Monster(2007)

Summer 2, 2021 Gielgud Theatre

Monster (2007) by Duncan Macmillan

Cast (in alphabetical order) Creative Team

Rita Director Katie Cherry Dadiow Lin

Tom Designer Jordan Kouamé Isabel Nellie Walters

Darryl Lighting Designer Ben Lynn Alex Forey

Jodi Sound Designer Minnie Mary Walker Ella Bloomfield

Movement Angela Gasparetto

Voice Coach Emma Woodvine

Dialect Coach Aundrea Fudge

Fight Coach Bret Yount

First performed at The Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester on 20 June 2007. Student Production Team

Production Manager Scenery Builders Millie Drury Alice Harvey Zoë Sim Technical Manager Rosa Watson Construction Crew Roma Farnell Stage Manager Lucinda Plummer Jaimie Wakefield Spiky Saul

Deputy Stage Manager Costume Supervisor Phoebe Francis Zoë Mortimer

Assistant Stage Manager Wardrobe Assistants Sophie Slobodjani Sophie Reshad Allison Silberberg ASM 2 Jayden Hendricks-Kynaston Dresser Aidan O’Sullivan Chief Electrician Samuel Blakemore Scenic Art Head of Department Production Electrician Liberty Monroe Ollie Morrill Scenic Art Assistants Programmer Alice Boxer Rebecca Gale India Day Aidan O’Sullivan Lighting Operator Sylvia Wan Alfie Sissons Props Chief Production Sound Jayden Hendricks-Kynaston Engineer Kieran Dye

Deputy Production Sound Special thanks: Engineer Tracy Keating James Breedon

Sound Operator Dylan Mulholland

Radio Mic Co-ordinator Please note this production Elliott Roberts contains: violence, suicide, persons with experience of Radio Mic Runner mental and emotional distress, Skylar Turnbull Hurd strong language, references to physical abuse, alcohol abuse, Broadcast references to animal cruelty, Dylan Mulholland use of a knife in a threatening manner, racism, sexism and Construction Project Manager images that some people may Joel Mansi Thomas find disturbing. Biographies

Duncan Macmillan and the National Theatre. Monster is her debut as a Writer designer at RADA. Isabel loves to make and create Duncan Macmillan is an award-winning writer for and is determined to follow a future full of exploring theatre, television and film. His theatre work includes design, scenic art, props, puppetry and costume. Lungs; People, Places and Things; Every Brilliant Thing; Rosmersholm (adapt. Henrik Ibsen) and 1984 Alex Forey (adapt. George Orwell, co-written and co-directed Lighting Designer with Robert Icke). His work has been performed Alex is in his second year of the Foundation Degree throughout the world, including the National Theatre, in Technical Theatre and Stage Management the Old Vic, the Royal Court, St Ann’s Warehouse, specialising in lighting design. Previously he studied Festival d’Avignon, Theatertreffen, in the West End Computer Science at University College London and on Broadway. before switching to drama full-time. He has been awarded the Vectorworks Entertainment Scholarship Dadiow Lin 2021, and two UCL Design Awards. His designs at Director RADA include: Graduate Tree (Jerwood Vanbrugh Dadiow is a freelance theatre director. She has Theatre), MA Theatre Lab Manifestos (Bloomsbury directed contemporary plays, adaptations of classics, Festival, RADA Studios). new writings, and devised performances. The works were presented at Storyhouse, York Theatre Royal, Other work as lighting designer includes: Polyeucte Young Vic, Soho Theatre, Belgrade Theatre, RADA, (Theatre Royal Stratford East), Libuše, Rhapsody Theatre 503, Southwark Playhouse, Camden People’s 2019, From Here To Eternity (Bloomsbury Theatre), Theatre, Rich Mix, BAC and more. Dadiow is the Babel (Lyric Hammersmith), Into The Woods, recipient of the Genesis Future Directors Award 2019. Exhibition (Shaw Theatre), Daisy Pulls It Off, A Sexual Odyssey, Written on the Body (Cockpit Theatre), Before moving to the UK, she worked as an assistant Songs for a New World (Drayton Arms Theatre), The director on productions at the National Theatre of Piper of Hamelin (Rose Theatre Kingston), Henry V, Taiwan. She also directed classical and contemporary Hiroshima: Crucible of Light (Samuel Pepys Theatre), plays, and won the Best Director award at the Youth Grey Matter, Twelfth Night (Edinburgh Fringe). Talent Theatre Festival Competition back in Taiwan. Dadiow’s cultural background pushes her to view the As associate lighting designer: Quintessential world through various lenses and makes her more (Peacock Theatre, Sadler’s Wells), Legally Blonde, sensitive towards the cultural differences that she’s The Drowsy Chaperone, RENT, The Pajama Game surrounded by. This makes her naturally bring fresh (Pleasance Islington), Modern Love (Etcetera Theatre). perspectives to a production while directing. As assistant/relighter: Growl (Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds, Curve Leicester, Rose Theatre Kingston), Isabel Nellie Walters as assistant: Parade, Legend Trippers, Anything Goes Designer (The Other Palace). Between designs, Alex also has Isabel studied at the Guildhall School of Music worked as a lighting programmer: Nature of Why and Drama where she received a first degree in (Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre), and a Production Arts following the Design Realisation lighting electrician/operator at Wyndham’s Theatre, Pathway. She became a Queen Elizabeth Scholar Shakespeare’s Globe, the Donmar Warehouse, the being awarded Excellence in British Craftsmanship Lyric Hammersmith, and freelance. for Historic Dress (QEST) which enabled her to follow her passion for Costume. Whilst at RADA she also Ella Bloomfield has become a member of the Warner Brothers UK Sound Designer Creative Talent Scheme. Ella Bloomfield is in her second year of the Foundation Degree in Technical Theatre and Stage Isabel has various credits for design. Her last Management specialising in sound. She first became production being Woeful Puppet at the Tower of interested in sound in her first year, originally London. She has worked for the Royal Danish Opera wanting to pursue art. Monster is Ella’s second house in Copenhagen, Cirque Berserk, the Yvonne Sound Design project, with sunlight Is the best Arnold Theatre, Birds College, Foxtrot Costume and disinfectant being their first in 2021. Previous works Props and on the feature film DAU with Phenomen include Sound Operator on Close Quarters in 2019, Films. She has also had secondments at the Royal Production Sound Engineer on The Winter’s Tale in Opera House, the Young Vic, Pitlochry Festival 2020, and Production Sound Engineer and Operator/ Theatre, the Almeida Theatre, the Queens Theatre Mixer on The Seagull in 2021. RADA Supporters

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