Wooden Overcoats Creators & Guests

Elle McAlpine is an actress, known for The Love We Seek, Gentleman Jack, and Fight the Good Fight.

Steve Hodson is a British actor and voice-over actor.

Alana Ross is an actress, voiceover artist, and handywoman, known for Noise: A Human History, A Chaste Maid in Cheapside, and A Trick to Catch the Old One.

Pip Gladwin is a voice actor.

Tom is a writer, actor and comedian based in London, best known for playing Aston Lange in The Royals (E!), writing and performing (as Eric Chapman) in the Prix Europa-nominated podcast sitcom Wooden Overcoats (available now on all podcast platforms), and as the playwright behind the stage adaptation of the Rocky Horror sequel, Shock Treatment (King’s Head, 2015). Recently, Tom has appeared as an actor in Ankle Tag (BBC Radio 4), The Harrowing (Storyglass), Tom Neenan is Not All Men (BBC Sounds) and The Temp (Audible Original). He has recently written a New Adventure for the wildly popular Zombies, Run! app and for The Scarifyers (Bafflegab Productions). He also produces his own one-man sketch comedy podcast called Crowley Time, with me, Tom Crowley.Tom's modernised adaptation of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations (which he directed as the Old Red Lion Theatre's Christmas show in 2017) was published by Methuen in 2017 and is now available in all good bookshops.

Sean Baker is a voice-over actor.

Antigone Funn in Wooden Overcoats, Meredith Stonewell in Inexplicables, Dr Amelia Murray in The White Vault: Iluka, Aurelia Bell in Victoriocity. Penelope Lane in Life with LEO(h)

Alison Skilbeck is an actress, director, writer, voice-over, and for 25 years a freelance associate teacher at RADA.

Felix Trench is an actor and writer. He plays Rudyard Funn in Wooden Overcoats and is the creator of Quid Pro Euro.

Belinda L. Lange is known professionally as Belinda Lang. She is an English actress, and voice actor on Wooden Overcoats Podcast.

Andrew Secombe is a Welsh actor, voice actor, and author.

Paul Putner is an English comedian and actor.

Producer of Wooden Overcoats, Hector vs The Future, The Sink, and The Unseen Hour.

Ella Watts is a podcast producer at BBC Studios.

Dr. Jen Sugden is a writer, comedian, and improviser. She writes and performs with comedy troupe The Dead Secrets. She co-writes the podcast "Victoriocity."Sugden appeared in the improvised golden age detective story "Hickory Dickory Murder," which toured both in the UK and internationally in 2016 and 2017.Sugden's first book, "High Vaultage," co-written with Chris Sugden, was published in 2024.Sugden received her Ph.D. in Victorian Literature.