The Murder Mystery Team

Our team of experienced actors will entertain, enthrall and amuse you over the course of the evening.

We can assemble a number of teams to cover multiple events on any evening, but here are some of the stalwarts of our team.

James Coakes

You'll usually find James playing the detective role because that doubles as the director of the evening, making sure that everything goes to plan. On occasions when someone else is in that role James' favourite roles are Roland in The Reading Of The Will and Herbie in Little House Of Horrors.

'Roly lives in London's clubs, gambling and womanising, while Herbie is a gangster, all charm on the surface but deadly underneath. Playing different roles is great fun - for a few hours you literally step out of yourself and into a different character.'

James only acts in Murder Mysteries and does not do any other acting, although he has been in casualty. Two years ago he had an infected ingrowing toenail, and spent five hours waiting to be seen. It's probably best if you do not mention it as he is still quite cross.

Here is one of James' reviews; 'Superb Host for the Night! We had James join us for an evening Murder Mystery night as a Corporate evening (not exactly 'corporate' as it was lots of fun!). James was fabulous, great at coordinating both the 'suspects' and the 'detectives' with our own script which was written up specifically for our characaters. Will definitely be in touch with him when we plan on the next event we are doing!'

Russell Biles

Russ looks a lot like Bob Hoskins and plays a brilliant East End villain. It's probably time we wrote that part for him!

Otherwise Russ does a very good RP (posh) voice and you'll find him playing Bertie or Oswald in The Reading Of The Will or Herbie in Little House Of Horrors. His other legendary role is Father Christmas in our seasonal Who Killed Father Christmas.

Here is one of Russ' reviews; 'Good communication from Organise Events throughout. The event itself was amazing, full of laughter and fun and Russ our Detective was absolutely brilliant, leading the group, engaging everyone and making our event a very memorable one. We would definitely book again and also request Russ as our Detective.'

Joanne Cox

North London born Jo loves to put on a posh voice and step in to Lady Margaret's shoes in The Reading of The Will. She has an extensive wardrobe of costumes but the 1920s era are her favourite. It is the dressing up that Jo enjoys as much as the acting. In the modern era scripts Jo likes to play a spy in our 007, A Meeting of Spies. That's a costume that involves a lot of leather!

Marcus Massey

Marcus is one of our more experienced actors who has appeared in some real films. He recently spent a month out in Norway shooting a gory horror which featured Wererabbits. Ask Marcus, he will explain.

Marcus plays Roland Crump regularly and gives the character real depth by building on the flawed Roly's relationship with his late mother; 'She was the only woman who ever understood me!' Marcus also enjoys playing Dick Shinnery, the down on his luck writer, in Little House Of Horrors.

Here is one of Marcus' reviews; 'Super activity for a mixed age birthday pary. Marcus was our detective at a birthday party for a group who had never been involved in a murder mystery party before. We all dressed up and Marcus choreographed the activities beautifully. James and Emma were very organsied prior to the event to ensure that we picked the mystery which was right for us.'

Alexander Walker

Alex is another regular who has a very varied acting career in addition to murder mysteries. He works on stage and makes himself available as a last minute stand in which sometimes means having to learn whole scripts in a few days. He's also a medical actor, playing patients with symptoms or distressed relatives when training doctors.

In our productions Alex is pretty versatile and brings a dose of realism to his characters. In one recent production he was playing a handyman and someone told him to leave because the clients were arriving!