Wiltshire Creative has announced the cast and creative team for this year's festive pantomime, Sleeping Beauty, at Salisbury Playhouse.

The writers, Plested, Brown & Wilsher, are returning to Salisbury for a third year after the success of last year’s Dick Whittington, which was nominated for Best Pantomime at the 2024 UK Pantomime Association Awards.

Ryan McBryde will direct the pantomime, with Claudia Kariuki set to play Fairy Frappucino, Lottie Mae O’Kill as Princess Stella, Neal Craig as King Arthur Rightus, Scotty Armstrong as Dame Nanny Fanny Adams, Natasha O’Brien as Fairy Badflix and Joseph Peacock as Mike the Magnificent.

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The Company of Sleeping Beauty (Image: Ash Mills) The creative team includes designer Katie Lias, lighting designer Nic Farman, sound designer Michael Scott, choreographer Khiley Willams, musical supervisor and orchestrator Paul Herbert and casting director Natalie Gallacher.

Sleeping Beauty will open on Saturday, November 30, and will run until January 12, 2025.

The pantomime will see Princess Stella fall under the curse of evil Fairy Badflix, dooming her to sleep for a hundred years.

The audience will be taken on an adventure to see if the curse can be broken.

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Claudia Kariuki’s theatre credits include Sister Act, SIX The Musical, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, School of Rock, Wicked, Ragtime and Porgy and Bess.

Lottie Mae O’Kill has appeared in Zog, Peter Pan and Bring it On.

Neal Craig’s previous roles include Mamma Mia!, Jekyll & Hyde, First Touch and Peter Pan, while Scotty Armstrong has appeared in Shrek – The Musical, Motown - The Musical, Beauty and the Beast, The Producers and White Christmas.

Natasha O’Brien, who will play Fairy Badflix, has appeared in Starter for Ten: A New Musical, Aspects of Love, Mamma Mia!, Falsettos and Children of Eden.

Joseph Peacock’s theatre credits include Becoming Nancy, Titanic The Musical and The Osmonds: A New Musical.

Ryan McBryde, the director, is an award-winning theatre director, formerly the creative director for the Mercury Theatre, Colchester from 2019 to 2024.