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PRESS RELEASE - Tuesday 9 April 2019

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NATIONAL YOUTH ANNOUNCES FULL 2019 SEASON

Frankenstein. Credit Helen Maybanks

 NYT ANNOUNCES ITS SUMMER/AUTUMN 2019 SEASON OF 9 PRODUCTIONS, WITH A MAJORITY TO BE STAGED OUTSIDE OF

 NYT COMMISSIONS TO BE STAGED ACROSS THE COUNTRY THIS YEAR INCLUDE: . LUKE BARNES’ TOXIC MASCULINITY PLAY LOST BOYS TO TOUR LIVERPOOL AND COMMUNITY VENUES . F-OFF AT THE EDINBURGH FRINGE FESTIVAL BY TATTY HENNESSY WRITTEN IN RESPONSE TO THE ONGOING CAMBRIDGE ANALYTICA SCANDAL . ASIF KHAN’S IMAAM IMRAAN EXPLORING LIBERAL ISLAM, AT BRADFORD LITERATURE FESTIVAL . THE ASTRONAUT WIVES CLUB STARRING AN ALL-FEMALE CAST TO MARK THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FIRST MAN ON THE MOON, AT LATITUDE FESTIVAL

 THE NYT REP COMPANY RETURNS WITH AN EXTENDED GOTHIC- INSPIRED SEASON THIS AUTUMN AT THE INCLUDING AN ADAPTATION OF FRANKENSTEIN UTILISING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND NEIL BARTLETT’S ADAPTATION OF GREAT EXPECTATIONS RECEIVING ITS LONDON PREMIERE. THE FINAL REP PRODUCTION WILL BE A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM AT THE

 FLAGSHIP SOCIAL INCLUSION INITIATIVE ‘PLAYING UP’ TO STAGE SUMMER FEST WRITTEN BY AND DIRECTED BY LAKESHA ARIE-ANGELO THIS JULY AT THE BUNKER THEATRE

 NEW 2020 VISION COMMISSIONS FROM WRITERS AND ARTISTS INCLUDING NESSAH MUTHY, ATHENA STEVENS, ANN AKIN, IMAN QURESHI AND CHRIS BUSH

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The National Youth Theatre today announces its 2019 Summer and Autumn Season which will feature an extended 7th annual REP season of three plays in London, brand new commissions staged in five cities across the UK and festival appearances at the Edinburgh Fringe, Latitude and Bradford Literature Festival. This is the first time the majority of NYT’s summer / autumn season productions will be staged outside of London. Three NYT members have also been appointed as paid Centre Stage Creatives and have also been commissioned to build local NYT networks and create new work in towns around the UK.

Paul Roseby, NYT Artistic Director, said:

“From the ongoing Cambridge Analytica Scandal to the rise of Artificial Intelligence, this season will tackle urgent topical issues that will define the future for our young people for decades to come. We firmly believe that being National means being local and this year’s creative programme at venues and festivals around the UK reflects a shift to expand our reach, which has already seen us audition at 70 venues and schools around the UK this Spring. In London we are proud to have extended and expanded our free alternative routes into the industry, the NYT REP Company and Playing Up, offering diverse young talent unique opportunities to learn in front of an audience on leading stages.”

NYT REP SEASON 2019

The 2019 summer and autumn programme includes an extended REP season which will see the most performances ever in a season. With themes of science and technology running throughout, this REP season will feature an Artificial Intelligence-inspired production of Mary Shelley’s gothic story Frankenstein, adapted by Carl Miller and directed by Emily Gray, Artistic Director of Trestle Theatre, and Great Expectations, adapted by Neil Bartlett and directed by the 2019 Bryan Forbes Bursary Director at Southwark Playhouse from 18 October – 30 November. The REP Company will then perform A Midsummer Night’s Dream, at the Criterion Theatre directed by Matt Harrison working in association with Kneehigh and abridged by Kate Kennedy running from 6 December to 17 January.

The production of Frankenstein will be accompanied by a free AI Digital Installation, created in partnership with immersive content studio Megaverse. This year all NYT REP productions will include a relaxed performance as part of the NYT’s wider Inclusion Programme, which aims to make the charity accessible to young people, artists and audiences with disabilities. All three productions are set-texts and with schools tickets from £15 and free Q&As and educational resource packs the NYT REP aims to offer affordable access to live theatre for

school groups, against a backdrop of declining drama in schools. The 2019 Rep cast will be announced in due course and 50% of the company of 16 are actors of colour, continuing the initiatives commitment to discovering Britain’s best diverse young talent.

The NYT REP is inspired by the traditional repertory theatre model and was set up by Paul Roseby in 2012 to provide a much-needed free alternative to expensive formal training whilst embracing the best and diverse young talent to work with leading institutions culminating in three productions in London . Last year’s REP cast included Oseloka Obi who is now appearing in The Son at , Isabel Adomakoh Young who has since performed in Venice Preserved with the Royal Shakespeare Company and Dear Elizabeth at The , Laurie Ogden will appear in Napoli, Brooklyn at the , Jeffery Sangalang who has appeared in the award-winning Boys and Alice Vilanculo in Bottled; both at Vault Festival. Previous REP alumni also include: Kwami Odoom who will appear in The Half God of Rainfall at The Kiln, Hannah Morrish who has just been nominated for an Ian Charleston award, Seraphina Beh who will appear in the new series of Netflix’s Top Boy and Sope Dirisu, who will star as a lead in Gangs of London for Sky Atlantic.

PLAYING UP – FLAGSHIP SOCIAL INCLUSION PROGRAMME

NYT’s social inclusion course ‘Playing Up’ returns in 2019 with the brand new play SUMMER FEST by Yolanda Mercy, which is set at a festival. The production will run from 10-13 July at the Bunker Theatre in London and will be directed by Resident Director Lakesha Arie-Angelo.

Now in its 11th year, the course, for 19 - 24 year olds not in full time education, employment or training, creates productions and commissions new work. It has an 85% success rate of moving young people into higher education, further training or employment. 50% of the young people in NYT’s 2018/19 company are actors of colour. This year NYT introduced Stepping Up, a new free course for young people aged 19 - 24 who are at risk and or not in employment, education or training, doubling the free opportunities available through the programme.

Recent alumni of Playing Up include Ria Zmitrowicz, one of the leads in Three Sisters at the , Jacob Beswick currently in rehearsals for The Crucible at the Yard Theatre, Rachel Jackson in feature film The Party’s Just Beginning and Alice Vilanculo who was part of the 2018 NYT REP Company and recently starred in Bottled at the Vault Festival.

NATIONAL PROGRAMME

This year, NYT will expand and build upon its work around the UK with a series of nationwide play commissions, free workshops and festival appearances.

Edinburgh Festival

After premiering at the Criterion in 2018, F-Off, a play created by NYT’s Artistic Director Paul Roseby, Evening Standard’s ‘one to watch’ writer Tatty Hennessy and the NYT Company will be staged at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe at Belly Button, Underbelly venue from 2 August. This production sees the Facebook generation put the social network on trial. A cast of 12 interrogate the highs and lows of Facebook, acting as judge and jury as they delve into the darkest depths of social media.

Paul Roseby OBE is a broadcaster and CEO and Artistic Director of the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain. Last year he was awarded an OBE for services to young people and drama. In over 5 years as CEO and 15 as Artistic Director he has commissioned over 200 plays. Pioneering innovations at NYT under Paul’s leadership include the NYT REP Company, a free alternative to expensive formal training, a ground-breaking international cultural exchange programme in Saudi Arabia and China and performances at the Beijing

2008 Olympics Handover Ceremony, the London 2012 Olympics and the 2014 Commonwealth Games. Paul’s directing credits include Story of our Youth - a Diamond Anniversary Gala at the in London’s West End, Generation X for Sky Arts, the London 2012 Welcome Ceremonies, Relish by James Graham, When Romeo Met Juliet for BBC2, Silence by Moira Buffini and Tom Stoppard’s abridgement of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice at the and the National Centre for Performing Arts in Beijing. Paul has also written and presented a number of shows on Radio 4 and presented TV shows on Channel 5, UKTV and the BBC. He is a member of the Global Futures Advisory Board.

Tatty Hennessy is a director, writer and dramaturg. She has been an assistant director at Shakespeare's Globe, including on the Globe to Globe World Tour of Hamlet, and an associate director at the Lyric, Hammersmith. She is an associate director with Merely Theatre, a gender-blind touring Shakespeare rep company. Tatty was dramaturg for Portia, by Lindsay Dukes at Theatre 503, and has also developed In Soft Wings by Hugh Salmon and Trusting Atoms by Rowena Fletcher-Wood. She is currently developing a new one woman play A Hundred Words for Snow. Liverpool

New play Lost Boys by award-winning playwright and NYT alumnus Luke Barnes (All We Ever Wanted Was Everything, Bottleneck), will explore the themes of identity, place and toxic masculinity in post-industrial towns. Previously developed through workshops in Skelmersdale at Hope Theatre in 2018, the production will be directed by Zoe Lafferty (The Host, Queens of Syria) and will run at the Unity Theatre from 4-11 September followed by a tour of community venues around Merseyside.

Luke Barnes is an award-winning northern playwright from Formby, Liverpool. His first play Chapel Street was selected as one of the top 5 new plays in 2011 by The Stage and he was shortlisted for an OffWestEnd.com award for most promising playwright.

Zoe Lafferty was named one of Vogue’s Major Players of British Theatre and Vanity Fair’s 14 British Theatre Talents Ready to Break Out.

Bradford

Asif Khan’s new comedy Imaam Imraan follows the story of an actor-turned-Imaam. Directed by Iqbal Khan, this production will run from 1 – 4 July at Kala Sangam at Bradford Literature Festival.

Asif Khan is an award-winning writer, he was recognised in the 'BBC New Talent Hotlist 2017 ' for new writers, won the Channel 4 Playwright’s Scheme which celebrates emerging British playwriting talent and is a member of the Tamasha Playwrights Group. His play Combustion was selected for the ’s PlayWROUGHT Festival in 2014, other works include The Lady, The Plot and Willkommen. Khan has also appeared on stage, his acting credits include A Passage To India (Royal & Derngate and Park Theatre), Love, Bombs & Apples (Arcola), The Hypocrite (RSC/HullTruck), Handbagged (Tricycle Theatre and UK Tour), Punjabi Boy (RichMix), Multitudes (Tricycle Theatre) and Twelfth Night (National Theatre) and TV series Spooks. Coventry

Migration, My Nation, a new three-year national heritage project asking ‘where are we from?’ In its first year it will be directed by Sam Hardie and part-devised with NYT members at the Albany Theatre in Coventry in August before travelling to other towns and cities in 2020 and 2021.

LATITUDE FESTIVAL, SUFFOLK

NYT are thrilled to have a dedicated performance space at Latitude this year to showcase members’ talent in The Faraway Forest. Alongside this, in celebration of the upcoming 50- year anniversary of the Apollo Moon landing, The Astronaut Wives Club by Al Smith directed by Bea Holland will be performed in The Faraway Forest at Latitude Festival in Suffolk from 18-21 July.

This year also sees the launch of Spoken World, a new spoken word programme at NYT, bringing together emerging and established artists to explore the ways poetry, theatre and performance interact. Supporting the voices, writers, and spoken word artists in the NYT company – Spoken World will see workshops take place in various locations across the UK, and an environmentally-themed spoken word performance piece at Latitude Festival.

2020 Commissions

As part of NYT’s ongoing commitment to new voices, writers and artists including Nessah Muthy, Athena Stevens, Ann Akin, Iman Qureshi, Chris Bush and Stephanie Street are currently under commission to create new works exploring issues that will affect young people in 2020 and beyond. Three of these will explore the contested ground of disability, equality and inclusion, as part of NYT’s burgeoning commitment to expanding the range of voices on and off stage and on screen and film. NYT’s Inclusion Programme partners include Diverse City, Deafinitely Theatre and SEN school Highshore in Southwark. Further information about this can be found here.

Centre Stage Creatives

Supported by the Foyle Foundation, early-career artists from the NYT membership around the UK are to be awarded seed-funding to create work and connect local NYT membership to creative opportunities in their region and to create local membership networks.

ENDS

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The NYT Playing Up Company present: SUMMER FEST AT THE BUNKER THEATRE

Wednesday 10 July, 7.30pm Thursday 11 July, 7.30pm Friday 12 July, 7.30pm Saturday 13 July, 3pm & 7.30pm By Yolanda Mercy

Directed by Lakesha Arie-Angelo

NYT 2019 REP SEASON Frankenstein Southwark Playhouse 26 October – 30 November Press Night: Wednesday 30 October, 7.30pm By Mary Shelley Adapted by Carl Miller Directed by Emily Gray

Great Expectations Southwark Playhouse 18 October – 28 November Press Night: Monday 21 October, 7.30pm By Charles Dickens Adapted by Neil Bartlett Directed by the 2019 Bryan Forbes Bursary Director

A Midsummer Night’s Dream Criterion Theatre 6 December 2019 – 17 January 2020 Press night: Tuesday 10 December, 1pm By Abridged by Kate Kennedy Directed by Matt Harrison

NATIONAL PROGRAMME

F-Off Edinburgh Festival:

Belly Button, Underbelly 2 – 25 August, 12.50pm By Tatty Hennessy Directed by Paul Roseby

Part devised by Paul Roseby and NYT REP Company

75 mins running time

Lost Boys Unity Theatre, Liverpool 4 - 11 September By Luke Barnes Directed by Zoe Lafferty

Imaam Imraan Kala Sangam, Bradford Literature Festival 1 – 4 July By Asif Khan Directed by Iqbal Khan

The Astronaut Wives Club Latitude Festival, The Faraway Forest 18 - 21 July By Al Smith Directed by Bea Holland

Migration, My Nation Albany Theatre, Coventry August. Performance dates TBC. Directed by Sam Hardie Devised by Sam Hardie and the NYT Company

NOTES TO EDITORS

Biographies

Summer Fest

Yolanda Mercy is a playwright and actress and trained at the Brit School, Laban and Central School of Speech and Drama. She was named Artist to Watch 2017 by the British Council and is part of the BBC Writers room. She is currently on attachment with Soho Theatre and HighTide Theatre company. Previous collaborations also include The Tate, BBC, and The British Council.

Lakesha Arie-Angelo is resident director at the Soho Theatre. Directing credits include The Hoes (), Alive Day (Bunker), and Prodigal (Bush). For the Soho Theatre Lakesha has directed soft animals and has worked as assistant director on The One, Touch, Blueberry Toast and Roller Diner which won the 2017 West End Wilma Award for Best Comedy.

Frankenstein

Carl Miller has been artistic director of the Royal Court Young People’s Theatre, an Associate Director of Birmingham Rep and Unicorn, and writer in Residence at the Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds. He is also a member of Mercury Musical Developments’ Advanced Writers’ Lab. Previous writing credits for theatre include A Little Princess (), Emil and the Detective (National Theatre), The Three Musketeers (Unicorn) and an adaptation of Measure for Measure (RADA).

Emily Gray is Artistic Director of Trestle, the UKs leading mask and physical theatre company specialising in education & training. Emily runs a well-established MA & PGCE for drama teachers in partnership with Middlesex University and has become an expert in teaching mask theatre. Before joining Trestle in 2004, Emily was Artistic Director of TAG Theatre Company, Glasgow and from 1999 Associate Director at .

Great Expectations

Neil Bartlett was appointed Artistic Director of the Lyric Hammersmith in London in 1994 and has since worked for the National, the Abbey in Dublin, the Bristol Old Vic, the Manchester Royal Exchange, the Edinburgh International, Manchester International, Brighton, Aldeburgh and Holland Festivals, the Wellcome Foundation and . He is the author of Mr. Clive and Mr. which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel Award. His published adaptations and translations for the theatre also include Molière's The Misanthrope (Goodman, Chicago); The School for Wives (Derby Playhouse), Racine's Bérénice (National Theatre) and Marivaux's The Game of Love and Chance (National Theatre).

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Matt Harrison is a director, devisor and theatre maker and was the recipient of the NYT REP Bryan Forbes Directors Bursary in 2014. Direction includes NYT’s The Fall (Southwark Playhouse), Snowbird (Tristan Bates Theatre), Tales from the Bad Years (), Futures (Lost Theatre), Please Wait Patiently (National Theatre Temporary Theatre) and The Pirates of Penzance ( - Nominated for 'Best Musical Production' & 'Best Ensemble' in the 2013 Off West End Awards). Assistant Director credits include Kneehigh award-winning The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk and the upcoming West End production of Lady Windermere's Fan directed by Kathy Burke.

Kate Kennedy has writing credits which include Click and Scratch Me, I Bleed at the Ophelia Dalston. She has also written works for Monologue Slam UK at Stratford Theatre Royal and Nine Days They Fell for RADA. Performer credits also include Channel 4’s Catastrophe and Twelfth Night

(Royal Exchange) for which she was nominated for best supporting actress at the Manchester Theatre Awards.

F-Off

Paul Roseby is a broadcaster and CEO and Artistic Director of the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain. He was recently awarded a OBE for services to young people and drama. In over 5 years as CEO and 15 as Artistic Director he has commissioned over 200 plays. Pioneering innovations at NYT under Paul’s leadership include the NYT REP Company, a free alternative to expensive formal training, a ground-breaking international cultural exchange programme in Saudi Arabia and China and performances at the Beijing 2008 Olympics Handover Ceremony, the London 2012 Olympics and the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. Paul’s directing credits include Story of our Youth - a Diamond Anniversary Gala at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London’s West End, Generation X for Sky Arts, the London 2012 Welcome Ceremonies, Relish by James Graham, When Romeo Met Juliet for BBC2, Silence by Moira Buffini and Tom Stoppard’s abridgement of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice at the Royal Opera House and the National Centre for Performing Arts in Beijing. Paul has also written and presented a number of shows on Radio 4 and presented TVs shows on Channel 5, UKTV and the BBC. He is a member of the Global Futures Advisory Board.

Tatty Hennessy is a director, writer and dramaturg. She has been an assistant director at Shakespeare's Globe, including on the Globe to Globe World Tour of Hamlet, and an associate director at the Lyric, Hammersmith. She is an associate director with Merely Theatre, a gender-blind touring Shakespeare rep company. Tatty was dramaturg for Portia, by Lindsay Dukes at Theatre 503, and has also developed In Soft Wings by Hugh Salmon and Trusting Atoms by Rowena Fletcher- Wood. She is currently developing a new one woman play A Hundred Words for Snow.

Lost Boys

Luke Barnes is a writer and director for stage and screen. His plays include No One Will Tell Me When To Start A Revolution (); All We Ever Wanted Was Everything (Paines Plough Roundabout/Latitude/ Site Specific, Hull), The Jumper Factory (/Birmingham Rep/HMP Wandsworth), The Men in Blue Project (Young Vic/Latitude), Ten Storey Love Song (Hull Truck), Weekend Rockstars (/Hull Truck/UK tour) and Bottleneck (Soho Theatre/UK Tour). His screen highlights include Channel 4’s Minted in Manchester.

Zoe Lafferty was named one of Vogue’s Major Players of British Theatre and Vanity Fair’s 14 British Theatre Talents Ready to Break Out.

Imaam Imraan

Asif Khan is an award-winning writer, he was recognised in the 'BBC New Talent Hotlist 2017 ' for new writers, won the Channel 4 Playwright’s Scheme which celebrates emerging British playwriting talent and is a member of the Tamasha Playwrights Group. His play Combustion was selected for the Arcola Theatre’s PlayWROUGHT Festival in 2014, other works include The Lady, The Plot and Willkommen. Khan has also appeared on stage, his acting credits include A Passage To India (Royal & Derngate and Park Theatre), Love, Bombs & Apples (Arcola), The Hypocrite (RSC/HullTruck), Handbagged (Tricycle Theatre and UK Tour), Punjabi Boy (RichMix), Multitudes (Tricycle Theatre) and Twelfth Night (National Theatre) and TV series Spooks.

Iqbal Khan’s most recent directorial venture was a production of William Shakespeare’s at the RSC. For the RSC, he has also directed Much Ado About Nothing. Other works also include (Shakespeare’s Globe), The Importance of Being Earnest: The Musical (, Broken Glass (Tricycle/West End) and East is East (Birmingham Rep).

The Astronaut Wives Club

Al Smith has been a Pearson Playwright in Residence at the and participated in the Paines Plough/Channel 4 Future Perfect Scheme. He is a graduate of the BBC Writers Academy and won the BFI Wellcome Trust Screenwriting Prize. In 2017 his radio series Life Lines won gold for Best Fictional Storytelling at the ARIAS, the Radio Academy Awards and he was nominated for the Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright at the 2017 Evening Standard Theatre Awards. Writing credits for theatre include Harrogate (Royal Court), Sport (Finborough) and Diary of a Madman (Traverse, Edinburgh and Gate, London).

Bea Holland was the Associate Director on National Youth Theatre’s 60th Anniversary Gala, The Story of Our Youth at the Shaftesbury Theatre. Other directing credits for NYT include If Chloe Can at the Ambassadors Theatre, S’warm at and East to East in Canary Wharf. She recently appeared in the award-winning Girls by Pappy Show at the Vault Festival.

Migration, My Nation

Sam Hardie was previously a member of the National Youth Theatre and went on to train at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, where she performed in productions of Wuthering Heights, Ivanov, , The Country Wife, We the Animals, Twelfth Night and Three Sisters. She devised Five Four None for Words in Progress at the .

New Commissions

Nessah Muthy is a writer for TV and theatre. She has worked with a number of theatres and companies including the Royal Court, HighTide, Pursued By A Bear Productions, Cardboard Citizens and Theatre Centre. In 2017, the NYT commissioned her play The Host which premiered as part of their East End Season and returned in 2018 at St James’s Church . It was nominated for the Writers’ Guild Award for Best Play for Young Audiences. For screen, Nessah has written for Holby City, following successful completion of the show’s shadow scheme and has previously written for EastEnders: E20. She was also part of the BBC Drama Writers Scheme for 2016.

Stephanie Street is an actor, writer, Literary Associate of HighTide festival and founder member of The Act for Change Project. Street’s theatre credits include Behind the Beautiful Forevers (National Theatre), Nightwatchman (National Theatre); Rough Cuts, Shades (both ), Sweet Cider (Arcola), Not the End of the World (Bristol Old Vic) Too Close to Home (Lyric Theatre) and The Vagina Monologues (UK Tour). Her TV credits include: Silk, Lewis, Apparitions and Primeval. Her writing credits include an adaptation of Wuthering Heights (NYT REP season 2015), Sisters, a verbatim piece which re-opened the Sheffield Crucible Studio in March 2010 and The Reluctant Fundamentalist which NYT presented at The Yard in 2017 and at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2018.

Athena Stevens is an associate artist at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre and writer on attachment at the Finborough Theatre. Previous collaborations include The National Theatre Studio, NYT and the Park Theatre. For screen she has been commissioned by Channel 4 and CBeebies. Writing credits The Amazing Vancetti Sisters (Tristan Bates), Schism and Genie for the Finborough and Dark Night of the Soul: Recompense (Shakespeare’s Globe).

Ann Akin has written and directed several stage productions including Normal? (Oval House Theatre, Lost Theatre), Love Me Not! (Lyric Hammersmith) and Trying to Find Me (IAM Festival, Arts Depot). Her work Conversations with Love (Young Vic, Soho Theatre, Edinburgh Festival) also won Ann the BEFTA Award for Best Writer in 2011.

Iman Qureshi has previously been commissioned by the BBC, ETT, Tamasha Theatre, Kali Theatre and Purple Moon Drama and was shortlisted for the Soho Theatre’s Tony Craze Award. Her work The Funeral Director, which premiered at the Southwark Playhouse prior to a regional tour, won Iman the Papatango New Writing Prize in 2018.Under commission from Tamasha and Titi Dawudu, Iman contributed two monologues to Hear Me Now a set of diverse monologues for diverse actors, the first

of its kind, published by Oberon books. In 2017, Iman was selected by Film London for their London Calling short film slate with her short Home Girl, directed by Poonam Brah which was also selected for the 2019 BFI Flare Festival.