Lisa Bowerman
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Lisa Bowerman (born 1 February 1962[1]) 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.
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[[edit] | [edit source]]
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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[[edit] | [edit source]]
She was the younger sister of fellow Big Finish actor Robin Bowerman.
She was also the partner of Unbound Doctor actor David Warner[2].
Acting Credits[[edit] | [edit source]]
Webcasts[[edit] | [edit source]]
Doctor Who: Lockdown[[edit] | [edit source]]
Bernice Summerfield[[edit] | [edit source]]
Audio[[edit] | [edit source]]
Doctor Who Main Range[[edit] | [edit source]]
Special Releases[[edit] | [edit source]]
The Seventh Doctor Adventures[[edit] | [edit source]]
The Ninth Doctor Adventures[[edit] | [edit source]]
Novel Adaptations[[edit] | [edit source]]
The Companion Chronicles[[edit] | [edit source]]
Short Trips[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The Hesitation Deviation (in-character as Bernice Summerfield)
Bernice Summerfield[[edit] | [edit source]]
- 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
- Road Trip
- Legion
- Many Happy Returns
- New Frontiers
- Missing Persons
- The Story So Far: Volume One
- The Story So Far: Volume Two
The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield
- The Triumph of Sutekh
- The Unbound Universe
- Ruler of the Universe
- Buried Memories
- Lost in Translation
- Blood & Steel
- The Eternity Club
The Eighth of March[[edit] | [edit source]]
Gallifrey[[edit] | [edit source]]
As Ellie Higson
Audio[[edit] | [edit source]]
Special Releases[[edit] | [edit source]]
The Sixth Doctor Adventures[[edit] | [edit source]]
The Companion Chronicles[[edit] | [edit source]]
Jago and Litefoot[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Series One
- Series Two
- Series Three
- Series Four
- Series Five
- Series Six
- Series Seven
- Series Eight
- Series Nine
- Series Ten
- The Haunting
- Series Eleven
- Series Twelve
- Series Thirteen
- Jago & Litefoot Forever
The Paternoster Gang[[edit] | [edit source]]
Other Roles
Television[[edit] | [edit source]]
Doctor Who[[edit] | [edit source]]
Other[[edit] | [edit source]]
BBV Productions[[edit] | [edit source]]
- I Scream - the Narrator
Audio[[edit] | [edit source]]
Doctor Who Main Range[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Whispers of Terror - Beth Pernell
- Zagreus - Sergeant Gazelle
Special Releases[[edit] | [edit source]]
The Fourth Doctor Adventures[[edit] | [edit source]]
The Fifth Doctor Adventures[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The People Made of Smoke - Smoke Creatures (uncredited)
The Early Adventures[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The Bounty of Ceres - Computer
- The Black Hole - Woman
- An Ideal World - Elias
The Companion Chronicles[[edit] | [edit source]]
- 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[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The World Tree - narrator
The Paternoster Gang[[edit] | [edit source]]
Gallifrey[[edit] | [edit source]]
I, Davros[[edit] | [edit source]]
Graceless[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The Sphere - the Announcer
- The End - Persephone Kreekpolt
- The Battle - the Archive
- Consequences - the Archive / Receptionist
Iris Wildthyme[[edit] | [edit source]]
Torchwood[[edit] | [edit source]]
Torchwood Special Releases[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The Torchwood Archive - Miss Mitford
Among Us[[edit] | [edit source]]
Audiobook Readings[[edit] | [edit source]]
Target Novelisations[[edit] | [edit source]]
Virgin New Adventures[[edit] | [edit source]]
BBC New Series Adventures[[edit] | [edit source]]
Bernice Summerfield Novels[[edit] | [edit source]]
- 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[[edit] | [edit source]]
- 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[[edit] | [edit source]]
Jago & Litefoot[[edit] | [edit source]]
Director Credits[[edit] | [edit source]]
Doctor Who Main Range[[edit] | [edit source]]
Special Releases[[edit] | [edit source]]
The Lost Stories[[edit] | [edit source]]
- 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[[edit] | [edit source]]
The Early Adventures[[edit] | [edit source]]
- 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[[edit] | [edit source]]
- 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[[edit] | [edit source]]
- 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[[edit] | [edit source]]
Bernice Summerfield[[edit] | [edit source]]
Jago and Litefoot[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Series One
- Series Two
- Series Three
- Series Four
- Series Five
- Series Six
- Series Seven
- Series Eight
- Series Nine
- Series Ten
- The Haunting
- Series Eleven
- Series Twelve
- Series Thirteen
- Jago & Litefoot Forever
- Series Fourteen
Susan's War[[edit] | [edit source]]
Graceless[[edit] | [edit source]]
- 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[[edit] | [edit source]]
- 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