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New Gaelic radio drama

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Mairi Morrison

Mairi Morrison trained as an actor at the RCS in Glasgow. She is also a professional singer and a writer, receiving the New Playwrights Award from Playwrights’ Studio Scotland.

Theatre work includes: Move/Gluasad (Disaster Plan), Bana-Ghaisgich, Scotties, Ceilidh, Shrapnel (Theatre Gu Leòr) Last Tango In Partick (National Theatre of Scotland), Dunsinane (National Theatre of Scotland/Royal Shakespeare Company), Briseadh na Cloiche, (C ’s C Productions), Yellow on the Broom, Perfect Days, Whisky Kisses, The Admirable Crichton (Pitlochry Festival Theatre), Away with the Birds (Trigger Stuff), Angus: Weaver of Grass (Horse + Bamboo Theatre), A Dead Man’s Dying (Òran Mòr/NTS), Jacobite Country, The Seer (Dogstar Theatre), Eat your Heart Out (Òran Mòr)

TV/Film includes: Outlaw King, Bannan, KaNe Morag, Briseadh na Cloiche, Dà Là san Damhair, Bad Brown Owl and extensive voiceover credits.

Mairi is currently working on her new album.

Daibhidh Walker

Daibhidh Walker is from South Uist and has been acting for close to to twenty years. He has been creating various theatre projects over the last couple of years, including Gaelic versions of MacBeth and Midsummer Nights Dream. He has also written and acted in PC Alasdair Stuibhart, and appeared in the drama series Bannan, alongside various voiceover work.

Calum MacDonald

Calum MacDonald, from North Uist graduated from Glasgow University in 2014.

His television work includes Clann a' Chogaidh Mhoir/Small Hands in a Big War, Buidheagan, and Blood of the Clans. He is a presenter for CBBC ALBA. His theatre debut was in the National Theatre of Scotland's production of Uisge Beatha gu Leor'/ Whisky Galore and he has since appeared in Dundee Rep’s production of ‘The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black Black Oil, and twice toured with the same play produced by the National Theatre of Scotland.  He has also previously appeared with Theatre gu Leor on Shrapnel and Ceilidh.

Iain MacRae

Iain began writing in 2013 and Panolof is Panalaf is his sixth drama to date. Fantom enjoyed a well received run at Citizens theatre 2014. He was granted New Gaelic Playwright 2015 by Playwrights Studio Scotland. Briseadh na Cloiche was performed and recorded live at Webster's theatre in 2016, and featured at the Glasgow Short Film Festival, Stornoway’s Faclan festiva and Babel international Film Festival in Sardinia. It was also broadcast on BBC Alba on New Year’s Day 2017. Tir is Tuil was performed as a rehearsed reading at the Citizens theatre, 2017. Taigh Sheonachain won the Donald Meek Award 2017. Dirlo – Am Fear Maireann was selected for Scenes for Survival (National Theatre of Scotland/ BBC) and broadcast BBC Alba, 2020. He won the Scottish Book Trust 50-word Story Award with Turas Baidhseagail in 2018 and with Speuclairean in 2020. The short story Mach an Geata won the 2019 Morton Writing Prize.    

Iain's poetry has been published in Poet’s Republic issues 3, 6 and 8 ; New Writing Scotland 36 and selected for A’ Chrannag podcast (2019).

Iain has worked as an actor in both English and Gaelic for television, stage, radio and film for over 35 years, appearing in the BBC’s Gruth is Uachdar, Ran Dan and Bannan, and in Machair (STV).

Elspeth Turner

Elspeth Turner is originally from Fife. An actor and writer, she creates contemporary theatre and film in English and Gaelic. After studying dance in London and theatre at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York, she began her career in America before returning to Scotland in 2011. Since then, she has worked with a variety of companies acorss the UK, including the Nationa Theatre of Scotland, Theatre Gu Leòr, sruth-mara, Eastern Angles, The Traverse and Òran Mòr.

Elspeth can currently be seen in new feature film Riptide – a schizophrenia love story from Lyre Productions. Elspeth’s plays include The Idiot at the Wall (2012), SpectreTown (2015), and Savage Nation (2021) – which deals with the legacy of the Gaels in North America. She recently wrote and directed short film Marram, which was shot in Berneray, Harris and in Edinburgh.

Elspeth is the recipient of playwriting awards from The Peggy Ramsay Foundation, Playwrights Studio Scotland, and the Tom McGrath Trust.

In partnership with BBC Radio nan Gàidheal. Supported by Creative Scotland and Bòrd na Gàidhlig.