Gail Louw is a multi-award winning playwright. Her plays are performed throughout the world and she has now formed a small production company, Hi-Lo Productions, as a vehicle for her work in the UK. She has a production, publicity and design team who come on board for each production. In 2017 she made herdebut as a director with Two Sisters. Her play, Duwayne, won Best New Play at Brighton Fringe 2014. Her play 'Blonde Poison' has been produced throughout the world and continues to be, with a production in Berlin later in 2018, and at the Park Theatre London with Jane Asher. Blonde Poison won an Argus Angel for Artistic Excellence in 2012, Best of the Fest at the San Francisco Fringe 2016, and was the flagship production at the Hilton Arts Festival in South Africa. It performed at the Sydney Opera House, 2016. Her play 'Miss Dietrich Regrets' won a Naledi Award and was produced in Prague in Czech in May 2017. Her play with Jeffrey Holland 'And this is my friend Mr Laurel' was sold out at the Edinburgh Fringe 2015 and completed a 26 venue national tour. It returns to Edinburgh in 2018. 'Two Sisters' was on in Los Angeles in 2016 and a new production had a successful run with many sold out performances in 2017. ‘The Half Life of Love’ had a successful tour in 2016 and an American production in May 2017 in Salem, Oregon. ‘The Mitfords’ completed a hugely successful tour in 2017/18 with almost all its performances sold out. 'Being Brahms' toured in 2018. Oberon has published two collections of her plays: Gail Louw: Collected Plays, and Gail Louw: PlaysTwo.
Malcolm Rennie trained at the Central School, London where he won the John Gielgud Scholarship and the Associated Redifussion Scholarship. He has been in over 20 West End shows and has been involved in theatre companies throughout the country. He has toured extensively nationally and internationally. Recent stage appearances include The Rivals (Salisbury Playhouse), Amadeus (York Theatre Royal), The Barber of Seville (Bristol Old Vic) My Fair Lady (international tour), The Sunshine Boys (West Yorks Playhouse), and many others. Many TV & film appearances including Midsomer Murders, Highlander, Jewels, Taggart, Ransom, Pride & Prejudice, King's Royal, Cloud Howe, Strathblair, The Lenny Henry Show, Sunny Stories, The Accountant, Monarch of the Glen, Doctors, The Bill, Losing It, Never Better, Monday Monday, The Death Penalty On Trial, Now Retired, and most recently Hysteria, Coronation Street, Sherlock, and 2 series of Mr Selfridge as Fraser the Selfridge's butler. He has been nominated MEN best supporting actor for Jaggers at the Royal Exchange and Sony best radio actor award for Ken in Nicola Jonson for Capital Radio.
Malcolm Rennie trained at the Central School, London where he won the John Gielgud Scholarship and the Associated Redifussion Scholarship. He has been in over 20 West End shows and has been involved in theatre companies throughout the country. He has toured extensively nationally and internationally. Recent stage appearances include The Rivals (Salisbury Playhouse), Amadeus (York Theatre Royal), The Barber of Seville (Bristol Old Vic) My Fair Lady (international tour), The Sunshine Boys (West Yorks Playhouse), and many others. Many TV & film appearances including Midsomer Murders, Highlander, Jewels, Taggart, Ransom, Pride & Prejudice, King's Royal, Cloud Howe, Strathblair, The Lenny Henry Show, Sunny Stories, The Accountant, Monarch of the Glen, Doctors, The Bill, Losing It, Never Better, Monday Monday, The Death Penalty On Trial, Now Retired, and most recently Hysteria, Coronation Street, Sherlock, and 2 series of Mr Selfridge as Fraser the Selfridge's butler. He has been nominated MEN best supporting actor for Jaggers at the Royal Exchange and Sony best radio actor award for Ken in Nicola Jonson for Capital Radio.
