2026 London Cast

Alan Vicary

Alexander Fleming

Alan is from Perth, Scotland and has enjoyed a varied career in theatre as an actor and singer. He has performed in plays, musicals and concerts in the UK and internationally and has appeared in fifteen West End shows. Credits include ‘Les Misérables’ (Palace), ‘Mary Poppins’ (Prince Edward), ‘Girl from the North Country’ (Gielgud), ‘The Phantom of the Opera’ (His Majesty’s) and ‘Kinky Boots’ (Adelphi). Other highlights include ‘King Lear’ (Chichester and New York), ‘The Crucible’ (The Old Vic) and ‘The Power of Yes’ (National Theatre). Most recently he played The Head in ‘The Parent Agency’ (Storyhouse Chester).

Maz McGinlay

Jess

Training: Dance School of Scotland and Guildford School of Acting (BA Hons).

Theatre credits include: Ghost of Christmas Past in Christmas Carol (Lowry Theatre); Lifeline (Original Cast Signature Theatre Off Broadway); Greatest Days (UK Tour); Claus (Lowry Theatre); Penny Pingleton in Hairspray (London Coliseum); Oklahoma (Royal Albert Hall); Kathy in Singin’ in the Rain (Pitlochry Festival Theatre); Yeast Nation (Southwark Playhouse); The Government Inspector (MTFest); Tainted (Workshop); Cinderella (Antony Law); Barbra in Night of the Living Dead (Pleasance Theatre); Cinderella (Mercury Theatre). In 2014 Mari won the Young Scottish Musical Theatre Award of the Year.

Nathan Salstone

Aaron Elliot/Clowes

Nathan Salstone (he/him) Broadway: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2023 Revival, Cast Album), Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Original Broadway Cast). Off-Broadway: Titanic (NY City Center Encores). Regional World Premiere: Wonder (American Repertory Theater) What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank (The Old Globe), Knoxville (Asolo Rep, Cast Album), 3 Summers of Lincoln (La Jolla Playhouse). A graduate of Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Drama. @nathan_salstone

Kieran Brown

Merlin Pryce

Kieran Brown trained at Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama. Credits include the world premiere of Haywire (Barn Theatre, Cirencester), Made In Dagenham (London Palladium), The Crown Jewels, (Garrick Theatre, London), Paravicini in The Mousetrap (UK Tour), Heathers: The Musical (The Other Palace), Titanic (World Tour), Cover Phantom in The Phantom Of The Opera (Her Majesty’s Theatre), Pipe Dream (The Union Theatre), Tick, Tick… Boom! (Vienna Theatre Project), Wicked (Apollo Victoria), The Woman In Black (International Theatre Vienna), Love Never Dies (Adelphi Theatre), The Importance Of Being Earnest (English Theatre, Vienna) and Les Misérables (Palace Theatre).

Helen Logan

Layla Elliot

Theatre credits include: Black Hole Sign (Traverse/Tron); Cinderella (His Majesty’s Aberdeen/Crossroads); To Save the Sea (Sleeping Warrior); Lena (Feather Productions/Assembly/Tour); Local Hero (Royal Lyceum); Hamlet (Bard in the Botanics); Bill McLaren: The Voice of Rugby (Firebrand TC); The Sunshine Ghost (Scottish Theatre Producers); Blithe Spirit; Death of a Salesman; Moonlight and Magnolias; Proof; A Streetcar Named Desire; Tales from Hollywood, and Pantomimes: Mother Goose; Oh Yes We Are!! A Quest for Long Lost Light (and Laughter!); Jack & The Beanstalk; Sinbad; Snow White and the Seven Dames; Aladdin; Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty (all Perth Theatre); Who Pays The Piper; The Worm Who Turned; The Golden Rage; The Angel and The Manse (all Glasgow Oran Mor); The Cone Gatherers (APA Tour); Life, Love and Liberty (Dumfries and Galloway Arts); The Snow Queen (Stirling Macrobert); Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off (Prime Productions); Mill on the Floss (Nottingham Playhouse/Northcott Exeter) and Hard Times (Northcott Exeter).

Helen has also performed in several seasons at Pitlochry Festival Theatre where productions included: Chicago; Travesties; Quality Street; The Last Witch; Carousel; Scrooge!; This Happy Breed; Yellow on the Broom; Improbable Fictions; Home and Beauty; A Little Night Music; Dr. Angelus; Sleeping Beauty; Miracle on 34th Street; Whisky Kisses; Whisky Galore – A Musical!; Henceforward; My Fair Lady; Trelawney of the Wells; The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie; A Women Of No Importance; Man of the Moment; Dolly Wests Kitchen; Kind Hearts and Coronets; Things We Do For Love; Engaged; Lend Me a Tenor; Absurd Person Singular; and Amadeus.

Film & TV credits include: the new Sky series Lockerbie: A Search For Truth; the BBC series River City; the feature film The Descent (Celador Films/Pathé); We’ve Gotta Get Out of This Place (BBC); A Mug’s Game (BBC); and Dr. Finlay (STV).

Kelly Glyptis

Amalia Voureka

Kelly Glyptis is a Greek-American performer currently based in London, England where she was seen for two years as Carlotta Giudicelli in The Phantom of The Opera at His Majesty’s Theatre in the West End. Most recently, Miss Glyptis was the winner of the Central VA Broadway World Award for Best Supporting Performer in a Musical for her portrayal of Mother Abbess in The Sound of Music with Riverside Center for the Performing Arts. She is a highly sought after performer of both opera and musical theater and headlined the inaugural Virtuoso Series presented by Broadway Producer Mark Cortale in Provincetown, MA. She was the inaugural winner of the Music International Grand Prix and has been the previous winner of the London, Canadian, and Berlin International Music Competitions, and The Voice of New UK Musicals Audience Prize. Musical Theatre credits include: Aldonza (Man of La Mancha) with Opera Saratoga, Fruma Sarah and Golde/Yente Cover (Fiddler on the Roof) on the First North American National Tour, The Mother Abbess Cover (The Sound of Music) on the North American National Tour, Mary Poppins (Mary Poppins), The Witch (Into the Woods), Morticia (The Addams Family), Anita (West Side Story) with The Prizery Theatre. Opera credits include performances with The Lithuanian National Opera, The Atlanta Opera, Opera Saratoga, Surrey Opera, Opera Deleware, Fargo-Moorhead Opera, Virginia Opera, Shreveport Opera, Opera on Location, Baltimore Opera and more.

Robbie Scott

Julian Kerr

Robbie is from the North East of Scotland and is delighted to be making his London Debut in Lifeline.

Theatre credits include: Renton in Trainspotting (Workshop, Phil McIntyre Live), Swing in The Parent Agency (Scenario Two), Julian/Pryce in Lifeline (Original Off-Broadway Cast, Signature Theatre, New York), Davy inSunshine on Leith(Pitlochry Festival Theatre), Will in Group Portrait in a Summer Landscape (Lyceum/Pitlochry Festival Theatre), Dickon in The Secret Garden (Pitlochry Festival Theatre), Tulsa in Gypsy (Pitlochry Festival Theatre), Peter Pan in Peter Pan and Wendy (Pitlochry Festival Theatre), Dick Whittington in Dick Whittington (Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford).

Training: Arts Educational Schools, London (BA Hons), The Dance School of Scotland, Glasgow

Hannah Visocchi

Dr Sarah & Ensemble

Hannah trained at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, graduating in 2019. Her theatre credits include: The Duchess (West End/Trafalgar Theatre); A Dolls House (National Theatre Studios Workshop); Moonset (Tron Theatre); An Act of Union (A Play, a Pie & a Pint); Metamorphosis (Vanishing Point); Cinderella (Dundee Rep); Peter Gynt (National Theatre); and Cinderfella (Tron Theatre).

Hannah’s screen credits include: the upcoming new Netflix series, The Undertow, directed by Jeremy Lovering; and two series of Dog Squad for the BBC.

Jasmine Jules Andrews

Nurse Irvine & Ensemble

Training: The Urdang Academy

Theatre credits include: Ariel in The Little Mermaid (Kings Theatre Glasgow); Jean MacLaren in Brigadoon (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Mob Leader/Ensemble in Jesus Christ Superstar (2023 & 2024 UK Tours); Ensemble (original cast) in The Cher Show (UK & Ireland Tour).

Graham Richardson

Ensemble

Graham Richardson is an actor, musician and science communicator with a particular interest in science theatre. Having trained at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, he has been involved with Lifeline for seven years as an actor, podcaster (The Lifeline Project) and event organiser. Credits include: Ensemble in Lifeline, Signature Theatre, New York; Mr X in The Mould that Changed the World, Edinburgh and US Tour; Bobby in Urinetown, Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

LIFELINE’S 2026 CHORUS of Scientists, Doctors, Nurses and Microbiologists

Week 1: Agata Sirek, Alicia Scheffer Wong, Daniel Brayson, Mainga Bhima, Nazneen Rahman, Olivia Bracken, Patrick Holmes, Roisin Healy, Ryo Kuno, Shay (Shehryar) Khan, Sian Gaze, Solen Marqueste

Week 2: Alicia Demirjian, Alisha Dua, Amanda Johnson, Aimée Mutambo, Baktash Khozoee, Lilley Bridges, Lisa Newbull, Maximillian Woodall, Pol Vandenbroucke, Rhian Newbull, Sophie Taylor, Zachary Cohen

Week 3: Ashley Brown, Babs Kell, Callum McLean Anderson, Caragh Dougan, Cara Patel, Celine Driessen, Isra Husain, Lucy Handscomb, Maia Phillips, Mustafa Moroglu, Nurin Abdul Aziz, Sahar Knight

Week 4: Cecilia Longoni, Madeleine Anderson, Madeleine Oliver, Maria (Marsha) Boltova, Oliver Waterhouse, Sarah Harpaz, Seif Shaheen, Shannon Guild, Sophie Feary, Success Ajayi, Suzie Rawcliffe, Zoe Carmichael

Week 5: Anna Long, Cecilia Ashu, David McKinney, Eleri Davies, Hannah Lucey, India-Mai Jardine, Lucy Brunton, Melissa Foyle, Michael Dixon, Michael Du, Sara Davison, Tim Watson

CREATIVE TEAM

Robin Hiley Music and Lyrics / Lead Producer

Becky Hope-Palmer Book

Jessica Conway Lead Producer

Alex Howarth Director

Leanne Pinder Choreographer

James Ross Producer / Music contributions

Neil Metcalfe Musical Director

Abby Clarke Set Design

Alice McNicholas Costume Design

Paul Smith Sound Design and Operation

Matthew Craigen Lighting Design and Operation

Titch Gosling Production Manager

Becky Chalmers Assistant Musical Director

Claire Oxlade Co-producer

Graham Richardson Science Engagement Manager

Dr Meghan Perry Scientific Advisor

Dr CarriAyne Jones-Parr Co-producer

Mary Stahl Co-producer