Lisa Bowerman

Lisa Bowerman
Work in the DWU
Main roles:	Bernice Summerfield, Ellie Higson, Karra
Main jobs:	Actor, Director
Stories:	see credits section
Main time period active:	1989, 1998-present
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Notable non-DWU work:	Casualty, Grange Hill, Bad Girls, Spooks, Unintelligent Design, Coronation Street, Blake's 7, The Confessions of Dorian Gray, The Scarifyers, Survivors, The First Men in the Moon, The Shape of Things to Come, King Lear
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Lisa Bowerman is an actor and director. She played Karra in Survival, the last televised story of the original Doctor Who series, but is better known as the voice of Professor Bernice Summerfield in the spin-off audio dramas produced by Big Finish Productions. She is also the human face of the character, appearing in publicity photographs dressed as Summerfield. She is the younger sister of Robin Bowerman.

Bowerman also provides the voice of Ellie Higson in the Jago and Litefoot audio series and the voice of Murash in the I, Davros story Guilt. She has appeared in Dreamland, an animated Doctor Who serial, as the voice of Seruba Velak. She has also directed many stories in Big Finish's various ranges, including being the most prolific director of the Companion Chronicles as well as directing all but one of the Jago & Litefoot series.

She also contributed to the reference book Chicks Dig Time Lords: A Celebration of Doctor Who by the Women Who Love It.

She was a regular in the first series of the BBC medical drama Casualty and is also a professional photographer.

In the DWU

• In the audio story In Living Memory, the Epoch convinced Bernice Summerfield that she was actually an actress named Lisa Bowerman, merely playing a character.

Filmography and audio roles

Doctor Who TV stories

• Survival (as Karra)
• Dreamland (as Seruba Velak)

BBV Productions

• I Scream (as the Narrator)

Big Finish Productions

Bernice Summerfield

• Oh No It Isn't!
• Beyond the Sun
• Walking to Babylon
• Birthright
• Just War
• Buried Treasures
• Dragons' Wrath
• The Secret of Cassandra
• The Stone's Lament
• The Extinction Event
• The Skymines of Karthos
• The Greatest Shop in the Galaxy
• The Green-Eyed Monsters
• The Plague Herds of Excelis
• The Dance of the Dead
• The Mirror Effect
• The Bellotron Incident
• The Draconian Rage
• The Poison Seas
• Death and the Daleks
• The Grel Escape
• The Bone of Contention
• The Relics of Jegg-Sau
• The Masquerade of Death
• The Heart's Desire
• The Kingdom of the Blind
• The Lost Museum
• The Goddess Quandary
• The Crystal of Cantus
• The Tartarus Gate
• Timeless Passages
• The Worst Thing in the World
• Summer of Love
• The Oracle of Delphi
• The Empire State
• The Tub Full of Cats
• The Judas Gift
• Freedom of Information
• The End of the World
• The Final Amendment
• The Wake
• Beyond the Sea
• The Adolescence of Time
• The Adventure of the Diogenes Damsel
• The Diet of Worms
• Glory Days
• Absence
• Venus Mantrap
• Secret Origins
• Resurrecting the Past
• Escaping the Future
• Year Zero
• Dead Man's Switch
• The Kraken's Lament
• The Temple of Questions
• Private Enemy No.1
• Judgement Day
• Brand Management
• Bad Habits
• Paradise Frost
• Vesuvius Falling
• Shades of Gray
• Everybody Loves Irving
• Many Happy Returns
• A Handful of Dust
• The Curse of Fenman
• Big Dig
• The Revenant's Carnival
• The Brimstone Kid
• The Winning Side
• In Living Memory

Main range

• Whispers of Terror (as Beth Pernell)
• The Shadow of the Scourge
• The Dark Flame
• Zagreus (as Sergeant Gazelle)
• Benny's Story (in The Company of Friends)

Gallifrey

• Fractures (as Aesino)
• Warfare (as The Sentience)
• Disassembled

I, Davros

• Guilt (as Murash)

Companion Chronicles

• The Mahogany Murderers (as Ellie Higson)
• Bernice Summerfield and the Criminal Code
• The First Wave (as the Vardans)
• The Founding Fathers (as Abigail Holt)
• The Locked Room (as Vardan)
• The Story of Extinction (as Selsey & Police officer)

Jago and Litefoot

As Ellie Higson

• The Bloodless Soldier
• The Bellova Devil
• The Spirit Trap
• The Similarity Engine
• Litefoot and Sanders
• The Necropolis Express
• The Theatre of Dreams
• The Ruthven Inheritance
• Dead Men's Tales
• The Man at the End of the Garden
• Jago in Love
• Beautiful Things
• The Lonely Clock
• The Hourglass Killers
• The Age of Revolution
• The Case of the Gluttonous Guru
• The Bloodchild Codex
• The Final Act
• The Skeleton Quay
• Return of the Repressed
• Military Intelligence
• The Trial of George Litefoot
• The Monstrous Menagerie
• The Night of 1000 Stars
• The Wax Princess
• Encore of the Scorchies
• The Backwards Men
• Jago & Litefoot & Patsy
• Higson & Quick
• The Flying Frenchmen
• The Devil's Dicemen
• Island of Death
• Return of the Nightmare
• The Case of the Missing Gasogene
• The Year of the Bat
• The Mourning After
• The Museum of Curiosities
• The Haunting
• Jago & Son
• Maurice
• The Woman in White
• Masterpiece
• Picture This
• The Flickermen
• School of Blood
• Warm Blood
• The Stuff of Nightmares
• Chapel of Night
• Too Much Reality
• Jago & Litefoot Forever

Webcast

• Dead and Buried
• Transmission from Mars

Graceless

• The Sphere (as the Announcer)
• The End (as Persephone Kreekpolt)
• The Battle (as the Archive)
• Consequences (as the Archive/Receptionist)

Novel Adaptations

• Love and War
• The Highest Science
• All-Consuming Fire
• Theatre of War
• Original Sin

The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield

• The Revolution
• Good Night, Sweet Ladies
• Random Ghosts
• The Lights of Skaro
• The Pyramid of Sutekh
• The Vaults of Osiris
• The Eye of Horus
• The Tears of Isis
• The Library in the Body
• Planet X
• The Very Dark Thing
• The Emporium At The End

Worlds of Doctor Who

• Mind Games (as Ellie Higson)

Early Adventures

• The Bounty of Ceres (as Computer)
• The Black Hole (as Woman)

The Worlds of Big Finish

• The Archive (as the Archive)
• The Lady from Callisto Rhys
• The Phantom Wreck

Iris Wildthyme

• Dark Side (as Joyce)
• Murder at the Abbey (as Hilda)

The Sixth Doctor: The Last Adventure

• Stage Fright (as Ellie Higson)

Torchwood

• Ghost Mission (as a Quite Anxious Shopper)
• The Torchwood Archive (as Miss Mitford)

Fourth Doctor Adventures

• The Pursuit of History (as Conglom-Net Computer/Oceanic Airforce Pilot)

Short Trips

• The Hesitation Deviation

Directed

Big Finish Productions

Bernice Summerfield

• The End of the World
• The Adolescence of Time

Main range

• The Destroyer of Delights
• The Chaos Pool
• A Thousand Tiny Wings

The Companion Chronicles

• Here There Be Monsters
• The Doll of Death
• Home Truths
• The Prisoner's Dilemma
• Resistance
• The Three Companions
• The Mahogany Murderers
• The Stealers from Saiph
• The Drowned World
• The Mists of Time
• The Pyralis Effect
• The Invasion of E-Space
• The Suffering
• Freakshow
• The Emperor of Eternity
• Shadow of the Past
• Night's Black Agents
• The Guardian of the Solar System
• Echoes of Grey
• Find and Replace
• A Town Called Fortune
• Quinnis
• The Perpetual Bond
• The Forbidden Time
• The Sentinels of the New Dawn
• Ferril's Folly
• The Cold Equations
• Tales from the Vault
• The Rocket Men
• The Memory Cheats
• The Many Deaths of Jo Grant
• The First Wave
• The Selachian Gambit
• Binary
• The Wanderer
• The Jigsaw War
• The Revenants
• The Time Museum
• The Uncertainty Principle
• The Last Post
• Return of the Rocket Men
• The Flames of Cadiz
• House of Cards
• The Library of Alexandria
• The Apocalypse Mirror
• Council of War
• The Alchemists
• Upstairs
• The Beginning
• The Dying Light
• Luna Romana
• The Sleeping City
• Starborn
• The War To End All Wars
• The Elixir of Doom
• Second Chances
• The Sleeping Blood
• The Unwinding World
• The Founding Fathers
• The Locked Room
• The Mouthless Dead
• The Story of Extinction
• The Integral
• The Edge
• Fields of Terror
• Across the Darkened City
• The Bonfires of the Vanities
• The Plague of Dreams

Jago and Litefoot

• The Bloodless Soldier
• The Bellova Devil
• The Similarity Engine
• Litefoot and Sanders
• The Necropolis Express
• The Theatre of Dreams
• The Ruthven Inheritance
• Dead Men's Tales
• The Man at the End of the Garden
• Swan Song
• Chronoclasm
• Jago in Love
• Beautiful Things
• The Lonely Clock
• The Hourglass Killers
• The Age of Revolution
• The Case of The Gluttonus Guru
• The Bloodchild Codex
• The Final Act
• The Monstrous Menagerie
• The Night of 1000 Stars
• Murder at Moorsey Manor
• The Wax Princess
• Encore of the Scorchies
• The Backwards Men
• Jago & Litefoot & Patsy
• Higson & Quick
• The Flying Frenchmen
• The Devil's Dicemen
• Island of Death
• Return of the Nightmare
• The Case of the Missing Gasogene
• The Year of the Bat
• The Mourning After
• The Museum of Curiosities
• The Haunting
• Jago & Son
• Maurice
• The Woman in White
• Masterpiece
• Picture This
• The Flickermen
• School of Blood
• Warm Blood
• The Stuff of Nightmares
• Chapel of Night
• How The Other Half Lives
• Too Much Reality
• Jago & Litefoot Forever

The Lost Stories

• Mission to Magnus
• Farewell, Great Macedon
• The Fragile Yellow Arc of Fragrance
• Prison in Space
• The Destroyers
• The Masters of Luxor
• The Rosemariners
• The Queen of Time
• Lords of the Red Planet

Graceless

• The Sphere
• The Fog
• The End
• The Line
• The Flood
• The Dark
• The Edge
• The Battle
• Consequences
• The Bomb
• The Room
• The Ward
• The Dance

Worlds of Doctor Who

• Mind Games

The Early Adventures

• The Bounty of Ceres
• The Yes Men
• The Forsaken
• The Black Hole
• The Fifth Traveller
• The Ravelli Conspiracy
• The Outliers
• The Morton Legacy
• The Wreck of the World

Short Trips

• Flywheel Revolution
• Little Doctors
• Time Tunnel
• The Ghost Trap
• The King of the Dead
• The Shadows of Serenity
• Dark Convoy
• Foreshadowing
• Etheria
• The Way of the Empty Hand
• The Toy
• The Other Woman
• Black Dog
• Gardens of the Dead
• Prime Winner
• Washington Burns
• The Curse of the Fugue
• This Sporting Life
• Lost and Found
• The Blame Game
• Damascus
• A Full Life
• Rulebook
• The Man Who Wasn't There
• The Hesitation Deviation
• The World Beyond the Trees
• Gardeners' Worlds
• The Jago & Litefoot Revival
• Falling
• How to Win Planets and Influence People
• Flashpoint
• The British Invasion
• A Heart on Both Sides
• All Hands on Deck
• The Ingenious Gentleman Adric of Alzarius
• O Tannenbaum
• The Authentic Experience
• The Turn of the Screw
• Trap For Fools

Torchwood

• The Dollhouse

External links

• Official Site
• Official Twitter account

• Lisa Bowerman at the Internet Movie Database