CREATIVES

Musician Ashley Jones

Ashley Jones is a musician, writer and performer, and recent graduate of Drama & Film Studies at Queen’s University Belfast. She is the main songwriter and frontperson of the band Strange New Places, who released their debut EP Uncomfortable in 2019 and have played in venues across the UK and Ireland, ranging from Brighton to Dublin to the Ulster Hall in Belfast. She is currently working on producting new theatrical and musical projects.

Musician Clare Hadwen

Clare was a member of the Ulster Orchestra for over 12 years before embarking on life as a freelance violinist.

She regularly tours and performs with Camerata Ireland, RTE National Symphony Orchestra and RTE Concert Orchestra.

Eloïse Stevenson is an actor from Holywood, Co. Down, but grew up in Austria. She is a graduate of The Lir Academy in Dublin.

Lyric Theatre credits: The Playboy of the Western World (Oongah Murphy).

Other theatre credits: The Great Hunger (Abbey Theatre, Conall Morrison).

Lir Academy credits: The Wild Duck (Annabelle Comyn), Pericles (Conall Morrison), Dubliners (Annie Ryan), Serious Money (Oonagh Murphy), Temporal Powers (Conall Morrison), The Black Church (Louise Lowe), Electra (Ronan Phelan), Richard III (Hilary Wood).

Film/TV: Short Stay (short, Ruth Meehan), This Town Still Talks About You (short, Matthew McGiugan).

Catriona is from Derry but lives in Belfast and studied Acting at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.

Catriona has previously worked with the Lyric Creative Learning on Blackout and A Walk is Not a Walk (Eco Project). Other recent theatre credits include The Shedding of Skin (Kabosh), Dancing at the Disco at The End of The World (Replay Theatre Company) and The Frozen Princess (GBL Productions).

During lockdown Catriona worked with Big Telly Theatre Company on Dear World an interactive Zoom soap opera and was part of a Covid-19 television advert campaign for Genesis Advertising/TEO.

Suzie Seweify is originally Irish/Egyptian. She was born in Bahrain, raised in Abu Dhabi and is currently based in Dublin. She completed the two year full-time Actor Training Programme at the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin.

Theatre credits include: Aladdin Panto (Gaiety Theatre), Yara (Smock Alley Theatre).

Radio credits include: Swans (BBC NI), The Love of Small Appliances (Near FM).

Suzie is also a writer. Her one woman show, Yara, was one of the 35 pieces chosen by the Abbey Theatre this year as part of the Engine Room Project to develop new work. She is currently one of the 14 artists chosen for the WEFT studio programme just recently launched by Dublin Fringe Festival.

Nuala trained at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts.

Lyric Theatre Credits: Rough Girls (Lyric Theatre)

Other Theatre Credits: The Snow Queen (UK Tour), Three's a Shroud (GBL Productions, Waterfront Studio), King Henry V (Union Theatre, London), Caucasian Chalk Circle and Cooking With Elvis (Bruiser Theatre Company)

Film Credits: The Power (Air Street Films/ Altitude Films), Rhonna and Donna (Creative England/Dan films/The BFI)

She is a violinist with the Belfast Ensemble, whose recent productions include NI’s only lockdown opera performance The Musician: A Horror Opera for Children, and Abomination: A DUP Opera, which won ‘best opera’ at the Irish Times Theatre Awards.

Clare is a founder member of Arco String Quartet, with whom she enjoys a varied schedule between the concert platform, gig stage and the recording studio.

Her recent film and TV work includes vocal coach for the upcoming Netflix film School for Good and Evil, recording the soundtrack for children’s short animation Sol (Aardman Animations), BBC1 drama Three Families, Channel 5’s The Deceived, and the upcoming Channel 5 detective series Dalgliesh

She has collaborated, recorded and performed alongside artists including Foy Vance, Duke Special, Beoga, Villagers, Darkling Air, And So I Watch You From Afar and Kevin Doherty (Four Men and a Dog).

Clare is delighted to be a part of the mighty force of women who make up the Rough Girls team!