Meet the Team
Hannah-Cait Harrison
Hannah-Cait graduated from ALRA in 2015, with a BA Honours in Acting.
She is a master of all trades, with experience in writing, producing, box-office management, and working as a talent agent. All of these skills she has juggled alongside a professional acting career.
She also goes by the name Echo, working as a professional DJ alongside her Father Cornbeef. Together they form the duo “Echo and the Beefman”
Hannah has been working on a series of short plays, along with a trilogy of fantasy novels and is thrilled to have created a platform for new theatrical writing.
Hannah-Cait is neurodiverse and a proud member of the LGBTQIA+ community
David McCulloch
David graduated from the University of Winchester in 2012, with a BA Combined Honours in Drama and Media Studies.
As an actor, David has appeared in various stage & screen productions. He has also written a series of short plays, as well as being part of the writing and editing teams for the literary inspired webseries From Mansfield with Love.
David is the playwright behind our debut production, the hit satirical comedy ‘Ay Up, Hitler!’ and also took on marketing duties for this show, across two regional tours and our 2023 Edinburgh Fringe Debut.
If you like the sound of David’s voice, as much as he does, you can hear him as one of the co-hosts of the Two Actors Walk Into a Bar Podcast.
Hannah-Cait Harrison and David McCulloch are two actors, with a passion for new writing and a desire to provide a safe and creative platform for it.
They met in 2017 in a South London Theatre after taking part in a creative writing month called “28 Plays Later”, the premise being that each and every day for the month of February, they would receive a new prompt to write an original short play from. After a month of non-stop writing and hair pulling, the pair met at the annual get-together.
Hannah-Cait knew instantly that the pair would hit it off, arriving to the get-together at 11am to find David already there, with a half drunken pint in hand! Hannah-Cait’s immortal first words to David…
”Where’s the bar?”
During the course of the day, there was a great deal of musing about the sad fact hundreds of plays had been written over the past month, but that there was little-to-no space in which they could be shared and performed. It was here that our intrepid co-founders sparked an idea.
What if there was a theatre company which focused solely on new writing? A company started by writers and actors, and one that wants to hear from new writers and actors from all backgrounds?
A month later Hannah-Cait and David met again, came up with the company, and so GAMMA RAY THEATRE was born.