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By Chloë Moss RUN Thu 27 February SISTER – Sat 21 March A Sheffield Theatres, Paines Plough RUN and Soho Theatre Production STUDIO WELCOME It’s a pleasure to welcome you to Run Sister Run. We’re delighted to be working in partnership with Paines Plough and Soho Theatre to bring you the world premiere of Chloë Moss’s brilliant new play. Sheffield Theatres has a long relationship withPaines Plough, with whom we share a deep commitment to staging bold new writing and developing great writers. It’s an honour to be working with Paines Plough’s two new Artistic Directors, Charlotte Bennett and Katie Posner. Charlotte directs a splendid cast and leads a first-rate Creative Team to bringRun Sister Run to the stage. Working with a terrific new work powerhouse likeSoho Theatre gives us the opportunity to export more work made in Sheffield to a wider audience. In the last six months tours of Reasons to Stay Alive and My Mother Said I Never Should have taken our work to theatres across the UK, and this year Life of Pi joins Everybody’s Talking About Jamie in London’s West End, with Jamie also touring the country and Standing at the Sky’s Edge poised to transfer to the National Theatre at the start of 2021. Here in Sheffield, the Studio continues to be a platform for the best new writing. Run Sister Run is the first of three world premieres this year, and we’re proud that writers of the calibre of Chloë Moss are drawn to presenting their work here. That’s thanks to audiences like you. I look forward to welcoming you again soon. Robert Hastie Artistic Director, Sheffield Theatres First performed at the Studio Theatre Sheffield on Thu 27 February 2020. Sheffield Theatres Crucible Trust is a registered Charity No. 1120640 and is a company limited by guarantee No. 6035820 CAST BIOGRAPHIES LUCAS BUTTON Theatre credits include: War Horse (UK Tour/National Theatre); The Butterfly Lion (Chichester Festival Theatre); Kes (Leeds Playhouse); Alan, We Think You Should Get A Dog (New Diorama Theatre); The Winter's Tale (English National Opera); Pinocchio and A Tender Thing (The Dukes Theatre); The Lost Palace (Fuel Theatre and Uninvited Guests). Short film credits include: Billy And Jake (Andrew Jonathan Smith). SILAS CARSON Theatre credits include: The Captive Queen (Shakespeare’s Globe); Occupational Hazards, Drawing The Line (Hampstead Theatre); Half Life (Theatre Royal Bath); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Royal & Derngate Northampton); The Prophet, Shakuntala (Gate Theatre); The Comedy of Errors (National Theatre); Ruined, Macbeth (Almeida Theatre); Arabian Nights (Royal Shakespeare Company); Much Ado About Nothing (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Baghdad Wedding (Soho Theatre); Homebody/Kabul, A Doll’s House (Young Vic); A View From The Bridge (The Crucible). Film credits include: Phantom Thread; The Corrupted; Miss You Already; Blood Cells; Dying Of The Light; Locke; Clean Skin; Franklyn; Flawless; Hidalgo; Star Wars – The Phantom Menace/Attack Of The Clones/Revenge Of The Sith; Fever Pitch. Television credits include: The Accident; Sick Of It; Silent Witness; Trust; New Blood; Unforgotten; Indian Summers; The Casual Vacancy; The ‘C’ Word; Glue; Transporter; Strikeback; Holby City; How Not To Live Your Life; The Philanthropist; Bonekickers; Outnumbered; The IT Crowd; Hustle; The Ten Commandments; Spooks; Absolute Power; The Grid; Waking The Dead; The Project; A&E; Metrosexuality; Innocents; Cold Lazarus. LUCY ELLINSON Theatre credits include: Macbeth (Royal Exchange Theatre); Top Girls (National Theatre); Kingdom Come, A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Play for the Nation (Royal Shakespeare Company); The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Donmar Warehouse); Grounded, The Christians, Trojan Women, Tenet, Dear Elizabeth (Gate theatre); World Factory (Metis Arts/Young Vic/New Wolsey); Money The Game Show (Bush Theatre); Oh The Humanity (Northern Stage/Soho Theatre); Presumption (Third Angel). Radio credits include: 15 Minutes Live (Slung Low). Television credits include: Britannia; New Tricks. HELENA LYMBERY Theatre credits includes: Mr Gum And The Dancing Bear, Treasure Island, This House, The Cat In The Hat, ...Some Trace Of Her, Women of Troy, Attempts On Her Life, Iphigenia At Aulis, His Dark Materials, Wicked Yaar, Henry V (National Theatre); Dear Elizabeth (Gate Theatre); Queen Margaret (Royal Exchange Theatre); Pity (Royal Court); Wolves Are Coming For You (Pentabus); Harry Potter and The Cursed Child (West End); We Want You To Watch (RashDash/National Theatre); The Secret Agent (Young Vic/Theatre O); After Dido (Young Vic/ENO); Sleeping Beauty (Young Vic); Coasting (Bristol Old Vic). Television credits include: Doctor Foster; Father Brown; Oliver Twist; Alistair McGowan’s Big Impression; The Inspector Lynley Mysteries. Film credits include: London Road. REHEARSAL PHOTOS Click here to see photos of the cast in rehearsals for the show CREATIVE BIOGRAPHIES CHLOË MOSS WRITER Chloë is an accomplished playwright and screenwriter. Her celebrated play This Wide Night (Clean Break, Soho Theatre) won the prestigious Susan Smith Blackburn prize and was subsequently produced off-Broadway, starring Edie Falco. Theatre credits include: The Gatekeeper (Royal Exchange Theatre); Fatal Light (for Clean Break at Soho Theatre); Catch (Royal Court Theatre); How Love Is Spelt (Bush Theatre/New York’s Summer Play Festival). Television credits include: Six Wives (BBC One); Dickensian (Red Planet Pictures). She has written episodes for New Tricks (BBC One); The Smoke (Kudos) and Prisoner’s Wives and The Secret Diary Of A Call Girl (Tiger Aspect). She has also written Care, a single drama, (Warp Films and Sky Arts) and an original series Switch, co-written with Tim Price (Touchpaper/ITV2). CHARLOTTE BENNETT DIRECTOR Charlotte is joint artistic director of Paines Plough. She was previously the Associate Director at Soho Theatre. Theatre credits include: Whitewash (Soho Theatre); Happy Hour (Soho Theatre at Edinburgh Fringe Festival); Rattle Snake (Open Clasp Theatre Company at Live Theatre/Soho Theatre/UK tour); Genesis (The Lowry/UK tour); Clothes Swap Theatre Party (Derby Theatre); Swags and Tails, The Space Between Us (Open Clasp Theatre Company at Live Theatre/tour); On the Harmful Effects of Tobacco/Can Cause Death (National Theatre/tour); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Comedy of Errors, The Taming of the Shrew, Macbeth (Sprite Productions at Ripley Castle); A Five-Star Werewolf (York Theatre Royal). ROSIE ELNILE DESIGNER Theatre credits include: [Blank] (Donmar Warehouse); Our Town (Regents Park Open Air Theatre); The Ridiculous Darkness, Unknown Island, The Convert (Gate); The American Clock (Old Vic, costume designer); The Wolves (Theatre Royal Stratford East); The Mysteries, Three Sisters (Royal Exchange); Abandon (Lyric Hammersmith); Returning to Haifa (Finborough Theatre); Goats (Royal Court); Prime Time (Royal Court Schools Tour); BIG GUNS (The Yard Theatre). ZOE SPURR LIGHTING DESIGNER Zoe trained at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Theatre credits include: Wuthering Heights (Royal Exchange); An Edinburgh Christmas Carol (Lyceum Edinburgh); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (National Youth Theatre/Criterion Theatre); The Seven Ages Of Patience (Kiln Theatre); Hedda Tesman (Headlong/Chichester Festival Theatre); Onegin, Georgiana, Lucio Papirio Dittatore (for Buxton International Festival/Buxton Opera House); A Man Without A Past (New Perspectives/UK Tour); Emilia (Vaudeville Theatre); The Phlebotomist (Hampstead Theatre); The Maids (Home Manchester); Cat In The Hat (Leicester Curve/UK Tour); The Unreturning (Frantic Assembly/UK Tour); Silence (Mercury Theatre/UK Tour); Toast (The Other Palace/Traverse 1); Meek (Headlong/UK Tour); Abigail’s Party, Abi (Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch/ UK Tour); Polstead (Eastern Angles/UK Tour); Sticky, Infinite Joy, Confidence, Natives, Collective Rage (Southwark Playhouse); Tiny Dynamite (Old Red Lion); Not Talking (Arcola); Grotty (Bunker); Phoenix Rising, Loose Lips (Big House Theatre Company/Site Specific); The Beginners (Unicorn Theatre); Elephant (Birmingham Rep); The Magic Flute (Soho Theatre/UK Tour). ARUN GHOSH COMPOSER AND SOUND DESIGNER Arun Ghosh is a British-Asian musician and composer. Twice awarded Jazz Instrumentalist of the Year at the Parliamentary Jazz Awards, Ghosh leads his own ensembles, touring nationally and internationally. He has released four albums on camoci records: Northern Namaste, Primal Odyssey, A South Asian Suite and but where are you really from? Arun Ghosh is a Creative Associate at Watford Palace Theatre, and an Associate Artist of Z-arts, Manchester. Credits as a composer for theatre: Storm (Contact); The Wolf, The Duck and The Mouse (Unicorn/New Perspectives); A Doll’s House (Lyric Theatre); Bystanders (Cardboard Citizens); Hobson’s Choice (Royal Exchange); Noughts & Crosses (Pilot Theatre/Derby Theatre); Approaching Empty (Tamasha/Kiln Theatre); Much Ado About Nothing (Watford Palace); Lions and Tigers (Shakespeare’s Globe). SARAH DICKENSON DRAMATURG Sarah is a freelance dramaturg and associate dramaturg for LAMDA and Paines Plough. Her roles have included: Associate Dramaturg for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Production Dramaturg for the Globe, Senior Reader at Soho Theatre, Literary Manager for Theatre503, New Writing Associate at The Red Room and founder of the South West New Writing Network. She has worked on performance projects and artist development nationally and internationally for a wide range of organisations and theatre makers including: Nuffield Theatre Southampton, Theatre Centre,