High-energy original romcom musical Hot Mess has announced its full cast and company coming to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2025.
Hot Mess will play at Pleasance Courtyard 30 July – 25 August 2025 (not 6, 11 or 18) 15:10 (1hr 5mins)
London West End stars Danielle Steers (West End Wilma Award Winner 2018) and Tobias Turley will play Earth and Humanity respectively in the comedy romcom which reimagines the climate crisis as a story of love, hope and the ultimate break-up.
Joining the team alongside 42 Balloons creative duo Ellie Coote and Jack Godfrey are Tony and Grammy nominated Paul Gatehouse (Sound Designer), Joe Beighton (Musical Supervisor and Co-orchestrator), Alexzandra Sarmiento (Movement Director), Shankho Chaudhuri (Set and Costume Designer), Ryan Joseph Stafford (Lighting Designer), Issie Osborne (Musical Director), Deirdre O’Halloran (Dramaturg), Lex Kaby (Intimacy Director), Caroline Mirfin (Costume Supervisor), James Ashfield (Producer), Vicky Graham for Vicky Graham Productions (Executive Producer), Finlay Carroll (Assistant Producer), Emily Humphrys (Deputy Stage Manager), Christopher Ball and Emily Obasohan (Production Managers) with casting by Pearson Casting CDG.
After a billion years of bad dates, Earth’s finally found the one… Humanity. Sparks fly. Wheat is harvested. Technology flourishes. But what begins as a passionate love affair between the universe’s most iconic couple quickly descends into a Hot Mess.
Created by the award-winning creative duo behind 42 Balloons, the pop comedy musical takes us to the heart of the tempestuous relationship between Earth and Humanity.
About Danielle Steers
Danielle trained at SLP College, Leeds.
Theatre credits include: Sarraghina in NINE (Hope Mill Theatre); Joplinaire in A Night with Janis Joplin (Peacock Theatre); Marsha in Just For One Day (Old Vic Theatre); Lady in The Cher Show (UK Tour); The Empress in Aladdin (Theatre Royal, Plymouth); Catherine Parr in Six The Musical (London); Zahara in Bat out of Hell: The Musical (New York City Centre); Carmen in Sweet Charity (Donmar Warehouse); Zahara in the Original cast of Bat out of Hell: The Musical (Manchester Opera House, ENO, Ed Mirvish Theatre, Toronto, Dominion Theatre); Lead Shirelle in the Original London cast of Beautiful – The Carole King Musical (Aldwych Theatre); Swing and cover Nicki Marron in The Bodyguard (Adelphi Theatre); Cover Killer Queen in We Will Rock You (International Arena Tour); Dynamite in Hairspray (Aberystwyth Arts Centre); Judge and cover Pilar in Legally Blonde (Savoy Theatre); Divine in Respect La Diva (Garrick Theatre)
Other work includes: Kitty Schmidt in Fury & Elysium (The Other Palace); River in “In Pieces” feature musical film (Spotlight On The Future), Woman 1 in First Date – The Musical (Lambert Jackson Productions) Terry Wogan Show, Sunday Night At The London Palladium, Olivier Awards, Britain’s Got Talent, Good Morning Britain, The Today Show (New York)
About Tobias Turley
Tobias graduated from the Guildford School of Acting with a BA in Musical Theatre. Tobias was the winner of ITV’s Mamma Mia! I Have A Dream, the televised search for Sky in Mamma Mia!.
Theatre Credits include: Hans in White Rose (Marylebone Theatre), Sky in Mamma Mia! (Novello Theatre, West End), Heathers The Musical (The Other Palace), West Side Story (Ljubljana Festival), Giovanni Pernice: This Is Me (UK Tour), Sleeping Beauty (Mansfield), The Nutcracker (Birmingham Royal Ballet), Magic of Animation and Carousel in Concert (both West End Does at Cadogan Hall),
Other Credits include: Vocalist at the Doctor Who BBC Proms (Royal Albert Hall), Male Vocalist for American Classics (Royal Albert Hall).
