The Twelve Pound Look

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.

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).

Julia has worked extensively in theatre.

Theatre includes: Mrs Thatcher in Handbagged (Theatre by the Lake, Keswick), Leonato in an all-female Much Ado About Nothing (Watford Palace), Arkadina in The Seagull (Theatre Royal, York/National Conservatoire of Scotland), Esme in Amy’s View (Nottingham Playhouse)

TV includes: Best known for playing Dr Baz on and off for 18 years in Casualty. Other TV includes: Midsummer Murders, Touch of Frost and Doctors.

In 2017 Julia spent two weeks in Paisley for the Bollywood film Baar Baar Dekho.
She has edited three anthologies, Poems and Reading for Weddings, Poems and Reading for Funerals and Poems and Readings for Christenings and Naming Ceremonies with Penguin Books.

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.