Jo has spent nearly 25 years working in theatre in Scotland, throughout that time she has worked for many brilliant companies and is delighted to be back working at the Tron Theatre. Some of her favourite work includes: The Alchemist, Cinderfella, Alice in Weegieland (Tron Theatre); The Steamie, Sunshine on Leith, The Witches, Midsummer, The Cheviot the Stag and the Black, Black Oil (Dundee Rep); Murmurations (Tangled Feet); House of Bernarda Alba, Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off, Our Teacher’s a Troll, Submarine Time Machine, Let The Right One In (National Theatre of Scotland); Bingo! The Musical (Stella Quines); The Penny Drops, Made in China, The Company Will Overlook a Moment of Madness, First Dance (A Play, A Pie & A Pint); Trumpets and Raspberries, Cinderella (Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh); Little Shop of Horrors, Absurd Person Singular, Communicating Doors, Amadeus (Pitlochry Festival Theatre); Seanmhair (The Other Room); Slick, How to Steal a Diamond (Vox Motus); Trainspotting (York Theatre Royal).

Television credits includes: River City, Doctors, Scot Squad (BBC) and Emmerdale (ITV).

For the past year Jo has been working as a storyliner for BBC Studios on River City and Eastenders.

Theatre credits include: 90 Days (Traverse Theatre), Tally’s Blood (Perth Theatre & Scottish Tour), Adults (Traverse Theatre), Sugar Coat (Southwark Playhouse, London); Radiant Vermin and Underwood Lane (Tron Theatre, Glasgow); The Golden Rage; Ten Things To Do Before You Die; My Name is Sarah and…; A Perfect Stroke (Play, Pie and a Pint); Sugar Coat (Vault Festival, London); Peter Gynt (National Theatre/Edinburgh Festival Theatre); Rebus: Long Shadows (Birmingham Rep, National tour); Immaculate Correction (King’s Head Theatre, London); Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Citizens Theatre Glasgow/Home Manchester); 306: Day (National Theatre of Scotland); Jumpy (The Lyceum Edinburgh); The James Plays (National Theatre of Scotland); The Venetian Twins (The Lyceum Edinburgh); Chariots of Fire (West End)

Television credits include: Crime (Britbox); Murder Island (Channel 4); Casualty, Armchair Detectives (BBC).

Kevin, from Dumfries and Galloway, trained at the Samuel Beckett Centre, Trinity College, Dublin. He has worked extensively in theatres throughout the UK and Ireland, with companies including the Royal Shakespeare Company, Royal Lyceum Edinburgh Theatre, Dundee Rep, Citizens Theatre, National Theatre of Scotland, National Theatre of Ireland, Northern Stage, Tron Theatre, Lung Ha, Grid Iron, Borderline, A Play, A Pie & A Pint, Selladoor, Right Lines, Mull Theatre and Dogstar Theatre Company. He was a member of Dundee Rep Ensemble from 2006 – 2013. He has received a Royal National Theatre Ian Charleson Award Commendation and has won Best Actor at the Critics’ Awards for Theatre in Scotland.

Television credits include: Outlander (Sony/Left Bank Pictures) Still Game, Armchair Detectives (BBC).

Kevin is also a musician and composer and has composed music for Dundee Rep, Scottish Dance Theatre, Tramway Glasgow, Company Chameleon, Ten Foot Tall Theatre and Lung Ha Theatre Company.

Originally from Ireland and based in the UK, Robbie is one of only a handful of Life Members of the Association for Lighting Production and Design. Having trained at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, he won the inaugural Profile Award for Outstanding Achievement in Opera, an Off West End award for Best Lighting Design, and was also the winner of the 2015 ETC Award.

More info at www.robbiebutler.com

Design credits include: Punch (Young Vic/Nottingham Playhouse); Reverberation, How to Win Against History (Bristol Old Vic); Death In Venice (Welsh National Opera); The Makropulos Affair (Scottish Opera). As well as work with the Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh; Mercury Theatre Colchester; Greek National Opera, Polish National Opera; Den Norske Opera and Ballet; Hofesh Schecter Company; Teatro Real, Madrid; the Watermill Theatre; and The English Theatre, Frankfurt.

Upcoming work includes: Malmö Opera and The National Theatre of Scotland.

Isla Cowan is an award-winning playwright, performer, and director, from Scotland. Isla specialises in making ecofeminist theatre, and is committed to exploring issues of class, gender, and ecology in her work. Isla recently won the Assembly ART Award and the Alpine Fellowship Theatre Prize for her acclaimed play She Wolf, and was nominated for the Filipa Bragança Award for best female solo performance. Isla’s plays have also been shortlisted for the St Andrews Playwriting Award and the Phil Fox Award, amongst others. In 2024, Isla was Resident Writer at the Tron Theatre and Playwright in Residence (IASH) at The Traverse.

Playwriting credits include: To Save the Sea ((co-written with Andy McGregor) Sleeping Warrior and Scottish tour); The Silent One (The Loved One Audio Series, Tron Theatre); To the Bone (Pitlochry Festival Theatre); She Wolf (Assembly Roxy: Assembly ART Award, Alpine Fellowship Theatre Prize, Filipa Bragança Award; Progress Review (Stellar Quines/Traverse Theatre); Alright Sunshine (A Play, A Pie & A Pint/TronTheatre); And… And… And… (Strange Town Touring Company/Traverse Theatre); Jack and the Beanstalk (Hopscotch Theatre Company), and Daphne, or Hellfire (Pleasance), amongst others.

Whilst Isla performs and directs much of her own work, she also has a distinct directorial practice and was recently Associate Director on the National Theatre of Scotland’s production of Kidnapped, and Assistant Director on The Duchess [of Malfi] (Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh/Citizens Theatre), GUT (National Theatre of Scotland/Traverse Theatre), and Ben-Hur (Reading Rep).

You can read more about Isla’s work here: www.islacowan.com

Debbie Hannan writes and directs for stage and screen. They trained at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and as Trainee Director at the Royal Court. They are an Associate Artist at Cardboard Citizens, were formerly Associate Artist at National Theatre of Scotland, and are on the board of Theatre Uncut.

They have directed at theatres including the Royal Court, the Young Vic, the Bush Theatre, the Unicorn Theatre, the Royal Exchange Theatre, the Citizens Theatre), the Traverse Theatre, the Abbey Theatre, and have worked with companies such as Complicité, Clean Break, Paines Plough, the National Theatre of Mexico and Sonia Friedman Productions. As a writer, Debbie has been commissioned by Cardboard Citizens for the More Than One Story project, is writing a new musical developed by Northern Stage, and is adapting a children’s book for the Unicorn Theatre.

Recent credits include Lavender, Hyacinth, Violet, Yew (Bush Theatre); Sound of the Underground (Royal Court); Exodus and The Panopticon (National Theatre of Scotland); Little Miss Burden (Bunker Theatre); Salty Irina (Paines Plough/Thistle And Rose Arts/Broccoli Arts); and Cuckoo (Soho Theatre).

Credits as assistant include: The Maids, Sleeping Beauty (Citizens Theatre), Enquirer, A Doll’s House (National Theatre of Scotland), The Nether, Teh Internet is Serious Business (Royal Court). As Associate, credits include Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour (West End) and Constellations (West End), including winning an Olivier as Associate Director for Best Revival on the West End.

Debbie recently directed a short produced by Film4 and 104 Films, co-written with Matilda Ibini, which screened at London Film Festival and Slamdance (LA). They were Shadow Director on Shetland Season 6 & 7, and are developing a feature on a BFI Creative Challenge Lab. Debbie is now writing her first feature, with research supported by the Miles Ketley Memorial Fund.

Dominic has been Artistic Director and Joint CEO of the Citizens Theatre since 2011. During his tenure at the Citizens Theatre, he has secured an unrivalled reputation for presenting bold new interpretations of classic texts that are relevant to contemporary audiences. He has frequently directed co-productions with the National Theatre of Scotland, Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh, Bristol Old Vic and many other partners across the UK as well as for Scottish Opera, Royal Shakespeare Company and Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre.

Before joining the Citizens Theatre, he was Artistic Director of the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh and Joint Artistic Director of Dundee Rep. He has directed in theatres in London and throughout the UK.

Jemima trained at Queen Margaret University College in Edinburgh and on a Scottish Arts Council Directors Bursary with the Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh and Stellar Quines Theatre Company.

In April 2024 she took up post as Artistic Director of the Tron Theatre. She has also served as Artistic Director & CEO of A Play, A Pie & A Pint, Artistic Director and Chief Executive of Stellar Quines Theatre Company, and Artistic Director of Dundee Rep.

She has won and been nominated for a number of awards and has directed over 50 professional productions. Her recent credits include: A View from the Bridge (Tron Theatre); SCOTS (A Play, A Pie & A Pint/Edinburgh Fringe/54 Below NYC); The Sheriff of Kalamaki, The Great Replacement, Man’s Best Friend (A Play, A Pie & A Pint); Cinderella, All My Sons (Dundee Rep); Maggie May (Leeds Playhouse/Leicester Curve/Queens Hornchurch); and numerous episodes of River City (BBC Studios).
She has also directed for the Citizens Theatre, the National Theatre of Scotland, the Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh, Dundee Rep, Stellar Quines Theatre Company, Imaginate, Borderline Theatre Company, Grid Iron Theatre Company, Traverse Theatre and Paines Plough.

Michael John McCarthy is a composer, sound designer and theatre-maker, originally from West Cork, currently based in Glasgow.

He has worked on over 90 theatre productions, including twelve Scotsman Edinburgh Fringe First Award winners. Theatre includes: Pride & Prejudice*(*Sort of) (Tron Theatre/Criterion Theatre/Touring); The Duchess (of Malfi) (Trafalgar Theatre/Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh); The Fair Maid of the West (Royal Shakespeare Company); England and Son (Roundabout/HOME Manchester); The Grand Opera House Hotel (Traverse Theatre/Dundee Rep); What Girls Are Made Of (Raw Material); Kidnapped (National Theatre of Scotland); The Last Return (Druid Theatre Company); The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart (Royal Exchange Theatre); NORA: A Doll’s House (Young Vic/Citizens Theatre); Jimmy’s Hall (Abbey Theatre); Two Sisters, The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other, Glory On Earth, A Number, The Weir and Bondagers (Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh); I Can Go Anywhere, Crocodile Fever, Ulster American and How To Disappear (Traverse Theatre); Cinderella, Tay Bridge, August: Osage County, The Cheviot, The Stag & The Black, Black Oil and The BFG (Dundee Rep); Little Red Riding Hood, Trainspotting, Into That Darkness and Fever Dream: Southside (Citizens Theatre) and Rocket Post, In Time O’ Strife, The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish and Dolls (National Theatre of Scotland).

Work for screen includes the documentaries Where You’re Meant To Be and Pitching Up.

His band Album Club released their debut LP in May 2022. It reached #6 in the UK Vinyl Albums chart, and #2 in the Scottish Albums chart, spending six weeks in the Top 100.

Kenny Miller is a freelance designer and director who was for many years Head of Design/Associate Director at the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow. He has worked in theatre and opera both nationally and internationally, designing and directing for many companies.

He has won three Critics’ Awards for Theatre in Scotland: Scrooge (Best Production); Smoking With Lulu (Best Technical) and A Little Bit of Ruff (Best Ensemble). He has also won the Manchester Evening News Award for 10 Rillington Place (Best Designed Production).

Recent credits as Designer: So Young (Traverse Theatre), Rapunzel, The Tin Forest (National Theatre of Scotland); The Bookies, Smile, Deathtrap (Dundee Rep); The Cherry Orchard, The Weir, Bird (Royal Exchange Theatre); A Doll’s House, Romeo and Juliet (Sherman Cymru); There’s A Place, Macbeth, Blithe Spirit, Proof, Tam O’Shanter (Perth Theatre); Crocodile Rock, A New Life (Sleeping Warrior Theatre Company and national tour); Blanche & Butch (also directed), In An Alien Landscape, The Man Who Lived Twice (Birds of Paradise Theatre Company and national tour); Unicorn Dance Party, Unicorn Christmas Party (Raw Material); The Dolls Abroad, The Dolls – Dragged Up (national tour); Peter Panto & the Incredible Stinkerbell, Radiant Vermin, Aganeza Scrooge, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Motherfucker With The Hat, Mammy Goose, Miracle on 34 Parnie Street (Tron Theatre); Cuttin’ A Rug, Marilyn (Citizens Theatre/Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh); Slug, Clockwork (Visible Fictions); The Bookie (Cumbernauld Theatre and national tour); Doubt: A Parable, the UK premiere of Autobahn (also codirected), Lady M: His Fiend-Like Queen (Theatre Jezebel/Tron Theatre); Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off, Our Teacher’s A Troll (National Theatre of Scotland); The Steamie (OVO Hydro/Dundee Rep and national tour); Born Bad (Scottish Youth Theatre).

Recent credits as Designer and Director: Witness for the Prosecution, And Then There Were None (Dundee Rep); April in Paris, And The Beat Goes On (Perth Theatre); The Addams Family, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, Grease, Legally Blonde (UK Theatre School); Olive the Other Reindeer, Cinderfella, Alice in Weegieland, Sleeping Betty, Peter Panto and The Incredible Stinkerbell (Tron Theatre); Harold and Maude, Days of Wine and Roses (Theatre Jezebel).

Frances Poet is a Glasgow based writer of stage, screen and radio.

Her plays include the multi-award-winning Adam (Fringe First, The Flying Artichoke Award and, on screen, winner of BAFTA Scotland Best Television Scripted and Audience Award for Best Film at the Vancouver Queer Film Festival), Gut (Writers’ Guild Best Play), Still, Fibres and Maggie May (Susan Smith Blackburn Finalist).

Frances’s work is often produced internationally with recent productions including a French translation of Fruitcake (Les Prémonitions De Mikaël Morneau) produced in Montreal, a Turkish production of Gut (His) produced in Istanbul, a Portuguese translation of Adam produced in Lisbon and Crusaders produced at India’s National Centre for Performing Arts.

This Thing of Darkness Series 3, written by Frances with monologues by Eileen Horne was Finalist of the New York Festivals Best Drama Podcast and is currently available to listen to on BBC Sounds.

Small Acts of Love, a collaboration with Ricky Ross, will open the renovated Citizens Theatre in September.

“Irrepressible, Glasgow-based, Irish theatre minx” Meghan Tyler is an award-winning playwright and actor from Newry.

As a writer, their play Crocodile Fever stormed the Edinburgh Fringe Festival at the Traverse Theatre in 2019, and recently won the prestigious Stewart Parker Award. They have won the Channel 4 Playwrights Bursary, a New Playwrights Award with Playwrights’ Studio Scotland, and were a member of the New Playwrights Programme at the Lyric Theatre, as well as having a residency with The National Theatre in London. They were also part of the Convergence cohort of 2023.

Their first play Nothing To Be Done received the MARTA Award for Best Script, “representing artistic hope for the future”.

Some of their work includes: FLEG, Bloodbank, The Persians (A Play A Pie & A Pint); Rapunzel, The One With The Lockdown (National Theatre of Scotland); Hotline (Tron Theatre).

Meghan is delighted to be working with Tron Theatre and the Citizens Theatre on this remount of FLEG, aka “the play they thought would get them death threats.”