A Streetcar Named Desire

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).

After 10 productions with the National Youth Theatre, including Living The Dream for the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai as Oberon, Joseph Black went on to graduate from Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.

Theatre includes: Twelfth Night as Orsino and Much Ado About Nothing as Claudio with GB Theatre Company, William the Troll/Bombur/The Great Goblin King in the Duke Theatre’s award-winning park show, The Hobbit. (UK Theatre Award – Best Show for Children and Young People) and Cleomones in Cheek By Jowl’s two-part World Tour of The Winter’s Tale, which included performances at the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow.

Other credits include a featuring role in Alex Clare’s music video War Rages On.

Julia is an actor, theatre maker and playwright based in Glasgow. She trained at Webber Douglas.

Theatre includes: Rantin (National Theatre of Scotland), Chalk Farm (ThickSkin international tour), The Knight of The Burning Pestle (National Theatre), The Lord of The Flies (ADGE international tour), The Rivals (Wimbledon Theatre) and Hanna and Hanna (Catherine Wheels).

Screen credits include: The feature films Sunshine on Leith (Black Camel Pictures) and The Glasgow Girls (BBC). Julia is also Miss Campbell in the TV series’ Katie Morag (CBeebies) and Claire in Teacup Travels (CBeebies).

As a theatre-maker she co-directed CATS Best New Play Award winning shows Heads Up and Beats and her show Blow Off which premiered as part of the Traverse Edinburgh Festival programme 2016 is set to tour internationally in 2018 with the launch of the album of the show.

As playwright AJ Taudevin, she has the following plays published by Oberon Books Mrs Barbour’s Daughters, Some Other Mother (nominated for the James Tait Black Award for Drama 2015), Blow Off, Chalk Farm (which she co-wrote with Kieran Hurley) and her next play Hysteria! opens at the Oran Mor for A Play, A Pie and A Pint in co-production with Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival in October this year.

Kazeem trained at Doreen Bird College and The London School of Dramatic Art.

Most recently Kazeem played Dad and Red Bandana in Samuel Adamson’s adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s Running Wild, directed by Tim Sheader and Dale Rooks. The play appeared at Edinburgh’s King’s theatre, The Lowry in Salford and the Hackney Empire, among others, as part of its UK tour.

Theatre includes: the leading roles in both Macbeth, Upstairs at the Gatehouse in Highgate, and a site-specific production of Hamlet in Brixton. Kazeem also appeared in The Tanzi Libre Show as Dean Rebel, Southwark Playhouse. He played Katarina in Rae Mcken’s gender-reversed interpretation of The Taming of the Shrew, Above the Arts Theatre, Covent Garden.

Screen credits include: ‘Max’ in Love in a Time of Death and ‘Surveyor’ in Coccolith.

After a career in the fishing industry, the construction industry and then off-shore in the oil industry Billy gave it all up to become a luvvie. He has worked throughout Scotland and, so far, has not been found out!

For Rapture: A Streetcar Named Desire and Last of the Red Hot Lovers.

Theatre includes: Death of a Salesman (Winner of CATS award, Best Male Performer), Little Red and the Wolf, Witness for the Prosecution, Midsummer (a play with songs), The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil, The Winter’s Tale, Mince?, Changing Kevin’s Story and Cabaret (Dundee Rep). Flameproof (Traverse Theatre/Òran Mór/Aberdeen Performing Arts), White Gold and Cargo (Iron Oxide), Skewered Snails (Iron Oxide/London Southbank), The Adventures of Robin Hood and The Hunted (Visible Fictions), Blithe Spirit (Perth Theatre), Flower, Bird, Wind, Moon, Divided, The Book of Love, Short Spin and Wheesht! (Òran Mór), Some Other Mother by A J Taudevin (Tron Theatre), The Overcoat (winner of Best Actor in Stage Awards 2011), Continuous Growth and Preen Back Yer Lugs! (Ace Productions), A Clockwork Orange, Othello, Ghosts, The Sound of My Voice (winner of Best Actor in the Stage Awards 2009 and nominated for CATS Awards 2009), Peter Pan, Hamlet, Wee Fairy Tales, No Mean City, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui and The Twits (Citizens Theatre) and Look Back in Anger, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Romeo and Juliet (Stray Theatre).

Television and film include: Rab C Nesbitt (Comedy Unit/BBC), Bob Servant Independent (BBC), Garrow’s Law (Shed Productions/BBC), Scottish Killers (STV), The 39 Steps, Hope Springs, Dear Green Place, Empty, Legit, Still Game and Monarch of the Glen (BBC), Taggart - Pinnacle, The Royal and Taggart - Saints and Sinners (ITV) and Orphaned and Toll (independent films).

Michelle is a London born actress and graduate of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland; growing up singing in church is where Michelle first discovered her love for music and the arts.

Theatre includes: Deloris in Sister Act (Gordon Craig Theatre, Stevenage). Chantelle in Johnny McKnight’s Christmas Comedy, Miracle On 34 Parnie Street (Tron Theatre, Glasgow). Fortune Teller in Disney’s West End Aladdin (Prince Edward Theatre, London).

For Rapture: A Streetcar Named Desire and Shang-a-Lang.

Theatre includes: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Abigail’s Party and Two, as well as a whole heap of children’s theatre productions. Paul has also extensively worked in both developing and performing new writing.

TV/Film credits include: Broken (short), Fate (short), Taggart, and Buried Treasure (music video).

Radio work includes: A World Elsewhere: The Return, Looped and The Ballad of Banjo Moon all for BBC Radio Drama.

He is also a member of the professional development collective, The Tron 100, housed at the Tron Theatre, Glasgow.

For Rapture: A Streetcar Named Desire and Shang-a-Lang.

As a member of East Kilbride Rep Theatre Club, Gary has played numerous parts, including Billy in The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, Darnley in Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off, and Constable MacDonald in The Ladykillers.

Liz Drewett comes from a dramatic family – one of three daughters who all followed their mother’s footsteps treading the boards of Newport Playgoers in South Wales.

She has lived most of her adult life in Scotland, playing multiple roles for The Linlithgow Players, most recently Mary in The Memory of Water, Maisie in A Galway Girl and Mrs Lyons in Blood Brothers. She has also taken on directorial responsibilities for Three more Sleepless Nights and The Weir.

Liz has appeared at Eden Court Theatre in Inverness (A Night Under Canvas) and as Viola in What… You Will? on the RSC outdoor stage The Dell. Streetcar is her first professional production.

For Rapture: A Streetcar Named Desire, Democracy, All My Sons, Shang-a–Lang and Uncle Varick.

Theatre includes: Aladdin (Kings Theatre, Glasgow); Birdsong (Birdsong Productions); Sleeping Beauty (Towngate Theatre); Shadowlands (Birdsong Productions), Jack and The Beanstalk (Towngate Theatre) and Jack and The Beanstalk (Webster Theatre).

He is a graduate of Langside College in Glasgow.