Produced in association with Screen Academy Scotland at Edinburgh Napier University,

Creative Team

• Playwright: ["Jennifer Tremblay", "Jennifer Tremblay"]
  

  Jennifer Tremblay was born in 1973 in Forestville on the North Shore of the St-Lawrence River. In 1990, she published Histoires de Foudre, a collection of poems. In 1995, she graduated in Creative Literature from the University of Québec in Montréal and went on to publish short stories and articles for various magazines. She began her masters in literary research and devoted herself entirely to the works of Dany Laferrière. A long conversation with the author convinced her to leave her studies and focus on her own writing projects. She wrote close to 100 episodes of the children’s television show Les Chatouilles (Radio-Canada) and a few episodes of Bouledogue Bazard. In 2004, she founded Les Éditions de la Bagnole. She published her first novel Tout ce qui brille and several children’s books such as Un secret pour Matisse (A Secret for Matisse), Deux biscuits pour Sacha (Two Cookies for Sacha), Sacha et son sushi (Sacha and his Sushi), Miro et les canetons du lac Vert (Miro and the Green Lake Ducklings), Madame Zia and Matisse et les vaches lunaires, (Matisse and the Moon Cows). In 2008, she was awarded the Governor General’s prize, the most important literary prize in Canada, for her play La Liste (The List) published by Les Éditions de la Bagnole.

• Translator: ["Shelley Tepperman", "Shelley Tepperman"]
  

  One of Canada’s pre-eminent play translators, Shelley Tepperman is also a dramaturg with a long history in Canadian theatre specializing in script development, project development, and translation for the stage. She translates from French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese and her more than thirty play translations—three of which were nominated for Canada’s prestigious Governor General’s Literary Award—have been produced on CBC radio and on stages throughout North America and the UK. Recent translations include Jennifer Tremblay’s The List (La liste) and The Carousel (Le carrousel); Wajdi Mouawad’s Pacamambo, Timeline (Littoral), Alphonse, and Wedding Day at the Cro-Magnons’ (Journée de noes chez les Cro-magnons) and Molière, by Sabina Berman. Shelley spent several years working for CBC Radio Arts and Entertainment.  She also works in documentary film and television as a writer, director, and story editor.

• Director: ["Muriel Romanes", "Muriel Romanes"]
  

  Muriel has over thirty years of experience in theatre both as an actor and director. She was Associate Director of the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh and is one of the co-founders of Stellar Quines theatre company, where she has been Artistic Director since 1996. Her many directorial credits include The Clearing by Helen Edmondson, The Reel of The Hanged Man by Jeanne-Mance Delisle, Sweet Fanny Adams in Eden by Judith Adams, the critically acclaimed The Memory of Water by Shelagh Stephenson and the world premier of Three Thousand Troubled Threads by Chiew Siah Tei.

  In February 2007 Muriel co-directed The Unconquered by Torben Betts, which was presented in Scotland and New York. She then went on to direct Judith Adam’s theatrical adaptation of Muriel Spark’s The Girls of Slender Means which played at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2009. Muriel won the Critics’ Awards for Theatre in Scotland Best Director award for Stellar Quines’ next production Age of Arousal by Canadian playwright Linda Griffiths, which was a co-production with the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh.

• Set and Costume Designer: ["John Byrne", "John Byrne"]
  

  John Byrne was born in Paisley and grew up in Ferguslie Park housing scheme – at the time pretty much the worst slum in Europe. He quit school in his fifth year and, having failed to secure a job painting cinema posters with Mr Brown, Paisley’s only commercial artist, started work as a ‘slab boy’ mixing powder colour for the designers at A F Stoddard, carpet manufacturers in nearby Elderslie.

  Byrne was accepted at the Glasgow School of Art – specialising in drawing and painting. In his final year at GSA he won the Bellahousten Award, the school’s most prestigious painting prize.

  Following many a trudge around the galleries of London without anyone showing that much interest in his work, Byrne took the bull by the horns and sent a small picture of a man in a panama hat to Mayfair’s Portal Gallery, claiming it to be the work of his father, a one-time Glasgow busker and at this particular time, a newspaper seller at Paisley Cross.  The gallery asked to see more of ‘Patrick’s’ work. Byrne junior sat down and painted another half-dozen in the ‘naive’ style of the first – result, a one-man Mayfair show and instant acclaim.

  From the early seventies John Byrne’s biography reflects his diverse talents, as a designer of theatre sets and record covers.  His first play Writer’s Cramp (1977) was followed by The Slab Boys (1978) and won him the Evening Standard’s most promising playwright award.  In 1986 John wrote the immensely successful, six-time BAFTA award-winning television series Tutti Frutti. This was followed byYour Cheatin’ Heart and countless other plays and films.

  John has designed record covers for Donovan, The Beatles, Gerry Rafferty and Billy Connolly. His work is held in major collections in Scotland and abroad. Several of his paintings hang in The Scottish National Portrait Gallery, the Museum of Modern Art and the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow.

  In 2001 John was awarded an MBE for services to literature and the theatre but returned it in protest at the British Government’s joining forces with the US Administration’s invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq. In 2004 he was made an associate of the Royal Scottish Academy and a full member in 2007.

  John is an Honorary Fellow of the GSA, the RIAS, an Honorary Member of the RGI and has Honorary Doctorships from the universities of Paisley, Glasgow, Aberdeen and Strathclyde.

• Lighting Designer: ["Jeanine Byrne", "Jeanine Byrne"]

  Jeanine works regularly in theatre and dance. Her previous productions for Stellar Quines include Age of Arousal, The Unconquered and Perfect Pie. Jeanine has also worked for the Royal Lyceum in Edinburgh, The Citizens Theatre in Glasgow, Dundee Rep, the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Birmingham Rep, Chichester Festival Theatre and the Barbican.

  Jeanine’s dance credits include Uncharted Waters (All or Nothing Aerial Dance Theatre and Strangebird Zirkus), Curious Seed’s debut Almost But Not Quite (Dance Base/Edinburgh Festival); Parallel I Parallels (Plan B/Dance Base); Raw (Fidget Feet); Proband (Caroline Bowditch);Uncanny (X Factor Dance Company) and Off Kilter (Dance Base). Jeanine is also a fully qualified Pilates matwork teacher, accredited by The Pilates Foundation.

• Sound Designer/Composer: ["Philip Pinsky", "Philip Pinsky"]
  

  As Associate Artist at the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh,Philip Pinsky has worked as composer and sound designer for many of their productions including Wondrous Flitting, Educating Agnes, Age of Arousal, The Importance Of Being Earnest, Romeo and Juliet, Everyone, Peter Pan and Confessions of a Justified Sinner. Other theatre work includes ANA (Stellar Quines), Humanimalia (Janis Claxton Dance), Spring Awakening (Traverse Theatre and Grid Iron ), Decky Does A Bronco 2010 (Grid Iron and Traverse Theatre), Huxley’s Lab (Grid Iron and Lung Ha’s) and Equus (Dundee Rep).Philip’s TV credits include Art & Soul, Ninewells, Harley Street, Seaside Rescue, What Not To Wear (BBC). He has also worked on education projects for the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and NTS Learn  (You Tell Us What Was We Tell You What Is). He won the Critics’ Award for Theatre in Scotland 2005 for best use of music in theatre and a Sony Music Award for Extraneous Noises Off (BBC Radio 3). Previously Philip was founder member of electro-acoustic group Finitribe, releasing five albums and performing over a period of fifteen years.

• Director (Film): ["Morag McKinnon", "Morag McKinnon"]
  

  Morag studied Film and TV at Edinburgh college of Art graduating with a BA 1st class honours, followed by an MSc from Napier University. She directed a number of short films through various schemes including Home for the Channel 4 which won the BAFTA for Best Short film and a number of international awards. She went on to direct television drama includingBuried – as one of two directors, which won the BAFTA for Best TV series. Morag went on to direct the feature Donkeyswhich won Scottish BAFTA for best film and collaborated on the documentary I Am Breathing with her good friend Emma Davie, which won a Scottish BAFTA award. Morag teaches part time at Edinburgh College of Art and is developing her next feature.

• Producer (live show and film): ["Lesley Anne Rose", "Lesley Anne Rose"]

  Lesley Anne worked for Stellar Quines as the company’s Creative Producer for three years. During this time she was responsible for the effective delivery of the company’s touring theatre productions and driving forward new business models and ongoing audience and financial development. Prior to joining Stellar Quines Lesley Anne worked in the film exhibition sector. The List is the first film Lesley Anne has produced and she now works as a freelance producer and writer.

  www.lesleyannerose.co.uk

• Executive Producer (film): ["Robin MacPherson", "Robin MacPherson"]
  

  Robin is Professor of Screen Media, Director of the Institute for Creative Industries andScreen Academy Scotland atEdinburgh Napier Universityand ENGAGE, an EU MEDIA-funded collaboration with the Irish, Estonian and Finnish film schools.

  A BAFTA nominated film and television producer and former Scottish Screen head of development , he joined Edinburgh Napier in 2002. In 2010 he was appointed by the Scottish Government to the Board of Creative Scotland. He is on the Board of Creative Edinburgh, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a member of the European Film Academy. Robin blogs at robinmacpherson.wordpress.com

• Editor (film): ["Fiona Macdonald ", "Fiona Macdonald "]

  An established freelance editor with a long list of credits including the Oscar shortlisted One Thousand Pictures: RFK’s Last Journey, (HBO/Channel 4) and The Walking Wounded, (BAFTA for Best Current Affairs & Best Factual Single Documentary at the Celtic Media Festival). Documentary series include the controversial The Gathering Place, filmed over 4 years, on the building of the Scottish Parliament, and observationals such as Pride & Privilegeand The Boys of Ballikinrain, both filmed in schools, but at opposite ends of the social and educational spectrum. She has also worked for high profile strands Cutting Edge andBody Shock, and was one of the editors on the ground breaking and BAFTA award winning Castaway 2000. Music programmes like Transatlantic Sessions are also in the mix, as are one-off dramas, features and shorts.

• Director of Photography (film): ["Ian Dodds", "Ian Dodds"]
  

  Ian Dodds has worked as a drama and documentary cameraman for over 17 years. He has shot over 30 short dramas on film ranging in length from five minutes to 50 minutes, many of them award winning. He has shot many broadcast documentaries in various locations around the world most recently in Japan, North Iraq, Dubai, Lebanon, India and Namibia.

  Dummy Jim is the fourth feature length he has photographed. The first was To Xarama (The Dawn) shot in Greece on 35mm, then Ticking Man, Trouble Sleeping (for the BBC) and Seachd – The Inaccessible Pinnacle (also BBC). He has also written and directed three short drama films.

• Sound Recordist: ["Rob Walker", "Rob Walker"]
  

  Rob Walker is a Dubbing Mixer and Sound Designer for Film and TV. He has a wealth of experience in drama and documentary. Productions he has mixed have won awards at BAFTA and the Royal Television Society, screening at countless festivals including Venice, Cannes, London and Berlin. He recently completed his first feature film as a writer/director, RSJ. He lives in London.

• Screen credits: ["Additional ", "Additional "]
  • Film production manager – Lili Sandelin
  • Stage and film production manager – Michael Heasman
  • Assistant editor – Karel Dolak
  • Sound assistant – Neale Ross
  • Camera operators – Alan McLaughlin, Gary Hall, Minttu Maari Mantynen, Mihail Ursu
  • Camera assistant – Mihail Ursu
  • Digital Information Technician – Mihail Ursu
  • Grip – Aaron Boucher
  • Focus puller – Mihail Ursu
  • Catering Lili – Sandelin
  • Stage production technical assistant – Sam Cunningham

  Filmed on location at The Tom Fleming Centre, Stewart’s Melville College, Edinburgh. With thanks to:

  • Manager  – Chris Duffy
  • Technical Manager  – Liam Boucher
  • Front of House  – Pearl Piddington and Alexis Curran

  Music extract from the film Séraphin: Un Homme et Son Péché composed by Michel Cusson courtesy of Productions Michel Cusson, Alliance Atlantis Vivafilm and Zone3 Musique

  Additional thanks to Sheena Devlin, Innovation Manager Institute for Creative Industries, Edinburgh Napier University, Paul Ryan Business Development Executive Institute for Creative Industries, Edinburgh Napier University, Alex Mclaren Screen Academy Scotland, Richard Findlay, Lorne Boswell Equity, the Filmhouse cinema Edinburgh, Jean Mckinnon and the audience.

Cast

• ["Maureen Beattie"]
  

  Maureen trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and graduated with the James Bridie Gold Metal. Her career started with four years at the Dundee Rep and Royal Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh. Since then Maureen has gone on to play many roles in theatres around the UK including the National, the Globe, the Lyric Hammersmith and the Crucible as well as touring internationally.

  Maureen spent the 2003/2004 season with the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) playing Queen Elizabeth in Richard III and Tamora in Titus Andronicus. In 2008 she was part of the much acclaimed Histories company for the RSC playing the Duchess of Gloucester in Henry VI Part 2, the Duchess of York inRichard III and III and Mistress Quickly in Henry IV 1 & 2 and Henry V, all directed by Michael Boyd. She has recently starred in 27 and The Enquirerfor the National Theatre of Scotland.

  Maureen’s television and film work includes Casualty, Lewis, Midsomer Murders, Taggart, Bramwell, The Bill, Hard to Get, The Worst Week of My Life, Doctors, Moving On and Decoy Bride.

  Maureen won the Herald Angel Award for Best Actress in 2000, the Manchester Evening News Award for Best Actress in a Visiting Production in 2002 and the Pye Radio Best Actress Award in 1981. She has also been nominated for Best Female Performance 2011-12 by the Critic’s Award for Theatre in Scotland (CATS) for her performance in 27.

  Maureen’s previous work for Stellar Quines includes starring in Muriel Spark’s Girls of Slender Means at the Edinburgh Festival 2009. She also directed the company’s production of Perfect Pie by Judith Thomson.