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Catherine-Anne Toupin graduated from The Conservatory of Dramatic Arts in Montreal in 1999. She has become a well-known actress in Quebec and can be seen each week on two very popular television series. She has also written three full length and many other short plays, which have all been produced.  She spends most of her time acting, both on stage and on screen while also working as a script editor for a television show she created, called Boomerang.

Chris is currently Literary Manager of the Royal Court after being Deputy Literary Manager of the National Theatre for six years. He has translated plays by Philippe Minyana, David Lescot, Rémi de Vos, Adeline Picault, Magali Mougel, Launcelot Hamelin, Frédéric Blanchette, Catherine-Anne Toupin and Fabrice Roger-Lacan for the National, the Almeida, the Donmar, the Traverse, the Birmingham Rep and the Young Vic among others. In 2014, Chris was appointed Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government. An actor for many years, Chris has worked at many theatres including the National, the Birmingham Rep, the Gate and the Traverse. He most recently appeared alongside Meryl Streep in The Iron Lady.

David’s recent work includes the soundtrack to Butterfly by Ramesh Meyyappan, Threads, a short film by Curious Seed, World Factory for Metis Arts/Young Vic London, Dundee Rep’s production of Jo Clifford’s Great Expectations and the 10- year anniversary remount of Grid Iron’s The Devil’s Larder. Other theatre work includes a series of soundtracks for Grid Iron – Those Eyes, That Mouth (2003), The Devil’s Larder (2005), Barflies (2009) and What Remains (2011). His work for the Traverse Theatre includes The Tree Of Knowledge (2011) and Bloody Trams (2014). His work for the National Theatre of Scotland includes Elizabeth Gordon Quinn (2006), Something Wicked This Way Comes (2008 – a co-production with Catherine Wheels), Mary Queen Of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off (2009), Our Teacher’s A Troll (2009), Dolls (2009 – a co-production with Hush Productions) and The Missing (2011).

His work in children’s theatre includes his chamber opera The Songbird (2010) and soundtracks for Catherine Wheels productions: Pobby & Dingan (2010) and Caged (2011).

David is the recipient of several awards including the Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Award for Music.

Michael Boyd was Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company from 2002-12, where his productions included the twenty four hour RSC Histories Cycle, described by The Guardian as “One of the great events of modern theatre”, and “the best I have seen in 30 years” by The Telegraph.  As Artistic Director he led the £112 million reconstruction of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, as well as commissioning and producing the Complete Works Festival 2006-7, the World Shakespeare Festival for the London Olympics 2012, and Matilda the Musical. He took a repertoire of 7 Shakespeare plays to the Park Avenue Armory as part of the Lincoln Center Festival, New York, in 2011. Prior to joining the RSC, he was founding Artistic Director of the Tron Theatre in Glasgow from 1985-96, where his productions included Ted Hughes’ Crow, The Trick Is To Keep Breathing (also Royal Court and World Stage Festival, Toronto), and several works by the Québécois playwright Michel Tremblay. In 2014/15 he staged both parts of Marlowe’s Tamburlaine in New York (Obie, Drama Desk, and Drama League Awards), and made his Royal Opera debut with Monteverdi’s ORFEO at the Roundhouse (nominated, Outstanding Achievement in Opera, Oliviers) His work has won many UK and international awards, including four Oliviers, and he was knighted for services to drama in 2012.

He has been Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan, and the Cameron Mackintosh Professor of Contemporary Theatre at the University of Oxford, where he is a Fellow of St Catherine’s College.