Rosamond Palmer  Creative Director

Helen Rogers Actor

Sally Armstrong Director

Helen Belbin Actor

 Josh Cass    Actor

Somalia Seaton

 Actor

Rosamond has now written and produced five plays 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.

Helen Rogers has appeared in four out of five of the plays for Playdays in the Park. and toured “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.

Sally Armstrong directed Disaster in the Kitchen, Smoke Alarm, Henry’s Wobbly Tooth and Pirates of the Carrot and Bean for KINN. Sally trained at The Birmingham School of Speech Training and Dramatic Art and has worked continually in the theatre for the last 27 years including the Royal National Theatre, Birmingham Rep, Chichester Festival Theatre and New Vic. In 2005 she played Mrs Clough in the highly acclaimed Mulgrave at Whitby. She has recently 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.

Helen Belbin trained as an actress at Northumbria University in Newcastle and Drama Studio London. She has toured in Britain, Ireland and Italy with various theatre companies. Helen 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.

 Josh Cass 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 theatreDelicatessen on recent productions of David Hare's Fanshen and A Midsummer Nights Dream. With the British Touring Shakespeare Company Much Ado About Nothing and The Taming of the Shrew. He is also a very experienced voiceover artist.

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