David Hayman is well known for his role as Chief Supt. Michael Walker in Lynda La Plante‘s long-running crime thriller Trial & Retribution, which had 12 series from 1997 to 2009.

Hayman was born in Bridgeton, Glasgow, Scotland. He studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow.

Beth trained at the L’École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq, Paris.

Theatre credits include: How Not To Drown (Traverse)  and the leading role of James in James IV: Queen of The Fight for National Theatre of Scotland (NTS), Importance of Being Earnest (Perth Rep), All My Sons (Dundee Rep), How Not To Drown (Thickskin Theatre), Good With People & The First Dance (Oranmor), Macbeth (Stafford Gatehouse Theatre), Shift (National Theatre of Scotland), Small World  (National Theatre of Scotland), James I, James II and James III (National Theatre / National Theatre of Scotland), Lot and His God (Citizens Theatre), Truant (National Theatre of Scotland) and Blackout (Thickskin Theatre).

TV/Film credits include: Nightsleeper (BBC), Followers (Parkhouse Pictures), The Peripheral (Amazon Studios), The Control Room (BBC), Pumped (BBC3), Anna And The Apocalypse (Blazing Griffin), Blackout (Oscar Films), Exodus 21:24 (Black Camel), Outpost 3: Rise of the Spetsnaz (Cinema 3), River City (BBC Scotland).

Michael recently lead Mike Bartlett’s stage adaptation of Chariots of Fire at Sheffield Crucible in which his performance was described as ‘played to perfection.’

He can soon be seen in new Paramount+ series The Road Trip based on Beth O’Leary’s best-selling novel. Next up, Michael will be joining the cast of Trafalgar Entertainment’s Death of a Salesman (UK Tour) opposite David Hayman and is attached to independent feature Storm Witch starring Gemma Arterton & Chloe Pirrie.

Recently, Michael made his RSC debut in Macbeth directed by Wils Wilson. Previous theatre includes: The Angry Brigade and The Pool of Bethesda, both at Citizens Theatre, Glasgow.

Gavin has worked for a number of companies across Scotland also touring nationally and internationally.

Theatre credits include: Red Bridge Arts, National Theatre of Scotland, Vox Motus, Traverse, Royal Lyceum, Grid Iron, Francesca Moody Productions, Ayr Gaiety, Oran Mor, Tron, Citizens, Perth Theatre, Cumbernauld Theatre, Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Random Accomplice, MacRobert amongst others.

His TV credits include: Annika, Stevens & McCarthy, Unfair, In Plain Sight, Shetland, River City, Still Game, Taggart, Lip Service and Dear Green Place.

Radio & voiceover experience includes work for BBC Radio Drama, Borgen and Ridley Jones.

Benny‘s theatre work includes: Macbeth (Donmar Warehouse/West End); Eulogy, Philoctetes, The Importance of Being Alfred, Love with a Capital L, Sweet Silver Song of the Lark (Òran Mór), Be Near Me (Donmar Warehouse co-production with National Theatre of Scotland) Don Quixote (Perth Theatre), Monarch of the Glen (Pitlochry Festival Theatre), Still Game Live 2: Bon Voyage (Phil McIntyre Entertainment), Hay Fever (Citizens Theatre), The Tempest (Xinchan Performing Arts Co.), Waiting for Godot, Hedda Gabler (Edinburgh Lyceum Theatre), Right Now, Unfaithful (Traverse), Macbeth (Park Avenue Armoury, New York/Manchester International Festival), Never Land (Eden Court), Wallace (Glasgow Arches), The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Chichester Festival Theatre), The Seafarer (Perth Theatre/Belfast Lyric), Midsummer, and A Christmas Carol (National Theatre of Scotland).

For television, his work includes: Good Omens; Shetland, Rillington Place, Scot Squad, Still Game, One Day Like This, Garrow’s Law, Ian Brady: Roghainn a’ Bhàis?, Waking the Dead, Spooks, Talk to Me, Taggart: Genesis, Playing the Field, Castles, Doctor Finlay, All or Nothing at All, Tell Tale Hearts, Boon, Star Cops, Screen Two, Maggie, The Gentle Touch, Play for Today, Square Mile of Murder, Airport Chaplin, and Sutherland’s Law; and for film, Funny Man, A Woman at War, Captive, Out of Africa, White Nights, The Girl in the Picture. King Lear, Chariots of Fire, and Nosy Dobson.

Simon trained at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

Recent Theatre Credits: Treasure Island (Scottish Theatre Producers) A Bottle of Wine and Patsy Cline (Oran Mor) Casablanca The Gin Joint Cut (Perth Horsecross) Nae Expectations (Tron) Thora (St Magnus) Variant (Oran Mor), GHOSTS (National Theatre of Scotland); Emergence (Mull Theatre); Ali the Magic Elf and Ballyturk (Tron Theatre); What Girls Are Made Of (RAW Material/Traverse); The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart (Eastern Angles); When the Penny Drops, Dusty Won’t Play, Thoughts Spoken Aloud from Above, Lovesick Blues: The Hank Williams Story, Elf Analysis, Turbo Folk, 200 and The Ching Room (Oran Mor); Hello Dolly, Present Laughter, A Chorus of Disapproval and Lady Windemere’s Fan (Pitlochry Festival Theatre); Tam O’Shanter, Zlata’s Diary (Communicado); The Not So Fatal Death of Grandpa Fredo (Vox Motus); The Adventures of Robin Hood, The Spokesman, Jason and the Argonauts, Big Baby, The Curse of the Demeter (Visible Fictions).

Recent Radio Credits: Lamentation, Weir of Hermiston, This Thing of Darkness, For the Love of Leo, Pillow Book, Nest Eggs, Paul Temple, Sullom Voe, McLevy,The Pearl, Rebus, Maigret, The Heart of Midlothian, Dr Korczak’s Example, Westway and Book at Bedtime. 

TV/Film Credits: Screw, The Lost King, Outlander, Andrew Marr’s Great Scots: The Writers Who Shaped a Nation, Outpost 2: Black Sun, Behold Me Standing and No More Shall We Part.

Charlene’s TV credits include; Department Q (unreleased), Mayflies, Crime S2, The Control Room, The Trial of Christine Keeler, and Annika. Charlene was a series regular on River City, BBC Scotland.

Charlene recently wrote and starred in her first play- ‘June Carter: The Woman, Her Music and Me’ which premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe 2024, which was awarded a fringe first and completed a tour of Scotland. The play was commissioned by National Theatre of Scotland and Grid Iron Theatre Company.

Other recent theatre credits include: The leading role in The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart at The Royal Lyceum Theatre, an eight week run at the McKittrick Hotel in NYC followed by a wider US Tour. Other theatre credits include: 2:22 – A Ghost Story (UK TOUR), The Macbeths at the Citizen’s Theatre, Men Should Weep, The Miracle Man and Empty with the National Theatre of Scotland amongst many other great shows.

Stewart Ennis is an actor and writer. Born in Bridge of Weir, he trained at East 15 Acting School in the 80s and the Ecole Philippe Gaulier in the 90s, after which he co-founded the international theatre ensemble Benchtours (1990-2006) devising and performing many of their shows inc The Splitting of Latham, Ship of Fools, The Death of Don Quixote, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Limbo, Carnivale and the award winning Peepshow.

He has had the pleasure of working with some of Scotland’s most exciting theatre companies, including Communicado, The Arches, Hullaballoo, Rapture, Dundee Rep, Paragon, Reeling & Writhing, Theatre Workshop, TAG, Fire Exit and Northern Irish co, Tinderbox.

His screen work includes: Taggart, Rebus, Still Game, Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased), My Name Is Joe and Play Me Something. He has written several plays , inc The Monster and Mary Shelley, The Taking of Zena Charbonne, Another Nice Mess, Robert Burns’s Celtic Complex and The Dark Room.

For several years he was prison creative writing tutor and edited the anthology of prison writing Visiting Time. His debut novel, Blessed Assurance was published in 2020, and most recently he co-created the book, Yaltji Nyungu Papa in collaboration with children of Tjuntjuntjara Remote Community, in Western Australia.

Fay Guiffo is a French Cameroonian classical violinist, acting-musician and dancer based in Edinburgh.

She performed for eminent classical music companies (Glasgow Barons Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra), theatre productions (Lyra Theatre Company) and worked with choreographers such as Katie Armstrong (SKETCHES, Made in Scotland Showcase 2023) and Joanna Mendl Shaw (New York, 2024).

Passionate about film-making, she was commissioned by Africa in Motion Film Festival to compose the music for the silent film Within our Gates by Oscar Micheaux (2019). In 2021, she wrote, directed and performed in the self-funded music film Spanish Dance (Finalist at the Oniros Film Awards- New York 2021). She is currently developing her solo show Arcana 21, whose work-in-progress was presented at the Scottish International Storytelling Festival.

Bailey is from Glasgow and graduated from the BA Acting Course at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in 2019.

Stage credits include: The Scaff; Write-Off (both A Play, a Pie and a Pint); Moorcroft (Tron Theatre/National Theatre of Scotland); 1902 (Saltire Sky); A Wee Swatch of Oor Wullie; A Potted Christmas Carol; Oor Wullie: The Musical; A-Z of Dundee; Tay Bridge (all Dundee Rep); San Diego; Humbug!; The Breathing House; Strucken Moon; Julius Caesar; Philistines and Middletown (all Royal Conservatoire of Scotland); Blackout (Glasgow Acting Academy/NT New Connections).

Television credits include: Lockerbie (World Productions); Scot Squad; The Sunny (The Comedy Unit); The Field of Blood (BBC Scotland).

Gillian has diverse experience in Theatre, Short Film and Audio performance.

Her work includes; Jean Armour in Ayr Gaiety’s production of Ae Fond Kiss, Dorothy Wordsworth in the one-woman play The Lament Of Dorothy Wordsworth (The Vault (Edinburgh)/The Kirkgate Centre (Cumbria)/The Swallow Theatre), and as August in the comedy Irrelevant at the Edinburgh Fringe (shortlisted for the Scottish Arts Club Theatre Award).

She can be heard as Wolf’s Bane in the audio play An Isolated Incident and as the Narrator in The Man Who Wanted Eternity (available on Audible).