We have exciting news…not only is ‘We’re Not Going Back’ touring for one final time this October but joining Musical Director and original Sue, Beccy Owen, are three brand new cast members: Rachel Gay as Olive, Keeley Fitzgerald as Mary and Daisy Ann Fletcher as Isabel. 

Before you see them onstage, let’s get to know them a little better.

Rachel Gay (Olive)

Rachel is over the moon to be joining the team of ‘We’re Not Going Back’ with Red Ladder this Autumn. She believes in theatre that has the power to affirm the soul and create change.

Born in Chesterfield, raised in Bakewell, Rachel is a Derbyshire-based Actress, Singer, Facilitator, Yoga Teacher and Mum. She was an Act One Drama Studio (Sheffield) student then drama teacher from ages 13 – 31. University took her up the Pennines to Newcastle where she earned a bursary to train as an actress with Northumberland Theatre Company. Since then she has specialised in Physical and Devised Theatre, later training at Arthaus Berlin.

She joined the previous ‘We’re Not Going Back’ cast earlier this year as understudy and fell in the love with the production. She worked with Beccy Owen on one of her first professional theatre tours back in 2011 and is overjoyed to share a stage with Beccy and the rest of the cast.

Theatre credits include: The Noise (UK Tour/Unlimited Theatre), Marina Abramovic Retrospective: Luminosity (Manchester Art Gallery), Sense (UK Tour, Level Centre), White Peacock, Rapunzel (UK Tour, Nottingham Playhouse), We’re Going on a Bear Hunt (International Tour/Kenny Wax Productions), Do Not Enter the Monster Zoo, The Worst Princess (UK Tour/New Writing North), TV credits include: Coronation Street, Emmerdale.

Keeley Fitzgerald (Mary) credit Yellow Belly

Keeley is massively excited to be part of the ‘We’re Not Going Back’ team and feels privileged and proud to be a working class actor exploring such important parts of history with Red Ladder.

Keeley trained in Salford and graduated with a First-Class Honours Degree in Performing Arts as well as attending night time TV acting classes at MSA and Act4TV.

Recent Theatre includes: Conscious Uncoupling (JB Shorts) and Romeo & Juliet (Storehouse Live).

Recent Television includes: The Full Monty (Disney+), Doctors (BBC)

Daisy Ann Fletcher (Isabel) credit Tom Milligan

Daisy was born and bred in Leeds in West Yorkshire. She was part of the National Youth Music Theatre and was the recipient of the Andrew Lloyd Webber Scholarship Award. She trained at Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, igniting her love for the city of Glasgow, and she graduated in 2017, before locating herself in London. Since then, she’s worked at some brilliant theatres (Tron in Glasgow, Birmingham Rep, Leeds Playhouse, to name a few) and played some unforgettable characters. She frequently collaborates with Wrongsemble, an award-winning theatre company based in Yorkshire, on shows like The Not So Ugly Sisters, Billy Shakes: Wonder Boy! and most recently in The Snow Queen. In 2021, she played squatter and activist Lu in The RuV TuV Cream PuV Estate Agency – written by Chumbawamba’s Boff Whalley – at the Belgrade Theatre in Coventry and in association with Cardboard Citizens. She played Grusha, one of the central characters, in The Doncastrian Chalk Circle, a co-production between the National Theatre and CAST Doncaster as part of the Public Acts programme.

We can’t wait to welcome them into the rehearsal room next week and onto stages next month.