAGE Theatre Group. He was also a popular Michael Douglas look-ee-like-ee in his spare time, as well as the only man to prefer eating apple cores than the actual apples. Yes, with the pips and everything. A truly inspirational gentleman who taught Theatre Studies in an innovative and original way. You can blame him for OFFSTAGE. And we frequently do.

Vince often goes by the name of Dante Convis, as he thinks it’s enigmatic and interesting. He is a writer of some repute, with ideas and scripts flowing as freely as red wine. He is also a drinker of some repute, with red wine flowing as freely as his many ideas and scripts. Vince can drink anyone under the table, and then the carpet, then the floor, and finally the Earth’s crust. He has a button marked ‘self-destruct’ discreetly hidden on his person that he likes to ask complete strangers to try and find. He lives in Bristol, with his long-term partner, Alex.

Nick studied music at the Birmingham Conservatoire. He also studied glass-making at the Birmingham Conservatory, as well as right-wing politics at the Birmingham Conservative, and Architecture of Ancient Rome at the Birmingham Condominium. Who knew Birmingham was so cultured and wide-ranging? Well, Nick, obviously. He is a freelance composer, arranger and musician living in the South West (of where, we don’t know) – able to record and perform live in a variety of different musical styles, though not all at the same time. He goes by the moniker of ‘Nick The Greek’, even though he’s never appeared in a bad Guy Ritchie gangster movie. To contact Nick for all your musical needs, you can reach him on Nick.thegreek@btinternet.com or 07773 790975.

Emma Tyler

Emma is a qualified Paediatric Nurse, which is quite lucky as most of OFFSTAGE are big babies. Her first backstage job with OFFSTAGE was painting some scenery. Like the rest of the team, she managed to get more paint on herself than on the wooden screens. She is very fond of clubbing (fortunately, not seals) and will most likely be found with her best friend, Niki Savory, surgically attached to her hip. Together, they are Sweet and Savory. Ahem. Emma hopes to avoid doing any more work for OFFSTAGE if she can.