Shang A Lang

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.

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.

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.

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.

Theatre includes: The Taming of the Shrew, Lysistrata, Angels & Take Me If You Need Me (Play, Pie, Pint), Breaker (Underbelly), Romeo & Juliet, Blood Wedding (Citizens Theatre) The Slab Boys Trilogy, Strangers, Babies (Traverse Theatre) My Romantic History (Bush/Sheffield Crucible) The Tempest (Sheffield Crucible/Old Vic), The Good Hope, The Winter’s Tale, The Mysteries Trilogy (Royal National Theatre) Confessions of a Justified Sinner (Lyceum Edinburgh) and Takin’ Over the Asylum (Lyceum/Citizens)

Film & Television include: Small Faces, The Debt Collector, Plunkett & MacLeane, The Contractor, Basic Instinct 2, Collider, Acts of Godfrey, DCI Banks, Band of Brothers, Sea of Souls, Bramwell, Silent Witness, The Bill, Grange Hill, Gunpowder Treason & Plot, Kavanagh QC, Rubenesque, Shetland and Rab C. Nesbitt

Iain was nominated for Best Male Performance at the Scottish Critics’ Awards and has been nominated twice for the Ian Charleson Award and has received a Scottish BAFTA for Small Faces.

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.

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.

For Rapture: Shang a Lang, Assassins, Richard III and Mr Peters’ Connections.

She has also in recent years worked with TRAMdirect Theatre Company (The Likes of Us and Victorian Christmas) and Sonic Boom Theatre (No Time Has Passed in Hippoland)

Her most recent roles have been as Vi in Steaming (Govanhill Baths - Southside Festival) and as Mae in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Eastwood Theatre).