Meet the Company
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Jacob is an actor from Belfast. Since graduating from the Oxford School of Drama, Jacob has appeared in a number of plays, films and TV series, including ‘Badtameej Gill,’ ‘The Stained Stainlessman,’ and ‘The Puzzle Lady.’
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Sasha is a Jewish actor and writer. After reading English at Cambridge, she trained at the National Youth Theatre, L’École Philippe Gaulier, and The Oxford School of Drama (grad. 2022). Her non-BabyLamb credits include: Murder in the Dark (UK Tour, dir. Philip Franks), Mime Artist (Dirty Mitts music video), Sea Things (Southwark Playhouse, dir. Hal Chambers), Serpent’s Teeth (The North Wall, dir. Kristine Landon-Smith), and Measure for Measure (Cambridge Arts Theatre, dir. Tom Littler). By day, Sasha runs a children’s party franchise, entertaining excitable 5-year-olds and the occasional tipsy parent. She also creates and performs sketches for the company’s YouTube channel (30k+ subscribers) and is developing a mockumentary about party entertainers.
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Nisha is a mixed-heritage actor with Dutch, Malaysian and North-Indian roots. She studied English at Cambridge University, before training at the Oxford School of Drama. Since graduating she’s filmed projects for the BBC (Ghosts, Doctors, Things You Should Have Done) and played the lead role in a BFI-funded short film, Before I Do.
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Hannah is Baby Lamb's Director. She trained with Philippe Gaulier and at The Oxford School of Drama, and has a background in improvised and stand up comedy. Acting credits include: The Glass House (The Lion and Unic
orn), Robin Hood (that sick f**k) (The Bread and Roses), The Emperor's New Clothes (The Bread and Roses, Canal Cafe Theatre), Play Without A Title (New Diorama Theatre), Sea Things (Southwark Playhouse). Directing credits include: Youth in Flames (The Pleasance), The Glass House (The Lion and Unicorn), Artificially Yours (Riverside Studios), Robin Hood (that sick f**k) (The Bread and Roses), Collar (The Space on the Mile), The Emperor's New Clothes (The Bread and Roses, Canal Cafe Theatre), Cheer Up Slug (The Bread and Roses, Macrobert Arts Centre, Cumbernauld Theatre) and Getaway/Runaway (The King's Head, The Lion and Unicorn).
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Ashok trained as an actor at Oxford School of Drama where he studied the techniques of Michael Chekhov, Sanford Meisner, Uta Hagen and Konstantin Stanislavski.
Ashok also studied at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and École Philippe Gaulier. Most recently he featured in Vergil! A Mythological Musical, an audiobook for Audible and Naked Productions.
He has recently appeared as the titular character in Robin Hood, a Baby Lamb production for which he is also MD.
Ashok Gupta is also a classically trained musician. Having originally trained at Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire as a classical pianist and worked professionally in that capacity across Europe for the past 12 years, Ashok is increasingly in demand in the worlds of theatre, ‘fusion’ music and concert performance as a musical director and facilitator.
His musical life is centred around performance drawing on a wide variety of influences and musical experience including opera, musical theatre, jazz, South-Asian music, film music and Western classical.
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Kip is an Actor and Writer who has recently written and produced his first short film. When he’s not acting with BabyLamb or writing, Kip runs an improv group called ‘Salty Pelican’, based in east London.
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Janik is of Sri Lankan heritage, and was born and raised in London. Following careers in the music industry and the corporate world, he switched his focus to acting, graduating from the Oxford School of Drama in 2022. TV credits include: Hollyoaks, Surface (Apple TV). Stage credits include: Robin Hood (that sick f**k) (The Bread and Roses), The Emperor's New Clothes (Canal Cafe Theatre), Serpent's Teeth (The North Wall), Sea Things (Southwark Playhouse).
Associate Artists
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Kiera is a Scottish actor who trained professionally in both Musical Theatre and Acting. She graduated form the Oxford School of Drama in September 2022.
Professional credits include:
HAMLET (Southwark Playhouse), GETAWAY / RUNAWAY (The Kings Head Theatre and The Lion & Unicorn Theatre), THE EMPEROR’S NEW CLOTHES (Canal Cafe Theatre) and THE CHANGELING (Southwark Playhouse).
Kiera is also a member of Shot In The Dark Theatre Company who have had productions on across London and Scotland.