Our re-imagined production of the seminal Belfast-set play Bold Girls, directed by Michael Duke, will be staged at Lanternhouse from 24 September to 1 October, with casting announced today.
Photographed: Pauline Goldsmith (top left), Julie Martis (top right), Leigh Lothian (bottom left), Katya Searle (bottom right)
Pauline Goldsmith
Nora
Pauline hails from Belfast and lives in Glasgow. She creates her own comedy shows, including Bright Colours Only, which she toured internationally in a hearse. Pauline is a double nominee of The Stage Best Actress Award, which she won for Samuel Beckett’s Not I. Most recent theatre credits include Muster Station: Leith at the Edinburgh International Festival (Grid Iron), Hang (Tron Theatre), Interiors (Vanishing Point), the Olivier Award winning Baby Reindeer, The House (American Absurdum), and Eidolon (Beverley Hood). She is a creative associate of Vanishing Point Theatre.
Julie Martis
Marie
Julie Martis is an actor from Glasgow. Recent theatre credits include Retribution Day, with Blueberry Goose Theatre, Bright Azzurro Sea with Lumenis Theatre, and Henry IV Part 1 – The Show Must Go Online.
Screen credits include Till The Violets Come, with Mothcatcher Films, and the highly acclaimed short film ‘A Boy’s Life’.
Leigh Lothian
Cassie
Leigh is originally from Scotland and trained at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts.
Theatre Credits Include: Collet in The Da Vinci Code (UK Tour), Ruth Connors/Buckley ‘The Lovely Bones’ (Birmingham Rep/UK Tour), Alternate Carole King ‘Beautiful: The Carole King Musical’ (Aldwych Theatre/UK Tour), Jennie Liddell ‘Chariots of Fire’ (Gielgud Theatre), Kate Monster/Lucy ‘Avenue Q’ (Gatehouse Theatre), Kate Mair ‘The Flouers O’Edinburgh’ (Finborough Theatre), Mabel ‘Selkie’ (Southwark Playhouse), The Beautiful Game (Union Theatre) and Old Goat Song (Lion and Unicorn Theatre).
Workshops Include: ‘Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour’ (National Theatre of Scotland/Royal Court), ‘Lager Ladies’ (National Theatre of Scotland), ‘Being Groucho’ (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane).
TV and Film Include: Chorus Girl in Nolly (ITV).
Katya Searle
Dierdre
Katya Searle is a recent graduate from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland where she studied on the BA Acting programme During Katya’s time training, she has performed in Macbeth, Parliament Square and Takin’ Over The Asylum. She is thrilled to be joining the cast of Bold Girls in her professional Debut.
Katya was a finalist in the BBC’s Carlton Hobbs competition. She also received the Charles Brooke Memorial Prize for speaking in Scots.
Cumbernauld Theatre Trust is seeking multiple Trustees including a new Chair of the Board. This is an exciting opportunity to shape the future of one of Scotland’s leading producing theatres with a vibrant portfolio of professional in-house and visiting theatre, music, dance, comedy, cinema and community engagement. We are a performing arts charity with an appetite for change and growth and are looking for Trustees who are passionate about theatre and believe in its transformative and empowering potential.
30 Jan 2023
This week we welcome MHz and collaborator Hannah Finn in residency at Lanternhouse to work on their latest project [dream] ENGINE. This new work, produced by Feral Arts, harnesses the ethereal quality of dreams through immersive AV, somatic sound fields and the art of contortion.
17 Jan 2023
Led by Amanda Glover and Fraser Morrison, Operation: LEGACY is a community project, in which young writers, devisors and performers are invited to create a piece of performance work which will be showcased in our Main Auditorium. We will collaborate with a local composer/musician and a movement director to explore the wealth of storytelling possibilities which this topic brings to the table.
22 Dec 2022