Rosamond Palmer  Creative Director

Greg Banks Director

Sally Armstrong Director

Chris Orr Actor

 Kim Palmer Actor

Silvana Maimone Actor

Helen Rogers Actor

Matthew Smith Stage Manager

Rebecca Shorrocks  Actor

Christopher Rees Actor

Somalia Seaton Actor

 Josh Cass    Actor

Helen Belbin Actor

Rosamond writes and produces KINN’s plays, including six productions for Playdays in the Park, Hastings. ”The children enjoy the characters and plots and I seem to be able to get the information across in a fun way.”      Rosamond trained as a professional actor at The Birmingham School of Speech Training and Dramatic Art and worked in the business for ten years in repertory and community theatre, theatre in education, television and radio. She stopped working full time to look after her three children. While being a mum she developed drama workshops in schools and young people’s centres. Rosamond later trained as a counsellor and has developed integrating her therapeutic and theatre skills.

Greg Banks directed “Megan and the Mixed Up Buckets”.  He has worked in theatre for thirty years as an actor, writer and director. He was co-founder and member of the highly successful Dr Fosters Theatre Co. for 12 years. Since then his work has taken him all over the world, from Singapore to Seattle, through Hong Kong, Moscow, most of Europe the West End and Broadway. He has recently directed and adapted ‘Romeo and Juliet’ in Minneapolis, ’Why The Whales Came’ for the Birmingham Stage Co.,  ‘Spirit Horse’ In Canada, ‘Macbeth’ and ‘Stand and Stare’ for Fair Game Theatre. English Companies include The Bristol Old Vic, Plymouth Theatre Royal, The Unicorn, Polka, Cheltenham Everyman, Travelling Light, M.6 and Theatre Alibi.

Sally Armstrong  has directed “The Lov e Trap”,“Smoke”, “Disaster in the Kitchen”, “Smoke Alarm”, “Henry’s Wobbly Tooth” and “Pirates of the Carrot and Bean” for KINN.  She trained at The Birmingham School of Speech Training and Dramatic Art and has worked continually in the theatre for the last 28 years including the Royal National Theatre, Birmingham Rep, Chichester Festival Theatre and New Vic. In 2005 Sally played Mrs Clough in the highly acclaimed Mulgrave at Whitby. She has also appeared in the national tour of “Whisky Galore, the Making of a Fillum”. Her television appearances include Wycliffe, Holby City, Eastenders, Chuckle Vision and League of Gentleman. Sally also reads books for the RNIB.  She is nominated for the 2008 Audie Award for reading The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney and is winner of the 2004 Canadian Torgi Award for reading “Buddha Da” by Anne Donovan.

Chris Orr appeared in “Megan and the Mixed Up Buckets”  He trained as an actor with The Acting Company at ArtsEd. As an actor he has played Donald Duck in Blue Remembered Hills (Cheltenham Everyman and tour) played six characters in a production of Frankenstein in the ruins of an Abbey and improvised in a Greenwich Village Coffee House in New York. In addition he has a wide experience in TIE. This includes his three one man storytelling productions for his own company Final Edit – A Christmas Carol, Treasure Island and The Carpenter's Story (the nativity as told by Joseph).

For Final Edit he has produced and directed Macbeth and a Midsummer's Night Dream played in domestic houses. He also direct Big Iron for The Last Word turning the upstairs room into of a Brighton pub into a cowboy saloon for a piece of interactive theatre.

Kim Palmer played Major Disaster and M. Scoffalot and a gorilla in “Megan and the Mixed Up Buckets”, he also appeared  in “The Love Trap”  He studied Performing Arts at Lewes College and  has also worked previously with KINN appearing in “Pirates of the Carrot and Bean” and “Henry’s Wobbly Tooth”.

Silvana Maimone played Megan in “Megan and the Mixed Up Buckets” She trained in London at Ecole Philippe Gaulier, and prior to that at the John Bolton Theatre School in Melbourne, Australia. Recent work includes Lady Wilton in Clio’s Company “Baited Hooks”, Ilona in "Best Friends Forever" at The Red Lion, Angel and Street Wise for Kent County Council in association with the Hazlitt Theatre. Films include Laura in “The Haunted House”,48 Hour Film Challenge and Gloria Crawford in Tony Ukpo's "No Smoking in the Waiting Area".

Helen Rogers has appeared in five out of six of the plays for Playdays in the Park. and toured “Megan and the Mixed Up Buckets”, “Disaster in the Kitchen”,  “Smoke Alarm”. “Henry’s Wobbly Tooth” and “Pirates of the Carrot and Bean”  In 2006, as well as working with KINN, Helen played the title role in a national small scale tour of “Educating Rita” by Willy Russell. Films include “Roy’s Toys” and “The Last Supper”. She has also made three corporate videos with West End Studios. Helen is a talented singer and dancer, running her own workshops and classes as well as appearing in musicals.

Matthew Llewellyn Smith is from Stevenage, Hertfordshire. He stage managed “Megan and the Mixed Up Buckets” and also appeared in it as a uni-cycling gorilla!  He studied Theatre Design and Production at Trinity College, Carmarthen.   Stage Management credits include: Become A Man (Hackney Empire and City Hall, London). Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen, and Martin McDonagh’s The Lonesome West (at the Tabard Theatre, London).  The Black Curtain (UK tour), Charlotte Jones’ Airswimming (The Courtyard Theatre, London) and About Tommy by Thor Bjørn Krebs (Southwark Playhouse).  Last Christmas Matt was Assistant Stage Manager for Beauty and the Beast (Campus West, Welwyn Garden City) and he has just finished building the set and props for Heartbreak Productions’ Wind in the Willows. Matt has previously toured with two KINN productions, Henry’s Wobbly Tooth and Smoke Alarm.

 Rebecca Shorrocks appeared in “The Love Trap” She trained at Guildford School of Acting and since graduating has worked extensively in theatre ranging from fringe to national tours including “Miller”, The Pleasance. “Smoke and Mirrors”, Theatre Royal Margate. “Whisky Galore”, Nottingham Playhouse/No.1 Tour. “Bad girls”, Polka Theatre/No.1 Tour. Most recently she has worked in schools with “Michael and Mum” in association with Margate Theatre Royal and previously with Roundabout, Nottingham Playhouse's T.I.E Company. Rebecca has also appeared as “Katrina and the Smallest Christmas Tree”, UK Tour Pandora's Box Theatre Co. “And They Came for Me”, The Lyric Hammersmith.  Rebecca also devises, writes and performed her own work and has also worked as a director and producer.

Christopher Rees appeared in “The Love Trap” He trained at East 15 Acting School where he was awarded the Sir John Gielgud Award and was a runner-up in the Spotlight Prize for recent graduates. Since graduating, Chris has performed in plays that have toured the United Kingdom, the Sultanate of Oman, Greece, Spain and New York. 

Chris  also co-runs  Reflect Productions, which directs plays in Primary and Secondary Schools.  Over the last year the Company has directed three Shakespeare Plays: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macbeth and The Tempest in Schools in London as well as staging an original piece of theatre involving 20 Omani girls in Muscat. 

Somalia Seaton appeared in “Smoke”. She graduated from East 15, where roles included Elmire in "Tartuffe", Helen in "Decadence" and the title role in "King Lear". Last year she worked at the Unicorn Theatre for Children a.nd she devised and performed "Cure" at The Underbelly at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

 Josh Cass appeared in “Smoke”. He is an experienced facilitator having worked with organisations including: Encompass - The Daniel Braden Reconciliation Trust, St Ethelburga's Centre for Peace and Reconciliation, the Metropolitan Police and the Citizenship Foundation. As an actor he has worked with Theatre Delicatessen on recent productions of David Hare's Fanshen and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. With the British Touring Shakespeare Company Josh has appeared in Much Ado About Nothing and The Taming of the Shrew. He is also a very experienced voiceover artist.

Helen Belbin appeared in “Smoke”. She trained as an actress at Northumbria University in Newcastle and Drama Studio London. Helen has toured in Britain, Ireland and Italy with various theatre companies. She has worked with Edinburgh’s Puppet Lab as a puppeteer, actor and workshop leader, in Battle in the Hills and The Storm Watchers with Theatre Enigma, and has performed in Dick Whittington and The Nutcracker, both touring panto productions. Helen has appeared in a number of short films and works as a voice over artist.