Our Carnal Hearts

Rachel Mars

Writer

Rachel Mars is a performance maker borrowing from theatre, live art and comedy. She has been making work for 7 years and has performed across the UK, including at the Southbank Centre, Brighton Festival, Barbican, Tate Modern, Forest Fringe and Summerhall. Her company Mars.tarrab is the 2017 winner of the Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award. Most recently she has been commissioned by Fuel Theatre, Ovalhouse London, Wellcome Trust and undertaken residencies at The Orchard Project and Asylum, New York; Playwrights' Workshop, Montreal and Cove Park, UK. She has shown work at festivals internationally including at Fusebox, Texas; Wildside, Montreal and Hot! NYC. Rachel is a regular on BBC Radio's 'Pause for Thought' and has written for The Stage, The Guardian, and The Jewish Chronicle. Rachel is an artist fellow of Birkbeck University. She has taught at various universities and artist development courses around the UK.

www.rachelmars.org

Louise Chan

Lighting Designer

Louise is a Scottish based, emerging lighting designer who enjoys the creation and the collaborative nature of theatre. She has earned a HNC in Technical Theatre during her time at Edinburgh College in 2016. And is now a recent graduate from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, with a Bachelor's in Production Technology and Management from the year 2021.  

  She was responsible for the lighting design for ‘’The Speculator’’ at the Athenaeum Theatre, an RCS production. Since graduating, she was a lighting design trainee role on National Theatre of Scotland’s, ‘’The Enemy’’, and most recently, worked at Comar (An Tobar and Mull Theatre) as a lighting designer for ‘’Every Brilliant Thing’’ that toured the highlands and islands as part of a small-scale tour.  

Jessica Donnelly

Music Director

Jessica graduated from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in 2020 and is thrilled to be making her creative debut as the Music Director for Our Carnal Hearts.

Vocal Credits include: Orphans (NTS), On Hope:A Digital Song Cycle (The Other Palace), Bernstein 100: MASS (RSNO). Television includes: IRN BRU Tournament Virgins.

Credits while training include: The Bakers Wife, City of Angels, Assassins, PIPPIN (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland), Bon Apetít, TANYA: A New Musical (RCS Bridge Week).

Rebecca Atkinson-Lord

Director

Rebecca is an award winning film and theatre maker who directs, writes, devises and produces theatre and performance.

Directing includes: Theatre. For Arch 468, Mediocre White Male, Dead and Breathing (Touring), MilkMilkLemonade, Learning How to Swim (Ovalhouse), Cuddles (UK tour and 59E59 Theaters New York), Seeking Oblivion, The Sluts of Sutton Drive (Finborough Theatre). Other directing includes: The Crunch (Look Left Look Right), Work/Play, Fosterling, (Ovalhouse), Top Brass, Anhedonia (Theatre 503), Seeking Oblivion (BAC), Mother Clap’s Molly House and The Flies (Crescent Theatre, Birmingham). Film. Domesticity (Stage to Film New York), The Class Project (Arch 468).

From 2010 - 2015 Rebecca was Director of Theatre at Ovalhouse. She is Founding Artistic Director and Chief Executive of Arch 468, Artistic Director and Chief Executive at An Tobar and Mull Theatre and Chair of the Board of Dante or Die.

Ruth Darling

Designer

Originally from the Isle of Mull, Ruth is a Glasgow based Set & Costume Designer with a passion for creative collaboration in both Film and Theatre. Her theatre credits include: ‘Every Brilliant Thing’ (Mull Theatre Touring Production); ‘The Assumption’ (Solar Bear, Tramway); ‘Dark Vanilla Jungle’ (Mull Theatre Touring Production) and Set Designer for filmed theatre show ‘High Man Pen Meander’ (The Tron Theatre, Glasgow), which was awarded five stars by both The Guardian and The Scotsman. 

Ruth is a selected member of the ScreenSkills High End Television Trainee Finder programme for 2021/22. Her work on Television and Film spans a variety of media but includes: her role as Graphic Designer for the ‘Scot Squad Euro Special’; Live Action Art Director on STV’s ‘STV Sponsored by Galloway’ and most recently as an Art Department Trainee on upcoming Glasgow feature film ‘GIRL’ produced by Barry Crerar. 

She is very excited to be back working with Mull Theatre who sparked and nurtured her interest in theatre back in her school years. 

Catriona Macleod

Co-Director

Catriona is an award-winning screenwriter/director and former cabaret performer from the Isle of Mull. Pre-pandemic, she wrote, produced and performed her solo cabaret shows for five years, winning a VAULT Festival Origins Award for Outstanding New Work in 2018. Since moving into film, she’s been a Short CircuitConvergence screenwriter, was awarded one of Vanishing Point’s Everyone Is Creative grants and was commissioned by GMAC’s Little Pictures scheme to make her first short, which was filmed in Tobermory in November 2021. She’s also currently being mentored byVigil director Isabelle Sieb through Glasgow Film Festival New Talent scheme. She serves on the board for An Tobar and Mull Theatre, and a juror for 2022’s British Short Film Awards.