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Against(2017) Spring season 1, 2021 Jerwood Vanbrugh Theatre Against (2017) by Christopher Shinn Creative Team Cast (in order of appearance) Director Luke Psyche Stott Tom Mackean / Adam Woolley Designer Sheila / Kate Simon Kenny Amelia Kenworthy Lighting Designers Tom’s Mother / Middle-aged Woman / Dean Reese Graham Megan Langford Matt Leventhall Tom’s Father / Jon Sound Designer Ben Lynn Emma Laxton Tim / Dan Associate Sound Designer Gabriel Howell Kieran Dye Anna / Law Enforcement Officer Composer Minnie Mary Walker Florence Hand Professor / Manager Video Designers Harry Omosele Andrea Scott Chris / Middle-aged Man Movement Coach Ian Bouillion Angela Gasparetto Melvyn Voice Coach Raphel Famotibe Kay Welch Tracey / Luke’s Mom Dialect Coach Lucia Bonbright Deborah Garvey Fight Coach Philip D’Orleans Produced by special arrangement with and all authorised performance materials supplied by William Morris Endeavor Entertainment, Llc Student Production Team Production Manager Chief Production Sound Dresser Jack Hollingsworth Engineer Daberechi Ukoha-Kalul Ben Paveley Technical Manager Scenic Art Rosa Watson Production Sound Engineer Heads of Department James Breedon Steven Peters (RADA graduate) Stage Manager Perdita Vaughan-Williams Charlotte Thorogood Sound No 1 (RADA graduate) Candice Weaver Deputy Stage Manager Scenic Art Assistants Sophie Slobodjani Sound No 2 Alfie Sissons Conor Brown Daberechi Ukoha-Kalu Assistant Stage Manager / (Royal Conservatoire Abraham Walkling-Lea Book Cover of Scotland student) Isabelle Whitehill Sophie McLean Sound Crew Props Supervisors Assistant Stage Manager Alice Boxer Pip Beattie Jaimie Wakefield India Day Liberty Monroe Aiden O’Sullivan ASM 2s Sylvia Wan Props Makers Benet Doeringer Benet Doeringer Dylan Mulholland Video Programmer Lizzie Hodge and Engineer Dylan Mulholland Chief Electrician Edward Aspinall Skylar Turnbull Hurd Ollie Morrill Broadcast Show Crew Programmer Edward Aspinall Alice Boxer Sophia Dreyer Andrea Scott India Day Aidan O’Sullivan Production Electrician Construction Project Manager Sylvia Wan Susie Yi Su Taigh McCarthy Special thanks: Lighting and Video Operator Scenery Builder Holborn Library Roma Farnell Joel Mansi Thomas Follow Spot Operators Construction Crew Jordan Deegan-Fleet Niamh Birkett Iona Ridley Jayden Hendricks-Kynaston Sarah Hsien Set Lighting Jasper Leigh Alex Forey Iona Ridley Lighting Crew Costume Supervisor Jordan Deegan-Fleet Isabel Nellie Walters Roma Farnell Lucinda Plummer Wardrobe Assistants Spiky Saul Sophie Reshad Allison Silberberg Biographies Christopher Shinn Musical theatre includes Ghost Quartet (Boulevard Writer Theatre); Assassins (Watermill/Nottingham Christopher Shinn is an award-winning American Playhouse); Sweeney Todd (Harrington’s/West End/ playwright. The Royal Court Theatre produced Off-Broadway – Drama Desk Nomination); Cabaret his first play, Four, and over the following fifteen (English Theatre Frankfurt); The Selfish Giant (West years commissioned many plays from him. These End); Saturday Night Fever (Theatre Royal Bath/ included: Other People, Where Do We Live (Obie UK tour). Award in Playwriting and nominated for an Olivier Award for Most Promising Playwright), Dying City Opera includes A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Le (2008 Pulitzer Prise finalist) andNow or Later. Other Nozze di Figaro (Nevill Holt Opera); Vivienne (ROH, work includes: The Coming World, What Didn’t Linbury); The Cunning Little Vixen, Háry János Happen, On the Mountain, Picked, Teddy Ferrara (Ryedale Festival). and An Opening in Time. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in Playwriting in 2005 and the Robert Simon’s designs for Black Men Walking were Chesley Award for Lesbian and Gay Playwriting. selected to represent the UK at the Prague Against was first produced by the Almeida Theatre Quadrennial of Performance Design and the in 2017 with RADA graduate Ben Whishaw. V&A Museum. He is a core member of design collective SCENE/CHANGE, where public projects include wrapping over one hundred venues in Psyche Stott #MISSINGLIVETHEATRE tape in Summer 2020. Director www.simonkenny.co.uk. Psyche is a freelance theatre director. Her work has taken her to Rome, Australia, Germany and throughout the UK enabling her to work in Reese Graham Regional Theatre, West End and on National and Lighting Designer International tours. Previous productions for RADA Reese is a graduate of RADA’s Foundation Degree include; Suddenly Last Summer and Something in Technical Theatre and Stage Management and Unspoken, Kindertransport, The Five Wives of is now a third year lighting specialist on the BA Maurice Pinder and Women of Twilight. (Hons) course. Before joining RADA, Reese was the Performance and Events Technical Co-Ordinator at After a challenging year for the industry she The Abbey School Reading. Since joining RADA his is thrilled that forthcoming projects include a main experience is within production electrics and workshop of a new musical. And in August she programming and is making his debut in lighting returns to English Theatre in Frankfurt to direct design and is thrilled to be working with such an Girl on the Train. You can find out more at experienced and supportive team. www.psychestott.co.uk. For more information on previous projects please visit Rjgrahamlx.com. Simon Kenny Designer Matt Leventhall Theatre includes The Gift, Black Men Walking, Lighting Designer Princess and The Hustler (Eclipse/UK tour); Matt is a lighting designer and educator who Crongton Knights, Noughts & Crosses (Pilot/UK collaborates UK wide and internationally. Matt is tour); Holes (Nottingham Playhouse/UK tour); the Head of Lighting at RADA in London. Recent Red Dust Road (National Theatre of Scotland); credits include: Yes, Prime Minister! (Theatr Clwyd); The Children (English Theatre Frankfurt); Broken A Christmas Carol (Theatr Clwyd); Trial By Laughter Glass (Watford Palace); Babette’s Feast (The Print (Watermill and UK tour); No Kids (UK, USA and Room); Twelfth Night, The Merchant of Venice Hong Kong tour); Turn of The Screw (Mercury and (Shakespeare’s Globe); Platinum (Hampstead UK tour), The Secret Garden (York Theatre Royal), Theatre); Sleuth (Watermill); Ghosts (Theatr Clwyd); Hamlet (Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company, In The Next Room or the vibrator play (Ustinov Associate LD); The Terrible Infants (Wilton’s); Studio Bath) Entertaining Mr Sloane (UK tour); The Events (Mercury Theatre); Light (Barbican, Island (National Theatre); The Belle’s Stratagem Bristol Old Vic and European tour); Barbarians (Southwark Playhouse); Border Force (Duckie). (Young Vic); The Comedy About a Bank Robbery Biographies continued (Criterion, Associate LD); My Mother Never Said of Against is Kieran’s first time being in the sound I Should (St James Theatre, Associate LD), The designer’s seat. Originally from the North East, Collector (The Vaults Theatre); The Vaudevillans live events have been with him since a young age, (Assembly); Moth (Hope Mill); Ant Street (Arcola); starting out at small theatres to larger events in Lady Anna All At Sea (Park Theatre); Scarlet and around the North East. While not in theatres, (Southwark Playhouse); God’s Own Country (Zoo); his main hobbies are scouting and photography. Sikes and Nancy (Trafalgar Studios and UK tour); Suffolk Stories (Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds); Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (Secret Cinema, Site Florence Hand Specific); Fishskin Trousers (Finborough); Wild West Composer End (Pleasance); Bed (Lakeside Arts Nottingham); Florence is in her second year of the Foundation Madame Butterfly (Leatherhead Theatre and UK Degree in Technical Theatre and Stage tour); Fresher The Musical (Pleasance); TEDx Management specialising in sound. Although this London (The Roundhouse). is her first time composing for a show, she has a For a full list of credits visit www.mllx.co.uk. strong background in music, including an ARSM Diploma on Classical Voice and Grade 8 standard on piano, as well as being named the Lincolnshire Emma Laxton Young Musician of the Year at the age of 15. She is Sound Designer delighted to have had the opportunity to work on Credits include: Coriolanus (Sheffield Theatres), this production. A Kind Of People (Royal Court), Emilia (West End), Equus (Associate Sound Designer - West End), Elizabeth (Barbican & Linbury Studio: Royal Opera Andrea Scott House), The Writer (Almeida), The Country Wife, Video Designer Random/Generations, The House They Grew Up In, Andrea is a current third year student on the BA Forty Years On (Chichester Festival Theatre), Titus (Hons) in Technical Theatre and Stage Management Andronicus (RSC & Barbican Centre), Julius Caesar at RADA, specialising in video design, broadcast (Sheffield Theatres), The York Realist, Limehouse, and directing. Her work strives to push boundaries The Recruiting Officer (Donmar Warehouse), Blood and likes to reflect on societal challenges Wedding, See Me Now (Young Vic), Breaking The and phenomena such as her upcoming play Code, All My Sons, A Doll’s House, The Accrington Remembering exploring Alzheimer’s disease. Pals (Royal Exchange), Ghosts, The Oresteia (Home Theatre, Manchester), Boys Will Be Boys (Headlong Andrea’s latest productions include Paintings of & Bush Theatre), That Face (Royal Court), My Name Woe (director, short film), Anamnesis (director, Is Rachel Corrie (Royal Court, Minetta Lane Theatre, short film), Tristan & Isolde (Video and Production New York; Playhouse, West End, Galway and Assistant, Prague State Opera), Escape Room Edinburgh Festivals). One (Video Designer, RADA, Gielgud Theatre),
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