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[ Artist Biographies | Production Biographies ]
ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES
Brid Brennan
Mrs Young
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Brid has appeared in numerous film, television and theatre productions. On stage she has appeared in plays including Juno & The
Paycock, A Kind Of Alaska, Macbeth, Rutherford & Son and Playboy of The Western World. For her role on Broadway as Agnes in Dancing At Lughnasa she won the Tony Award. On television she has appeared in productions including Hidden City, Cracker, Hedda
Gabler, Tell Tale Heart, Ghostwatch, Itch, The Birmigham Six and South Of The Border. Films include Felicia's Journey, Trojan Eddie, Anne Devlin, Excalibur, and
Maeave. For her role in the film version of Dancing at Lughnasa she won Best Actress at Ireland's first Academy Awards. |
Eva Birthistle
Maura Young
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Eva has appeared on stage in productions including The Chirpaun, Bold Girls, and Steel Magnolias. On television she has appeared in In Deep/Ghost Squad, Making The Cut, and
Glenroe. Her film roles include parts in Borstal Boy, Saltwater, The American, Miracle at Midnight, All Souls Day and
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Christopher Eccleston
General Ford
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On stage Christopher Eccleston has appeared at theatres including The Bristol Old Vic, The National Theatre and The Royal Court in productions including A Streetcar Named Desire, Bent and Aids
Memoire. His television roles include parts in Cracker, Hearts & Minds, Our Friends In The North, Hillsborough, Killing Time, Clocking Off, Linda Green and the forthcoming Flesh And Blood. He has appeared in films including Let Him Have it, Jude, Heart,
Existenz, With Or Without You, Gone in 60 Seconds, and The Others. He will shortly be seen in 24 Hour Party People and 28 Days Later.
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Ciarán McMenamin
Leo Young
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Ciaran has appeared on stage in productions including Just Stopped By To See The Man at The Royal Court and Marathon at The Gate. Television roles include parts in productions including David
Copperfield, Rap At The Door, Young Person's Guide To Becoming A
Rockstar, Off The Walls, Two Days In Spring and the forthcoming Any Time Now and Beating Jesus. His film roles include parts in Cluck, Titanic Town, The Trench, Circus, The Last Minute, To End All Wars and the forthcoming Bollywood Queen.
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Barry Mullan
John Young
Barry has appeared in the films Sunset Heights and Gun. He has toured extensively with The Grove Variety Group taking roles in several productions including Grease, No Greater Love, Aladdin and Hamlet.
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PRODUCTION BIOGRAPHIES
Jimmy McGovern
Writer
Jimmy McGovern has written extensively for theatre, television and film.
For television his has written numerous award-winning programmes including Cracker, Hillsborough, Dockers, Hearts & Minds, The Lakes and Needle. He has also written over 80 episodes of Brookside as well as Go Now, Gas & Candles, El Cid, Traitors, Hard Cases, Patsy and Heroines Screw You Up. His films include Priest and Heart, and his theatre work includes The Hunger, Taig, True Romance, City Echoes, Block Follies, and We Can't Pay? We Won't Pay!
Charles McDougall
Director
Charles McDougall has directed several notable television programmes including episodes of Sex In The City, Queer As Folk, 99-1, Between The Lines and Cracker. He also directed one of the Tube Tales stories for BSkyB, Steal Away, and Jimmy McGovern's film Heart.
Charles also directed McGovern's award-winning drama Hillsborough which won more than a dozen awards including 3 BAFTAs. He also won an award for his first BBC drama, Arriverderci Millwall.
Gub Neal
Producer
Gub began his TV career as a floor manager at the BBC in 1985. He has since been head of drama at Granada Television and Channel 4. He left Channel 4 in September 2000 to set up BOX TV. As a freelance producer he was responsible for Medics, The Cloning of Joanna May, Angels, and The Humming Bird Tree and Cracker - which to date has won more than 28 international awards. At Granada he commissioned Prime Suspect (V), Hillsborough, Moll Flanders, The Grand, Painted Lady, The Ebbtide, Band of Gold, Gold and a final series and one-off special of Cracker.
In 1997 Gub was invited to run Channel 4's drama department for Michael Jackson. He left Granada and at Channel 4 commissioned dramas including, The Young Person's Guide To Becoming A Rockstar, Queer As Folk, Psychos, Kid In the Corner, Dockers, Longitude, Anna Karenina, Lock Stock…, North Square, Never Never, Sword of Honour, and Shackleton.
Since establishing BOX TV, the company has produced five major dramas in its first year and currently has more than 50 projects in development for a range of domestic and international broadcasters.
Gaslight Productions
Gaslight Productions was formed in 1998. Based in Derry, its directors are Stephen Gargan, Jim Keys and Tony Doherty. In 1999, the company was commissioned by Channel 4 to undertake the research and development of a script on Bloody Sunday. Sunday is its first production.
Gaslight's interests are in excavating, developing and ultimately producing stories that have the power to resonate and speak to people at a universal level. Stephen Gargan says, "We want to work with people in struggle. Societies are always in conflict, we want to make films that give voice to those in the margins. Films that challenge pre-conceived ideas. Films that can empower people and make a contribution towards a greater understanding of our respective situations. As an opening statement, Sunday sets the tone for the type of films we want to make. There will always be a need to hear the 'other side''.
Katy Jones
Factual Producer
Katy is an award-winning current affairs producer, whose work as an investigative journalist has led to three government inquiries: Pin Down, Aycliffe ,and Hillsborough. Katy spent five years on World in Action (as a researcher then producer) where she made more than 25 programmes on subjects ranging from child abuse to the LAPD. Katy has worked with Jimmy McGovern on all of his major drama documentaries. As Factual Producer of the multi-award winning Hillsbrorough, she uncovered dramatic new evidence about the police 'cover up' of the disaster, which led to calls for a new Inquiry. [Top]
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