Wittgenstein On Tyne (Reading)

Charlie Hardwick

Charlie has just wrapped on the Channel 5 series 'Murder at Sea'. She can currently be seen on Channel 4's hit show 'Ackley Bridge'.
Charlie is best known for playing the role of Val Pollard in 'Emmerdale' for which she won awards for Best Comedy, Best Partnership and Best Exit. She also spent four years as Sian in 'Byker Grove', and appeared in many TV series and dramas including 'Professor T', 'Vera', 'Eastenders', 'Casualty', 'Our Friends In The North', 'The Royal', 'See You Friday', and Catherine Cookson’s 'Tide of Life' and 'Colour Blind'. Her film credits include: 'Purely Belter', 'Billy Elliot' and 'The Scar', for which she won best actress at Monte Carlo Film and TV awards.
Charlie has also performed in numerous plays and musicals including Sting's 'The Last Ship', Live Theatre's 'Clear White Light',' Two',' Your Home In The West' and 'Cabaret' (The Emcee), and Lee Hall’s 'Cooking With Elvis' and 'The Awkward Squad' in the West End.
Charlie has been a regular on 'Loose Women', a presenter for BBC Television and Radio, and sings in a brilliant band of women called Kissed back home in the North-East.

Joe Caffrey

Joe trained at LAMDA. In a career spanning over 30 years, his work in the theatre includes: 'Billy Elliot' at Leicester Curve; 'Haddock & Chips' on tour; 'The Last Ship' at Northern Stage/UK/US tour and Toronto; 'Saint George and the Dragon' and 'Light Shining in Buckinghamshire' at the National Theatre; 'The Pitmen Painters' for the National Theatre/Live Theatre at the Duchess Theatre, London and UK tour; 'Love’s Labour’s Lost', 'Much Ado About Nothing', 'We the People' and 'The Globe Mysteries' at Shakespeare’s Globe; 'The Girls' at the Phoenix Theatre, London; 'Cooking with Elvis' at the Whitehall Theatre, London and UK tour; 'Keepers of the Flame' for the RSC and Live Theatre; 'Clear White Light'; 'Iris', 'Charlie’s Trousers', 'The Last Post', 'Dirty Nets', 'Your Home In the West'; 'Cabaret' and 'Close the Coalhouse Door' for Live Theatre; 'Noir' for Northern Stage; 'Season Ticket' for Northern Stage and Pilot; Wet House at Soho Theatre, London; A Walk on Part at the Arts Theatre, London; Studs for Hull Truck. TV work includes: 'Pobol y Cwn'; 'Vera'; 'Wolfblood'; 'Clay'; 'Doctors'; 'Heartbeat'; 'Holby City'; 'The Bill'; 'Distant Shores'; 'Byker Grove'; 'Attachments'; 'Badger'; 'Hetty Wainthropp Investigates'; 'Soldier Soldier'; 'Colour Blind' and 'Spender'. Film work includes: 'Captain Marvel II', 'Victoria and Abdul', and 'Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason'.

Donald McBride

Theatre includes : ‘A Nightingale Sang In Eldon Square’, ‘Tales From The Backyard’, ‘The Last Post’, ‘Twelve Tales Of Tyneside’, ‘Laughter When We’re Dead’, ‘Oh What A Lovely War’, ‘Close The Coalhouse Door’ ‘A Proper Job’, ‘Kiddars Luck’, ‘Come Snow Come Blow’, ‘In Blackberry Time’ and ‘Green Fingers’ (Live Theatre); ‘Between Two Worlds’, ‘Peracles’, ‘Nothing Like The Wooden Horse’, ‘Bobby Robson Saved My Life’, ‘Tom and Catherine’, Dan Dare’, Duddy’s Miles’, ‘Sleeping Beauty’, ‘Mother Goose’, ‘Pickets and Pigs’, ‘Aladdin’ (The Customs House); ‘Aladdin’ Get Off At Gateshead’, ‘Beamish Boy’, ‘Taakin Heeds’ and ‘The Likely Lads’ (Gala Theatre); ‘Christmas Carol’ (Northern Stage); ‘The Invention Of Love (Salisbury Playhouse); ‘Beautiful Game’ (Theatre Royal Newcastle); ‘Romeo and Juliet’, ‘The Two Noble Kinsmen’ and ‘A Midsummer Nights Dream’ (Royal Shakespeare Company); ‘A Nightingale Sang (UK tour).
Television and film include: ‘Danny and Mick’, ‘Byker Grove’, ‘Spender’, ‘Auf Weidersehen Pet’, ‘Crocodile Shoes’, ‘Emmerdale’, ‘Casualty’, ‘The Tide Of Life’ ‘Harry’, ‘School For Seduction’, ‘Billy Elliot’ ‘The Old Oak’.

Sharon Percy

Theatre credits include: 'Chalet Lines' (Bush Theatre/Live Theatre), 'Short Cuts' (Live Theatre), 'Wounded' (New Writing North), 'Tyneside Stories' (RSC/Live Theatre), 'Live Lines: The Magical Mess Up (Live Theatre), 'You'll Never Hook A Haddock' (Live Theatre), 'The Last Post' (Live Theatre), 'Cooking With Elvis' (Live Theatre/Whitehall Theatre/Edinburgh Festival), 'Sleeping Beauty' (Big Fun Club), '12 Tales Of Tyneside' (Live Theatre), 'Blow Your House Down' (Live Theatre), 'The Swinging Sisters' (Living memory Theatre Company), 'And A Nightingale Sang' (Cheltenham Everyman Theatre).
TV credits include: 'The Feast' (BBC), 'Vera' (ITV), 'Wolfblood Season 3' (BBC), 'Inside Out' (BBC), 'Joe Maddison's War', 'Grumpy Old Holiday', 55 Degrees North' (BBC), 'Steel River Blues' (Yorkshire Television), 'The Welsh and Shakespeare' (BBC Wales), 'Byker Grove' (BBC), 'Cracker' (Granada Television).
Film credits include: 'The Song of Names', 'I Daniel Blake', 'Electricity', 'Henry', 'The Ball', 'Because I Like You', 'Kaz', 'School for Seduction', 'Billy Elliot', 'The Student Prince'.
Radio includes: 'Dolly Would' (BBC Radio 4), 'Can't See For Looking' (BBC Radio 4), 'The Bottle Factory' BBC Radio 4), 'The Painter and the Fisher Girl' (BBC Radio 4), Mr Bellings Diner (BBC Radio 4).

Trevor Fox

Theatre credits include: ‘Ocean at the End of the Lane’ (National Theatre), ‘Peggy for You’ (Hampstead Theatre), ‘My Brilliant Friend’, ‘Macbeth’ (National Theatre), ‘The Jungle’ (Young Vic, West End & USA), ‘People Places & Things’ (Headlong/UK tour), ‘Amedee’ (Birmingham), ‘The Tempest’, ‘Cymbeline’, ‘The Oresteia’, ‘Measure for Measure’, ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, ‘Gabriel’, ‘Coriolanus’, ‘Under the Black Flag’ (all at Shakespeare’s Globe), ‘King Lear’ and ‘Children’s Children’ (Almeida), ‘The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time’ (Apollo Theatre), ‘The Pitman Painters’ (National Theatre, Duchess Theatre & New York), ‘The Cherry Orchard’ (Oxford Stage), ‘Toast’ (Newcastle) and Billy Elliot (Victoria Palace Theatre).
Television includes: ‘Rain Dogs’, ‘The Thief, His Wife And The Canoe’, ‘The Moonstone’, ‘Beowulf’, ‘Joe Maddison’s War’, ‘Our Friends In The North’.
Film includes: ‘The Old Oak’, ‘The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry’, ‘Bridget Jones – The Edge Of Reason’, ‘Gabriel & Me’, ‘Billy Elliot’.