Cast Biographies

Ben Warwick - Pip

Training: Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Theatre includes Cock (Folkteartern Gothenberg); Some Gorgeous Accident (Edinburgh Festival); Moliere or the League of Hypocrites (Finborough); The Picture of Dorian Gray (Aterie); Miss Julie Crisp (Soho Theatre); The Seagull (Yelets Theatre, Russia); Look Back In Anger, A Midsummer Night's Dream (Garrick, Lichfield); Hamlet (ETT, West End); The Marquise (National Tour); The Deep Blue Sea (Watford Palace); Saint's Day, The Road To Ruin, The Captain's Tiger, Arms And The Man (Orange Tree); House And Garden (Royal Theatre Northampton); Les Liaisons Dangereuse, A Midsummer Night's Dream (Theatre Royal York); Hamlet (Broadway, Lewisham); Expresso Bongo (Jermyn St); The Green Bay Tree (Drill Hall); Hard Times, Room Service, Tons Of Money, David Copperfield, Henry IV pt.1, She Stoops To Conquer, Our Town, The Bandwagon, Charley's Aunt (Farnham Rep of which he is also co-artistic director).
Film credits include War Game and TV work includes Mary Queen Of Scots (BBC). 
Ben has also created the highly popular online comedy drama serial, Five Years which he co-writes, directs and in which he plays the lead (visit www.fiveyears.tv).

- Estella / Ensemble

– Joe / Ensemble

Fiona Leaning – Miss Havisham / Ensemble

Fiona studied Performing Arts at Middlesex University and then went on to study acting at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.  She has performed in the UK and around the world with, among others, the RSC. From 1999 until 2008 she lived in New York, and as an Associate of The Wooster Group helped to create their acclaimed work, performing in the U.S. and internationally. She has performed with Hotbuckle for the last two years and is now Creative Director of the company.

Adrian Preater – Magwitch / Ensemble

Adrian trained at The Central School of Speech and Drama and then Bretton Hall. Appearances in "Gosford Park" and "Enigma" were notable career highs before Adrian founded HotbuckleProductions with his wife Gemma Aston. Since writing his first play, "Get writing with Rosie", Adrian has gone from strength to strength with firstly "Joshua" and recently "Ballad of a Bird"
Adrian has worked for such notable companies as London Bubble,Boxclever, Oddsocks Productions, Il Palcetto Stage, The Orange Tree Theatre, Huddersfield's Lawrence Batley Theatre, Re-Creation Theatre Company, Major Road Theatre Company, The Secret Agents Theatre Company and House Theatre . TV appearances include Eastenders, The Bill, Frost, Keen Eddy (US) and Family Values. Film credits include Gosford Park, Enigma, Love Actually and Brannagh's Magic Flute.