As a youngster, Jude appeared in many of the Barn’s main house productions, including The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, as Tom in Tom’s Midnight Garden and in Cider with Rosie. He left acting for quite a while after this, and has only recently returned, having joined the Senior Youth Group and performed in the Hertfordshire Players’ production of War of the Worlds at the Minack Theatre in 2008.