The Yellow On The Broom Programme

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Dundee Rep Ensemble Presents

THE YELLOW ON THE BROOM

By Anne Downie Based on the novel by Betsy Whyte Directed by Andrew Panton

AUG/SEP 2018

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Welcome Important stories can often take on new meanings as the world around us changes and they can suddenly seem more relevant than when we first heard them.

That’s why I’ve chosen to open my second season at the Rep with Anne Downie’s beautiful play, The Yellow on the Broom, based on Betsy Whyte’s novel.

This important book not only introduced many people to the lives of travellers, but also reminded us that the migration and movement of people is something that is an important part of our culture and how it has always been the cause of debate and division. It seems timely to tell this story in the context of current politics and rhetoric.

The Yellow on the Broom is a beautiful celebration of music, storytelling and community, all central to contemporary Scottish culture. Although set in 1930s Perthshire there is a universality to this story that captures human values and makes us consider our own views on things we may not fully understand, but recognise as different.

Coming together to tell stories is at the heart of what we do here at the Rep and at this performance we have the privilege to share the life of an inspiring woman who helped to change the way we think about an important part of our heritage which is often forgotten.

Alongside the production, we will also be hosting a series of events throughout the month which will celebrate the history and future of Scotland’s Travellers and their culture. From evenings of stories and song to post-show panel discussions, our building will be alive with events for you to engage with and conversations to be a part of. We hope to see you there. If you are interested in attending one of these events visit dundeerep.co.uk for further information.

Andrew Panton Director

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Anne Downie I had the privilege of meeting Betsy Whyte in 1988 when I was commissioned by Winged Horse Theatre Company to adapt her novel, The Yellow on The Broom for the stage. I was slightly apprehensive at the time, being a total outsider to the world of travelling people.

I was therefore relieved to meet Betsy (Bessie to her family) at Edinburgh University’s School of Scottish Studies. We were initially slightly wary of each other, but she talked about her grandchildren; I talked about my children and the ice was broken.

We planned to collaborate on the writing of the play but, sadly, we only had that one meeting, as she died shortly afterwards. Fortunately for me, she had left a legacy of folk song recordings and articles in the archives of the University and as I listened to her on tape and read her articles I felt I was being given a further insight.

The beginning of my play came out of a conversation I had with Betsy. I asked her how difficult it had been for her to adjust to living in a house, as she was then doing. She told me that at times she ‘counted the tiles from the cooker to the window’ where she looked outside longing to be out there, living the nomadic life.

I got the impression of a caged wild bird and her words to me then became the beginning of the play when the mature Betsy looks back on her life.

‘In ma mind I’ll be oot cookin’ over an open fire, wi’ the stick reek in ma nostrils, or maybe gatherin’ the fruit o’ some byeway hedge for supper’ From that beginning the shape of the play was defined.

In keeping with the story telling tradition of the travellers, Betsy tells this story, taking us, in dramatic terms, into the world of memory and hopefully providing an insight into a different way of life.

In these days of mistrust of anyone who is ‘different’ it is important to remember that the Nazis included travelling people, rounded up and exterminated in concentration camps, along with gypsies, homosexuals and Jews.

I hope my play celebrates ‘difference’ and provides a further insight into the values and culture of a vanishing way of life.

Anne Downie Playwright

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Dundee Rep Ensemble Presents

THE YELLOW ON THE BROOM

By Anne Downie Based on the novel by Betsy Whyte Dundee Rep Tue 28 Aug - Sat 22 Sep Macrobert Arts Centre Wed 26 - Sat 29 Sep Commissioned and first performed by Winged Horse Theatre Company in 1989.

Cast Ann Louise Ross

Bessie Townsley

Chiara Sparkes (Graduate) Young Bessie Gary Mackay

Sandy Townsley

Beth Marshall

Maggie Townsley

Emily Winter

Mary, Angela, Bella, Betty, Isla

Irene Macdougall

Farmer’s Wife, Kathy, Miss Arbuckle, Jessie, Jenny, Meeshie, Health Inspector

Johnnie, PC Hendry, Andrew, Willie, Teacher Duke, Robertson, Headmaster, Dr Boddy, Cameron, Father Grey

Creative Team Anne Downie Andrew Panton Kenneth MacLeod Sinéad McKenna John Kielty Jean Sangster Janet Lawson James Gardner

Writer Director Designer Lighting Designer Composer Voice / Dialect Fight Director Re-Lights

with thanks to Pitlochry Festival Theatre, The Royal Lyceum, Perth Theatre, The Tron Theatre, National Theatre of Scotland, Stephen Bangs, Cumbernauld Theatre, Dundee City Council, Scottish Opera, Evan Campbell

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Cast

Ann Louise Ross Ann Louise has worked extensively in theatre for nearly 40 years and has been a member of Dundee Rep Ensemble for the past 19 years.

Her previous work with Dundee Rep includes: The 39 Steps, Spring Awakening, A Christmas Carol, The Maids, August: Osage County, Death of a Salesman, Much Ado About Nothing, Little Red and the Wolf, Witness for the Prosecution, The Witches, Great Expectations, Blood Wedding, Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen…, Cars and Boys, Promises Promises, Further Than the Furthest Thing, Steel Magnolias, Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, A Christmas Carol, Peer Gynt, Sunshine on Leith, A Midsummer Night’sDream, Ubu the King, Gypsy, Scenes From an Execution, Flora the Red Menace, Twelfth Night, Dancing at Lughnasa, The Winter’s Tale, Cabaret, All My Sons, Hansel and Gretel and Mince?

Ann Louise Ross won a CATS Award for Best Female Performance for her role in Further Than the Furthest Thing, also with Dundee Rep Ensemble.

Her TV and film credits include: Trainspotting, The Acid House trilogy, The Key, The Bill, Rebus, Hamish Macbeth and River City, as well as numerous radio broadcasts. She has also featured in the remake of Whisky Galore. Ann Louise plays Grannie Island in the hit children’s CBeebies story Katie Morag, winner of the Scottish BAFTA for Best Children’s Programme.

Gary Mackay

Training: Oxford School of Drama Theatre Credits Include: Small World (New Wolsey Theatre); Fanny & Alexander (The Old Vic); Farm Boy (Mercury Theatre); Art (The Old Vic); Run For Your Wife (Vienna English Theatre); Let The Right One In (National Theatre of Scotland West End/New York); The 39 Steps (UK No.1 Tour); The Madness of George III (West End/UK Tour); The Signal Man (Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds); Little Otik (National Theatre of Scotland UK Tour); Retreat (Edinburgh Festival Winner & New End Theatre); When Five Years Pass & The Highway Crossing (The Arcola); Lark Rise to Candleford (The Finborough Theatre); Julius Caesar (Barbican Theatre); Twelfth Night (Broadway Theatre) Film Credits include: E=Motion; He Who Dares 2; The Magic Flute; The Devil’s Chair; Broken TV Credits include: Derren Brown’s -Twisted Tales; EastEnders; Emmerdale; Lip Service; Hollyoaks; The Inspector Lynley Mysteries; Half Moon Investigations; Francis.

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Emily Winter Emily has been a member of Dundee Rep Ensemble for the past 19 years.

Previous work with Dundee Rep includes: The 39 Steps, Passing Places, Deathtrap, A Christmas Carol, The Maids, August: Osage County, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Monstrous Bodies, Death of a Salesman, The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil (2016 national tour), Much Ado About Nothing, Love Song, Witness for the Prosecution, The Witches, Midsummer (a play with songs), The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil (2015), Great Expectations, Titus Andronicus, The Gamblers (co-production with Greyscale Theatre Company), Cars and Boys, And Then There Were None, The BFG, Hecuba, Victoria, Kora, Time and the Conways (co-production with the Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh), The Snow Queen, Whisky Galore – a Musical!, She Town, The Tempest, Forfeit (a co-production with Òran Mór), Steel Magnolias, Cinderella, Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off (co-production with the Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh), The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, A Doll’s House, Talking Heads (actor and director), Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, The Elephant Man, The Cherry Orchard, Peer Gynt (coproduction with National Theatre of Scotland, 2007 and 2009 national tour), Mother Courage and Her Children, Les Parents Terrible, Romeo and Juliet, Playhouse Creatures, Sunshine on Leith, Hansel and Gretel, Sweet Bird of Youth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Monkey, The Talented Mr Ripley, Gypsy, The Graduate, A Lie of the Mind, Macbeth, Scenes From an Execution, Dumbstruck!, The Danny Crowe Show, Flora the Red Menace, as well as Dancing at Lughnasa, The Duchess of Malfi, Nightflights, Pants, Measure for Measure, The Seagull, Mince?, The Winter’s Tale, Plague, Cabaret, The Playboy of the Western World, All My Sons and Sexual Perversity in Chicago.

Emily was also assistant director on Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and directed The Shape of a Girl.

Beth Marshall After graduating from University of Glasgow Beth trained with L’Ecole Internationale de Theatre Jacques Lecoq.

Theatre Credits: August: Osage County, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Princess and the Goblin, Cabaret, The Night Before Christmas, The Playboy of the Western World Dundee Rep; The James Plays Royal National Theatre/ National Theatre of Scotland; Rites National Theatre of Scotland/Contact; A Christmas Carol National Theatre of Scotland - CATS Award Winner 2012; The Monster in the Hall Best Ensemble Winner 2011 National Theatre of Scotland/Citizens Theatre; The Night Before Christmas The Belgrade Theatre; Causeway, Kontomble, The King’s Kilt Oran Mor Play, Pie and a Pint; Killing Me Softly New Wolsey Theatre; Macbeth, Cyprus, Katie Morag (TMA Award Nominee 2006), Whisky Galore, Skylight, The Lonesome West, Jekyll & Hyde, The Designated Mourner, Kidnapped Mull Theatre; Queen Lear, The Tempest, Pericles, King Lear, Twelfth Night, The Taming of the Shrew, Macbeth, As You Like It, Much Ado About Nothing,

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Othello, The Winter’s Tale, A Comedy of Errors Bard in the Botanics; Yellow Moon Tag Theatre TMA Award Winner 2008 - Best Show for Children and Young People; Peter Pan The Citizens Theatre; Tam o’ Shanter, Fergus Lamont TMA Award Nominee 2007 Communicado; Brave Communicado/Sounds of Progress; Remembering Magnus Grey Coast Theatre; The Bondagers The Byre Theatre; Cinderella; Babes in the Wood The King’s Theatre, Glasgow.

Television and Film Credits: In Plain Sight ITV/World Productions; Shetland ITV, Taggart STV; Still Game, River City BBC Scotland One of Us BBC Drama/Two Brothers Pictures; The Book Group Pirate Productions; SnakeBite Out & Out Films; Solid Geometry New Found Land Shorts; Retribution Roaring Fire Films; Mating Calls Kelpie Films.

Radio: The Stanley Baxter Playhouse: The Flying Scotsman BBC Radio 4; Regular voiceover artist.

Ross Baxter Training: The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

Theatre Credits include: Side Show (the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland), Spring Awakening (the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland / Dundee Rep), London Road (the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland), Chess (the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland / Edinburgh Festival Theatre), Ghost Train (Royal Scottish National Orchestra), Bonnie & Clyde: Scottish Premiere, (Motherwell College).

Workshops: Raintown (the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland / Dundee Rep), Nethergate (the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland / National Theatre of Scotland / Dundee Rep), BINGO! (Stellar Quines).

TV/Film: BBC Children in Need 2016 (BBC Scotland).

Chiara Sparkes Training: The Dance School of Scotland / the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (BA Musical Theatre, 2018)

Theatre Credits include: Eddie and The Slumber Sisters (Catherine Wheels / National Theatre of Scotland), Spring Awakening (the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland / Dundee Rep) Glasgow Girls (National Theatre of Scotland), London Road (the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland) Workshops: RAINTOWN! (the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Dundee Rep), BINGO! (Stellar Quines), Nethergate (the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland / National Theatre of Scotland/ Dundee Rep).

Awards: Young Scottish Musical Theatre Performer of the Year 2017

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John Kielty Theatre credits include: Passing Places, Dundee Rep The Belle’s Stratagem, Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh Sunshine Ghost Edinburgh Festival Theatre Roman Bridge, Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off, To Begin National Theatre of Scotland, The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, The Cherry Orchard, Caucasian Chalk Circle, The Venetian Twins, Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh. Hansel and Gretel, Doctor Faustus, A Christmas Carol, Citizens Theatre, Whatever Gets You Through the Night, Arches, The Bible: Abridged Reduced Shakespeare, The Cone Gatherers His Majesties Theatre Aberdeen, The Bedroom Cumbernauld Theatre, Frances & Ethel, A Terrible Beauty, Sunset Boulevard, The Real Mrs Sinatra, Cinderella 2 Oran Mor TV and Film credits include: One Life Stand, River City and Outlander.

Barrie Hunter Barrie has worked consistently in theatres across Scotland and the UK with companies such as the Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh; Tron Theatre, Perth Theatre, Dundee Rep, Borderline, Theatre Babel, Citizens Theatre, the National

Theatre of Scotland.

Previous work for Dundee Rep includes: The 39 Steps, Passing Places, Spring Awakening, August: Osage County, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Death of a Salesman, The Cheviot, The Stag and the Black, Black Oil, Much Ado About Nothing, Love Song, Witness for the Prosecution, The Mill Lavvies, Sunshine on Leith, Gypsy and Macbeth.

Recent theatre credits include: Stones in His Pockets and Whisky Galore Mull Theatre/Citizens Theatre; Descent Òran Mór; Rough Island Mull Theatre/Òran Mór; The Drawer Boy Mull Theatre; Three Sisters Òran Mór; Ane Pleasant Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis AandBC Theatre; The Government Inspector Communicado/Aberystwyth Arts and Betrayal Citizens Theatre.

TV and film credits include: The Angels’ Share Sixteen Films; Fast Romance Icklefix Films; Rab C Nesbitt Comedy Unit/BBC; The Field of Blood Slate North/BBC; Dear Green Place Effingee/BBC; Jess the Border Collie BBC; Still Game Effingee; Stacey Stone BBC and Velvet Soup BBC. Radio credits include: Jonathan Watson’s Big Society Comedy Unit; Watson’s Wind-Up Comedy Unit/BBC and Hand in Glove BBC.

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Irene Macdougall Irene has been a member of Dundee Rep Ensemble for the past 19 years.

Previous work with Dundee Rep includes: Deathtrap, A Christmas Carol, The Maids, August: Osage County, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Death of a Salesman, George’s Marvellous Medicine, The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil (2016 national tour), Little Red and the Wolf, Witness for the Prosecution, The Witches, Midsummer (a play with songs), The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil (2015), Blood Wedding (co-production with Graeae and Derby Theatre), James and the Giant Peach, The Glass Menagerie, Woman in Mind, The BFG, Hecuba, Victoria, Kora, Time and the Conways (co-production with the Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh), The Snow Queen, She Town, The Tempest, Cinderella, Futureproof (coproduction with the Traverse Theatre), Anna Karenina, What Love Is and Forfeit (both co-productions with Òran Mór), The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, Sleeping Beauty, A Doll’s House, Talking Heads (actor and director), Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, The Elves and the Shoemakers, Equus, The Elephant Man, The Cherry Orchard, Peer Gynt (coproduction with National Theatre of Scotland, 2007 and 2009 national tour), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (winner of CATS 2009 Best Actress Award), Mother Courage and Her Children, Les Parents Terribles, Romeo and Juliet, Sunshine on Leith, Sweet Bird of Youth, Gypsy, The Graduate, The Visit, A Lie of the Mind, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Duchess of Malfi, The Seagull, Dancing at Lughnasa, Plague, Mince? and many more.

For Dundee Rep, Irene has directed The 39 Steps, Much Ado About Nothing, Whisky Galore and Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen... Irene has worked extensively in theatre, radio and television, and is a founder member of the acclaimed Stellar Quines Theatre Company.

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Creative Team

Anne Downie WRITER

Educated at Glasgow University and the RSAMD (now the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland) writer / actor Anne Downie has written extensively for stage, TV and radio.

She is also a published novelist and short story writer.

Her latest novel Flesh and Blood was shortlisted in the Dundee International Book Prize.

Plays include Parking Lot in Pittsburgh, De Profundis, the White Bird Passes, The Female of the Species, Bread upon the Waters (Commissioned and performed while she was Writer in Residence for Youth Theatre at Dundee Rep) Her Musical for Wildcat, Waiting on One, won an LWT Plays on Stage Award. As an actress she has played almost every theatre in Scotland and at the Royal National Theatre in London as Granny Morrison in Men Should Weep.

Head hunted for TV she spent ten years writing for STV, BBC, Carlton and C4 She now mostly concentrates on TV and film roles. Most recently in Doctors and In the Long Run with Idris Elba.

Andrew Panton DIRECTOR

Andrew is Artistic Director of the Rep and Joint Chief-Executive of Dundee Rep and Scottish Dance Theatre.

Born in Fife, Andrew has worked internationally in theatre, television, film and music. For Dundee Rep he directed the Scottish Premiere of August: Osage County, A Christmas Carol, Love Song and The Mill Lavvies and was Movement Director for the TMA and CATS award-winning production of Sweeney Todd. He recently directed the 21st anniversary production of Stephen Greenhorn’s Passing Places.

Andrew has directed productions for the National Theatre of Scotland, Edinburgh Royal Lyceum, Glasgow Citizen’s Theatre, Royal & Derngate, Perth Theatre and The Stephen Joseph Theatre.

Work for TV includes Children in Need, Gareth Malone’s The Naked Choir and The Voice, all for the BBC and in 2014 he was one of the creative directors for the opening ceremony of the Glasgow Commonwealth Games.

Andrew is a Visiting Professor at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and a previous winner of the Bruce Millar Award for directing.

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Kenneth MacLeod DESIGNER

From Inverness, Kenneth is a set, costume & video designer and illustrator. Recent design credits include Chess, Cabaret, West Side Story Royal Conservatoire of Scotland The Return, Never Land, Not About Heroes Eden Court Theatre Money Makes The World Go Round, Echoes In The Night, The Outsider Carnival/Cunard Line Spring Awakening, The Maids Dundee Rep Time & Motion National Youth Ballet Falstaff Opera Bohemia and Chick Whittington MacRobert Arts Centre. He was also storyboard artist on Flight Vox Motus/Edinburgh International Festival. Kenneth is a Production Arts & Design Graduate of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, and recipient of the Alex McCrindle Award for Production.

He also studied Scenic Design & Immersive Themed Entertainment at The California Institute Of The Arts.

Sinéad McKenna LIGHTING DESIGNER Sinéad has won two Irish Times Theatre Awards for Best Lighting Design and a Drama Desk nomination in New York for Best Lighting Design for a Musical.

Theatre credits include: Richard III, Uncle Vanya West Yorkshire Playhouse; Prodijig, The Wizard of Oz Cork Opera House; Angela’s Ashes The Musical Cork Everyman/Dublin/Belfast; Flights, Shelter, New Electric Ballroom Druid; Assassins, Juno and the Paycock, The Importance of Being Earnest, A Month in the Country, The Gigli Concert Gate Theatre; Asking For It, The Approach, Howie The Rookie, October, Last Days of the Celtic Tiger, Blackbird Landmark Productions; The Unmanageable Sisters, The Wake, Othello, Aristocrats, Quietly, The Plough and the Stars, Alice in Funderland, 16 Possible Glimpses, The Burial at Thebes, Finders Keepers Abbey; The Wolf and Peter, Agnes, Pageant, Swept CoisCéim; Dubliners Corn Exchange; Macbeth, The Snow Queen Lyric, Belfast.

Opera includes: La Traviata Malmo Opera House; The Rape of Lucretia Irish Youth Opera; The Magic Flute, The Marriage of Figaro Opera Theatre Company; A Midsummer Night’s Dream Opera Ireland.

John Kielty COMPOSER

John is a writer and a composer. He co-wrote the top 5 selling album Seven Years Ten Weeks in 2003. He is one of the Kielty Brothers who wrote the opening number for the 2014 Commonwealth Games. They have written several award winning musicals: Sundowe (Winner of Cameron Mackintosh’s Highland Quest 2008) Greyfriar’s Twisted Tales (Spirit of the Fringe 2008) Mercy Madonna of Malawi (Spirit of the Fringe/UNESCA Festival of Light 2009) and a trilogy of musicals for the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland: Confessions of a Justified Songwriter, Active Virgin and Wasted Love (Best Lyrics MTM Awards plus nominations for Best Score, Book and Best New Musical.)

They also created the hit musical The 27 Club St Pauli Theatre, Hamburg and contributed several songs to Glasgow Girls National Theatre of Scotland.

Currently he is developing a new piece about the first female medical students: The Edinburgh Seven and developing Wasted Love for TV.

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Recent Theatre Scores include: The Belle’s Stratagem Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh The Cone Gatherers His Majesty’s Theatre, Aberdeen Cinderella 2 Oran Mor Ma Bit Toonspeak Tin Forest: Ash and Ember National Theatre of Scotland The Satire of the Three Estates A&BC Productions Educating Agnes Theatre Babel Aladdin, Lovers, Sleeping Beauty Cumbernauld Theatre Merlin The Magnificent Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh Why Do You Stand There in the Rain Pepperdine University Medea’s Children Lung Ha Theatre Company/ Unga Klara.

Jean Sangster VOICE/DIALECT Jean is Head of Voice at the Centre for Voice in Performance in the School of Drama, Dance, Production and Film at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

As Dundee Rep’s Artistic Associate in Voice, throughout 2018 Jean will be working intensively with Dundee Rep Ensemble, including the graduates, as part of its investment in new and established talent, offering her expertise in Voice.

Originally from Arbroath, Jean is a graduate of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland having initially trained as a classical musician. Jean’s consultancy work as a vocal coach and voice director is in both spoken and sung voice. Productions include Deathtrap Dundee Rep; Backbeat Act Productions; The House of Bernarda Alba National Theatre of Scotland; Heer Ranja, Fifty Shades of Black Ankur Productions; Lachez Tout! Red Note Ensemble; The Choir, Hay Fever Citizens Theatre; Sunset Song, The Broons Selladoor Productions; Hand me down Glas[s] Performance; The Steamie Neil Laidlaw Productions.

Film work includes Beats Sixteen Films; MARCH Glasgow Women’s Library/ Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Jean is a performance coach for The Forth Valley Chorus and an experienced workshop facilitator.

Janet Lawson FIGHT DIRECTOR Janet Lawson is the first female President of the British Academy of Stage and Screen Combat.

Fight arranging work includes: Passing Places, Spring Awakening for Dundee Rep / Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, The Wonderful World of Dissocia for Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Haevnorhele - short film, Wake Up - music video for Glasgow band 100 Fables, Hamlet for Folksy Theatre, Stain for Tartan Spartan, Jenufa for Scottish Opera and Ipheginie in Tauris for Byre Opera.

She is a BASSC Certified Teacher and is the stage combat teacher at Acting Coach Scotland acting studio in Glasgow and through her company, Stage Fight Scotland runs classes and workshops at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and at drama schools, youth and community groups throughout Scotland. She has also taught in China, Tenerife, the USA and Germany. In August 2016, she was on the teaching faculty of the World Stage Combat Conference held in Toronto, Canada and was made an honorary Fight Director with Fight Directors Canada.

She was a member of the stunt team for Season 6 of the TV series Vikings and plays Mrs Hinzmann in the Scottish Christmas Zombie Musical Anna and the Apocalypse, due for release in December 2018.

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Staff DUNDEE REP THEATRE Artistic Director (Dundee Rep) / Joint-Chief Executive Andrew Panton Dundee Rep Ensemble Ewan Donald, Barrie Hunter, Irene Macdougall, Ann Louise Ross, Emily Winter Graduate Actors Ross Baxter, Danielle Jam, Amy Kennedy, Chiara Sparkes, Leanne Traynor Artistic Associates Movement Emily-Jane Boyle Music/Singing Claire McKenzie Voice Jean Sangster

ADMINISTRATION Director of Finance and HR Heather Mackintosh Programme & Administration Manager Viktoria Begg Administration & Finance Assistant Joanne Clark Senior Finance Officer Pamela Reid Stage One Producer Carla Marina Almeida

MARKETING Acting Marketing Manager Gemma Henry Marketing Associate Sean Millar Marketing Associate Seher Sultan Marketing Officer Graeme Cairns Audience Development Assistant Georgia Green

DEVELOPMENT Head of Development Tara Quinn Development Officer Robyn Donoghue

PRODUCTION Head of Production Gavin Harding Technical Manager Ian Dow Design Assistant / Scenic Artist Leila Kalbassi Company Stage Manager Lesley Neilson Deputy Stage Manager Marian Sharkey Assistant Stage Manager Debbie Campbell, Matt Lee Newby Head of Workshop Lenny Whittet Chief Stage Technician Graeme Taylor Assistant Carpenter Neil Simpson Chief Electrician Jock Dinsdale Head of Sound Maciej Kopka Deputy LX Nate Lamb Head of Wardrobe Cate Mackie Wardrobe Assistants Rachel Johnson, Meg Davies Wardrobe Trainee Darren McFawns

REP ENGAGE Head of Rep Engage Gemma Nicol Education & Pathways Associate Heather Cassidy Participation & Young Artists Associate Lisa Williamson Community, Health & Wellbeing Associate Amanda Lowson Dramatherapist: Children & Young People Kyle Blears Dramatherapist: Adults Anastasia Anapolytanou Administrator Karen Robertson Youth Theatre Practitioner: Lewis Fraser

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ASPIRE Drama Artists: Hayley Blakeman, Amanda Glover, Ellen Shand Dramatherapy Support Worker Eleni Daskalaki Creative Assistants Andrew Manzi, Izaac Gaines, Lyn Reekie, Fin Avison, Blair Morris, Claire Bain, Paul McDonald, Jacob Dudgeon, Adele Kinmond, Ann Manzi, Farrah Fawcett, Rachel Bichard, Josef Boon

SCOTTISH DANCE THEATRE Artistic Director Fleur Darkin General Manager Amanda Barnett Senior Producer Aiyana D’Arcangelo Head of Creative Learning Dawn Hartley Head of Production Emma Jones Rehearsal Director Naomi Murray International Producer Nelson Fernandez Marketing Manager Sarah Leary Creative Learning Coordinator Felicity Beveridge Digital Marketing Associate Graham Webster Press & PR Consultant Owen O’Leary Audience Development Lottie Barker Company Technician Adam McCall Stage and Tour Manager David Lawson Dancers Kieran Brown, Harry Clark, Alison Jaques, Luigi Nardone, Adrienne O’Leary, Jessie Roberts-Smith, Oscar Pérez Romero, James Southward, Pauline Torzuoli Apprentice Dancers Reece Calver, Molly Danter, Giorgia Pirozzi Apprentice dancers are postgraduate students who work with the company as part of their coursework at London Contemporary Dance School.

Support Workers Rhian Davidson, Shannon Dray, Jorja Follina, Sarah Greene, Taylor Han, Katie McFarlane, Taine McKinstray, Aislinn Mulholland, Sam Mulholland, Amelia Newton, Niamh O’Loughlin, Jourdan Walker, Kirsten Wallace, Naomi Watt

OPERATIONS Head of Operations Sarah Loveday Visitor Services Manager Andrew Manzi Visitor Services Duty Manager Carol Watson Visitor Services Supervisors Amelia Newton, Rob Currie Restaurant & Events Manager Eve Moore Bar & Restaurant Supervisor Amanda Montgomery Facilities Manager Jaci Stewart Maintenance Operative Garry Brown Visitor Service Assistants (Bar, Restaurant, Auditorium & Box Office) Visitor Service Assistants (Bar, Restaurant, Auditorium & Box Office) Jade Anderson, Nikki Anderson, Saoirse Anis, Hayley Blakeman, Thalia Chappell, Coren Childs, Lisa Croll, Rob Currie, Marissa Dempsey, Sam Flint, Jeff Hannan, Clare Heggie, Ellie Hughes, Caitlin Irvine, Sarah Lindsay, Henry Loan, Katie Lumsdaine, Beth MacLeod, Jade McQuillan, Ross McNeill, Kiera Marshall, Renata Merciai, Tracy Morton, Olivia Nicolson Head Chef Sandy Cooney Chefs Ross Marshall, David Milligan, Ashley O’Neil Kitchen Porter Andy Murdoch

BOARD OF DIRECTORS Chair Edward Troughton Board Members David Craig, William Differ, Scott Greig, Lesley Larg (Vice Chair), Cllr Ken Lynn, Cllr Richard McCready, Stewart Murdoch, Mariam Okhai

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