Compères

Stephanie Lane

Stephanie Lane is a singer, actress, compere and voice-over artist. Her most recent event as Compere was the Gala Evening held at the Britten Theatre at the Royal College of Music in Kensington. The evening was organized by Penny David and Henry Roche, for the London charity Ashanti Development - raising vital funds to help tackle extreme poverty in Africa. The Gala included music performed by Oliver Davies, Robert Gibbs, Adrian Bradbury and Henry Roche and dancers from The Royal Ballet performing new ballets by Liam Scarlett, Samantha Raine, Erico Montes and Vanessa Fenton's recent ballet "Song without Words".

As a mezzo-soprano, she has performed in numerous choral works at the Royal Albert Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Barbican, Sadlers Wells and Holland Park. Recordings include Promenade concerts for the BBC, "Noyes Fludde" by Benjamin Britten and various musical theatre credits including Moses, Joseph and His Techni-colour Dreamcoat and performing for Andrew Lloyd Webber's 50th Celebrations as part of the National Youth Music Theatre.

As an actress, Stephanie has appeared at the National Theatre, in London's West End, the Royal Opera House, in Fringe Venues and has toured the UK. Credits include The Wind in the Willows, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (National Theatre), The Demon Headmaster (National Theatre Studios), An Inspector Calls (Garrick Theatre), Hansel and Gretel (Holland Park Theatre), The Duchess of Malfi (The Space), Hell Inc. (Pleasance Theatre), Julius Caesar Jones (Sadlers Wells) and A River Seen from Richmond Hill (Etcetera Theatre). Amongst numerous TV and film credits, she is perhaps most notable for her comic role as the Games Mistress in The Worst Witch series for ITV. Her radio and voice-over work has extended from Shakespeare to broadcasting for the BBC World Service and she has also compered for a variety of charity and talent events.

Tony Bell

Tony Bell has been an actor for over twenty years appearing in many West End shows including A Man for all Seasons, for which he was nominated for an Evening Standard Award, A Midsummer Nights Dream, Twelfth Night, The Taming of the Shrew, The English Game and Rose Rage (based on Shakespeare’s Henry VI). He has also performed in New York, Japan, Hong Kong, India, Mexico, Indonesia, The Phillipines, Malaysia and Europe with the award-winning all-male Shakespeare company, Propeller, for whom he has played many of the leading clowns and fools including Bottom, Feste, Autolyclus and Tranio.

Tony is also a musician, singer and compere. He is the front man and musical director for the Propeller acoustic band gigging all over the world in tandem with the shows. He toured his Memory Man Act all over the UK for corporate and private functions and was MC for corporate Christmas functions at Camden Town Hall for four years. He is also a juggler, children’s entertainer and has been an exuberant and well-padded Father Christmas for Harrods, Selfridges and Hamleys.

Tony’s television credits include Coronation Street, Holby City, Midsummer Murders, East Enders and The Bill. He is also a radio and voice over artist.