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Lolita Chakrabarti Agent Katie Haines ([email protected]) Lolita Chakrabarti is an award-winning actress and writer. Theatre Adaptation of LIFE OF PI by Yann Martel World premiere at Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, July 2019. Adaptation of INVISIBLE CITIES by Italo Calvino World premiere at Mayfields, Manchester International Festival, July 2019. A collaboration with digital projectionist 59Productions, choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and twenty two dancers from Rambert. This production will next play in Brisbane. RED VELVET Tricycle Theatre, London 2012 St Anne’s Warehouse, New York 2014 Garrick Theatre, London 2016 To date there have been over 25 productions in the US. Awards: Charles Wintour Evening Standard Award Most Promising Playwright Award 2012; Critics Circle Award in 2013 for Most Promising Playwright; AWA Award 2013 for Arts and Culture; Nominations for Whatsonstage Awards 2013 for London Newcomer of the Year & Best New Play; Nomination for an Olivier Award 2013 for Best Play in an Affiliate Theatre. THE GREATEST WEALTH – 2018 Old Vic Theatre, London Curated by Lolita A series of 8 monologues celebrating the NHS’ 70th birthday including SPEEDY GONZALEZ by Lolita Chakrabarti LAST SEEN – JOY – 2009 Almeida Theatre/Slung Low Radio: RED VELVET – 2014 Saturday drama BBC Radio 4 THE GODDESS – 2006 Woman’s Hour serial BBC Radio 4 Film: Lolita produced OF MARY, a short film, directed by Adrian Lester, which won the Best Short Film Award at PAFF, Los Angeles 2012. In Development Theatre: Dramaturg on MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE (director Kate Prince for Sadlers Wells) CALMER (Birmingham Rep) POLITICALLY CORRECT (Fiery Angel) Curator and Writer for TESTAMENTS (The Roundhouse) THE ELEPHANT WHISPERER (White Dog Productions) Television: ROLLING OVER (SILVERPRINT Pictures) DAEMONOLOGIE (Lookout Point) Film: RED VELVET the film (Kenneth Branagh) FOR JOY © Copyright The Agency (London) Ltd. 2019 Not to be reproduced in any form without permission of the Copyright holder. .

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CASTING ANNOUNCED for the GREATEST WEALTH in Celebration of the NHS
PRESS RELEASE WED 13 JUN CASTING ANNOUNCED FOR THE GREATEST WEALTH In celebration of the NHS One Voice: Monologues funded by the TS Eliot Estate Curated by Lolita Chakrabarti Directed by Adrian Lester The NHS from the 1940s-1970s: Monday 25 June, 8.30pm The NHS from the 1980s-present: Tuesday 26 June, 8.30pm The NHS from the 1940s-present (double bill): Friday 29 June, 8pm ‘No society can legitimately call itself civilised if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means.’ Aneurin Bevan The Old Vic is pleased to announce casting for The Greatest Wealth, curated by Lolita Chakrabarti and directed by Adrian Lester to celebrate 70 years of the National Health Service. Jade Anouka, Louise English, Dervla Kirwan, Ruth Madeley, Art Malik, Meera Syal, Sophie Stone and David Threlfall will perform monologues written by Moira Buffini, Lolita Chakrabarti, Seiriol Davies, Matilda Ibini, Courttia Newland, Meera Syal, Jack Thorne and Paul Unwin in response to each decade since Aneurin Bevan launched the NHS at Park Hospital, Manchester, on 5 July 1948. Each evening will also include music performed by Gloria Obianyo. Lolita Chakrabarti said: ‘I am thrilled to be curating this One Voice for The Old Vic and delighted that so many talented and accomplished actors will be a part of it. To see how inventive but truthful each writer has been and then to realise their work with this calibre of actor is fantastic. This is going to be a very special event.’ The full line up is as follows: 1940s: Boo, by Jack Thorne, performed by Sophie Stone
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Historical Authenticity: Performing Victorian Blackness in Red Velvet by Lolita Chakrabarti and an Octoroon by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
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Red Velvet(2012)
Summer 1, 2021 Jerwood Vanbrugh Theatre Red Velvet (2012) by Lolita Chakrabarti Cast (in alphabetical order) Creative Team Connie Director Mara Allen (RADA graduate) Anni Domingo Casimir / Henry Forrester Designer Ross Carswell Natalie Pryce Ellen Tree Lighting Designer Katie Cherry Roberto Esquenazi Alkabez Halina Wozniak Sound Designer Ciara Coughlan Cathy Dixon Margaret Aldridge Intimacy and Movement Director Chloe Fenwick-Brown Elizabeth Ballinger Betty Lovell Voice Coach Emma Howard Emma Woodvine Pierre Laporte Dialect Coach Ben Lynn Aundrea Fudge Terence Fight Coach Tom Mackean Bret Yount Bernard Warde Andy McCredie This amateur production of “Red Velvet” is presented by Ira Aldridge arrangement with Concord Theatricals Ltd. on behalf of Samuel Harry Omosele French Ltd. www.concordtheatricals.co.uk. Red Velvet received its world premiere at the Tricycle Theatre, London on 11 Charles Kean October 2012. The production was revived and opened at the Benedict Wishart Tricycle Theatre, London, on 23 January 2014 before making its American Premiere at St. Ann’s Warehouse, New York on 25 March 2014. The videotaping or making of electronic or other audio and/ or visual recordings or streams of this production is strictly This show contains mild violence and themes prohibited, a violation of United Kingdom Copyright, Designs of a racist nature. and Patents Act 1988 and an actionable offence. Student Production Team Production Manager Chief Production Sound Dressers Esme Driscoll Engineers Lucinda Plummer Kieran Dye Allison Silberberg Technical
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RED VELVET Written by Lolita Chakrabarti Directed by Margo Hall
588 Sutter Street #318 San Francisco, CA 94102 415.677.9596 fax 415.677.9597 Press Release www.sfplayhouse.org For immediate release April 2016 Press Inquires Contact: Anne Abrams [email protected] Carl Lumbly to play Ira Aldridge in the biographical West Coast Premiere of RED VELVET Written by Lolita Chakrabarti Directed by Margo Hall Press Opening: Saturday, May 14, 8pm May 10 through June 25, 2016 Tues, Wed, Thurs 7pm / Fri, Sat 8pm / Sat 3pm, Sun 2pm Preview Performances: May 10, 11, 12, 13 at 8pm No matinees May 14 & 15 San Francisco, CA (April 2016) – San Francisco Playhouse (Bill English, Artistic Director; Susi Damilano, Producing Director) continues its thirteenth Mainstage season with the West Coast premiere of Lolita Chakrabarti’s biographical play Red Velvet, directed by Margo Hall. Carl Lumbly* will star as Ira Aldridge, the African-American actor who, in the nineteenth century and against social mores of the day, built an incredible reputation on the stages of London and Europe. The cast of Red Velvet at San Francisco Playhouse also features Susi Damilano*, Britney Frazier*, Richard Louis James, Tim Kniffin*, and Elena Wright* It is 1833 in London. No black man has ever starred on a British stage—not even as Othello—until tonight. Edmund Kean, the greatest actor of his generation, has collapsed on stage while playing Othello. Ira Aldridge, a young black American, breaks more than the color barrier as he battles the entrenched social and theatrical norms of his day. But as the public riot in the streets over the abolition of slavery, how will the cast, critics and audience react to the revolution taking place in the theatre? THE SAN FRANCISCO PLAYHOUSE Red Velvet Continued: Lolita Chakrabarti's play creates imagined experiences based on this little-known true story of Ira Aldridge, proposing experiences to illustrate the deep emotion and controversy he likely endured.
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Jewel Theatre Audience Guide directed by Bob Rumsby by Susan Myer Silton, Dramaturg © 2019 ABOUT THE PLAY I’ve written for years and years, but I guess it has competed with my acting, because acting is how I make my living and I love it, but writing gives you a blank sheet of paper and you can tell the stories. —Lolita Chakrabarti CHARACTERS (IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE) Halina (Audrey Rumsby): Polish journalist Terence/Bernard Warde (Jesse Caldwell): Terence is Ira Aldridge’s English valet and dresser; Bernard is an English actor who enters at the top of Scene 2 with Betty and Henry Ira Aldridge (Aldo Billingsley): African-American leading actor Connie (Jennifer DeLane Bradford): Jamaican servant Betty Lovell (Shannon Warrick): English actress Henry Forrester (Teddy Spencer): English actor Charles Kean (Jeremy Kahn): English actor and son of Edmund Kean Ellen Tree (Jennifer Le Blanc): English leading actress Pierre Laporte (Jeffrey (Geoff) Fiorito): French manager of Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, London, England Margaret Aldridge (Cristina Anselmo): English wife of Ira Aldridge 1 I was aware of its development from its inception and believe Lolita Chakrabarti has written an important and exhilarating play which in its discussion of performance, politics, and race is as entertaining as it is illuminating. —Kenneth Branagh SYNOPSIS Spoiler alert: The play in its entirety is summarized below. Please consider bypassing this section if you would rather not know the plot. Note: Red Velvet is based on actual events. The first scene of the play is set in a theater dressing room in Łódź, Poland on a late summer evening in 1867.
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