Biographies

Graham Eatough, Director

Graham co-founded Suspect Culture in 1992 and has been the company’s Artistic Director since 1995. He has been involved in all Suspect Culture’s productions and has also directed work for the Tron Theatre, 7:84 and Cryptic Productions. He has worked as a performer in film, television and theatre. He received a Creative Scotland Award in 2001.

Barbara Rafferty, Actress

Barbara trained at RSAMD and spent a year at the Sorbonne in Paris. She has worked extensively in Scotland and England.

Best known in TV as ‘Agnes’ in Hamish Macbeth and as Ella Cotter, Jamesie’s wife in Rab C. Nesbitt, Sea of Souls, Rockface, Doctor Finlay, Take the High Road and now most well known as Shirley in the great BBC soap ‘River City’.

Barbara has appeared in a few films such as ‘Women Talking Dirty’, ‘The Wicker Man’, ‘Blood Red Roses’ ‘Billy Bongo’ and most recently in the Oscar winning film ‘Last King of Scotland’ as James McAvoy’s mother.

Vincent Friell, Actor

Television Includes: Still Game, Rab C Nesbitt, Para Handy, Taggart, Roughnecks; Toughlove

Film: Restless Natives, Silent Scream, Trainspotting

Theatre Includes: Slab Boys (Young Vic), Perfect Days (Vaudeville Theatre London), Spend a Penny (Arches), Solem Mass (Traverse)

Kat Calton, Producer

Kat Calton worked at MTP for 2 years before joining 55degrees. Since starting at 55, she has produced music promos, short docs for Channel4 4 Talent, and two short films for Cineworks and Digicult.

Amanda Currie, Art Director

Born in Lancashire, Amanda completed a Postgraduate in Fine Art at the Slade School of Art in 1995 and has since worked as an artist doing various Public Art projects and exhibiting in Italy, Germany and the UK.

Four years ago she was drawn to the visual art field in TV and Film. Now living in Glasgow, she has worked as a standby art director on numerous productions in Scotland and been supervising Art Director on a Tartan Short and a long standing BBC Scotland Drama.

Nick Powell, Musical Director

Nick is an associate artist of Suspect Culture and has been an important part of the company since its origins at Bristol University. His recent work outside the company includes Marat Sade (Centro Dramático Nacional, Madrid), Realism (National Theatre of Scotland/ Edinburgh International Festival), The Wonderful World of Dissocia (National Theatre of Scotland/ Tron) and The Wolves in the Walls (Improbable Theatre/ National Theatre of Scotland).

Nick’s screen work includes several short films as well as numerous soundtracks for Channel Four (including BAFTA and Rory Peck award winner BENEATH THE VEIL), and is one half of the band OSKAR.