Muriel Romanes
Muriel Rose Romanes is a Scottish former theatre, television and film actress and award-winning stage director. She is best known as a cast regular in the Scottish Television drama Take the High Road; and as the artistic director of the Stellar Quines Theatre Company in Edinburgh.
Career
Born in Cambridge, Romanes began her acting career as a student at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. Having worked in Scottish theatre for many years, she played the part of schoolteacher Miss Welch in Gregory's Girl. In 1980, she joined the cast of Take the High Road and, until 1989, played the part of Alice Taylor, one of the programme's longest-running characters. Other television credits include An Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman, Schools and Wallace Warbler.After leaving Take the High Road, Romanes returned to theatre where she had many successes. She became an associate director at the Royal Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh where she directed several acclaimed productions, including The Deep Blue Sea, A Listening Heaven, Lavender Blue, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, and Anna Karenina. In 1993, she was a founder member of the Stellar Quines Theatre Company in Edinburgh and, in 1996, became its first artistic director. Romanes held this post until she retired in 2015. Romanes was a frequent visiting lecturer and director at the Drama School of Edinburgh’s Queen Margaret University where she directed a number of productions.