Lisa Bowerman

Lisa Bowerman (born 1 February 1962) 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 the Seventh Doctor's companion 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.

	1 February 1962
	Bernice Summerfield, Ellie Higson
	Actor, Director
	See Credits Section
	1989, 1998-present
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You may wish to consult Lisa (disambiguation) for other, similarly-named pages.

Bowerman also provided the voice of Ellie Higson in the Jago & 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 and Short Trips audio series, 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. Outside of acting, she also works as 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.

Personal life

She was the younger sister of fellow Big Finish actor Robin Bowerman.

She was also the partner of Unbound Doctor actor David Warner.

Acting Credits

As Bernice Summerfield

Webcasts

Doctor Who: Lockdown

• Shadow of a Doubt

Bernice Summerfield

• Dead and Buried
• Transmission from Mars

Audio

Doctor Who Main Range

• The Shadow of the Scourge
• The Dark Flame
• The Company of Friends
  • Benny's Story

Special Releases

• Buried Treasures
  • Making Myths
  • Closure
• The Worlds of Big Finish
  • The Lady from Callisto Rhys
  • The Phantom Wreck
• The Legacy of Time
  • Lies in Ruins
  • Collision Course

The Seventh Doctor Adventures

• The Last Day

The Ninth Doctor Adventures

• Buried Threats
  • Ancient History

Dark Gallifrey

• The War Master

Once and Future

• Coda - The Final Act

Novel Adaptations

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

The Companion Chronicles

• Bernice Summerfield and the Criminal Code

Short Trips

• The Hesitation Deviation (in-character as Bernice Summerfield)

Bernice Summerfield

• Oh No It Isn't!
• Beyond the Sun
• Walking to Babylon
• Birthright
• Just War
• Buried Treasures
• Dragons' Wrath
• Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Secret of Cassandra
• Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Stone's Lament
• Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Extinction Event
• Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Skymines of Karthos
• Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Greatest Shop in the Galaxy
• Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Green-Eyed Monsters
• Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Plague Herds of Excelis
• Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Dance of the Dead
• Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Mirror Effect
• Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Bellotron Incident
• Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Draconian Rage
• Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Poison Seas
• Death and the Daleks
• Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Grel Escape
• Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Bone of Contention
• Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Relics of Jegg-Sau
• Professor Bernice Summerfield in the Masquerade of Death
• Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Heart's Desire
• Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Kingdom of the Blind
• Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Lost Museum
• Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Goddess Quandary
• Professor Bernice Summerfield and 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
• Epoch
  • The Kraken's Lament
  • The Temple of Questions
  • Private Enemy No.1
  • Judgement Day
• Road Trip
  • Brand Management
  • Bad Habits
  • Paradise Frost
• Legion
  • Vesuvius Falling
  • Shades of Gray
  • Everybody Loves Irving
• Many Happy Returns
  • In Living Memory
• New Frontiers
  • A Handful of Dust
  • HMS Surprise
  • The Curse of Fenman
• Missing Persons
  • Big Dig
  • The Revenant's Carnival
  • The Brimstone Kid
  • The Winning Side
  • In Living Memory
• The Story So Far: Volume One
  • Ever After Happy
  • The Grel Invasion of Earth
  • Braxiatel in Love
• The Story So Far: Volume Two
  • Every Dark Thought
  • Empress of the Drahvins
  • The Angels of History

The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield

• The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield
  • The Revolution
  • Good Night, Sweet Ladies
  • Random Ghosts
  • The Lights of Skaro
• The Triumph of Sutekh
  • The Pyramid of Sutekh
  • The Vaults of Osiris
  • The Eye of Horus
  • The Tears of Isis
• The Unbound Universe
  • The Library in the Body
  • Planet X
  • The Very Dark Thing
  • The Emporium at the End
• Ruler of the Universe
  • The City and the Clock
  • Asking for a Friend
  • Truant
  • The True Saviour of the Universe
• Buried Memories
  • Pride of the Lampian
  • Clear History
  • Dead and Breakfast
  • Burrowed Time
• Lost in Translation
  • Have I Told You Lately?
  • The Undying Truth
  • Inertia
  • Gallifrey
• Blood & Steel
  • Willkommen
  • Wulf
  • Übermensch
  • Auf Wiedersehen
• The Eternity Club
  • The Armageddon Chair
  • Triumph of the Drahvin
  • Rhubarb
  • Please Retain Your Ticket for the Cloakroom
  • The Terrible Shame of a Tree
  • Mr Pym Has an Adventure
  • Sanctuary
  • Liturgy of Death

The Eighth of March

• The Big Blue Book

Gallifrey

• Disassembled

As Ellie Higson

Audio

Special Releases

• The Worlds of Doctor Who
  • Mind Games

The Sixth Doctor Adventures

• Stage Fright

The Companion Chronicles

• The Mahogany Murderers

Jago and Litefoot

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

The Paternoster Gang

• The Ghost and the Potato Man

Other Roles

Television

Doctor Who

• Survival - Karra
• Dreamland - Seruba Velak

Other

• The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot

BBV Productions

• I Scream - the Narrator

Audio

Doctor Who Main Range

• Whispers of Terror - Beth Pernell
• Zagreus - Sergeant Gazelle

Special Releases

• The Worlds of Big Finish
  • The Archive - the Archive

The Fourth Doctor Adventures

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

The Fifth Doctor Adventures

• The People Made of Smoke - Smoke Creatures (uncredited)

The Early Adventures

• The Bounty of Ceres - Computer
• The Black Hole - Woman
• An Ideal World - Elias

The Companion Chronicles

• The First Wave - the Vardans
• The Founding Fathers - Abigail Holt
• The Locked Room - Vardan
• The Story of Extinction - Selsey / Police officer
• The Beginning - Greta
• E is for... - Colonel Maria Rage / Weapon A
• The Vardan Invasion of Mirth - Director / Emma Birch
• The Death of the Daleks - Narl

Short Trips

• The World Tree - narrator

The Paternoster Gang

• The Ghost and the Potato Man - Ghosts

Gallifrey

• Fractures - Aesino
• Warfare - The Sentience

I, Davros

• Guilt - Murash

Graceless

• The Sphere - the Announcer
• The End - Persephone Kreekpolt
• The Battle - the Archive
• Consequences - the Archive / Receptionist

Iris Wildthyme

• Dark Side - Joyce
• Murder at the Abbey - Hilda

Torchwood

• Ghost Mission - Quite Anxious Shopper
• The Five People You Kill in Middlesbrough - PA

Torchwood Special Releases

• The Torchwood Archive - Miss Mitford

Among Us

• Propaganda - Mother
• Pariahs - The Chair

Audiobook Readings

Target Novelisations

• Survival

Virgin New Adventures

• Human Nature

BBC New Series Adventures

• Big Bang Generation

Bernice Summerfield Novels

• Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Doomsday Manuscript
• Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Gods of the Underworld
• Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Squire's Crystal
• Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Internal Nexus
• Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Glass Prison
• The Big Hunt
• The Tree of Life
• The Two Jasons
• The Weather on Versimmon
• The Slender-Fingered Cats of Bubastis

The Christmas Collection

• Tap
• Null Zeit
• Glory to the Reborn King
• Signifiers of the Verphidiae
• The Frosted Deer
• Collector's Item
• Santa Benny at the Bottom of the Sea
• Bernice Summerfield and the Christmas Adventure
• White Christmas
• Wise Women

Bernice Summerfield Short Stories

• Sex Secrets of the Robot Replicants

Jago & Litefoot

• The Corridors of Power

Director Credits

Doctor Who Main Range

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

Special Releases

• The Worlds of Doctor Who
  • Mind Games

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

The Fifth Doctor Adventures

• Wicked Sisters
  • The Garden of Storms
  • The Moonrakers
  • The People Made of Smoke

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
• The Dalek Occupation of Winter
• An Ideal World
• Entanglement
• The Crash of the UK-201
• The Home Guard
• Daughter of the Gods
• After the Daleks
• The Secrets of Det-Sen

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
• The Bonfires of the Vanities
• The Plague of Dreams
• The Curator's Egg
• Dumb Waiter
• The Iron Maid
• E is for...
• Daybreak
• The Vardan Invasion of Mirth
• The Crumbling Magician
• The Death of the Daleks
• The Phantom Piper

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
• The Siege of Big Ben
• The Darkened Earth
• Flight Into Hull!
• A Small Semblance of Home
• I Am the Master
• The Mistpuddle Murders
• The Revisionists
• Doctors and Dragons
• Year of the Drex Olympics
• #HarrySullivan
• The Second Oldest Question
• Hall of the Ten Thousand
• Peace in Our Time
• Deleted Scenes
• Dead Woman Walking
• Out of the Deep
• Downward Spiral
• These Stolen Hours
• Messages from the Dead
• Fear of Flying
• Inside Story
• Table for Two, Dinner for One

Time Lord Victorious

• Master Thief
• Lesser Evils

Bernice Summerfield

• The End of the World
• The Adolescence of Time

Jago and Litefoot

• Series One
  • The Bloodless Soldier
  • The Bellova Devil
  • The Similarity Engine
• Series Two
  • Litefoot and Sanders
  • The Necropolis Express
  • The Theatre of Dreams
  • The Ruthven Inheritance
• Series Three
  • Dead Men's Tales
  • The Man at the End of the Garden
  • Swan Song
  • Chronoclasm
• Series Four
  • Jago in Love
  • Beautiful Things
  • The Lonely Clock
  • The Hourglass Killers
• Series Five
  • The Age of Revolution
  • The Case of The Gluttonus Guru
  • The Bloodchild Codex
  • The Final Act
• Series Six
  • The Skeleton Quay
  • Return of the Repressed
  • Military Intelligence
  • The Trial of George Litefoot
• Series Seven
  • The Monstrous Menagerie
  • The Night of 1000 Stars
  • Murder at Moorsey Manor
  • The Wax Princess
• Series Eight
  • Encore of the Scorchies
  • The Backwards Men
  • Jago & Litefoot & Patsy
  • Higson & Quick
• Series Nine
  • The Flying Frenchmen
  • The Devil's Dicemen
  • Island of Death
  • Return of the Nightmare
• Series Ten
  • The Case of the Missing Gasogene
  • The Year of the Bat
  • The Mourning After
  • The Museum of Curiosities
• The Haunting
• Series Eleven
  • Jago & Son
  • Maurice
  • The Woman in White
  • Masterpiece
• Series Twelve
  • Picture This
  • The Flickermen
  • School of Blood
  • Warm Blood
• Series Thirteen
  • The Stuff of Nightmares
  • Chapel of Night
  • How The Other Half Lives
  • Too Much Reality
• Jago & Litefoot Forever
• Series Fourteen
  • The Red Hand
  • The Laughing Policeman
  • The Corridors of Power
  • A Command Performance

Susan's War

• Susan's War
  • Sphere of Influence
  • The Uncertain Shore
  • Assets of War
  • The Shoreditch Intervention

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

Torchwood

• The Dollhouse
• Instant Karma
• The Vigil
• Fortitude
• Save Our Souls
• Red Base
• The Crown
• Drive
• The Great Sontaran War
• The Grey Mare
• Cadoc Point
• Sonny
• Infidel Places
• Dead Plates
• Suckers
• SUV
• The Lincolnshire Poacher
• The Empire Man
• Launch Date
• Sigil
• Odyssey
• Oracle
• Poppet

External links

• Lisa Bowerman at the Internet Movie Database
• Official website
• Official Twitter account

Footnotes