James Allen
Career timeline
Cast 11Crew 15Mixed 6
MichaelmasLentEaster
2025/26
Dial M for MurderFootlights ADC Smokers: Michaelmas 25Haddock!ETG 2025: The Comedy of Errors
Private LivesFootlights Spring Revue 2026: Don't Mind If I Do
Footlights ADC Smokers: Easter 2026Toad ChendyThe Footlights Tour Show 2026: Prize Cow (for my best son)
2024/25
Attachment: The Leech ShowFootlights ADC Smokers: Michaelmas 24Sam and Ava Take On the WorldCUADC/Footlights Pantomime 2024: Snow White
One Shell of a GuyFootlights Presents: WANTEDFootlights ADC Smokers: Lent 25Footlights Spring Revue 2025: Chaos TheoryTortured AutistMaster Tasker
Footlights ADC Smokers: Easter 25Half-Baked
2023/24
Footlights ADC Smokers: 23-24Seven Sketchy SinsSerious MoneyCUADC/Footlights Pantomime 2023: Dick Whittington and His Cat
BritfootFootlights Presents: Nothing Really MattressFootlights Spring Revue 2024: Washed UpThis is the Big OnePragga Wagga Cowboy
Carrie: The MusicalThe Footlights International Tour Show 2024: This Time We Have a Dog
2025/26
| The Footlights Tour Show 2026: Prize Cow (for my best son)
The Cambridge Footlights |
Writer/Performer | Tue 23 Jun – Sat 10 Oct 2026 E26 Week 8 |
ADC Theatre, Hen & Chickens, The Museum of Comedy |
| Toad Chendy | Chip Shop Owner/Mr. Poo/Bouncer/Bus Driver/Criminal 2/Zookeeper/Thief 2ProducerWriterSound Engineer/Designer | Fri 15 May 2026 E26 Week 2 |
ADC Theatre |
| Footlights ADC Smokers: Easter 2026
The Cambridge Footlights |
Performer 19/6 | Fri 8 May – Fri 19 Jun 2026 E26 Week 1 |
ADC Theatre |
| Footlights Spring Revue 2026: Don't Mind If I Do
The Cambridge Footlights |
Writer/Performer | Tue 24 – Sat 28 Feb 2026 L26 Week 5 |
ADC Theatre |
| Private Lives
The Marlowe Society, The Fletcher Players Society, Pembroke Players |
Fight Choreographer | Wed 11 – Sat 14 Feb 2026 L26 Week 3 |
ADC Theatre |
| ETG 2025: The Comedy of Errors
European Theatre Group |
Dromio of SyracuseDirectorSound Engineer | 8 Dec 2025 – 24 Jan 2026 M25 Week 9 |
ADC Theatre, Hiberniaschool, Antwerp (BEL), De Koelisse, Leuven (BEL), Gymnasium Lerbermatt, Bern (CHE), Gymnase de Burier, Montreux (CHE) |
| Haddock!
The Cambridge Footlights |
Script editor | Fri 24 Oct 2025 M25 Week 2 |
ADC Theatre |
| Footlights ADC Smokers: Michaelmas 25
The Cambridge Footlights |
Performer 14/10 | Tue 14 Oct – Fri 28 Nov 2025 M25 Week 1 |
ADC Theatre |
| Dial M for Murder
Cambridge University Amateur Dramatic Club |
Fight Choreographer | Tue 14 – Sat 18 Oct 2025 M25 Week 1 |
ADC Theatre |
2024/25
| Half-Baked
The Cambridge Footlights |
Qlab fixer-upper | Fri 30 May 2025 E25 Week 4 |
ADC Theatre |
| Footlights ADC Smokers: Easter 25
The Cambridge Footlights |
Performer 27/05Performer 20/06Helpful hand | Tue 27 May – Fri 20 Jun 2025 E25 Week 4 |
ADC Theatre |
| Master Tasker | Contestant | Fri 14 Mar 2025 L25 Week 7 |
ADC Theatre |
| Tortured Autist
Bread Theatre & Film Company |
Writers' room | Fri 7 Mar 2025 L25 Week 6 |
ADC Theatre |
| Footlights Spring Revue 2025: Chaos Theory
The Cambridge Footlights |
Director | Tue 25 Feb – Sat 1 Mar 2025 L25 Week 5 |
ADC Theatre |
| Footlights ADC Smokers: Lent 25
The Cambridge Footlights |
Performer 11/02 | Tue 11 Feb – Tue 11 Mar 2025 L25 Week 3 |
ADC Theatre |
| Footlights Presents: WANTED
The Cambridge Footlights |
Sound Designer | Wed 5 – Sat 8 Feb 2025 L25 Week 2 |
ADC Theatre |
| One Shell of a Guy
The Cambridge Footlights |
Sound Designer | Fri 31 Jan 2025 L25 Week 1 |
ADC Theatre |
| CUADC/Footlights Pantomime 2024: Snow White
The Cambridge Footlights, Cambridge University Amateur Dramatic Club |
ViolinScript EditorSound "Operator" | Wed 27 Nov – Sat 7 Dec 2024 M24 Week 7 |
ADC Theatre |
| Sam and Ava Take On the World
Cambridge University Musical Theatre Society |
Videographer | Wed 13 Nov 2024 M24 Week 5 |
ADC Theatre (Larkum Studio) |
| Footlights ADC Smokers: Michaelmas 24
The Cambridge Footlights |
Performer 25/10Performer 29/11 | Fri 25 Oct – Fri 29 Nov 2024 M24 Week 2 |
ADC Theatre |
| Attachment: The Leech Show
The Fletcher Players Society |
DirectorWriterFight Coordinator | Wed 16 – Sat 19 Oct 2024 M24 Week 1 |
ADC Theatre |
2023/24
| The Footlights International Tour Show 2024: This Time We Have a Dog
The Cambridge Footlights |
Lloyd the Dog (briefly)Diya ShahDirector/Education OfficerWriterSound Designer | Tue 18 Jun – Sat 12 Oct 2024 E24 Week 8 |
ADC Theatre, West End Comedy Club, London, Etcetera Theatre, London, Museum of Comedy, London, Bristol Improv Theatre, The Empty Space, Manchester, Plesance One, Plesance Courtyard, Edinburgh Fringe, Accidental Theatre, Belfast, Dot Theatre, Dublin, Komedia Brighton, Cosmic Comedy Club, Berlin |
| Carrie: The Musical
Cambridge University Musical Theatre Society |
Fight Choreographer | Tue 7 – Sat 11 May 2024 E24 Week 2 |
ADC Theatre |
| Pragga Wagga Cowboy | Little Rhys (Body)Co-Director | Thu 14 Mar 2024 L24 Week 8 |
ADC Theatre |
| This is the Big One | moral support | Wed 6 – Fri 8 Mar 2024 L24 Week 7 |
ADC Theatre |
| Footlights Spring Revue 2024: Washed Up
The Cambridge Footlights |
Assistant DirectorSound OperatorVoice of God(glebox) | Sat 10 Feb – Sun 17 Mar 2024 L24 Week 3 |
ADC Theatre, Cambridge Arts Theatre, Gala Theatre, Durham |
| Footlights Presents: Nothing Really Mattress
The Cambridge Footlights |
Assistant Producer | Wed 31 Jan – Sat 3 Feb 2024 L24 Week 2 |
ADC Theatre |
| Britfoot | Terry | Wed 24 – Sat 27 Jan 2024 L24 Week 1 |
ADC Theatre |
| CUADC/Footlights Pantomime 2023: Dick Whittington and His Cat
Cambridge University Amateur Dramatic Club, The Cambridge Footlights |
Dog | Wed 22 Nov – Sat 2 Dec 2023 M23 Week 7 |
ADC Theatre |
| Serious Money
Cambridge University Amateur Dramatic Club |
Assistant Director | Tue 14 – Sat 18 Nov 2023 M23 Week 6 |
ADC Theatre |
| Seven Sketchy Sins | Writer/Performer | Wed 1 – Fri 3 Nov 2023 M23 Week 4 |
ADC Theatre |
| Footlights ADC Smokers: 23-24
The Cambridge Footlights |
Performer 10/10Performer 30/1Performer 5/3Performer 14/05Performer 11/06 | 10 Oct 2023 – 11 Jun 2024 M23 Week 1 |
ADC Theatre |