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28 NOV – 31 DEC 2017
THE CAST IRENE ALLAN | CLAUDIA/FAIRY GODMOTHER Theatre credits include: Hansel and Gretel (Citizens Theatre); The Course of True Love (Fire Exit); The Crucible, Union, Living Quarters, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Phaedra, Peter Pan, Macbeth, Sleeping Beauty, The Merchant of Venice (Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh); High Society, Mary Rose, People, The Ruling Class, Lady Windermere’s Fan, Present Laughter, Chorus of Disapproval, Hello Dolly!, Cinderella, Life of Stuff, What Every Woman Knows (Pitlochry Festival Theatre); Fergus Lamont, Memorandum, Zlata’s Diary (Communicado); Iron (Firebrand Theatre Company); Six Characters in Search of an Author (National Theatre of Scotland); Bondagers, A Christmas Carol (Byre Theatre). TV credits include: Not Safe for Work (Channel 4); Faultlines (Stepping Stones); Baby Boom or Bust, Tollcross Tales (Aikman Productions).
PETER COLLINS | SERGEANT PUFF Peter trained at National Youth Theatre and Central School of Speech and Drama. Theatre credits include: Oresteia: This Restless House, Hansel and Gretel, Rapunzel (Citizens Theatre); The Story of the Little Gentleman, White, The Ballad of Pondlife McGurk (Catherine Wheels); Tin Forest (National Theatre of Scotland); Horizontal Collaboration (David Leddy/Fire Exit); Caucasian Chalk Circle (Complicité /National Theatre); Much Ado About Nothing, The Taming of the Shrew (Manchester Royal Exchange); How the Other Half Loves (Octagon Bolton); Ticket to Write: Northern Exposure (Paines Plough); Macbeth, Thebans, Medea, King Lear, Julius Caesar, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet (Theatre Babel); The Tempest (Compass Theatre); Beauty and the Beast (Tron Theatre); Hamlet: First Cut (Red Shift); Temptations and Betrayals (Bristol Old Vic Studio); Grimm Tales (Leicester Haymarket). TV and radio credits include: Outlander (Sony Pictures/Starz); The Secret Agent (World Productions/BBC); Eve (Leopard Productions/ CBBC); The Hunt (Carlton); Always and Everyone (Granada); Peak Practice (ITV); Casualty (BBC); Lulu’s Back in Town (BBC Radio Scotland).
CAROLINE DEYGA | CLAUDETTE Caroline trained in Acting for Stage and Screen at Napier and Queen Margaret Universities, Edinburgh. Caroline was selected for the graduate scheme at Dundee Rep, where productions included: Cars and Boys, And Then There Were None, The BFG, Hecuba, Victoria and the one woman show The Shape of a Girl. Earlier this year Caroline was nominated for Best Actress in a Supporting Role at the Olivier Awards for her performance as Chell in Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour (National Theatre of Scotland/Live Theatre). The show toured to the West End and also won the Olivier for Best New Comedy. Other theatre credits include: Locker Room Talk, Tracks of the Winter Bear (Traverse Theatre); Flora’s Fairy Challenge (Beacon Arts Centre); The Fair Intellectual Club (Stellar Quines); Telling the Truth Beautifully, Greenvoe (St Magnus International Festival). Radio credits include: The Fair Intellectual Club (Absolutely Productions/BBC Radio 4). TV credits include: Trust Me (BBC).
HANNAH HOWIE | CLAUDINE Hannah recently toured The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart (Eastern Angles) in the titular role. In 2016 she was a part of the Pitlochry Festival Theatre ensemble playing in Hard Times, Carousel, Thark, This Happy Breed and Scrooge! Other theatre credits include: A Ladder to the Stars (Visible Fictions/Aberdeen Performing Arts); There’s a guy... (Ovation); Robin Hood, Last of the Dragons (Manhattan Children’s Theatre); Cinderella (Byre Theatre/Bard in the Botanics); Aladdin (Macrobert); The Addams Family (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland/Assembly); The Girl Who (Theatre Bench/Assembly); The Hot Mikado (C Venues). Hannah trained at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
JATINDER SINGH RANDHAWA | CALLUM/DANCING BEAR Jatinder has just graduated from the BA (Hons) Acting course at New College Lanarkshire. Theatre credits include: Snowflake (The Network); Medea, Balm in Gilead, Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off, 13, The Country Wife, Lord of The Flies (New CLan Arts); Lord of The Flies (New Adventures RE:Bourne). TV credits include: Scot Squad (The Comedy Unit).
NICHOLAS RALPH | PRINCE/BLACK DOUGLAS Nicholas graduated from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland this year. He is this year’s Citizens Theatre Robertson Trust Actor Intern. Theatre credits include: Faithful Ruslan (Citizens Theatre /Belgrade Theatre, Coventry); Pleasure and Pain, Simon’s Magical Christmas Socks, The Burial at Thebes, Romeo and Juliet, Death of a Salesman, Love Despite Life (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland); Dunsinane (National Theatre of Scotland/Royal Shakespeare Company); Dream On! (BBC Arts Live); Beyond the Trenches (Play Pieces). Film and radio credits include: The Wife (Meta Film London LTD); Kidnapped (BBC Radio Scotland/Royal Conservatoire of Scotland).
SINÉAD SHARKEY | CINDERELLA Sinéad graduated from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland this year. She is this year’s Citizens Theatre Actor Intern. Theatre credits include: Faithful Ruslan (Citizens Theatre/ Belgrade Theatre, Coventry); Pleasure and Pain, The Burial at Thebes, Snow Queen, ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore, Death of a Salesman, Ghosts (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland); Recoil (On the Verge); Peter Pan, Teenage Kicks (Millennium Forum Derry); Closing Time, The Pride, Kirk Session, The Promised Land, The Last Supper (Blue Eagle Productions); The Wood of the Crows (Playhouse Derry). TV and film credits include: Mercy (Out of Orbit); Dracula Untold (Universal Pictures); First Shall Be Last (Blue Eagle Productions); Spill It (BBC Blast). Radio credits include: Looped (BBC Radio Scotland); Kidnapped (BBC Radio Scotland/Royal Conservatoire of Scotland).
MALCOLM SHIELDS | FATHER/KING/DANCE CHOREOGRAPHER Theatre credits include: Observe The Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme, Scrooge, The Importance of Being Earnest, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Twits (Citizens Theatre); Trainspotting (Citizens Theatre/Traverse Theatre/Bush Theatre); The Government Inspector, Tam O’Shanter, Fergus Lamont (Communicado); Tam O’Shanter (Horsecross Arts Ltd); East Coast Chicken Supper (Traverse Theatre); The Tempest (Tron Theatre); Faust Parts 1 & 2, Othello, Julius Caesar, The Princess and the Goblin (Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh). Film credits include: Undercliffe (Parade Ltd); I Daniel Blake (Sixteen Tyne Ltd); Last Word (Sigmaville Ltd); Crying With Laughter (Frisky Films Ltd – winner of Best Feature Film, 2009 BAFTA Scotland); Hallam Foe (Hallam Foe Ltd). TV credits include: Taggart, High Times (STV); No Holds Bard, The Bellrock, Casualty, The Lost World (BBC); The Hound of The Baskervilles (Tiger Aspect); Monarch of the Glen (Ecosse Films). Malcolm has also worked as a Movement Director and Choreographer for a number of organisations, including: Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh, National Theatre of Scotland and BBC Television.
JAMIE MARIE LEARY | ACTOR UNDERSTUDY/ASM Jamie is a Glasgow-based actress who trained at Langside College, graduating in 2014. She recently finished a Scottish tour of the play Stand By (Utter), which won a Scotsman Fringe First Award in 2017. Other stage credits include: A Night For David MacLennan (A Play, A Pie and A Pint/Citizens Theatre); Locker Room Talk, Class Act Silver, Breakfast Plays: Birth (Traverse Theatre); Expensive Shit (Adura Onashile/ Scottish Theatre Producers/Soho Theatre, Soho Theatre 2017, Traverse Theatre 2016 – winner of Fringe First Award 2016). TV credits include: Two Doors Down (BBC). Audiobook credits include: A Kiss in The Dark (Cat Clarke/Pinewood Studios). Workshop credits include: JMK Trust Workshop (Traverse Theatre).
SAMUEL PASHBY | ACTOR UNDERSTUDY/ASM Samuel is a Scottish actor and musician based in Glasgow. He studied at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Theatre credits include: Coriolanus, Hamlet (Bard in the Botanics); The Caddie (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland); As You Like It (Shakespeare’s Globe Education); Jam Diaries (Summerhall). Samuel also wrote and performed his own one-man show Brother as part of the On The Verge Festival in Glasgow. He holds distinction level Stage combat qualifications in Broadsword, Knife, and Unarmed Combat. Samuel is also a music producer and multi-instrumentalist having scored several theatre productions.
WITH SUPPORTING ARTISTS FROM THE CITIZENS THEATRE YOUNG CO. AND COMMUNITY COLLECTIVE: LAURA FARRUGIA ROSE SHARKEY NINA MDWABA MARISSA BONNAR RUTH MORRISON STEPHEN SMART
CREATIVE TEAM DOMINIC HILL | DIRECTOR Dominic Hill is Artistic Director of the Citizens Theatre. Since joining the Citizens in 2011, he has directed The Macbeths, Oresteia: This Restless House (2017 and 2016, winner of Best Director, 2016 CATS Awards), Hay Fever, Hansel & Gretel, The Rivals, Endgame, The Choir, Fever Dream: Southside, A Christmas Carol, Hamlet, The Libertine, Miss Julie, Crime and Punishment (winner of Best Director and Best Production, 2014 CATS Awards), Far Away, Seagulls, Doctor Faustus, Sleeping Beauty, Krapp’s Last Tape, Footfalls, King Lear and Betrayal (winner of Best Director, 2012 CATS Award). Before joining the Citizens he was Artistic Director of the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh and Joint Artistic Director of Dundee Rep. Other credits include Falstaff and Macbeth (Scottish Opera) and The City Madam (Royal Shakespeare Company). He has directed in theatres in London and throughout the UK.
GABRIELLA SLADE | DESIGNER Set and costume credits include: Loot (Watermill Theatre/Park Theatre); Bodies (Royal Court Theatre); Murder For Two (Watermill Theatre/The Other Palace); Kommilitonen! (Welsh National Opera); Stig of the Dump (UK Tour); The Iris Murder (Traverse Theatre, Scottish Tour); Romeo and Juliet, Caucasian Chalk Circle, How Do You Eat An Elephant? (National Youth Theatre Wales); Dead Born Grow (Frantic Assembly); Bumblescratch (Adelphi Theatre); Henry VI, Richard III (Wales Millennium Centre); Love Birds, Happy Never After (Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh Festival); Wind in the Willows, Alice in Wonderland (Oxford Playhouse). Costume credits include: Working (Southwark Playhouse); The Green House, Folk (National Dance Company Wales); In The Heights (Kings Cross Theatre - Winner of 3 Olivier Awards, 2016); Showstopper! (Costume & Props; The Lyric, West End & Tour – Olivier Award winner 2016); Peter And The Starcatcher (Royal and Derngate); The Last Five Years (St James’ Theatre); The Last Mermaid (Wales Millennium Centre); A Christmas Carol, The Adventures Of Pinocchio, The One Hundred and One Dalmatians (Castle Theatre).
LIZZIE POWELL | LIGHTING DESIGNER Lizzie’s lighting designs for the Citizens Theatre include Hansel and Gretel, Endgame, The Choir, Fever Dream: Southside, A Christmas Carol, The Libertine, Far Away, Seagulls, Krapp’s Last Tape, Footfalls. Other theatre credits include: Country Girls (Chichester Festival); B, Victory Condition, Human Animals, Violence and Son (Royal Court Theatre); The Mountaintop (Young Vic); Mighty Waltzer, Anna Karenina (The Royal Exchange); Adam, Glasgow Girls, In Time O’ Strife, My Shrinking Life, Enquirer, An Appointment with the Wicker Man, Knives in Hens (National Theatre of Scotland); Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour (National Theatre of Scotland/Live Theatre); Unknown Island, Idomeneus (Gate Theatre); Romeo and Juliet (Sheffield Crucible); Frankenstein, Hedda Gabler (Northern Stage); Secret Theatre (Lyric Hammersmith); Debuts, Any Given Day, While You Lie, The Dark Things (Traverse Theatre); Huxley’s Lab, Spring Awakening (Grid Iron/Lung Ha Theatre Company).
NIKOLA KODJABASHIA | COMPOSER AND SOUND DESIGNER Nikola Kodjabashia is considered to be one of the most eminent representatives of the Balkan and Eastern European musical avant-garde today. Theatre credits include: Hansel and Gretel, A Christmas Carol, Hamlet, Crime and Punishment (Citizens Theatre); This Restless House (Citizens Theatre/ National Theatre of Scotland); La Suite (Fabien Prioville Dance Company/Pina Bausch Foundation). Musical Director for Sir Peter Hall and Sir Harrison Birtwistle’s Bacchai (National Theatre); Kafka’s Monkey (Young Vic); The Three Musketeers and the Princess of Spain (English Touring Theatre/Traverse Theatre/Belgrade Theatre, Coventry); Inkheart, Romeo and Juliet (HOME Manchester); Scherzo for Piano and Stick, Insomnia (Riotous); Siege (Freedom Theatre); Wajdi Mouawad’s Scorched (Old Vic); Olivier Award-winning Hecuba (DONMAR Warehouse). Commissions include: La Biennale di Venezia 2004, BBC Singers 2010, National Theatre 2002/3, Macedonian National Opera 2013, Macedonian Philharmonic Orchestra 2009, Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble 1999. TV and film credits include: Defining Fay (2012), Dance with Me (2010), Dear Ana (2011), Racism, a History, Gothica, etc. (BBC/Arena); Grandmothers of the Revolution (Petra Pan Slovenia).
BENEDICTE SEIERUP AND LUCIEN MACDOUGALL | MOVEMENT DIRECTORS Benedicte and Lucien both trained at Guildford School of Acting and under Jacques Lecoq in Paris. They have worked as actors, devisers, movement tutors, directors and movement directors over several years and in many countries. They have written and devised four plays together, their favourite being The Nose (After Gogol). They are currently movement tutors at The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Movement Directing work with Dominic Hill at the Citizens includes: Hansel and Gretel, A Christmas Carol, Sleeping Beauty, Crime and Punishment.
ISOBEL NICOLSON | PUPPET MAKER Isobel graduated from Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in 2016. Design credits include: Jabberwocky (Youth Music Theatre/Theatre Royal Margate); The Miller’s Child (Watermill Theatre); Emeli Sande’s Cancer Bonus tour and arena tour (Mirrad Productions); Dream Big (Lead Creative Schools). Design Assistant and Scenic Painter credits include: Murder for Two (Watermill Theatre); Romeo and Juliet (National Youth Theatre of Wales/ Clwyd Theatr Cymru); Sleeping Beauty (The Torch Theatre); Stig of the Dump (UK tour). Costume and Puppet Assistant credits include: Ar Waith Ar Daith (Walk the Plank /Wales Millennium Centre). Isobel was also Design Associate for Island Nation (Arcola Theatre) and worked on Atal and Penelope (BBC Cymru Wales).
TESS MONRO | ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Tess is currently on placement at the Citizens Theatre as part of her MFA in Theatre Directing at Birkbeck University. During her placement Tess has worked as Assistant Director on The Macbeths and Lampedusa. Directing credits include: The History Boys, God of Carnage (The Nottingham New Theatre); 18B (writer and director) (Zoo Venues Edinburgh); The Rehearsal (writer and director), Gorgeous (writer and director) (Paper Productions). She is a founding member of Paper Productions Theatre Company with whom she has worked as a writer and director.
THE CITIZENS COMPANY STAFF Thomas Abela Front of House Neil Anderson Studio Technical Stage Manager Amy Angus Drama Class Tutor Fin Bain Front of House Paul C Bassett Front of House Duty Manager Esther Batterham Marketing Officer (Maternity cover) Catherine Bird Payroll Officer Dave Black Front of House Ashleigh Blair Scenic Artist Alex Brady Box Office Supervisor/ IT Suzanne Brady Box Office/ Drama Class Tutor Laura Briggs Front of House Louise Brown Creative Learning Officer Charlene Boyd Night School Tutor Theo Cherry Front of House Jen Clokey Drama Class Tutor Steph Connell Stage One Producer Lisa Corr Sullivan Drama Class Tutor Natalia Cortes Company Stage Manager Peter Cowan Box Office Elaine G Coyle Head of Wardrobe Carol Cull Housekeeper Stephen Cunningham Technician Ali Currie Wardrobe Cutter Kirstie Cusick Head of Communications (Capital) Caroline Darke Trusts & Foundations Manager Lesley Davidson General Manager Saul Davidson Front of House Denise Differ Box Office Manager Louise Dingwall Press and Marketing Officer Michael Dorrance Deputy Head of Workshop Emma Jane Douglas Assistant Scenic Artist/Prop Maker Katie Doyle Front of House Ann Dundas Housekeeper Lisa Dundas Box Office Paul Dundas Front of House Manager Steven Dundas Housekeeper Amir Ebrahim Front of House Molly MacDowell Finlayson Wardrobe Assistant Archie Fisher Front of House Robyn Ferguson Box Office Sophie Fernie Front of House Barry Forde Assistant Stage Manager Neil Francis Drama Class Tutor Benjamin Frost Wardrobe Assistant/Dresser Jacky Gardiner Front of House Harvey Gardner Front of House James Gardner Lighting Programmer Anne Gillan Finance Officer Anthea Goodman Wardrobe Cutter Elly Goodman Community Drama Artist Jessica Griffiths Wardrobe Assistant Daniel Hamilton Drama Class Tutor Davy Harrop Front of House/ Stage Door Administrator Stephen Harrop Front of House Duty Manager/ Carpenter Jamie Hayes Head of Stage Dominic Hill Artistic Director Neil Hobbs Deputy Head of Lighting & Sound Guy Hollands Associate Director (Citizens Learning) Olivia Hughes Front of House Caroline James Drama Class Tutor Miles Jarvis Front of House Euan Jenkins Front of House Stuart Jenkins Head of Lighting & Sound Arthur Johnston Stage Door Administrator Simon Jones Stage Door Administrator Judith Kilvington Executive Director Sarah Kinsey Wardrobe Assistant Jenny Knotts Box Office
Campbell Lawrie Paul Hamlyn Club Co-ordinator/Drama Class Supervisor Karen Lee-Barron Wardrobe Assistant/ Dresser Stuart Leech Assistant Carpenter/ Technician Garry Loughran Scenic Artist Michelle Lyons Wig Stylist Niall Macdonald Front of House Sarah MacDonald Stage Manager Robert Macfarlane Wardrobe Cutter Alison MacKinnon Head of Marketing & Communications Rose Manson Front of House Collette Marshall Front of House Keir Martin Technician Carly McCaig Community Drama Worker Erin McCardie Front of House Sarah McGavin Drama Class Tutor Morna McGeogh Drama Class Tutor Hazel McGrath Assistant Stage Manager Placement Michael McGurk Front of House Rachel McGurk Front of House Hazel McIlwraith Head of Development Lawrie McInally Stage Door Administrator Lauren McLean Drama Class Tutor Lesley McNamara Wardrobe Cutter Jason McQuaide Deputy Head of Stage Jon Meggat Technician / LX Operator Kat Moir Drama Class Tutor Tess Monro Assistant Director (Birbeck Trainee) Debbie Montgomery Drama Class Supervisor Christina Morrison Individual Giving Officer Jim Morrison Front of House Jacqueline Muir Production Administrator Jack Mullen Box Office Denis Murphy Head of Workshop Keren Nicol Acting Head of Marketing George Nichols Assistant Director (Birbeck Trainee) Petriece O’Donnell Front of House Neil Packham Community Drama Director Sam Packham Front of House/ Stage Door Administrator Tom Penny Assistant Lighting & Sound Technician Donald Pirie Night School Tutor Frances Poet Literary Associate Marion Quinn Front of House Nicholas Ralph Robertson Trust Actor Intern Valerie Rickis Assistant Stage Manager Fergus Russell Assistant Scenic Artist Mo SerpehriDoust Front of House Marian Sharkey Deputy Stage Manager Sinéad Sharkey Actor Intern Christopher Silver Press & Marketing Officer (Maternity cover) Katie Simpson Wardrobe Cutter Mags Smillie Head of Finance Andy Smith Housekeeper Angela Smith Learning Projects Manager Laura Smith Deputy Head of Production Lorna Stallard Front of House Colin Sutherland Deputy Stage Manager Graham Sutherland Head of Production Benjamin Szilli Front of House Nicky Taylor Front of House Erin Tighe Drama Class Tutor Chris Traquair Head Flyman/ Technician Martin Travers Producer (Citizens Learning) Andrew Turner Stage Door Administrator Shiona Walker Digital Officer Colin White Drama Class Tutor Clare Wilde Major Donor Officer Ross Williamson Building Supervisor Gary Wong Front of House Megan Yeomans Assistant Scenic Artist
Board: Professor Adrienne Scullion (Chair), April Chamberlain (Vice Chair), Councillor Susan Aitken, Paulo Cruz, Laurence Fraser, Alex Gaffney, Dominic Hill, Ryan James, Alex Reedijk, Mike Russell and Irene Tweedie.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS All scenery, costumes and props made in the Citizens Theatre workshop. Opening night drinks generously provided by Belhaven and Alliance Wines. Special Thanks to: John Brown Caterhire.
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