A CITIZENS THEATRE AND HOME MANCHESTER CO-PRODUCTION
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13 APR – 5 MAY
THE CAST GEORGE COSTIGAN | JAMES TYRONE This is George’s fifth appearance with the Citizens Theatre, previously appearing in Oresteia: This Restless House in 2017 and 2016, Crime and Punishment in 2013 and King Lear in 2011. Other stage roles in Scotland include George in John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men (King’s Theatre Edinburgh); Trust Byron at the 1998 Edinburgh Festival Fringe (nominated for Best Actor); Claudius in Calixto Bietio’s production of Hamlet at the 2003 Edinburgh International Festival and David Harrower’s Blackbird at the Tron in 2011. Film credits include: The Hawk directed by David Hayman, and Summer directed by Kenny Glenaan. George has published the first novel of a trilogy, The Single Soldier and the second and third parts, The Soldier’s Home, will be published in May. He also once compered three nights of freestyle wrestling in Aberdeen. Never again.
DANI HERON | CATHLEEN Dani trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Recent theatre credits include: The 306: Day, The James Plays (National Theatre of Scotland); Jumpy, The Venetian Twins (Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh); A Perfect Stroke (Òran Mór /Traverse Theatre); Chariots of Fire (West End); Aladdin (Eden Court Theatre); One Turbulent Ambassador (The Lyric Hammersmith); Merry Wives of Windsor (The Drill Hall, London); A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Greenwich Theatre). TV credits include: Casualty, Armchair Detectives (BBC). Film credits include: Skin Deep (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland); I Am Me (PACE Media Productions); Rat Trap (LAMDA Films).
LORN MACDONALD | EDMUND TYRONE Lorn graduated from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in 2015. Theatre credits include: Trainspotting (2017 and 2016 Citizens Theatre); Oresteia: This Restless House (2017 and 2016 Citizens Theatre/National Theatre of Scotland); Boys (Soho Theatre/Nuffield Theatre/Headlong/Hightide Festival Theatre); What We Know (Traverse Theatre). TV credits include: Bruadar A’Bhais – A Dream of Murder (BBC Alba); World’s End (BBC); Neverland (Sky Movies/Syfy); Outlander (Starz/Tall Ship Productions). Film credits include: Beats (Sixteen Films). Radio credits include: Boswell at Large: A Corsican Adventure (BBC).
BRÍD NÍ NEACHTAIN | MARY TYRONE Bríd trained at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin and was a member of the company for many years. Theatre credits include: Dancing at Lughnasa (Abbey Theatre, Dublin/Royal National Theatre/West End/Broadway); The Great Hunger (Abbey Theatre, Dublin/Moscow Art Theatre); Playboy of The Western World (Lyric Theatre, Belfast); Not I (Irish Arts Center, New York); Doubt, A Skull In Connemara (Decadent Theatre); Juno And The Paycock, Little Women (Gate Theatre Dublin); Collected Stories (This Then Theatre Company); There Came a Gypsy Riding (Livin’ Dred Theatre Company); The Bog of Cats, Woman and Scarecrow, Jimmy’s Hall (Abbey Theatre, Dublin). TV and film credits include: Pure Mule, Love is The Drug, The Clinic, Frankie (RTE); The Family (BBC/RTE); Cré na Cille, Klondike (TG4).
SAM PHILLIPS | JAMES TYRONE JR Sam trained at Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Theatre credits include: Deathtrap (Salisbury Playhouse/UK tour); Sweet Bird of Youth, First Light (Chichester Festival Theatre); Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare’s Globe); Larisa and the Merchants (Arcola Theatre); Elegy (Theatre503); Much Ado About Nothing (Ludlow Fringe Festival); The Taming of the Shrew, The Merchant of Venice (Derby LIVE); Love Bites (Southwark Playhouse); Inherit The Wind (Old Vic Theatre); The History Boys (Wyndham’s Theatre/National Theatre tour).TV credits include: Six Wives with Lucy Worsley, Bricks!, The Syndicate, In the Flesh, Doctors, Eastenders: E20, Hotel Trubble, My Family (BBC); Pete versus Life (Objective Productions); I Shouldn’t Be Alive: Blizzard of Death, Micro Men (Darlow Smithson Productions); Aki Nabalu (Astro). Film credits include: Hand of the Creator (Stanger than Fiction); Hot Property, DILF’S, Half Hearted (Fortune Films); Far from the Madding Crowd (Fox Searchlight Pictures/BBC).
CREATIVE TEAM DOMINIC HILL | DIRECTOR Dominic Hill is Artistic Director of the Citizens Theatre. Since joining the Citizens in 2011, he has directed Cinderella, 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.
TOM PIPER | DESIGNER Recent designs include: Hay Fever, King Lear, Hamlet, The Libertine (Citizens Theatre); The Great Wave (National Theatre); The Cherry Orchard (Bristol Old Vic/Royal Exchange); Rhinoceros (Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh); Endgame (Citizens Theatre/HOME Manchester); iHo (Hampstead Theatre); Harrogate (HighTide/Royal Court); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Royal Shakespeare Company & UK Tour); Carmen La Cubana (Le Théâtre du Châtelet); Red Velvet (West End, TricycleTheatre & New York); A Wolf In Snakeskin Shoes (TricycleTheatre); The King’s Speech (Birmingham Rep/Chichester Festival Theatre & UK Tour); Orfeo (Royal Opera House); Tamburlaine The Great (Theatre For a New Audience, New York). As Associate Designer of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Tom designed over 30 of their shows including The Histories for which he won an Olivier for best costume design. Tom designed Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red at the Tower of London and received an MBE for services to Theatre and First World War commemorations. Other recent exhibitions include: Winnie-the-Pooh: Exploring a Classic (V&A); Shakespeare Staging The World (British Museum).
BEN ORMEROD | LIGHTING DESIGNER Previous productions at the Citizens Theatre include Oresteia: This Restless House, King Lear and Hamlet. Recent work includes: Broken Glass (Watford Palace Theatre); The Knot (Umanoove Dance); Frame of View (Danish Dance Theatre); All’s Well that Ends Well (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse); A Woman of No Importance (West End); Woyzeck in Winter (Landmark Productions/Galway International Arts); Prism (Hampstead Theatre); The Libertine (West End/Theatre Royal Bath); Tannhäuser (Longborough Festival Opera); A Number (Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh). Previous theatre includes: Mrs Henderson Presents (West End/ Toronto/Theatre Royal Bath); Zorro (West End, US, Japan and Netherlands); the Spanish Golden Age season (Royal Shakespeare Company). Ben has also lit numerous opera and dance productions including for Scottish Opera, English National Opera, Rambert, Phoenix Dance, National Dance Company Wales, Grand Théâtre de Genève, Danish National Opera, Lithuania National Ballet and Ballet Gulbenkian. He is lighting consultant for the Calico Museum of Textiles, Ahmedabad, directed Athol Fugard’s Dimetos (Gate Theatre, London) and adapted four films from Kieślowski’s Dekalog for E15.
CLAIRE MCKENZIE | COMPOSER Claire McKenzie trained at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and now works as a Composer and Musical Director in the UK and internationally. Theatre credits include: Hay Fever, Hansel and Gretel, After the End, Divided City, Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella (Citizens Theatre); Atlantic: A Scottish Story (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland/Noisemaker/Assembly - Winner of Herald Angel Award 2017); The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Winner Best Production CATS 2015), The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Iliad, Hedda Gabler, The Venetian Twins, The BFG (Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh); The 306:Day, Roman Bridge (National Theatre of Scotland); Little Red and the Wolf (Dundee Rep/Noisemaker - nominated for UK Theatre Award and CATS award for Best Production for Children and Young People); Forest Boy (New York Musical Festival); What We Wished For (Sheffield Crucible); The Girl Who (Merry-Go-Round Playhouse, New York); A Christmas Carol, Hecuba, Mill Lavvies (Dundee Rep); My First Spellbook (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland - Nominated for a BAFTA New Talent Award for Original Music). Along with writer Scott Gilmour, Claire co-founded the award-winning music theatre company, Noisemaker. Claire and Scott were named one of the New Voices of 2016 by NMI and Walt Disney Imagineering. Claire is currently an associate artist for Dundee Rep Theatre.
MATT PADDEN | SOUND DESIGNER Matt was the National Theatre of Scotland’s Head of Sound between 2008 and 2017. His designs for that company include Eve, How To Act, Last Tango in Partick, Last Dream (On Earth) (presented by Kai Fischer), The Tin Forest, A Christmas Carol, Long Gone Lonesome, Wall of Death - A Way of Life and, as Technical Sound Designer, Enquirer. Other sound designs include The Hidden (Visible Fictions); What Put The Blood (Abbey Theatre, Dublin); Cockpit (Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh); Heroine (MJW Productions); Expensive Sh*t (Scottish Theatre Producers); Shrapnel (Theatre Gu Leòr); Andromaque (Òran Mór); Entartet (Kai Fischer); Subway (Vanishing Point); Woyzeck (Corcadorca Theatre Company). Long Day’s Journey Into Night is his first design for the Citizens Theatre.
PENNY DYER | VOICE & DIALECT COACH Recent theatre credits include: Follies, The Red Barn, Husbands and Sons, This House, Blood and Gifts (National Theatre); Girl from the North Country (Old Vic/West End); Ground Hog Day, The Caretaker, Other Desert Cities, Sweet Bird of Youth (Old Vic); Gypsy (Chichester Festival Theatre/ West End); Good People (Hampstead Theatre/West End); Posh, Clybourne Park (Royal Court/ West End); Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Heisenberg, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, The Ruling Class, The Commitments, Michael, Grandage Season (West End). Recent TV credits include: Kiri (Channel 4); The Woman in White (Origin Pictures); The Last Kingdom (Carnival Films); Marvellous (BBC); Tommy Cooper, Cilla, Mrs Biggs (ITV); The Girl (BBC/HBO); The Slap (Universal Television). Film credits include: On Chesil Beach, Pride, Philomena (BBC Films); My Cousin Rachel (Fox Searchlight Pictures); The Danish Girl (Working Title Films), Florence Foster Jenkins (Paramount Pictures); Blue Jasmine (Perdido Productions); Nowhere Boy (Film4); The Queen (Pathé Productions/Granada); The Damned United (Columbia Pictures/BBC Films); Frost/Nixon (Universal Pictures); Elizabeth (Polygram Filmed Entertainment).
GEORGE NICHOLS | ASSISTANT DIRECTOR George is currently on placement at the Citizens Theatre as part of his MFA in Theatre Directing at Birkbeck University. He is a drama graduate from the University of Bristol. Assistant Directing credits include: Trainspotting (Citizens Theatre); Faithful Ruslan: The Story of a Guard Dog (Citizens Theatre/Belgrade Theatre Coventry); One More Sleep ‘til Christmas (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland); Eventide (Arcola Theatre/ Up in Arms). Directing credits include: Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, Lemons (Citizens Theatre); Oddity (Edinburgh Festival Fringe/Chapter Arts Centre); The Allotment (Alma Theatre, Bristol); Entertaining Mr Sloane, Zoo Story (University of Bristol). George is one of the founding directors of the Cardiff Fringe Festival, which offers a platform for the arts at a local, national and international level.
RAYMOND SHORT | FIGHT DIRECTOR
HOME CO-PRODUCERS HOME, Manchester’s centre for international contemporary art, theatre, film and books, officially opened its doors over the 2015 May Bank Holiday weekend. Designed by Dutch architects Mecanoo and featuring a 500-seat theatre; a 150-seat flexible theatre; a 500m2, 4m high gallery space; five cinema screens; digital production and broadcast facilities; a café bar and restaurant. HOME's theatres are a platform for questioning and ambitious artistic projects that involve audiences with new and extraordinary theatrical experiences. The international contemporary visual art programme is dedicated to presenting new commissions by emerging and established artists of regional, national and international significance, with a bold, proactive policy of visual, innovative storytelling with the ability to experiment and explore, probe and provoke, creating a distinct experience for both artists and audiences. HOME's five cinemas showcase the very best in contemporary and classic cinema, screening works by artists and filmmakers both established and new. HOME is a centre for co-production, talent development and artistic creation, dedicated to learning, for people of all ages. A place for new work and playful ideas; of festivals and commissions; of artists and of audience engagement. The patrons of HOME are Danny Boyle, former National Theatre Artistic Director Nicholas Hytner, actress Suranne Jones, playwright and poet Jackie Kay MBE, artists Rosa Barba and Phil Collins, filmmaker Asif Kapadia, and actress and author Meera Syal CBE. www.homemcr.org |
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THE CITIZENS COMPANY STAFF Thomas Abela Linda Allan Neil Anderson Amy Angus Fin Bain Esther Batterham Catherine Bird Ashleigh Blair Dave Black Marissa Bonnar Alex Brady Suzanne Brady Louise Brown Charlene Boyd Theo Cherry Steph Connell Lisa Corr Sullivan Natalia Cortes Peter Cowan Elaine G Coyle Carol Cull Kirstie Cusick Caroline Darke Lesley Davidson Saul Davidson Denise Differ Louise Dingwall Michael Dorrance Katie Doyle Ann Dundas Lisa Dundas Paul Dundas Steven Dundas Amir Ebrahim Archie Fisher Robyn Ferguson Sophie Fernie Barry Forde Neil Francis Benjamin Frost Jacky Gardiner Harvey Gardner Elly Goodman Maddy Grant Daniel Hamilton Davy Harrop Stephen Harrop Jamie Hayes Dominic Hill Neil Hobbs Guy Hollands Olivia Hughes Caroline James Miles Jarvis Euan Jenkins Stuart Jenkins Arthur Johnston Simon Jones Judith Kilvington Sarah Kinsey Jenny Knotts Campbell Lawrie
Front of House Trusts and Foundations Manager Studio Technical Stage Manager Drama Class Tutor Front of House Marketing Officer (Maternity cover) Payroll Officer Head Scenic Artist Front of House Front of House Box Office Supervisor/ IT Box Office/ Drama Class Tutor Creative Learning Officer Night School Tutor Front of House Stage One Producer Drama Class Tutor Company Stage Manager Box Office Head of Wardrobe Housekeeper Head of Communications (Capital) Trusts & Foundations Manager General Manager Front of House Box Office Manager Press and Marketing Officer Deputy Head of Workshop Front of House Housekeeper Box Office Front of House Manager Housekeeper Front of House Front of House Box Office Front of House Assistant Stage Manager Drama Class Tutor Wardrobe Assistant Front of House Front of House Community Drama Artist Deputy Stage Manager Drama Class Tutor Front of House/ Stage Door Administrator Front of House Duty Manager/Carpenter Head of Stage Artistic Director Deputy Head of Lighting & Sound Associate Director (Citizens Learning) Front of House Drama Class Tutor Front of House Front of House Head of Lighting & Sound Stage Door Administrator Stage Door Administrator Executive Director Wardrobe Assistant Box Office Paul Hamlyn Club Co-ordinator/
Jamie Leary Karen Lee-Barron Stuart Leech Michelle Lyons Ellis MacDonald Niall Macdonald Alison MacKinnon Rose Manson Collette Marshall Keir Martin Carly McCaig Erin McCardie Sarah McGavin Morna McGeogh Michael McGurk Rachel McGurk Hazel McIlwraith Lawrie McInally Hannah McLean Lauren McLean Jason McQuaide Kat Moir Tess Monro Debbie Montgomery Christina Morrison Jim Morrison Jacqueline Muir Jack Mullen Denis Murphy Keren Nicol George Nichols Petriece O’Donnell Neil Packham Tom Penny Donald Pirie Frances Poet Marion Quinn Nicholas Ralph Kenneth Rowney Mo SerpehriDoust Christopher Silver Jatinder Singh Mags Smillie Andy Smith Angela Smith Laura Smith Lorna Stallard Graham Sutherland Benjamin Szilli Vivienne Thorpe Erin Tighe Chris Traquair Martin Travers Andrew Turner Shiona Walker Colin White Clare Wilde Ross Williamson Gary Wong Catherine Wyllie
Drama Class Supervisor Box Office Wardrobe Assistant/ Dresser Technician Wig Stylist Scenic Artist Front of House Head of Marketing & Communications Front of House Front of House Technician Community Drama Worker Front of House Drama Class Tutor Drama Class Tutor Front of House Front of House Head of Development Stage Door Administrator Drama Class Tutor Drama Class Tutor Deputy Head of Stage Drama Class Tutor Assistant Director (Birkbeck Trainee) Drama Class Supervisor Individual Giving Officer Front of House Production Administrator Box Office Head of Workshop Acting Head of Marketing Assistant Director (Birkbeck Trainee) Front of House Community Drama Director Assistant Lighting & Sound Technician Night School Tutor Literary Associate Front of House Robertson Trust Actor Intern Carpenter Front of House Press & Marketing Officer (Maternity cover) Front of House Head of Finance Housekeeper Learning Projects Manager Deputy Head of Production Front of House Head of Production Front of House Temp Finance Officer Drama Class Tutor Head Flyman/ Technician Producer (Citizens Learning) Stage Door Administrator Digital Officer Drama Class Tutor Major Donor Officer Building Supervisor Front of House Front of House
Board: April Chamberlain (Chair), Alex Reedijk (Vice Chair), Councillor Susan Aitken, Paulo Cruz, Laurence Fraser, Alex Gaffney, Dominic Hill, Ryan James, Mike Russell, James Scanlon 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: Stuart Burt, Ginny Schiller, Andrea Ainsworth, JJ Jamieson, John Leonard, Ritchie Young, Milan Bull, Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh.
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