Return of the Bread

Dr Flloyd Kennedy, Liverpool-based, Australian-born actress, director, voice artist, performance poet, singer-songwriter, voice/speech/accent/acting/clown coach and producer of audio fiction took part in the British folk revival in the 60s, performed street theatre, cabaret and fringe theatre in Scotland throughout the 1980s and 90s, and wrote her doctoral dissertation on "Shakespeare's Voice: a theory of the voice in performance". She has performed, directed and taught voice and acting skills at colleges and universities in the UK, US and Australia.

Flloyd writes, performs and produces the audio fiction comedy "Am I Old Yet?" short-listed for an Independent Podcast Award 2024 (fiction category) and for a Golden Lobie Award 2025 (fiction), which has now published 150 episodes and received over 54,000 downloads. She is also the writer producer of the audio fiction comedy “Baked Off! Live, laugh loaves”. She is a member of the Fable & Folly Network ("where fiction producers flourish").

She also voices various characters in fiction podcasts, including The Inspector Billings Mysteries, Community Cat, and the forthcoming Dracula 2024 and Holmwood Foundation podcasts.

Flloyd is a proud member of British Actors Equity.

Erika Sanderson trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London.

A highly versatile character actor, Erika has created a myriad of roles in a variety of genres from children's theatre to classical plays and musical theatre.

An award-winning voice actor, she can regularly be heard on The NoSleep Podcast as a narrator and voice actor, as well as appearing in other audio dramas and video games.

Hi there! I am Andrea and I'm a London based singer, and stage and voice actor. I having been performing for many years. I sing in a jazz big band, perform with amateur dramatic groups and also undertake narration and audio work.

I am delighted to be part of the Baked Off! crew and have enjoyed working on this drama so much.

Christopher graduated from East 15 Acting School in 2018 and has been working in various sectors of the industry since. He has much previous experience as an actor, as well as a singer, writer and musical director.

Recent acting credits include Dame Trott in Jack and the Beanstalk (Spillers Pantomimes, Eastwood Park Theatre); Widow Twankey in Aladdin (Beverley Artistes); The Narrator in Bonny and Read (Novanda Productions, Brighton Fringe/UK Tour); Aladdin in Aladdin, Dugdale Centre, Enfield; Davie McD/Sam/Tobias Grenfell in Tell Me A Story, produced by Kibo Productions for Zoom; Squire Bogey (and others) in Jack and the Beanstalk, with M&M Theatrical Productions; God in It’s Aboot Adam (Edinburgh Fringe); Various characters in The Sherlock Holmes Experience, at Madame Tussaud’s, London; and Fairy G/Sugar Plum in Bad Cinderella, at the Cockpit Theatre, in December 2018.

In April 2021, alongside fellow producer Mark Hunter, he co-wrote, co-directed and was Musical Director on Robin Hood: A Virtual Pantomime, which took place on Zoom, and was very well received – they currently looking to revive it this year.

Christopher has also written a new musical – Star Streaker: The Musical – which he
hopes to revive in the not so distant future.

Find out more about what Christopher is doing at www.christophermcdougall.co.uk

Wendy is a freelance visual artist, voice actor and writer; born and bred in Edinburgh. Her voice work includes advertisements and internal projects for STV, The Scottish Fire Service, Scottish Government, Citizens Advice, Age UK, Aldi, Diageo and many more. Her voice can also be heard on audiobooks, audio dramas and video games worldwide.

John T. La Barbera, (Music Director) is a NYC based Academy Award-nominated film score composer for film and theater, producer, guitar and stringed instrument virtuoso, concert artist, educator and author. Winner of awards and commissions from The Jerome Foundation, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, The Martin Gruss Foundation, Meet the Composer, UMass-Dartmouth, ASCAP and The Italian Oral History Institute and Italian Charities of America.

Film scores: “Children of Fate “(Academy Award Nomination 1992), “Marcella”, “Musical Journeys of the Black Madonna”, “The Bounty Hunter”, “Sacco and Vanzetti”, “Sister Italy”, “Pane Amaro”, “What's up Scarlet”, “Finding the Mother Lode: Italian Immigrants in California”, and “Tarantella”. He scored the music to “The Old Guitarist”, directed by Will Nunziata, starring Dominic Chianese.

Silent film scores: “Assunta Spina”, “ ‘A Santanotte”, “The Immigrant”, “The Adventurer”. He was invited to screen his film score to Assunta Spina in Italy at the 37th annual Pordenone Silent Film Festival, and at the Cineteca del Gemona (2018).

Theater: composer and musical director for off-Broadway production of Souls of Naples, (Theater for a New Audience) starring John Turturro and the stage adaptation of Sicilian playwright Luigi Pirandello's short stories in Kaos, (New York Theater Workshop) directed by Marta Clarke. Off Broadway Productions at La Mama, ETC, and composer of Italian Folk Operas and Sacred works including “Stabat Mater: Donna di Paradiso” for the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine in NYC.Read More