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by Joshua Conkel

Cast in order of appearance

Stephanie Schwartz	Georgia Buchanan
Sharice Hildebrand	Kelly Burke
The Mailman	Matt Steinberg
Jayden	Eric Kofi Abrefa
Will	James Hillier

Small-town Washington State. The present-ish.

There will be one interval of fifteen minutes.

The performance lasts approximately two hours.

Director	Rebecca Atkinson-Lord
Designer	James Turner
Lighting Designer	Tom Cooper
Sound Designer	Edward Lewis
Production and Stage Manager	Ian Wooldridge
Design Assistant	Helen Richardson
Costume Assistant	Stephanie Psarros
Casting Director/Choreographer	Lucy Casson
Fight Director	Mathew McKay
Assistant Director	Celeste Dring
Producer	Vicky Graham

Our patrons are respectfully reminded that, in this intimate theatre, any noise such as rustling programmes, talking or the ringing of mobile phones may distract the actors and your fellow audience-members.

We regret there is no admittance or re-admittance to the auditorium whilst the performance is in progress.

The Sluts of Sutton Drive is performed in repertoire and on the set of The Drawer Boy, designed by Molly Einchcomb, which plays Tuesday to Saturday evenings, and Saturday and Sunday matinees, until 14 July 2012.

Georgia Buchanan | Stephanie Schwartz Trained at East 15 Acting School and Syracuse University. London theatre includes Execution of Justice (Southwark Playhouse) and Enter A Gentleman (National Portrait Gallery). US theatre includes Lysistrata, The Tamer Tamed (Shakespeare Santa Cruz), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Ensemble Studio Theater), such small hands (Syracuse Stage) and Love Letters, Translations and The Importance of Being Earnest (Keegan Theatre). Roles in training included lead roles in The Rose Tattoo, Woyzeck, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Dream Play (Soho Theatre), And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little (Tristan Bates Theatre) and Airswimming. Film includes Mindset and The Hard Place.

Kelly Burke | Sharice Hildebrand At the Finborough Theatre, Kelly appeared in Green and In World, both part of Vibrant – A Festival of Finborough Playwrights (2009 and 2011) and Blue Surge (2011). Trained at RADA. Theatre includes Zelda for which she was nominated and shortlisted for an OffWestEnd Award for Best Female Performer (New End Theatre), Avocado (King’s Head Theatre), Marie and Bruce (Wallace Shawn Festival at the Royal Court Theatre), Inherit the Wind (Bug Theatre, Denver) and Agnes of God (Federal Theatre, Denver). Television includes Doctors. Radio includes The Big Sleep, The Little Sister, These Are the Times (BBC Radio 4).

James Hillier | Will At the Finborough Theatre, James appeared in the leading role in the sell-out UK premiere of Tennessee Williams’ Something Cloudy, Something Clear, directed by Tamara Harvey (2003), and Che Walker’s sell-out production of Rebecca Gilman’s Blue Surge (2011) for which he was nominated for an OffWestEnd Award for Best Male Performance. Trained at RADA. Other theatre includes Titanic (Scenes from the British Wreck Commissioner’s Inquiry, 1912) (MAC, Belfast), The Land Of Uz as part of 66 Books (Bush Theatre), The Water Engine (Old Vic Tunnels), The Recruiting Officer (Garrick Theatre, Lichfield), Journey’s End (Drill Hall), Trips (Birmingham Rep), Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (Gatehouse), Lulu (Almeida Theatre), The Homecoming (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester), Closer (Royal and Derngate Theatres, Northampton) and A Clockwork Orange (Citizens Theatre, Glasgow). Television and Film includes City on Fire, Casualty, Holby Blue, Great Expectations, Survivors, The Four Feathers, Blackbeard, Fired and Silent Witness.

Eric Kofi Abrefa | Jayden Trained at Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. Theatre includes Clybourne Park, The Merchant of Venice, Harper Regan, Philistines, The Cherry Orchard (all at Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama), Khadija is 18 (Angle Theatre at Hackney Empire), Sexy Buffting (Metal Mouth Theatre) and Richard III (BBC Shakespeare Festival). Film includes Tight Jeans and Shoot the Messenger. Television includes Tati’s Hotel, The Bill, Holby City and Psychic Roadshow.

Matt Steinberg | The Mailman Trained at HB Studio, New York, and with the Shakespeare’s Globe International Actors’ Fellowship, London. London theatre includes A Respectable Wedding (Waterloo East Theatre). Canadian Theatre includes Bartholomew Fair, Julius Caesar, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Richard III, The Provok’d Wife (Stratford Festival), Art is a Cupboard (Sweat Company, Toronto), The Goat (Neptune Theatre, Halifax), Waiting (Soulpepper Theatre Company, Toronto). New York City theatre includes Richard III, Volpone, Arden of Faversham (Classic Stage Company), Donna Morelli (Ensemble Studio Theater), Loud (Threshold Theater Company), Have You Met My Brother?, King John (Doppelganger), King Lear, Coriolanus and Timon of Athens (York Shakespeare Company). Film and Television includes The Best Years, True Confessions of A Hollywood Starlet, Degrassi: The Next Generation, The Green Door, Trojan Horse, Holy Cannoli and Dirty Work. Awards include the Tyrone Guthrie Award (Stratford Festival) and the Christopher Plummer Award (Shakespeare’s Globe Centre, Canada).

Joshua Conkel | Playwright Joshua Conkel is a playwright and blogger from rural Washington State. He is the author of MilkMilkLemonade, The Chalk Boy, Lonesome Winter (co-written with Megan Hill), I Wanna Destroy You and Sprawl as well as numerous short plays. MilkMilkLemonade was named Best Off-Broadway Show of 2009 by NY Press, and is consistently one of Playscripts’ top three most-produced plays. It has become a cult hit in the USA, recently receiving its 25th production in only two years. In 2011, Joshua was nominated one of NEXT Magazine’s “Who’s Next”. His work has been developed by The Management, Soho Rep, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Old Vic New Voices, Dixon Place, The Flea and more. He is a member of The Management, where he served as Artistic Director for six years, and of Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Soho Rep Writers/Directors Lab, Sons of Tennessee, and The Dramatists Guild. He is currently finishing a graphic novel adaptation of The Chalk Boy for First Second Books, an imprint of Macmillan, and editing his first short film, Power Lunch. He is an alumnus of Youngblood and the TS Eliot Old Vic New Voices US/UK Exchange. He holds a BFA in Theater from Cornish College of the Arts and lives in Brooklyn, New York. The Sluts of Sutton Drive is his UK debut.

Rebecca Atkinson-Lord | Director Rebecca Atkinson-Lord is a hybrid theatre maker who directs, writes, devises and produces theatre and performance. Rebecca read Ancient History and Classics at Bristol University, specialising in ancient Greek drama. She trained as a Director at RADA and with Frantic Assembly, Complicite, Told by an Idiot and at The Young Vic. Her work has taken her from major international companies like Shakespeare’s Globe, Scottish Opera and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, to intimate found spaces in London and beyond. As a writer-director, her credits include Seeking Oblivion (BAC Scratch), Mrs Edna Way (Arch 468) and an original adaptation of Medea (Baron’s Court Theatre). Direction includes Mother Clap’s Molly House and The Flies (Crescent Theatre, Birmingham), Romeo and Juliet (Teatro Technis), Five Eleven (King’s Head Theatre and Tour) and numerous new plays by emerging writers including Janice Okoh, Chad Armistead and Louise Monaghan at venues including Arch 468 and Theatre503. She is Director of Theatre at Ovalhouse and Founding Artistic Director and Chief Executive of Arch 468.

James Turner | Designer At the Finborough Theatre, James designed All Good Men and Thermidor (2012). James is resident designer at The Last Refuge and trained on the Motley Theatre Design Course. Theatre includes Mercury Fur (Old Red Lion and Trafalgar Studios), Execution of Justice (Southwark Playhouse), Oh What a Lovely War and Much Ado About Nothing (British American Drama Academy), Thrill Me - The Leopold and Loeb Story (Tristan Bates and Charing Cross Theatre), Plain Jane (Royal Exchange Studio, Manchester) That Moment (Underbelly, Edinburgh), Some Stories (Templeworks, Leeds), Over the Moon (New Wimbledon Studio), No Wonder (Library Theatre, Manchester) and A Man of No Importance (Union Theatre and Arts Theatre, Leicester Square). www.jamesturnerdesign.com

Tom Cooper | Lighting Designer Tom Cooper is a London-based lighting designer working in theatre, opera and dance. He trained at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, graduating in 2010 with a first class degree in Theatre and Performance Technology. Designs include The Well And Badly Loved (Ovalhouse), Nevermore (Courtyard Theatre), Goose’s Dream (The Place), The Impresario and A Hand of Bridge (Redbridge Drama Centre), Instants (Royal Opera House, Linbury Studio), Arabian Nights (Chelsea Theatre), It’s Never Enough to Live in the Now (Hampstead Theatre) and Kindertransport (Unity Theatre, Liverpool). www.tomcooperlighting.com

Edward Lewis | Sound Designer At the Finborough Theatre, Edward was Sound Designer for Vibrant – An Anniversary Festival of Finborough Playwrights (2010), In The Blood (2010), The December Man/L’homme de Décembre (2011), Accolade (2011), Bed and Sofa (2011), Beating Heart Cadaver (2011), Vibrant – A Festival of Finborough Playwrights (2011), Mirror Teeth (2011), Blue Surge (2011), Portraits (2011), Perchance to Dream (2011), Drama at Inish (2011), Rigor Mortis (2011), Fog (2012), Autumn Fire (2012), Don Juan Comes Back From The War (2012), The American Clock (2012) and His Greatness (2012). Studied Music at Oxford University and subsequently trained as a composer and sound designer at the Bournemouth Media School. Theatre includes Gravity (Birmingham Rep), On The Rocks, Amongst Friends, Darker Shores (Hampstead Theatre), Slowly, Hurts Given and Received, Apple Pie (Riverside Studios), Measure for Measure (Sherman Cymru), Emo (Bristol Old Vic and Young Vic), The Beloved (Bush Theatre), I Am Falling (Sadler’s Wells and Gate Theatre), Once Upon A Time In Wigan and 65 Miles (Paines Plough/Hull Truck), Krapp’s Last Tape and Spoonface Steinberg (Hull Truck), The Stronger, The Pariah, Boy With A Suitcase, Le Mariage and Meetings (Arcola Theatre), Hedda, Breathing Irregular (Gate Theatre), Madness in Valencia (Trafalgar Studios), Orpheus and Eurydice and Quartet (Old Vic Tunnels), The Madness of George III (National Tour), Love, Question Mark (New Diorama Theatre Club and US Tour), Kalagora (National and International Tour), Mad, Funny, Just and Mimi And The Stalker (Theatre 503), The London Plays (Old Red Lion Theatre), Cyrano De Bergerac, Bloody Poetry, Madman’s Confession (White Bear Theatre), No Way Out (Hen and Chickens Theatre), Striking 12 (Waterloo East Theatre).

Lucy Casson | Casting Director | Choreographer At the Finborough Theatre, Lucy is Resident Casting Director where she has worked on casting for Through the Night (2011), Rigor Mortis (2011), Crush (2011), Autumn Fire (2012), Merrie England (2012) and the forthcoming production of The Fear of Breathing (2012). Other theatre casting includes The Art of Concealment (Riverside Studios). Film includes Tested (currently in post-production) and Casting Assistant to Sam Claypole on The Dark Road starring Con O’Neil. Lucy was a professional dancer for many years working with companies and choreographers including English National Ballet, Wayne McGregor, Peter Darling, Susan Stroman, Rob Ashford, Arlene Phillips and Will Tuckett.

Ian Wooldridge | Production Manager | Stage Manager Trained at Rose Bruford College. Stage Management includes Icicle Bicycle (Half Moon Theatre and National Tour), The Way Of The World (Ovalhouse), Finger Print (Royal Opera House, Covent Garden), Cabaret (Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park, Studio Theatre) and Blue (Oily Cart Theatre National Tour). As Assistant Stage Manager, 42nd Street (National Tour) and Happy’s Circus (National Circus Tour). West End theatre includes Ghost (Piccadilly Theatre) and Crazy For You (Novello Theatre) as Follow Spot Operator, The Lion King (Lyceum Theatre) as Follow Spot/Stage Electrician and Blood Brothers (Phoenix Theatre) as Follow Spot/Board Operator. Television includes Footballers’ Wives.

Helen Richardson | Design Assistant Trained in Design for Performance at Wimbledon College of Art. Theatre includes Gulch, Dash Dash Dash (BAC), Azincourt (WCA Theatre) and Exits are here, here and down (The Place). She has recently been working as a runner for the Globe to Globe Olympics team.

Stephanie Psarros | Costume Assistant Trained at the School of Visual Arts in New York. Designs include 10-33 Project (The Last Refuge). As Design Assistant, theatre includes Emoticon (Brockley Jack Theatre), Mercury Fur (Old Red Lion and Trafalgar Studios), Concrete Jungle (Riverside Studios), Execution of Justice (Southwark Playhouse) and The Water Engine (Old Vic Tunnels). Events include POP Bakery, Topshop and the Forever 21 Launch.

Celeste Dring | Assistant Director Read English at Cambridge University. Direction includes Swingtime Sweethearts and Everybody Dance Now (Central Youth Theatre). Assistant Direction includes Britain’s Got Bhangra (Watford Palace Theatre). Celeste also writes and performs her own work, most recently for scratch nights at BAC and The Brockley Jack.

Vicky Graham | Producer Vicky Graham is an independent producer and founder of Vicky Productions. Vicky has seven years’ experience of producing on the fringe and at festivals in London, Edinburgh, Paris, Avignon, and Off-Broadway in New York. As the first in-house Producer at Theatre503, she produced seven in-house productions (Wild Horses by Nimer Rashed, Epic by Matt Hartley, Breed by Lou Ramsden, The Charming Man by Gabriel Bisset-Smith, The Biting Point by Sharon Clark, Sold by Suzie Miller and Carrot by Ben Ockrent), as well as countless co-productions and events. She has also worked as Associate Producer for Pip Productions, Joint Artistic Director of Gilt & Grime and as a freelance producer and administrator. In 2011, Vicky was selected to participate in the Old Vic New Voices T.S. Eliot US/UK Exchange, and subsequently spent three months working in New York at Jean Doumanian Productions at NYMF (New York Musical Theatre Festival) and line producing Off-Broadway at the Duke on 42nd Street. Vicky is a recipient of the Stage One Bursary for New Producers. The Sluts of Sutton Drive is her first production under the banner of Vicky Graham Productions. Forthcoming projects include Strong Arm (Old Vic New Voices Edinburgh Season). www.vickygrahamproductions.com

Production Photography Richard Davenport

Thanks to:

Ovalhouse

Nicholas Banks, Felicity Davidson, Sam Ford, Chris Kelham, Anna Maguire, Martin Richardson and Alice Mary White

Naomi Blanche

Jon Brittain

Alan Pankhurst

Sophie Watson