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CAST

ALLYSON AVA-BROWN HALFBREED

Theatre Royal Stratford East credits include: Jack & The Beanstalk, Martina Cole’s Dangerous Lady Theatre credits include: Snakes and Ladders (Soho Theatre, Nightingale Theatre), The Swallowing Dark (Theatre503, Everyman Playhouse Studio), Praise Singer (Hackney Empire), The Wiz (Birmingham Rep, West Yorkshire Playhouse), Moonshadow Concert (Royal Albert Hall, tour), Les Misérables (Queens Theatre), London Road (National Theatre Studio), The Tempest, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra (RSC, Stratford, West End, tour), Hairy Fairies (Fick! Productions), Simply Heavenly (Trafalgar Studios), Les Misérables (Danish tour), Passports to the Promised Land (Nitro Theatre Company), Rent (Olympia, Dublin), The Villains Opera and Honk (National Theatre).

Film credits include: Ambition to Live (One Umbrella/Tri-Force Productions).

Television credits include: Secret Diary of a Call Girl (ITV2), Casualty, Doctors, Bear Behaving Badly, The Wrong Door, EastEnders, Sea of Souls, Kerching!, Holby City (BBC).

Recording credits include: Love Beyond soundtrack, Simply Heavenly soundtrack, Return of the Jedi, Toni Morrison’s Beloved.

Allyson has been nominated in the Best Actress category for the role of Martha Sullivan in The Swallowing Dark for the 2011 OffWestEnd Awards and also won the Mobo Award for Best Unsigned Act in 1998.

TOYIN AYEDUN-ALASE PICKYEAD

Theatre credits include: Peckham: The Soap Opera (Royal Court Theatre), Carpe Diesal (TimeWave Festival), Skeen! (Ovalhouse Theatre), Gang*Star (The Complete Works LTD), Ignite (Soho Theatre), Slamdunk (Hackney Empire).

Film credits include: Clipper (Urban Media Production), Walls (Bohemian Pictures/The Coca Cola Company). Television credits include: Redbull Commerical (Gramma Films), Miss London Sketch Show (BBC3 Comedy).

Radio credits include: Adana in British and Proud.

LORNA BROWN PANTHER

Lorna trained at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.

Theatre Royal Stratford East credits include: The Big Life, Da Boyz, Funny Black Women on the Edge, Shoot to Win, One Dance Will Do. Theatre includes: Damned by Despair (National Theatre), Fear (The Bush), Clybourne Park (Royal Court, Wyndham’s Theatre), Short Fuses (Bristol Old Vic), Once on This Island (Hackney Empire, tour), Things of Dry Hours (Manchester Royal Exchange, Gate), 93.2FM (Royal Court), Trade (RSC), The Cry of the Cricket (The National Theatre Literary Department), The Homage Behind (The Criterion), The Weave (Soho Theatre), Anansi Steals the Wind (Talawa Theatre), Up Against the Wall (Tricycle Theatre), Othello (New Vic), Zumbi (tour), Once on This Island (Birmingham REP, West End), Miss Carib (Albany). Film credits include: Taking Stock, Les Misérables, World War Z, Gambit, Little Soldier. Television includes: True Love, Outnumbered, The Catherine Tate Show, Doctors, The Bill, The Vivienne Vyle Show, The Ronnie Ancona Show, Much Ado About Nothing, French and Saunders, Family Business, Holby City, Rough Treatment, Bad Girls, Casualty, Anna Lee.

Radio Credits: The Big Life, Forbidden Fruit.

Nominated for a Robert award (the Danish equivalent of the Oscar), for the part of Lilly in Lille Soldat. Lorna is also a singer-songwriter.

SHERI-AN DAVIS HAIRCOMB

Sheri-An Trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama on the BA 3 year Acting Course.

Theatre credits at Theatre Royal Stratford East include: Mad Blud (2009). Theatre credits include: In The Red and Brown Water (Young Vic), House of Agnes (Ovalhouse), Torn (Arcola Theatre).

Television credits include: House of Anubis (Lime Picture), After You’ve Gone (BBC), My Family (BBC). Film credits include: Spoil (Channel 4).

KATIE HAYES TOKEN

Katie trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. She recently appeared in the Angelic Tales New Writing Festival at Theatre Royal Stratford East in Tonight is Your Answer. Theatre credits include: Muswell Hill (Orange Tree Theatre), Hamlet 1603 (Vital Signs Theatre), The Snow Queen (Stephen Joseph Theatre), In an Instant (Theatre503), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Chorus of Disapproval, Summer Lightning (Theatre by The Lake), Birds Birds Birds, Birdsong (Wimbledon Studio), The Girlz, Much Ado About Nothing, King Lear (Orange Tree Theatre), Custom of the Country (Fallen Angel), Christian Turned Turk (Arcola Theatre), Teechers (Cambridge Arts Theatre), The Wind Thing (Plough Arts) Peer Gynt (Ibsen Stage Company).

Film credits includes: The Sun and The Traffic, Long Way Out, and Moon Talk.

T’NIA MILLER BAL-EAD

T’Nia trained at GSA. Theatre credits include: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (National Theatre, touring), Love is Not Enough (Bussey Arts Café), Elegies for Angels Punks and Raging Queens (Shaw theatre).

Film credits include: Stud Life, Wolfe, What’s in a Name (BFI).

Television and on-line drama credits include: Holby City, Kate Modern, Dubplate Drama.

T’Nia’s starring role in Stud Life has received much accolade here and abroad showing to 1000s of audiences across the globe. Earlier this year Stud Life received a Screen Nation Award and released in the UK on DVD this summer.

REBECCA OMOGBEHIN BOUNTY

Rebecca trained at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, graduating last year. Since graduating, she has performed in various projects.

Recent credits include: Oil City (Platform for the Arts Admin Festival), Song of Seasons, Snow Ghost’s Murder Cries (Music Video, Epoch Films).

Training credits include: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Recruiting Officer, The Seagull, Oedipus the Visionary (Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts).

CREATIVE TEAM

SOMALIA SEATON WRITER

Somalia Seaton is an actress and writer. She trained at East 15 Acting School on the BA/Hons Contemporary Theatre course. Her debut play Crowning Glory returns to Theatre Royal Stratford East following a sell-out success at last year’s rehearsed reading of the show at the Angelic Tales New Writing Festival. Acting credits include Cure (The Underbelly, Edinburgh), Work! (Theatre503), Buried Alive (Rose Theatre, Bankside), Two Thousand and Sex (Team Angelica) and Angie Le Mar’s Ryan Sisters. Directing credits include I Am Green (E15 Acting School and Unicorn Theatre) and Between the Silence (Brockley Jack Theatre).

Somalia is founder and Artistic Director of No Ball Games Allowed (NBGA), a forum theatre arts education and community organisation, dedicated to inspiring and empowering disaffected young people.

DAWN REID DIRECTOR

Dawn is the Deputy Artistic Director at Theatre Royal Stratford East. Most recently she directed Jack & The Beanstalk for the theatre. Her directing credits for Theatre Royal Stratford East include: A Clockwork Orange; Rikki Beadle Blair’s Familyman; Funny Black Women on the Edge; Sleeping Beauty, The Snow Queen and Hansel and Gretel. She co-directed The Harder They Come (Barbican, West End, Toronto and Miami) and Mad Blud. Dawn was the Assistant Director on Aladdin and Red Riding Hood. Other shows she has directed at Theatre Royal Stratford East include: Speechify: Four Men on Family; Kat Francois’ one woman shows Me, Myself and 7, Raising Lazarus and Kat’s Got Your Tongue; Da Mic Sounds Nice; Summit; Over The Dune; My Father and Other Superheroes, Mad Blud; Ade Ikoli’s Diary of a Single Man; and DRD’s Dis is How We Do It.

She has also directed rehearsed readings for BritAsia and New Voices, part of the Theatre’s work with new writers. Other work for the theatre includes assisting on shows such as One Dance Will Do, Aeroplane Man, Windrush and Things Change. Dawn has produced festivals for the Theatre including Gateway to the Arts, a series of shows for and by young people, and Spoke-Fest, festivals of Spoken Word, performances and workshops. Dawn produced Boy Blue’s sold-out show The Book of Koraka; and produced and directed Club V.

Other theatre credits include directing Llewella Gideon’s premiere of Fruit Salad (Greenwich Theatre) and working as Associate Director on Avenue Q (Noël Coward Theatre). Dawn is the co-creator of Spoke-Lab with Roger Robinson and the recipient of a Carlton Multicultural Achievement Award for Performing Arts.

NICK BARNES DESIGNER

Nick studied Drama at Hull University and Theatre Design at the Slade School of Fine Art. Until recently he was Co-Artistic Director of Blind Summit Theatre, a company he formed with Mark Down, to make new shows with puppets for adult audiences. Nick designed, performed and made puppets for the company whose own productions included Mr China’s Son, Tramping the Boards, The Spaceman, Pirate Puppetry, Martin’s Wedding, A Puppet in the Works, Low Life, Call of the Wild, 1984, The Heads and The Table, many of which toured to theatres and festivals nationally and internationally. In 2005 they collaborated with Anthony Minghella on the ENO award-winning production of Madame Butterfly, providing puppets for the production and performing with them. Other major collaborations include: Shunkin, A Dog’s Heart, Master and Margarita (Complicite), El Gato Con Botas (Tectonic Theatre), On Emotion (Mick Gordon, On Theatre), Faeries (Royal Opera House), His Dark Materials (Birmingham Rep, WYP), Kommilitonen! (Royal Academy of Music) Last year they oversaw the puppetry in Danny Boyle’s spectacular opening ceremony for the Olympic Games. As a theatre designer Nick’s credits include: The Barber of Seville, Rhinoceros, La Boheme, L’Elisir D’Amore, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, Carmen, Aida and The Magic Flute, West Side Story and Showboat, Martin Guerre, The Wiz, Danny 306 + Me (4 ever), Hansel & Gretel, Miss Saigon, Bombitty of Errors. Previous productions for Theatre Royal Stratford East include: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Red Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty and Familyman.

CHLOE KENWARD LIGHTING DESIGNER

Chloe’s recent lighting designs include: What Happens in the Winter (Upswing, Stockton Arc, touring), La Boheme, Aesop’s Fables, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (Isango Ensemble, Hackney Empire), The Centre, Frank and Ferdinand (Islington Community Theatre, Pleasance Islington, Soho Theatre), You Can Still Make a Killing (Southwark Playhouse), Mack and Mabel (Greenwich Playhouse), The Quick (Tristan Bates Theatre).

Chloe has re-lit many productions around the world, for companies including Hofesh Shechter, Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre, Headlong and English Touring Theatre. Chloe has a First Class degree in Drama from the University of Hull, and also teaches Lighting at Rose Bruford College, Central School of Speech and Drama and Goldsmiths College.

In 2006 Chloe won the Michael Northern Bursary Award from the Association of Lighting Designers for showing ‘exemplary talent in lighting design.’

SARAH WELTMAN SOUND DESIGNER

Sarah’s current and recent projects include The Ring Cyclotrope (Royal Opera House installation), Sound Designer and Consultant for the new Sam Wannamaker Theatre at Shakespeare’s Globe, The Empty Quarter (Hampstead Theatre Downstairs), Cape (Synergy Theatre Project), and A Passionate Woman (Sheffield Theatres, UK tour 2014). Prior to this – Next Thing You Know, A Winter’s Tale, The Hired Man (Landor Theatre), Wild Oats (Bristol Old Vic), Donny’s Brain (Hampstead Theatre), Burning Bird, Glengarry Glen Ross and Convictions New Plays Festival (Synergy Theatre Project), The Riots (Tricycle Theatre), Wolfboy the Musical (Trafalgar Studios), In The Spirit of Diaghilev (Sadler’s Wells), The Good Soul of Szechuan (Young Vic), Marriage of Figaro, Damnation of Faust, Elegy for Young Lovers, Idemoneo (English National Opera). Associate Sound Designer credits include: Swallows and Amazons (Bristol Old Vic, West End and UK Tour), Street Scene (Young Vic), One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (Garrick Theatre). Sound Designer and Install Engineer on the Globe to Globe 37 Stages Season 2012 (Shakespeare’s Globe) and the York University Theatre, Film and Television facility built in 2011.

Sarah has been assisted with Musical Arrangements for Crowning Glory by Jacey Linton.

DICK STRAKER PROJECTION DESIGNER

Theatre credits include: A Marvellous Year for Plums (Chichester), Going Dark (Fuel Theatre), The Lessening of Difference (South East Dance), Orpheus and Eurydice (National Youth Theatre, Old Vic, Tunnels), Tristan and Isolde (Grange Park Opera), Fat Girl Gets a Haircut (The Roundhouse), Tiger Country (Hampstead Theatre), The King and I (Curve, Leicester), Desire Under the Elms (New Vic Staffordshire), Seize the Day (Tricycle Theatre), Tales of Ballycumber (Abbey Theatre, Dublin), It’s a Wonderful Life (New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich), The Mountaintop (Trafalgar Studios), Just Add Water, Faultline (Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company), Rushes (Royal Ballet), The Ring Cycle (Royal Opera House), Sugar Mummies, Hitchcock Blonde (Royal Court Theatre), Julius Caesar (The Barbican and tour), Richard II (The Old Vic), The Woman in White (Palace Theatre, London, Marquis Theatre, NY), His Dark Materials, Henry V, The Coast of Utopia and South Pacific (National Theatre), Jumpers (National Theatre, Piccadilly Theatre, Brooks Atkinson, NY), The Duchess of Malfi and The Powerbook (National Theatre and tour). Dick studied Fine Art combining photographic and mixed media installations with postgraduate study in graphic design. Dick has designed for much seminal theatre, fashion, commercial and architectural projection events and formed the company Mesmer for video designers with common interests in visual and performance based activities. Dick’s range of experience has extended over technological advances whilst still being grounded in traditional visual language. He is involved in image production, post-production editing and animation and the delivery of the content into the display system. Dick’s interest is designing projection that involves creating content for unusual spaces and contexts.

CORAL MESSAM MOVEMENT

Training: Northern School of Contemporary Dance and Central School of Speech and Drama.

Theatre credits: The Lightning Child (Shakespeare’s Globe), Feast (Young Vic), Faustus (Royal Exchange), Death and the King’s Horseman (National Theatre), To Be Straight With You (DV8 Physical Theatre). Television credits include: Game of Thrones (Choreographer and Performer). Movement direction includes: You Could Move (Arcola Theatre), Amen Corner, Death and the King’s Horseman (dance assistant), (National Theatre), Sweet Taboo, Enter and God’s Property (Talawa Theatre), A Doll’s House, As You Like It, Private Lives (Royal Exchange), Houseboy (Tiata Fahodzi workshop), Ruined (Almeida theatre).

Research and development includes: Othello movement director (Royal Shakespeare Company), I Stand Corrected (Mojisola Adebayo), Britannia Rules The Waves (Royal Exchange). Coral was the Stadium Arena Stage choreographer for the 40^th anniversary celebration of the United Emirates in Abu Dhabi, 2011. Coral is also a visiting movement practitioner at Central School Of Speech and Drama.

AMITA KILUMANGA ASSOCIATE DESIGNER (COSTUME)

Amita’s recent costume designs as an Associate designer/Designer include: Shalom Baby (Theatre Royal Stratford East), The Harder They Come (Theatre Royal Stratford East, Nottingham Playhouse), The Wizard of Oz, Alice in Wonderland, The Tempest (Bounce Theatre), The Hot Dots, Magic of Christmas (So & So Circus Company), Iya-Ile, Woman of the House (Tiata Fahodzi). After graduating in 2003 from Central Saint Martins with a BA (Hons), Amita has worked on a number of productions as a costume designer, costume maker, design assistant, wardrobe mistress and wardrobe supervisor. She now works as a freelance costume designer, while doing her MA in Costume Design in Aalto University, School of Arts, Design and Architecture in Helsinki, Finland.