Say My Name: J-oh Lind-lee

Originally from Wakefield, West Yorkshire, Joe trained at The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA).

Other Tall Stories credits include: Room on the Broom

Other theatre credits include: Frozen (Disneyland Paris), The Wave (European Tour), Greenwood Dreams (Claybody Theatre), Spellz (UK Tour) and The Sam Wanamaker Festival (Shakespeare’s Globe). His television and film credits include All at Sea (BBC), Puck (Short Film) and Divine Intervention (Short Film).

What have been your favourite projects to work on?
I absolutely loved performing at Disney. Living in Paris was amazing and I spent all day hanging out with Elsa, Anna and Olaf which was pretty cool.

What was your favourite story as a child?
Room on the Broom was definitely a favourite of mine, so much so, that I once went to school dressed as the witch for World Book Day!

What possession would you really not want to lose?
I wouldn’t want to lose my headphones because I need to be listening to music wherever I go (mostly so that I can pretend I’m in a music video).

Say my name: HAN-uh MIL-uh

Originally from Bristol, Hannah trained on the three year acting course at LAMDA.

Previous credits with Tall Stories include: Room on the Broom (West End, UK tour, Malta) The Snail and the Whale (West End, Sydney Opera House, UK tour and livestream). The Smeds and the Smoos (Devising and emergency cover). Hannah also adapted, animated and performed The Light Princess as part of Tall Stories’ storytelling project, Tales of Light.

Other theatre credits include: The Koala Who Could (UK tour), Roots (1927, Wilton’s Music Hall, China and Japan), Boxville (Cardboard Adventures, Tobacco Factory Theatres, Little Angel and UK tour), The Tiger Who Came to Tea (UK tour), Adventures in Wonderland and Inside Pussy Riot (Les Enfants Terribles), Blackbird (Rondo Theatre), Peter Pan and Sense and Sensibility (UK open air tour).

Film credits include: Talking to Ghosts (Skint Film Company).

What was your favourite story as a child?
All the Roald Dahl’s, Harry Potter, and any story featuring a dog. All of which I’d still lap up today!

If you pretended to be an imaginary monster, what would they look like?
I would be very small, soft and seemingly sweet looking but inside the most wicked of all the monsters! Or huge and terrifying in appearance but ultimately kind hearted and tragically misunderstood.

What is your favourite thing to do in the snow?
I enjoy building a snow sculpture, usually animal or creature rather than man. Then, masterpiece complete, I’d warm up with a hot chocolate and admire my new snowy friend!

Say my name: Sah-bree-nah Sim-oh-ham-id

Sabrina is a London-based actor and writer of Algerian descent, originally from East London. She trained at The BRIT School, where her credits included playing Satan in The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, directed by Ben Matthews.

She recently graduated from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, where she worked with directors including Philip J. Morris and Jaz Woodcock-Stewart.

As a writer-performer, Sabrina wrote and starred her one-person show ALL THE WORST PARTS at the Barons Court Theatre

What was your favourite story as a child?
“Where the Wild Things Are” – I loved its mix of imagination, mischief, and magic. I was obsessed with the artwork and depiction of the fantastical beasts as a kid.

If you pretend to be an imaginary monster, what would they look like?
They’d have lots and lots of hair, so much that they could create a small nest out of it. And bright purple eyes that glow in the dark.

What is your favourite thing to do in the snow?
My favourite thing to do in the snow is a snowball fight, of course!

Say my name: ROH-bin HAH-riss

Robin grew up in the West Country near Bath, before training in classical acting at Drama Centre, London and the Vakhtangov Institute, Moscow. He’s now based in South London – but often finds himself here, there and everywhere working as an actor and musician. On this occasion, he’s really quite excited to venture into the deep, dark wood…

Other theatre credits include: Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare North Playhouse, The Globe, Neuss & UK Tour, HandleBards), Twelfth Night (Orange Tree Theatre, Flute Theatre), Robin Hood (UK Tour, Three Inch Fools), Storyteller (Courtyard Theatre), The Christmas Lobster (Farnham Maltings Theatre), Amos & The Owl (Artless Theatre, UK Tour), Atlantis (Old Fire Station, Oxford).

Television credits include: Testament (Angel Studios), Mayhem: The Secret Lives of the Georgian Kings (Sky History, OneTribeTV), Kingdom (working title), Fellowship: Tolkien & Lewis (Roarlight)

What was your favourite story as a child?
Percy the Park-Keeper. What a story. I thought he had the ultimate dream job – clearly I’ve always loved animals in the forest!

If you pretended to be an imaginary monster, what would they look like?
They would undoubtedly be blue, have 6 eyes and more legs than you can possibly imagine – think every octopus in the sea joined together, but with one head. And blue.

What is your favourite thing to do in the snow?
Grab a sledge/toboggan/granny’s best tea tray, find the biggest hill I can and let gravity work its magic.

Say My Name: HOL-lee G-len

Originally from Northern Ireland, Holly now lives in England after studying at Rose Bruford College. Holly is a stage manager who enjoys working in new writing and children’s theatre.

Previous credits with Tall Stories include: R&D, Room on the Broom (UK Tour/West End)

Other theatre credits include: Sirens (Jumping Group), Route 158 (Punchdrunk Enrichment/Tour), The Instrumentals (Southbank Centre), WOW! It’s Nighttime (Little Angel Theatre), The Nightwoman (The Barbican) Fiesta (Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch), FLOOD (UK Tour), The Instrumentals (Little Angel (Theatre/Tour), Sleeping Beauty (The Grange Theatre)

What have been your favourite projects to work on?
My favourite projects to work on have been Room on the Broom and The Instrumentals.

What was your favourite story as a child?
My favourite story as a child is the Hollyhock Wall by Martin Waddell.

If you pretended to be an imaginary monster, what would they look like?
If I pretended to be an imaginary monster I think they would be small, green and fuzzy but able to run very fast.

What is your favourite thing to do in the snow?
My favourite thing to do in the snow is to hear the crunch under my shoes and then to warm up with a hot chocolate afterwards.