Meet The Cast – Compass Theatre

Meet The Cast & Creatives!

Scott James – Mother Goose

Scott started his career as an actor originally training at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance and graduating with the Director’s Prize for Excellence. Scott is a huge fan of pantomime and most recently played Sarah the Cook in Dick Whittington with Petite Pantos. Scott wrote and directed his own pantomime in 2023; The Adventures of Snow White.

Acting credits include: That Face, Strangers on a Train, Lucky Stiff, Into the Woods, A Slice of Saturday Night, Spamalot, Company, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Seussical, Oklahoma!, A Taste of Honey, My Boy Jack, Little Shop of Horrors and Journey’s End.

As a director: The Graduate, Hedda Gabler, Beautiful Thing, Sweeney Todd, Bette and Joan, Photograph 51, Woman in Mind, A Slice of Saturday Night, That Face, Between a Man and a Woman, Little Shop of Horrors and RENT.

Scott is delighted to be working with dk Productions again having played an Ugly Sister for them in Cinderella at Christmas.

Enzo Benvenuti – Jack Goose

Enzo trained at The Oxford School of Drama, graduating in 2020. He returns to the world of dk productions pantos after appearing as Prince Claude/The Beast in Beauty and the Beast (2023) and Prince Eric in The Little Mermaid (2024).

Other credits include: The Devil May Care (Southwark Playhouse), The Boys From Syracuse (Upstairs at the Gatehouse), Romeo & Juliet (The Lord Chamberlain’s Men), The Ballad of Renegade Nell (Disney+), The Importance of being Earnest (Changeling Theatre), Animal Farm (ADG Europe), The Wave (TNT Theatre), A Christmas Carol (ADG Europe), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Changeling Theatre), The Great Game (Encaptivate Films) and Othello (Changeling Theatre).

Callum John Hill – Demon Squire

Callum is delighted to be making his return to dk productions and the Compass Theatre, having previously performed in Cinderella, Jack and The Beanstalk and Aladdin.

Callum is a graduate of London College of Music, graduating with a BA (HONS) in Musical Theatre. For the last 3 years, Callum has been travelling the world whilst performing as a production vocalist for AIDA Cruises.

Previous theatre credits include Simon in Notes from Underground, Ritchie Valens in Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story and Bob Gaudio in Jersey Guys U.K. & International Tour.

Television work includes London Kills, Autopsy: The Last Hours Of, Comic Relief, The Xtra Factor.

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Isabel Forward – Fairy & Jill

Isabel is an Urdang graduate, who is excited to be returning to the Compass theatre after spending the 2024 Christmas season as Ensemble/Swing in Snow White.

TV/Film credits include: ‘Mabel’ Pandora (Short film), ‘Becky Hill x Chase and Status Dancer’ The Brit Awards (TV)

Previous theatre credits include: ‘Ensemble/Swing’ Snow White (dk productions),

‘Magdalena Scholl’ The White Rose (NC Productions).

Previous theatre credits in training include: ‘Chastity’ Anything Goes (Urdang).

Isabel is represented by The Boury Agency.

Simon Rhys-Jones – Mayor Humbug

Simon is delighted to be performing, once again at the Compass Theatre, after appearing in Dick Whittington (2023) and to be adding Mother Goose to his pantomime credits.

Simon graduated in performing arts from the University of Suffolk and then spent 2 years honing his performance skills as a Pontin’s Bluecoat, as well as entertaining abroad. Simon has been a professional actor & presenter since 2006.

He is no stranger to Pantomime, as his credits testify…

Alderman Fitzwarren/Captain/Emperor – Dick Whittington, Compass Theatre, Ickenham (2023)

Captain/Disco King – Dick Whittington, Key Theatre, Peterborough (2022)

Dandini – Cinderella, Key Theatre, Peterborough (2021)

Dame Dotty Doo – Beauty & the Beast, Stantonbury Theatre, Milton Keynes (2019)

Abanazar – Aladdin, Elgiva Thetare, Chesham (2018)

Buttons – Cinderella, The Joe Longthorne Theatre, Blackpool (Summer 2018)

Idle Jack – Dick Whittington, The Joe Longthorne Theatre, Blackpool (Summer 2018)

Abanazar – Aladdin, Groundlings Theatre, Portsmouth (2017)

Pendragon – Jack & the Beanstalk, Groundlings Theatre, Portsmouth (2015)

Away from acting, Simon is a big football fan (Watford FC) and is a qualified FA Football Coach. He is currently the goalkeeper coach of Hilly Fielders JFC, based in South London.

Other Credits

Theatre: Rope, Union Theatre, London

Film: The Last Rite, Buoyancy, Hate Story 4.

TV: Silent Witness (BBC), The John Childs Story (CH 5), The Man Who Stopped WW3: Revealed (History Channel).

Commercials: Dead Island 2 (Video Game), Jewson, Thorpe Park.

Connor Jones – Musical Supervisor & Musical Director

Connor trained at the Royal Academy of Music. He has worked extensively with DK Productions as Musical Director/Supervisor over the last 10 years.

Acting credits include: Grantaire in ‘Les Miserables’ (West End/UK Tour/World Tour Concert), Robert Catesby in ‘Treason the Musical’ (UK Tour/London Palladium, Gran Pavesi (Advert).