Rapture Mini-Bites

John has had a long and illustrious career in television and stage. He is probably best known from his portrayal of Billy Corkhill in Brookside (C4) in the 1980s but has recently been seen on our screens in the popular series Emmerdale (ITV).

For Rapture: The Red Lion

Theatre includes: Things I Know to be True (Frantic Assembly/UK Tour), An Enemy of the People, World Premiere of Two by Jim Cartwright, playing alongside Sue Johnston (Bolton Octagon), Our Countries Good (Liverpool Playhouse), Brassed Off (York Theatre Royal/The Touring Consortium), The Crucible (Sheffield Crucible Theatre).

TV & Film include: New Tricks, Holby City, Merseybeat, The Case, Waking the Dead, Casualty (BBC), Prime Suspect 5, Vera, Law & Order (ITV). Film: There’s Only One Jimmy Grimble (2000) directed by John Hay.

Sarah is an Actress, Director and Dramaturg based in Glasgow.

She went to Warwick University & gained a BA Hons in English & Theatre Studies. She then trained at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama graduating with a Distinction. She is Associate Director of Witsherface; Board Member of Tidy Carnage & is proud to represent Actors on The Scottish Equity Committee.

Sarah has worked as an Actress for over 20 years in Film, TV, Theatre & Radio (BAFTA Scotland & IFTA). At the heart of what Sarah enjoys most is working with people. As well as her work in the creative industry, she also works as a Behavioural Coach in the public & private sectors. Her career path as both an Actress & Behavioural Coach, has informed her person centred approach as a Director. She has taught Acting for Camera at RCS; UWS & NLC.

As a Director previous work includes: Queen of the Road (Series 1- Radio); Lessons in Love & Fly Me To The Moon (PPP - Oran Mor); Various Witsherface shows (The Tramway/ Oran Mor/ The Tron/Websters Theatre) Out Of The Bad & Butterfly (Fairpley); Big Angie’s Big Day (Chips N Cheese/ Glasgow Arts).

Musical Director: REaD and Year Of The Hare.
Sarah has a passion for new writing & script development. She is also a Singer and two years ago braced herself & joined the Stand Up circuit in Glasgow! Writing, directing & performing with Witsherface has encouraged her to embrace all things involving comedy.

For Rapture: The Browning Version and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Recent Theatre includes: The Effect, Fiddler on the Roof, Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde, and The Cherry Orchard.

Theatre includes: Storm (Jermyn Street Theatre, London); Private Lives (Mercury Theatre; Colchester); Romeo & Juliet (Sheffield Crucible); Arcadia (Nottingham Playhouse); Hamlet (Secret Theatre; Edinburgh Fringe Festival); The Other Place (RADA); Witness for the Prosecution (Vienna English Theatre); Engaging Shaw (Vienna English Theatre); League of Youth, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Uri, Garage Band, The Price by Arthur Miller, I Have Been Here Before, Rat Pack Confidential, The Secret Garden (Nottingham Playhouse); Inherited Risk Factors (Writebites New Writing Festival); The “Lost Shakespeare” (Croydon Warehouse); Dick Barton and The Quantum of Porridge (Croydon Warehouse); On The Waterfront (Hong Kong Festival/Nottingham Playhouse/Edinburgh Fringe Festival); Century Plays (Worcester Swan Theatre); Shakespeare and His World (Southwark Literary Festival); The Light and the Dark (Southwark Literary Festival); Lady Windermere’s Fan (Ipswich Wolsey Theatre); Blood Brothers (Bill Kenwright Ltd); Rookery Nook, The Return of the Naïve, She Stoops To Conquer (Colchester Mercury Theatre); Speed The Plow, The Secret Rapture (Royal National Theatre); The Cabinet Minister (Duncan C Weldon Productions Ltd) and High Society (Noel Gray Ltd).

Television and Film credits include: Chameleon (October Films); Dance of a Killer (October Films)l The Sparticles Mystery (CBBC); The Bill (Pearson Thames) and Call the Midwife, Casualty (BBC).

Audio Work Includes: Deceit of Angels (BBC R4) and Animal Ark and Enid Blyton Mysteries (Hodder Audio Books).

Scott Kyle, is a Scottish actor, best known for his roles as Ross in Outlander, Clancy in The Angels' Share, and Corporal Stu Pearson in the film Kilo Two Bravo. Kyle received the 2010 Stage Awards Best Actor Award for his role in the play Singin' I'm No A Billy He's A Tim.

For Rapture: Uncle Varick, Hamlet and Gagrin Way.

Dave really enjoys touring, having cut his teeth with 7:84 and Wildcat, with whom he was musical director.

In recent years Dave's been concentrating on writing wee musicals, one of which, Tir an nOg, won Best New Musical in Edinburgh in 2007. His songs for The Steamie are being sung, somewhere, right now.

If your memory's good, you may have seen him in Gregory's Girl, City Lights and a fair few other films and tellies over the years.

Trained: Edinburgh University, Strathclyde University

For Rapture: All My Sons, Macbeth, Perfect Days, Shang-a-Lang, Assassins, Betrayal, Bold Girls, Speed the Plow, Simpatico, Boy Gets Girl, Richard III, Boston Marriage, Twisted, Proof and Hamlet.

Theatre Includes: The High School, The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil, A Night in the Ukraine, Teechers, The Steamie, Men Should Weep, The Cemetery Club, The London Vertigo, The Orchestra and Play it Again Sam.

Theatre Includes: Maim, Rough Mix, A War of Two Halves, The Strange Undoing Of Prudencia Hart, High Noon Saloon / Once Upon A Time In The West End, Granite, Mischief, Rough Mix, Spectretown, The Idiot at The Wall - Scottish Tour, The Idiot at The Wall, Extremities, Dial 'M' For Murder, The Pillowman, The Real Inspector Hound, Titus Andronicus, How He Lied To Her Husband, Macbeth, Twelfth Night, The Odd Couple, Resting In The Arms of Morpheus, Where Art Thou Brother?, The Bells, The Life and Death Of Tom Thumb The Great and Beyond The Sea.

Film, TV & Audio Includes: Riptide, How the Light Gets In, Armchair Detectives, The Box, When the Devil Drives, Where the Bodies Are Buried, Rainy Day, Real-Life Mallory, The Path Of Avarice, The Man In the Attic, Frolf and 14 Days

Theatre includes: Tron Theatre, Traverse Theatre, Lyceum Theatre, 7:84, NTS, RSC, Shakespeare’s Globe, National Theatre, Royal Court, Soho Theatre, Royal Exchange.

Television includes: Game Of Thrones, Being Human, Rebus, Murder Rooms, Brighton Boy, Holby City and Take The High Road.

Theatre includes: Story of the Guard Dog, Don Carlos, (NST,Rose Kingston), Richard III (Trafalgar Studios), Tamburlaine (Bristol Old Vic), Romeo & Juliet, Tamars Revenge, House of Desires, Pedro the Great Pretender, Lion Witch & the Wardrobe (RSC), 125th St Shaftesbury Theatre and The Merchant of Venice (Almeida Theatre).

Vinta recently shot a role on Grace Under Pressure (Sky).

Other screen credits include: Butterfly (ITV); Official Secrets (Raindog Films); Silent Witness and Casualty (both BBC).

Film credits: Official Secrets; What Happened to Monday and If It Be Love.

Robert is an established figure in the Scottish arts scene, with over ten years of experience in diverse roles including disability rights activist, actor and performer, writer, artistic director and advocate of equality of access to the arts for disabled people. Robert has appeared in many productions and has developed his own artistic practice – including instigating, co-writing and performing in Girl X for the National Theatre of Scotland, directed by Pol Heyvaert of Belgium’s Campo. His award-winning writing debut and solo performance – If These Spasms Could Speak – was a hit of the 2013 Made in Scotland programme and has subsequently toured internationally to countries including Brazil and India. Robert joined Birds of Paradise as Artistic Director in November 2012.

Harry graduated from LAMDA in 2018.

Harry has appeared in such TV programmes as Doctors, Moving On, All at Sea, Common and Massive (BBC).

The Red Lion was Harry’s professional stage debut.

Recent Theatre: Sting’s The Last Ship (UK Tour and Toronto) nominated for a UK theatre Award - Best Performance in a musical.

Other theatre includes: Two Noble Kinsmen, The Rover, The Christmas Truce, Love’s Labours Lost, Love’s Labours Won - RSC. A Christmas Carol (The Old Vic); Big Fish (The Other Palace); Punishment Without Revenge/A Lady of Little Sense (Ustinov/ Arcola) nominated for The Ian Charleston award. The Mother - Kiln Theatre 20th Anniversary Gala performance of Les Miserables (West End)

TV credits: Stigma (web series)

Radio credits: Fifteen Minute Live (Slung Low)

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.

For Rapture: The Collection

Theatre includes: Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaites (Linlithgow Palace); Found At Sea (Traverse); The Last Polar Bears, Venus As A Boy, Tutti Frutti (National Theatre of Scotland); Year Of The Horse (Tron & Edinburgh Fringe); The Cutting Room, Venice Preserved, The Cherry Orchard, Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme, Scrooge, Peer Gynt, The Pleasure Man (Glasgow Citizens); Filth (Citizens, National Tour and Calgary, Canada); Platonov (Almeida); Berkoff’s Messiah (Edinburgh Assembly and You’ll Have Had Your Hole (West Yorkshire Playhouse & London Astoria).

Television includes: The Borgias, Bedlam; River City, Taggart, Holby City, Helen West and Longford.

As part of the Commonwealth Games Cultural Programme, Tam travelled round Scotland by bike on the Julia Donaldson Storytelling Cycle Challenge.

Trained at Queen Margaret College, Edinburgh.

10 seasons for Pitlochry Festival Theatre, seasons at Edinburgh Royal Lyceum, Perth Rep, Brunton Theatre, Glasgow Citizens, Oran Mor, The Scottish Theatre Company, and the Byre Theatre St. Andrews.

Touring productions include: Descent; The Cone Gatherers; The Mysterious Death of Netta Fornario; Singing Far Into The Night; Blue/Orange; Kevin’s Bed; Oleanna, Macbeth, and Frankenstein. Appearances in London’s West End, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (Piccadilly Theatre) and The Deep Blue Sea (Haymarket).

Television credits include: Outlander,Taggart, River City, Still Game, and Dr Finlay, and he has been heard many times on BBC Radio 4

Pauline Turner trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art and has worked extensively in theatre, film, television and voice-over.

For Rapture: All My Sons, The Last Yankee and The Collection.

Theatre includes: Mill on the Floss (Shared Experience/international tour/West End), The Unconquered (Stellar Quines Theatre Company), Freedom Play (Southbank Centre/London Literature Festival), Top Girls (Citizens Theatre), Measure for Measure (Peter Hall Company/RSC), Sun Is Shining (BAC/Brits off Broadway Festival, NYC), Bring Me Sunshine (Manchester Royal Exchange), One Million Tiny Plays About Britain (Citizens Theatre/Edinburgh Festival) and Emma (Watford Palace Theatre).
Film and TV credits include: Young Adam (Warner Bros/Hanway), Two Thousand Acres of Sky (BBC), Martin Chuzzlewit (BBC/WGBH Boston), Casualty (BBC), Goodnight Mister Tom (ITV/Carlton), Bad Boys (BBC), Taggart (STV), Cuffs (BBC/Tiger Aspect) and The Key (BBC).

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).

Emyr is the Executive Director of North East Arts Touring. Originally from Felindre, a small mining village on the outskirt of Swansea. Emyr studied theatre at Trinity College, Carmarthen after which he spent 7 years as a Resident Actor/Teacher at Theatre Powys before returning to the world of the jobbing actor, working through the medium of both Welsh and English. During which time he worked with Theatr Clwyd, Cwmni Theatr Arad Goch, Theatr Iolo and Big Brum Theatre Company. Emyr has recorded several radio plays for BBC Cymru and appeared in a number of Welsh language television series for S4C.

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.

Valerie Gogan trained at LAMDA and has worked extensively in theatre, film and television.

For Raptue: Shang-a-Lang and Hamlet.

Theatre includes: The Secret Rapture, He Who Saw Everything (National Theatre), Worlds Apart (Royal Shakespeare Company), Love’s Labours Lost (Manchester Royal Exchange), The Dolls House and Abigail’s Party (Theatre Clwyd), When Is a Clock (Grey Light Prods.), A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, Pericles, The Winter’s Tale and Clothe the Naked (Leicester Haymarket), Widowers’ Houses (Palace Theatre, Watford), In Flame (Bush Theatre), Arden of Faversham (Old Red Lion ), Warm (Theatre 503). In the West End she has appeared in Les Liasons Dangereuses (Ambassadors Theatre) and The Rehearsal (Almeida/The Garrick Theatre). Most recently she was in N.F. Simpson’s final play, If So, Then Yes (Jermyn Street Theatre).

Films include: Dangerous Liasons, One More Kiss, As You Like it, The Jealous Sister, I am Dead, Animal, Honey and Razorblades and Junkhearts.

Television includes: Hamish MacBeth, Heart of the High Country, David Copperfield, Gawain and the Green Knight, Arriverderci Millwall, The Mrs Bradley Mysteries, Silent Witness, Gertrude in the BBC’s Prefaces to Shakespeare and most recently 50 Ways to Kill Your Lover.

Ashley trained at RCS (formerly RSAMD) and has toured extensively in Scotland as well as performing in London and New York since graduating in 2008 as the gold medal winner. She has worked with NTS, Catherine Wheels, The Traverse and Citizens theatres amongst many more and can be seen in the TV comedy series Scot Squad.

For Rapture: Uncle Varick and The Sash.

Trained: Manchester Polytechnic School of Theatre.

For Rapture: Shang a Lang and Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune.

Theatre Includes: Three Sisters (Oran Mor), As You Like It, The Comedy of Errors, Six Black Candles (Royal Lyceum), Don Juan (Theatre Babel), Othello, Brighton Beach Memoirs (Byre Theatre), American Bagpipes (Brunton) I Licked a Slags Deodrant (Arches/Staatsteater, Stockholm), Bondagers (Traverse Theatre/Toronto World Stage Festival), David Copperfield (Dundee Rep).

TV and Film Includes: River City (Shona McIntyre - Roisin’s Middle Sister) Taggart (STV), Velvet Soup (BBC - BAFTA nominated best performance), Being Victor, Waterloo Road (Shed), Revolver (BBC), Tumshie McFadeon’s Bid for Ultimate Bliss (Tartan Short).

Radio Includes: The Sensitive (Series), There Are Such Things, Nude Untitled, Me and Ma Gal (BBC Radio 4), A Click Away (Tumeric Media for BBC Radio Scotland) and The Velvet Cabaret Comedy Sketch show series for BBC Radio Scotland.

Brendan was born in Manchester and lives in Cardiff.

For Rapture: The Red Lion

Theatre includes: Uncle Vanya (Theatre Clwyd and Sheffield Crucible); Insignificance, Glengarry Glen Ross, Dancing at Lughnasa, The Herbal Bed, Aristocrats, Under Milk Wood (UK tour), Measure for Measure, Roots, To Kill a Mockingbird (UK tour) and Arden of Faversham (Theatre Clwyd); Bus Stop, Diana of Dobson’s, and Talent (The New Vic Stoke); The Accrington Pals (Manchester Royal Exchange); The Rise and Fall of Little Voice (West
Yorkshire Playhouse and Birmingham Rep); and Coriolanus (National Theatre of Wales).

Film and TV include: Green Street, Killer Elite, Londongrad, Coronation Street, Waking the Dead, Casualty, Dalziel and Pascoe, The Palace, Doctors, Living It, Tracy Beaker, and Torchwood.

Radio and Voice Over include: Young Peter and Dangerous Visions for BBC 4, and The Animated Shakespeares - Richard lll and Romeo and Juliet.

Jimmy is a well-known face to regular theatre-goers in Scotland, as during his forty year career, he has appeared in almost every Scottish theatre in existence and a few which are, sadly, no more. An Inverness boy, Jimmy trained at Queen Margaret College in Edinburgh before going on to enjoy an extensive career in Theatre, TV, Film, and Radio. His love of acting has never diminished.

For Rapture: Uncle Varick, Blue Orange, Gagarin Way and The Collection (2013, 2006).

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).

Benjamin trained at The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA).

Theatre includes: The 39 Steps (Lyric Theatre Belfast), Potted Potter (World Tour), This Is Elvis (UK and Ireland Tour), The Navigator (Phoenix Theatre, West End), Beau Jest (Vienna’s English Theatre), The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare Abridged: Revised (Reduced Shakespeare Company, West End & UK tour), The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Broadway Theatre, Catford), Rent (Greenwich Theatre), Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth (The Dell, RSC).

Theatre includes: The Last Ship, Toronto; Coriolanus, RSC; Private Lives, Hay Fever, Taking Steps - Oldham Coliseum; After Mrs Rochester - Duke of York’s; Oh What A Lovely War! - National Theatre; Abigail’s Party - Curve Theatre; Peribanez - Young Vic; When We Are Married - Savoy Theatre; The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Strand Theatre; Midsummer Night’s Dream - ESC; The Hypochondriac - West Yorkshire Playhouse; What Every Woman Knows, Candida - Stephen Joseph Theatre; Othello, A Bunch of Amateurs - Watermill Theatre; Cowardy Custard - Perth Rep.

TV includes: Holby City, Casualty, East Enders - BBC; Black Earth Rising - Netflix/BBC; Coronation Street, Midsommer Murders, Ultimate Force, Dr Finlay, Doctors, Little Miss Jocely and Absolutely.

Jackie has sung in theatres throughout Scotland with her father Peter Morrison and brother Richard Morrison in shows such as Gala Music Night, Rodgers and Hammerstein - The Shows, The Story, Spread A Little Happiness, Broadway and Beyond to name a few.

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).

Theatre includes: On The Waterfront (West End and Hong Kong); Rough Music (Kings Head).

Televison includes: Whitechapel (ITV); House of Anubis (Lime Pictures); Father Brown (BBC); Silent Witness (BBC); Casualty (BBC); Walking the Dog (Sky Arts); Luther (BBC); The Shadow Line (BBC); Doctors (BBC); Law and Order (ITV); Survivors (BBC); Waking the Dead (BBC); Totally Frank (Channel 4)

Film includes: The African Game (Dania Films); Sold (Broco Media)

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.

After graduating from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Paul became a leading actor for the Glasgow Citizens Theatre over a period of ten years, playing such roles as Jimmy Porter, Jean in Miss Julie, Lenny in the Homecoming, Nero in Britannicus and Joey in Pal Joey.

For Rapture: The Browning Version, Betrayal and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Other theatre roles include: Beauty Smith in White Fang, Bert Barricune in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (Both at the Park Theatre); Don Antonio in The Rover (Hampton Court); Phil in The People Next Door (Theatre Royal Stratford East); Baz in Damages (The Bush Theatre); Carl in Carver (The Arcola) and Daniel in The Little Pony (Cervantes Theatre).

Recent Screen work include Extras with Ricky Gervais, Sherlock, Love Soup, Holby City, Heartbeat, Coronation Street, All at Sea and feature films The Honourable Rebel, Excalibur Rising, The Great Director and Radioactive.

He is also a voice actor and recently won Best Male Performance in a Radio Drama at the 2018 One Voice Awards.

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!

For Rapture: The Last Yankee, The Sash and Last of the Red Hot Lovers.

Jane is probably best known for the role of ‘Isa’ in the hit BBC Scotland comedy Still Game and by younger audiences as ‘Granny Murray’ in CBeebies hit Me Too.
Theatre includes: The Cameo (Oran Mor), Still Game Live (SSE Hydro) The Guid Sisters (NTS/Royal Lyceum) The Steamie, The Corstorphine Road Nativity (Festival Theatre) The Wizard of Oz (Citizens Theatre) and Motherhood (Robert C Kelly).

TV credits include: Burnistoun Big Night Out, Still Game (series 1-6), Rab C. Nesbitt, The Sunny, Freshly Squeezed, The Baldy Man and Para Handy.

Film credits Include: Jim the Fish and Goon.

Panto credits include: Cinderella (The Beacon), Cinderella and Aladdin (Kings Theatre, Glasgow), Jack and the Beanstalk and Cinderella (Alhambra), Cinderella (Palace Theatre, Kilmarnock) and Pinocchio (Pavilion).

For Rapture: The Browning Version

Michael has earned his living as an actor for over 50 years. Trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, he moved back to Scotland in 1974 for the first of many seasons at Pitlochry, and has played leading roles there and at most Scottish theatre ever since. He has appeared in films, on radio and on television, starting in 1970 as Tarot in Ace of Wands, and more recently as the pathologist Dr. Magnus Baird in Taggart and as Alasdair Quinn in River City. He now lives in Biggar, 3 miles from where he was first brought up and near his son James, also an actor, and his family.

Dylan graduated from Motherwell College in 2017 with a 1st Class Honours in Acting. His professional debut came in the same year, playing Lucius in Timon of Athens with Bard in the Botanics. He has since returned to the company to play the title role in Romeo and Juliet, and Claudio in Much Ado About Nothing.

Other credits include Hopscotch Theatre’s tour of Aladdin, the STARZ series Outlander, BBC One’s Armchair Detectives and various short film developments with the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

Jo trained at the RCS

Theatre includes: House of Bernarda Alba, Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off, Our Teacher’s a Troll, Submarine Time Machine, Let The Right One In (National Theatre of Scotland); Bingo! The Musical (Stella Quines); Sunshine on Leith, The Witches, Midsummer, Much Ado About Nothing, The Cheviot, The Stag and The Black, Black Oil (Dundee Rep); Trumpets and Raspberries, Cinderella (The Royal Lyceum); Little Shop of Horrors, Absurd Person Singular, Communicating Doors, Amadeus (Pitlochry Festival Theatre); Seanmhair (The Other Room); Slick, How to Steal a Diamond (Vox Motus) and Trainspotting (York Theatre Royal).

TV includes: Emmerdale (ITV); River City, Doctors and Scot Squad (BBC).