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Jennie Lee: Tomorrow is a New Day
Creative Team

Matthew Knights - Playwright​

Matthew is a playwright based in Arbroath and Artistic Director of Knights Theatre. ​​His writing for theatre includes We Are The Builders (rehearsed reading, Traverse Theatre), Strange Meeting (Words, Words Words, Traverse Theatre), NEWSBOY (Tron Theatre, Festival of Politics), Fortress Europe (Tron 100 Festival, Tron Theatre) and The Ballad of Ewan MacColl (rehearsed reading, Tron Theatre, Dundee Rep). He is a graduate of the MSc Playwriting at The University of Edinburgh. ​​

Matthew is also a creative writing tutor and has delivered social history themed workshops in partnership with North Lanarkshire Council, Angus Alive, Leisure & Culture Dundee, Fife Council, East Lothian Council and many others.

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Emma Lynne Harley - Director

Emma Lynne Harley is a queer, working-class, multidisciplinary theatre maker, director, writer and performer from Dunfermline now based in Glasgow who makes vibrant cross-genre work. They are a Lyceum L20 alum, co-producer of Play Full Theatre, and co-director of award-winning Siren Theatre Company.  Previous work as a director includes: For Better, For Worse by Jill Franklin; Jennie Lee: Tomorrow is a New Day by Matthew Knights; their play Sex, Drugs and a Cup of Tea; Lost in Music by Kim Moore and Nicholas Bone (assistant director, Scottish Tour); Angela by Mark Ravenhill (assistant director, Lyceum Soundstage/BBC Radio Four). Their work as a maker/performer includes TXT ME: Cyber Showcase and Online Protest (Siren Theatre and The Gaiety) a verbatim music-theatre show about women and femme’s safety, and Walking on Eggshells (Lyceum Wonder Festival), an autobiographical cabaret-theatre show about living with Complex-PTSD. They perform regularly as a cabaret artist around Scotland, and currently write with The Prescription medical humanities group, associated with the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons in Glasgow.

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Trish Mullin - Actor

Trish studied at Glasgow University and at the RCS. She has worked in Theatre, Television and Film. Theatre Credits include REaD Tidy Carnage,  The Gates Confab/Glasgay, Macbeth Bard in the Botanics, Loving Burns Edinburgh Fringe,  Home, Edinburgh NTS, The Lost Ones Vanishing Point. Film & TV Credits include Sunset Song Terence Davies (Bafta nominee 2016 Best Feature), Sunshine on Leith Dexter Fletcher, Up there Zam Salim (Bafta Winner 2012 Best Feature, Best Director), Perfect Sense David McKenzie, Dear Green Place BBC,  Still Game BBC,  Rebus ITV,  Taggart ITV, Rab C. Nesbitt BBC,  Terri McIntyre BBC.

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Kit Laveri - Actor

Kit Laveri is a Scottish actor and writer based in Glasgow. She is a graduate of New College Lanarkshire, receiving her BA degree in Acting in 2023.
 
Theatre credits include: Cinderella (Hopscotch Theatre Company/The Brunton); The Lady of the Loch (Simply Surreal Theatre); Macbeth (New College Lanarkshire); Crisis: A Rallying Cry (Kick the Door/Traverse Theatre).  Television credits include: Karen Pirie (ITV/World Productions)

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George Docherty - Actor

George was born in Glasgow and trained at RSAMD (RCS). Theatre credits include: After the cuts (Raw Materials) Philoctetes, A Terrible Beauty, Serov's People, The Pipes! The Pipes!, Voices In The Dark (Oran Mor) Othello, Much Ado about Nothing, King Lear (Bard in the Botanics) Arsenic And Old Lace, The 39 Steps, Dear Brutus, Communicating Doors (Pitlochry Festival Theatre) This View Of Life (Citizens') King Lear (TAG) The Demon Barber (Perth Theatre) Grave Plots (Old Red Lion) The Crucible (Arches). Film & TV credits include Outlaw King (Sigma/Netflix) Love sick (Clerkenwell/Netflix) Fried, Dear Green Place, The 39 Steps, Para Handy, Trev and Simon Show (BBC).

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Production Team Credits
Artistic Director/Writer: Matthew Knights
Associate Producer: Lisa Nicoll
Production Manager: Camilla O'Neill
Director: Emma Lynne Harley
Cast: Kit Laveri, Trish Mullin, George Docherty
Dramaturg: Nicola McCartney
Set & Costume Designer: Ali Maclaurin
Lighting Designer: Stevie Mackie
Sound Designer: Ross Somerville
Technical Manager: Ed Wright
Stage Manager: Riona Gilliland
Social Media & Communications Officer: James Coutts
Press & PR: SM Publicity

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