A Kind of Alaska

Gina trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama.

For Rapture: A Kind of Alaska and A Streetcar Named Desire

Theatre includes: Made in India (Tamasha/Soho Theatre), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (National Theatre Productions), Saturday Night & Sunday Morning, Top Girls, Roots, Absent Friends, Under Milk Wood, A View from the Bridge, The Lover, Romeo and Juliet, David Copperfield, Accidental Death of an Anarchist, Julius Caesar, Two, Twelfth Night, Road, To Kill a Mocking Bird, All my Sons, Three Sisters and The White Devil (Mercury Theatre), The Butterfly Lion (Bill Kenwright Productions), The Grapes of Wrath (Chichester Festival Theatre), Lifesavers and Photos of Religion (Theatre 503), Hysteria (Bolton Octagon), The Winter’s Tale (Salisbury Playhouse), Small Miracle (Tricycle Theatre), Mother Courage and her Children (ETT), Belly (Old Red Lion), A Midsummer Night’s Dream & Richard III (Stafford Shakespeare Festival), Trojan Women (Teatro Koreja, Lecce).

Television includes: EastEnders, Holby City, Casualty, The Queen’s Lover (BBC), Derek (Derek Productions), Men Only (Channel 4), Pretending to be Judith (International), The Bill (ITV), Perfect Disasters (Impossible Pictures).

Film and Radio includes: Beyond (Big View Media), Fast Girls (Unstoppable Entertainment), Unidentified (Big View Media), Walking with Shadows (Ghost Productions), The Father Gilbert Mysteries (Focus on the family), Anna (Frequency Theatre).

Acting credits (Scotland) include: Othello (Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh); Judith (Citizens, Glasgow).

Other Theatre: Serious Money (Royal Court, London/West End/Broadway); The Miser (Cambridge Theatre Company); Moon on a Rainbow Shaw (National Theatre); The Cherry Orchard, Noises Off (Birmingham Rep); Eden (Riverside Studios); The Plague (Arcola Theatre); King Lear (Shakespeare’s Globe).

He is a former Associate Director at the Royal Court and has directed several short films and various television dramas.

Theatre includes: Two one-woman plays The Matchbox by Frank McGuinness and Grounded by George Brant, as well as playing Marion in 54% Acrylic, Carol in Oleanna, Mhairi in By Its Nature Uncertain, and collaborating on the devised interactive piece Postman’s Park.

Janet is also Co-Founder and Creative Director of Firebrand Theatre Company and enjoys singing and playing fiddle in a ceilidh band, when she’s not up a hill on a bike, ideally with her two dogs!