Hello, Gallifrey One attendees… today we’re pleased to announce, at long last, our second block of confirmed convention guests for the upcoming Gallifrey One’s Miracle on 34th Street convention in February. And with it, we’re launching our very first add-on packages, including photo ops for selected guests (with more coming down the road), a number of script readings and Diamond Pass sales and more. This is just the beginning, too; we hope to have more guest announcements throughout the next two months. Read on!
Initial Add-On Packages
As always, Gallifrey One features a variety of different optional, add-on items beyond all of the entertainment covered in your ticket purchase. The first installment of these add-ons includes the following now available:
- Photo op pre-sales for the guests sponsored by Showmasters Events (currently Billie Piper, Alex Kingston, Lalla Ward, Camille Coduri, Jacqueline King and Matthew Waterhouse); more photo-ops with other guests will be added closer to the convention.
- The TARDIS Tag package, as well as Diamond Passes for Billie Piper and Alex Kingston, each of which include autographs and photo ops with the guests, as well as exclusive items (the benefits of each of these are described in the purchase details).
- Exclusive script reading events with Billie Piper (Saturday morning) and Alex Kingston (Sunday morning) on the convention level, along with afternoon script reading events with Camille Coduri, Matthew Waterhouse and Lalla Ward in our 16th floor receptions lounge.
To purchase these items, visit the Convention Photo Shoots website by clicking on the button below:
Additional photo op pre-sales, tickets to our Evening Guest Receptions and more will be announced closer to the convention. Also, please note that to use any of the add-on items, you must have a paid ticket to attend the convention.
New Gallifrey One 2024 Guests
Camille Coduri
Camille Coduri recurred regularly in the first two series of the revived Doctor Who as Jackie Tyler, the sharp-witted and irascible mother of Billie Piper’s Rose Tyler, and reprised her role in the Series 4 episode “Journey’s End” and David Tennant’s final story, “The End of Time.” Since 2017, Coduri has reprised the role on audio for Big Finish Productions, including in the Rose Tyler, Lives of Captain Jack, Doom’s Day and Diary of River Song series, many of which have reunited her with Piper. Coduri also participated in a Doctor Who-themed episode of The Weakest Link, and is known for appearances in Him & Her, Nuns on the Run, King Ralph, Ashes to Ashes, Boon, A Touch of Frost, and Rumpole of the Bailey, and more recently in Edge of Heaven, as narrator of The Curse and featuring as Denise King in the series King Gary. Camille attended Gallifrey One in 2012 and 2018, and she returns for a third visit (her first time alongside Piper) courtesy Showmasters Events. (With thanks to Fantom Events for the photo)
Rachel Talalay
Rachel Talalay is a celebrated and successful producer and director who made her film directoral debut in 1991 on the final Nightmare on Elm Street film Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare. In addition to directing films such as Tank Girl and Ghost in the Machine, Rachel has become a prolific television director as well, helming the Doctor Who Series Eight two-part finale “Dark Water” and “Death in Heaven,” Series Nine’s acclaimed “Heaven Sent” and “Hell Bent,” the final two episodes of Series Ten, “World Enough and Time” and “The Doctor Falls,” and the much-heralded Peter Capaldi swansong, “Twice Upon a Time”. She recently returned to the Doctor Who world to direct the first of 2023’s specials, “The Star Beast” with David Tennant and Catherine Tate. Rachel has also directed episodes of Sherlock, The Flash, Supergirl, Reign, Legends of Tomorrow, Kyle XY, Boston Public, Ally MacBeal, Haven, Cold Case and The Dead Zone, and has taught film studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. A three-time guest at previous Gallifrey One events, we are thrilled to welcome her back this year to talk about her newest work.
Shaun Dingwall
Shaun Dingwall is best known to Doctor Who fans as Pete Tyler, Rose Tyler’s father and the presumed dead husband of Jackie Tyler in the episodes “Father’s Day,” “Rise of the Cybermen,” “The Age of Steel” and “Doomsday”. He later returned to the role for Big Finish Productions’s Rose Tyler: The Dimension Cannon series. Dingwall appeared opposite David Tennant in the BBC TV film Learners in 2007, the miniseries The Driver with David Morrisseyk, and as David Grant in the BBC reimagining of Survivors; more recently, he’s been seen on television in Top Boy, Grantchester, Noughts + Crosses, Maigret, DCI Banks, Legends, Death in Paradise, Breathless and Silent Witness, as well as the films Goodbye Christopher Robin and Inland. Last with us at Gallifrey One in 2013, we’re delighted to welcome him back in an appearance courtesy Showmasters Events.
Annette Badland
Annette Badland is best known to Doctor Who fans as Cardiff mayor Margaret Blaine… or more accurately, Blon Fel-Fotch Pasameer-Day Slitheen, during the first season of the show’s revival in 2005. A popular and hugely prolific actress in series on both sides of the Atlantic, she’s been a regular or recurring performer in Bergerac, The Worst Witch, Doctors, Cutting It, Coronation Street, EastEnders, The Sparticle Mystery, as well as appearing as Ursula Crowe in Russell T. Davies & Phil Ford’s Wizards vs Aliens, as Mrs. Fitzgibbons in the first season of the Starz period drama Outlander, and as Hazel Woolley in The Archers. Her first film role was in Terry Gilliam’s Jabberwocky and other film roles include Beautiful People, Mrs. Caldicott’s Cabbage War, Tim Burton’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Baker, and Valiant. More recently, she appeared as Dr. Margaret Megarty in series four of Netflix’s The Crown, and in a recurring role as Mae the landlady in the Apple TV+ series Ted Lasso starring Jason Sudeikis. Ms. Badland joins us for her second Gallifrey One appearance (the last time, back in 2014!) courtesy M&M Famous Faces.
Sally Knyvette
Sally Knyvette is best known to fans for her role as Jenna Stannis is the first two seasons of the British science fiction series Blake’s 7, a role that she said that “started off as this really exciting, intergalactic space pirate, but then she became a sort of housewife on the Liberator.” Knyvette also voiced the part of Doctorman Allan in Big Finish’s acclaimed Doctor Who audio adventure “Spare Parts” and returned to a more robust role as Jenna in their series of Blake’s 7 audio plays. She is also known for her role as Kate Sugden in Emmerdale and Nurse Rowland in General Hospital. Her other TV appearances include Holby City, The Safe House, Family Affairs, A Touch of Frost, Unfinished Business, Casualty, EastEnders, Dalziel and Pascoe, Coronation Street, The Politician’s Wife, The Bill, Big Deal, Who Pays the Ferryman? and Z Cars, and she has voiced characters in the video games Castlevania: Lords of Shadow and its sequel and Layton’s Mystery Journey. This is her first visit to Gallifrey One.
Brian Croucher
Brian Croucher has appeared in a number of science fiction series, including being the second actor to portray Space Commander Travis in Blake’s 7, and as Borg in the 1970s Doctor Who story “The Robots of Death.” Croucher also appeared in the Doctor Who spin-off Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans in 1994 as Kurt. His other TV roles include the children’s adventure series The Jensen Code, a role opposite Tom Bell in the Thames Television/Euston Films thriller series Out; and as Rooky in The Famous Five, in the double episode “Five Get into Trouble”. One of his earliest film roles was the musical of Lionel Bart’s Oliver!; his other film roles include Burke & Hare (1972), Made (1972), A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square (1979), Scrubbers (1983), and Underworld (1985). Apart from acting, Croucher has directed two short films, Rank (2009, co-written with Nick Wilkinson) and Vodka & Coke (2013), also written and produced by Wilkinson. This is his first visit to Gallifrey One.
Jan Chappell
Jan Chappell is best known for her portrayal of the telepathic alien Cally for the first three seasons of the classic science fiction serial Blake’s 7, a role she has reprised many times in audio adventures published by Big Finish Productions. She joined the Doctor Who expanded universe in 1994 playing the lead role of Captain Lisa Deranne in the spinoff drama Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans. Chappell’s television appearances include The Naked Civil Servant, Reilly, Ace of Spies, Mr. Palfrey of Westminster, Inspector Alleyn Mysteries, The House of Eliott, Boon, Lovejoy, Pie in the Sky, Holby City, New Tricks, Spooks and Rosemary & Thyme; her film roles include Ken Russell’s The Devils, The Virgin and the Gipsy, Low Tide, and Basic Instinct 2. Chappell’s career includes extensive experience for several decades on the British stage including in the West End. This is her first visit to Gallifrey One.
Kevin Jon Davies
Kevin Jon Davies directed The Making of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and Doctor Who: 30 Years in the TARDIS for BBC1 in 1993 (re-cut to feature length as More Than 30 Years… for BBC Video a year later). This led to the spin-off film drama, Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans (1994) and Dalekmania (1995), a documentary about the 60s Peter Cushing films. His career began drawing animated graphics for the TV version of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (1981), Blake’s 7 (1981), Gerry Anderson’s Terrahawks (1983) and at Walt Disney (UK) for Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988). He spent five years working on international TV commercials blending live action and animation, along with three decades of archive documentary production; many interviews for Europe’s Sci-Fi Channel and many BBC DVD Extras followed including Doctor Who features. In 1993 author Douglas Adams had asked Davies to art direct his book The Illustrated Hitchhiker’s Guide, and most recently he edited 42, The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams, a hardback bestseller for Unbound about the author’s personal archives. He has more books in preparation, delving into various sci-fi-themed archives. This is his first visit to Gallifrey One.
Dominic Glynn
Film and television composer Dominic Glynn is best known to Doctor Who fans for his 1986 arrangement of the show’s theme music, for the “Trial of a Time Lord” season starring Colin Baker, as well as incidental music during the final four years of the classic show’s run; he’s currently at work on a new set of remixes of his Who music. Dominic’s most recent work for the big screen is the BAFTA award-winning Eye of the Storm, one of many collaborations with director Anthony Baxter that include “Flint: Whose Side Are You On” and the “You’ve Been Trumped” trilogy. His music has been heard in thousands of TV shows around world, from Homeland to Jon Stewart’s Daily Show and even Spongebob Squarepants. We’re happy to welcome him back this year. (Photo courtesy Vanessa Haines.)
Stephen Cole
Stephen Cole is a bestselling children’s author with over three million copies in print, but is best known to fans for his contributions to Doctor Who publishing. In the late 1990s, he was Doctor Who Project Editor across all media at BBC Worldwide, and over two decades wrote or co-wrote many novels (both under his name as well as a pseudonym) in their Eighth Doctor, Past Doctor and New Series Adventures ranges, as well as many short stories, and over a dozen Doctor Who audio adventures for Big Finish Productions. Since 2018, Steve has been Creative Editor for BBC Books’ Doctor Who list, including nonfiction, original fiction and the New Target novelisations, as well as contributing titles of his own. A long-time friend of Gallifrey One, last visiting during our 25th anniversary, we are thrilled to welcome Steve back this year.
Tony Lee
New York Times #1 Bestseller Tony Lee has written for Doctor Who in both comics and audio productions, and over the years has written for publishers and broadcasters including Marvel, DC Comics, Heavy Metal Magazine, BBC One, ITV, Amazon / Audible, Big Finish and Titan Comics on licenses such as Spider-Man, Star Trek, Superboy, Robin of Sherwood, Bernice Summerfield , Sherlock Holmes, Dorian Grey, Doctors and Battlestar Galactica among others. Now writing books with rockstars, he’s just started a series of graphic novels with Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson and writes procedural crime and thriller novels under the pen name Jack Gatland. A long-time Gallifrey One guest, we’re always happy to welcome him back.
Jody Houser
Jody Houser knew she wanted to be a writer when she was eight years old and never looked back. After years of dabbling in webcomics and anthologies, she started writing comics full-time in 2016. Jody has been the principal writer for Titan Comics’ recent Doctor Who titles, including the Thirteenth Doctor comics, the main-title Doctor Who series, Time Lord Victorious, Missy, Empire of the Wolf, and Doctor Who: Origins. Jody’s other work includes Stranger Things and Critical Role for Dark Horse; Star Wars and Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows for Marvel; Mother Panic and Harley Quinn & Poison Ivy for DC Comics; Star Trek and Orphan Black for IDW; and Faith for Valiant Comics, among many others. We welcome her back for her a return visit.
Paul Cornell
Writer Paul Cornell’s credits include “Human Nature/The Family of Blood” and “Father’s Day” from the Doctor Who series revival and a lengthy list of Doctor Who novels, comics and audio plays. He’s the creator of the popular character Bernice Summerfield. His comics credits last year included the fantasy rom com graphic novel Three Little Wishes and the mini-series bringing George R.R. Martin’s Wild Cards to Marvel. His latest book is the space opera novella Rosebud. He’s won the BSFA Award for his short fiction, an Eagle Award for his comics, a Hugo Award for his podcast and shares in a Writer’s Guild Award for his Doctor Who. He’s the co-host of Hammer House of Podcast (with Lizbeth Myles) and a long-time Gallifrey One guest making his twenty-third appearance this year!
Lizbeth Myles
Lizbeth Myles is a Scottish writer and podcaster, and a long-time Gallifrey One attendee, who’s written many audio dramas for Big Finish across the Doctor Who, Blake’s 7, and Survivor ranges, including such titles as “The Outlaws” featuring the First Doctor and Dodo, “Peake Season” with Tom Baker, “Breaking Bubbles” with Colin Baker & Nicola Bryant, and the War Master story “Boundaries” with Derek Jacobi. Along with five other women from around the globe, she co-hosts the award-winning Verity! podcast, as well as the Hammer House of Podcast with Paul Cornell. She’s a three-time Hugo finalist, and a Time Monster apologist. Her favourite robots are the Quarks, and she returns this year for her second appearance as a guest.
Additional Program Participants
The following local Los Angeles based guests and other participating guests will also be on the 2024 Gallifrey One program, and we are delighted to welcome them all (with more to come in the weeks ahead!)
Marv Wolfman – Legendary comics writer known for “Blade,” “The New Teen Titans” and “Crisis on Infinite Earths”
Barbara Hambly – Acclaimed science fiction & fantasy novelist and tie-in novelist (“Star Trek,” “Star Wars”)
Gareth Kavanagh & Ian Winterton – Cutaway Comics (Lytton, Omega, Paradise Towers)
Julie & Shawna Benson – Writers/producers for Star Trek Prodigy, Wu Assassins and The 100.
Cherry Chevapravatdumrong – Writer and co-executive producer of Family Guy and The Orville
Javi Grillo-Marxuach – Writer and producer, Lost, Charmed, The Middleman, Law & Order: SVU
Keith Barnfather – Reeltime Pictures
Christopher Jones – Illustrator, Young Justice, Doctor Who, The Batman Strikes
Dan Peck – Writer, Family Guy, The Cleveland Show
Trina Ray, Kim Steadman, Sarah Milkovich, Krys Blackwood – NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Scott and David Tipton – IDW Comics “Star Trek: The Next Generation”
Robert Napton – Legendary Comics, Image Comics
Craig Miller – Animation screenwriter and former Star Wars publicist
Bob Miller – Author, The Star Wars Historical Sourcebook: Volume One: 1971-1976
Larry Nemecek – Trekland, The Con of Wrath, Portal 47
Travis Richey – Inspector Spacetime
More news soon!