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THE CAST ADAM BEST | BERNARDO / LAERTES / ROSENCRANTZ Theatre credits include: The Silver Tassie (National Theatre); Long Day’s Journey into Night (Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh); Crime and Punishment (Citizens Theatre/Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh/Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse); Public Enemy (Young Vic); The Woman in Black (Fortune Theatre); Our Country’s Good, Journey’s End (The Original Theatre Co.); The Golden Dragon (Actors Touring Company); Pieces of Vincent (Arcola Theatre); By the Bog of Cats (Wyndhams Theatre); Truckstop (Company of Angels). TV credits include: Holby City, Silent Witness, Waking the Dead, The Catherine Tate Show (BBC). Film credits include: Blooded (Magma Pictures) and Cupcake (Northern Ireland Screen).

CLIFF BURNETT | POLONIUS Theatre credits include: Hamlet, As You Like It, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (RSC); Three Musketeers and the Princess of Spain, 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, 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). TV credits include: 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 credits include: Brilliant Love (Pinball Films); A Prayer for the Dying (MGM). Radio credits include: Fall, Break my Bones, Listen to the Singing, Accounts, Epsom Downs (BBC); The Machine Stops, Hassan (Metro Radio).

CAMERON CRIGHTON | MARCELLUS / GUILDENSTERN / PLAYER QUEEN Cameron trained at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and graduated in 2014 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: 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) and Sixty Six (Working Title). Cameron will be appearing in the upcoming production of A Christmas Carol at the Citizens Theatre.

MARTIN DONAGHY | HORATIO Martin trained at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and is currently Citizens Theatre Actor Intern. This is his professional debut. Credits in training include: Claudius in Hamlet; Dame Daisy in Jack and the Beanstalk, Foigard in The Beaux Stratagem, 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 Citzens Theatre over the coming months.

BRIAN FERGUSON | HAMLET Credits at Citizens Theatre: Dunsinane (RSC/National Theatre of Scotland); Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme (Citizens Theatre) Theatre credits include: Adler and Gibb (Royal Court); Money: The Gameshow (The Bush Theatre); A Soldier in Every Son – An Aztec Trilogy, Richard III, Dunsinane (RSC); The Dark Things, Fall (Traverse); Earthquakes in London (National Theatre); Blackwatch, Rupture (National Theatre of Scotland); Falling, Bridgebuilders (Poorboy); Snuff, They Make These Noises (The Arches); Particularly in the Heartland, Scottish Enlightenment Project (The TEAM); The Drawer Boy (Tron). TV credits include: Our World War: The First Day, Field of Blood: The Dead Hour, Doctors, River City, Rockface, The Prayer (BBC); Taggart, Overnite Express (STV). Film: Residue (release date winter 2014).

PETER GUINNESS | CLAUDIUS Peter trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama. Theatre credits include: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Second Mrs Tanqueray and Oleanna (Citizens Theatre); The Pianist (Manchester International Festival); The Pianist, As You Like It and Moby Dick (Manchester Royal Exchange); Women Beware Women, Ion, Macbeth, Two Noble Kinsmen, The Rover, Flight, Sarcophagus and They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (RSC); The Seagull and A Doll’s House (Birmingham Rep); The Tempest and Too Clever By Half (Old Vic); Doctor Faustus and Measure For Measure (Young Vic); The Little Foxes (Donmar Warehouse); Webster (Old Red Lion); Hamlet, King Lear, The Diary of a Scoundrel, Fitting for Ladies and Reading Hebron (Orange Tree Theatre) and most recently: Reunion (Jermyn Street Theatre). Most recent TV credits include: Critical (Sky); The Assets (ABC); Strikeback (Sky/HBO); Da Vinci’s Demons (BBC Worldwide); Merlin, Hidden and Zen (BBC).

BEN ONWUKWE | GHOST / PLAYER KING / GRAVEDIGGER Since graduating from Middlesex University in 1980, Ben has worked extensively in the performing arts. Recent theatre credits include: The LoveGirl and the Innocent by Alexander Solztenitsen at Southwark Playhouse (2013); Sunset Baby, a world premiere at the Gate Theatre, London by award-winning U.S. playwright Dominique Morriseau (2012); and The After-Dinner Joke by Caryl Churchill at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond. In TV, Ben has made appearances in many serial dramas and had his longest spell as a regular in London’s Burning, LWT’s long-running series, playing the part of ‘Recall’ of Blue Watch. He has worked extensively in radio drama including several stints as a member of BBC Radio Drama Repertory Company and has played in countless classic serials and soap operas, including the BBC World Services’ Westway. Ben can currently be heard on BBC Radio 4 in the radio version of Alexander McCall Smith’s The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency. This is Ben’s debut at the Citizens Theatre.

ROBERTA TAYLOR | GERTRUDE Roberta trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama. Theatre credits at the Citizens Theatre include: Song at Twilight, Quest of Conscience, Sweet Bird of Youth, Design For Living, Mother Courage, Hidden Fires, The Representative, Casanova Undone, An Ideal Husband, Faust, Private Lives, French Knickers, A Woman of No Importance, A Waste of Time, Maskerade and Seven Deadly Sins.

Other theatre includes: RSC, Manchester Royal Exchange, Birmingham Rep, Donmar Warehouse, Garrick Theatre and The Lyric Hammersmith, Tricycle Theatre, Jermyn Street Theatre and Dogstar Theatre Company. TV credits include: Inspector Morse, After the Dance, The Turnaround, The Passion, Bleak House, Silent Witness, Sharman, One Way Out, Demob, EastEnders, The Bill, Father Brown and Holby City. Film credits include: The Witches and Tom and Viv.

MEGHAN TYLER | OPHELIA Meghan recently graduated from The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

Selected theatre credits include: Nothing to be Done (Encounter Festival, Brno); The Beaux Stratagem, Macbeth, Hamlet, Vassa (RCS); Romeo and Juliet (Sheridan Stage) and True or False (Theatre Uncut). Film credits include: I.Q. You (Ryan Graham) and Wasteland 26 (Breaking Point Flix). Meghan won Best Actress for Romeo and Juliet at the Warrenpoint Theatre Festival, as well as The Rosalyn Lipsey Prize for the best performance by a woman in a comedy role for The Beaux Stratagem.

All other parts played by members of the company.

ENSEMBLE Robin Anderson, Connal Cochrane, Tommy Coll, Ibrahim Jabbie, Angus McCrone, Mike Milborrow, Scott Miller, Taylor Quate and Stephen Smart.

CREATIVE TEAM DOMINIC HILL | DIRECTOR Dominic Hill is Artistic Director of the Citizens Theatre. Since joining the Citizens in 2011, he has directed 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.

TOM PIPER | DESIGNER As Associate Designer for the RSC, Tom has designed over 30 productions including Much Ado About Nothing, Macbeth, City Madam, The Histories Cycle (for which he won the 2009 Olivier Award for Best Costume Design and was nominated for Best Set Design), As You Like It, The Grain Store, Hamlet, Midsummer Night’s Dream and Antony and Cleopatra. Other recent designs include: Bakersfield Mist (Duchess Theatre); Vera Vera Vera (Royal Court Theatre); Richard III, The Tempest and As You Like It (Bridge Project BAM/Old Vic); Zorro (West End, Tour, Paris, Moscow, Amsterdam, Atlanta and Tokyo); Dealer’s Choice (Menier Chocolate Factory and West End); Falstaff, Macbeth (Scottish Opera); Fall (RSC/Traverse); Red Velvet (Tricycle/St Ann’s Warehouse New York); Bracken Moor (Tricycle/Shared Experience); The Plough And The Stars, The Crucible and Six Characters In Search of an Author (Abbey, Dublin); The Big Meal (Bath) and King Lear, The Libertine (Citizens Theatre). Tom recently designed the Tower of London World War I memorial ‘Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red’ with Paul Cummins.

BEN ORMEROD | LIGHTING DESIGNER Previously for Citizens Theatre: King Lear. Other theatre credits: Fings Aint Wot They Used T’be (Stratford East/Tour); Things We Do For Love, Intimate Apparel, The Phoenix Of Madrid, Iphigenia (Bath); The One (Soho); The Colleen Bawn (Druid); In The Next Room (St James); Peep, Eugenie Grandet (Edinburgh Festival); The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Druid/West End/Broadway/Sydney/ Toronto); The Heresy of Love, Macbeth, The Revenger’s Tragedy, Henry V, Julius Caesar (RSC); Onassis, Macbeth, Legal Fictions (West End); Zorro! (West End/UK Tour/US/Japan); Dimetos (Donmar); Two Men of Florence (Boston); The Crucible (Lyric Belfast); Translations, Last Days of the Reluctant Tyrant (Abbey, Dublin); The Changeling, Hedda Gabler, The Doll’s House (ETT); Bent, Uncle Vanya, The Winter’s Tale, In Remembrance of Things Past (National) and numerous productions for Propeller including The Comedy of Errors and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Ben designed the lighting for the Calico Museum of Textiles, Ahmedabad, directed Athol Fugard’s Dimetos (Gate, London) and adapted four films from Kieslowski’s Dekalog for E15.

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: Crime and Punishment (Citizens Theatre/Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh/Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse); 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 (ETT/Traverse); 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 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.

GARETH NICHOLLS | ASSISTANT DIRECTOR RAYMOND SHORT | FIGHT DIRECTOR

THE CITIZENS COMPANY STAFF 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 Janice Bryce Front of House Andrew Bunton Front of House Tess Campbell Development Consultant Theo Cherry Front of House Guy Coletta Sound Technician Sally Conroy Finance Consultant Lisa Corr Drama Class Tutor Natalia Cortes Company Stage Manager 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 (Birbeck Trainee) 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 Box Office / FOH Duty Manager Julia Easton Box Office Sophie Fernie Front of House Gillian Firth Director of Development Barry Forde Assistant Stage Manager Neil Francis Drama Class Tutor Jacky Gardiner Front of House Harvey Gardner Front of House Robert Gear Carpenter Anne Gillan Finance Officer Elly Goodman Community Drama Artist Helen Gr n 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) Stuart Jenkins Head of Lighting & Sound Debbie Jones Front of House Lauren Keanie Carpenter

Ashley Kerray Assistant Stage Manager Judith Kilvington Executive Director Campbell Lawrie Box Office / Drama Class Supervisor Jamie Leary Front of House Karen Lee-Barron Wardrobe Assistant / Dresser Arianne Liakeas Cutter / Wardrobe Assistant Claire Lowney Marketing Assistant 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 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 Cathy O’Neill Deputy Stage Manager Neil Packham Community Drama Director Sam Packham Front of House Frances Poet Literary Associate Marion Quinn Front of House Valerie Rickis Assistant Stage Manager Lee Samuel Drama Class Assistant Sarah Scarlett Deputy Stage Manager Claire Sharp Wardrobe Assistant Mags Smillie Head of Finance Andy Smith Housekeeper Angela Smith Education Officer Ann Smith Housekeeper Laura Smith Deputy Head of Lighting & Sound Lorna Stallard Front of House Andy Stuart Stage Technician Graham Sutherland Head of Production 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), Alex Gaffney, Laurence Fraser, Colum Halforty, Edward Harkins, 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: Tron Theatre, Sal Shah, Bier Halle, Stockline Plastics, Tesco - Maryhill.

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