Glitch – the true story of the post office scandal

Joanne Howarth will play the leading role of Pam Stubbs, the sub-postmistress of Barkham wrongly accused of stealing tens of thousands of pounds. Joanne was in RABBLE’s ‘The Last Abbot’ in 2021. She is a ‘Shakespeare’s Globe’ Associate Artist and has played in 5 seasons there, recently in ‘The Crucible’ in 2025 and Much Ado About Nothing in 2022. She’s been in 11 productions for The Royal Shakespeare Company, most recently in 2023’s Falkland Sound. Joanne started her career at The Wolsey, Ipswich and has played many places on the ‘Glitch’ tour including The Importance of Being Ernest in Chester, Our Lady of Blundellsands in Liverpool, and Henry V on tour to Scarborough.  Other favourites over the last 40 years include Told By An Idiots’s You Can’t Take It With You at The Royal Exchange Manchester, Parliament Square there too and at The Bush, Goodnight Mr Tom in the West End, King Lear with Glenda Jackson at The Old Vic and The Pull of Negative Gravity at 59E59 New York City. Television includes Wallander, Grange Hill, Spooks, It’s A Sin, Call the Midwife and Eastenders.

Naveed Khan trained at The Oxford School of Drama.

Theatre – Tamburlaine, Buddha of Suburbia and Tartuffe (RSC), Pitcairn (Shakespeare’s Globe, Chichester Festival Theatre & Out of Joint), Parlour Song (Greenwich Theatre), A Thousand Splendid Suns (Birmingham REP), Around the World in 80 Days (Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds),  Paradise of the Assassins (Tara Arts), Darknet (Southwark Playhouse) 59 Minutes to Save Christmas (The Barbican & Slung Low), Flood – To The Sea & Flood – Abundance (Slung Low & BBC), The Trial (Watford Palace Theatre), Pioneer and After the Rainfall (Curious Directive).

TV  – QuarterLife (Amazon Prime), Black Ops (BBC), The Cleaner (BBC),Ludwig (BBC), Generation Z (All3Media International), Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes (ITV), This City is Ours, (LeftBank), Sex Education (Netflix),  Breeders (Sky), Not Going Out (BBC), Tell Me Everything(ITV), Living in Fear (Sky), Humans (Channel 4), Electric Dreams (Channel 4), Hold the Sunset (BBC), Josh (BBC), Birds of a Feather(ITV), River (BBC) and The Catherine Tate Show (BBC).

Feature Film – Bridget Jones – Mad About the Boy (Universal), Fuze (Sigma Films), Death on the Nile (20th Century Studios), Between The Lights (Laal Blue Dot), Northern Comfort (Good Chaos), What’s love got to do with it? (Instinct), Body of Water (BFI & BBC Films), Survivor (Millennium Films),Second Coming (BFI/Film4).

Sabina Netherclift, based in Reading, trained with Jacques Lecoq in Paris and has worked extensively as a performer, movement director and director. Her acting credits include Glitch stage 1 and Off the Block (RABBLE Theatre), The Great British Bump Off (South Street Arts Centre), The Red Ladies, The Feast During the Plague, The Overcoat (Clod Ensemble), and The Nativity (Young Vic). On screen, she has appeared in Doctors (BBC) and The Rise and Fall of Ancient Rome (BBC).

She co-founded Filament Theatre, alongside composer Osnat Schmool, and is a resident artist at South Street Arts Centre. Sabina lectures at GSA and is a regular teacher for RABBLE Theatre’s participation programme.

Laura Penneycard, based near Reading, will join the ensemble cast. For RABBLE, Laura has been involved in various development projects, Off The Block new writing festival and the radio production of Who Killed Alfred Oliver?. She has been involved in Glitch from the very beginning.

Laura graduated from The Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama 2002. Theatre credits include The Mousetrap, Firework Maker’s Daughter, Master and Margarita directed by Blanche McIntyre & Of Good Report chronicling the work of Spike Milligan & co. She has toured with Clwyd Theatr Cymru, Bristol Old Vic, Birmingham Stage, Yellow Coat Theatre, Queens Theatre Hornchurch, Torch Theatre, Rosa Productions, Greenham Trust and ACT Productions.

TV & film credits include Doc Martin and multiple historical horrors.