Sam is a Birkenhead-born actor and singer who started his career at the age of 14
when he discovered his love of musicals. He has performed on many stages across the
country in plays such as ‘Down Our Street’, ‘Bully’, ‘Life’, ‘Red Skies’ and ‘Eva’. He also
sings with jazz/swing quartet Night And Days and has run community choirs across for over 10 years across the Northwest.

Samantha has been acting professionally for over a decade, most recently in ‘Two’ by
Jim Cartwright and the lead role of Helena in ‘Hammer and Helen’ (returning to the
Edinburgh Festival this summer). Other credits include multi-role performances in ‘By the Waters of Liverpool’ (UK Tour 2023), Nessa in three of the ‘Desperate Scousewives’ quartet plays and Kitty Wilkinson in the one-woman spectacular ‘Kitty, Queen of the Washhouse’. Away from acting, she is an award-winning director and an up-and-coming standup comedian.

In a career spanning seven decades as a musician, actor and TV and radio personality, Billy Butler has established himself as something of a Merseyside legend. From DJing at the Cavern Club in the 60s and fronting his own band The Tuxedos, he went on to appear on TV’s ‘Thank Your Lucky Stars’ as well as ‘What The Butler Sees’, ‘The Mersey Pirate’ and ‘Chucklevision’. He is probably best known for his long career hosting shows on Radio City, BBC Radio Merseyside and most recently Liverpool Live Radio, where he hosts a popular weekend show. Alongside several lifetime achievement awards from the broadcasting industry he was enrolled as a Citizen of Honour, the City of Liverpool’s highest civic award in 2018.

Lesley is a seasoned actress who began her career at the Everyman Youth Theatre and has since gone on to perform in a string of plays, musicals and pantomimes, playing both straight and comedic roles. These include Brian McCann’s ‘Down Our Street’, ‘Red Skies’, ‘Last Train To Auschwitz’, ‘Super Booty’, ‘Escorts - The Musical’, ‘The Salon’, ‘Buddy Holly - The Musical’, ‘Liverbirds - The Musical’ and many more. She has been married to Billy Butler for 35 years and only agreed to perform in Under the Mersey Moon if she could have a separate dressing room to Billy, so she can enjoy some peace
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Christopher is a graduate of Richmond Drama School with an Oxford Diploma in acting and additional training at RADA. Recent credits include playing Brian Leveson QC in ‘Happiness - The Ken Dodd Story’ and The General in WW1 drama ‘One Night’ by BAFTA award-winning director Christopher Swann. His theatrical experience includes roles in plays by Shakespeare, Checkov and Brecht along with TV appearances on BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Amazon Prime and Sky.

The youngest member of the cast, Adam is also lead guitarist in the house band. He
has been performing all his life, touring the country as a singer and multi-instrumentalist since an early age. He regularly performs in the Liverpool local music scene, most recently as lead singer and songwriter with the popular die band The Drivers Club. He also performs with another band called Ukebox.

Catherine’s acting talents will be showcased in no less than three roles in this production, namely Jackie, Linda (the carer who looks after Grandad Harry), and one of the airport travellers. Catherine has been performing since the age of five. As a singer and dancer, she has entertained audiences around the world with P&O Cruises as part of The Stadium Theatre Company. She has appeared in many pantomimes and summer seasons as well as sung with various bands, most recently The Poppies. TV credits include BBC1, ITV and Channel 4.​​

Leslie is a Liverpool based actor who graduated in Media and performance at the
University of Salford in 2017. His previous credits include Charlie in ‘Under the
Concrete, Waiting’ at The Lowry, Salford, Demetrius in ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ at The Gladstone, Wirral, Steve in ‘97+’ at the Edinburgh Fringe and Liverpool Olympia, and Brian in ‘Little White Feathers’ at Hope Street Theatre, Liverpool. Leslie also appears as Fries Man in the airport scene of ‘Under the Mersey Moon’.

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Sarah Lou is better known as one half of close harmony acoustic country duo
Tennessee Waltz, with her partner Jimmy Rae. She has been a performer on and off for much of her life; from heading up choirs to singing in bands and more recently as a session musician and voiceover artist - although she admits it is some years since she stood onstage in an acting role, the last occasion being when she played the lead role of Polly in a school production of ‘The Boyfriend’! She studied Theatre Studies at A Level and is also a singer-songwriter in her own right. Amongst other numbers in the show, she'll be performing her own song ‘A Different Road’, the title track of Tennessee Waltz’s recent album.

Jodie is an established singer-songwriter from Liverpool, now based in Scotland who
regularly performs live under the name SheBeat and has recently released her first
album ‘From Liverpool to Leith’. Prior to picking up a guitar, Jodie worked for many
years in commercial production, performing as a voice over artist and narrator on radio
commercials and digital content. She also produces and presents a monthly grassroots music show called ‘SheBeat’s Scottish Music Scene’ for Louder Than War Radio.

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We are very grateful to Chris for kindly agreeing to join the cast at short notice to cover these two supporting roles, for which he is supremely over-qualified! The only US-born member of the cast, Chris trained as an actor at Syracuse University in upstate New York before heading to New York City. Over the next decade he performed in the US, Brazil and Germany in major musical productions including ‘Grease’, ‘Miss Saigon’, Beauty And The Beast’, ‘Tanz Dear Vampire’and ‘Starlight Express’, as well as fronting several bands, including a country music revue in Pennsylvania. Since relocating to the UK, he has spent a decade as lead vocalist for the band Fire, as well as teaching, acting, and most recently qualifying and practicing as an entertainment lawyer.

Jimmy's bio can be accessed under Meet the Writers and Director.

Al is a musician, singer, songwriter, artist, poet and political activist who has been part of the Merseyside cultural landscape for over six decades. His band The Almost Blues performed at the Cavern Club supporting the likes of Little Stevie Wonder, The Exciters and Doris Troy, recorded at Abbey Road Studios for EMI and released an EP on Vee- Tone Records. Al later performed or led a range of rhythm and blues bands including Supercharge, 29th and Dearborn and The Lawnmower, who recorded sessions for Paul Jones on Radio 2 and played many blues festivals. In the 1980s he ran a successful recording studio, promoted gigs and managed Liverpool actor/poet/DJ Craig Charles. Al
still performs regularly around the northwest as both a singer and poet.