STELLA FEEHILY - WRITER
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Stella Feehily's debut Duck was another Out of Joint/Royal Court co-production. It was a big hit at the Edinburgh Festival, Dublin Theatre Festival and the Royal Court. Other writing includes Game (a short play for Fishamble Theatre Company); She was wearing a Blue Dress (Amnesty/Fishamble); and The Dublin Monaghan Bombings, a group piece at Liberty Hall. For radio, Sweet Bitter (Lyric FM) and Julia Robert's Teeth for Radio Three. O go my Man is her second full-length play.
Praise for Duck:
'a bright, sharp, funny first play'
Guardian
'a thrilling debut... a play about being owned and disowned; about sex as a substitute for maturity; and the perils of maturity for young women who know both much more and much less than they should.? Sunday Times
'delightful... a sharp-eyed, keen-eared piece of writing' Daily Telegraph
'packs a terrific dramatic punch... an exhilarating piece of theatre' Scotsman
'immensely engaging and vibrant' Financial Times
DENISE GOUGH
Denise was in the recent West End productions of As You Like It and By The Bog Of Cats (Wyndhams Theatre); Other work includes The Kindness of Strangers (Liverpool Everyman); Robber (Tristan Bates Theatre); Theatre Train; Fear And Misery In The Third Reich. Television includes Casualty and Tell Me Lies.
SAM GRAHAM
Sam was in the original cast of Out of Joint and the National Theatre’s The Permanent Way (on the left in the picture), reprising his roles for the Radio 3 broadcast. For the RSC he has performed in A Month In The Country, Troilus And Cressida and Richard III. He won Best Actor at the Manchester Evening News Awards for Poor Superman at the Royal Exchange. Other work includes the title role in Macbeth at Chester Gateway and As You Like It for Cheek by Jowl. On TV, Sam was series regulars Gary Hunt in Doctors, Archie Malloch in Footballers Wives, and Derek Lennox in Preston Front. Sam has narrated many documentaries for the Discovery Channel.
SUSAN LYNCH
Previous appearances at the Royal Court include Ashes and Sand and Berlin Bertie. Other theatre includes The Night Season, Pericles and Le Cid (National Theatre); Mnemonic (Complicite); The Storm (Almeida); Miss Julie (Young Vic). Films include Enduring Love, Casa De Los Babys, 16 Years of Alcohol (Best Supporting Role, British Independent Film Awards) and Waking Ned. Television includes Soundproof and Bodies.
PAUL HICKEY
Paul was previously at the Royal Court in Crazy Black Motherfucking Self. Other theatre includes the solo performance Protestants (Arts Belfast, Soho); Aristocrats, Howling Moon Silent Sons, The Plough and the Stars, The Silver Tassie (Abbey Theatre); Dealers Choice, My Night With Reg (Birmingham Rep); The Merchant of Venice (RSC); Peer Gynt, Romeo and Juliet, Playboy of the Western World (National Theatre); In a Little World of our Own (Donmar Warehouse). Film includes The Smiling Suicide Club, Though the Sky Falls, Nora, Ordinary Decent Criminals, The General, The American, The Matchmaker, Moll Flanders. Television includes Inspector Lynley, Poliakoff – Film 1, Murder Squad, Rebel Heart, Father Ted, The Informant, The Governor, Nighthawks, Quando.
AOIFE McMAHON
Aoife won the 2002 Gemini Award (Canadian Bafta) for Best Actress for her role in Random Passage. Aoife is from County Clare. Theatre roles include Lady Macbeth in Macbeth (Derby Playhouse), Beauty in the RSC's Beauty and the Beast, Scenes from the Big Picture (National Theatre), Dancing at Lughnasa (Greenwich Theatre/Watermill, Newbury); Andorra (Young Vic) and Playboy of the Western World (Liverpool Playhouse). Other television and film work includes My Dads the Prime Minister, The Clinic, Steel River Blues, and Holy Cross for BBC Films.
GEMMA REEVES
Theatre includes The Playboy of The Western World, Deirdre of the Sorrows (Olympia Theatre, Dublin); Plough and The Stars (Perth Arts Festival); Pygmalion (Gate Theatre); The Cherry Orchard (Abbey Theatre) The Drunkard (Town Hall, Galway, Everyman Theatre, Cork, Samuel Beckett Centre Dublin, Olympia Theatre, Dublin); Ri Ra (Samuel Beckett Centre). Television includes Malice Aforethought.
MOSSIE SMITH
Among several appearances at the Royal Court are Road, Three Birds Alighting on a Field and the world premier production of Our Country’s Good. Mossie was in Howard Katz and Wild Oats at the National Theatre, Longitude (Greenwich theatre) and Getting to the Foot of the Mountain (Birmingham Rep). On television she played regular characters Aunt Megan in Hearts of Gold and Petula Belcher in two series of The Riff-Raff Element. Other appearances include 2000 Streets Under the Sky, Goodnight Mr. Tom, Absolutely Fabulous, Casualty and Prime Suspect IV. Among her film roles are Two Men Went To War and House.
EWAN STEWART
Extensive work at the Royal Court includes At the Table/Almost Nothing, Live Like Pigs and Road. Several productions for the National Theatre include Racing Demon, A Month in the Country and the national tour of The Pillowman. Films include Titanic, Conspiracy, Young Adam, Big Brass Ring, and TV highlights include Dirty War, POW and Looking After Jo Jo.