King Lear (20 April - 12 May 2012)

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THE CAST GEORGE COSTIGAN | Earl of Gloucester George’s stage roles in Scotland include George in John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men at The Kings, Edinburgh, Trust Byron at the 1998 Edinburgh Festival (nominated for Best Actor), Claudius in Calixto Bietio’s production of Hamlet at the 2006 Festival and last year David Harrower’s Blackbird at The Tron. Film work includes The Hawk, starring Helen Mirren and directed by David Hayman, which premiered at the GFT. George also compered three nights of Freestyle Wrestling in Aberdeen.

TONY COWNIE | Oswald Tony has worked extensively as an actor in Scottish theatre with companies including Lyceum Edinburgh, TAG, Communicado, Nippy Sweeties, Citizens, Tron, Traverse and Dundee Rep, as well as Nottingham Playhouse and the Gate Theatre, London. He won The Stage Best Actor Award for A Madman Sings to the Moon (Edinburgh Festival). Tony is an associate artist at the Lyceum, Edinburgh where he has directed over 20 productions including Romeo and Juliet, The Beauty Queen of Leenane and Laurel and Hardy, which transferred to the Dublin International Festival. Other directing credits include Tutti Frutti for NTS.

EWAN DONALD | Edgar Ewan trained at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh. Theatre includes The Prince -The Johnny Thomson Story (ATG), Midsummer (Traverse), St Catherines Day, Baltimire, The Seagull (Òran Mór), The Not So Fatal Death Of Grandpa Fredo (Vox Motus), From the West Bank (Tron), Walden (Magnetic North), Death of a Salesman, Proof, Sinbad and the Lost Princess, The Little Foxes (Perth Theatre), Sunshine on Leith, Sweet Bird of Youth, Midsummer Nights Dream, The Talented Mr Ripley, The Graduate, The Visit, Merlin The Magnificent, Macbeth (Dundee Rep) and Damages (Rapture Theatre). TV credits include River City and New Town (BBC).

DAVID HAYMAN | King Lear As an actor David’s roles include Hamlet, Troilus, Petruccio, Lady Macbeth, Figaro, Al Capone (Citizens) and Chris Christopherson in Anna Christie (Donmar). Film and TV credits include A Sense of Freedom, The Jackal, Sid and Nancy, The Tailor of Panama, Vertical Limit, Ordinary Decent Criminals, Where the Truth Lies and Trial and Retribution. Directorial theatre credits include Romeo and Juliet, Thyestes, Elizabeth I (Citizens), The Slab Boys Trilogy (Traverse/ Royal Court) and The Normal Heart (Royal Court/Albery), for film Silent Scream, The Hawk, The Near Room and Black and Blue and for TV Cardiac Arrest, A Women’s Guide To Adultery and Finney. David is a panellist for The Review Show (BBC2). He is founder of charity Spirit Aid and has been awarded 3 honorary doctorates, City of Glasgow Gold Medal and ICS Gold Medal.

PAUL HIGGINS | Earl of Kent Paul trained at Central School, London. Theatre credits include Luise Miller and The Cosmonaut’s Last Message... (Donmar), White Guard, Paul, The Hare Trilogy (National Theatre), Damascus (Traverse/Tricycle), The Tempest (Tron), Black Watch (NTS), Macbeth, Conversations After a Burial (Almeida), Measure for Measure (RSC), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Globe), Buried Alive (Hampstead), Nightsongs, American Bagpipes (Royal Court). TV credits include Line of Duty, New Town, The Thick of It, Low Winter Sun, Staying Alive and A Very Peculiar Practice. Film credits include In The Loop, Red Road, Complicity and Bedrooms and Hallways. Paul wrote Nobody Will Ever Forgive Us (Traverse/NTS) and the short films Peripheral Vision and Opera Lovers (BBC2).

KIERAN HILL | Edmund Kieran’s theatre credits include Design For Living (Salisbury Playhouse), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf?, Romeo and Juliet, Love on the Dole, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Hired Man, Comedians, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Octagon Theatre, Bolton), The Histories, King Lear (RSC), Sunday in the Park with George (The Menier Factory), Longitude (Greenwich Theatre Company), 5/11, The Government Inspector, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Doctor Faustus and The Merchant of Venice (Chichester Festival Company).

CREATIVE TEAM KATHRYN HOWDEN | Goneril Theatre credits include A Slow Air (Tron/Traverse), Be Near Me (NTS), The Last Witch - Herald Angel Award 2009, Any Given Day, The Ballad of Crazy Poala, Bondagers, Poor Superman (Traverse), The Government Inspector (Almeida), Swing Hammer Swing! (Citizens), Danton’s Death (Communicado), Road, Nae Problem (7:84), That Face, Losing Alec, Tartuffe (Tron), Pheadra (Theatre Babel), Educating Agnes, All My Sons, Trumpets and Raspberries, Victory and A View from the Bridge (Lyceum, Edinburgh). TV credits include Parade’s End (HBO/BBC), Case Histories, Pram Face, Dear Green Place (BBC), The Pen and Karmic Mothers (Tartan Shorts).

LYNN KENNEDY | Cordelia Lynn recently graduated from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and is Actor Intern at the Citizens Theatre. Recent credits include one-woman show Limbo (Citizens), Scarfed For Life (Citizens/Sense Over Sectarianism), Gothic (Citizens Young Co.), A Gaggle of Saints and Throwing Your Voice (RCS). She also starred in the short film, Cupidity, directed by Michael Ferns for Upon a Wheel Films.

CAL MACANINCH | Duke of Cornwall Cal began his acting career at the Citizens Theatre and has played Hamlet, Oedipus Rex and Harry in Whistle In The Dark, among others.

In March 2012 he returned to the Citizens to play Robert in Betrayal.

Other recent theatre credits include Hook in Peter Pan (NTS) and The Surgeon in Wee Andy (Òran Mór). Cal has worked extensively in TV and film, most recently in hit TV drama Downton Abbey and films The Awakening (StudioCanal/BBC) and Screwed (Screwed Film).

SHAUNA MACDONALD | Regan Shauna’s theatre credits include Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off, Victory (Lyceum, Edinburgh ), Realism (NTS), A View from the Bridge (Birmingham Rep/West Yorkshire Playhouse) and Pal Joey (Citizens). TV credits include Case Histories, Bonekickers, Sea of Souls, Spooks, State of Play (BBC) and Wedding Belles (Channel 4). Film credits include Filth, The Hike, The Descent I and II, The Mutant Chronicles, Niceland, The Rocket Post, Late Night Shopping and The Debt Collector.

NEIL MCKINVEN | Duke of Albany Neil trained at RADA. Theatre credits include work for Birmingham Rep, NTS, EIF, Stellar Quines, Lyceum Edinburgh, Traverse, Theatre Babel, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Òran Mór, Coventry Belgrade, 7:84, RSC, Paines Plough, Perth Theatre, Dundee Rep, Live Theatre Newcastle and Bath Theatre Royal. TV credits include Body Farm, Case Histories, Single Father, The Vet, Takin’ Over the Asylum (BBC), Rebus, Taggart, Scottish Killers: Dennis Neilsen (STV) and A is for Acid (Granada). Film credits include Hallum Foe (Film4) and The Debt Collector (Channel 4 Films).

Radio credits include An Ember in the Straw, Rebus, Of Mice and Men, Blaze and Fall (BBC).

OWEN WHITELAW | Fool Owen trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.

His theatre credits include Knives in Hens, Peter Pan, Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off, Our Teacher’s a Troll, Cockroach, 365, Rupture (NTS), Puff of Smoke (Tristan Bates Theatre), About a Goth, 10,000 Metres Deep (Paines Plough/Òran Mór), Cotton Wool and Nowheresville (Theatre 503). Film credits include What Would Ridley Do, Scots in Translation (Digital Guerillas) and Score (Alcoba Films). Radio credits include The Second Mr. Bailey and Blindness (Radio Four).

All other parts played by members of the Company.

ENSEMBLE - Alexandra Birchfield, Daniel Cameron, Sophia Carr-Gomm, Maria Teresa Creasy, Chris Donald, Kris Haddow, Scarlett Mack, David McCaig, Alasdair McLaughlin, Cristian Ortega, Scott Reid and Tafline Steen.

The Ensemble cast includes students from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and participants from the Citizens Theatre Nightschool classes.

DOMINIC HILL | Director Dominic Hill was appointed Artistic Director of the Citizens Theatre in 2011 and directed his first production for the theatre, Betrayal, earlier this year. Prior to this he was Artistic Director of the Traverse Theatre from 2007. He had previously worked at Dundee Rep where he was first Associate Director and then, from 2003, Joint Artistic Director. Highlights at the Traverse include his recent productions of The Three Musketeers and the Princess of Spain by Chris Hannan (winner of 2 CATS Awards 2011), The Goat or Who is Sylvia? by Edward Albee (nominated Best Director, CATS Awards 2010) and The Dark Things by Ursula Rani Sarma (winner of Best Play, Best Production and nominated for four other awards including Best Director in the 2010 CATS Awards). Whilst at Dundee Rep Peer Gynt, a co-production with NTS, won four CATS Awards. Other credits include Falstaff (Scottish Opera) and The City Madam (Royal Shakespeare Company). He has directed in theatres in London and throughout the UK.

TOM PIPER | Designer As Associate Designer for the RSC designs include Much Ado About Nothing (2012), Macbeth, City Madam, The Histories Cycle (Courtyard Theatre and at the Roundhouse), designing Richard II, Henry IV – Parts 1 and 2, Henry V, Henry VI – Parts 1, 2 and 3 And Richard III for which he won the 2009 Olivier Award for Best Costume Design and was nominated for the 2009 Olivier Award for Best Set Design, As You Like It, The Grain Store, The Drunks and Antony and Cleopatra. Other recent designs include Goodbye to All That, Vera Vera Vera (Royal Court Theatre), Richard III, The Tempest and As You Like It (Bridge Project at BAM and the Old Vic), Zorro (West End, Tour, Paris, Moscow, Amsterdam and Tokyo), Dealer’s Choice (Menier Chocolate Factory and West End), Falstaff (Scottish Opera), Fall (RSC at the Traverse), Spyski (Lyric Hammersmith and tour), The Scarecrow and his Servant (Southwark Playhouse), Plough and The Stars, The Crucible and Six Characters In Search of an Author (Abbey, Dublin).

BEN ORMEROD | Lighting Designer Theatre credits include The Heresy of Love, Macbeth, The Revenger’s Tragedy, Henry V, Julius Caesar (RSC), Loyalty (Hampstead), Onassis, Macbeth, Legal Fictions (West End), The Tempest (Dundee Rep), Zorro! (West End/International), The Phoenix Of Madrid, Iphigenia (Bath), Serious Money, Last Easter (Birmingham), Dimetos (Donmar Warehouse), Two Men of Florence (Boston), Sanctuary Lamp (B*spoke), The Crucible (Lyric, Belfast), Translations, Last Days of the Reluctant Tyrant (Abbey, Dublin), The Changeling, Hedda Gabler, The Doll’s House, John Gabriel Borkmann, The Masterbuilder, The Seagull (ETT), The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Druid), Bent, Uncle Vanya, The Winter’s Tale, In Remembrance of Things Past (National Theatre) and numerous productions for Edward Hall’s Propeller, most recently Henry V & The Winter’s Tale. Opera/Dance includes productions for Scottish Opera, ENO, Opera North, Cedar Lake New York, Ballet Gulbenkian and Danish National Opera. Ben designed the lighting for the Calico Museum of Textiles, Ahmedabad, directed Athol Fugard’s Dimetos (The Gate, London) and adapted four films from Kieslowski’s Dekalog for E15.

PADDY CUNNEEN | Music Paddy is a composer, writer and director. He is Artistic Director of Tumult in the Clouds theatre company, and Associate Director for Cheek By Jowl and Charioteer theatres.

He has worked on over 200 productions for a diverse range of companies including The National Theatre, Cheek By Jowl, Out of Joint, RSC, Young Vic, Old Vic, Liverpool Everyman, The Abbey in Dublin, Druid Theatre Galway, various theatres on Broadway and many others too. His plays Fleeto and Wee Andy have toured in Scotland the UK and Europe, been produced at Teatro Piccolo in Milan and recently won two awards at the Adelaide Fringe Festival. He was BAFTA nominated for his filmscore for Channel Four’s Boy A, and received a CATS award for his music for Dominic Hill’s Twelfth Night at Dundee Rep.

RENNY KRUPINSKI | FIGHT DIRECTOR Renny is an Equity Registered fight director of over 20 years and Chair and founder of the Academy of Performance Combat. Theatre credits include The Three Musketeers & the Princess of Spain (Traverse), The City Madam (RSC), Backbeat, Crazy For You, Imagine This, Making Noise Quietly, The Three Musketeers, Macbeth and The Crucible in London’s West End, Les Miserables (1st UK tour, Germany & Belgium) and The Hard Man (Scottish tour 2011). Renny has also worked for Royal Exchange Manchester, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Manchester Library, Octagon Theatre Bolton, Oldham Coliseum, Birmingham Rep, Shakespeare’s Globe and Theatr Clwyd. TV and film credits include The Bill, Blue Murder, Emmerdale, Hollyoaks, Coronation Street and Paddy Considine’s acclaimed Tyrannosaur. Renny played Sizzler, one of the most infamous villains in Brookside and won two best actor nominations and a coveted Fringe First for his performance and play Bare at the Edinburgh Festival 2010. He is also the voice and face of Oblivion at Alton Towers.

RICHARD LAVERY | ASSISTANT DIRECTOR