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Cast

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Training: East 15 Acting School.

Theatre credits include: The Last Ship (UK Tour), A Christmas Carol (Old Vic), Fun Home (The Gate Theatre), The Rover (Rsc), Girl From The North Country (Uk Tour), Big Fish (The Other Palace). 

Screen Credits Include: Casualty, Emmerdale, The Puzzle Lady, Father Brown, Road To A Million, From Beyond.

Frances McNamee
Sarah
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Theatre includes: Otherland (The Almeida) Macbeth (UK tour); The Secret Life of Bees (The Almeida) Mandela (Young Vic); Frozen; & Juliet (West End); The Color Purple (Curve Theatre, Leicester/ Birmingham Hippodrome Theatre, The Stage Debut Award for Best Actress in a Musical)
TV credits include: The Crown; Halo

Danielle Fiamanya
Alix
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Theatre credits include: Indigo (Leicester Curve), Becoming Nancy (Birmingham Rep); Showboat (Olivier award, Best Supporting Actress in a Musical); City Of Angels (Garrick/Donmar Warehouse); A Christmas Carol (Old Vic); Ghost (UK National Tour)

Screen credits include: Pobol Y Cwm (BBC Wales); The Nan Movie (Great Point Media); Casualty (BBC)

Rebecca Trehearn
Betty
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CATS winner (Carole King in Beautiful: The Carole King Musical); Olivier nominated for Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour). Theatre credits include: The Sound of Music, Sense & Sensibility, Footloose (Pitlochry Festival Theatre); Make It Happen (NTS); A Christmas Carol  (both Dundee Rep); Islander (Off-Broadway, Southwark Playhouse); You’ve Never Slept in Mine (Stellar Quines); Forever Home, Oscar, and Exquisite Corpse (A Play, A Pie and A Pint); Christmas Tales: The Returning of the Light (Edinburgh Lyceum)

Kirsty Findlay
Cait
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Theatre Credits: Jesus Christ Superstar, Mary Magdalene (Watermill Theatre and RUG); Fisherman's Friends, Alwyn Penna (ROYO and Cornwall Playhouse Productions); The Snow Queen, Gerda (The Rose Theatre); We Live in Cairo, Layla, (American Repertory Theater); The Last Ship, Young Meg, (Northern Stage, UK&Ireland Tour); Mamma Mia! (UK Tour, NGM/Littlestar). 

Parisa Shahmir
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Theatre Includes: Wild Rose (Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh), The Good John Proctor (Jermyn Street Theatre) Macbeth (The Royal Shakespeare Company); Tina: The Tina Turner Musical (The Aldwych, West End); Orphans (The National Theatre of Scotland); Dirty Dancing (UK Tour); A Lightweight Disposable Product (The Vaults Festival); 20th Century Boy (UK Tour)

Amber Sylvia Edwards
Shona/Morna
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Training: Bristol Old Vic Theatre School

Theatre Credits: Hadestown (West End), No Love Songs (Dundee Rep), The Bunker and 549: Scots of the Spanish Civil War (Wonder Fools) Sherlock Holmes and the Poison Wood & Teddy (Watermill & UK tour), Aladdin (Macrobert Arts Centre), Moorcroft & Underwood Lane (Tron), Cinderella (PACE), Orphans (NTS)

Dylan Wood
Jamie
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Training: Italia Conti. 

Theatre Credits include: Ensemble & Cover Pietro in Stiletto (Charing Cross Theatre); The Prince in Cinderella (Rhyl Pavilion Theatre). 

Television Credits Include: 2nd Place on Mamma Mia! I Have A Dream (ITV). 

Credits Whilst Training: Vittorio Vidal in Sweet Charity; Sweeney Todd in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

Owen Johnston
Thomas
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Training: Guildford School of Acting 

Theatre Credits Include: Islander (UK/US Tour), Merry Wives Of Windsor (UK Tour), A Mother’s Song (Macrobert Arts Centre), Treasure Island (Lanternhouse & UK Tour), Friends! The Musical Parody (UK & Ireland Tour), 

Other Credits: Macbeth (award winning audio drama, Almost Tangible), OneVoice ‘Best Narrator’ Nominee.

Stephanie MacGaraidh
Ancestor
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Craig is a Scottish actor/musician. He trained in musical theatre at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Recent credits include; Ness (A Play, A Pie and A Pint), Special Delivery (Scottish Opera, Visible Fictions), Stay (A Play, A Pie and A Pint), A Mother’s Song (Macrobert Arts Centre) and Local Hero (Chichester Festival Theatre.

Craig Hunter
Ancestor
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Melanie Bell has worked extensively in NYC and regionally throughout the US, in London and here in Scotland as an actor, director and choreographer. Recent performance credits include: Cinderella (Ayr Gaiety); A Mother's Song (Finn Anderson at The Macrobert); Hi, My Name is Ben (Noisemaker with Dundee Rep/Goodspeed, NTS).

Melanie Bell has worked extensively in NYC and regionally throughout the US, in London and here in Scotland as an actor, director and choreographer. Recent performance credits include: Cinderella (Ayr Gaiety); A Mother's Song (Finn Anderson at The Macrobert); Hi, My Name is Ben (Noisemaker with Dundee Rep/Goodspeed, NTS).

Melanie Bell
Ancestor

Band

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Directing credits: The Great Gatsby (Pitlochry Festival Theatre & Derby Theatre); Nessie (Pitlochry & Capital Theatres, MD & composer); Oor Wullie (Dundee Rep); Ceilidh (Foresight); The Snow Queen (The Lyceum Theatre); Fantastically Great Women Who Changed The World (EdFringe 2022 & deputy MD for UK Tour 2023); Orphans (NTS, Associate MD). Composing credits: Armour (A Play, A Pie And A Pint); Saturdays Doon The J.M. (Dundee Rep); The Great Elf Escape: LIVE (The Gaiety, Ayr); 

Shonagh Murray
Musical Director
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Charlotte Printer is a multi- instrumentalist session musician from Glasgow. An Alexander Stone awarded graduate of the BA Applied Music course, she’s toured playing bass with an array of artists including Joesef, Altered Images, Skipinnish and Greg James’ (Radio 1) touring podcast Tailenders.

Charlotte Printer
Bass
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Equally at home as accompanist or melody player, Anna is one of Scotland's foremost guitarists. As well as being a skilled multi-instrumentalist and singer renowned for her work with Blazin’ Fiddles and RANT, she also presents BBC Radio Scotland’s award-winning flagship trad music programme, Travelling Folk.

Anna Massie
Acoustic Guitar
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Scottish-Icelandic percussionist and drummer Signy Jakobsdottir has over thirty years experience as a gigging and recording musician. Recent credits include live work with Lloyd Cole, Capercaillie, Karine Polwart, to name a few. She works regularly with dance and theatre, drawing from a broad range of percussion instruments to create unique atmospheres, textures.

Signy Jakobsdottir
Drums/Percussion
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Jenny Clifford is a classically trained guitarist and in-demand session musician. She has toured extensively across the UK and internationally, performing in major theatres and festivals. Recent highlights include recording the second album with The Joy Hotel and performing in Thom Yorke’s production Hamlet Hail to the Thief.

Jenny Clifford
Electric Guitar
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Laura Wilkie is a fiddle player from Tain in the Highlands of Scotland. She has a unique style which has roots in Highland fiddle traditions but is influenced by an eclectic range of music from many genres. Laura has toured across the world with other acts and as a soloist.

Laura Wilkie
Fiddle

Guest Artists

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Siobhan Miller is one of Scotland’s foremost singers, renowned for her unique vocal style and evocative songwriting. A four-time BBC Alba Scots Singer of the Year and 2018 BBC Radio 2 Folk Award winner, she tours worldwide and has released five solo albums to critical acclaim.

Siobhan Miller
Vocalist
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​​Named Scots Singer of the Year in 2022 and 2024, Beth’s modern approach to old and new song has earned her place as one of Scotland’s most coveted young performers.  Beth’s ‘breakout’ was winning a coveted ‘Danny’ award at Celtic Connections 2019. This led to performing at the virtual Celtic Connections in 2020, and she has been touring her music in the UK and abroad since.

Beth Malcolm
Vocalist
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Kim Carnie is a celebrated singer and composer, being named Gaelic Singer of the Year 2021. She blends traditional gaelic roots with cinematic, contemporary soundscapes. Her vocals have captivated audiences worldwide, featuring in major film and television soundtracks including Netflix’s Outlaw King and Black Mirror.

Kim Carnie
Vocalist
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Grenadian-Canadian Kaia Kater’s jazz-infused folk has earned praise from NPR, Rolling Stone, and The Guardian. Her critically acclaimed album, Strange Medicine, earned her a 2025 JUNO Award and her second Polaris Prize nomination. Kaia is equally recognized for her film work, winning a Canadian Screen Award for The Porter, and composing for the film My Dead Friend Zoe.

Kaia Kater
Banjo
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