The Cast

Zeshan Ali (AKA Shan)

Shan is a 28 years young, smart guy, who moved to Edinburgh not too long ago, falling in love with this city and its atmosphere. He has two masters degrees in applied geology and applied environmental geosciences. Shan likes to discover life in different dimensions and that’s why he is always willing, energetic and confident about taking chances. He is very new to the theater scene but he has a feeling that he can express himself well in his character, and believes that if you don’t take a chance you will miss 100 % of it....

Katie Hartman

Katie Hartman is thrilled to be part of Table Manners, her first production in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.  A few of her favourite roles have been Philomele in The Love of the Nightingale, Simonne Evrard in Marat/Sade, and Silvestre inScapin.  Katie attends Sarah Lawrence College in New York, entering her fourth year in September.  She'd like to thank TV’s Ben Verth for giving her the time of day.

Sergio Matesanz

Sergio has previously spent two years studying acting for beginners in the Metropolis C.E, body training in the Arnold Taraborrelli Studio, and a year studying acting in the Spanish section of the Shakespeare Institute with M.A, Conejero in Madrid. He also participated in an experimental workshop about Don Quixote with the Dominican playwright/director R.A. Polanco and was his assistant director for the stage play Quintuples for the R.E.S.A.D. As well as this Sergio has done a short course of acting and directing with John Strasberg and played various roles in different amateur short films including a main role in the film Orpheus filmed in Edinburgh in 2004, directed by Carles Sanchez.

Richard Ellis

Richard is an Australian currently enjoying all the delights of working in the hospitality industry in the UK. His illustrious theatre career has included playing wise man number 1, little pig number 3, and Dean in Living Stone Media's production of The Good, The Bad and the Lonely at last year’s

Edinburgh Festival Fringe. He hopes to one day get out of the hospitality industry enter a more rewarding field such as telemarketing. 

Alison Chapman

Alison studied acting at the Ensemble Studios in Sydney. Productions with the Ensemble include The Women and Cagebirds. Alison currently lives in Edinburgh and is excited to be involved in her first production with the Fringe Festival.

Patrick O’Sullivan

Irish born Patrick O Sullivan has no previous acting experience but suspects ample experience in lying will help him get away with it. He has always found theatre and plays interesting so he is excited to be involved in such a big production so early in his soon to be distinguished career.

Anthea Stevens, Chris Tunks, Serenity Harbour

Anthea, Chris and Ren join the Living Stone Media team to help develop cameo roles, which will feature throughout the run of Table Manners. They all come from varying degrees of acting backgrounds, music, dance, and there is even a rumour that one of them went starkers recently in a production of The Full Monty… They are all thrilled to be involved with Living Stone Media as each of them respect and admire Elise and the rest of the LSM gang beyond measure, so being able to contribute, let alone possibly make a stage appearance, is an opportunity they could not resist.