Zinnie Harris read Zoology at Oxford University and subsequently completed an MA in Theatre Direction at Hull University. Her plays for stage include By Many Wounds Hampstead Theatre in April 1999, Further than the Furthest Thing performed by Royal National Theatre/Tron Theatre in 2000 and winner of the 1999 Peggy Ramsay Playwrighting Award, 2001 John Whiting Award and an Edinburgh Festival Fringe First award. Nightingale and Chase, Royal Court Theatre, Oct 2001; and at the Royal Shakespeare Company Midwinter in autumn 2004 and Solstice in 2005, both of which she directed.

Zinnie is currently under commission to the Royal Court, Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, the Royal National Theatre and the Tron Theatre, Glasgow. She was playwright in residence at the Royal Shakespeare Company from Jan 2000 – Oct 2001.

Other directing work includes Self Service (Sulleyman/Horvat) at the Theatre Workshop 1999, Cracked (2001 Edinburgh Fringe First Award), Dealer’s Choice by Patrick Marber (Tron Theatre, Glasgow 2003) and Gilt by Stephen Greenhorn, Rona Munro and Isabel Wright (Tron Theatre, Glasgow and National Tour 2003).

Zinnie was short-listed for the Evening Standard Most Promising Playwright Award in November 2000 and won The Arts Foundation Award for Playwriting 2004.

Zinnie has also written for radio and most recently for television, Born With Two Mothers was broadcast on Channel 4 in 2005.

Carol Ann trained at Glasgow University and has worked extensively in Scottish Theatre for the past 30 years. She was brought up on the Isle of Bute till the age of 10 and has strong family ties with Islay.

Theatre credits include Widow Quinn in Playboy Of The Western World; Oenone in Phaedre; Toinette in The Hypokondriak, Nurse in Romeo and Juliet, Varya in The Cherry Orchard and Elizabeth Proctor in The Crucible plus various witches and wicked stepmothers in Christmas shows at the Royal Lyceum Edinburgh.

For the Traverse, she played Maria in Losing Venice (Almeida, Australia, Sweden), Mrs Black in Elizabeth Gordon Quin, La Braukmann in Conquest Of The South Pole (Royal Court) and Maggie in Bondagers (Donmar Warehouse, Hungary and Canada).

She has also worked regularly at Dundee Rep, When I was a Girl I used to Scream & Shout; The White Bird Passes, Puntilla and His Man Matti for Communicado, appeared in Arabian Nights at the Tron and in male guise as Rageneau, the baker in Eddie Morgan’s version of Cyrano. Her last incarnation at the Citizens’ was as Mrs Twit in The Twits, complete with glass eye and knickers round her ankles.

She worked with Theatre Babel on The Greeks and toured with Liz Lochhead’s Medea to India and Canada, after two sell out seasons at the Edinburgh festival.

South of the border, work includes Daisy Pulls It Off for Andrew Lloyd Webber in the West End, the title role in The Good Person of Setzuan (York Theatre Royal), Katisha in The Mikado (Bolton Octagon), Nadya in Travesties (Nottingham Playhouse), Bidie in Maidenstone (Hampstead) and Marceline in The Marriage of Figaro (Manchester Royal Exchange).

Television credits include Brookside (Mersey TV), Taggart (STV), Vanity Fair (BBC), Monarch of the Glen (Ecosse Films) and Holby City (BBC).

Film work includes Else, the rape victim in Another Time Another Place for Channel Four and the Aunt in Every Picture Tells A Story for Flamingo Pictures.

Numerous radio productions include A Guid Scots Death by Jackie Kay, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Shuttle Diplomacy and a Spanish vampire in The Dark Side of the Border.

Carol Ann is co-author of Scotspeak a guide to Scots dialects. She worked as a dialect coach on Kidnapped for BBC TV and is near the end of a degree in Speech Therapy.

Jonathan graduated from RADA in 1972 with the Emile Littler Award for best comedy performance by a final year student. He appeared in many repertory theatres in England before joining the National Theatre in 1976. There he appeared in Volpone with Paul Scofield (director Peter Hall), Tales from the Vienna Woods (director Maximillian Schell), Julius Caesar with John Gielgud and Brian Cox (director John Schlesinger]) and Il Campiello with Peggy Mount and Beryl Reid (director Bill Bryden).

He moved to Scotland in 1978 to work at Pitlochry Festival Theatre and appeared there again in 1979, 1981 and most recently in 2004 playing Henry Saunders in Lend Me a Tenor (director Benjamin Twist), The Provost in The Government Inspector (director Tony Cownie) and Mr Symperson in Engaged (director John Durnin).

Has also made many appearances at Dundee Rep, Royal Lyceum Edinburgh, Perth Rep and his most recent spell at The Byre Theatre was in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof as Dr Baugh. Other recent roles include Dr Kelekian in Wit (Stella Quines) and The Showman in Sweet Fanny Adams in Eden in the Scottish Plant Hunter's Garden, Pitlochry (Stella Quines). Numerous TV appearances include Taggart, Strathblair, The Advocates and The High Road.

The last six months has been spent sailing the ocean waves on the Queen Mary 2 as a member of an on board RADA Graduate Company.

Matthew’s theatre credits include: Don Carlos, The She Wolf, The Representative and The Mysterious Mother for the Citizens’, The Alchemist Royal Exchange Manchester, Macbeth Liverpool Playhouse Studio, Something Wicked This Way Comes Liverpool Everyman, Also Blue Heart in The Heart Of The West Bush and Traverse, Her Sister’s Tongue Lyric Studio, Hammersmith, Mrs Ceausescu’s Organisation of Love BAC, A Prick Song For The New Leviathan Old Red Lion for Plain Clothes Productions; Songs Of The Gray Coast, The Niss and Camster Grey Coast Theatre Company, Hamlet Bristol Old Vic, Macbeth Royal Lyceum, Burning Bright Tramway and Making Changes, Antigone for TAG and Sunset Song for Prime Productions.

Film and television credits include; Gordon Bennett, Chasing The Deer, The Chalk Mark BFI, Zastrozzi, Holby City, The Chief, Young Adam, Loved Alone and Fran’s People.

He has also directed for Grey Coast Theatre, Plain Clothes Productions and the Highland Festival and founded the Inverness based Dogstar Productions. In 2006 he will direct The Seer by Ali Smith.

Sam trained at the Webber Douglas. Since graduating in 2001, he has appeared in a variety of productions across the country. Credits include Circus (Bristol Tobacco Factory), After the Fact (Soho Theatre Studio), This Happy Breed (Wimbledon Theatre), The Diary of Anne Frank (Chelmsford Civic Theatre) and The Two Gentlemen of Verona (National and European tour). In 2004 he played seven parts in the site-specific two-hander, Wild Specimens at Pitlochry Festival Theatre and since then appeared in two plays – Merlin and the Winter King at Derby Playhouse and Always the Bigot at the Glasgow Pavilion. Radio work includes Darwin and the Water of Leith for BBC Scotland.

Isabella Jade trained at Rose Bruford. Her theatre credits include Barbarians Salisbury Playhouse, Godspell on tour and in London. On television she has appeared in Doctors, Grange Hill and Holby City.

London based Ben has been Edinburgh based since 1981. He toured political theatre throughout Scotland with the Merry Mac Fun Co and as Associate Director at the Traverse he commissioned, developed and directed new plays. He was Artistic Director of Manchester’s Contact Theatre directing classics, modern works and new plays. He has directed for Edinburgh’s Royal Lyceum, the Lyric Theatre, Belfast, Gallowglass in Dublin and Friends of Italian Opera in Berlin.

Work with young people includes a project with young refugees for Stirling’s macrobert and directing for several drama schools. He has travelled to Mexico and New Zealand with the British Council to teach playwriting, and recently, in Latvia directed a workshop production of Midwinter by Zinnie Harris.

In music theatre Ben has directed regularly for the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Psappha, the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Hebrides Ensemble, Mr. McFall’s Chamber, The Seer Ensemble and Haddo House Opera. His production of Ronald Caltabiano’s Marrying The Hangman transferred from Manchester to New York and San Francisco. His production for the Hebrides Ensemble of a new opera Good Angel, Bad Angel toured Scotland. Be is a member of the Council of the Scottish Arts Council and Chair of the SAC Capital Committee.

For Prime Productions he has directed three productions Sunset Song, Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off and Romeo and Juliet. For Pitlochry Festival Theatre he has directed A Small Family Business, Lend Me a Tenor and Molly West’s Kitchen. He is currently developing a musical with Alexander McCall Smith.

Fiona trained with Motley. Theatre credits include: The Weir (Lyric, Belfast), Othello (Nottingham Playhouse), Dealer's Choice (Tron), Boston Marriage (Bolton Octagon), Outlying Islands (World Stages Festival, Toronto and UK tour).

For the Traverse: Dark Earth (Edinburgh Festival), Outlying Islands (Edinburgh Festival and Royal Court), The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek, Heritage and Highland Shorts.

Opera credits include: La Traviata (Haddo), Mavra, Riders to the Sea, Gianni Schicchi and La Pietra del Paragone (RSAMD).

She has also designed various education projects for companies such as TAG, Nottingham Roundabout, Theatr Clwyd and the Tricycle.

Andrew trained in Stage Management and Theatre Production at QMUC, Edinburgh. On graduating, he spent a year in the electronics department at the Traverse before returning to his business, PROScenia, which he established in 1999. With his company he has worked throughout the industry; projects include relights for Monster (Visable Fictions) and Technical Stage Management for Dance Base’s Defining Moments conference on Dance in Scotland and he has a range of site-specific work under his belt. Andrew is glad to be working with Prime Productions again, having been Technical Stage Manager and Relighter for Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off and Lighting Designer for Romeo and Juliet.