Friends of Bedlam

Friends of Bedlam is the official alumni organisation for the Edinburgh University Theatre Company. Become a member to support the EUTC in its future battles and endeavors! Check out the Friends of Bedlam website, they also tweet and have a Facebook page.

If you are an alumni and want to pop in to look around, just send a quick email to [email protected] who will be very happy to organise it.

Notable Alumni

There are bedlamites in roles throughout the theatre industry and beyond, in all roles from acting to technical theatre to producing. Below is a selection of a very small fraction:

• Jane Alexander (All the President’s Men, 2 Primetime Emmy Awards, Tony Award)
• Camilla Arfwedson (Holby City)
• Louise Alder (Royal College of Music)
• Hilary Andersson (Journalist, Panorama)
• Maria Bamford (The Comedians of Comedy)
• Mitch Benn (The Now Show, Mitch Benn’s Crimes Against Music)
• Sir Michael Boyd (Former Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company)
• Laurie Bauer (Linguist)
• Eirlys Bellin (Spank!, Stella)
• Harriet Braine (Total Eclipse of the Art)
• Darius Campbell (also known as Darius Danesh, Popstars, Chicago (West End))
• Hamish Clark (Monarch of the Glen)
• Ian Charleson (Chariots of Fire)
• Jenny Colgan (Amanda’s Wedding, Looking for Andrew McCarthy, West End Girls)
• Rawdon Christie (Journalist)
• Isabella Calthorpe (How to Lose Friends & Alienate People)
• John Cash CBE (Physician)
• Lionel Crawford (Virologist)
• Daisy Donovan (The Eleven O’Clock Show)
• Mark Dolan (Balls of Steel)
• Fred Deakin (Lemon Jelly, Airside)
• Tessa Jowell DBE (MP, Baroness)
• Xanthe Elbrick (Coram Boy (Broadway), Body of Lies)
• Jo Ellison (Journalist)
• Peter Forbes (Follies (West End))
• George Foulkes (Former Minister of State for Scotland)
• Toby Gough (Children of the Sea)
• Tim Gee (Friends World Committee for Consultation)
• Nicola Green (Portrait Painter)
• Roy Guest (Folk Singer)
• Ella Hickson (Eight, Wendy, Peter Pan for the RSC)
• Sam Holcroft (Cockroach, Edgar and Annabel)
• Neil Hudson (MP)
• Piers Haggard OBE (Conquest, Pennies from Heaven)
• Nyasha Hatendi (Hunters, King Charles III (Broadway))
• Stephen Hogan (Peer Gynt, Handsome Devil)
• Sir Henry Irving (Dracula)
• Miles Jupp (Balamory, The News Quiz)
• Humphrey Ker (The Penny Dreadfuls)
• Lucy Kirkwood (Geronimo, Tinderbox, Chimerica)
• Alex Kay (Journalist)
• Susy Kane (Lodge 49, Stan & Ollie)
• Lu Kemp (Room, Encourage the Others)
• Jason Koxvold (Photographer)
• Duncan McLean (Aalst)
• Ewen MacIntosh (The Office)
• Hilton McRae (Royal Shakespeare Company, The Kreutzer Sonata)
• Kevin McKidd (Trainspotting, Grey’s Anatomy, Rome)
• Simon Muller (The Bill, Anna Karenina)
• Steve Morrison (Edinburgh University Rector)
• Sharman MacDonald (After Juliet, The Girl with the Red Hair)
• Angus MacFadyen (Braveheart, Robert the Bruce)
• Ian Mathieson (Egyptologist)
• Martin Meade (Historian)
• Vincent Megaw (Archaeologist)
• Marcus Merriman (Historian)
• Isobel Murray (Scholar)
• Elizabeth Pye (Conservator)
• Amber Rudd (Former Home Secretary)
• David Reed (The Penny Dreadfuls, Fast and Loose)
• David Rintoul (The Ghost Writer)
• Eleanor Rhode (Snapdragon Productions)
• Hannu Rajaniemi (The Quantum Thief)
• Jack Ronder (Survivors)
• Al Smith (Enola, Radio)
• Alastair Sim (Scrooge)
• Rachael Stirling (Tipping the Velvet)
• Rebecca Saunders (Composer)
• Marli Siu (Run, Alex Rider)
• Olly Smith (TV presenter)
• Elize du Toit (Hollyoaks)
• Lorna Rose Treen (Dave’s Funniest Joke of the Fringe 2023)
• Thom Tuck (The Penny Dreadfuls)
• Greg Wise (Sense and Sensibility)
• Amelia Windsor (British royal family)
• Henry Winter (Journalist)
• Bibi Van Der Zee (Journalist)