The United States vs Ulysses

Clare Barrett graduated with distinction from the Conservatoire at T.U. Dublin in 2003. Since then she has worked with many theatre companies performing in Ireland and internationally. Recent theatre credits include: Emma (Abbey Theatre); Shadow of a Gunman (Druid Theatre Company); The Quare Fella (Abbey Theatre); Every Brilliant Thing (Decadent Theatre Company/Galway International Arts Festival); Gold in the Water (Project Arts Centre/Mermaid); Toyshow, The Musical (RTÉ); Medicine (Landmark: Edinburgh International Festival, Galway International Arts Festival, and St. Ann’s Warehouse NYC); Wild Horses (Fishamble); TRAD (Livin Dred); Much Ado About Nothing (Rough Magic: Kilkenny Arts Festival/National tour); The Unmanageable Sisters (Abbey Theatre); Wizard of Oz (Cork Opera House); Minding Frankie (Lowry Theatre/Gaiety Theatre/National tour); Angela's Ashes (Lime Tree Theatre/Bord Gais/GOH Belfast.); The Train (Rough Magic: Abbey Theatre/DTF/MAC); The Dead (Performance Corporation: Project/National Tour); Big Maggie (Druid: Gaiety Theatre), Druid Shakespeare (Druid National Tour/Lincoln Festival NYC); Beautiful Dreamers (ANÚ/ Performance Corporation); Centenary (RTE/Cóis Céim); Moll (Verdant: Gaiety Theatre); Bernarda Alba (Dowager/Dublin Fringe); Crude Mechanicals (Bewley’s Cafe Theatre/Theatre at the Savoy); Happiness (Bewley’s Cafe Theatre); Assassins (Rough Magic); The Galway Girl (Bewley’s Cafe Theatre/Galway International Arts Festival); and I♥ALICE♥I (HotForTheatre: DFF/DTF/Peacock Theatre/World Tour/National)Recent 

TV and Film credits include: Only Child (Happy Tramp Productions); Frewaka (Doubleband Films); Good Grief (Netflix); Siters (Sare & Suze Productions); Bardo (AndMapsAndPlans); Wild Mountain Thyme (Heather Productions); and The Last Right (Deadpan/Crossday). She also played Bronagh in RTÉ's Fair City.

Ross Gaynor is an actor and a writer from Dublin. He is a graduate of The Lir Academy and of University College Dublin, where he received the Ad Astra scholarship for drama. 

Theatre credits include: Celebrity (Glassmask Theatre); The United States vs Ulysses (Once/Off Productions); The Rice Krispie Killer (Glassmask Theatre); The New Electric Ballroom (Gate Theatre); PIAF (Gate Theatre); Gravity[A Love Story] (BottomDog); All The Angels (Rough Magic); The Valley of The Squinting Windows (CityTheatre Dublin); Bullfight on Third Avenue (Bewleys Café Theatre); Mozart’s Der Schauspieldirektor (Irish National Opera); Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play (Rough Magic/SEEDS); The Train (Rough Magic); and his one-man play I AM A BIRD NOW (Theatre Upstairs). 

Film/TV credits include: King Frankie (Banjoman Films); Cave (Banjoman Films); Valhalla (MGM/Netflix); Normal People (BBC/Element Pictures); Blasts From the Past 1 and 2 (RTÉ/Firebrand); Bernard Dunne’s Mythical Heroes (RTÉ/Firebrand); Resistance (RTÉ); and What Richard Did (Element Pictures). 

As a writer, his work has been produced in Theatre Upstairs, The Abbey Theatre (Peacock Stage), and various Dublin Fringe Festivals.

Morgan C Jones is an actor, writer and audio producer from Dublin. Previous roles in productions include: Borstal Boy, Gotta Make That Train, Haughey/Gregory, Hamlet,  and The United States vs Ulysses. He has made several TV and film appearances including: Nighthawks, Nowhere Fast, Harry Wild, The Guarantee, and Boys From County Hell. He is the narrator of the Dublin Trilogy series of comedy crime novel audiobooks written by Caimh McDonnell which numbers 14 books and counting.

Film/TV credits include: This Is Not A Murder Mystery (Deadpan Pictures & Panenka); Sisters (RTÉ, AMC, Crave); Christmas at Castle Hart (Hallmark); Red Election (Viaplay & Nordic Studios); The South Westerlies (Deadpan Pictures); Agatha and the Curse of Ishtar (Channel 5); The Bailout (TV3); Women on the Verge (Deadpan); Nowhere Fast, Fair City, Rebellion, Roy, Raw (RTÉ); The Journey (IFC Films); An Crisis (TG4); 13 Steps Down (ITV); Hidden (BBC One); The Last Templar (NBC); Heartbeat (ITV); Single-Handed (RTÉ); The Tudors (Showtime); Inspector George Gently (BBC); The Tiger’s Tail (Merlin Films); Breakfast on Pluto (Sony); Veronica Guerin (Touchstone Pictures); Benedict Arnold: A Question of Honour (A+E Networks); Evelyn (United Artists); and Borstal Boy (Dakota Films). Mark was last seen on screen in The South Westerlies for RTÉ One. 

Theatre credits include: The Critic (Wexford Festival Opera); The United States vs Ulysses (Pavillion Theatre, Dun Laoghaire); Isla ( Theatre Clwyd, The Civic Tallaght, Garter Lane Theatre); Amongst Men (Wexford Arts Centre); Happy Birthday Dear Alice (National Opera House, Wexford); Sweeney Todd (Théâtre Orchestre Bienne Soleure); The Ferryman (Jacobs Theatre, Gielgud Theatre, Royal Court Theatre); The Phlebotomist (Hampstead Theatre); The Importance of Being Earnest, Romeo and Juliet (Gate Theatre); Heartbreak House, The Dead (Abbey Theatre); Dubliners (Dublin Theatre Festival); Plaza Suite (Rough Magic); Those Sick and Indignant (Gaiety Theatre); 16 Possible Glimpses (Abbey Theatre); Brighton (Theatre Royal, Waterford); Big Ole Piece of Cake (Fishamble); The Gigli Concert (Druid Theatre); The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Project Theatre); The Weir, Festen (Gate Theatre); Enlightenment, Hamlet (Abbey Theatre); All’s Well That Ends Well (RSC); Ariel, Barbaric Comedies (Abbey Theatre); Memory of Water (Vaudeville Theatre); The Spirit of Annie Ross (Gate Theatre); Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Young Vic); Molly Sweeney (Almeida/Gate Theatre); and Juno and the Paycock (Albery Theatre, Olivier Award Nomination). Mark was last seen on stage as Judge Turpin in Theater Orchester Biel Solothurn’s touring production of Sweeney Todd. 

Directing includes Celtic Exodus (The Complex, Dublin); Art (The Mill Theatre, Dundrum); The Secrets of Primrose Square (Broadcast); The Grapes of Wrath (Storytellers); The Hunt for Red Willie (Peacock Theatre); and Lovers at Versailles for the Abbey Theatre.

Ali White will next be seen on screen as Frances Baylor in The Rainmaker, a new drama series based on John Grisham’s novel of the same name, produced by Lionsgate and Blumhouse for NBC Universal, and in The Commoner, a new Irish/Norwegian co-production for Paradox and Yellow Film & TV, which is currently in post-production. 

Ali’s other film and television credits include roles such as Gloria in The Last Rifleman (Wee Buns) opposite Pierce Brosnan; Cath in Lie of The Land (Causeway Pictures); Dr. Amerila Bell in A Merry Scottish Christmas (Hallmark); Clara O’Reilly in Christmas at Castle Hart (Hallmark); Sonographer in Three Families (Studio Lambert); Mrs Walker in The Windermere Children (Wall to Wall Television); The Advisor in The Bailout (John Kelleher Media); Theresa Lehane in Acceptable Risk (Acorn Media Enterprises); Shannon in The Fall (Fables); Hilary McAuley in The Secret (Hat Trick Productions); Mary in When Brendan Met Trudy (BBC Film); Dr. Rose Casey in No Tears (Comet Films); Dorothy Kelly in A Love Divided (BBC); and Jane Laughton in Undercurrent (Decent Suit Productions). Ali also appeared in Simon Fitzmaurice’s feature film My Name Is Emily, as well as The Truth Commissioner directed by Declan Recks, The Secret Scripture directed by Jim Sheridan, Old New Borrowed Blue (Revolution Films), The Ambassador (BBC), and Frankie McCafferty’s Flush (Flush Films). 

Ali has worked extensively across theatre, having trained at the Gaiety School of Acting and was nominated twice for an ESB/Irish Times Theatre Award for Closer by Patrick Marber, and The House by Tom Murphy, both at the Abbey Theatre. 

Ali was most recently seen on stage in Dead Centre’s touring production of Lippy, performing in venues including Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, and I.L. Caragiale National Theatre of Bucharest, as part of the National Theatre Festival of Romania. 

Other recent stage appearances include Have Yourself a Scary Little Christmas, directed by Frankie McCafferty at The Lyric Theatre Belfast; Home (Part One) at The Abbey Theatre; Chekhov's First Play with Dead Centre at The Irish Arts Center, New York and Kungliga Dramatiska Teatern in Stockholm; Joyce’s Women at The Abbey Theatre; Chekhov's First Play with Dead Centre at The Project Arts Centre; Bloody Sunday: Scenes from the Saville Inquiry at the Abbey Theatre; Three Monologues: Christine by Jennifer Johnston at The Abbey Theatre; and Fishamble’s The Treaty by Colin Murphy at The National Concert Hall.

Further theatre credits include: Driving home for Christmas (The Lyric Theatre Belfast); Fishamble’s Bailed Out! by Colin Murphy; Roman Fever (Bewley’s Café Theatre); Deadly, written and directed by Paddy Cunneen (The Peacock Theatre); Borstal Boy directed by Conall Morrison (The Gaiety Theatre); Mustn't Forget High Noon (The Abbey Theatre); Christine (The Abbey Theatre); Twinkletoes (The Abbey Theatre); Dancing At Lughnasa (The Abbey); Philadelphia, Here I come! (The Abbey Theatre); Translations (The Abbey Theatre); The Trojan Women (The Abbey Theatre); Christian O’Reilly’s Is This About Sex? (Dublin and Edinburgh Theatre Festivals); Romeo and Juliet directed by Jason Byrne (The Abbey Theatre); Spokesong (Rough Magic and The Lyric Theatre Belfast), The Parker Project directed by Lynne Parker; Love and Money directed by Annabelle Comyn (Hatch Theatre Company and The Project Arts Centre); Kabosh Theatre’s award-winning This is What We Sang (The 1st Irish Festival New York); The Passing written and directed by Paul Mercier (The Abbey Theatre); Plaza Suite for Rough Magic ( The Pavillion Theatre, Dun Laoighaire); The School for Scandal, Northern Star, Lady Windermeres Fan and Love and a Bottle (Time Out Award) for Rough Magic; Aristocrats, The Double Dealer and A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Gate Theatre; Silas Marner and Hard Times for Storytellers; Cheapside for Druid Theatre Company; Factory Girls for Bickerstaffe and two seasons at The Lyric Theatre, Belfast. 

Outside of Ireland, Ali has appeared in The Steward of Christendom with Out of Joint; The Silver Tassie at the Almeida; Pygmies in the Ruins at The Royal Court; The Importance of Being Earnest at The West Yorkshire Playhouse; and Playhouse Creatures at The Old Vic. 

Ali is a frequent performer in RTÉ Radio Drama and BBC Radio Ulster. Ali wrote and co-created Any Time Now, a six one-hour comedy-drama series for RTÉ/BBC, starring Susan Lynch, Zara Turner, and Angeline Ball. She has also worked as a screenwriter on The Clinic for Parallel Films/RTÉ and a number of other TV projects.

Jonathan White most recently appeared on stage in The Critic at the Wexford Festival Opera, directed by Conor Hanratty. 

Jonathan was born in Dublin, Ireland and grew up in New York. His acting career began while he was still studying at Trinity College, Dublin. 

His many theatre credits include: The United States vs Ulysses by Colin Murphy, directed by Conall Morrisson for Once Off Productions at The Pavillion Theatre, Dun Laoighaire; The Treaty (as David Lloyd George) by Colin Murphy, directed by Conall Morrisson for Fishamble Theatre Company; Haughey/Gregory, also for Fishamble. Jonathan played the title role in King Lear directed by Aoife Spillane-Hinks as well as the show he co-wrote, produced and starred in; the two-hander To Hell In a Handbag directed by Conor Hanratty which appeared in the Dublin Fringe Festival 2016 and again in several further remounts. His other theatre work includes: Anglo: The Musical (BGET and Olympia) No Escape, The Comedy of Errors, Ladybag, Calvary, The Resurrection, The Quare Fellow, and Imeachtaí na Saoirse (Abbey); The Life of Galileo; I Can’t Get Started, Lady Windermere’s Fan, Our Country’s Good, Serious Money, No End of Blame, and Victory (Rough Magic); Amadeus (Ouroboros); Mutabilitie (Theatreworks); Comedians (Bickerstaffe); Massive Damages (Passion Machine); The Merchant of Venice, Othello, King Lear, Hamlet, and As You Like It (Second Age). Films include: Happy Ever Afters, Cracks, Veronica Guerin, and When Brendan Met Trudy. 

TV credits include: Can’t Cope, Won’t Cope, Ripper Street, Titanic: Blood & Steel, Betrayal of Trust, Honeymoon for One, The Santa Incident, Wild Decembers, Whistleblower, The Tudors, On Home Ground, The Ambassador, Nighthawks, A Song For Europe, and Father Ted. Radio includes: Scrap Saturday and The Monica Moody Show as well as over 100 plays and series.