CAST

Caroline received a BA Hons in Drama from Queen’s University. Her credits include:

2050 Under the Albert Clock (Lyric Theatre). Buttercup (Spanner in the Works) Soft Border Patrol (BBCNI) The Real Housewives of Norn Iron (GOH 2019) It’s A Wonderful Wee Christmas (Theatre at the Mill 2018)

Diablo (Lyric 2018) Maggie Yer Ma (GOH 2018) Maggie’s Feg Run (Mac 2018) The Nightshift Before Christmas (Theatre at the Mill 2017) Holy Holy Bus (Lyric 2017) Crazy (GBL Productions/ GOH) Entitled (Macha Productions/ MAC) Last Orders at The Rough Diamond (Theatre at the Mill) Diablo (Southern Tour 2016) The Holy Holy Bus (GOH 2016) Maggie’s Feg Run (GOH/Tour

2016) My Big Fat Belfast Christmas (Theatre at the Mill) Holy Holy Bus (Lyric 2015) Crazy (Mac 2015) Dirty Dancing in le Shebeen (Mac 2015/2016) Diablo (Canada/Southern Tour 2015) Holy Holy Bus (Brassneck) Diablo (Dublin Tour) 50 Shades of Red, White and Blue (GOH/TOUR 2014) The Glass Bell (Mac Belfast) Notorious (Spanner in the Works)

Dirty Dancing in le Shebeen (GOH) Eternally

Scrooged (Terra Nova) 50 Shades of Red, White and Blue (Mac and GOH, Waterfront Hall 2019) Diablo and Well Behaved Women

Rarely make History (Lyric Theatre Belfast, Edinburgh Fringe 2012 and Brighton Fringe 2013) Ulster Kama Sutra (Terra Nova Productions) Carol’s Christmas written by Nuala McKeever, The Christening (Rawlife Theatre Co), Popping Candy (Spanner in the Works Theatre Company) Hostel (Slide Away Productions/Kabosh), To Be boor Notto Bebo Life Goes on, Cuss The World (Spanner in the Works Theatre Company).

She is just back from Buxton Fringe with Spanner in the Works Theatre Company where they won Best Production 2021. Caroline is writing and starring in Theatre at the Mill’s Christmas Show Jingle All the Hairspray (A Christmas Hairytale) in Dec 2021.

Carol was born in Glengormley and currently lives in Bangor. Carol has worked in the creative industries for the past 40 years as an actor, director, filmmaker and more recently as a writer. Theatre credits include: Lovers, Macbeth, Pentecost & Can’t Forget About You (Lyric Theatre); Across the Threshold (Big Telly), Those You Pass on the Street, Belfast by Moonlight, Titans, 1 in 5, Two Roads West, Henry & Harriet (Kabosh) & The Sweetie Bottle (Brassneck). Carol’s one-woman play The Experience of Being, premiered in Belfast in May, 2019. She is currently writing a new one-woman play Flying, about the female Irish aviator, Lilian Bland.

Film/TV credits include Tyrone (Brassneck), Gone (A Future Screens Production) Lily (Commedia of Errors), Nowhere Special, Marcella, Mother’s Day, The Lodge (Disney) and The Truth Commissioner. Carol’s film directing includes the feature, Pumpgirl by Abbie Spallen, the short Gort an gCnámh (Best First Time Director, Celtic Film Festival, Foyle Film Festival). As a NESTA fellow (2003 - 2005), Carol directed/produced a number of shorts about cultural diversity, including Are You Seeing Me, The Farther, The Dearer, This Belfast Thing, Crack the Pavement, History Unfinished (Northern Ireland Regional Winner, BAFTA 60 SEC 2008).

Carol is writing a new one-woman play about the Irish aviator Lilian Bland who was the first woman to design, build and fly her own biplane in 1910 and she did it four streets from where she grew up.

Tara Lynne is an actress and writer based in Belfast.

Some theatre credits include: Shirley Valentine, Fly Me to the Moon, Lally The Scut, Planet Belfast, Everything Between Us, The Hypochondriac, Educating Rita, Of Mice and Men, Translations and Jane Eyre.

TV and film credits include: Derry Girls (Channel 4), Line of Duty 2, Farr, The Fall – Series 1 & 3 (BBC) Made in Belfast, Disco Pigs, The Most Fertile Man in Ireland, Wild About Harry, At Deaths Door (Fuji Award) Nothing Personal.

Many radio productions most notably on the award-winning Grenades (RTE).

Nicky Harley was born in Derry and currently lives in Belfast. She is a first class Drama graduate of University of Ulster and has further trained under practitioners including Philippe Gaulier, Patsy Rodenburg and Fiona Shaw.

Lyric Theatre Credits: In the Pause Between Now and Next (Lyric Theatre), Denouement (Lyric Theatre/Traverse Theatre)

Other Credits include: On the Street Where We Live (The MAC), Macbeth, The Faerie Thorn, Freak Show, The Worst Café in the World (Big Telly Theatre Co) Alice: A Virtual Theme Park (Creation Theatre) Big Kid, Little Kid (The Civic Theatre).

Film, TV and radio credits: Game of Thrones (HBO) Bloodlands (BBC) Day 351 (Purple Finch Productions) Brought to Light, The Dogs in the Street (BBC Radio 4).

In 2020, Nicky’s performance of Lady Macbeth in Big Telly Theatre company’s virtual adaptation, Macbeth, earned her the award for ‘Best Individual Performer’ at The Red Curtain Festival Theatre Awards.

Ruby trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. She is ecstatic to be back at the Lyric with this female football tour-de-force!

Lyric Theatre credits: Translations (digital collaboration with Rage Theatre, Mumbai), Driving Home for Christmas, Alice the Musical, Lovers: Winners and Losers.

Other theatre includes: The Broads (Strand Arts), Dirty Talk (No Touching Theatre), Tragik Plastik, The Clearing – workshop (Tinderbox Theatre Company) And The Band Keeps Marching On (Sky Arts/ Barbican) Splish Splash (Oily Cart), The Ferryman (Sonia Friedman Productions/ Gielgud Theatre), She Moved Through The Fair (Tron Theatre), Girls and Dolls (Pintsized Productions), Babble Lifeboat (Replay Theatre Company) Lady Windermere's Fan (MAC/Bruiser Theatre Company)

Film, TV and Audio includes: Counsel (BBC), Stumbling (Doreen Productions), The Dissenter (Dumbworld Productions), On The Street Where We Live, NINOW100 (MAC), Did You Hear the One About the Irishman…? (Abbey Theatre).

Jo graduated from Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts.

Theatre credits with the Lyric Theatre Belfast include 1984, The Ladykillers, Forget Turkey, Demented, Ardnaglass on the Air, The Colleen Bawn and Re-energise (co-production with Derry Playhouse). She was also part of the Lyric’s Playboy of the Western World which also toured to the Gaiety in Dublin.

Other credits include A Station Once Again for Brassneck, Rumplestiltskin for The Mac, The Chronicles of Long Kesh at the Opera House and Right Up Your Street for Big Telly Theatre.

Jo works regularly with BBC Radio and currently can be heard in Quick Comedies for BBC Ireland.

Screen credits include Line of Duty, Ups and Downs, Grace & Goliath and she is soon to be seen in the upcoming BBC Children’s drama Tiara Jones