DANIEL CLARKSON

According to Wikipedia, Daniel is a “British comedy actor, playwright and director with two Olivier Award nominations and a Blue Peter Badge.”

A graduate of Bretton Hall, he is perhaps best known as the co-creator and performer of the internationally acclaimed Potted shows. Potted Potter, Potted Pirates, Potted Panto and Potted Sherlock have played to sold-out audiences in London's West End, New York and on international tours across the globe. Potted Potter enjoyed a six-year residency in Las Vegas, where it won Best New Production, and was most recently translated into French for an extended run in Paris.Alongside performing, Daniel has established himself as both a writer and director, frequently developing new work from first draft to final curtain. His directing credits include Biff to the Future (UK Tour and Edinburgh Fringe 2026), Churchill's Urinal (King's Head and Edinburgh Fringe 2026), and Patient Soldier (Seven Dials Playhouse and Irish Tour). As a writer, his credits include The Crown Dual (King's Head and US Tour), The Pirate, The Princess and The Platypus (co-writer/director, Polka), and The Mr Thing Show (co-writer, appearing as Puppet Steve).

During lockdown, he co-wrote and performed Judge Smudge in CBBC's ‘Monster Court’ (BBC), filming the entire series from his dining room. He also appeared in ‘Coronation Street’ (ITV) a couple of times. He wasn't going to mention that, but his mum said he really should.

JEFFERSON TURNER

Jefferson has been messing about with Dan on both stage and screen since 2005. He has appeared on TV with the tall one on such shows as Blue Peter (BBC), Richard & Judy (Channel 4), The Slammer (BBC) and Big Brother’s Little Brother (Channel 4), amongst others, as well as residing in the CBBC Office for all of 2009 and a little of 2010.

On stage he has co-written and starred in Potted Potter, Potted Pirates and Potted Panto with Dan. This has led to multiple US, UK and global tours, critical acclaim, Olivier nominations, ‘Best of Las Vegas’ Awards, and sell-out West End runs.

He also thoroughly enjoyed training with Second City when they ventured across the pond to his City, here in London. Jeff thinks he did other work before he met Dan, but Dan says anything Jeff did without him was so long ago that no-one from that era still survives.

Jeff is delighted to be back in the West End after a few years in the East End which haven’t affected him at all. He would love to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, Apples and Pears, Apples and Pears.

RICHARD HURST

Recipient of the RSC’s Buzz Goodbody Director Award and short-listed for The Guardian Award, two Olivier Awards, RTS comedy writing award. Directing includes The Pirate, the Princess and the Platypus (with Daniel Clarkson); Potted Panto; Potted Pirates; Girl and Dean; Pegabovine; Moon the Loon; The Edinburgh Love Tour; Bill Hicks: Slight Return; The Art of Success; Hamlet; Women Beware Women; Phaedra’s Love; Twelfth Night; Ripley Bogle; The Tempest.

As a writer: Potted Pirates and Potted Panto (with Dan and Jeff); The Pirate, the Princess and the Platypus (with Daniel Clarkson); The Edinburgh Love Tour and Bill Hicks: Slight Return (with Chas Early); Hard Times and Ripley Bogle (adapted). For television: co-creator/writer of Bluestone 42 (BBC3), as co-writer Miranda (BBC1), The Rebel (Gold); as writer, three episodes of Secret Diary of a Call Girl (ITV2/ Showtime).

SIMON SCULLION

Trained at Wimbledon School of Art and was a Theatre Design Finalist for the Linbury Prize. Most recent credits include: Peter Pan Goes Wrong (Apollo and tour), Showstopper! (Apollo) and Out There on Fried Meat Ridge Road (Trafalgar Studios). Other theatre credits include The Father (Belgrade Theatre, Coventry), The Leisure Society (Trafalgar Studios), Potted Panto (Vaudeville), Murder on the Nile (UK tour), Alarms and Excursions (UK tour), Peppa Pig Live (tour), Lazytown Live (tour), Quartermaine’s Terms (UK tour), Quartet (UK tour), Larkrise (tour) and Elizabeth and Raleigh: Late but Live (Edinburgh Festival).  simonscullion.co.uk

NICKY BUNCH

Nicky trained at the Central School of Speech & Drama. Design credits include: The New Musketeers; Miracle on 34th Street; The Aliens That Stole Christmas​ (Trinity); The Little Witch (The Place); Egusi Soup (Bury St Edmunds & UK Tour); Fragile (Coventry Belgrade); Shiverman (503); When Did You Last See My Mother (Trafalgar Studios); Guys & Dolls (Cambridge Arts); Well (Apollo, West End); Frankenstein (Sheffield Crucible & Tour). She has designed many productions for leading drama schools including LAMDA, Laban, RCM, GSA and Mountview. nickybunch.co.uk

TIM MASCALL

West End credits include: Why The Whales Came (Pinter); Well (Apollo); Ruby Wax: Losing It (Duchess); The Vagina Monologues (Wyndhams); Potted Panto (Garrick and Vaudeville); Eric And Little Ern (Vaudeville); Derren Brown: Enigma (Adelphi); Evening Of Wonder (Garrick); Infamous (Palace); Miracle (Palace); and Something Wicked This Way Comes (Old Vic).

Other London credits include: Breakfast With Jonny Wilkinson, Ruby Wax: Out Of Her Mind, Fully Committed and Without You (Menier Chocolate Factory) The Importance Of Being Earnest (Regents Park Open Air) and Invincible (St James).

Further UK credits include: Lionboy (Complicite), Long Day’s Journey Into Night, A Taste Of Honey, Kill Jonny Glendenning and Faith Healer (Royal Lyceum Edinburgh), The Real Thing and Good Grief (Theatre Royal Bath), Pavilion; Orpheus Descending; and Lord Of The Flies (Theatre Clwyd).

Opera credits include: The Cunning Little Vixen (Garsington); Aida (Opera Holland Park); The Gamblers and Peter Grimes (Royal Festival Hall).  timmascall.com

TOM LISHMAN

Tom’s work in the West End has included Showstopper! The Improvised Musical, The Caretaker, Pete And Dud Come Again, Medea, I Love You You’re Perfect Now Change, Brief Lives, Twelve Angry Men, The Gin Game, Taking Sides, A Letter of Resignation, Life Support, The Hothouse, The Rivals, Vita and Virginia, Hobson’s Choice and Rope.

He designed sound for Ashes to Ashes (Royal Court), The Great Game: Afghanistan, Not Black & White, Broken Glass, Women Power & Politics and Greta Garbo Came To Donegal (Tricycle), I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky (Royal Opera House Linbury Studio), A Tainted Dawn, Bill Shakespeare’s Italian Job, A British Subject and Potted Sherlock and Shakespeare Untold (Edinburgh Festival), The Farm, Those Magnificent Men, The Falling Sky (New Perspectives), To Town Hall Cherubs (BAC), and five seasons of operas for Grange Park Opera, as well as productions for pantomimes and numerous repertory theatres. Tom has created almost 60 sound designs for Chichester Festival Theatre.

PHIL INNES

Phil is a composer, sound-designer and sound-artist working across multiple platforms. He is a BA Music graduate from Falmouth University. Credits include The Trench (Collective Arts); Barabas (Hall for Cornwall); Walk With Me (Kneehigh); Everyman (Tangle); The Magic Beanstalk (Light Theatre); Potted Potter; Potted Pirates; and Potted Sherlock; The Cold Truth; Poison; Enduring Lies; and Lonely Not Alone (Effervescent); Lonely Not Alone (Co-op Foundation). Phil is a member of the Ludi Electric Guitar Quartet.