The Traverse Theatre is pleased to announce the cast of their upcoming production, Dancing Shoes by Stephen Christopher and Graeme Smith.
Stephen Docherty will be stepping back into the titular dancing shoes as Donny. Craig McLean returns as the social media influencer wannabe, Jay. The two are joined by Lee Harris as Craig, the loveable realist.
Dancing Shoes, has been commissioned by the Traverse to run in Traverse 1, from 4 to 20 December 2025, following a critically acclaimed A Play, A Pie & A Pint run in the Spring. Packed with humour and emotion, this sure-footed comedy is guaranteed to have audiences laughing this winter.
Stephen Docherty:
Stephen started his career with Clyde Unity Theatre in the 1990's in award winning productions of A Little Older, Killing Me Softly, Beyond the Rainbow, Lambs of God, Love Among the Juveniles, Breadmakers and Babycakes.
Other theatre credits include Tomorrow(Vanishing Point) Twelfth Night and Scenes from an Execution(Dundee Rep) Angels in America (Sheffield Crucible) Homers(Traverse) A Taste of Honey and Lion in the Streets (Arches) Just One More Dance (Tramway) Midsummer Night's Dream and Macbeth(Bard in the Botanics) and The Three Estates directed by Greg Thompson. Most recently he performed in Tamam Shud for Play Pie and a Pint.
Stephen is also a very popular Pantomime Dame and has previously performed in pantomimes at The Byre, The Brunton Theatre, Take Two Productions, The Webster Theatre, Carnegie Hall, The Alhambra and The Adam Smith Theatre.
Television credits include Rebus, Armchair Detectives, Rockface, and upcoming BBC production Gifted.
Film credits include Orphans, My Name is Joe, The Acid House and Post Mortem.
Lee Harris:
Lee started his training at the Dance School of Scotland and went on to study at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts.
Theatre credits: Nun of your Buisness (A Play, A Pie and A Pint) World Premiere of To Wong Foo (Hope Mill Theatre); Aladdin (Kings Theatre); Tiger Bay (Wales Millennium Centre), Yank (Hope Mill and Charing Cross Theatre); This Happy Breed (Pitlochry Festival Theatre); Hard Times (Pitlochry Festival Theatre); Carousel (Pitlochry Festival Theatre); Scrooge! (Pitlochry Festival Theatre); The White Feather (Union Theatre); Les Misérables (Sondheim Theatre); Oliver! (UK Tour).
Film/TV/Radio credits: Chork (BBC film) Daedalus (BFI Film Academy); Once Upon A Time in Morningside (Screen Education Edinburgh); Transmogrification (Hatmistake Productions); Dear Green Place (BBC); Swipe Right (Controvento Films); The Death Of the Phone Booth (Big Room Productions).
Craig McLean:
Craig is an actor from Holytown, North Lanarkshire.
He made his stage debut in A Respectable Widow Takes To Vulgarity (A Play A Pie And A Pint).
His screen credits include - Rebus (BBC One) Dirty Water (STV) and Stevens & McCarthy (BBC Scotland) along with a healthy repertoire of independent short films.
Other stage credits include - Tally’s Blood (Perth Theatre) The Scaff (A Play A Pie And A Pint) Rab Hood (Oran Mor) Cinderella 2 - I Married A Numpty (Oran Mor) Dixie Whittington - The Hamecoming (Oran Mor) and Maw Goose (Insideout Productions).
