Morgan Watkins is an actor, teacher and director. He trained at RADA, graduating in 2009.
He has worked extensively in Theatre, TV and Film. His screen work includes Kingsman The Secret Service, The Hour, Chicken, Small City, The Limehouse Golem, Noughts and Crosses and A Very English Scandal. He has performed in plays at the National Theatre, Almeida Theatre, The Park Theatre and The Lyric Hammersmith. He is represented by Eleanor Johnson at Chalcot Square.
He has taught at various institutions including The Base, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, RADA, UEL and City Academy.
In October 2023 he founded The Base with Oliver Bennett. They have staged productions of Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus, Faust by Goethe, No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre and many more, the performances are followed by responses from exciting intellectuals. In 2025 he directed and produced his own play, Nomos for The Base.
Oliver Bennett is a writer, actor and director. He studied English Literature at Warwick University before training as an actor at RADA.
His work spans theatre and screen, with credits include Backbeat, Worst Wedding Ever, Ted Lasso, Becoming Elizabeth, SAS: Rogue Heroes, Miss Scarlett and the Duke, The Coroner. As a writer, his play Europe After the Rain won the Mercury Playwright Award. It has been translated into Russian, and performed at the Goethe Institute in Minsk. His adaptation of Mikhail Lermontov’s novel A Hero of Our Time has been performed at festivals throughout the world to critical acclaim.
In 2023 he co-founded The Base with Morgan Watkins. His directing and producing credits with The Base include The Father by August Strindberg, Faust by Goethe and The Sunset Limited by Cormac McCarthy. In 2025 he staged a version of his own play, The Freedom of Ghosts.
Bonnie Poynder is an Australian actor, presenter, and social media strategist. After graduating from drama school in 2021, she continued her professional training in screen and theatre acting, with credits including Neighbours and independent film projects including See You Tomorrow.
She also has a background in talent management, where she represented content creators, models, and actors while overseeing social media and digital content strategy.
At The Base, she works across social media, content creation, and audience engagement, supporting the company’s digital presence and helping to share its work with wider audiences.