Summer Season 2022 - Noises Off Cast

Alyson Orr

Alyson has performed with many theatre companies including: Perth Rep, Scottish Opera, Borderline, Byre Theatre, Theatre Workshop, Wildcat, Jersey Opera House and most recently the Glasgow Pavilion Theatre, appearing in numerous productions there. She played the role of Kate Fulton in the much loved show, ‘Rikki and Me’ alongside Gerard Kelly and Tony Roper.

She has also appeared in TV shows such as ‘River City’, ‘High Road’ and in the BAFTA award winning film, ‘One Life Stand’. She recently played the lead character in an Irn Bru commercial for the Euros.

Alyson is one third of the jazz vocal harmony group The Swingcats. She has appeared all over the world with them including shows in Dubai, Marrakech and Monte Carlo and they have performed with some of the UK’s top big bands, most notably the BBC Big Band and the Glenn Miller Orchestra. The Swingcats have also appeared on ‘Friday Night Is Music Night’ and ‘Big Band Special’ on BBC Radio 2.

Alyson composed the music for the musical comedy, ‘The Wedding Planners’ and is currently working on a new musical called ‘The Coven’.

She has also produced shows for some of Scotland’s best-loved stars including Jimmy Logan, Jonathan Watson and Alex Norton.

Connor Going

Connor trained at the University of Glasgow and Royal Academy of Music, London.

Theatre credits include: Chuck/Cover Ren in FOOTLOOSE (UK & International Tour), Piano Man in THE CHOIR OF MAN (USA Tour & Australia Tour), Otter in THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS and Donald in DONALD & BENOIT (Pitlochry Festival Theatre), Musical Director/The Busker in INDECENT PROPOSAL (Southwark Playhouse) & Band Leader/Ensemble in A CHRISTMAS CAROL (Barn Theatre Cirencester).

Concert Credits include: Soloist for THE BEATLES ORCHESTRATED (Abbey Road Studios), Backing Vocalist for U2 AT THE BBC (Abbey Road Studios) & Soloist for AN EVENING OF THE GREATEST MUSICALS (Pitlochry Festival Theatre).

Connor is delighted to be returning to Pitlochry Festival Theatre again this summer, after making his PFT debut in 2021. He is excited to play his part in continuing to embrace and celebrate the return of live theatre and performance in Scotland.

Deirdre Davis

Deirdre graduated from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in 1991. She has worked for many theatre companies including the Tron Theatre, Perth Rep and 7:84 Theatre.

In recent years she has played Nora in Rona Munro’s Bold Girls at the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow. She has appeared in a few movies and television shows and spent 14 years playing Eileen Donachie in BBC Scotland’s River City.

Deirdre first worked at Pitlochry in 1999, when she appeared in The Summertime Is Come with Jimmy Logan and Edith McArthur. Since then, she’s returned to Pitlochry several times appearing in The Magistrate, Heartbreak House, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty and The Monarch Of The Glen.

Deirdre has appeared in consecutive Pitlochry seasons, most recently as Madame Arcati in Blithe Spirit, Emer in Heritageand Maria Hale in North and South in 2019. Deirdre was also a part of PFT’s Winter Ensemble 2021.

She’s thrilled to once more be back at PFT this year.

Keith Jack

Keith Jack is best-known for BBC 1’s Any Dream Will Do where he came second.

Theatre credits include: The Narrator in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (UK Tour); Charlie in Only The Brave (Edinburgh Festival); Joseph in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (UK Tour); Alistair in Sincerely, Mr Toad (Edinburgh/Greenwich); Ralph Rackstraw in HMS Pinafore (UK Tour) and Sparky in Forever Plaid (St James Theatre, London) and Nick Piazza in Fame (West End/UK Tour)

Keith’s pantomime credits include: The title role in Dick Whittington (Maidstone); The Prince in Sleeping Beauty (Ipswich Regent, Glasgow Kings); the title role in Peter Pan (His Majesty’s Theatre, Aberdeen); Prince Charming in Cinderella (Whitley Bay/Horsham/Newark); the title role in Aladdin (King’s Theatre, Glasgow) and The Prince in Snow White (Stag Theatre, Sevenoaks and Gatehouse Theatre Stafford).

Concert appearances include: Performing for HM The Queen at the Parliament Picnic; performing for the Spanish Royal Family. The Great Scot Awards; Choices for Life 2008 & 2009; Lauder Live (Thirlestane Castle); BBC 2’s Friday Night is Music Night; Music, Music.

Music – John Barrowman’s album tour (Hammersmith Apollo); Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Birthday Concert (Hyde Park); BBC Songs of Praise. Keith also headlined Aberdeen’s Hogmanay Street Party in 2009 with Sandi Thom and Amy MacDonald. An Evening of Movies and Musicals with John Owen Jones and Ruthie Henshall (Cardiff/Edinburgh). He also performed alongside Ruthie Henshall during her solo tour. Keith appeared alongside Joe McElderry in Saturday Night at the Movies (UK Tour).

TV credits include: When Joseph Met Maria (BBC Christmas Special) and I’d Do Anything (guest appearance).

Recording credits: Keith can be heard on the soundtrack for the award- winning film, The Dreams of Kings and the radio play Unholiest Order. Keith’s first studio album, This Time, went straight into the Top 20. His second album, An Evening at the Musicals, and third album, A Little Bit More of Me, also hit the Top 30. He completed three sell-out UK Tours of these albums. Keith can also be heard on John Barrowman’s album, Music, Music, Music. He also features on the cast recordings of two new musicals, Sincerely, Mr Toad and Only The Brave.

Keith’s newly-released fourth album, Movie Nights, features classic songs from iconic movies.

For more information and to keep up to date with future projects, check out Officialkeithjack.co.uk or @keithjack on Twitter @keithjackofficial on Instagram.

Keith Macpherson

Keith trained at RSAMD and the École Jacques Lecoq.

Stage credits include: The Yellow Door (Lyceum/ Edinburgh International Book Festival), Selkie (A Play a Pie and a Pint), Rapunzel, Bauble Trouble, Museum of Dreams, Waiting for Godot, Desire Under the Elms, Peter Pan, The Wizard of Oz (Citizens Theatre), Yellow Moon, The Monster in the Hall (Citizens/NTS), Light Boxes (Gridiron), Decky Does a Bronco (Gridiron/Almeida), James and the Giant Peach (Dundee Rep), The Yes/No Plays (Traverse), Horizontal Collaboration (David Leddy/Fire Exit), Best Of The Village Pub Theatre (Village Pub Theatre), Henry V (Bard in the Botanics),Rogue Herries (Theatre by the Lake), Mother Courage, Clutter Keeps Company (Birds of Paradise), A Christmas Carol (Cumbernauld Theatre), Hamlet (MYT Theatre), This Time With Feeling, Timeless (Suspect Culture), Para Handy (Warehouse Theatre), Funny (Reeling and Writhing), 4.48 Psychosis (Sweetscar/ Cumbernauld Theatre/Tramway), Faust, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Arsenic and Old Lace (Edinburgh Lyceum), Trojan Women (Theatre Cryptic), Private Agenda, Factory Girls, the Trial(7:84), The Lost Child (Chichester Festival Theatre), Invisible Man (Vanishing Point), Brave (Communicado), The Canterbury Tales (Rejects’ Revenge), Making Room for Camille (Aware Haus), Rafferty’s Café (Quondam), Little Victories, Sunset Song (TAG), Macbeth (Chester Gateway), Media Star (Theatre Workshop), Bloodknot, Piaf, Twelfth Night (Brunton Theatre), The Country Doctor, I Love You Baby but I Gotta Run, The Ran Dan (Merry Mac).

Audio credits include: Donald and Benoit (Pitlochry Festival theatre), The Chronycle (BBC Radio Scotland).

Film credits include: Stan and Ollie.

TV credits include: Taggart, Silent Witness.

Marc Small

Marc Small has been an actor of stage and screen for over 20 years. He has appeared in beloved TV favourites such as Emmerdale, Holby City, Jonathan Creek and The IT Crowd.

Over his career Marc appeared in numerous stage productions such as Richard II (Almeida), Of Mice and Men (Octagon Bolton) Daddy Cool (Shaftesbury theatre) One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (Theatre Clwyd) and To Kill a Mocking Bird for which he was nominated for an MTA.

Marc returns to Pitlochry after appearing in their productions of The Crucible, Heritage, Barefoot in the Park and North and South.

With his writing partner, Marc has written a number of produced feature films, and been co director on one of them.

He has also directed stage plays, Amongst them being, The Visit, The Life and Death of Almost Everybody, Romeo and Juliet and In Time (Dance). Most recently he has been an Assistant Director on Pitlochry Theatre’s Barefoot In The Park and directed their Christmas film, The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus.

Meg Chaplin

Meg is an actor-musician trained at East 15 Acting School (MA Acting). After graduating, she made her professional stage debut in the UK tour of David Walliams’ ‘The Midnight Gang’ (Heartbreak Productions). Since then, Meg has appeared at the Royal Albert Hall in ‘Father Christmas at the Royal Albert Hall’ (Goblin Theatre), as Assistant Musical Director/Ensemble in ‘Woman of Flowers’ (Kara Tyler/East 15), and most recently as part of multimedia site-specific production ‘Arrival’ (imPOSSIBLE producing).

Meg is an experienced multi-instrumentalist and when she isn’t on-stage, also runs an educational Youtube channel, ‘Music With Meg’, with over 10,000 subscribers worldwide.

As a Cornish native, Meg is excited for a summer season in Pitlochry -about as far from her hometown as you can get by road -and although she’s looking forward to exploring Scotland, she still hopes she can find a pasty or two…

Rachael McAllister

Rachael trained on the BA Musical Theatre Course at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, following her time at the Dance School of Scotland.

Rachael was part of the 2019 PFT Christmas company, performing in A Christmas Carol, and was lucky enough to be a member of the PFT2 020 Light Hope Joy Company online. She is delighted to be returning to the theatre in the hills in person this year.

Other Credits include: Brilliance (Farnham Maltings), Son of a Preacher Man (No.1 UK Tour), The Little Mermaid (Macrobert Arts Centre)

Musician Credits Include: Trombonist –Oklahoma (GSA), Urinetown (Edinburgh Fringe), 9 to 5 (Chichester)

Rachael is thrilled to be heading home to Scotland for the summer and would like to thank her family and friends for their never-ending support!

Richard Colvin

Richard is overjoyed to be returning to Pitlochry Festival Theatre for a 5th time having been part of the Christmas company in 2019 and the rep company in 2021, 2019 and 2014. Richard was born in Fife, studied at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and then the Royal Academy of Music.

His Other theatre productions include: The Wizard Of Oz (Storyhouse, Chester); Sunshine On Leith (West Yorkshire Playhouse); A Christmas Carol, Threepenny Opera and Singing In The Rain (Octagon, Bolton); The Borrowers (New Vic Theatre); Hamlet and A Government Inspector (Northern Broadsides); The Hired Man (off-Broadway), and Assassins (Crucible, Sheffield).

Richard regularly tours with the internationally renowned cabaret “Opera Boys“, and has also worked as a principal soloist for the London Symphony and the National Symphony Orchestras.