bold & saucy is a charity and a limited company and as such has a Board of Trustees. These people kindly give their time and expertise: Marie Burton, Brian Edwards, Amanda Goldin, John Hull and Deborah Shipley.




Sarah Davey – Artistic Director
Sarah is the founder of bold & saucy theatre company. She has directed most of their shows, acted in some and produced all. She has a BA in Drama from Loughborough University and an MA in Theatre Arts from Goldsmiths, University of London. Alongside her work for the company, as a freelance director her most interesting work has been directing As You Like It for the British Council In New Zealand, a community production (with over 100 participants) of John Constable’s The Southwark Mysteries at Shakespeare’s Globe, London and her work for the Oxford Shakespeare Company (Much Ado About Nothing, Cyrano). Sarah is also mum to Ben and Lottie.

Marianne Badrichani – Associate Director
Marianne has been working as a director and producer in both France and England since the early 90’s. She formed Monte Cristo Productions, working in new media and film. Co-founded Together Alone, a theatre director’s collective, directing a number of shows, both classic and contemporary plays in London, before then forming Coup De Theatre, a theatre company producing French new writing in English with whom she has directed two shows at The Riverside Studios ("The Little Black Book" starring Paul McGann and Susannah Harker and "3 Women" with Ann Firbank, Marcia Warren and Camilla Rutherford). She is about to direct the British Premiere of ‘Members Only’ by Fabrice Roger-Lacan, in a new translation by Christopher Campbell.

Adrian Lillie – Designer
Resident Designer since 1995, Adrian has costumed all the bold & saucy productions in those 10 years. Also resident Designer for Oxford Shakespeare Company: credits include Much Ado About Nothing, Dr Faustus, The Winter's Tale, Comedy of Errors and the 2004 version of Cyrano de Bergerac. Current work includes The Merry Wives of Windsor and MacBeth for OSC summer season. Adrian is Artistic Director for design and hire agency Imperial Costumes and works as a Visual Merchandising Manager for Gap in the West End.



Claire Wyatt – Actor
Claire trained at Guildford School of Acting. Her theatre credits include Isabella in Measure for Measure, Margaret in Bazaar & Rummage and Lady Macbeth in Macbeth at the Courtyard Theatre. Claire is also co-founder of True Red Productions for whom she played Clara and Clootie in Andrew Hall’s production of In Flame. TV work includes Absolute Power for the BBC. Independent film credits include Radio Werewolf and Sharon in Fit for Nothing.




Sarah Goddard
Sarah studied drama at Hull University. Since then she has toured extensively, performed in many London fringe shows and is involved with exciting ongoing development work (which includes devising, impro, writing, physical theatre and taking workshops) with various companies including bold & saucy, Jet Theatre, Tall Stories, Penny Dreadful and her own company, theatrepod. She is currently playing Titania at Ripley Castle, North Yorkshire. Performance work includes; Roxane in Cyrano de Bergerac, Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing (all OSC and directed by Sarah Davey), Emcee/chorus in Dr Faustus, Holofernes in Love Labour's Lost (OSC), Maria in Twefth Night (bold & saucy), Three Servants, To Hell With Love (Jet Theatre, Ken Rea, Ryan Craig), Helena in AMND, The Tempest (Rainbow Shakespeare), Katherine in Taming of The Shrew (Orange Tree), Mum and The Monster (Tall Stories), Cassandra in Agamemnon (AOD), Rossignol in Marat/Sade (Arcola), Fragments ( Xenia), Lunch (Hen & Chickens, Sarah Davey) and The Warp (Ken Campbell ).  




Kai Simmons
Trained at Central. Theatre includes: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Almeida); Seven Sonnets of Michaelangelo (Lyric Hammersmith); The Barretts of Wimpole Street, Island, Blood and Roses (Trestle); As You Like It, MacBeth, Twelfth Night (Bold & Saucy). Short films: Light Work (Karl Cresser); The Third Puppet (Paul Savva-Andreou). Has also recently produced 3 short animated films for Channel 4 and a pop video for Emiliana Torrini.




James Daniel Wilson
Theatre credits include; Oedipus at the National Theatre, Miss Saigon (Dragon Acrobat) West End, Jumpers (Lord Greystoke) Birmingham Rep,Barnum (Ensemble) National Tour and Entertaining Morocco (Francis). Television credits include; a regular character in Grange Hill (Jez) for the BBC, as well as making guest appearances on The Bill, Family Affairs, D-Day and Chalk. Film credits include; Wilderness, Half Life and Moses with Ben Kingsley and Christopher Lee. James also works regularly as a voice over artist supplying voices for Radio Commercials, Children’s toys and numerous Feature Films including; Harry Potter, Valiant and Chromophobia.




Simon Coleman
Simon trained at Birmingham School Speech and Drama and his theatre work includes Flight at RNT, in the west end Macbeth at the Queens and Noises Off at the Comedy Theatres. Fringe work includes Cahoots Macbeth at the Kings Head,Masks & Faces at the Finborough, Macbeth and Little Murders at Jacksons Lane. Films include Shop Window for award winning writer Shan Khan and he's just produced his first short Boudoir written & directed by Marsli Stewart. This is Simons second production with Bold & Saucy, the first being The Tempest in 1997.




Mira Dovreni
Mira last appeared in black comedy Genetics for Blondes at the Soho Theatre.  Other credits include shows at Birmingham Rep, Sheffield Crucible, Liverpool Everyman, Southampton Nuffield...as well as lots and lots of tours. Last year she performed stand up for the first time at the Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh, and later this year her own company Penny Dreadful Productions open their first show at the Albany Theatre, London. 

Mira is also the owner of a BAFTA - which she received quite unexpectedly in October 2000, for her role in OnlineCaroline, the first internet drama series




Caroline Garland
Caroline trained at Bretton Hall College of Arts with a BA Hons in Acting: Devised Performance. Recent credits include Joan in 'Far Away' (Bristol Old Vic Studio), Maggie in 'And Again' (Kings Head), Lady Anne in a Shakespeare Festival at the Tower of London , Philema in 'The Haunted House' (Courtyard) and a child Weird Sister in Macbeth (Brentwood Theatre). Her various film credits include Rose in the short 'Ronnie, Jimmy and Rose'. Caroline has also been involved in prison theatre projects and devising street theatre. 




William Kempsell
William Kempsell trained at Drama Studio London where he was awarded the Peter Howitt scholarship. Theatre credits include: The Shape of Things;Love’s Labour’s Lost, Cyrano de Bergerac with Oxford Shakespeare Company; Fatale at the Bridewell Theatre; The Nightingale & The Rose at the BAC; A Midsummer Night’s Dream;Bent;The Haunted House and The Eunuch both at The Courtyard; La Ronde, Whatever! The Musical, both at the Edinburgh Festival. William has also appeared in various short films, and in a commercial as Jesus.




Morven Macbeth
Trained at the Academy Drama School, graduating in 2002. Recent credits include: Alison Porter in Vivid Eye’s production of Look Back In Anger (short tour), Demon/Mermaid in Elephant Theatre’s Dancing With The Devil at the King’s head Theatre, various characters from a drunken monk to a Cinderella in Wonderful Beast’s Forty Hares and a Princess at the Southwark Playhouse and Cecile de Volanges in Compaigne Sublime’s Dangerous Liaisons at the Pentameters Theatre. Morven has recently been working on short film Invasion with Backlot Pictures and was performing at the ACT Festival in Bilbao in a multi-media theatre production Hotel Methusalem.

Kevin Hosier
Trained at The Poor school, London. As an actor Roger in Chutzpah (King’s Head), David in Table For One (Hen and Chickens), Banquo in Macbeth (National Tour), St Peter in The Southwark Mysteries (Shakespeare’s Globe), Kipps in The Woman In Black (European Tour), Malvolio in Twelfth Night, Macbeth in Macbeth and Silvius in As You Like It, all for bold & saucy theatre company. Kevin has worked in Russia for Moscow Theatre Igroky and for One WorldTheatre in Seattle (Canadian and US tours) and for the English Suitcase Theatre (Canadian Tours).




Heather O’ Carroll
Heather last worked for Bold and Saucy on secondment from Toi Whakaari: The New Zealand Drama School in 2000. Since graduating at the end of that year she has worked extensively throughout New Zealand in Film, TV, Radio and Theatre. Last year she won the Chapmann Tripp Theatre award for Best Supporting Actress for the role of Jenny in The Shape of Things. She has just completed a season of The Cherry Orchard in Wellington playing Varya.




Dafyd Howells
Dafydd trained at ALRA and is delighted to be rejoining the cast of Cyrano having appeared in the production last year when Sarah Davey directed it in Oxford.
Other theatre credits include HER ALABASTER SKIN (Barons Court), UP4AMEET (Oval House), Ben Hur (BAC). AS YOU LIKE IT, TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA and LOVE's LABOUR' LOST (all Oxford Shakespeare Company)
TV and Short film credits include, GEOFF SYKES (Block Films), BODYWATCHING (BBC) and BANZAI (CH4).