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29 Nov 2014 – 3 Jan 2015

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CLIFF BURNETT | EBENEZER SCROOGE Theatre credits include: Hamlet (Citizens Theatre); As You Like It, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet (RSC); Three Musketeers and the Princess of Spain (English Touring Theatre/Traverse/Belgrade Theatre, Coventry); Fall (Traverse); Caledonia (National Theatre of Scotland); The Government Inspector (Communicado/Tron ); An Argument About Sex (Untitled Projects/ Tramway); Peer Gynt (Dundee Rep/National Theatre of Scotland/Barbican); Romeo and Juliet, The Cherry Orchard, Equus, Moby Dick Rehearsed, The Tempest, Hedda Gabbler (Dundee Rep); Othello (Byre Theatre); Genius, The Merchant of Venice, Cabaret, A View from the Bridge, Dracula, Bring Me Sunshine (Newcastle Playhouse); Hamlet (Leicester Phoenix); Guise (Royal Court); Accounts (Traverse/Riverside Studios); Look Back in Anger (Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch); Hapgood, Pygmalion, Taking Steps, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Gaslight, Abigail’s Party, Absurd Person Singular (Century Theatre). Television includes: The Paradise, Bergerac, Let Justice be Done (BBC); Emmerdale (YTV); Wilderness Edge (Granada); Menace Unseen (Anglia); Inside Story (LWT); Shine on Harvey Moon, Last Place on Earth (Central). Film includes: Brilliant Love (Pinball Films); A Prayer for the Dying (MGM). Radio includes: Fall, Break my Bones, Listen to the Singing, Accounts, Epsom Downs (BBC); The Machine Stops, Hassan (Metro Radio).

LAURA CAIRNS | GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PAST / BELINDA / FRED’S WIFE / ENSEMBLE Laura trained at The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. Theatre credits include: Eye of a Needle (Southwark Playhouse); 10 Women (Jackdaw); Once Upon a Christmas, Above & Beyond (Look Left Look Right); HAG, The Girl with the Iron Claws (The Wrong Crowd); Constellations (Royal Court/ATG); Mirror, Mirror (Clwyd Theatr Cymru); The Night Before Christmas (Charged); One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Torch Theatre Company).

CAMERON CRIGHTON | FRED / YOUNG SCROOGE / PETER CRATCHIT / ENSEMBLE Cameron trained at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and is currently Citizens Theatre Actor Intern. Credits in training include: Christian in Festen (Winner of the Citizens Theatre Society Prize), Gayev in The Cherry Orchard, Antipholus of Syracuse in The Comedy of Errors and Oscar Scougall in Miseryguts. Selected theatre credits include: Hamlet (Citizens Theatre); Dunsinane (National Theatre of Scotland/RSC); Theatre Uncut (Traverse/Tron); Fugee, Women Who Start Fires And The Men Who Stalk Them (Arcola Theatre); Too Fast (Soho Theatre); Love’s Labour’s Lost, As You Like It (Pendley Shakespeare Festival). Selected screen credits include: Kevin Smith in Hollyoaks (Lime Pictures); Broken News, Short Change, Shadowplay (BBC); The New Worst Witch (ITV); Sixty Six (Working Title). Cameron will be appearing in Firebrand Theatre’s upcoming production of The Effect.

MARTIN DONAGHY | BOB CRATCHIT / DICK / FAT BUSINESSMAN / ENSEMBLE Martin trained at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and is currently Citizens Theatre Actor Intern. He recently played Horatio in Dominic Hill’s production of Hamlet. Theatre in training includes: Claudius in Hamlet; Dame Daisy in Jack and the Beanstalk, Foigard in The Beaux Stratagem, Ross in Macbeth, Robert in They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? He has recently appeared in two short films: Letter from an Old Boy and The Watchman. He will be appearing in several plays at the Citizens over the coming months.

CATE HAMER | MRS CRATCHIT / PORTLY GENT / MRS DIBLER / ENSEMBLE Theatre includes: Bed Among the Lentils (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Crime and Punishment, The Aspern Papers (Citizens Theatre); The Heretic, Arcadia, Rock and Roll, Larkin with Women, Beyond Belief (Manchester Library Theatre); Way Upstream, The Country, Indian Ink (Salisbury Playhouse); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare’s Globe); Scenes from an Execution (Hackney Empire); The Swing of Things (Stephen Joseph Theatre Scarborough); A Conversation, Across Oka, Rafts and Dreams (Royal Exchange Manchester); Les Liasons Dangereuses (Bristol Old Vic); As You Like It (Nottingham Playhouse); House of Correction (Wrestling School); Dona Rosita The Spinster, The Tower, Volpone (Almeida); Burn This (Theatre Royal, Plymouth); Machinal (Royal National Theatre); The Tempest, The Love of the Nightingale, Mary and Lizzie (RSC). Television includes: Holby City, Doctors, Casualty, When I’m 64, Inspector Lynley Mysteries, The Rainbow (BBC); The Town, The Bill, Without Motive, Coronation Street, The Practice (ITV). Film: Chubby Bunny.

JOHN KIELTY | GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PRESENT / MISS FEZZIWIG / FAT BUSINESSMAN / ENSEMBLE Recent Theatre: The Bedroom (Cumbernauld Theatre); A Terrible Beauty (Òran Mór); Onion of Bigotry (Black Dingo); Tin Forest, Roman Bridge (National Theatre of Scotland); White Gold (Iron Oxide); A Christmas Carol, The Cherry Orchard (Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh); Whatever Gets You Through The Night (Arches); A Satire of the Three Estates (A&BC); Doctor Faustus, Sleeping Beauty (Citizens Theatre); The Cone Gatherers (Aberdeen Performing Arts); Decky Does a Bronco (Grid Iron). Television and film includes: River City (BBC); Outlander (Starz); Taggart (SMG); One Life Stand (Elemental Films). Radio: Care, Wax Fruit, McLevy, Moyamensing (BBC). John wrote songs for Glasgow Girls (National Theatre of Scotland/Citizens Theatre/Theatre Royal Stratford East) as well as co-writing award winning musicals Sundowe (Eden Court), Wasted Love (RCS) and Greyfriars Twisted Tales (Bridewell). Theatre scores include: Merlin (Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh); Educating Agnes (Theatre Babel); The Cone Gatherers (Aberdeen Performing Arts); Medea’s Children (Lung Ha’s/ Unga Klara); Why Do You Stand There in the Rain? (Pepperdine - Fringe First Award winner 2012).

STEPHANIE MCGREGOR | MISS FEZZIWIG / TINY TIM / BOY / ENSEMBLE Stephanie McGregor trained at Rose Bruford College of Theatre & Performance.

Credits while training include: The Rose Tattoo, The Love of a Nightingale, Paines Plough’s We Planted Some Sunflowers, Good Person of Szechwan, King Lear, Richard III. Theatre credits include: The BFG (Dundee Rep); Romeo and Juliet (Bard in the Botanics/2013 tour); In the Heart of Darby Park (Òran Mór); Glasgow Girls (National Theatre of Scotland/Citizens Theatre/Theatre Royal Stratford East) including a performance at the SSE Hydro as part of the Ryder Cup Gala Concert; Snow White (Byre Theatre); The Fumidor (Pants on Fire); The White Devil (Shakespeare’s Globe, Sam Wanamaker Festival).

Stephanie is currently developing a new writing project as director/performer under the working title The George Beattie Project.

JOHN O’MAHONY | JACOB MARLEY / MR FEZZIWIG / OLD JOE / ENSEMBLE Theatre includes: As You Like It (Shakespeare’s Globe); Copenhagen, Alphabetical Order (The New Vic); The Pillowman (Norwich Theatre Royal); Hunchback (The Mill Belfast); Puckoon (Leicester Square Theatre); Twelfth Night, Macbeth (Northcott, Exeter); Treasure Island (The Rose); Fly In The Ointment/Cover Her Feet (Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough); The Tempest (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Belonging (Birmingham Rep); Boots For The Footless (The Tricycle); European tours of Moby Dick (International Music-Theatre Festival Award winner, Volos Greece); Death Of A Salesman and Moon Palace. Television includes: Mrs Brown’s Boys, Judge John Deed, Doctors (BBC); Dirty Filthy Love (ITV); Father Ted (Hat Trick); TLC (Positive Productions); Murphy’s Law (Tiger Aspect); Bad Girls (Shed Productions). Film includes: the title role in Neil Gaiman’s A Short Film About John Bolton (SKA Films); John Bradshaw in Babel (Paramount). Radio includes: Cabin Pressure, Scummow, After the Break, The Bagel Philosopher, The Absentee (BBC).

All other parts played by members of the company.

CREATIVE TEAM DOMINIC HILL | DIRECTOR Dominic Hill is Artistic Director of the Citizens Theatre. Since joining the Citizens in 2011, he has directed Hamlet, The Libertine, Miss Julie, Crime and Punishment (winner of Best Director and Best Production, 2014 CATS Awards), Far Away, Seagulls, Doctor Faustus, Sleeping Beauty, Krapp’s Last Tape, Footfalls, King Lear and Betrayal (winner of Best Director, 2012 CATS Award). Before joining the Citizens he was Artistic Director of the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh and Joint Artistic Director of Dundee Rep. Other credits include Falstaff and Macbeth (Scottish Opera) and The City Madam (RSC).

He has directed in theatres in London and throughout the UK.

RACHAEL CANNING | DESIGNER / PUPPETRY Rachael trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and since then has worked as a set, costume and puppet designer. Rachael is the co-artistic director of The Wrong Crowd. Set and Costume Design: Hag, The Girl with the Iron Claws (The Wrong Crowd, UK tour); Magical Night (Royal Opera House); Vernon God Little (associate costume, Young Vic); Porn the Musical (Theatre503); Mad Forest (Battersea Arts Centre); Hansel and Gretel, Beauty and the Beast, Sleeping Beauties, The Snow Tiger (Sherman Cymru); The Tailor’s Daughter (Welsh National Opera); Peter Grimes (Costume – Grand Theatre Geneva); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Fiddler on the Roof (Aberystwyth Arts Centre); Purcell His Ground (English National Opera). Puppet Design and Direction: The Jungle book, Of Mice And Men (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Hag, The Girl with the Iron Claws (The Wrong Crowd); The City Madam (RSC); The Firebird (Dundee Rep); The Three Musketeers and the Princess of Spain (English Touring Theatre/ Traverse/Belgrade Theatre, Coventry); Into the Woods (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre/Public Theater, New York); The Red Balloon (Royal Opera House); Sleeping Beauty (Birmingham Rep); Kes (Sheffield Crucible). All puppets for this production of A Christmas Carol were handmade by Rachael Canning.

LIZZIE POWELL | LIGHTING DESIGNER Lizzie trained at London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. Her lighting designs for the Citizens Theatre include The Libertine, Far Away, Seagulls, Krapp’s Last Tape, Footfalls. Other theatre credits include: Glasgow Girls, In Time O’ Strife, My Shrinking Life, Enquirer, An Appointment with the Wicker Man, Knives in Hens, Girl X, Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off, Our Teacher’s a Troll, Venus As A Boy (National Theatre of Scotland); Debuts (National Theatre of Scotland/Traverse Theatre); Woyzeck, A Streetcar Named Desire, Show 3, Glitterland, A Series of Impossible Tasks, Show 6 (Secret Theatre, Lyric Hammersmith); Weekly Rep (Royal Court); Any Given Day, While You Lie, The Dark Things (Traverse); First Light (Imaginate Festival); Pangaa (Ankur Productions); Treasure Island (Wee Stories); Huxley’s Lab, Spring Awakening (Grid Iron/Lung Ha’s); Caged, Pobby and Dingan, The Book of Beasts (Catherine Wheels); Under Milk Wood (Theatre Royal, Northampton); The Wasp Factory (Cumbernauld Theatre); The Wall (Tron); Great Expectations (Byre Theatre/Prime Productions); Making History (Ouroboros); Travels With My Aunt (New Wolsey).

NIKOLA KODJABASHIA | COMPOSER / SOUND DESIGNER Nikola Kodjabashia is considered to be one of the most eminent representatives of the Balkan and Eastern European musical avant-garde today. Theatre credits include: Hamlet, Crime and Punishment (Citizens Theatre); Penelope X (Macedonian National Opera); composing and conducting for Sir Peter Hall and Sir Harrison Birtwistle’s Bacchai (National Theatre); the internationally acclaimed Kafka’s Monkey (Young Vic); The Three Musketeers and the Princess of Spain (English Touring Theatre/Traverse/Belgrade Theatre, Coventry); Wajdi Mouawad’s Scorched (Old Vic); Wedding Day of the Cro Magnons (Soho Theatre/Dialogue Productions); Helter Skelter/Land of the Dead, music for Monsieur Ibrahim And The Flowers of the Qu’ran (Bush Theatre/Dialogue Productions) and the Olivier award-winning Jonathan Kent’s production of Hecuba (Donmar Warehouse).

Commissions include: scores for La Biennale di Venezia 2004, BBC Singers 2010, National Theatre 2002/3, Macedonian National Opera and Ballet 2013, Macedonian Philharmonic Orchestra 2009, Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble 1999. TV and film credits include: music for awardwinning film Defining Fay (2012), Dear Ana (2011), BBC Four TV documentary series Racism, a History (2010), BBC/ARENA documentaries Saints, Dance with Me and Green Pages.

BENEDICTE SEIERUP & LUCIEN MACDOUGALL | MOVEMENT DIRECTORS Benedicte and Lucien both trained at Guildford School of Acting and under Jacques Lecoq in Paris.

They have worked as actors, devisers, movement tutors and movement directors over several years and in many countries. They are currently movement tutors at The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

Other Movement Directing work with Dominic Hill at the Citizens Theatre includes: Sleeping Beauty and Crime and Punishment.​

STEPHEN DARCY | ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Stephen Darcy is a director and actor. He trained at Birkbeck MFA Directing (2013-2015); RADA (1998-2001); Trinity College Dublin (1994-1998). Directing projects include: Richard III (RADA Enterprises Ltd); The Magic (Soho Theatre & 503); Chelsea Hotel (RADA Festival); The Taste of Tears (The Nursery). As an actor he has performed in the Abbey, Olympia, Project in Dublin, The West End, The Bush, The Finborough and 503 as well as many roles in TV, film and radio.

THE CITIZENS COMPANY STAFF Neil Anderson Stage Technician Amy Angus Drama Class Tutor Jackie Arbuthnott Drama Class Assistant Tom Arnott Front of House Jamie Barbour Front of House Lorraine Barclay Stage Door Administrator Omar Bhatia Front of House Catherine Bird Payroll Officer David Black Front of House Harriet Bolwell Front of House Alex Brady Box Office Supervisor / IT Suzanne Brady Box Office/Drama Class Assistant Laura Briggs Front of House Marion Brochard Front of House Louise Brown Creative Learning Officer Andrew Bunton Front of House Tess Campbell Development Manager Theo Cherry Front of House Guy Coletta Sound Technician Sally Conroy Finance Consultant Lisa Corr Drama Class Tutor Natalia Cortes Company Stage Manager Maisie Cottingham Assistant Scenic Artist Elaine G Coyle Head of Wardrobe Cameron Crighton Actor Internship Carol Cull Housekeeper Kirstie Cusick Head of Marketing & Communications (Maternity Cover) Maureen Dalton Front of House Duty Manager Stephen Darcy Assistant Director (Birkbeck Trainee) Caroline Darke Trusts & Foundations Manager Lesley Davidson General Manager Denise Differ Box Office Manager Martin Donaghy Actor Internship Miriam Sarah Doren Drama Class Assistant Michael Dorrance Deputy Head of Workshop Ann Dundas Housekeeper Lisa Dundas Box Office Paul Dundas Front of House Duty Manager Sophie Fernie Front of House Gillian Firth Director of Development Barry Forde Assistant Stage Manager Neil Francis Drama Class Tutor Frazer Fyfe Carpenter Jacky Gardiner Front of House Harvey Gardner Front of House Anne Gillan Finance Officer Elly Goodman Community Drama Artist Stephen Hamilton Front of House Rachel Hannah Wardrobe Placement Stephen Harrop Carpenter / Front of House Jamie Hayes Head of Stage Neil Haynes Head Scenic Artist Jill Henderson Drama Class Assistant Dominic Hill Artistic Director Guy Hollands Associate Director (Citizens Learning) Olivia Hughes Front of House Stuart Jenkins Head of Lighting & Sound Arthur Johnson Front of House

Debbie Jones Front of House Simon Jones Stage Door Administrator Gary Loughran Scenic Artist/Maker Judith Kilvington Executive Director Sarah Kinsey Wardrobe Assistant Kylie Langford Wardrobe Assistant Campbell Lawrie Paul Hamlyn Club Co-ordinator/Drama Class Supervisor Jamie Leary Front of House Karen Lee-Barron Wardrobe Assistant/Dresser Arianne Liakeas Cutter/Wardrobe Assistant Claire Lowney Marketing Assistant Robert Macfarlane Wardrobe Cutter Alison MacKinnon Head of Marketing & Communications Lauren Macluskie Front of House Thierry Mabonga Front of House Rose Manson Front of House Collette Marshall Front of House Carly McCaig Creative Learning Assistant Erin McCardie Front of House Morna McGeoch Drama Class Tutor Michael McGurk Front of House Lawrie McInally Stage Door Administrator Jason McQuaide Welder/Stage Technician Adele Meads Stage Management Placement John Meggat Technician/Lighting Operator Debbie Montgomery Drama Class Tutor Christina Morrison Development Assistant Jim Morrison Bar Jacqueline Muir Production Administrator Jack Mullen Box Office Denis Murphy Head of Workshop Emily Murphy Front of House Gareth Nicholls Main Stage Director in Residence Keren Nicol Marketing & Communications Manager Petriece O’Donnell Front of House Neil Packham Community Drama Director Sam Packham Front of House Frances Poet Literary Associate Marion Quinn Front of House Valerie Rickis Assistant Stage Manager Sarah Scarlett Deputy Stage Manager Mags Smillie Head of Finance Andy Smith Housekeeper Angela Smith Education Officer Ann Smith Housekeeper Laura Smith Deputy Head of Production Lorna Stallard Front of House Graham Sutherland Head of Production Benjamin Szili Front of House Anna Thompson Front of House Marc Thompson Digital Marketing Officer Erin Tighe Drama Class Assistant Chris Traquair Head Flyman/Technician Martin Travers Producer (Citizens Learning) Andrew Turner Stage Door Administrator/FOH Duty Manager Colin White Drama Class Tutor/Supervisor Ross Williamson Building Supervisor Richard Young Lighting and Sound Technician

Board: Professor Adrienne Scullion (Chair), April Chamberlain (Vice Chair), Laurence Fraser, Alex Gaffney, Colum Halforty, Dominic Hill, Ryan James, Alex Reedijk and Bailie James Scanlon.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The Actor Intern positions are supported by The Robertson Scholarship Trust.

All scenery, costumes and props made in the Citizens Theatre workshops.

Opening Night drinks generously provided by Belhaven Brewery and Alliance Wines.

Special Thanks to: F. H. Brundle, MacRobert Arts Centre, Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh and Tron Theatre.

A very special thanks to: Competition winner Tom Cunningham (aged 10) from St Conval’s Primary School for designing the cover of the programme.

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