About the Company
Meet The Whole Pack.
We are a team of passionate, skilled, and creative women, determined to create opportunities for women in our industry. We believe that women contain multitudes, and we deserve to see all shades and facets of ourselves represented onstage. Our productions are dramatic, fresh, exciting, versatile, not afraid to take risks - but always rooted in the text. Between us we have years of experience in theatre and Shakespeare.
Meet Our Team
Jessamy James
Founder, Performer, Director
Jessamy has a particular passion for Shakespeare, but she has experience in a wide range of theatre, including new writing, open-air and children's theatre. She is constantly looking to broaden her experience and learn new skills. Most recently Jessamy played Lilly in Saving Myself, a new solo play performing at the Brighton Fringe and Camden Fringe in Summer 2026.
Previous credits include Alice Through the Looking Glass (Strange Fascination Theatre), Macbeth (Bowler Crab Theatre), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Bowler Crab Theatre), Lifeline (Produced by Adam Page), Joffrey! The Pantomime (Quintuple L), Romeo and Juliet (Bowler Crab Theatre), A Christmas Carol (Chapterhouse), In Search of Myself (Distracting Cats Productions), Journey to the Centre of the Earth (Strange Fascination Theatre). Trained at Cygnet Theatre.
Whole Pack Credits: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Director, Titania/Helena/Snug), Richard II (Director, Richard II), The Tempest (Director, Caliban/ Gonzalo), As You Like It (Director, Jacqes/Phebe/Le Beau/Oliver), and Macbeth (Macbeth).
Mary Anne Coleman
Founder, Designer, Stage Manager
Mary Anne has been a professional Stage Manager since 2004, following her graduation from the University of Salford. Her career highlights include sold-out productions of The Buddy Holly Story (Upstairs at The Gatehouse) and F**king Men (The Arts Theatre London). In 2009, she joined Facsimile Productions as their resident Company Stage Manager.
During her tenure with Facsimile, Mary Anne has toured nationally with classic productions such as Dracula, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Jekyll and Hyde, Romeo and Juliet, and Frankenstein. Concurrently, she has dedicated herself to fostering new theatrical works, with credits including Bacchus In Rehab, 13th Night: Malvolio's Revenge, and the acclaimed rock musical Rasputin Rocks!
Mary Anne is thrilled and excited to collaborate with the exceptional ensemble of The Whole Pack, contributing to their innovative reimagining of Shakespeare's works.
Megan Carter
Founder, Performer, Director
Megan Carter (she/they) is an American actor and director based in London. She holds a BA in Theatre from Loyola University Chicago and an MA in Classical Acting from LAMDA. They currently work as the Assistant Director for Voice and Script International’s London in-house dubbing team.
With The Whole Pack: Macbeth (Director, Lady Macduff/Lennox), As You Like It (Choreographer, Rosalind/Amiens), The Tempest (Assistant Director), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Choreographer, Puck/Hippolyta/Starveling)
Other stage roles include: Victoria Frankenstein in Frankenstein, Hermia/Moth/Starveling in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Cordelia in Jekyll and Hyde, and Viola in Thirteenth Night: Malvolio’s Revenge (all with British Touring Shakespeare), Sally Trent and Nurse Jill in Penge West: A Continuing Drama (Bridge House Theatre), Mary Wollstonecraft in Mary's Daughters (BiLLO Studio), Kate in Kate Crackernuts (No Drama Theatre, Dublin), and Cressida in Troilus and Cressida (LAMDA). They have voiced characters in the audio dramas Gavin’s Graveyard Gold (Wyrd Works), That Vampire Show (Tandon Productions), Gower Hall (11th Hour Audio), Accipiter (Dir. Joe Vevers), and in the English dubs of The Empress (Netflix), The Leopard (Netflix), and The Calendar Killer (Amazon). Most recently, Megan directed the English dub of Netflix documentary Inside the Trustor Scandal, available to stream now.
Meghan Louise Taylor
Founder, Performer, Musical Director
Meghan Louise Taylor is an award-winning singer, performer, and voice director who originally hails from the USA.
Her classical voice training began whilst earning her undergraduate degree from the University of Georgia before embarking to the UK where she earned her postgraduate degree in vocal performance from the Royal Academy of Music in London. Over the years Meghan has cultivated a particular talent for physical comedy alongside her captivating,versatile, and dramatic singing voice. Meghan relishes bringing roles to life whether it be on stage, on screen, or singing in front of an orchestra.
Notable stage roles include: Agatha Trunchbull in Matilda with Summer Theatre of New Canaan, Duke of York in Richard II with The Whole Pack Theatre, Morgan le Fey in Camelot with Riverside Theatre Project, Bottom/Theseus in A Midsummer Night’s Dream with The Whole Pack Theatre, Mrs Poole in Jekyll and Hyde with British Touring Shakespeare, Ugly Sister in Cinderella with Redroofs Pantomime, Rosalinde from Die Fledermaus and Lucia from Lucia di Lammermoor with Fulham Opera. Notable TV/ Film credits include her work as both the Casting and Voice Director on the UK Cartoon Network show, Goat Girl.
Outside of the world of show-biz, Meghan is the proud dog-mom of two terrier mixes who can be just as loud as she is!