Claire Lamont

Playing Claire

Claire Lamont is an Actor and Theatre Maker from Belfast, Northern Ireland.  Claire trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama graduating in 2001. Claire has since worked as an Actor, Director and Theatre Maker with a variety of companies in Scotland, the UK and Internationally. Claire led the BA Performance course in BSL and English from its inception in 2015 until 2022 and is currently an Associate Director (ENGAGE) with Dundee Rep and Scottish Dance Theatre.

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Sam Stopford

Playing The Boy

Sam Stopford is a graduate of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. 

His credits include: Measure for Measure; Hedda Gabler; Henry IV, Lear’s Fool; Jekyll and Hyde; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Much Ado About Nothing (all Bard in the Botanics); Faye’s Red Lines; Sally (both A Play, a Pie and a Pint); Alfold (Glasgow Citizen’s); The Metamorphosis (Vanishing Point); Middletown, The Lost Elves, Cymbeline, The Breathing House, The Seagull, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (all RCS).

Sam is the recipient of the James Bridie Gold Medal for the best performance in BA Acting, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland 2020, Winner of the Duncan Macrae Competition prize 2019  and recipient of the Arnold Fleming Scholarship.

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David Greig

David Greig is a multi award-winning playwright who became the Artistic Director of the Royal Lyceum Edinburgh in 2015.  David’s most notable plays include The Events, The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart, Midsummer, Dunsinane and Europe.  More recently, David’s new stage adaptation of Solaris, based on Stanislaw Lem’s 1961 soviet science fiction novel, was co-produced by The Lyceum, Malthouse Theatre in Melbourne Australia and The Lyric Hammersmith.  In 2019 David teamed up with original creators Bill Forsyth and Mark Knopfler to adapt the international hit film Local Hero for the stage which premiered in Edinburgh.  David’s new stage adaptation of Joe Simpson’s best-selling 1988 memoir Touching the Void, which was co-produced by The Lyceum and Bristol Old Vic, enjoyed a run at The Duke of York in London’s West End in 2019/20.  His other adaptations include Strindberg’s Creditors (2018) andAeschylus’ The Suppliant Women (2016) The Lorax (2015).  David wrote the book for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, which opened in the West End in 2013 and then transferred to Broadway in 2017.

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Jack Nurse

Director

Jack is a director and theatre-maker. He co-founded Glasgow-based theatre company Wonder Fools in 2014.

Jack was recently an Origins Artist with Headlong (2021-2) and is currently Creative Engagement Director at the Ayr Gaiety, Artist in Residence (Creative Development) at the Traverse Theatre and artistic lead of the international participatory project Positive Stories for Negative Times.

Training: Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and the National Theatre Studio Directors’ Course.

As Director/Writer:

549: Scots of the Spanish Civil War, The Coolidge Effect (Wonder Fools); When the Sun Meets the Sky (Traverse Theatre/Capital Theatres)

As Director:

And Then Come the Nightjars (Wonder Fools); Lampedusa (Citizens Theatre/Wonder Fools); Meet Jan Black(Wonder Fools/Ayr Gaiety); The Essence of the Job is Speed (Almeida Theatre); Larchview (National Theatre of Scotland); The Lost Elves (Citizens Theatre/RCS); The Mack, The Storm (Play, Pie, Pint/Traverse Theatre).

As Associate/Assistant Director:

Red Dust Road (National Theatre of Scotland/HOME); The Broons (Sell A Door); Dr Dolittle (Music & Lyrics); Oresteia: This Restless House (Citizens Theatre/National Theatre of Scotland), Blackbird (Citizens Theatre); The Winter’s Tale (Royal Lyceum); Hay Fever (Royal Lyceum/Citizens Theatre).

www.jacknurse.com

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John Browne

Composer

John is an Irish composer living in London composing for theatre, opera, and choirs. Operas include Babette’s Feast and Demon Juice for the Royal Opera House, and The Early Earth Operas for English National Opera. Recent choral work includes music for Westminster Abbey, The Choir of King’s College London, Southbank Centre and the band Elbow. Theatre work includes creating The Mother’s Ring a music-theatre piece with survivors of the genocide in Rwanda and The Suppliant Women at The Young Vic Theatre and Hong Kong International Festival.

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Clare Howarth

Choir Director

Clare studied Music at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. She graduated with an M.A in musical studies. After Qualifying, Clare moved to Italy to study Opera at the Conservertoire in Rome. She then performed as a Soprano at the ‘Teatro Di Opera Di Roma’. Clare has sung with Scottish Opera, English National Opera and Opera North. She is the Musical Director of  Stepps Songsters and for the past 20 years has also been a Choral instructor in Schools throughout North Lanarkshire.

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Becky Minto

Set & Costume Designer

Becky has been designing for over 25 years, her work covers main house productions, large scale touring, for companies including Raw Material Arts, National Theatre of Scotland, Traverse Theatre, Perth Theatre and Concert Hall, Vanishing Point, Dundee Rep Theatre, Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Tron Theatre, Visible Fictions; aerial and circus indoor and outdoor productions, multiple site-specific designs and large outdoor ceremonies.

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Lizzie Powell

Lighting Designer

Lizzie Powell is a Lighting Designer working internationally in theatre and opera.

Her credits in theatre include: The Fifth Step, Thrown, Orphans, Red Dust Road, Adam, Knives in Hens, Venus As A Boy (National Theatre of Scotland); There’s a Place (Perth Theatre and Concert Hall); Robin Red Breast (Factory International Manchester); The Outrun (Edinburgh Lyceum Theatre); Theatre Macbeth – An Undoing (Edinburgh Lyceum Theatre/ Rose Theatre/ Kingston Theatre for a New Audience/ New York); August Ossage County (Malmo Stadsteater); Same Team: A Street Soccer Story, among many others.

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Gary Cameron

Sound Designer

Gary is a Glasgow based composer and sound designer for stage and screen. His extensive, eclectic specialism in sound and composition has been heard in countless productions across the UK and Europe.

Previous credits include: Inside Culture (BBC) Moorcroft (Tron Theatre), The Celtic Story (SEC Armadillo) Educating Rita (Perth Theatre) Tin Forest (National Theatre Of Scotland) Fuse (Festival Theatre) Pig (Hull Truck Theatre) Don Jon (Silent Uproar) 25 Live, Lysistrata (Capital Theatres – Festival Theatre, King’s Theatre & The Studio) A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Royal Lyceum) The Steamie, The Blue Road, For The Love Of The Nightingale (Dundee Rep Theatre), among many others.

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