GAVIN MACKAY, PRODUCER
- having run charity events and magazines from the age of 16, Gavin MacKay has run dozens of balls, parties, magazines and now a seventh pantomime for Back End Productions, all for charity. He now has his own conference and events company. He says “there's nothing I love more than getting stuck into an event and seeing a great result, especially if it’s for a good cause.” Having worked on among other things the Laureus World Sports Awards, large scale photographic exhibitions, he has co-founded a higher education lobby group on a project that reached full Treasury review. In 1998 he was runner-up of the Hilton House New Poet of the Year competition. He is a voice for hire with clients including the American Tennis Pro Tour, a charity auctioneer, is a resident polo commentator for Ham Polo Club and is a frequent public speaker, particularly specializing in Burns recitations. He is Producer and co-founder of Back End Productions with Rupert Bean.

He can be contacted on 07808 741 012 or GavinMacKay@aol.com

RUPERT BEAN, DIRECTOR
Rupert Bean has written numerous plays including 'Pride at Southanger Park', published by Samuel French in a volume of plays, as well as acting and directing various shows. He was also Gossip and Social Affairs Editor of 'The Chronicle' 1994-1996 (student newspaper of St Andrews), Co-founder and Secretary of the Old Carthusian Dramatic Society, for which he directed their first three productions (1992-1994). In 1998 he co-founded Back End Productions with Gavin MacKay, and has written and directed their first seven productions. He has also appeared in over 10 TV gameshows over the last 13 years, winning anything from £6,400 to a trip to the Dutch bulb fields! In the real world, Rupert is Head of Broadcast and Outdoor Media for the the theatrical marketing agency AKA Promotions, and plans the advertising campaigns for numerous West End musicals and plays, including "Billy Elliot", "The Woman in White", and "Saturday Night Fever".

He can be contacted on 07801 750 495 or rupertbean@akauk.com

JINTY COTTON
Jinty is the only member of the cast to ask regularly for a dressing room /Winnebago (the rest of them get changed on the tube) and deservedly so After a gritty start to her career on the stand up comedy circuit, Jinty trained professionally as an actress and singer, completing a drama degree and going on to a post grad diploma at the Royal Academy of Music. Having acquired an agent, she appeared in a number of West End shows. However, feeling under-fulfilled, Jinty decided to lend herself to Backend
Productions who have benefitted from her star turns either as the leading heroine or as the femme fatale in all 8 of their productions. Jinty is currently in negotiations with a TV production company about a panto spin-off series (provisionally entitled - No me, no show). She will soon be appearing on ITV prime time reality TV show 'Press ganged. Hell on the High Seas' - possibly forcing her to emmigrate as a result of bad publicity. She runs Cotton Events, selling sports tickets and corporate hospitality (jintycotton@cottonevents.com) but is dying to break back into the world of professional acting/ music (hint, talent spotters!). She flits between LA and London with her full time aquatics instructor Raoul. She rarely gives interviews as she prefer to express herself through the mode of dance.

JAKE MCQUITTY
- In real life, he aspires to take silk and become an eminent QC but on stage he has had to take a lot more, whether it's Jinty's heel in his back or scantily clad girls throwing themselves at his feet. Never to be underestimated (although often under instructions to keep his chest hair out of sight), since his debut performance in London as Dick Whittington, Jake has been shaken not stirred as Jack Bond in "Jack and the Bondstalk", he's navigated stormy waters as Blonde John Silver in "Aladdin on the Jolly Roger" (Ed. - sounds fishy to me), and he's played an assortment of rogues and bounders from Prince Charming to Dr Delaware Smith, the famous archaeologist and adventurer, breaking hearts and seducing audiences with his treacle-covered tones since 1998. Despite vowing every year that "this will be my last", he has resolutely fought the ageing process thanks to a large tub of moisturiser and a particularly bad self-portrait stored in his attic. Now on his 8th show in London he is relishing the opportunity to play the evil villian, Count Suckula, and invite the audience to present their necks for his delectation. Jake's other hobbies include skiing, tennis, squash, football, sailing, surfing, wind-surfing, football, painting watercolours, playing the piano and cello, singing with his choir "Vox Angeli", reading Dickens, Su Doku, cooking and singing in the Rattlesnakes (aka the Panto Band). He also has a bit of spare time to practice as a Solicitor Advocate at Lovells, the international law firm.