Right Now. Catherine-Anne Toupin

Of The Shrew, Julius Caesar, The Drunks, The Grain Store (RSC); The Motherf**ker With The Hat, The Holy Rosenburgs, The Passion, Happy Now? (National Theatre); Lela & Co, Routes, The Witness, Disconnect (Royal Court); The Vote, Berenice, Huis Clos (Donmar Warehouse); My City, Ruined (Almeida); Multitudes, Red Velvet, Paper Dolls, Bracken Moor, Handbagged (Tricycle Theatre); Di and Viv And Rose, Handbagged, The Importance of Being Earnest, Bakersfield Mist, The Madness Of George III, Ghosts, Kean, The Solid Gold Cadillac, Secret Rapture (All West End); To Kill A Mockingbird (Tour & Barbican); The King’s Speech (Tour); After Miss Julie (Young Vic); Saved, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Lyric, Hammersmith); To Kill A Mockingbird, Hobson’s Choice, The Beggars Opera (Regents Park Theatre); Therese Raquin, The Big Meal, King Lear, Candida (Bath); The Whipping Man (Plymouth); Into The Woods, Sunday In The Park With George (Chatelet Theatre, Paris); The Kitchen Sink, The Contingency Plan, If There is I Haven’t Found It Yet (Bush Theatre); A Number, Travel With My Aunt (Chocolate Factory); Private Lives, The Giant; Glass Eels; Comfort Me With Apples (Hampstead theatre); Restoration (Headlong); Pride And Prejudice, Hamlet, The Caretaker, Comedy of Errors, Bird Calls, Iphigenia (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield).

      Opera includes: Werther (Scottish Opera); The Merry Widow (Opera North & Sydney Opera House); Samson et Delilah, Lohengrin, The Trojan Trilogy, The Nose, The Gentle Giant (Royal Opera House).

       Madeleine Girling (DESIGNER)

      Madeleine Girling trained in Theatre Design at The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, graduating with a First Class Honors, and receiving The Lord Williams Memorial Prize for Design 2012. In 2013 she was awarded as a winner in The Linbury Prize For Stage Design for her collaboration with Nottingham Playhouse. Between April 2013 and July 2014 she worked for The Royal Shakespeare Company in a one-year, Design Assistant position. Previous design work includes: A Skull in Connemara (Nottingham Playhouse); The Harvest (Ustinov Studio, Theatre Royal Bath/Soho Theatre); Little Light (The Orange Tree Theatre); The Chronicles of Kalki (Gate Theatre); Time And The Conways; Arcadia (Nottingham Playhouse); Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again.; The Ant & The Cicada (Royal Shakespeare Company); Gardening for the Unfulfilled and Alienated (Undeb Theatre); Tender Napalm; How To Curse (BOVTS Director’s Showcase); A Welshman’s Guide To Breaking Up (Boyo Productions); Hey Diddle Diddle (Bristol Old Vic); The Cagebirds (LAMDA Director’s Showcase); The Life After (BOV Young Company); Blood Wedding (RWCMD Burton Company).

       David Paul Jones (COMPOSER/SOUND DESIGNER)

      David is an Edinburgh-based composer, pianist, vocalist and songwriter. His work for Theatre includes: Tracks of The Winter Bear, The Tree Of Knowledge and Bloody Trams (Traverse); Those Eyes, That Mouth, The Devil’s Larder, Barflies and What Remains (Grid Iron); Butterfly (Ramesh Meyyappan); World Factory (Metis/Young Vic); Elizabeth Gordon Quinn, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Mary Queen Of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off, Our Teacher’s A Troll, Dolls, The Missing (National Theatre of Scotland); Great Expectations (Dundee Rep); Pobby & Dingan and Caged (Catherine Wheels).

      David has worked internationally on projects in Australia, South America, USA, Middle East, Singapore and, most recently, as composer for the National Theatre of China in Beijing and Hong Kong.

      David is the recipient of several awards including the Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Award for Music. His recorded work is available on Linn Records and www.davidpauljones.com

       Chloe Masterton (ASSISTANT DIRECTOR)

      Chloe is currently studying for an MA in Drama Directing at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.

      As director her credits include: A Doll’s House (Bristol Old Vic Theatre School); Track and Threads (Bierkeller New Writing Festival); The Vagina Monologues (Bierkeller) and The Wing (Bristol Old Vic Basement/Theatre Uncut).

      As assistant director her credits include: Wind in the Willows (Bristol Old Vic Theatre School); The Eleventh Hour, The Imaginaries and Nordost (The Egg, Theatre Royal Bath).

       Ginny Schiller CDG (CASTING DIRECTOR)

      Ginny has been Casting Director for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Chichester Festival Theatre, Rose Theatre Kingston, English Touring Theatre and Soho Theatre. She has worked on many shows for the West End and No. 1 touring circuit as well as for the Almeida, Arcola, Bath Theatre Royal, Birmingham Rep, Bolton Octagon, Bristol Old Vic, Clwyd Theatr Cyrmu, Frantic Assembly, Greenwich Theatre, Hampstead Theatre, Headlong, Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse, Lyric Theatre Belfast, Menier Chocolate Factory, Northampton Royal & Derngate, Oxford Playhouse, Plymouth Theatre Royal and Drum, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, Shared Experience, Sheffield Crucible, Young Vic, West Yorkshire Playhouse and Wilton’s Music Hall. She has also worked on many television, film and radio productions.

      Previous work for the Theatre Royal, Bath includes: The Father (also West End/tour); She Stoops to Conquer, Talking Heads, Hay Fever and Relative Values (both also West End); Kafka’s Dick, Thérèse Raquin, Bad Jews (also West End/tour); The Hypochondriac, Things We Do For Love, Moon Tiger, The Tempest, Hysteria, Home, This Happy Breed and Born in the Gardens. She has cast all bar one of the previous Ustinov Studio productions under Laurence Boswell’s artistic directorship.

       Catherine-Anne Toupin (PLAYWRIGHT)

      Catherine-Anne Toupin is a French Canadian actress and writer. She graduated from The Conservatory of Dramatic Arts in Montreal in 1999. Over the years, Catherine-Anne has become a well-known actress in Quebec. She has acted in more than 30 plays and her resumé includes numerous television and film credits. She can now be seen each week, on CBC, in two popular Quebecois television dramas: Unité 9 and Mémoires Vives. She has also created a half-hour TV comedy entitled Boomerang, in which she stars with her fiancé, actor Antoine Bertrand. The show is a huge hit and is already preparing its third season.

      As a playwright, Catherine-Anne has written three full-length plays: À présent, L’envie and Alexandre, as well as many short plays. In 2005, Right Now (À présent) won the Prix Françoise-Berd awarded to the best new play by a young author. The play has been translated into four languages and has been produced in Canada, Italy and Mexico. Catherine-Anne now lives in Montreal where she spends most of her time acting and working as a script editor for her Sitcom Boomerang. She hopes to write another play soon …

       Guy Williams (GILLES)

      Guy trained at LAMDA and has gone on to perform in a huge range of theatre, television and film roles. Previous theatre credits include: Spanish Tragedy (Arcola); King Lear, The Seagull, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Winters Tale, The Changeling (RSC); The Duchess of Malfi (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Present Laughter (Theatre Clwyd); Rebecca (National Tour); Journey’s End (Comedy); The Romans in Britain (Crucible Theatre); Pravda, The Government Inspector, Venice Preserved, Antigone, Coriolanus, (National Theatre), Timon of Athens (Leicester); Rose Rage (Propeller, Watermill, Theatre Royal); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Propeller, Watermill, Comedy).

      Guy’s film credits include: London Has Fallen, The Man from U.N.C.L.E, The Cosmonaut, Sherlock Holmes, Middleton’s Changeling, To Walk With Lions, Thin Ice. Television work includes: Indian Summers, Young Cilla, Peaky Blinders, Downton Abbey, Mr Selfridge, Father Brown, Ripper Street, This is England 88, Land Girls, Law and Order, The Queen, Silent Witness, Spooks, King Lear, A Very Social Secretary, Trial and Retribution, and Happy Valley.

      Right Now was first presented in the UK as a script-in-hand reading at the Traverse in November 2014 as part of New Writing from Quebec,