Pauline Goldsmith is an actress, theatre maker and comedic writer from Belfast in the north of Ireland. She has lived in Glasgow and Belfast. Her plays include "Bright Colours Only" which has been created several times for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Goldsmith is known in theatre for her Irish wake play Bright Colours Only. It was first performed in November 2001 at Tramway Theatre as part of the Dark Lights Festival. Since then the show has been performed over 20 years [1] It was part of the programme at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival for two consecutive years, and in 2002 productions in England and in 2003 in Brazil. In 2017 it again returned to the Fringe when it was "highly recommended". [2]
Goldsmith won the 2004 Best Actress Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for her performance in Samuel Beckett's 1972 play Not I . [3] She also performed her second play, Should've Had the Fish, at the Assembly Rooms at the Fringe Festival during August 2006. [4]
In 2012 she wrote and performed in a six part sketch show with Vivienne Grahame and Jo Sutherland for Radio Scotland. The premis for the show was people meeting at the school gates as they collected their children. The show was called "The Gates". [5]
In 2016 she appeared as the capitalist antagonist in "The Destroyed Room" which was apoclyptic play about modern conversations. It was performed in Glasgow, Edinburgh and London by the group, "Vanishing Point" [6] In 2022 she was in the small cast of Debbie Tucker Green's "hang" at the Tron Theatre in Glasgow with Saskia Ashdown and Renee Williams. [7]
Goldsmith has appeared in the following films:
Liz Lochhead Hon FRSE is a Scottish poet, playwright, translator and broadcaster. Between 2011 and 2016 she was the Makar, or National Poet of Scotland, and served as Poet Laureate for Glasgow between 2005 and 2011.
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Stones in His Pockets is a two-hander written in 1996 by Marie Jones for the DubbleJoint Theatre Company in Dublin, Ireland.
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Rachel O'Riordan is an Irish theatre director. She is the artistic director at the Lyric Hammersmith, London.
Scarlett Mack is an Irish/Scottish actress, best known for her role as Amy McConachie in the film Blackbird.
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David Ireland is a Northern Irish-born playwright and actor, known for his award-winning plays Cyprus Avenue and Ulster American.
Amy Molloy is an Irish actress born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She resides in London UK.
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