The Cast Part Two- Laity (1)

The Administrator - Frank Stanford
Frank is the cathedral's most eligible bachelor - or at least the only one with a full set of teeth and a disinclination to wear frocks. In his early forties, he is a landowner with a taste for good wine, adventurous travel and vintage sports cars. He is often accompanied by his two large labradors, Boanerges and Rex, who function as body guards when he is being pursued by any of the army of slightly unstable women who harbour dubious marital fantasies about him ( and Boanerges and Rex). He has worked in the Cathedral in various capacities since his 20s. Much to the Dean's discomfort, he knows where ALL the bodies are buried.

The Dean's PA - Sylvie Johns
Sylvie is by far the most qualified of all the Cathedral staff, and she had a highly successful career as a landscape architect before inexpicably giving it all up to do the Dean's dirty work instead. If Frank holds the institutional memory, Sylvie holds the confidences of the staff and can make a savvy guess at any point about who is doing what to whom and why. She is widely regarded as a more important pastoral presence than all the clergy combined, but there are some who see her as a dangerous power behind the throne.

Cathedral Dogsbody - Albert Shuttcock
In his early twenties, Al is the only member of the Cathedral staff to have a full, rampant and entirely ungrey head of hair, and also one of the few to have a full, rampant and entirely uninvented sex life. (Probably) A technical genius, it is Al who can change the lighting from 'Restrained Evensong" to "Funky Disco" setting on a whim when he wants to punish the Precentor for a particularly tedious sermon. He periodically plugs himself in to the Cathedral server and achieves a kind of Nirvana, which can disrupt the sending of emails for others. He often forgets to eat, and his desk is strewn with lunchboxes growing small and crunchy new civilisations. If it happens at the Cathedral, Al will probably have set it up, plugged it in, downloaded it illegally or duct-taped it down. Nuns love him.