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Mary Woodvine
Mary trained at the Welsh College of Music & Drama. Her first job was in Fen by Caryl Churchill touring the southwest with Orchard Theatre, a habit which got hard to kick after she started working with Kneehigh Theatre. During this time she toured venues from village halls through to the Royal National Theatre with various productions, starting with The Young Man of Cury in 1991. Other shows include Windfall, King of Prussia, The Riot, Fishboy and her last being Skullduggery in 2003. All the time she successfully continued to keep a career in TV as a regular in Judge John Deed, Gerry Anderson’s Space Precinct and Pie in the Sky, as well as many appearances in popular series such as Grafters, Eastenders, Casualty, Born and Bred and Heartbeat. Mary has appeared in three Cornish feature films since 2006; Dressing Granite, The Midnight Drives and The Lark and one short, New Boots.

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Mark Pearce
Mark Pearce is an alumnus of the École Internationale Jacques Lecoq, Paris. Since leaving in 1994 he has worked as an actor on stage and television. The core of his work has been dedicated to education. Mark formed his own company, the Creative Arts Vehicle, in 1995, and began the voyage as a cultural attaché to the French government, performing and teaching mixed sex pupils in Iran, an idea unheard of since the Islamic revolution of 1980. His filmic work to date includes: America So Beautiful (Babak Shokrian, 2000); The Aquarium (Richard Lecoq, 2002); Jubilee Pool (Nick Harpley, 2003); The Lark (War-rag, 2007); New Boots (Denzil Monk, 2007); and a few private videos (not on general release). mark is currently developing another Cornish blockbuster called 'Charlie Galore' with Ed Allen of Worlds End.

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Phil Jacobs
Phil Jacobs is based in Hayle in West Penwith. He has mainly worked in theatre having trained at Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama. Film work has included A Dangerous Man for Channel 4; Bitter Sweet, (Cornish feature, 2002); The Carpenter, The Virgin and The Wardrobe, (short, 2001); Blight (short, 2003) and The 12 Inch Pianist (War-rag), not to mention spending the whole day with cold spaghetti on his head for an advert for Cornwall Arts Marketing in 2006. He is currently directing and devising theatre for Shallal Dance Theatre Company based at the Acorn Theatre in Penzance. His work can be viewed at www.philjacobs.talktalk.net.

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Helen Rule
With creative roots in dance, Helen studied ballet, tap, modern and street/hip hop and appeared with the European Ballet Company in 1998 and 1999. After graduating from the Performing Arts course at Cornwall College, Helen took the lead role of Becky in the first Cornish language feature film, Hwerrow Hweg. In 2002 she worked with TalkSPORT's late night pop culture host Ian Collins, leading to a place in BBC Radio Cornwall's production suite producing commericals and flexing her voice over skills for cancer support charity The Sunrise Appeal. She has appeared in numerous Cornish shorts and features, most recently Awen's domestic violence drama New Boots and War-rag's first production The 12 Inch Pianist. Helen's current project is the lead role in UK/US short Perfect, filming in London and Los Angeles. She is also a published poet.

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Iain Marshall
After playing in bands during the 1970's and early 1980's, Iain trained at The East 15 Acting School. Television work has included By The Sword Divided, Menace Unseen, The Chief, Growing Rich, The Politician's Wife, The Uninvited, Doc Martin and most recently Wind Over the Sea for the German television network. Films include Ladies in Lavender and Peter Warlock - Some Little Joy. In theatre Iain has worked for Lumiere & Son (Beauty and the Beast), Paul Holman Associates (Peter Pan and the Wizard of Oz), been directed by Carey Harrison in A Night on the Tor, enjoyed two seasons of Weekly Rep at The Little Theatre, Sheringham and toured many plays to London and regional theatres. Most recently Iain has contributed ghostly text and screen media to Cube Theatre's Hamlet, and continues to tour his own production of Dr. Chekhov's Comic Cures with the Great Western Stage Theatre Company.

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