Suspect Culture was built around a core group of associate artists who played a key role in the development of the company and its work. These artists included:

Graham Eatough
Graham started out performing in much of the company’s early work before co-directing Airport in 1996 with David Greig after which he directed all the company’s work and became full time Artistic Director.  He has directed work for other companies including 7:84 and the Tron theatre Glasgow as well as collaborating on visual arts projects with artist Graham Fagen.  He received a Creative Scotland Award in 2001 and was selected for the SAC/FST Unplugged Bursary in 2009.

Renato Gabrielli
A playwright and director based in Milan, Renato was dramaturg at Teatro Stabile di Brescia from 1997 - 2001 and currently teaches drama at the Scuola d’Arte Drammatica “Paolo Grassi” in Milan. His double-bill Death in the City was performed at the Tron Theatre, and his play A Mobile Thriller won a Herald Angel award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2004. He co-writes the TV drama Affari di famiglia

David Greig
David is a co-founder of Suspect Culture, for whom he regularly writes text. His work outside the company includes San Diego, The Cosmonaut's Last Message to the Woman He Once Loved in the Former Soviet Union, Victoria, Caledonia Dreaming, The Architect, Dr Korzcak's Example, Petra, Europe, Yellow Moon and The Bacchae

Andres Lima
An actor, writer & director based in Madrid. Since 1991, he has directed around 20 productions, often working with Compania Riesgo, which he founded in 1993, and Animalario, the company which he runs together with long-time collaborator Alberto San Juan. He appeared in Suspect Culture’s Airport in 1996, and worked on Casanova in 2000. He is best known for Pornografía Barata (2002) Alejandro y Ana. Lo que España no pudo ver del banquete de la boda de la hija del presidente (2003), which won Best Play Award at the Gala de los Premios Max. Animalario received a similar award for Best Company in 2003. Andrés also works as an actor in film and television.

Patrick Macklin
A designer who together with Louisa MacIver runs Frozen River, a Glasgow based design company. He created the branding for Suspect Culture in 1998 and has produced artwork for most of the company’s productions since then. Other clients include Art in Hospital, BAA, The Glasgow School of Art, The Hidden Gardens, Kaffe Matthews, Mandy McIntosh, Playwrights Studio Scotland and Savalas. He is co-founder of Lapland and lectures at Glasgow School of Art. His work has been exhibited in Britain and Europe.

Mauricio Paroni de Castro
Maurício is a Brazilian director who works regularly in Italy, where he studied and later taught at the Scuola D'Arte Drammatica Piccolo Teatro in Milan. He has studied with many of Europe's leading directors, including Tadeusz Kantor and Heiner Müller, and has directed over 30 plays in Italy, the UK, Brazil, Portugal and Norway, including work by Renato Gabrielli and Andres Lima. For Suspect Culture, he also worked on Airport, Candide 2000 and The Golden Ass and directs for Manufactura Suspeita, a company in Sao Paolo that follows many of Suspect Culture’s practices.

Nick Powell
A composer and musician who has been an important part of the company since its origins at Bristol University. He has written the music for 14 productions. Recent work outside the company includes The Wonderful World of Dissocia (Tron) and The Wolves in the Walls (Improbable Theatre/Vicky Featherstone) and Death in Gaza (HBO). Nick regularly works with Paines Plough, 7:84, Improbable Theatre, Frantic Assembly, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Animalario (Madrid) and on scores for film and TV. He released three albums with Strangelove and is currently one half of the band Oskar, who released their CD Air Conditioning in 2004. (www.oskaronline.com)

Dan Rebellato
A writer based in London. His plays include Static, Showstopper, Erskine May, Emily Rising, Here’s What I Did With My Body One Day, Chekhov in Hell, A Modest Adjustment and Outright Terror Bold and Brilliant. His book on British theatre in the 1950s, 1956 and All That, was published in 1999 and he’s about to publish Theatre & Globalization. He lectures in theatre at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Sergio Romano
One of Italy's leading stage actors trained at the Scuole d’Arte Dramatica in Milan, and is best-known in Italy for his award-winning performances in Hamlet (1994) and as Iago (2001) for Teatro Il Rossetti in Trieste. In 2000 he appeared in Suspect Culture’s The Golden Ass (Tron) and A Different Language (2005). Other theatre work includes La Moscheta, I Due Gemelli Veneziani and Questa Sera Si Recita A Soggeto directed by M.Castri. Films include La Vita Altrui, Da Zero a Dieci and La Terza Stella.

Ian Scott
Ian is a designer who has created set and lighting designs for Suspect Culture since Airport (1996). He has worked with theatre companies such as Graeae, Abbey Theatre, Royal National Theatre, Citizens' Theatre, LIFT, Paines Plough, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Sphinx, David Glass Ensemble, Northern Stage, Opera Circus and Blast Theory as well as collaborating on many environmental design projects. He designed the lighting for the Ice Rink at Somerset House, Blush at Madame Tussaud's (London & Shanghai) and the Unknown Amazon exhibition at the British Museum.

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