Maggie Stables

Maggie Stables (died 26 September 2014) was a voice actor for Big Finish Productions. She appeared in the spinoff audio dramas The Choice and Just War and the first Big Finish Doctor Who audio drama The Sirens of Time before being cast in the recurring role of Sixth Doctor companion Evelyn Smythe.

Career
Maggie Stables turned to acting as a second career after retiring from a longtime position as a French teacher. After some experience in musical theatre, she acted in a 1991 production of with Nicholas Briggs. This led to Briggs casting Stables as Ruthley in The Sirens of Time and as Evelyn the following year.

In 2013, Stables retired from acting due to long-term illness. She passed away in her sleep on Friday 26 September 2014.

A tribute to Stables, including excerpts from a 2003 interview she gave to Kenny Smith for his fanzine The Finished Product, was published in VOR 68.

Audio appearances
As Evelyn Smythe As other characters
 * The Marian Conspiracy
 * The Spectre of Lanyon Moor
 * Bloodtide
 * Project: Twilight
 * The Sandman
 * Jubilee
 * Doctor Who and the Pirates
 * Project: Lazarus
 * Arrangements for War
 * Medicinal Purposes
 * Pier Pressure
 * Thicker Than Water
 * The Nowhere Place
 * 100
 * Assassin in the Limelight
 * A Death in the Family (with the Seventh Doctor)
 * A Town Called Fortune
 * The Crimes of Thomas Brewster
 * The Feast of Axos
 * Industrial Evolution
 * The Choice - Lenora
 * Just War - Ma Doras
 * The Sirens of Time - Ruthley
 * The Tao Connection - Mrs Lythe
 * Zagreus - The Great Mother