Uncle Vanya 2012 Programme

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BY MICK GOrDON

The new Lyric Theatre has been built thanks to the extraordinary generosity of people from all walks of life, including schools, businesses, entrepreneurs, philanthropists, amateur drama groups, writers, artists, performers and politicians.

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A welcoming and light filled space with glorious prospects over the River Lagan and Botanic Gardens, the Café Bar is open from 10am to 5pm for snacks and refreshments, with lunches including soups, sandwiches and pastas served from 12noon to 3pm and Sunday brunch from 10am to 2pm.

Belfast’s award-winning coffee handroaster, Bailie’s, will offer visitors the finest in freshly roasted gourmet coffee. The Café Bar will be the social hub of our new theatre, alive with debate, discussion and interaction. The Café Bar opens one hour prior to the performance for pre-show drinks, and you can also order your interval drinks in advance.

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The Creative Learning Department at the Lyric offers an exciting programme of events throughout the year.

Our projects with Primary schools include Pat & Plain, in which over 1400 children have participated. We are delighted to have recently received the Theatre Management Association’s award for the Promotion of Cultural Diversity. At Secondary level, student visits to the theatre or workshops led by our team of expert Facilitators in schools across the Province, provide support for the delivery of Drama within the Curriculum at all Key Stages.

We are proud this year to be part of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Open Stages project, engaging with almost 3000 amateur theatre makers across the UK. In April, in the Naughton Studio, we will showcase seven productions on seven successive nights from local groups, one of which will be invited to present their work in Stratford in July.

Our Theatre School consists of five different workshops every week and we have currently over 100 theatre enthusiasts of all ages taking part. Our Drama Studio, a group of 18-25 year olds, serious about entering the creative industries, are close to completing six months of training. They will be presenting their second production: Caryl Churchill’s Light Shining in Buckinghamshire in March.

All this, plus our programme of Continuing Professional Development training for theatre practitioners secures the place of the Creative Learning Department at the heart of the work of the Lyric Theatre.

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Anton Chekhov sits at the masters’ table. He reshaped twentieth century theatre by perfecting a theatre of moods, where action resides less in external events and much more in internal emotions and secret turmoil. His greatest play, Uncle Vanya, was premiered by the Moscow Art Theatre in 1899 under the direction of Konstantin Stanislavski. Over one hundred years later his play continues to affect and entrance actors and audiences throughout the world.

Brian Friel is Ireland’s greatest living playwright. He too sits at the masters’ table. I imagine him sitting beside Anton Chekhov. “I’m not sure why I find the late-nineteenth-century Russians so sympathetic,” he says. “Maybe because the characters in the plays behave as if their old certainties were as sustaining as ever – even though they know in their hearts that their society is in melt-down and the future has neither a welcome nor even an accommodation for them. Maybe a bit like people of my own generation in Ireland today. Or maybe I find those Russians sympathetic because they have no expectations whatever from love but still invest everything in it. Or maybe they attract me because they seem to expect that their problems will disappear if they talk about them –endlessly.”

Friel’s version of Uncle Vanya is Irish-English. In it he deliberately matches our own rhythms and speech patterns in order to bring the psychological and emotional experience of the play as close as possible to our own. And by doing so he offers us a rich and intensely intimate portrait of humanity.

We as actors, directors and designers do not sit at the same table as Chekhov and Friel. We are the secondary artists on this occasion, the willing servants of two great masters. It has been our pleasure to work together on this play, and we hope that the distillation of our work, which you will experience tonight, communicates at least some of the feelings, thoughts, poetry and contradictions of life that both authors intended.

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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 (New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Foreign Play); Wonderful Tennessee; A Month in the Country (after Turgenev); The London Vertigo (Charles Macklin); Dancing at Lughnasa (3 Tony Awards including Best New Play, New York Drama Critics Award for Best Play, Olivier Award for Best Play); Making History; The Communication Cord; American Welcome; Three Sisters (after Chekhov); Translations; Aristocrats (Evening Standard Award for Best Play, New York Drama Critics Award for Best Foreign Play); Faith Healer; Living Quarters; Volunteers; The Freedom of the City; The Gentle Island; The Mundy Scheme; Crystal and Fox; Lovers: Winners and Losers; Philadelphia, Here I Come!; The Loves of Cass Maguire.

Brian Friel is a member of Aosdána, the society of Irish artists, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Royal Society of Literature and the Irish Academy of Letters. He has been awarded the Ulysses Medal by University College, Dublin.

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Anton Chekhov was a Russian physician, dramatist and author who is considered to be among the greatest writers in history. His career as a dramatist produced a number of short and full length classics including The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard. His best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics.

Chekhov had at first written stories only for financial gain, but as his artistic ambition grew, he made formal innovations which have influenced the evolution of the modern short story. His originality consists in an early use of the stream-of-consciousness technique, later adopted by James Joyce and other modernists, combined with a disavowal of the moral finality of traditional story structure. He made no apologies for the difficulties this posed to readers, insisting that the role of an artist was to ask questions, not to answer them.

Chekhov practised as a doctor throughout most of his literary career.

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Mick Gordon is Artistic Director of On Theatre and On Film. He was Trevor Nunn’s Associate Director at the Royal National Theatre London and was Director of the National’s Transformation Season. Previously he was Artistic Director of London’s Gate Theatre.

On Theatre credits as writer/ director include: Bea (Soho Theatre London); Pressure Drop with Billy Bragg (Wellcome Collection London); The Ride of Your Life (Polka Theatre London); On Emotion; On Ego with Paul Broks (Soho Theatre London); On Religion with AC Grayling (Louise Lortel Theater New York); On Love (Gate Theatre London); On Love in Uzbekistan (Ilkhom Theatre Tashkent) and On Death with Marie de Hennezel (Gate Theatre London).

As director, Lyric Theatre: The Home Place; Dancing at Lughnasa.

Other theatre includes: Ghosts; Sweeney Todd (Aarhus Theatre Denmark); Both Sides (Ransom

Belfast); Translations (Leicester Curve); Deep Cut (Sherman Theatre Cardiff, Traverse Theatre Edinburgh, Tricycle Theatre London); Grimms Tales (Dusko Radovic Belgrade); Optic Trilogy, A Play in English, Swedish and Italian (Dramatan Theatre Stockholm); War; Lovers; The Real Thing; Betrayal (Strindberg Theatre Stockholm); A Prayer for Owen Meany (National Theatre London); Monkey! (Young Vic Theatre London); Trust (Royal Court Theatre London); Salome (Riverside Studios London); My Fair Lady; Closer; Art (National Theatre Buenos Aires); Volunteers; Marathon; Une Tempête (Gate Theatre London); Measure for Measure (English Touring Theatre).

Other writing includes: Theatre and the Mind (Oberon); Conversations on Religion; Conversations on Truth (Continuum); Identity and Identification (Black Dog).

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Igor was born in Pula and graduated from the Scenography Department of the Academy of Applied Arts in Belgrade.

Production credits as set designer and author of video include: Sweeney Todd (directed by Mick Gordon); 1 vs Many (directed by Gordana Lebović); Spring Awakening (directed by Anja Suša); Mozart Luster Lustik (directed by Jay Scheib); Waiting for Godot; Orpheus and Eurydice.

Credits as set and costume designer include: Deep Cut (directed by Mick Gordon at Sherman Cymru/ Tricycle/Edinburgh Festival); Prosthetic Soul (Volcano/Mr and Mrs Clark); Lord of the Flies (directed by Djurdja Tešić).

Credits as set designer include: Grimms Tales (directed by

Mick Gordon); Gespensterhaus (Taschenoper Festival, Salzburg); Blasted; Three Sisters; The Cherry Orchard; Prometheus Bound; Civil Servants.

His work explores the field of digital media (digital art, photography, electro-acoustic music) and he is professionally involved in video and graphic/web design.

He was awarded Prize at the YUSTAT Biennale of Stage Design and Annual Duško Radović Prize, and he has exhibited at the Prague Quadrinnale.

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Maja was born in Sabac. She graduated from FPUD (University of Applied Arts and Design) in Belgrade, Department of Costume Design, Atelier for Theatre Costume 2001 and gained a Masters Degree in the Interdisciplinary Studies at Belgrade University of Arts in Set Design.

Maja is a member of Serbian Association of Artists of Applied Arts and Design and President of the Section for Costume and Set Design 2010. She has designed costumes for 83 theatre performances, three Solemn Academy events, eight films, a TV series and six music concerts.

She has exhibited and participated in 20 collective exhibitions, including Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space 2007 and Venice Biennale of Architecture 2004.

Her poems have been published in the Anthology of Modern Poetry (Tracing Gender - Purpose of Engagement and 24/7 Of Love), publishing house DEVE and her theoretical papers have been published in magazines

and exhibition catalogues. Maja is a correspondent of a Walking Theory magazine for performing arts and participant in theoretical performances of their ensemble.

Awards include: nine Best Theatre Costume Awards in the period from 2003 to 2011 and biggest national acclaim for Theatre Costume Design on Sterijino Pozorje festival in 2011.

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Mark studied, briefly, at Oxford University prior to training in Stage Lighting Design at RADA.

Previous Lyric Theatre credits include: Dockers; The Home Place.

Other lighting designs include:

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest; Absurd Person Singular; Molly Sweeney; Translations (Curve Theatre Leicester); Sweeney Todd (Aarhus Theatre, Denmark); Measure for Measure (Sherman Cymru); Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks (Vienna’s English Theatre); Carmen (Dorset Opera); Bea; Pressure Drop; On Religion (On Theatre); Parallel Electra (Young Vic); Much Ado About Nothing; Dick Turpin’s Last Ride; The London Merchant; Cider With Rosie; The Merchant of Venice (Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds); Yerma; Wittenberg; The Kreutzer Sonata; Uncle Vanya (The Gate Theatre London); Tête à Tête the Opera Festival (2007 - 2009); Monsters (Arcola Theatre/Strawberry Vale); Finkelstein’s Castle; Johnny’s Midnight Goggles (SharpWire); The Barber of Seville (Armonico Consort); A Number (Salisbury Playhouse); Oliver Twist; La Ronde (Love and Madness); Topless Mum (Tobacco Factory); Haunted (Only Hope Productions); The Pains of Youth (Belgrade Theatre); The Taming of the Shrew (Watermill Theatre & The Old Vic); Jeff Koons (ATC).

Mark has also been a guest lecturer and tutor for RADA (where guest designs include The Man of Mode and The Last Days of Judas Iscariot), National Youth Theatre and East 15.

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Theatre Sound Designs include: The Arrival (Circus Space); The Trouble With Asian Men (Edinbrugh Festival 2011); Bea (Soho Theatre); The House Of Bilquis Bibbi (Hampstead Theatre); Pressure Drop (Welcome Collection); Wuthering Heights (Lyric Hammersmith); Entertaining Mr Sloane (Trafalgar Studios); Deep Cut (Sherman Cymru); The Changeling (Nottingham Playhouse); Sweet Cider (Arcola); A Fine Balance (Hampstead Theatre); Someone Else’s Shoes (Soho Theatre); On Emotion; On Religion (ON Theatre); All’s Well That Ends Well; As You Like It (RSC); Mother Courage (National Theatre); Blues In The Night; The Witches; Ladyday; The BFG (West End).

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Louise is a graduate from the University of East Anglia and has recently acted as Assistant to the Director on Both Sides with Ransom Theatre Company. Her previous theatre experience includes her role as Marketing Officer and Production Assistant on Normal and 1984 with Green Room Productions. Her previous directing experience includes Sweeney Todd and A Streetcar Named Desire, performed at the Puppet Theatre in Norwich. Her television experience includes her role as a member of the production team on The Titanic Inquiry with The Hole in the Wall Gang

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Barbara began her career at the old Ulster Group Theatre and later worked in repertory and tours in England and Ireland, as well as performing frequently on BBC radio.

Lyric Theatre credits include: Minstrel Boys; Lady Windermere’s Fan; The Importance of Being Earnest; The Plough and The Stars; Juno and the Paycock; Over the Bridge; All Soul’s Night; Christmas Eve Can Kill You; Vinegar Fly (which also toured to Cyprus); A Life; The Crucible; Pygmalion; Factory Girls and Conversations on a Homecoming (which also played Cork and Dublin Festivals).

Other theatre credits include: Pentecost (Field Day Theatre Company, Tricycle Theatre); Lovers (Druid Theatre); An Old Lady’s Guide to Survival (Red Kettle); Widow’s Paradise; The End House; Right Again Barnum (Arts Theatre, Belfast); Women on the Verge Get Away; The Stolen Child (Calypso production in Dublin and on tour); Over the River and Through the Woods (Andrews Lane Theatre); Boglands (Big Telly all Ireland tour).

Film credits include: Eat the Peach; Pentecost; Amongst Women; Divorcing Jack; Green Oranges; Mickey-Bo and Me; The Devil; Dorothy Mills; Cracks; Stella Days and Grabbers. Television credits include: Bel’s Boys; Primeval and many episodes of Fair City and The Clinic (RTE).

Her two awards are Best Actress in Midden for Dublin Fringe Festival in 2001 and TMA Best Supporting Actress in Revenge by Michael Duke in 2004.

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Declan’s theatre credits for the Abbey and Peacock Theatres include: The Last Days of a Reluctant Tyrant; The Burial At Thebes; Heavenly Bodies; True West; All My Sons; Henry IV; A Whistle in The Dark; Famine; The Hamlet Project; The Last Ones; The Patriot Game; A Month in the Country (Best Supporting Actor Irish Times Theatre Awards); Julius Caesar; The Recruiting Officer; The Crucible; Improbable Frequency (Rough Magic, Dublin Theatre Festival); Freefall (Corn Exchange international tour); Terminus (six month UK/US tour, Sydney Opera House).

Other theatre credits include: True West (Lyric Theatre); The Walls; The Ends of The Earth; The Machine Wreckers (National Theatre); As You Like It; La Lupa; The Mysteries; The Spanish Tragedy; Henry VI Part III (RSC); Macbeth (West End); Our Country’s Good (Out of Joint at the Young Vic); Juno and The Paycock (Gaiety); Decadence; Hamlet; Endgame (Naked Theatre Company); Copenhagen (nominated for Best Actor Irish Times Theatre Awards); The Book of Evidence (Rough Magic, Kilkenny Arts Festival/Gate Theatre); Miss Julie (Landmark Productions, Project Arts Centre); The Sanctuary Lamp (Bespoke Theatre Company, Samuel Beckett Centre, Ireland/ UK tour, Arcola Theatre); Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (Corn Exchange, Dublin Theatre Festival).

Film and Television credits include: Hereafter (directed by Clint Eastwood, Warner Brothers Pictures); Love Eternal; All Souls Day; The Truth About Sex; Amber; Trouble in Paradise; Proof; Anytime Now; Bachelor’s Walk; Hot House; Dangerfield; The Family; The Tudors (two series, Showtime/ Working Title); Single Handed II; Stolen Child (Touchpaper Films/ RTE); Dangerfield (BBC); Fair City (RTE, for which he was nominated for an IFTA in 2010); RAW (Octagon Films/RTE).

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Theatre credits include: Bang Bang Bang (Royal Court); The Comedy of Errors; Playboy of the Western World (Royal Exchange Theatre); Dov and Ali; Crestfall (Theatre 503, London); Pumpgirl (The Bush); The System (The Project, Dublin); This Ebony Bird (Blood in the Alley Theatre Company); The Day I Swapped my Dad for Two Goldfish (The Ark, Dublin); A Town called F**ked (Granary Theatre); The River (Meridian Theatre Company); A Quiet Life (Peacock, Abbey Theatre); Macbeth (Second Age Theatre Company); Who’s breaking? (Graffiti Theatre Company); Laodamia (Merlin International Theatre co); Disco Pigs (Corcadorca Theatre Company).

Television: Pure Mule (RTE); Law and Order, UK (ITV); Holby Blue (BBC); The Last Furlong (RTE); Love is a Drug (RTE); The Baby Wars (ITV); In the Company of Strangers (HTV).

Film: Speed Dating; Prey and Escape; The Wind that Shakes the Barley; Loves Elusives. Short Films: Infidel (winner Best British Short Film 2010); Man in the Road; Strangers in the Night.

Nominations include: Best Actress by The Stage for Pumpgirl Edinburgh festival 2006; IFTA Best Actress and Best Newcomer 2006 for The Wind that Shakes the Barley.

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Previous Lyric Theatre credits include: The Little Shop of Horrors (‘89 and ‘98); The Playboy of the Western World; The Importance of Being Earnest; Whistle in the Dark; Conversations on a Homecoming; Over The Bridge; Christmas Eve Can Kill You; The Home Place; Stones in His Pockets.

National Theatre credits include: Democracy; The Seafarer; Philistines; All’s Well That Ends Well; The White Guard; The Cherry Orchard. Broadway Theatre credits include: Stones in His Pockets; The Seafarer. West End Theatre credits include: Stones in His Pockets; Democracy; The Producers; Shoot the Crow.

Other theatre credits include: Northern Star (Field Day/ Tinderbox); Criminal Genius; The Chance; End Game (Prime Cut); No stars on Sunday; The Starving (Old Museum Arts Centre); Broken Nails at St Peter’s Cathedral and Dallas Sweetman at Canterbury cathedral; Damian Gorman’s Stars - A Ballycastle Nativity.

Film and Television credits include: Intermission; Whatever Works (Woody Allen); Keith Lemon The Film; Whole Lotta Sole; Salmon Fishing in the Yemen; The Shore; Perrier’s Bounty; Cross My Heart; Meaningful Sex; Cluck; Out of the Deep Pan; Game of Thrones; Peter Kay’s Britain’s Got the Pop Factor... and Possibly a New Celebrity Jesus Christ Soapstar Superstar Strictly On Ice; The Life and Times of Vivian Vyle; Blue Heaven; Goodbye Mr Chips.

Awards include: For Stones in His Pockets –Irish Times Theatre Awards, What’s On Stage, Dora, Drama League, Drama Desk, Critic’s Circle and Olivier Awards as well as T.M.A and Tony nominations; What’s on Stage nomination for Democracy; Olivier Award and What’s on Stage nomination for The Producers; Olivier nomination for Philistines; Drama Desk award and Tony nomination for The Seafarer.

In 2008 Conleth was awarded an honorary degree, Doctor of Letters from the University of Ulster for his services to the Arts.

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YeFIM / LaBOurer Paul trained at the Manchester Metropolitan School of Theatre.

Theatre credits include: Both Sides (Ransom); October (Miniaturists - Arcola, London); Translations (Leicester Curve); True North (Tinderbox); Dolly West’s Kitchen (Glebe Kitchen, Donegal); Off Plan – A New Adaptation Of The Oresteia (RAW Theatre Company, Dublin); Dying City (Rough Magic AIB SEEDS); Autonomous Forces (Abbey Theatre/Belfast Festival); Ladybird; Antigone; Trestle at Pope Lick Creek (Prime Cut Productions); The Fairer

Sex - Nineteen Ninety Two (Abbey Theatre, Dublin); Seesaw; Tom’s Midnight Garden (Library Theatre, Manchester); Blue Remembered Hills (Bruiser Theatre Company/ Irish Tour); The 24 Hour PlaysBlocked (Lyric Theatre, Belfast); Patriaslava (Russia); Debris (Belfast Queen’s Theatre); Scene Exchange (Manchester Royal Exchange); Hamlet (Prime Cut Directors Lab); After The Blood Rush (Palace Theatre, Manchester); Danny, King Of The Basement (Sheffield Crucible).

Television credits include: Shameless (Channel 4); The Royal Today (ITV Yorkshire); Coronation Street (ITV Granada); Bradford Riots (Channel 4).

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Stella has a long association with the Lyric Theatre where she made her debut as Kate Hardcastle in She Stoops to Conquer. She also performed in The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Irish Times Theatre Awards Best Actress 2010); The Glass Menagerie; A Streetcar Named Desire; The Good Natured Man; Pygmalion; The Memory of Water; Desert Lullaby and Ibsen’s Ghosts, which also played at the National Theatre Oslo.

Other theatre credits include: No Romance; Three Sisters; Alice Trilogy; Portia Coughlan; Communion Treehouses; Philadelphia, Here I Come!; The Mai (Abbey Theatre); Uncle Vanya; The House of Bernarda Alba (Gate Theatre); Endgame (Waterfront Studio); At the Black Pig’s Dyke; The Loves of Cass McGuire; The Country Boy (Druid); Donny Boy; The Beggar’s Opera; Electra (Manchester Royal Exchange); Medea; Our Father (Almeida Theatre); Pygmies in the Ruins; Woman and Scarecrow (Royal Court); Roberto Zucco; Riders to the Sea (Royal Shakespeare Company).

Film and TV credits include: Jack Taylor; Thief In The Night; Rule of Thumb; Roadkill; Pure Mule; Five Minutes of Heaven; On Home Ground; The Last Furlong; Holy Cross; Whatever Love Means; MLA Mine Forever; Errors and Omissions; So You Think You’ve Got Troubles; Foreign Bodies; Betrayal; This is the Sea; Monkey’s Blood; Dear Sarah (Jacobs Award for Best Actress); Give My Head Peace; I Fought the Law; Making the Cut; Trivia; Sanctuary; Amber (RTE).

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Ian was born in Belfast. He has worked extensively as an actor in theatre, film and television in both England and Ireland.

Ian has worked frequently at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast and the Abbey, the Gate and Gaiety Theatres in Dublin, in such productions as: The Absence of Women; The Home Place; The Recruiting Officer; Pygmalion; Julius Caesar; Waiting for Godot; The Plough and the Stars; The Silver Tassie; Death and the Salesman and Twelfth Night.

Film credits include: Bittersweet; Leap Year; Occi Versus the World; Shine of Rainbows; Triage; Closing the Ring; Mapmaker; Borstal Boy; Divorcing Jack; Hidden Agenda; Hamlet.

Recent television includes: Scapegoat; Raw; Little Dorrit; Clay; SingleHanded; The Tudors; The Clinic; Cold Feet; No Tears; In Defence; Maisie Raine; Queer As Folk; Durango; Touch and Go; Hornblower; Hearts and Minds (winner of the Royal Television Society Awards for Best Drama Serial) and Rough Diamond

London Theatre credits include: There Came a Gypsy Riding; Through a Glass Darkly; A Delicate Balance (Almeida Theatre); Amphibians (Royal Shakespeare Company); Pygmies in the Ruins (Royal Court Theatre); The Cure at Troy (Tricycle Theatre); Carthaginians; Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching towards the Somme (Hampstead Theatre).

Since last performing at the Lyric Ian has played Barristan Selmy in Game of Thrones for HBO and Sir Henry Carltan in the upcoming series Titanic: Blood and Steel.

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Theatre credits include: How the World Began (Arcola Theatre); The Absence of Women (Lyric Theatre, Tricycle Theatre); Shoot the Crow (Prime Cut, Waterfront Hall); Translations (Leicester Curve); The Chairs (Bath Theatre Royal); Dreams of Violence (Out of Joint, Soho Theatre and tour); Deep Cut (Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh Festival for which Ciaran won Best Actor Award 2008); Endgame (Liverpool Everyman); The Comedy of Errors; All’s Well That Ends Well; A Jovial Crew; The Merry Wives of Windsor; Coriolanus; The Seagull (Royal Shakespeare Company); In Celebration (Duke of York’s); Coriolanus (Globe Theatre); Under the Black Flag (Globe Theatre); Richard II (Old Vic Theatre); The Quare Fellow (Oxford Stage Company); Port Authority (Liverpool Everyman); A Whistle in the Dark (Citizens Theatre Glasgow); The Lieutenant of Inishmore (National Tour); The Head of Red O’Brien (Bewley’s Cafe Theatre); The Playboy of the Western World (Leicester Haymarket Theatre); Hard Times (Storytellers); Reading Turgenev (Meridian Theatre Company); Waiting For Godot (Contact Theatre Company); The Weavers (Gate Theatre Company).

Television credits include: The Time of Your Life (ITV); Holby City; Inspector Lynley; Doctors; Comedy Nation (BBC Television); Poliokoff 04 (Freemantle Media); Birds of a Feather (Alomo Productions).

Radio credits include: The Old Tune; Talking in Whispers (BBC Radio); Twilights (BBC Radio Wales).

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Siobhán trained at Central School of Speech and DramaTheatre.

Previous Theatre credits include: The Kitchen; Mother Courage and Her Children; England People Very Nice (National Theatre); Translations (Curve Theatre Leicester); Dancing at Lughnasa (Birmingham Rep); Stars in the Morning Sky (Riverside Studios); Life is a Dream (Rough Magic); 4:48 Psychosis (Rough Magic); The Flags (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester); The Heights (The Arches, Glasgow); Midden (Oldham Colisium); The Train Show; Dark Week; Soap! (Playgroup).

Film and Television credits include: The Wind That Shakes the Barley; Emmerdale (ITV); Fair City (RTE).

Siobhán was awarded Best Studio Performance at the Manchester Evening News Awards for her performance in The Flags.

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aDMIN assIsTaNT cAt ricE

FINaNCe MaNaGer dEirdrE FErgUSoN

FINaNCe assIsTaNT cAthEriNE KEENAN

MArKEtiNg & coMMUNicAtioNS

MarKeTING & pr OFFICer gLyNiS WAtt

prodUctioN & tEchNicAL SErVicES

TeChNICaL MaNaGer KEith giNty

COMpaNY sTaGe MaNaGer NicK trUEMAN

DepuTY sTaGe MaNaGer KAtE MiLLEr

assIsTaNT sTaGe MaNaGers gEorgiE roSS, ALEc rEEcE

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cUStoMEr SErVicES

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