Who are we?
Jaymes Aaron
Trained at City Academy, London. Theatre Credits: Guy (at Sadler’s Wells), Toxic (at Sadler’s Wells), Our Country’s Good (KinkyFish), Marat/Sade (Littlebird Productions), Five-One (Bubble and Squeak Collective), A Dream Play (KinkyFish), M/S (Mozart & Salieri and Marat/Sade)(Littlebird Productions) Film Credits: Sophie (short movie, playing Jase), What Do I Do Now? (short movie, playing James Jameson) Writing Credits: Guy (at Sadler’s Wells)
Teagan Mann
Teagan is thrilled to be part of such a wonderful cast of actors. Originally from Vancouver, Canada, Teagan has a Diploma in Musical Theatre from Capilano College. Along with her diploma, Teagan has also trained with York University in Toronto, Free Your Voice in Vancouver, The Vancouver Youth Theatre, and most recently City Academy in London. Teagan’s most noteable credits include: Various characters in the ensemble production of A Dream Play- KinkyFish Productions , Mary in Our Country’s Good- KinkyFish Productions, Josie in The Skriker- Exit 22 Productions, and Helena in Midsummer Nights Dream- Exit 22 Productions. Teagan would like to thank all her family and friends for all their love and support. For more information on Teagan, click here to visit her website.
Ros Stern
Ros trained at City Academy and is a member of KinkyFish Theatre Company. In December 2008 she played The Boatswain, Stephano the drunken butler and the Goddess Juno in The Tempest. Other theatre credits include Mum in Toxic for City Academy at Sadlers Wells Lillian Baylis Studio, Simonne Everade in Marat/Sade at Southwark Playhouse, Liz Morden in the KinkyFish production of Our Country’s Good and wears Light Green in KinkyFish’s production of A Dream Play. Ros has also performed as Mozart and Simonne Everade in “M/S” at The Space for Little Bird Productions.Ros can be seen on film as Sue in The Wait directed by Andy Smith.
Michelle McKay
Hailing from Aberdeen, Scotland, Michelle started performing from a very young age Singing and Dancing in local productions taking on roles from ensemble to the Lead and as a choreographer. At age 9 Michelle won a role in The Wizard of Oz out of 2000 auditioning youngsters and then at 10 in Joseph And His Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat. Michelle was trained by Kate Hughes (part of Ian Adam Vocal Academy) in Classical and Musical Theatre singing, has a Degree in Business Studies and graduated top 5 in her year on the Diploma in Popular Music and Performance at Vocal Tech in London. Most recently Michelle has trained as part of the London Actors Workshop and has appeared with KinkyFish as Duckling Smith / Shitty Meg in Our Country’s Good and, Antonia in The Tempest and in A Dream Play.
Alberto Santangelo
Alberto started acting in 2004 at a community course in Milan. Later he joined the evening class at Quelli di Grock, a leading Italian theatre company and school where his teacher was a popular TV sitcom actress. Back in London he attended courses at Sweet Entertainment and City Academy. With KinkyFish he played half of the monster Caliban in The Tempest. In Our Country’s Good as Tench and Cesare. In A Dream Play he plays the dark green character. He is interested in the “humanity” the theatre offers with the variety of emotions and feelings that each character brings on stage. In “real” life he works for the BBC and in the past he used to be a travel guide editor.
Here’s a clip of Alberto performing in Italian in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf.
Tadhg O’Brien
Tadhg began acting in 2005 at the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin, and joined City Academy in 2008. He played Ferdinand in the KinkyFish debut performance of The Tempest. Previous roles include playing Peter in Mural at Sadler’s Wells Lilian Bayliss Studio. In other KinkyFish productions, Tadhg played the parts of Captain Collins and Ketch Freeman in Our Country’s Good, and plays the red character in A Dream Play. Tadhg is originally from Dublin, Ireland. In a previous life, Tadhg was a national student representative and full-time LGBT rights activist, these days he also works as an IT consultant.
Gregory Lecointe
Coming from Paris, Greg brings French flair to KinkyFish. After participating to the earlier company projects, The Tempest and Our Country’s Good, Greg took on the adaptation and direction of this version of A Dream Play, where he could express his strong interest for surreal and physical theatre. Greg had his first drama experience in France where he worked on adaptations of Harold and Maude, and Waiting for Godot. He then studied acting and directing at City Academy in London where he met with the group which was to become KinkyFish. Greg’s next projects are an adaptation of Huis-Clos from Jean-Paul Sartre and the creation of a collective for new-coming directors in London.
Larissa Moran
Larissa hails from Perth, Australia and moved to London in 2006. Always actively involved in performing Larissa studied Drama at College and won the Performing Arts Perspective award for being the top Drama student in Western Australia. Larissa continued acting with Platform Productions and FROG for two years where she performed in a number of shows specialising in physical and devised theatre pieces. As the arts have always been a positive outlet throughout her youth Larissa went on to provide this opportunity to others by writing and producing theatre and music projects for children and teenagers. Larissa’s youth work lead her to being a spokesperson for Australia’s National Conference of Young People. Upon moving to London Larissa attended City Academy where she met the like minds of KinkyFish.
Rajan Sharma
Rajan first discovered his passion for the performing arts whilst training at City Academy. He went on to complete an MA in Acting at Arts Educational Schools London, where stage roles included Luka (The Bear) and Banquo (Macbeth), and following his graduation he played the role of Sal in Awk-Word (msft Productions). It is an honour and a pleasure for Raj to be performing with old friends and new as he prepares to make both his KinkyFish and Edinburgh Fringe Festival debuts…let the good times roll! 
Paul Condon
A latecomer to acting, Paul has spent his career as a television producer/director with credits on BBC, ITV and Channel 4 and has produced shows presented by Melvyn Bragg and Richard and Judy. He currently works for BFBS (British Forces Broadcasting Service) Television. But acting has always held a pull on him. He’s recently trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama, City Lit and City Academy and has performed in numerous productions with the London-based Irish theatre company Triskellion. This is Paul’s first production with Kinky Fish.
