ARLINGTON PROGRAMME
“You will search for answers. You cannot help it. Because you are - presumably - a human. You will search for answers. And that is beautiful. Search, dig, dissect, invent. But alongside that furious dance for meaning, we ask that you make space for another dance. A space to imagine not what is but what might be. That other space is a place for politics and lust, for beauty and horror, above all for mystery. That space is not open all the time. Sometimes it is crucial that that space is closed. But this evening it is open. We hope you enjoy the show.”
CREDITS
Dancer | Jack Anderson
The Young Man | Alex Austin
Isla | Aisha Goodman
With the voices of Andy Clark, Pauline Goldsmith, Ann Louise Ross and Benny Young
Writer | Enda Walsh
Co-Directors and Choreographers | Lucy Ireland and Jim Manganello
Producer | Isy Sharman
Scenic and Costume Designer | Anna Yates
Lighting Designer | Emma Jones
Video Designer | Rob Willoughby
Sound Designer | Garry Boyle
Composer | Cat Myers
Design Assistant & Costume Supervisor | Ailsa Munro
Production Manager | Craig Fleming
Stage Manager | Emma Skaer
Technical Stage Manager | Lynn Wiseman
AV Technician | Andy Reid
Marketing | Eragona Communications
PR | Storytelling PR
Casting Associate | Michael Howell
BIOGRAPHIES
JACK ANDERSON | DANCER
Jack started out as an Irish dancer, touring internationally from the age of seventeen with Rhythm of the Dance and Celtic Legends. He then worked with Ériu Dance Company which awakened new curiosity about different ways of moving, and went on to re-train at Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance. Now living and working back in Glasgow, Jack has worked extensively as a performer for Shotput and Éowyn Emerald & Dancers, as well as on projects with Michael Clark, Farah Saleh, Aya Kobayashi & Monika Smekot, Rob Heaslip, Barrowland Ballet, Company Chordelia and others.
He has taught company class as a guest teacher for New Adventures and Stopgap Dance Company, and facilitates classes, mentoring and practitioner training with Scottish Ballet, Paragon, Dance Base, The Work Room, Indepen-dance and others - emphasising inclusion and empowerment through expansive, generous physicality.
In 2024-25 Jack began to reconcile his Irish dance background with his contemporary dance practice. He was awarded research residencies at Dance Ireland, Dance Limerick and Galway Dance, and premiered the dance-theatre gig not for glory in collaboration with Charlotte Mclean and Malin Lewis.
ALEX AUSTIN | THE YOUNG MAN
Alex is a performer, script reader and dramaturg from Walthamstow in East London.
Theatre includes: Macbeth (ETT/Lyric Hammersmith), As You Like It (Shakespeare’s Globe), Olivier Nominated Blackout Songs (Hampstead Theatre), LOVE (Park Avenue Armoury Theatre, New York), Wuthering Heights, The Skriker (Royal Exchange), Ivan and the Dogs (Young Vic), The End of Eddy, Henry The Fifth, The Nutcracker, The Man With The Disturbingly Smelly Foot, How to Think the Unthinkable (Unicorn Theatre), A New and Better You (Yard Theatre), Gundog, Grimly Handsome, Primetime, Yen, Pigeons (Royal Court), Thebes Land (Arcola), Fury (Soho Theatre), Olivier Nominated Barbarians (Bad Physics/Young Vic), Idomeneus (The Gate Theatre), Hope, Light and Nowhere (Underbelly), My City (Almeida Theatre) Telling Tales and Encourage the Others (Almeida Young Friends).
Film and Television includes: Smashing (Zoic Films), Andor (Disney +), I Hate Suzie (Bad Wolf), Doctor Who, The Mallorca Files, Casualty, Holby City (BBC), The Bike Thief (Roman Holiday Ltd), Blood Out of a Stone (Watersmeet Productions/BFI Flare), Legacy (Legacy Films), The Christmas Candle (Pinewood Films), The Hooligan Factory (Altitude HF Ltd), The World’s End (Black Pictures Lts), The Swarm (Stray Bear Productions), Liar (Brocess Ltd), Sherlock (Hartswood), The Interceptor, New Tricks, The Musketeers, Misfits, (Clerkenwell Films).
GARRY BOYLE | SOUND DESIGNER
Garry Boyle is a Recording Engineer/Mixer/Producer and Sound Designer based at Slate Room Recording Studio, Pencaitland. Garry holds a Degree in Popular Music from Napier University, Edinburgh.
In the music world Garry has recorded / mixed a wide range of artists including the Elephant Sessions (Trad Album of the year winner 2022), Trio HLK with Dame Evelyn Glennie, Blue Rosem Code, Broken Records, The Katet, Beats and Pieces Big Band, Matt Carmichael, Fergus McCreadie, Stanley Odd, Kirsten Adamson, Dean Owens, Katheryn Joseph and The Tinderbox Orchestra, amongst many more.
Garry’s film and television credits include the BAFTA 2021 Winning Adam, produced by the BBC and Hopskotch Films, as Sound Designer and Score Composer, Netflix epic Outlaw King as on-set playback engineer and Post Production Pro Tools engineer, and Disney Pixar’s Brave as Additional Score Engineer. Garry also has numerous credits with the RSNO as Score Recordist / Pro Tools Engineer including Netflix Life on our Planet, Sony’s Equaliser 3, Kevin Costner’s Horizon and Apple TVs Silo, amongst many others.
Garry’s sound design credits include GRIT: The Martyn Bennet Story, Janis Joplin: Full Tilt (for Pachamama Productions); Glasgow Girls, Beats Per Minute, What Girls are Made Of, The Stamping Ground, and James IV: Fight of the Queen (for RAW Material Arts); Adam, Interference (for National Theatre of Scotland); Totentanz (for Shotput); and A Giant on the Bridge (for KT Producing).
In 2022 Garry was nominated for Best Sound Design at the 2022 UK Pantomime Awards and won Best Music and Sound at the 2022 CATS Awards for The Stamping Ground.
CRAIG FLEMING | PRODUCTION MANAGER
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AISHA GOODMAN | ISLA
Aisha is a graduate of Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Previous stage credits include THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA (Royal Shakespeare Company), CONFESSIONS OF A SHINAGAWA MONKEY (Vanishing Point, Kanagawa Arts Theatre).
LUCY IRELAND | CO-DIRECTOR & CHOREOGRAPHER
Lucy is a director, choreographer, and dance artist. She trained at the Dance School of Scotland, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and was a 2012/13 recipient of the Dancer’s Emerging Bursary Scheme at Dance Base. Lucy has worked professionally across Scotland and internationally, working with Scottish Opera, Perth Theatre, David Hughes Dance, Alan Greig Dance Theatre, Errol White Company, Ashley Page, Emily-Jayne Boyle, Kally Lloyd-Jones and Katie Armstrong. Lucy teaches movement at a number of recognised institutions including, Dance Base, Scottish Ballet Associate Programmes, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and GAMTA.
EMMA JONES | LIGHTING DESIGNER
Emma is a Lighting Designer based in Scotland, she is an Associate Artist with Shotput and delighted to be back working on her third Shotput show. Emma’s work is often on tour worldwide, this year it has been shown in Italy, India, Germany and Romania. Coming Up: The Great Gatsby and The 39 Steps (Pitlochry Festival Theatre), Auntie Empire (Stellar Quines/Disaster Plan), and Cinderella (The Royal Lyceum Edinburgh). Recent credits: Not For Glory (Charlotte Mclean and Jack Anderson), Radiant Vermin (Tron Theatre), AUGUST (National Dance Company Wales), History of Paper (Dundee Rep/Traverse), LUNA (Birmingham Royal Ballet), Tero Buru (Leah McAleer/Disaster Plan/National Theatre of Scotland), Sunset Song (Dundee Rep/Edinburgh Lyceum), float (Starcatchers).
JIM MANGANELLO | CO-DIRECTOR & CHOREOGRAPHER
Jim is a director and performer. His professional debut was his own dance-theatre adaptation of Tolstoy’s War and Peace at the Viaduct Theatre in Chicago. Jim went on to co-found Fratellanza Theatre in his hometown of Detroit, through which he oversaw co-productions with Detroit Design Festival and Cleveland Public Theatre, as well as winning Best International Production at the Galway Fringe Festival. Since relocating to the UK in 2014, Jim’s work has been seen at the Citizens, Lyceum, Perth, Scottish Opera, Blackheath Halls Community Opera, Fulham Opera. He has taught at Royal Conservatoire Scotland, Central School of Speech & Drama, Drama Centre, and Rose Bruford. He has co-created work with young people as an artist-in-residence with Lyra, Imaginate, and Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Jim trained at École Lassaâd in Belgium, Birkbeck College, and the National Theatre Directors’ Course.
AILSA MUNRO | DESIGN ASSISTANT & COSTUME SUPERVISOR
Ailsa is a Costume Supervisor and Designer with 20 years of experience in Theatre. Trained at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, graduating in 2004 with a BA in Technical and Production Arts. She has worked on an extensive range of shows as Costume Supervisor for companies such as the National Theatre of Scotland, RCS, Scottish Opera, Citizens Theatre, MacRobert Arts Centre and The Gaiety in Ayr, amongst others. Her latest Design was for the Citizens Theatre Young Co, who performed "The Close" in the debut show for the newly opened Citizens Studio Theatre. Ailsa also leads weekly Sewing workshops for the Citizens Theatre Community and Outreach department and runs her own Bridal Design company, AJR Designs.
CAT MYERS | COMPOSER
Cat Myers is a dynamic session drummer and composer known for her powerful performances and creative versatility. She has toured globally with renowned acts such as Texas, KT Tunstall, and Mogwai. When she's not on the road with Texas, Cat composes original music for theatre, dance, and film, bringing her thoughtful rhythmic approach to the world of soundtracks and performance art. Cat composed the music for Shotput’s Totentanz.
ANDY REID | AV TECHNICIAN
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ISY SHARMAN | PRODUCER
Isy is a freelance theatre and dance producer based in Glasgow and working in Scotland and internationally. Previously Associate and Assistant Producer for Imaginate, Associate Producer for Catherine Wheels and Producer at Sphinx Theatre with whom she produced the national writer’s development programme Sphinx30. She has been the producer with Shotput since 2024, and is currently working with several independent artists and small organisations including Multi-Year Funded Snap-Elastic. Recent producing credits include: The Show for Young Men (Guesthouse Projects / Made in Scotland, 2024; Aaben Dans, 2025; Edinburgh International Children’s Festival, 2025), Brrr (Hayley Earlam / The Studio at Festival Theatre, 2025), Going for Gold: Me and Linford Christie (Catherine Wheels / Theatre in Schools Scotland, 2024), The Bum Bum Club (Snap-Elastic / Edinburgh Children’s Hospital, 2024), Ideas Exchange (Imaginate / Dance Base and Assembly Roxy, 2023), Hopeful Monster (Hopeful Monsters / Festival Mondial des Théâtres de Marionnettes, France, 2023).
EMMA SKAER | STAGE MANAGER
Emma has worked extensively in Stage Management for over 20 years.
Productions include: Make it Happen, Burn, Orphans, The Panopticon, My Left/Right Foot, The Reason I Jump, Adam, The 306: Day, Last Dream on Earth, The James Plays, The Driver’s Seat, Macbeth, Enquirer, An Appointment with the Wicker Man, Knives in Hens, Girl X, The House of Bernarda Alba, Dolls, The Bacchae, Wolves in the Walls, (National Theatre of Scotland); Wild Rose (Lyceum) Let the Right One In, Total Immediate Collective Imminent Terrestrial Salvation (National Theatre of Scotland and Royal Court) Inadmissible Evidence (Donmar); All My Sons, Sunshine on Leith (Dundee Rep); How to Fix a Broken Wing, Ugly Duckling, The Book of Beasts, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Hansel and Gretel (Catherine Wheels Theatre Company); The Secret Garden, Black Beauty (Red Bridge Arts); If These Spasms Could Speak (Robert Softley Gale/The Arches); The Shape of Things (Starcatchers/Branar); Kind of Silence (Solar Bear).
Opera includes: Pop Up Opera (Scottish Opera).
ENDA WALSH | WRITER
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ROB WILLOUGHBY | VIDEO DESIGNER
Rob Willoughby (née Jones) is an artist based in Glasgow who makes theatre, sound and video. He likes to build fantastic worlds and invite audiences to explore them.
Past collaborations with Shotput include videography for Totentanz and DISCOTHEQUE and video design for Ferguson & Barton.
His other recent video design credits for the stage include Brrr with Hayley Earlam for Capital Theatres, Wake Up for Solar Bear, Through the Shortbread Tin and Exodus with the National Theatre of Scotland, and Me and My Sister Tell Each Other Everything with the Tron Theatre Company. His sound design credits include the forthcoming DUSSSKK for Snap–Elastic, Isobel MacArthur's How to Sing It (Tron) and Mammalian Diving Reflex's All The Sex I've Ever Had (The Arches).
He is an Associate Artist with Shotput, Snap–Elastic and Brite Theatre.
LYNN WISEMAN | TECHNICAL STAGE MANAGER
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ANNA YATES | SCENIC & COSTUME DESIGNER
Anna Yates theatre credits include The Forsyte Saga (The Park Theatre), Abigail’s Party (Northern Stage and tour), Glee & Me (Royal Exchange Manchester), Totentanz (Shotput at Tramway, Glasgow and tour), Ferguson and Barton (Shotput at Cumbernauld Theatre and tour) and Berberian Sound Studio (Donmar, as co-designer), Elevenses (Somerset House) and Kafka’s Quest (Theatre for the New City, New York). Opera credits include Pimpinone (Linbury Theatre, Royal Ballet and Opera, Covent Garden), The Marriage of Figaro (Luzerner Theater), The Magic Flute (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland), Idomeneo (RCS), L’Etoile (RCS), The Medium and Three Decembers (RCS), Orpheus in the Underworld (Royal College of Music), Britten, Debussy and Ravel (RCM), Brundibar (Opera North Youth Company), Riders to the Sea and Cupboard Love (Byre Opera). Associate design credits include Figures in Extinction 2.0 (Complicité/Nederlands Dans Theater), Rusalka (ROH), La Boheme (ENO Drive & Live), The Antipodes (National Theatre) and Duchess of Malfi (Almeida). Anna trained at Tisch School of the Arts, NYU (MFA), and the University of Sydney (BA).
Anna is an Associate Artist with Shotput.