Our Company Current Members Dave Arkell As a writer, his creative ideas have been invaluable in helping to shape scenarios and scripts. As an actor he has performed in all our productions since By Hook or... Read more Tracie Billington-Beardsley I first got involved with WCT when I got a panicky phone call as one of the WCT actors was unable to perform and the show opened in just... Read more Tam Gilbert I first saw WCT at Kingston Lacy. The idea of watching a play whilst eating a picnic greatly appealed to me. I hadn’t quite realised how much the action... Read more Barbara Hart I’ve been part of WCT since the beginning. When we first got involved it was a great thing to do as a family and our three children always had... Read more Jeff Hart I joined Wimborne Community Theatre around twenty years ago and have loved being part of the group. It has been great to work at a wealth of venues and... Read more Tuppy Hill A friend, who knew that I was interested in history, suggested that I come along to a WCT workshop for the 1992 production Riotous Living at Kingston Lacy. I really enjoyed... Read more Gill Horitz I co-founded WCT with Tony Horitz and Sharon Muiruri. Seeing the impact of Tony and Sharon’s theatre-in-education work with children at Kingston Lacy, and attending a performance of Morna... Read more Tony Horitz I was co-founder of WCT (in its first incarnation as Arts in the Community Events or ACE) in 1991. Though I’ve always worked in educational and community theatre, this... Read more Charlie Williams My mum and dad were involved since about 1991 or 92 and we’ve been going to the plays all my life. I kept wanting to be part of it... Read more Jane Skellett I was a member of Wimborne Community Theatre from its beginnings, as a musician, actor and theatre maker, in Riotous Living and later in By Hook or By Crook. For the last... Read more Past Members Jean Austreng Jean joined the group recently after seeing ‘The Great Rinsing’ and has been asking herself why she gets so much enjoyment out of Wimborne Community Theatre: Why Do We... Read more Stephen Beebee My active interest in acting as an exploration of living started (of all things!) when I watched some of the Star Trek NG franchises. Some performers just seemed to... Read more Chris Dowdle Chris, who died recently, was an invaluable part of Wimborne Community Theatre for 25 years and will be greatly missed by us all. She performed in many of our... Read more Robert Hart I was first involved as an actor alongside my parents, brother and sister. My earliest memory is of the play ‘Riotous Living’ at Kingston Lacy House in which I... Read more Kenlis Horitz “I’ve been an active member of WCT since I moved here from Devon. I’ve been acting since I was six. The first play I was in was Wind in... Read more Dunja Wood Dunja first became involved in WCT when she was teaching at Pamphill School in the 1990s, and her class took part in WCT’s first production, ‘Voyages’, in 1991 at... Read more Marion Leatherdale Everyone connected with Wimborne Community Theatre is deeply saddened by the recent death of Marion who had been a member since some of the first productions over thirty years... Read more
