A Christmas Carol 2018 programme

ANDY CLARK

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).