Russell has worked as an actor for over ten years. he has worked extensively in film and theatre. He trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. His first play "Sisters, Such Devoted Sisters' was first performed at the Traverse in an Out of Joint production directed by Max Stafford Clark. It won the Carol Tambor/ Scotsman award for the best production at the Edinburgh Festival 2004, and when on to do two runs in London at the Drill Hall, and two runs off broadway. His recent plays include "Vantastic" and "Lobster" which were commissioned for Queer up North 2009. A double bill of "Vantastic" and "Lobster" was performed at the Oval House Theatre in Autumn 2009
He is a recipient of multiple awards from the Peggy Ramsay Foundation.

Set in Glasgow's surreal underworld, this is a funny, soulful and deeply unusual coming-of-age story, tainted by the memory of a shocking and lonely crime.
Sisters such Devoted Sisters conjures up a world of exploding pigeons, a fire-hazard grandmother, Jack Russell's driving cars, shoplifting and a boy's first kiss.
But it is also the increasingly nightmarish and heartbreaking world of his drag queen alter-ego, Bernice Hindley - 'Myra's niece'.
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