Lisa Bowerman Information

Actor
UK

Biography:
Lisa Bowerman trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and has worked extensively in many major theatres throughout the UK including Leicester, Bristol Old Vic, Leatherhead, Plymouth, Salisbury, Harrogate, Windsor, Manchester, York and many more - in plays including: The Rivals, La Ronde, The Constant Wife, Ghosts, I Have Been Here Before, Relatively Speaking, Moll Flanders (title role), The Comedy Of Errors, An Ideal Husband, and Blithe Spirit. West End includes Rick's Bar Casablanca and Cavalcade. Tours have included Hay Fever, Blood Brothers and The Circle for Oxford Stage Company. Also, All Our Hellos and Goodbyes (a play commissioned to celebrate the re-opening of St Pancras Station), The Bear (Maltings Farnham), and more recently a lost J.B. Priestley play, The Roundabout at The Park Theatre, London - which also had a run as part of the Brits off Broadway season in New York. Further recent work includes a successful run of a new political play An Honourable Man, at The White Bear Kennington and Maggie & Ted which premiered at The White Bear and went onto have a short run at the Garrick Theatre, London and Yvonne Arnaud in Guildford.

Television includes: Casualty (first two series as paramedic Sandra Mute), Doctor Who (Survival), The Vision Thing, The Count of Solar, McCallum, Bad Girls, Night & Day, also, Doctors, Spooks, Hollyoaks, and Coronation Street and has recently finished filming two episodes of a new series for Disney+.

Lisa has recorded many plays for BBC Radios 3 & 4 and Independent Radio Drama Productions, and has for the last 25 years played the title role in the Doctor Who spin-off audio series Professor Bernice Summerfield for Big Finish Productions, as well regular characters in their series of Sapphire & Steel and Jago & Litefoot, and many other guesting roles.

She is also a prolific audio drama director, having directed many series for Big Finish Productions, including Doctor Who: The Early Adventures, The Companion Chronicles, Graceless, Sapphire & Steel, Torchwood and 13 series of Jago & Litefoot, as well as for other companies - most recently of which was an adaptation of H G Wells' War of the Worlds: The Coming of the Martians, starring Colin Morgan (for Sherwood Sound Studios) and Dickens' The Chimes, starring Toby Jones (for Average Romp Productions).