Meet the Cast: The Kneebone Cadillac Returns to United Downs

The Kneebone Cadillac is back! And she’s brought some serious company.

We are thrilled to announce the cast who will be tearing up the track at United Downs Raceway this summer, when The Kneebone Cadillac returns for three weeks from 10th July 2026.

Written by Carl Grose and directed by Kyla Goodey, this remount brings together a stellar company of actors and musicians; some returning to the show, some joining the Kneebone family for the very first time.

Meet the cast!

Millie Faraway as Maddy Kneebone

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Millie is an actor, writer and director from Cornwall and a 2024 graduate of the RADA BA Acting course, since then she has worked with the NT Studios, RSC, Unicorn Theatre and Theatre Royal Plymouth. She is absolutely over the moon to be back in Cornwall and performing with Wildworks after touring Jack Brownridge Kelly’s revelatory new play Kevrin: Out of Season late last year, produced by Jasmine Cole Productions with support from The Royal Court. The play is now in early development for a feature film adaptation slated for production in Cornwall in the new future. Millie’s most recent acting credits include Lynn Faces by Laura Horton (New Diorama, Norwich Theatre, Theatre Royal Plymouth), and Then and Now directed by Tony Kaye (American History X).

Ed Gaughan as Jed Kneebone, Hooper Monroe & Drug Lord

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Ed Gaughan is a critically acclaimed, award-winning, British/Irish working class actor, writer, comedian, director, musician and composer.

He’s the voice of Baron Greenback in BBC’s Dangermouse, plays Gideon in Sky TV’s Brassic (to which he’s also a contributing writer) and the co-creator, co-writer and star of the BAFTA and BIFA nominated movie Skeletons, which won the ‘Michael Powell Award For Cinema’ at The Edinburgh Film Festival. Ed is a ‘Peter Sellers Award For Comedy’ nominee. “Skeletons, the finest cult film to have come from Britain since ‘Withnail And I” Film4

As a screen actor, Ed has appeared in numerous films and TV shows including Black Mirror (CH4) The Regime (HBO) and Fantastic Beasts 2.

Ed is a regular on the London and UK comedy scene for many years. Much in demand as a comedy and theatre director with multiple Edinburgh Comedy Award nominations, Ed has created shows with some of the UK’s most loved stand ups, sketch teams and clowns, including Josie Long, Milton Jones, Pappy’s, Barry Cryer and Spymonkey.

Ed also works in the theatre as an actor, writer, director and composer with many of the UK’s leading Theatre’s, companies and practitioners such as Shakespeare’s Globe, Punchdrunk, Lyric Hammersmith, Manchester Royal Exchange, Bristol Old Vic, Northern Stage, Liverpool Playhouse, RSC and BAC (where he was an associate artist for many years).

Ben Dyson as Slick Kneebone & Duke

Benjamin Dyson graduated from Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama and has enjoyed a career spanning more than 25 years in theatre and film. Throughout that time he has worked nationally with a number of theatre companies, including the award-winning Miracle Theatre, Pipeline Theatre Company, O-Region and Wildworks.

His stage work has ranged from classical productions to contemporary touring theatre, performing for audiences in venues of every shape and size, from traditional theatres to village halls and outdoor spaces. Benjamin is delighted to be returning to this production, having previously appeared in the show.

Alongside his acting career, Benjamin is the founder of Port Blake Cabinetry, where he designs and builds bespoke furniture and interiors from his Cornish workshop. Whether on stage or in the workshop, he is passionate about craftsmanship, storytelling and creating work that connects with people.

Josh Penrose as Dwight Kneebone

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Josh graduated from the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in 2022 where he appeared in productions including Catastrophe Bay, Romeo and Juliet, Pride and Prejudice, Look Back in Anger and Nora: A Doll’s House. Since graduating Josh has appeared in the RSC 37 Plays and The Kneebone Cadillac in 2024.

Carl Grose as Enys Monroe & Philton Vanloo

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Writer / Actor

Carl’s plays include Grand Guignol, Superstition Mountain, Gargantua, Horse Piss For Blood, 49 Donkeys Hanged and The No-Brainer. For twenty-four years he worked with the internationally acclaimed Cornish theatre company, Kneehigh, as both actor, writer and co-artistic director with Mike Shepherd.

Writing for Kneehigh includes Tristan & Yseult (with Anna Maria Murphy), Blast!, Hansel & Gretel, The Wild Bride, The Tin Drum, based on the novel by Gunter Grass, Ubu! a singalong satire and Dead Dog In A Suitcase (and other love songs). He has also written for Soho Theatre, the Young Vic, the RSC, Chichester Theatre, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre and BBC Radio, as well as writing for such companies as Told By An Idiot, Spymonkey and o-region. He also wrote Bristol Old Vic’s cult musical The Grinning Man with Tim Phillips, Tom Morris and Marc Teitler, and Princess & Peppernose, a short musical fantasy film for Samsung / Ridley Scott Associates, directed by Joe Wright. Carl is currently writing Wild Wood – a radical retelling of Wind in the Willows – for Wildworks.

As an actor, Carl has appeared in countless Kneehigh shows including Nick Darke’s The King of Prussia, Nights at the Circus, Quick Silver, Blast!, Wolf and Wagstaffe the Wind-Up Boy. He’s performed at the RSC, the National, in Soweto, South Carolina and various village halls across Cornwall.

Mary Woodvine as Tannoy Sue, Loretta Kneebone & Drug Lord

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Mary Woodvine is based in West Cornwall. She has an extensive career in Theatre, Film and Television. She was a core member of Kneehigh Theatre from 1991, and has performed in venues from The Royal National Theatre, the RSC to Minack Theatre and various village halls!

Kneebone is her 5th Wildworks show, having been in 100: The day the World Change, 100: Unearthed, Wolf’s Child‘ and Stranger Beasts.

She is currently appearing in Rose of Nevada, the latest film from Cornwall’s Mark Jenkin, having played the lead in his earlier film Enys Men, which premiered in Cannes 2022. She also played Sandra Leigh in Jenkin’s BAFTA winning film BAIT in 2019. Other credits include: Judge John Deed, Poldark, Eastenders, Casualty, Doc Martin, Our Friends in the North, Grafters, and Officer Took in Gerry Anderson’s Space Precinct.

Pat Moran as Musician

Pat Moran is a multi-instrumentalist/composer/music-director/educator based in Bristol. He has toured extensively throughout the UK, USA, Europe and Asia as a performer and music director. Pat has often found himself in the UK theatre world since moving to England in 2015 and working with directors such as Emma Rice and Sally Cookson on new work at varied UK venues including Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, The Bridge Theatre, The Watermill Theatre, and The Kneehigh Asylum.

Pat is a frequent collaborator with Preston Street Films and Sound and Bones Media composing and performing numerous soundtracks for BBC broadcast documentaries. Other recent composition work includes multiple projects with multi-disciplinary artist Adebayo Bolaji and albums with Green Bear and Unreliable Witness. Pat grew up in the United States and received an MFA Music degree in composition and guitar from the California Institute for the Arts.

The Kneebone Cadillac runs at United Downs Raceway for three weeks from 10th July 2026. Tickets are available now from £1, with Patron (£70) and Solidarity (£40) tickets helping to keep the doors open for everyone.