CREATIVE TEAM

Writer / Linda McLean

Linda McLean is a prize-winning playwright based in Glasgow. Her plays have been produced internationally, most notably in the USA and France. For The Lyceum, she wrote Glory on Earth. During the pandemic she wrote Go On, a response to Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape, for The Citizens Theatre, Glasgow. Previously, for Lung Ha Theatre Company, she wrote Thingummy Bob Castle Lennox is her first musical.

Composer / Michael John McCarthy

Lyceum Credits:

Lyceum Christmas Tales ; Pride & Prejudice* (*sort of); The Duchess (of Malfi), Wendy & Peter Pan; The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other ; Glory on Earth; The Weir ; Bondagers

Theatre credits:

Kidnapped (National Theatre of Scotland); Little Red Riding Hood (Citizen’s Theatre); Cinderella (Dundee Rep); The Last Return (Druid Theatre Company); The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart (Manchester Royal Exchange); Pride & Prejudice* (*Sort Of) (Criterion Theatre); Nora: A Doll’s House (Young Vic & Citizen’s Theatre); Whatever Happened to the Jaggy Nettles? (Citizens Theatre); I Can Go Anywhere (Traverse Theatre, Tay Bridge, Dundee Rep).

Television, Film and Radio:

Hey! Ronnie Reagan (Marmalade Films); Pitching Up (Guardian Documentaries); On The Hemline (Tyrella Films).

Awards:

Olivier Award for Pride and Prejudice *(sort of) (Best Entertainment or Comedy Play 2022); Scotsman Fringe First Awards for The Last Return, What Girls Are Made Of, Ulster America, The Red Shed, Heads Up, The Interference, Light Boxes, A Gambler’s Guide to Dying, Letters Home, Educating Ronnie. Critics Award for Ulster American (Best Production); Irish Times Theatre Award Jimmy’s Hall (Best Soundscape nomination).

Castle Lennox Director & Artistic Director of Lung Ha Theatre Company / Maria Oller

Lung Ha credits include:

An Unexpected Hiccup (co-directed with Ian Cameron); We Are All Just Little Creatures (co-directed with Jo Timmins of Lyra and Christine Devaney of Curious Seed); Three Sisters ; Thingummy Bob; Dr Stirlingshire’s Discovery ; The Silent Treatment ; 13 Sunken Years, Medea’s Children; Un Petite Molière

Set Design / Karen Tennent

Theatre credits include:

Christmas Dinner ; Glory on Earth; The Iliad, Caucasian Chalk Circle and The Wizard of Oz (The Lyceum); An Unexpected Hiccup; We are All just Little Creatures (coproduced with Curious Seed and in association with Lyra); ThingammyBob; Emma and Gill (co-produced with Catherine Wheels); Three Sisters, Dr Stirlingshire’s Discovery (co-produced with Grid Iron Theatre Company);

The Hold, Un Petit Molière, Instant Travels to Pop Up Cities, The Home Made Child (Lung Ha Theatre Company); The Man In The Submarine, Educating Rita (Perth Theatre); Don Quixote (Dundee Rep/Perth Theatre); Muster Station (Grid Iron/Edinburgh International Festival 2022); Fieldsomething for the future now (Curious Seed & Edinburgh International Festival 2021 & Festival Cultura Inglesa Sao Paolo, Brazil 2022); Lots Not Lots (Greg Sinclair); Rubble (Scottish Opera); The Children (Dundee Rep); And if not Now ...When - a film (installation by Philip Pinsky and Karen Lamond for COP26).

Awards:

CATS Best Design Hansel and Gretel (Catherine Wheels); Nominated New York Drama Desk Awards for Outstanding Design Hansel and Gretel (Catherine Wheels).

Costume Design / Alison Brown

Lyceum Theatre and Lung Ha Theatre Company credits: The Lover ; Three Sisters ; The Silent Treatment (2016); Fergus Steps Out, A Distant Suma, Exotic Hyperspace, Instant Travels to Pop-Up Cities (2001) and Are Unheard Memories Sweet?

Training: Printed Textiles at Edinburgh College of Art, returning latterly as a Lecturer in the Performance Costume Department.

Lighting Designer / Simon Wilkinson

Theatre credits:

A Mother’s Song (Macrobert Arts Centre); A Love Beyond (Raw Material/Vanishing Point; Peter Pan (Pitlochry); Undertow Overflow (Scottish Tour); The Stamping Ground (Eden Court, Highlands & Raw Material co-production); I Am Tiger (Perth Theatre); Metamorphosis (Vanishing Pont); Islander (New York / London / Edinburgh); The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (Helen Milne Productions); An Unexpected Hiccup (Lung Ha Theatre Company); Bedknobs and Broomsticks (UK & Ireland Tour); Flight (Vox Motus); The Magic Flute (Robert Lepage); The Children (Dundee Rep).

Awards:

Critics Award For Theatre in Scotland for Best Design for Flight (2018), Black Beauty (2017) and Bondagers (2015).

Sound Designer / Engineer Calum Paterson

Lyceum Theatre credits: Life is a Dream; Wendy & Peter Pan; Mrs Puntila & Her Man Matti; Pride & Prejudice* (*Sort of); The Hour We Knew Nothing Of Each Other Theatre credits: The Dodo Experiment (Citizen’s Theatre); Me & My Sister, If You’re Feeling Sinister (Tron Theatre); The Cheviot, The Stag and The Black Black Oil (National Theatre of Scotland); Message From The Skies (Edinburgh’s Hogmanay); Happiness Collectors, Merry (The Audio Story Co); SPRING! (Scottish Ballet); Stand By (Utter Theatre); Ceilidh (Theatre

Gu Leor); Design By Disaster (Braw Fox Theatre); Sleeping Beauty (Qdos Entertainment); Working A Musical (DEM Productions).

Television and Film credits: Happy Ark Day (National Theatre of Scotland, BBC Scotland); The Unseen Child (Hopscotch Theatre Co.)

Movement / Janice Parker

Lyceum credits:

The Strange Undoing of Prudentia Hart, Life Is a Dream, The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other, Glory On Earth

Theatre credits:

Medea (Edinburgh International Festival/National Theatre of Scotland); Wind Resistance (Karine Polwart); The View From Castle Rock, Age of Arousal, The Girls of Slender Means (Stellar Quines); Crazy Jane (Birds of Paradise); Endurance (A Moments Peace); Exotic Hyper Space, Instant Travel to Pop Up Cities (Lung Ha Theatre Company).

Dance credits include:

To Avoid Falling Apart (The Travelling Gallery); Not Brittle, Not Rigid, Not Fixed (Edinburgh Art Festival); Small Acts of Hope and Lament (Edinburgh International Festival); Writing The Body (National Galleries of Scotland); Glory, What Would Richard Do?, You Said You Liked The Dancing, Private Dancer (Janice Parker Projects); The Living Room Dances (The Albert Drive Project).

Awards include: Herald Angel; Creative Scotland Award; Saltire Society Outstanding Woman of Scotland.

Musical Director / David Paul Jones

Lyceum credits: The Yellow Door.

Theatre credits:

Love Beyond (Ramesh Meyyappan/Raw Material/ Vanishing Point); Once Upon A Snowstorm (Lyra), Muster Station: Leith (Grid Iron/Edinburgh International Festival), Little By Little Field (Curious Seed/Imaginate); The Coat (RCS).

BSL Interpreter / Rachel Amey

Recent Theatre Interpreting Credits: Downs with Love (Cutting Edge Theatre); Pain and I (Sarah Hopfinger); One of Two (Birds of Paradise Theatre); The Not So Ugly Duckling (Jo Clifford/Maria MacDonell); Miss Lindsay’s Secret (Maria MacDonell); Within Sight (In The Works), The Brunch Club (Grid Iron); In the Ink Dark (Luke Pell); We Are All Just Little Creatures (Curious Seed and Lung Ha Theatre Company co-production in association with Lyra); InVisible Lines (Kath Burlinson), And the Birds

Did Sing, Teenage Trilogy (Curious Seed); Auld Lang Syne, Pulse (Mairi Campbell); Annis Mother.

Trained at:

Exeter University BA (Drama), Heriot Watt University MA (BSL Interpreting).

Associate Director / Fiona Mackinnon

Recent Director credits:

Brainstorm (Perth Theatre); The Dodo Experiment (Citizens Theatre); Robin Hood (Cumbernauld Theatre); Pippin (The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland); Flora’s Fairy Challenge (Beacon Arts Centre); Summer Heart (Tron Theatre).

Recent Associate and Assistant Director credits: Panopticon (National Theatre of Scotland); The Three Sisters (Lung Ha Theatre Company); Meet Me at Dawn (Edinburgh International Festival/Traverse Theatre Company), Shall Roger Casement Hang? (Tron Theatre Company); Whatever Gets You Through The Night, (The Arches).

Film credits as Associate Director: A Brief History of the Fragile Male Ego (Jordan and Skinner).

Trained at: The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.