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| Ray Rumkee |
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Ray has played parts as varied as Macbeth, a horse, Sherlock Holmes, a number of murderers (gay
and straight) and a bloke called Ron Rainbow in a succession of unfortunate
cardigans. He also revels in his varied acting styles; with beard, without
beard, with hairgel and without hairgel. Not so much Hull's Ken Branagh as
Hull's Ken Dodd. |
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| Andy Hodgson |
Andy specialises in
murderers and buffoons. He believes his hardest role was Dingy Ron
Trumpet in 'Two For Tea', a part with only two
words! How may different ways are there to say "Oh" and
"No", anyway? And in every production we get a photograph of
him looking like Uncle Fester (or worse!) |
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| Helen Robinson |
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Helen loves reading and going the cinema; if it has blood and
guts galore she will read it or watch it. You wouldn't believe it to
look at her, would you? She lives at home with her mother and a delightful
budgie who swears a lot. (The budgie, not her mother). She also collects
pigs. (Not real ones) |
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| Dermot Rathbone |
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Dermot is one half of the
Chameleon's Arsenal fan club. He combines his teaching job with bemoaning
the state of British sport. His ambition is to see both sets of Ashes
return to England. He doesn't really have a light bulb growing out of
his head. |
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| Jenny Stewart |
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Jenny joined the Chameleons
shortly after being sent from Coventry.
She has played everything from a
queen to a house-maid and most things in between.
Her most memorable appearance was dying behind a sofa.
Jenny has made recent public appearances at Primark and Morrison's and
is unfazed by the constant attention of the paparazzi (or not!) |
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| Jane Thompson |
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From
politically-incorrect beginnings as third minstrel from the left in West Linton
Primary School's 1968 production of the 'Black and White Minstrel Show', Jane has
reached the apex of her theatrical career. Her Chameleon’s debut was as an
admirable, sassy, sexually liberated woman with bad diarrhoea. |
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| Simon King |
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Simon has lived in Hull all his life. He
is married to Laura and has two children, Robert and Ben. His other big
passion is rugby league, having supported Hull FC since he was ten years old.
Prior to joining the Chameleons Simon had never done any acting at all.
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| Sharon Burton |
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Sharon has been a member
of the Chameleon Players since 1989 and first appeared as Ludmilla in 'Quintet in
A Flat'. She works as a senior radiographer at Hull Royal
Infirmary. Apart from acting she enjoys talking, drinking tea, buying
shoes and talking. |
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| Irwin Williams |
Irwin enjoys flying kites and
Gene Hackman (although Gene Hackman is harder to get off the ground). He is
also the only man in the known universe to have watched 'Star Trek: Enterprise'
through to the bitter end. |
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| Mandy Timmins |
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Mandy
joined the Chameleon Players in 1995 but didn't pluck up the courage to
do the acting thing until a year later as Pat in 'Murder In Play'.
She has since been murdered on stage more times than she can remember.
She keeps sane by attending rehearsals and drinking lots of tea. |
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| Jonathan Preston |
Jonathan
is both a Chameleon Player and a mad keen Leicester City supporter.
But hopefully he will be released back into the community in time
for our next production. |
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| David Burton |
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Acting, directing, drinking tea! Is there anything this man can't do?
Yes - the first two. David is a founder member of the Chameleon Players
and claims his range goes from dead funny to dead vicar. |
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| Claire Dean |
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Claire is a relative newcomer to the world of the
Chameleon Players (she still hasn't got the hang of all this tea drinking though!) In her remaining
free time she loves swimming, reading and eating out - as long as there are
plenty of chips - and walking her lovable Cocker Spaniel, Gizmo. |
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| Val Howell |
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Val has been a Chameleon
since 1986 and has just about got the hang of it now. (I know I said
keep it brief Val but this is ridiculous) |
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| Ailsa Oliver |
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Since 1987 Ailsa has
taken on a range of roles with the group from Russian revolutionaries to
sour-faced old dowagers. Ailsa works for Hull City Council which
isn't nearly as much fun as playing sour-faced, lemon sucking old ratbags. |
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| Brian Watson |
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Brian has been doing this acting
thing since 1984. In his time he's played everything from a gay policeman to a
lion, all with a vaguely Northern accent. He has tried his hand at directing,
stage managing and set building with varying degrees of success. |
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| Tanya Platten |
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Having played a worthless skivvy and a Scouse scrubber, Tanya is worried about being
typecast. She's hoping to
climb the social ladder in future plays. She combines acting with
motherhood and compares performing on stage to childbirth - painful but
very rewarding. |
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| Alison Whitehead |
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Working as an occupational therapist, Alison
appreciates both the 'occupation' and 'therapy' that being part of the Chameleon
Players offers (or should that be that she needs therapy as a result of
being a Chameleon Player...) |
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| Betty Burton |
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Betty has been involved with the Chameleon Players since the beginning
and has stage managed practically everything. She has been on stage three
times in minor roles from gin-soaked bag lady to Michael Jackson
look-alike. She is an expert on the tea shops of England and a life long
fan of Leicester City. |
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| Miranda van Rossum |
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Originally
from the beautiful city of Utrecht in the Netherlands. Miranda has already spent
nearly a quarter of her life in Hull (and yes, that is a rather scary
thought!) When not strutting her stuff on the stage, she tries to bring Dutch
to the masses by developing and teaching online Dutch courses. |
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| Melissa Barker |
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Melissa joined the chameleon players in 2007 and
made her first appearance as an elf in Terry Pratchett's 'Lords and
Ladies'. She enjoyed it so much she decided to do another one. |
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| Terry Fisher |
Terry took part in
'A Walk Through Time' and joined the Chameleon Players just in time to
play the increasingly drunken Quack in 'The Country Wife'. He has
also appeared as Duncan (rather than drunken) in 'Macbeth' and in several other
OTT roles. |
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| Keith Buckland |
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Keith works as a teacher so the murky world of
tea drinking holds no fear for him. In his spare time he enjoys being a Dad.
Keith is from Hull and was never allowed to be in a school play because he was
too scruffy. |
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| Hannah Parker |
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Hannah has been doing amateur dramatics
since she was eight, so one of her top priorities on moving to Hull was to
find a drama group. Fortunately she stumbled across the Chameleons, who
welcomed her with open arms. After helping backstage with 'Bazaar And Rummage'
she made her debut playing Lesley in 'Talking Heads'.
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| Ed Dixon |
Ladies
and Gentlemen - Mr Edward Dixon, scene-stealer extraordinaire. Bet you
didn't know that Hamlet was really a comedy about a gravedigger!
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| Matti Kiviniemi |
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The versatile
Matti hails from Helsinki and made his Chameleon debut in
'Two For Tea' playing an oily foreign nobleman speaking English with
a Spanish accent. After a break of five years he returned to play an American
con man speaking gibberish. |
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| Maurice Houlden |
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Mozza is a man of noteworthy achievements; mostly his collection
of comedy tapes and Beatles memorabilia. He composes all the original
music for our plays and often gets to read in at rehearsals when half
the cast don't turn up. "The hills are alive with accidental
music" (most of it his). |
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| Mark Bateman |
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Born to be evil!
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