CREATIVE TEAM CAST

Brian Friel (9 January 1929 – 2 October 2015) Writer

Brian Friel is widely regarded as one of Ireland’s greatest dramatists, having written over 30 plays across six decades. He was a member of Aosdana, the society of Irish artists, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Irish Academy of Letters, and the Royal Society of Literature where he was made a Companion of Literature. He was awarded the Ulysses Medal by University College, Dublin.

Emma Jordan Director

Ciaran Bagnall

Set & Lighting Designer

Thomas trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. Whilst there he performed in VS09 and You Can Take It With You (Richard Burton Theatre Company, 2014). Since graduating Thomas' film credits include the award winning short A Confession (Irresistible Films 2015).

His radio credits include The Fewness Of His Words (BBC Radio NI, 2013) David Ireland's Not Now (BBC Radio Scotland, 2015) Hiding Out (BBC Radio NI, 2017) and Lock In (BBC Radio NI, 2018)

His stage credits include The Enemy Within (Kabosh theatre Company, 2015); Blackout (Lyric Theatre Belfast, 2015); 1932 The People of Gallagher Street (Green Shoot Productions, 2016); and his debut performance on the Danske Bank Stage in Here Comes the Night (Lyric Theatre Belfast, 2016) and the multi award winning RED (Prime Cut Productions and the Lyric Theatre Belfast, 2017) for which he was nominated for an Irish Times Theatre award for best supporting Actor.

Abigail, from Belfast, trained at The Gaiety School of Acting, Dublin. At the Lyric Theatre she has appeared in The Ladykillers, St. Joan, Can’t Forget About You (Tron Theatre), The Glass Menagerie, Macbeth (Prime Cut Productions), How I Learned to Drive, A Whistle In the Dark, As the Beast Sleeps, Hamlet (Abbey Theatre Co-Pro), Shadowlands, Death of a Salesman, Jane Eyre and A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Other theatrical credits include: The Moot Virginity of Catherine of Aragon, The Doppler Effect (Belfast Ensemble), Everything Between Us (Rough Magic), The End of Hope (Oran Mor, Glasgow).

Film credits include H3, The Attendant and Mercy.

She is Performance Associate with the Belfast Ensemble. Abigail also received the Irish Times Award for Best Supporting Actress 2015 for Everything Between Us.

Carol Moore was born in Glengormley and lives in Bangor.

Theatre credits include: Macbeth Pentecost, Can’t Forget About You & The Blind Fiddler (Lyric Theatre); Those You Pass on the Street, Belfast by Moonlight, Titans, 1 in 5, Two Roads West, Henry & Harriet (Kabosh); Shrieking Sisters (Maggie Cronin & Carol Moore); Dusty Dusting (David Hull); The Sweetie Bottle (Brass Neck).

Television/Film credits: Mother’s Day (BBC), Come Home (BBC), Mercy (NIScreen/Out of Orbit), Guard (Honesty Inc.) The Lodge (Disney Channel), Rendevous (Clean Slate); The Truth Commissioner (Big Fish).

Film directing credits include: Short Film - Gort an gCnámh (Best First Time Director - Celtic Film Festival & Foyle Film Festival), Feature Film - Pumpgirl by Abbie Spallen & Nesta Fellowship films, The Farther, The Dearer, This Belfast Thing, Crack the Pavement and History Unfinished (NI Regional Winner of BAFTA 60 SEC 2008). Writing credits: Shrieking Sisters co-written with Maggie Cronin and a new one woman play about ageing The Experience of Being.

Plays include Hedda Gabler (after Ibsen), The Home Place, Performances, Three Plays After (Afterplay, The Bear, The Yalta Game), Uncle Vanya (after Chekhov), Give Me Your Answer Do!, Molly Sweeney (Winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Foreign Play), Wonderful Tennessee, A Month in the Country (after Turgenev), The London Vertigo (after Charles Macklin), Dancing at Lughnasa (Winner of 3 Tony Awards including Best Play, New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play, Olivier Award for Best Play), Making History, The Communication Cord, American Welcome, Three Sisters (after Chekhov), Translations, Aristocrats (Winner of the Evening Standard Award for Best Play and New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Foreign Play) Faith Healer, Fathers and Sons, Living Quarters, Volunteers, The Freedom of the City, The Gentle Island, The Mundy Scheme, Crystal and Fox, Lovers: Winners and Losers, The Loves of Cass Maguire, Philadelphia Here I Come!

Emma Jordan is Prime Cut’s Artistic Director and has directed a strong body of critically award-winning plays most recently East Belfast Boy by Fintan Brady as part of EdgeFest at the MAC, Red by John Logan a Prime Cut & Lyric co-production (Winner of Best Director, Best Production, Best Actor and Best Set Design at the 2017 Irish Times Theatre Awards and short-listed for Best Director: UK Theatre Awards 2017) and Stacey Gregg’s Scorch, winner of 7 awards in Ireland, the UK and Australia, over 25 5* and 4* reviews, which has played to standing ovations in Belfast, across the island of Ireland, UK, the Adelaide and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals, Sweden and Germany. Directing credits also include After Miss Julie [Patrick Marber], The God Of Carnage (Yasmina Reza), The Conquest of Happiness (Co-created & directed with Haris Pasovic) I Am My Own Wife [Doug Wright], Blackbird (David Harrower), Shoot The Crow (Owen McCafferty), Scarborough (Fiona Evans), Woman and Scarecrow (Marina Carr), After The End (Denis Kelly). Emma directed Educating Rita for the Lyric Theatre, Belfast in 2016 followed by an Irish tour in 2017. Her producing credits for Prime Cut include Three Tall Women (Assistant Director), The Coronation Voyage, Shopping and Fucking, American Buffalo, Macbeth, The Chance, After Darwin, The Mercy Seat, Ashes To Ashes, A Number, Cold Comfort, The Trestle At Pope Lick Creek, Scenes From The Big Picture, Owen McCafferty’s version of Antigone, Vincent River, The Chilean Trilogy and most recently Jack Thorne’s Mydidae. In 2014 Emma was the recipient of the Paul Hamlyn Cultural Entrepreneurship Breakthrough Award and the Spirit of Festival Award at the Belfast International Arts Festival 2015.

Born: Newry, Co.Down

Currently lives: Belfast Trained at: Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff.

Lyric Theatre Credits: Set & Lighting Design for Beauty and the Beast, What the Reindeer Saw, RED, White Star of the North. Set Design for Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching towards the Somme Lighting Design for The Weir, Three Sisters, St Joan, Pentecost, Philadephia, Here I come! The Little Prince and Pump Girl

Recent Lighting and Set Designs include: The Man who fell to Pieces (Tinderbox, MAC, Belfast); Hard to be Soft (MAC, Belfast); The Great Gatsby (Gate Theatre, Dublin); The Train (Abbey Theatre, Dublin); Ashes, Educating Rita (Octagon Theatre, Bolton); Macbeth (Shakespeare’s Globe, London); Singin’ in the Rain (UK Tour); Othello (RSC, Stratford upon Avon); Snookered (Bush Theatre, London); The Killing of Sister George (Arts Theatre, London); A Slight Ache and Landscape (Lyttelton Theatre, National Theatre London).

Recent Lighting Designs include: Hamlet (Octagon, Bolton); Dido, Queen of Carthage (RSC); After the Dance (Theatre by the Lake, Keswick); The Pillowman (Gaiety, Dublin); Perseverance Drive (The Bush Theatre, London); Home (National Theatre Shed, London); Much Ado about Nothing (RSC, Stratford Upon Avon & London West End).

Awards:

2017 Best Set Design Irish Times Theatre Awards - “RED” and “The Great Gatsby”

2016 Best Design Manchester Theatre Awards - “Singin’ in the Rain”

2014 Best Lighting Design Irish Times Theatre Awards - “Pentecost”

2009 Best Design Manchester Theatre Awards - “Oleanna”