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Goodnights Entertainment
Born and raised in Rochdale a stone's throw from the legendary Spotland. Attended Exeter University to study Drama.
Worked as an actor in Nottingham with Leda Theatre Collective (physical/experimental theatre); Milton Keynes with Theatre of Fact (documentary T.I.E); spent 12 months at the New Vic in Newcastle-under-lyme with Peter Cheeseman); Durham Theatre Company toured the UK and Europe with Forced Entertainment T.I.E with M6 Theatre Company,Theatre Alibi, trained in Poland with Gardzienice Theatre (alongside Alison Hodge and Emma Rice); a national tour of 'The Magic Roundabout' playing Dylan for David Graham Productions; and finally the role of Buddy Holly in 'Three Steps to Heaven' at Harrogate Theatre.
TV roles included EastEnders, Emmerdale, Cracker, Hetty Wainthrop Investigates, Out of the Blue and a series of adverts for Draught Bass.
He has directed all of Louise Roche’s plays in the UK and USA (with the notable exception of 'Milton Keynes The Musical') including the UK Number One tours starring Shobna Gulati, Gwyneth Strong, Lucy Speed, Sue Devaney, Maureen Nolan, Donna Hazelton and Shana Swash.
In addition his credits include ‘The Ford World Rally Experience’ proving that he can in fact, despite what anyone might say, direct traffic.
Any spare time is spent singing as a Frank Sinatra tribute, with his pop group 'Playtime' or checking ‘Ceefax’ for the football results.
Jack Randle - Director
Louise wrote ‘Glutton for Punishment’ which was published by Pan Books whilst she was still at the University of East Anglia studying Linguistics. She then worked in TV production for a number of years for Yorkshire Television, Channel Four and the BBC.
Mothering three children in fairly quick succession seemed strangely to inspire her to write and produce a string of plays, maybe it was the promise of child free Saturday mornings when she would be left alone to write – sounds quite likely!
Since 1999 she has written ‘Frankie’s Game’, ‘Girls Night’, ‘Bobby & Johnny’, ‘Milton Keynes The Musical’, ‘Lucky Balls’, ’Girls Behind’, ‘Happy Christmas Shirley’, ’True Love’, ‘Checkout Girls’, 'Same Difference', 'Red Letter Day', ‘Girls Night Too’ and ‘Finding Daddy’.
She has also written for ITV’s ‘Where The Heart Is’ and is currently developing a series for ITV. In 2001 she was voted Millennium Woman by Milton Keynes Women of Enterprise. In 2003 she became a director of theatre company ‘Goodnights Entertainment Ltd’. She is married to director Jack Randle and they have three daughters Megan, Estelle and Nancy. In her spare time she spends many happy hours sticking sequins on the girls’ dance costumes.
For complete play listings with plot summaries visit: http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsR/roche-louise.html
Louise Roche - Writer
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