Rhianne Barreto

Rhianne Barreto is a 27-year-old, London-born actress, best known for her leading roles in the 2019 film Share, the ITV drama Honour (2020), and the BBC series The Outlaws (2021).

She is the daughter of an English mother and an Iraqi-born father of Indian and Portuguese heritage, and she attended the National Youth Theatre and the BRIT School. Barreto gained recognition as one of Screen International’s Stars of Tomorrow in 2018 and won the Breakthrough Performance Award at Sundance for her work in Share.

She began acting in a school play at age ten and appeared in the Film4 short film Tickle Monster. Her first television role was in the CBBC web series Dixi.

Her first major role came in the 2019 A24 film Share, which earned her the Breakthrough Performance Award at the Sundance Film Festival.

Oter major works have included: Hanna (2019) – Amazon Prime Video Honour (2020) – ITV The Outlaws (2021) – BBC One No Escape (2023) – Paramount+

John Michie

John Michie is a Scottish actor, born in Burma in 1956, best known for his television roles as DI Robbie Ross in Taggart, and as Karl Munro in Coronation Street, and Guy Self in Holby City.

He began his career as a stagehand at the Traverse Theatre in Scotland and has a varied film and TV career spanning decades, with other credits including Poirot, The Bill, and Distant Voices, Still Lives.

After a period as a jackaroo in Australia, he worked as a stagehand at Edinburgh’s Traverse Theatre, where his interest in acting began. In the long-running STV detective drama Taggart he played DI Robbie Ross from 1998 to 2011. He joined Coronation Street as murderous Karl Munro in 2011 to 2013.

He is more recently better knows for his role ass consultant neurosurgeon Guy Self in the BBC medical drama Holby City (2013 to 2022). He has also appeared in Brookside, The Bill, Heartbeat, Eastenders, Poirot, and Rab C Nesbitt, among others.

His film credits include Distant Voices, Still Lives, Monk Dawson, and To Walk With Lions.

James Haddrell

Director

James has been the Artistic & Executive Director of Greenwich Theatre since 2006, and in that time he has transformed the theatre into one of the UK’s most important supporters of young and emerging theatre makers, providing a home, a mentor, a supporter and a showcase venue for some of the most exciting new voices in British theatre. Supported companies have transferred work to Edinburgh, Dublin, Adelaide, Madrid, Beijing and New York, as well as touring the UK extensively.

As a director, in 2017 James has directed the acclaimed new plays Under My Thumb by Cassiah Joski-Jethi, Gazing at a Distant Star by Sian Rowland and Get Therapy by Danielle Imara. He is the producer of the annual Greenwich Theatre pantomime and the Greenwich Children’s Theatre Festival.

James has a long association with the works of Jez Butterworth and last year directed Paul McGann in the critically acclaimed author’s The River.

Joe Penhall

Author

Joe Penhall’s first major play, Some Voices, premiered at the Royal Court Theatre’s upstairs playing space in London in 1994. It was very well-received, winning the John Whiting Award, and has since been played off-Broadway twice. In 2000 he adapted the play for a film with the same name directed by Simon Cellan Jones, starring Daniel Craig and Kelly Macdonald.

He returned to the Royal Court Theatre with his second full-length play Pale Horse, featuring Ray Winstone, which tells the story of a bar keeper coming to terms with the sudden death of his wife.

He adapted Ian McEwan’s novel Enduring Love in 2004 to film starring Rhys Ifans and Daniel Craig. That same year he also wrote the screenplay for BBC2’s BAFTA-nominated dramatisation of Jake Arnott’s novel The Long Firm (1999), starring Mark Strong.