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Christian
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Sharon Bennett
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Fiona Barton (Treasurer)
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Melanie
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Nicky Stewart (Artistic Director)
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John Barton (Theatre Manager)
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Theresa Lynn
(Media Officer)
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Gareth Barton
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Libby Gee (Assistant Artistic Director)
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Derek Stewart (Youth Section Director)
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Sean Dowling
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Gavin Barton
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Moira Gee
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Stuart Anthony
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Craig Low
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Allison
Bennett
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Hazel Whately
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Larry Isabella
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Debbie Campbell
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 Nicky Stewart has grown up in amateur
theatre, her first stage performance being at the age of 3, dancing as a
chicken at the Whitehall Theatre. From the age of 5 she regularly performed
with the South Church Concert Party in productions such as ‘The cowboys and
the seven dwarfs’ and many of their pantomimes including Aladdin, Jack and
the Beanstalk, Robinson Crusoe. Later, Nicky was involved in Monifieth
High’s growing drama group and through that group, became involved with
Arena (appearing as Mary Tilord in Lillian Helman’s ‘Children’s Hour’)
which later developed into the amateur group, Act IV. Nicky went on to
study Theatre Arts at Dundee College - a course, which has evolved into the
present HND in Acting and Performing. Nicky introduced her husband Derek to
amdram and both appeared in Act IV’s production of Alan Aykborn’s ‘Season’s
Greetings’. Both were keen to rekindle their urge to perform after having
family and when they saw an advert asking those interested in starting a
group in Monifieth, they grasped the opportunity with fervour. Within MAD
Nicky has been involved in all aspects of theatre - performing, directing,
writing, working backstage. She has played a variety of parts from
-screaming Velma Cringe in ‘Don’t be Afraid of the Dark’; snorting
Henrietta in ‘Secondary Cause of Death’; blonde thug Mimi in ‘Allo Allo’;
to Judith, the worm who turned, in ‘The Opposite sex’ (performed at the
Edinburgh Fringe Festival). Pantomime is her first love and she has
co-written three of MAD’s four pantos, directed/co-directed two and
performed in them all - Pong the Palace guard (Aladdin), the Wicked
Stepmother (Cinderella), Maid Marion (Mother Goose) and Fairy Twinkletoes
(Jack and the Beanstalk).
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 Gareth Barton joined MAD in its second week, responding to a casting call for Zip,
a 25 year old waiter. It was a stretch at that time since he
was merely a 24 year old waiter. His protests that this is when he got
the acting bug as he prefers to forget the performances he and
his friends did for family in the attic (complete with curtains
and costume changes). Since Zip, Gareth has played a variety of
roles. From bumbling inspectors to panto dames and from an abusive,
womanising, drunk of a husband to the cheerfully simple Wishy Washy.
It seems no casting is too ridiculous. Having re-written and
co-written several pantomimes, Gareth has also taken a hand in directing
although his proudest moment has to be performing at the Edinburgh Fringe
Festival 2008 (which he has probably mentioned once or twice). "It
was an amazing experience. Even handing out flyers while mingling
with the other actors in the pouring rain was brilliant. I'd do it again in
a second. Given the right material, of course." Aside from the
drama group, Gareth works for the DebRA charity, helping raise money for
the genetic skin blistering condition Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB). With the
majority of his family involved in the theatricals, he seems destined to
remain forever serving the stage. He also hopes to stop talking
about myself in the second person in the near future...
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 Melanie Isabella played her first
role as Genghis, the deformed slave, in Monifieth High School’s
performance of ‘The Dracula Spectacular’. Apart from that, and a few drama
classes at school, Mel was a novice when she joined Monifieth Amateur
Dramatics and her first experience with MAD was as prompter for ‘Murdered
to Death’. Since then Mel had a shot at stage manager, director’s
assistant, set painter, wallpaper stripper, tea maker & washer upper,
general dogsbody, and of course, actress. She is not at all type cast,
usually playing the bitch, the loose woman, the bitchy loose woman or the
loose bitchy woman. Her favourite roles are the stripping Helga in
‘Allo Allo’ and Vicky in ‘The Opposite Sex’. Mel’s greatest achievement so
far is playing Vicky at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, closely followed by
meeting, and subsequently marrying, her husband Larry. Mel hopes to widen
her acting experience by taking on more challenging roles (less loose and
less bitchy), and would like to turn her hand at directing.
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 Gavin
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 John Barton was
introduced to acting with Carmyllie Amateur Dramatics when he played Mark
in ‘The Opposite Sex’. John joined MAD as a founder member and performed in
our very first play and enjoys getting involved in all aspects of the
theatre. He has turned his hand to Stage Management, Lighting, Sound, Front
of House and his favourite, Directing. His favourite part to date has
been Rene in ‘Allo ‘Allo and his greatest success was directing ‘The
Opposite Sex’ at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. John is now our Theatre
Manager.
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 Stuart Anthony originally came
along rather hesitantly some years ago to fill in a gap for a single MAD
production only....but enjoyed the experience so much that he has stayed on
ever since (it must be the dressing up!). Stuart has been taken on
acting roles such as Nazi officer, deaf old butler, womanising husband, and
panto Giant. Off-stage he has been lighting operator, stage manager,
and set painter.
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 Libby Gee first joined MAD when she was just 14 years old, in 2005. Her first appearance onstage was in "The Eagle Eye" (the one with the red hats.) Her favourite characters include: Queenie from Cinderella, Fairy Scarlet from Mother Goose, Nature Loving Norma from Allo'Allo and Sarah Appleby from A Bolt from the Blue. She loves being in MAD, and though lots of moments are memorable, none are quite as heart-stopping as Aladdin when the music cut, leaving her and her Mum (Moira Gee) to sing their duet acapella! Looking forward to turning her hand to directing, Libby's début will be in June, with "Two for the Tango".
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