Just Who Are These People, Anyway?

"It's all because of your damned play and your so-called thespists" - Major Ross 'Our Country's Good' Act I Scene 11

Ray Rumkee

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.

"Wot, no prompt?"
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!)

Helen Robinson

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)

Dermot Rathbone

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.

Jenny Stewart

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!)

Jane Thompson

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.

Simon King

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.

Sharon Burton

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.

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.

Mandy Timmins

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.

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.

David Burton

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.

Claire Dean

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.

Val Howell

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)

Ailsa Oliver

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.

Brian Watson

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.

Tanya Platten

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.

Alison Whitehead

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...)

Betty Burton

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.

Miranda van Rossum

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.

Melissa Barker

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.

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.

Keith Buckland

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.

Hannah Parker

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'.

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!

Matti Kiviniemi

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.

Maurice Houlden

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).

Mark Bateman

Born to be evil!

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