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BOB CRATCHIT / DICK / FAT BUSINESSMAN / ENSEMBLE
Theatre credits include: The Libertine, Hamlet, Othello, Peter Pan, Vernon God Little, A Handful of Dust (Citizens Theatre); The Buke of the Howlat (Findhorn Bay Arts); Antony & Cleopatra, Edward II (Bard in the Botanics); The Deep (Ten Feet Tall); Lampedusa (Citizens Theatre/Wonderfools); Lanark: A Life in Three Acts (Citizens Theatre/Edinburgh International Festival); Stand By (Utter); Music Is Torture (Tromolo Productions/Tron Theatre); The Winter’s Tale (Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh); Walking on Walls, Lovesick Blues (Òran Mór); A Steady Rain (Theatre Jezebel/Tron Theatre); Dance of Death (Candice Edmunds in association with the Citizens Theatre); Little Sure Shot (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Gastronauts (Royal Court); I’m With The Band (Traverse Theatre/Wales Millennium Centre); Mince, The Duchess of Malfi, The Seagull (Dundee Rep). Radio credits include: Boswell At Large, Big Sky, Five of Spades, Rebus (BBC Radio 4). TV and Film credits include: The Da Vinci Code (Rose Line); River City, Bob Servant (BBC Scotland); Rebus, Taggart (STV); Rubenesque (Kudos).
PETER COLLINS
GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PRESENT / MISS FEZZIWIG / FAT BUSINESSMAN / ENSEMBLE
Peter trained at Central School of Speech and Drama and National Youth Theatre. Theatre credits include: Cinderella, Oresteia: This Restless House, Hansel and Gretel, Rapunzel (Citizens Theatre); Gut (Traverse Theatre); Richard III (Perth Theatre); The Story of the Little Gentleman, White, The Ballad of Pondlife McGurk (Catherine Wheels); Tin Forest (National Theatre of Scotland); Much Ado About Nothing, The Taming of the Shrew (Manchester Royal Exchange); How the Other Half Loves (Bolton Octagon); Caucasian Chalk Circle (Complicité/National Theatre); 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); Eve (Leopard Productions); The Hunt (Carlton); Always and Everyone (Granada); Peak Practice (ITV); Casualty (BBC); Lulu’s Back in Town (BBC Radio Scotland).
MALCOLM CUMMING
YOUNG SCROOGE / BOY / ENSEMBLE
Malcolm graduated from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland this year. He is this year’s Citizens Theatre Robertson Trust Actor Intern. Theatre credits include: Cyrano de Bergerac (National Theatre of Scotland/Citizens Theatre/Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh); The Angry Brigade, One More Sleep ‘til Christmas, The Wonderful World of Dissocia (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland); Lord of the Flies (Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures); Peter Pan (Eden Court Theatre/Team Entertainments); Stars and S****s (On the Verge Festival); Sunshine on Leith, Spring Awakening, Brave Macbeth (Edinburgh Festival Fringe). Film credits include: Anna and the Apocalypse (Blazing Griffin); British By the Grace of God (Columbia University); Long Lost (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland/WASA Short Film); Spaceship (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland).
ELISA DE GREY
PUPPET ASSOCIATE / CHRISTMAS PAST / TINY TIM / MRS DILBER / ENSEMBLE
Theatre credits include: Peter Pan (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons: A Reimagining (Shakespeare’s Globe); Running Wild (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre UK Tour); Goodnight Mr Tom (Chichester Festival Theatre/West End and UK Tour); Little Universe, Brilliant (Fevered Sleep); These Associations (Tino Sehgal); No Way Out (Southwark Playhouse); The Juniper Tree (Goat and Monkey Theatre Company); The Water Babies (Northern Broadsides); Gormenghast (David Glass Ensemble); Beyond Midnight (Trestle Theatre Company); Binari (Obviam Est); Macbeth (Conspirators of Pleasure); Cinderella, Robin Hood, The Lottie Project (Polka Theatre). TV credits include: The Lost World of Mitchell and Kenyon, Harbour Lights (BBC).
REUBEN JOSEPH
FRED / APPRENTICE SCROOGE / PETER CRATCHIT / ENSEMBLE
Reuben graduated from Langside College earlier this year. Theatre credits include: Midsummer (National Theatre of Scotland); Arsenic and Old Lace, The Hobbit, Animal Farm, The Day the Whores Came Out to Play Tennis, Picnic at Hanging Rock (Langside College); We’re Here Because We’re Here (NOW 14-18); The Island (Platform Young Company); The Passion (Fizzgig Theatre); The History Boys (Glasgow Acting Academy).
Jamie is a Scottish actress who trained at Langside College. Since graduating in 2014 she has worked regularly in Scottish theatre including performing in Scotsman Fringe First award winning plays Expensive Sh*t in 2016 and Stand By in 2017. Theatre credits include: Cinderella (Citizens Theatre); A Night For David Maclennan (A Play, A Pie and A Pint/Citizens Theatre); 549: Scots of the Spanish Civil War (Wonderfools); Locker Room Talk, Class Act Silver, Breakfast Plays: B!RTH, Breakfast Plays: Youthquake (Traverse Theatre); Expensive Sh*t (Scottish Theatre Producers/Soho Theatre, Soho Theatre 2017, Traverse Theatre 2016). TV credits include: Two Doors Down, Casualty (BBC). Audiobook credits include: A Kiss in The Dark (Cat Clarke/Pinewood Studios).
JESS MURPHY
PORTLY GENTLEWOMAN / MRS FEZZIWIG / MRS CRATCHIT / ENSEMBLE
Theatre credits include: The Choir (Citizens Theatre); R and D (Hampstead Theatre); The Duchess Of Malfi (Scena Mundi); Watership Down (Watermill Theatre); Tussy, The Hostage (Southwark Playhouse); Macbeth, Lightening Child (Globe Theatre); People, Collaborators (National Theatre); War Horse (New London Theatre); Into Thy Hands, Amadeus (Wilton’s Music Hall); World Enough and Time (Park Theatre); The Unspeakable (English Touring Theatre); Brief Encounter (Knee High, The Cinema Haymarket); Bedroom Farce (The Little Theatre); Blood Wedding (Almeida); Playing for Time (Salisbury Playhouse). Film and TV credits include: Hereafter, Sweeney Todd (Warner Bros); Shakespeare’s Diaries (Bad Eden Entertainment/Cutts Films); Holby City (BBC). Radio credits include: Collaborators (National Theatre/Radio 3); Secret Duties of A Signals Interceptor, Hal David Readings (BBC Radio 4).
JOHN O’MAHONY
PORTLY GENTLEMAN / VOICE OF JACOB MARLEY / MR FEZZIWIG / MARTHA / OLD JOE / ENSEMBLE
Theatre credits include: Oresteia: This Restless House, Hansel and Gretel, A Christmas Carol (Citizens Theatre); Puckoon (Big Telly); Death of a Salesman (International Tour); Moby Dick (TNT Jazz Theatre); Copenhagen, Alphabetical Order, Dracula (New Vic Theatre); As You Like It (Shakespeare’s Globe); The Pillowman (Norwich Theatre Royal); Rules for Being a Man (All-In Productions); The Lizzie Play (RADA Festival); Hunchback The Musical (Theatre at the Mill); Treasure Island (Rose Theatre Kingston); The Tempest (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Macbeth, Twelfth Night (Exeter Northcott Theatre); Belonging (Birmingham Rep); Great Expectations (The Old Vic); The Silver Sword (National Tour); Duck! (Unicorn Theatre). Film and TV credits include: Good Karma Hospital (Tiger Aspect); Miracle Landing on the Hudson (National Geographic); Doctors, Mrs Brown’s Boys, Judge John Deed (BBC); Babel (Paramount); Law and Order (Kudos); Dirty Filthy Love (Granada); TLC (Positive TV); Bad Girls (Shed Productions); Father Ted (Hat Trick). John is the Founder and Artistic Director of The Hungry Grass Theatre Company.
ANNA RUSSELL-MARTIN
PUPPETEER / BOY / ENSEMBLE
Anna trained at The Dance School of Scotland and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. She is this year’s Citizens Theatre Actor Intern. Theatre credits include: Cyrano de Bergerac (National Theatre of Scotland/Citizens Theatre/Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh); Bunny (Tron Theatre); The Wonderful World of Dissocia, The Angry Brigade, One More Sleep ‘til Christmas, Coriolanus (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland); Betty Blue Eyes, Godspell (The Dance School of Scotland/Citizens Theatre). Awards include: the Duncan MacRae Memorial Award for Scots Language 2016 and the Arnold Fleming Scholarship 2016. Anna was awarded the Mac Brydon Prize 2018.
BENNY YOUNG EBENEZER SCROOGE
Recent theatre: Hay Fever (Citizens Theatre/Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh); Eulogy (Òran Mór/Traverse Theatre); Monarch of the Glen (Pitlochry Festival Theatre); Still Game Live (Phil McIntyre); The Tempest (Xinchan Performing Arts); Waiting for Godot (Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh); Unfaithful (Traverse Theatre - Winner of The Stage Award for Acting Excellence); Macbeth (Park Avenue Armory/Manchester International Festival); Philadelphia, Here I Come! (Donmar Warehouse); The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Chichester Festival Theatre/West End); 27, A Christmas Carol, The Wheel, Be Near Me, Six Characters in Search of an Author (National Theatre of Scotland). He has previously spent seasons with the National, the Royal Shakespeare Company and The Wrestling School. Recent TV credits include: Still Game, One Day Like This, Garrow’s Law, Waking The Dead, Spooks (BBC). Film credits include: Wild Rose (Three Chords Production Ltd); Outlaw King (Sigma Films/Netflix); Chariots of Fire (Enigma Productions); Out of Africa (Mirage Entertainment/Universal Pictures); Funny Man (Encore Entertainment).
DOMINIC HILL | DIRECTOR
Dominic Hill is Artistic Director of the Citizens Theatre. Since joining the Citizens in 2011, he has directed Cyrano de Bergerac, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Cinderella, The Macbeths (2018 and 2017), 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.
RACHAEL CANNING | SET, COSTUME
AND PUPPET DESIGNER/DIRECTOR
Rachael trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. Rachael is the Artistic Director of The Wrong Crowd. Set and costume design credits include: Hansel and Gretel, Rapunzel, A Christmas Carol (Citizens Theatre); Swanhunter (Opera North/ The Wrong Crowd); Hag, Kite, The Girl with the Iron Claws (The Wrong Crowd); Magical Night (Royal Opera House); Mad Forest (Battersea Arts Centre); House (Clean Break); Hansel and Gretel, Beauty and the Beast, Sleeping Beauties, The Snow Tiger (Sherman Cymru); The Tailor’s Daughter (Welsh National Opera); Peter Grimes (Grand Theatre Geneva); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Winnie and Wilbur (Birmingham Rep); Purcell His Ground (English National Opera). Puppet design and direction credits include: The Jungle Book, Of Mice and Men, Into The Woods (Leeds Playhouse); The City Madam (Royal Shakespeare Company); The Three Musketeers and the Princess of Spain (English Touring Theatre/Traverse/Belgrade Theatre, Coventry); Into the Woods, Peter Pan (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre/Public Theatre); The Red Balloon (Royal Opera House); Kes, The Wizard of Oz (Sheffield Crucible).
LIZZIE POWELL | LIGHTING DESIGNER
Theatre designs include: Cinderella, Endgame, Hansel & Gretel, The Choir, A Christmas Carol, Fever Dream: Southside, The Libertine, Far Away/Seagulls, Krapp’s Last Tape/Footfalls (Citizens Theatre); Cyrano de Bergerac (National Theatre of Scotland/Citizens Theatre/Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh); Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour (National Theatre of Scotland/ West End); Adam, Glasgow Girls, In A Time O’ Strife, My Shrinking Life, Enquirer, Knives in Hens (National Theatre of Scotland); Macbeth (Royal Shakespeare Company); The Mountaintop (Young Vic); Deathtrap (Dundee Rep); Victory Condition, B, Human Animals, Violence and Son (Royal Court); The Country Girls (Chichester Festival); What Girls Are Made Of, While You Lie, The Dark Things (Traverse Theatre); Eddie and the Slumber Sisters (Catherine Wheels); The Mighty Walzer, Anna Karenina (Royal Exchange, Manchester); Frankenstein/Hedda Gabler (Northern Stage); Romeo and Juliet (Sheffield Crucible); The Unknown Island, Idomeneus (Gate); Secret Theatre (Lyric Hammersmith). Nikola is one of the leading figures in the European music and stage avant-garde. Theatre credits include: Cinderella, Crime and Punishment, Hamlet, A Christmas Carol, Hansel and Gretel (Citizens Theatre); Cyrano de Bergerac (National Theatre of Scotland/Citizens Theatre/Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh); This Restless House (Citizens Theatre/National Theatre of Scotland); La Suite (Fabien Prioville Dance Company/Pina Bausch Foundation); Bacchai (National Theatre); Kafka’s Monkey (Young Vic); The Three Musketeers and the Princess of Spain (English Touring Theatre/Traverse/ Belgrade Theatre, Coventry); Inkheart, Romeo and Juliet (HOME Manchester); Eyes of the Landscape, Sandpit the Musical, Scherzo for Piano and Stick, Insomnia (Riotous); Siege (Freedom Theatre Palestine); Wajdi Mouawad’s Scorched (Old Vic); Olivier Awardwinning Hecuba (Donmar Warehouse). Other notable commissions include: scores for National Theatre (2002/3), La Biennale di Venezia (2004), BBC Singers (2010), Macedonian Philharmonic Orchestra (2009), Macedonian National Opera (2013). TV and Film credits include: Defining Fay (2012); Dance with Me (2010); Dear Ana (2011); Racism, a History, Gothica, The Secret life of Chaos 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 Theatre
includes: Cinderella, Hansel and Gretel, A Christmas Carol, Sleeping Beauty and Crime and Punishment.
JEN MCGINLEY | ASSOCIATE DESIGNER
Jen is a designer for performance from and based in Glasgow. Design credits include: Under Milk Wood, A Song for Ella Grey (Northern Stage); The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other (Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh); Fat Blokes (Scottee/The Southbank Centre/ HOME); Secret Life of Humans (New Diorama/59E59); Who Cares (Lung/The Lowry); Ring Ring (Gate Theatre); The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Tortoise (National Youth Theatre); Replay, World Mad (Soho Theatre Upstairs). Credits as an assistant include: Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Elegy (Donmar Warehouse); The Deep Blue Sea (National Theatre); Jesus Christ Superstar (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre) and Adele Live 2016 (Concert Tour). Jen won the Linbury Prize for Stage design in 2015 and is a founding member of interdisciplinary performance collective, Huge if True.
JOANNA BOWMAN | ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
Joanna is currently on placement at the Citizens Theatre as part of her MFA in Theatre Directing at Birkbeck, University of London. During her placement Joanna has worked as assistant director on Cyrano de Bergerac and The Macbeths. Previous credits include: Delay Detach (Edinburgh Festival Fringe - Runner Up Scottish Arts Club Theatre Award); Hedda Gabler (Byre Theatre).
Linda Allan Esther Batterham Catherine Bird Ashleigh Blair
Trusts and Foundations Manager Marketing Officer Payroll Officer Head Scenic Artist Dave Black Front of House Joanna Bowman Assistant Director (Birkbeck Trainee) Alex Brady Box Office Supervisor / IT Suzanne Brady Box Office / Drama Class Tutor /
Louise Brown Theo Cherry Nightschool Tutor Creative Learning Officer Front of House
Lisa Corr Sullivan Drama Class Tutor
Natalia Cortes Peter Cowan Company Stage Manager Box Office
Elaine G Coyle
Head of Wardrobe Anna Crilly Wardrobe Assistant Malcolm Cumming Robertson Trust Citizens Theatre Actor Intern Stephen Cunningham Technical Stage Manager Kirstie Cusick Head of Development Lesley Davidson General Manager Denise Differ Box Office Manager Louise Dingwall Press and Marketing Officer Lisa Dundas Box Office Steven Dundas Housekeeper Amir Ebrahim Front of House Robyn Ferguson Box Office Barry Forde Assistant Stage Manager Neil Francis Drama Class Tutor Harvey Gardner Front of House Elly Goodman Community Drama Artist Daniel Hamilton Drama Class Tutor Davy Harrop Front of House / Stage Door Administrator / Assistant Carpenter
Jamie Hayes Dominic Hill
Head of Stage Artistic Director
Neil Hobbs Guy Hollands Olivia Hughes Caroline James Miles Jarvis Euan Jenkins Stuart Jenkins Arthur Johnston Simon Jones Judith Kilvington Sarah Kinsey Karen Lee-Barron
Deputy Head of Lighting & Sound Associate Director (Citizens Learning) Front of House / Box Office Drama Class Tutor Front of House Front of House Head of Lighting & Sound Stage Door Administrator Stage Door Administrator Executive Director Wardrobe Assistant Wardrobe Assistant / Dresser
Alison Lewis
Marketing & Communications Manager (Maternity cover) Arianne Liakeas Wardrobe Assistant Gary Loughran Scenic Artist / Props & Large Puppet Maker Michelle Lyons Wig Maker Niall Macdonald Front of House Alison MacKinnon Head of Marketing & Communications Keir Martin Liz McCafferty Carly McCaig Sarah McGavin Morna McGeoch Michael McGurk Rachel McGurk Sound Number 2 Wardrobe Assistant Community Drama Worker Drama Class Tutor Drama Class Tutor Front of House Front of House
Lawrie McInally Sean McKenzie Hannah McLean Claire McNeil Catriona McNicoll Stage Door Administrator Crew Drama Class Tutor Finance Manager Drama Class Tutor
Ayden Millar
Scenic Artist Kat Moir Drama Class Tutor Debbie Montgomery Drama Class Supervisor / Nightschool Tutor Jim Morrison Front of House Jacqueline Muir Production Administrator Jack Mullen Box Office Denis Murphy Head of Workshop Emily Murphy Front of House / Box Office / Assistant Carpenter Keren Nicol Marketing & Communications Manager Neil Packham Community Drama Director Donald Pirie Nightschool Tutor Frances Poet Literary Associate Marion Quinn Front of House Christopher Richardson Carpenter Valerie Rickis Assistant Stage Manager Molly Ross Development Assistant Anna Russell-Martin Actor Intern Mo SerpehriDoust Front of House Saffron Shearer Wardrobe Assistant Amir Sherhan Sound Supervisor Jatinder Singh Front of House Mags Smillie Head of Finance Angela Smith Learning Projects Manager Laura Smith Deputy Head of Production John Sneddon Crew Lorna Stallard Front of House Rosanna Stone Stage Manager Colin Sutherland Stage Manager / Stage Technician
Graham Sutherland Head of Production
Laurence Taylor Owen Thomas Erin Tighe Martin Travers Jack Tully Shiona Walker Colin White Finance Assistant Deputy Stage Manager Drama Class Supervisor Producer (Citizens Learning) Crew Digital Officer Drama Class Tutor
Clare Wilde Ross Williamson Gary Wong Catherine Wyllie Emma Yeomans David Young
Major Donor Officer Building Supervisor Front of House Front of House Deputy Stage Manager Crew
Board: April Chamberlain (Chair), Alex Reedijk (Vice Chair), Councillor Susan Aitken, Paulo Cruz, Laurence Fraser, Alex Gaffney, Dominic Hill, Ryan James, John McElwee, Mike Russell, James Scanlon, Irene Tweedie and Louise Welsh.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
All scenery, costumes and props made by the Citizens Theatre workshop.
Opening night drinks generously provided by Belhaven and Alliance Wines.
Special thanks to: The butterfly and the pig, Tron Theatre and National Theatre of Scotland.
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