Democracy

For Rapture: The Browning Version and Democracy

Theatre includes: War Horse and Gypsy (West End), Network, Guys and Dolls and Not about Nightingales (National Theatre); A Raisin in the Sun, The Seagull and Wit (Royal Exchange, Manchester); Death of a Salesman and The Graduate (West Yorkshire Playhouse); The Price and Inherit the Wind (New Vic, Stoke); Arcadia (The Duke of York, London); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Comedy of Errors and The Histories (RSC); ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore (The Young Vic); Richard III and The Music Man (Regent’s Park.

TV includes: Emmerdale, Suspicion, Hustle, Life Begins, Hawking, Monarch of the Glen, Peak Practice and The Bill.

Film includes: Hanna, Spy Games, Red 2 and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.

Neil trained at Central School of Speech and Drama.

Theatre includes: Macbeth and The Comedy of Errors (Royal Shakespeare Company), The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Wind in the Willows, The Trackers of Oxyrynchus and Strangeways (Royal National Theatre), The Front Page (Donmar Warehouse), Julius Caesar and Much Ado about Nothing (Regents Park Open Air Theatre), Waterland (Shaw Theatre), Othello (Watermill), Life is a Dream (West Yorkshire Playhouse), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Chester Gateway), Posh (Nottingham Playhouse), The Warehouse, The Servant of Two Masters, Breezeblock Park, The Odd Couple, Flint Street Nativity, The Misanthrope and The Hypochondriac (Liverpool Playhouse), Juno and The Paycock (Bristol Old Vic), Hope Place, Twelfth Night, Macbeth, Billy Wonderful and Unprotected (Liverpool Everyman), Accidental Death of an Anarchist (Northern Broadsides), Dancing at Lughnasa, Time and the Conways and Bouncers (Salisbury Playhouse), Blood Brothers, Drum’s in the Night, The Canterbury Tales and No More Sitting on the Old School Bench (Library Theatre), Stags & Hens (Hornchurch), Touched and The Railway Children (Oldham Coliseum), Two, Lost Soul, On the Ledge and Funny Money (Royal Court, Liverpool).

Television includes: Justice, Holby City, Doctors, The Bill, Brookside (2000 – 2003), Far from the Madding Crowd, Cadfael, The Bullion Boys, Coronation Street, Lee & Herrings Fist of Fun, Casualty.
Film includes: Best, Out of Depth and Rebecca’s Daughters.

Radio: Over twenty plays for BBC Radio 4, The Morning Story and Weekending (regular 1989-90).
Neil has also worked as Director at Merseyside Community Theatre. Works include The Winter’s Tale (Birkenhead Park 2008) and Romeo & Juliet (Croxteth Fire Station 2010).

Sean trained at the Drama Centre, London.

Probably best known to television audiences as Ferryman Gordon MacPhee in Two Thousand Acres of Sky, and as Joe the boxing coach in River City, and for those with longer memories for Rab C Nesbitt and Tales Of Para Handy, Sean has a long and distinguished career in theatre, film, TV and radio.
Theatre includes: Macbeth (Perth Rep), The Authorised Kate Bane (Grid Iron), The Brother’s Keeper (Oran Mor), The Hard Man (Tron), Educating Agnes, Strangers Babies, One Day All This Will Come to Nothing (Traverse), The Entertainer (as Archie Rice, Glasgow Citizens), The Weir (No.1 Tour), The Life of Stuff (Donmar), Hedda Gabler (as Judge Brack, directed by Michael Boyd). A well-established panto performer, appearances include Captain Hook in Peter Pan (Glasgow Pavilion) and King Crumble in Jack & The Beanstalk (Glasgow SECC). Sean has also made several appearances with Glasgow’s noted Oran Mor Theatre, most recently in The Garden by Zinnie Harris.

Film includes: Whiskey Galore (WGTM), The Near Room (British Screen), Prisoner of Honour (Warner Brothers), The Phantom of the Opera (Columbia Pictures), Forbidden Flaws, The Big Man, A Sense of Freedom (Handmade Films), My Life So Far (Enigma Films) and the award winning short Flung for Glasgow Media.
Television: His extensive television career includes leading appearances in Consenting Adults (The Wolfenden Enquiry), Two Thousand Acres Of Sky, My Family, Rebus, Heartbeat, Monarch of The Glen, Taggart, The Bill, Kavanagh QC, Ebbtide, Call Red, Rab C Nesbitt, Tumbledown, Ellington, Bergerac, Sherlock Holmes and the acclaimed YTV series The Beiderbecke Connection. Sean created the regular character Dougie in the Scottish Drama, Tales of Para Handy and has recently been seen as series regular Captain Olsen in Katie Morag for CBeebies.

Radio: Sean is a regular contributor to Radio 4 and Radio Scotland drama with leading roles in series such as Daunt & Dervish, McLevy, Boxer & Doberman, The Name Of The Rose, and 3 series of the comedy Fags, Mags & Bags. Recent single dramas include The Grand, Happy Hour, I Am I Said, The Seagull, Meryl The Mounted, The Last Variety Show, The Knox Factor and Never The Bride. Sean was a regular on the first major BBC Glasgow Drama series entitled Saturday, Sunday, Monday and is a regular contributor to readings such as With Great Pleasure.

Colin McCredie grew up in Perth and trained at the RSAMD. He is best known for playing DC Fraser in over 75 episodes of Taggart for STV.

Theatre includes: Dear Scotland for the National Theatre of Scotland, Thank You and The Ching Room for A Play, A Pie & A Pint and Ian Pattison’s I,Tommy at the Edinburgh Fringe & Kings Theatre, Glasgow.

Television: He has also appeared in Outlander (Sony Pictures Television), River City, The Missing Postman (BBC Scotland), Doctor Finlay (STV) and CBeebies’ Woolly & Tig.

Film: Colin has also appeared in the feature films Shallow Grave and Small Faces.

Trained at RSAMD.

For Rapture: Democracy and All My Sons.

Theatre includes: A Mad World, My Masters (R.S.C. & E.T.T.), Roaring Girl, The White Devil And The Witch Of Edmonton (R.S.C.), Macbeth, Twelfth Night and Cinderella (Perth Rep), Lady M (Theatre Jezebel), Sunshine On Leith (Dundee Rep), Hoors (Traverse and Tron), The Triumph of Love (Royal Exchange Manchester), Mother Goose and Pinocchio (Adam Smith Theatre), What Every Woman Knows (Royal Exchange Manchester), The Found Man (Traverse Theatre), Gagarin Way (Traverse Theatre/Royal National Theatre), Stroma (Tag Theatre Co.), Passing Places (Greenwich & Derby), Junk (Oxford Stage Co.), The Country Wife (Bridewell Theatre) and Macbeth (Chester Gateway).

Television includes: Scots Squad, Doctors, Bob Servant Independent, Pete v Life, Gary: Tank Commander, Seven Wonders of the Industrial World – Bell Rock Lighthouse, Murder Prevention, The Bill, Monarch of the Glen, Casualty, A Touch of Frost, Magic With Everything and This Life.

Film includes: Under The Skin (Film Four) Filth (Steel Mill Pictures) New Town Killers (NTK Films), Sixteen Years of Alcohol (Tartan Films), A Time to Love (Hungry Eye) and The Trench (Portman Films).

For Rapture: Clybourne Park and Democracy.

Theatre includes: Warhorse (National Theatre); West Side Story (Royal Exchange, Manchester); Romeo & Juliet, Kes (Leeds Playhouse); Kiss Me Quickstep ( New Vic Theatre ); The Winter’s Tale (Northern Broadsides); Mist in the Mirror (Oldham Coliseum/National Tour); Rock of Ages (Ambassador Theatre Group – Tour); Accidental Death of an Anarchist (Oldham Coliseum); The Jungle Book (Citizen Theatre, Glasgow); Crime and Punishment (Citizen Theatre, Glasgow); Cooking with Elvis (Derby Theatre); Wind in the Willows (West Yorkshire Playhouse) and A Midsummer’s Night Dream/Macbeth (Royal Court, Liverpool).

Television and Film includes: Eternal Law (Kudos); Waterloo Road (Shed Productions); The Street (ITV Granada); Pierrepoint (Granada Films); Coronation Street (ITV Granada); Cold Feet (ITV Granada); Emmerdale (ITV Yorkshire); North Square (Channel 4).

For Rapture: Democracy, The Last Yankee, All My Sons, Shang a Lang, The Collection, Broken Glass and The Sash.

Theatres includes: National Theatre, Mermaid Theatre, Citizen’s Theatre, Bristol Old Vic, Scottish Opera, Paine’s Plough, 7:84, Tron Theatre, Borderline, Theatre Babel, TAG, Oran Mor and also in Dogstar Theatre’s international hit, Factor 9.

Stewart was nominated for Best UK Actor 2003 for his performance in The Fever at the Citizen’s Theatre. He has appeared throughout the UK on stage, TV, Film and Radio.

Television includes: River City, Shetland, Tutti Frutti, Taggart, Down Where the Buffalo Go, Tumbledown, The Bill, Hamish Macbeth, Jeeves and Wooster, Boon, Young Person’s Guide to Becoming a Rockstar, Take the High Road and many many others.

Alan has worked extensively in theatres including the Royal Lyceum, Glasgow Citizens and Perth Rep.

Theatre includes: Dracula (Courtyard, Hereford), appeared in Pilate and the one man show Backstage at the Pussykat Club (The Arches, Glasgow), 54% Acrylic (Firebrand), Taking Sides, Dr Angelus and Good Things (Leon Sinden Award at Pitlochry Festival Theatre), A Taste Of Honey and The Crucible (NTS), Hamlet (Rapture) and toured the highlands and islands in several shows including Art, The Weir, The Beauty Queen Of Leenane, The Lonesome West and the title roles in Macbeth and Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde (Mull Theatre). He has also played Gil Martin, the devil, in a highly acclaimed production of Confessions Of A Justified Sinner (Rowan Tree), a role he reprised on BBC Radio 4.

Most recently Alan appeared in The Angel And The Manse (Oran Mhor), Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Merchant Of Venice and Coriolanus (Bard In The Botanics) and Cinderella at The Byre, St Andrews.

Television includes: Taggart, River City, and the title role of John Knox in the BBC’s The Sword And The Cross.

Jim Kitson is from Newport in South Wales.

Theatre includes: Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare’s Globe), The Drowned Man (Punchdrunk/National Theatre), Richard III, King John, Tyneside Tales (Royal Shakespeare Company), To Kill A Mockingbird (Manchester Royal Exchange), A Walk On Part: The Slow Fall Of New Labour (Soho Theatre), What Happened Is This (Tron, Glasgow), Noir, The Taxi Driver’s Daughter, (Live Theatre, Newcastle), Office Party (Hull Truck), Son Of Man, Animal Farm, Edmond, Glengarry Glen Ross (Northern Stage), Treasure Island (Dukes, Lancaster), The Grapes Of Wrath (Mercury, Colchester), and The New Tenant (Hungarian State Theatre, Cluj, Romania).

Television includes: Vera, Emmerdale, Joe Maddison’s War, Inspector George Gently, Tracy Beaker Returns and Byker Grove.
Jim had a minor pop career in the 90’s with his band The Senators and continues to make albums under the name Frank Finighan. He has composed and worked as a Musical Director on shows for Northern Stage, Live Theatre, NTC touring theatre and Theatre sans Frontieres. He has also written and directed several short films. He quite likes entomology and tanks.

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.