LOUISE MCCARTHY is a Scottish actor, writer and producer working across stage and screen. Theatre includes The High Life (National Theatre of Scotland / Dundee Rep Theatre), Mamma Mia! (West End), The Steamie, Wild Rose (Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh), and multiple productions with the National Theatre of Scotland. She was nominated for Best Actress at the 2017 CATS Awards for Cuttin’ A Rug.

Television credits include Stevens & McCarthy (creator/writer), Scot Squad, Two Doors Down, Only an Excuse?, In Plain Sight, The Scotts and Queen of the New Year. Film includes Wild Rose (Film4/BFI).

As a writer, Louise has contributed to BBC Comedy Unit productions including Scot Squad and Only an Excuse?, and has been commissioned to develop two new BBC comedy pilots. She is also co-writer of The DOLLS stage productions.

Eden is an actor musician and graduate from The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Theatre credits include Malory Towers UK Tour (Emma Rice Company), The Sound of Music, A Toast Fae the Lassies (Pitlochry Festival Theatre), Nessie (PFT/Capital Theatres) Grease (PFT/Blackpool Grand Theatre), Urinetown, Sweet Charity (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland), Beauty and the Beast (R&H Productions) Soloist in Emerging Scots and Composer for Scribbles (The Other Palace).

Ali trained in Musical Theatre at Motherwell College and has built a varied career in theatre spanning over 15 years, seeing her work nationwide. Alongside her acting career, she works as a musician/musical director and composer.

Some theatre credits include:
Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella (Kilmarnock Palace Theatre), Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty (Gaiety Theatre, Ayr), They Live In you (Bloomsbury Theatre, London), GIRLS NIGHT OOT! (Scottish & Irish Tour), We Come to Break Your Hearts (Tron Theatre), and Legally Blonde (Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Wales).

Ali has also performed in concert with Natalie Weiss and was involved in the original workshop for Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour. Her original musical ‘Hen Night Horror’ toured Scotland last year, receiving five-star reviews.

Born in Dundee, where she spent her formative years, attending Hawkhill Primary and Harris Academy, Lesley got the acting bug from early childhood. At the age of six she played Little, Little Red Riding Hood at the old Nicholl Street Repertory Theatre. She went on to study drama at the RSAMD in Glasgow and from there, went into The Great Northern Welly Boot Show with Billy Connolly.

Lesley made her film debut in 1973 as the schoolgirl Daisy in The Wicker Man, for which she also sang the title song. She still finds it fun to be part of a cult film.

She has worked extensively in Repertory Theatre since 1974, playing many wonderful parts, her special favourites being Piaf, Judy, Shirley Valentine and Miss Hannigan in Annie. as well as many appearances on television including a lead in Peter McDougall’s Play for Today, Just Your luck, and a spell in High Road.

She won a Laurence Olivier award in 1986 for her portrayal of Judy Garland in the musical Judy at the Strand Theatre written by her husband, Terry Wale. Other London appearances include Bells are Ringing (Greenwich) and Brigadoon (Victoria Palace Theatre).

In 2006 she appeared in the first Scottish tour of The Vagina Monologues and Mum’s The Word 2 and, following a pantomime appearance as Cinderella at the Oran Mor Theatre, returned to play Dorothy Parker in Excuse My Dust, a one woman play by Terry Wale, which went on to play at the Edinburgh Fringe. (Gilded Balloon)

Many cabaret appearances include Toujours L’Amour (her tribute evening to Edith Piaf) and A Garland For Judy. In 2015 she played Toujours L’Amour for the last time at the Gardyne Theatre in Dundee, to commemorate the centenary of Edith’s birth.

Back in 1998, she wrote a serialised version of her life for the Dundee Courier and after another 25 years, In and Out of the Spotlight (The Ups and Downs of an Actress) was published on Amazon. She has recorded almost 250 audio books.

She is thrilled to be part of the legendary play The Steamie.

Paul J Corrigan is a familiar face to Scottish audiences across stage and screen. He is best known for his long-running role as Stevie Burns in the BBC’s River City, and as Adam in the hit comedy Gary: Tank Commander. His television credits also include Gaz in Still Game, Rab C. Nesbitt, Only an Excuse? and Legit.

His theatre work includes the National Theatre of Scotland’s multi award-winning Black Watch, alongside Cuttin’ a Rug, No Mean City, James and the Giant Peach (Citizens Theatre), The Sailmaker (Ayr Gaiety), and The Wolves in the Walls (NTS/New Victory, Broadway), as well as Gobbo and Man Cub (NTS), and numerous productions at Oran Mor and theatres across the UK.

Paul is also a hugely popular panto performer and a regular favourite with audiences at His Majesty’s Theatre, Aberdeen for Crossroads Pantomimes.