Birds of Paradise and Random Accomplice in association with Soho Theatre present
WENDY HOOSE
JOHNNY MCKNIGHT
Wendy Hoose was first performed at the Tron Theatre, Glasgow on 7 March 2014, and opened at Soho Theatre on Tuesday 12 April 2016.
Cast
| Laura | Amy Conachan |
| Jake | James Young |
| Creative Team | |
| Writer / Director | Johnny McKnight |
| Director | Robert Softley Gale |
| Set and Costume Designer | Neil Haynes |
| Animator | Jamie Macdonald |
| Lighting Designer/Production Manager | Grant Anderson |
| Artistic Director (BOP) | Garry Robson |
| Audio Describer/Artistic Director (RA) | Julie Brown |
| Stage Manager | Kay Hesford |
Cast
Amy Conachan trained at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
Production credits include: Coriolanus, The Hypochondriak and 13 (RCS); Skeleton Wumman (Play, a Pie and a Pint); Blood Wedding (Graeae) and Redefining Juliet (Barbican, Open Lab).
Film credits include: Let’s Talk About Sex (Frank Patterson); #Conniesflat (Breakingpointflix) and Duplicity (Presspause Productions). Amy is delighted to be reprising the role of Laura in Wendy Hoose.
Theatre credits include: The Incredible Adventures Of See Thru Sam (Random Accomplice); Slick (Vox Motus); Heartbreak Soup (The Empty Space); Paisley to Paolo, The Sunday Lesson, Burning Your Boats, Piece of My Heart (Oran Mor); Nasty, Brutish and Short (Traverse Theatre/National Theatre of Scotland); That Face (Tron Theatre) and We Can All Agree To Pretend This Never Happened (Oran Mor).
Television and film credits include: Outlander (Sony Pictures); Two Doors Down, Waterloo Road, Casualty, River City, Doctors, Scottish Killers (BBC); Bob Servant Independent (BBC4); Locked Up Abroad (Raw TV); Boy A (Cuba Films); Taggart (SMG); Kitchen (Ecosse Films); Still Game, The Karen Dunbar Show (The Comedy Unit); Deafblind (Ewan Bailey Films); Gamerz (Pure Magic Films); Up There (Wilder Films); Radges (BBC) and Only An Excuse (The Comedy Unit).
Creative Team
JOHNNY MCKNIGHT
WRITER / DIRECTOR
Johnny is a writer, director, actor and performer as well as the joint artistic director of Random Accomplice Theatre Company. He has been described as the new vanguard of pantomime in the national press having written 11 contemporary pantomimes. In 2014 he wrote A Miracle on 34 Parnie Street for the Tron Theatre and last year he wrote The Little Mermaid for the Macrobert Stirling. Johnny is currently under commission to the Royal Court Theatre, Tron Theatre, Citizens Theatre, macrobert and is developing a couple of original television comedies. Johnny has been nominated for Critics Award Scotland twice for Best Show for Children and Young People (The Incredible Adventures of See Thru Sam, Cinderella) and Best New Play (A Perfect Stroke). He is currently writing his second episode of River City for the BBC. Credits include: The Incredible Adventures of See Thru Sam (Random Accomplice); A Perfect Stroke (Oran Mor/Traverse Theatre); Little Johnny’s Big Gay Wedding (National Theatre of Scotland) and Cinderella (Royal Lyceum Theatre). Previous plays published by Oberon Books include The Incredible Adventures of See Thru Sam, Smalltown and Double Nugget.
ROBERT SOFTLEY GALE
DIRECTOR
Robert Softley Gale is an established figure in the Scottish arts scene, with over fourteen years of experience as a performer, director, writer and theatre-maker. He has appeared in many productions – including Girl X (National Theatre of Scotland) and his solo show – If These Spasms Could Speak – was presented as part of arches Behaviour 2012, Made in Scotland 2013 and has toured internationally for many years to countries including India, Brazil and the USA. He has worked around the world as a facilitator, trainer and director – most recently developing a new interpretation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest in Hong Kong.
A graduate of Glasgow University with an MSc (Hons) in Business & Management, Robert recently directed Purposeless Movements for BOP to great critical acclaim – ‘…this is one brilliantly shrewd triumph of a show’
NEIL HAYNES
SET AND COSTUME DESIGNER
Credits include: Blackbird, Into That Darkness, Eric the Elfs Chaotic Christmas and Flora Fairy Challenge, Miss Julie, Bauble Trouble, Far Away and Seagulls, Hansel and Gretel, After the End, Topdog/Underdog, My Name is Rachel Corrie, Grapes of Wrath, They Shoot Horses Don’t They? (Citizens Theatre); Cooking with Elvis, Bliss and Mud, Crazy Gary’s Mobile Disco (Tron Theatre); Roman Bridge, Transform Glasgow, Smiler (National Theatre of Scotland) and The Chooky Brae (Borderline Theatre Company).
JAMIE MACDONALD
ANIMATOR
Jamie Macdonald graduated from Jordanstone College of Art and Design in 2003 with an honours degree in Drawing and Painting. Since 2005 he has been based in Glasgow – teaching, illustrating, designing and animating for various companies including Scottish Opera, NTS, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Visible Fictions, Tron Theatre, Macrobert, The Arches, Borderline, Youth Theatre Arts Scotland, Birds of Paradise and Random Accomplice.
GRANT ANDERSON
LIGHTING DESIGNER/PRODUCTION MANAGER
Grant Anderson studied Lighting Design at RSAMD (currently RCS). Selected credits include: Little Red, Love Song, In My Father’s Words, Hecuba, Promises Promises, Baby Baby, Anna Karenina (Dundee Rep); To Begin (National Theatre of Scotland); News Just In (Random Accomplice); And The Beat Goes On (Random Accomplice and Perth Theatre); The Polar Bears Go Wild, Beautay and the Beat, Aladdin, Little Mermaid (Macrobert); Panic Patterns (Citizens Theatre); Maw Broon Monologues (Tron Theatre); A Clockwork Orange (associate, Theatre Royal Stratford East); Cabaret, Urinetown, Adams Family, Godspell, Avenue Q, Sunday In The Park With George, Company, Wasted Love and Show Choir (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland). Grant is also designer of Botanic Lights. His online portfolio is viewable at www.grantanderson.design
GARRY ROBSON
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR (BOP)
Garry Robson is one of the most respected directors and innovators in disability-led performance, working both in the U.K. and internationally and is currently the Artistic Director of Fittings MultiMedia Arts and Birds of Paradise Theatre Company, Glasgow.
He has directed over 30 professional productions both here and abroad – receiving Manchester Evening News Theatre Awards and a Herald Angel. He runs workshops and training events on theatre