The 3rd Year Students



















Joanne Thomson
Training: BA Acting Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Acting Coach Scotland, LIPA
Professional credits include: Anna Weiss by Mike Cullen directed by Janette Foggo (Tron Theatre); Title role in Cinderella (Qdos) at King’s Theatre Edinburgh; Mwanawashe (Ankur/Tron) – directed by Andy Arnold, Adolescence by Shaun Hughes (BAFTA award winners, Factotum Films); Wasteland 26 by Keir Siewert (Feature film – Breaking Point Flix); Blackout by Davey Anderson (ThickSkin Theatre) – directed by Neil Bettles (Frantic Assembly) EdFringe 2010 – won Arches Brick Award & completed UK tour Spring 2011
Credits in training include: Tartuffe by Liz Lochhead directed by Tony Cownie, Lady Macduff in Macbeth directed by Ali De Souza; Theatre Uncut directed by Emily Reutlinger/Debbie Hannan (Traverse Theatre)
For full CV and showreel see www.joannethomson.co.uk
Rhys Warrington
Training: BA Acting Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, National Youth Theatre of Wales
Theatre Credits: Great Expectations (Vaudeville Theatre/West End); Ensemble/Narrator (Frantic Assembly/NYTW); Theatre Uncut (Traverse Theatre) Macbeth, Importance of Being Earnest, The Cherry Orchard, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Romeo and Juliet (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland); Patagonia/The long Journey, No Other Day like Today (NYTW); Chorus of Disapproval, Decade, Richard III (WGYTC).
Meghan Tyler
Training: BA Acting Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, National Youth Theatre
Theatre Credits: Mrs Sullen, The Beaux Stratagem (Robert Carson); Lulu, Nothing To Be Done (Chaseplay Theatre Company); Clytemnestra, The Oresteia (Anna-Helena McLean); First Witch/Porter, Macbeth (Ali deSouza); Ensemble, Flood (Peter Collins); Natalia, Vassa (Ekaterina Kamotskaia); Big Mama, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (Bruce Strachan); Juliet, Romeo and Juliet (Rozlyn Sheridan)
Screen Credits: Wasteland 26, (Feature Film, Breaking Point Flix); ‘Where You Stand’ Music Video, Travis (Forest of Black); ‘Strange Kind of Mystery in the Air’ Music Video, Pete Roe (Quintana Films); ‘Commited to Sparklemotion’ Music Video, Discopolis (Camille Benet); Mixed Signals (Short Film, Chuck Goessens); Friction (Short Film, Chuck Goessens); Jack’s Persona (Julie D. Dunn, What’sYourPersona)
Brian Vernel
Theatre: Blackout, The Static - Nominated for Stage Award Best Actor 2012 (Thickskin) Four Parts Broken (National Theatre of Scotland, Oran Mor, Traverse), Takin' Over the Asylum -Nominated for Best Ensemble CATS Awards 2013 (Royal Lyceum/ Citizens' Theatre), The Birth of My Violence (Traverse/ Theatre Uncut). TV/ Film: Field of Blood 1 (BBC), Offender and Let Us Prey (2014).
Other Experience: Pre-View (Rehearsed Readings) directed by Davey Anderson + Amanda Gaughan at Traverse. Silver, co-written with Sammy Hayman, part of On The Verge 2013 at Tron Theatre.
Adam Newington
Training: BA Acting Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, National Youth Theatre of GB.
Theatre work includes: Dunsinane (RSC/NTS UK Tour), Far Away (Citizens, Glasgow), The Comedy of Errors, Vassa, Cat on a Hot tin Roof (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland), Theatre Uncut (Traverse, Edinburgh), Orpheus & Eurydice (National Youth Theatre/Old Vic Tunnels), The New World Order (Hydrocracker/Barbican), Taming Of The Shrew (Pendley Shakespeare Festival), The Alchemist (The Minack, Cornwall), Oliver (Brighton Theatre Royal).
Adam was one of the recipients of the Laurence Olivier Bursary in 2013 and is a 2014 Carleton Hobbs finalist.
Martin Donaghy
Training : Ba Acting - Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, ATCL Musical Theatre - The Dance School of Scotland
Credits include : Agamemnon/Orestes inThe Oresteia directed by Anna-Heleana McLaen, Ross in Macbeth directed by Ali De Souza, Merrimen in The Importance of Being Ernest directed by Robert Carson, Prokhor in Vassa directed by Ekaterina Kamotskaia, Robert in They Shoot Horses Don't They ? Directed by Mark Stevenson, Chorus in Aladdin directed by Alisdair Hawthorn. (All Royal Conservatoire of Scotland)
Three in a bed as part of On The Verge 2013 at Tron Theatre, Theatre Uncut directed by Emily Reutlinger/Debbie Hannan/ Andrew McGregor at Traverse Theatre, Move To The Beat (London 2012) directed by Ellie McRea, Emmo in Our house directed by Gerry Ramage for The Dance school of Scotland at The Citizens Theatre.
Awards: The Duncan Macrae Competition for Speaking of Scots.
Tarjei Westby
Training: BA Acting at The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (2011 – 2014)
TV/Film Credits Include: Hotel Caesar (Regular Cast Member, TV2Norway), Tom Sterri; JAVA-4-EVER (Golden Pencil Award Winner), Simen Alsvik; Comedy Relief (TV3Norway), Hans-Erik Dyvik Husby; The Boy And The Abyss, Petter Skafle Henriksen.
Theatre Credits Include: One Man Hamlet (CCA), Iain Heggie; Panorama (The Arches), Debbie Hannan; Move To The Beat (London 2012), Ellie McRea; The Ashlad and Little Frikk And The Fiddle (Ashlad Independent Theatre), Marius Havik.
RCS Credits Include: Banquo, Macbeth, Ali de Souza; Lopakhin, The Cherry Orchard, John Kazek; Brick, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, Bruce Strachan.
Contact Information: 0770 332 99 54 tarjeiwestby@gmail.com www.tarjeiwestby.com
Cameron Crighton
Credits at the RCS include: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Cherry Orchard, The Comedy of Errors and Romeo and Juliet.
Selected Theatre includes: Theatre Uncut (Traverse Theatre), Fugee and Women Who Start Fires and the Men Who Stalk Them (Arcola Theatre), Too Fast (Soho Theatre), Dunsinane (NTS/RSC), Love’s Labour’s Lost and As You Like It (Pendley Shakespeare Festival), Creatures of Habit (RCS/Tron Theatre/Festival dei Due Mondi), Madness (Festival dei Due Mondi), Tragic (Glasgow CCA).
Selected Screen includes: Hollyoaks (Lime Pictures), Broken News, Short Change, Smile TV, Shadowplay (BBC), The New Worst Witch (ITV) and Sixty Six (Working Title).
Cameron is a member of the National Youth Theatre and previously featured as series regular Kevin Smith in Hollyoaks. Cameron is a 2014 Carleton Hobbs finalist.
Rebecca Reeves
Training: BA Acting Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
Theatre Credits include: Lady Macbeth in Macbeth; Dunyasha in The Cherry Orchard; Maggie in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - (RCS), The Hairy Maclary Show (NZ and UK Tour/Nonsense Room) Confessions of a Justified Sinner (NTS/Untitled Projects) One Single Tulip & Nothing to Be Done – ‘On The Verge’ double bill (Tron Theatre/RCS)
Rebecca is the recipient of a Laurence Olivier Bursary 2013 and Carlton Hobbs Finalist 2014.
Kieran Baker
Training: BA Acting Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
Credits in Training include: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Vassa, The Comedy of Errors and Romeo and Juliet.
Theatre Credits Include: Dunsinane (National Theatre of Scotland/Royal Shakespeare Company) Creatures of Habit (Tron Theatre/Festival dei Due Mondi), Madness (Festival dei Due Mondi), Tragic (Glasgow CCA).
Crystal Clarke
Theatre Productions: Witch 2 in Macbeth, Anya in The Cherry Orchard, and Mary in They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
Screen: White Romeo, directed by Bernd Porr, Friction, directed by Charlotte Goessens, and Music Video The Pastels "Check My Heart" (Forest of Black Prod.)
Full CV and Showreel: crystalclarkeactress.moonfruit.com
Laura Wooff
Training: BA Acting Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
Theatre Credits: The Princes (Hampstead Theatre), Consequences (Lowry Theatre Manchester), Desperate to be Doris (Lipservice Theatre Company) Oleanna, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Vassa, The Comedy of Errors (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland). Directing credits: 'I am Not Sick' (AD: The Pleasance Theatre, London) 'I Vow to Thee my Country' (Director: Rehearsed reading Hampstead Theatre).
Appointed as Assistant Director for National Youth Theatre's Playing Up 2 course 2010 where she assistant directed a number of performances & worked with companies inc. Talawa Theatre Company, Graeae Theatre Company, Gendered intelligence, The Unicorn Theatre, Old Vic New Voices & the National Science Museum.
Millie Turner
Emma Curtis
Training: The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Telford College
Credits: Adriana, The Comedy of Errors directed by Peter Collins; Carlotta, The Cherry Orchard directed by John Kazek; Jackie, They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? directed by Mark Stevenson; Cece, Nothing to be Done with Chaseplay Theatre Company; Miss Burstner, The Trial directed by Tracey MacDonald. Shy Girl, Exchange and Mart (short film) directed by Cara Connolly and Martin Clark; Girl (Lead), The Wake (short film) directed by Murdo Macleod.
Winner of Mark Andrews’ (Academy Award Winning Director for Brave) Creative Pitching Competition, recently shortlisted for the Carleton Hobbs BBC Radio competition for CDS drama schools, The Arnold Fleming Scholarship 2012, The R.C Buchanan Prize for Diction 2012
Josh Whitelaw
Training: Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Reid Kerr College
Theatre: Macbeth (MacDuff); Tartuffe (Loyal/Officer); The Cherry Orchard (Firs) ; They Shoot Horses Don’t They (Rocky Gravo) and Romeo and Juliet (Capulet), The Merchant of Venice (Shylock); One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Warren); and Road (Scullery).
Film/TV: Outcast directed by Colm McCarthy (Makar Productions, Futuristic Films), Wasteland 26 by Keir Siewert (Feature film – Breaking Point Flix).
Mia Hutchinson-Shaw
Training: BA Acting Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Interlochen Arts Academy, Orchard Project 2013
Theatre Credits: Steel Magnolias, Hairspray (Grandstreet Theater) Comedy of Errors, Vassa, They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland) Cyrano De Bergerac, Parallel Lives (Interlochen Arts Academy)
Screen Credits: Sarah (Jeff Kassanoff Productions), The 36 (Silver City Productions), Music Video The Pastels "Check My Heart" (Forest of Black Prod.)
Mia is a recipient of the Sir John Gielgud Bursary.
Terence Rae
Theatre Credits include: Brimming - Emma Adams, Something Right - Cathy Crabb (SlungLow/DepArts)
Theatre Credits at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland: Miseryguts, Comedy of Errors, Vassa, They Shoot Horses Don't They, Twelfth Night.
Ahd Tamimi
Training: Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Björk Jakobsdóttir acting class.
Theatre credits include: An Addicts Best Friend (written by Tarjei Westby. Directed by Mark Stevenson for On The Verge at the Tron theatre)William Shakespeare´s The Comedy of Errors(directed by Peter Collins) The Cherry Orchard (directed by John Kazek, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (directed by Bruce Strachan, Medea (directed by Emily Reutlinger)
Film credits include: Game of Thrones season 4 (extra), Wasteland 26(supporting), Menswear(short) Persona(supporting), Cinthol soap ”Alive is Awesome”(advert) National bank of Iceland student advert
Francesca Grace
Training: BA Acting The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, The Jaques Lecoq School: About Comic and Tragic (short course).
Credits include: Wanting for Anghus by Laura Lindow with INK Newcastle (Theatre Royal Newcastle, The Maltings Berwick, ARC Stockton)
Credits in training include: They Shoot Horses Don't They? Directed by Mark Stevenson; Vassa directed by Ekaterina Kamotskaya; The Comedy of Errors directed by Pete Collins.
Director of One Single Tulip & acted inNothing to Be Done – ‘On The Verge’ double bill (Tron Theatre/RCS)



Tania Van Amse
Training: BA Acting Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, National Youth Theatre, Ecole Jaques Lecoq: Comic and Tragic (short course)
RCS credits: The Beaux Stratagem (Dorinda), The Comedy of Errors (Dromio of Ephesus), Vassa (Luidmila), They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (Ruby), Oleanna (Carol)
Theatre credits include: Flood (Peter Collins - NYT), Oh What A Lovely War (Sean Mcnamara, Electric Theatre), Whistle Down The Wind (NYMT, Jeremy James Taylor)
Film/TV Credits: Exchange and Mart (Lead Role, Short Film, Hopscoth Film, Digicult, Cara Connolly and Martin Clark), The Students of Springfield Street (Futuristfilm, 2013), Waterloo Road (Shed Productions, Ann Mcnamus)
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Andreas Muñoz |
Training: BA Acting Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Real Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático
Selected Film Credits: The Students of Springfield Street (Lead role. Steven Johnson - Futurist Films), Yocasta (Alexa Fontanini - XIIX Films), The Way (Emilio Estévez - Filmax), Nodo (Elio Quiroga - Eqlipse Prod. Cinematogáficas), Paredes (Jorge Galerón - Marela Films) Goal II: Living the Dream (Jaume Collet-Serra - Milkshake Films), Arena en los Bolsillos (Lead role. Cesar Martínez Herrada - Dexiderius Producciones), Volando Voy (Miguel Albaladejo - Mediapro & Estudios Picasso), Vida y Color (Santiago Tabernero - Bausan Films), Incautos (Miguel Bardem - Alquimia Cinema), El Caballero Don Quijote (Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón - Gonafilm), The Devil´s Backbone (Guillermo del Toro - El Deseo)
Theatre Credits: Dunsinane (Roxana Silbert - National Theatre of Scotland & Royal Shakespeare Company), Macbeth (Ali de Souza - Royal Conservatoire of Scotland), Tongues (Sarah Esmi - Madrid Texas Ensemble), Medea (Michael Cacoyannis - Nuria Espert)
Awards: Winner Best Actor (Lead role) - Notecortes Film Festival for Paredes
Contact Information: 07 450 129 407 /+34 645 177 284 andreasmunozbq@gmail.com
Stefan Trout
Training: BA Acting Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
Stefan was born in San Francisco to a Brazilian father and American mother but was raised in France. Some of his most recent credits include; performing in and directing a children's show for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival entitled Si L'Enfant ne Dort pas Bien, playing Antipholus of Ephesus from The Comedy of Errors by Shakespeare and Yahsa from The Cherry Orchard. He was also recently the co-author of Creatures of Habit, an original piece derived from a series of long improvisations, which was performed at the Festival dei Due Mondi as part of the European Young Theatre initiative in the summer of 2013. He can also be seen performing Archer in the upcoming RCS production of The Beaux' Stratagem.