RYAN CALAIS CAMERON

Ryan Calais Cameron is an award-winning actor, director and writer. His first play ‘TIMBUKTU’ was part of the Bush Theatre’s Black Lives Black Words Festival 2016, a festival of radical new BAME voices.

Ryan’s theatre credits include: ‘For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When The Hue Gets Too Heavy’ nominated for two Olivier awards, won Black British Theatre Awards 2022’s ‘Best Production Play’ and ‘Best Director’ and was also joint-winner of ‘Best Performer in a Play’ at the 2022 Stage Debut Awards; ‘Human Nurture’; ‘Typical’; ‘Queens Of Sheeba’, co-written with Jessica Hagan and winner of the 2018 Edinburgh Untapped Award; ‘Rhapsody’ which won the 2018 Off West End ‘Adopt A Playwright Award’; ‘RETROGRADE’ was shortlisted for the 2019 Alfred Fagon Award and Verity Bargate Award 2020 and premieres at The Kiln in April 2023 which he is also under commission to, as part of a Sky Studios/Kiln Theatre new writing initiative.

His TV credits include guest writer on ‘The Flatshare’ (42/Paramount+) and forthcoming greenlit productions ‘Boarders’ (Studio Lambert/BBC3) and ‘Queenie’ (C4); Ryan is developing several original series, ‘My Brothers’ Keeper’ (Warp Films), ‘Blerd (Wychwood) and an adaptation of BLOOD RIGHTS (Red Planet).

Ryan also works as a professional actor. On the stage his credits include, Mogadishu (Manchester Royal Exchange/Lyric Hammersmith), The West Bridge (The Royal Court), The Dug Out (The Tobacco Factory) and Sponge (Old Vic New Voices). His TV/Film credits include Luther (BBC), Jekyll and Hyde (ITV), The Coroner (BBC), Suspects (Channel 5), Casualty (BBC), Honey Trap (Bright Pictures) and The Interceptor (BBC) Cilla (ITV).

Ryan is an alumnus of the Royal Court Writer’s Programme 2017 and the Soho Young Company 2016/17. He recently contributed to the Royal Court’s ‘Living Newspaper’ for which he is currently under commission, as well as the Arcola, Soho Theatre and Theatre Centre. Ryan is on the 2022 list of ‘The Stage 25’ future stars of the UK theatre industry.

Kirill Karabits has been celebrated worldwide as Chief Conductor of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra for the past 14 years.

With many critically acclaimed recordings under their belt, they have performed regularly together at the BBC Proms and appeared together at London’s Barbican Centre and Southbank Center. In 2013, Kirill was awarded ‘Conductor of the Year’ by the Royal Philharmonic Society and has held positions of Associate Conductor of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Principal Guest Conductor of Strasbourg Philharmonic and Music Director of the German National Theatre and Staatskapelle Weimar.

His recent highlights include his debuts with the London Symphony Orchestra, Dallas Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, and the Prague Radio Symphony. Kirill also boasts return visits to the Minnesota Orchestra, Bamberger Symphoniker, Orchestre National Captiole de Toulouse, Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, and the Opéra Montpellier for a production of Pélléas. Kirill has enjoyed conducting at the Edinburgh Festival and joining Mikhail Pletnev on extensive European and North American tours which included his New York debut at the Lincoln Center.

During the 2022-23 season, Kirill returned to the English National Opera for a production of Die tote Stadt, to Opernhaus Zürich for La Bohème, and to The Grange Festival for Così fan tutte. This season sees Kirill perform concerts with Opéra National de Bordeaux, Orchestre National de Montpellier, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice, and embark on an extensive Korean Tour conducting the Chamber Orchestra of Europe.