Graeme Rooney, Paul Charlton and Kevin O’Loughlin

In 2008 The Ginge, the Geordie and the Geek was born. Since then the boys started with a bang selling 3000 tickets in their debut show in 2009 winning awards and receiving critical acclaim along the way.

This was followed by Sell Out shows in 2010 and 2011 at the Edinburgh Fringe where they sold more than 10,000 tickets. A mad last year has seen them perform with MICHAEL MCINTYRE, MIRANDA HART, JAMES CORDEN and JIMMY CARR, support JOHNNY VEGAS in Nottingham and appear on BBC’s Dick and Dom’s Funny Business, where they shared the spotlight with CATHERINE TATE.

If you like your comedy served extremely funny, order a portion of Ginge, Geordie Geek!

The Ginge aka Graeme Rooney		Alongside his GGG commitments he is currently shooting a feature film in Leicester. He appeared last summer in ‘Case Histories’ with Jason Isaacs and ‘Holby City’. Played memorable comedic characters in both Irvine Welsh’s critically acclaimed ‘Wedding Belles’ and the Award winning ‘Skins’ - appearing on the Baftas in 2010 for the latter. Recently he featured as a guest lead in the popular BBC series ‘Ashes to Ashes’. Other guest leads include ‘Rab C Nesbitt’, ‘Rebus’, ‘Taggart’, and ‘Casualty’. He’s performed at The Globe, Royal Court, the Barbican and Dundee rep.
The Geordie aka Paul Charlton		Winner of a Fringe First Award for his comedy play Love, Sex and Cider in which he also starred. He went on to write for Live Theatre Newcastle and contributed material to the Karen Dunbar series 2. His most recent play ‘Crush’ produced by Iron Shoes won him his second Fringe First Award at the 2010 festival and subsequently toured the UK. As a performer screen credits include ‘Little Britain’ (BBC1), ‘Live Girls present Dog Town’ (BBC3), SIRENS (C4) and Sir Richard Attenborough’s feature film ‘Closing the Ring’. He also loves dogs. However, Mrs Geordie won’t let him have one. Ever!
The Geek aka Kevin O’Loughlin		Performed in 2008 at the Pleasance in critically acclaimed comedy ‘By The Way’. Previously he’s played a stammering policeman in ‘Car Thieves’ by Che Walker for Birmingham Rep and has also performed at the Glasgow Comedy Festival in ‘The Write Brothers’ sketch show (part of the writing team behind BBC’s ‘Chewing the Fat’). His first appearance on screen was as Sammy in ‘River City’ but more recently he starred alongside Simon Pegg in the film ‘Run Fat Boy Run’ directed by David Schwimmer and Channel 4′s Sirens
The Guru aka John Hoggarth		John is the one you don’t see on stage, he is the director, co-writer and button pusher. He was born and brought up in Whitby, North Yorkshire. He worked as an actor for several years before expanding his work to include writing and directing. In 2003 he became joint artistic director of the National Youth Theatre and for several years combined the artistic directorship of the NYT with a prolific writing career. He moved on from the NYT in 2007 and is now artistic director of his own company Iron Shoes. He has had his work produced for television, radio and the stage. John has also developed a reputation for developing burgeoning comedy talent and has seen recent collaborations lead to a Perrier nomination, and the winning of both ‘So Think You’re Funny?” and the BBC new talent award. .
The honourary boys…
Associate Technician aka Laura Hammond		Laura’s technical credits include: Company technician for ‘The Ginge, the Geordie and the Geek’ Edinburgh 2009 and mini tour, ‘By The Way’ (ChoppedLogic), Technician for ‘Not a Lover Or A Fighter’ (Lloyd Langford), Technical Stage Manager for ‘Sound Journey’ (Segue), Company Stage Manager for the ‘Hotbed Festival’, ‘Stand By Your Van’, ‘Re:Design’ and ‘Let Newton Be!’ (Menagerie). Her acting credits include Hermes’ Puppet in ‘Failing Narcissus’ (Black Dog Theatre Co.) and Rachel in ‘Brace’ (Mossycoat Productions) with whom she is an associate director and is about to begin work on their latest production.
Associate Technician aka Sarah Wilson		Sarah was our technician for the 2010 preview tour. Sarah’s technical credits include: Assistant Stage Manager for The Chippendales on their 2010 UK tour, In-house Stage Manager at Perth Concert Hall, Stage Crew for Gilded Balloon (including crew for Winter Wonderland), Stage Crew/LX Crew for The Kings Theatre Glasgow, Stage Crew/LX Crew for National Theatre of Scotland, Deputy Stage Manager and Stage Crew for Scenengineering / Sonic Temple Productions.
Costume and props makers aka Joanne Ferrie		2010, 2011 & now 2012 shows. Joanne graduated from the RSAMD after learning the art of Propmaking and Scenic Art. Alongside her current commitments to Scottish Opera, she also manages to make props and costume for the Ginge, Geordie and the Geek- with as much skill and little cost as possible. Her motto is “If you can think it, I can make it out of foam!.”
aka Sam Allan		2010 show. Studied at RSAMD. Her skills include, sculpting, mould making/casting, faux finishing and fabrication just to name a few. Her motto is ‘I make stuff out of other stuff’ and I do it well!
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