Friday and Saturday, October 26 –27, 2018, 8pm Sunday, October 28, 2018, 2pm Zellerbach Hall Barber Shop Chronicles A Fuel, National eatre, and West Yorkshire Playhouse co-production Writer Inua Ellams Director Bijan Sheibani Designer Rae Smith Lighting Designer Jack Knowles Movement Director Aline David Sound Designer Gareth Fry Music Director Michael Henry Associate Director Stella Odunlami Associate Director Leian John-Baptiste Assistant Director Kwami Odoom Fight Director Kev McCurdy Barber Consultant Peter Atakpo Company Voice Work Charmian Hoare Dialect Coach Hazel Holder Tour Casting Director Lotte Hines Wallace/Timothy/Mohammed/Tinashe Tuwaine Barrett Tanaka/Fifi Mohammed Mansaray Musa/Andile/Mensah Maynard Eziashi Ethan Alhaji Fofana Samuel Elliot Edusah Winston/Shoni Solomon Israel Tokunbo/Paul/Simphiwe Patrice Naiambana Emmanuel Anthony Ofoegbu Kwame/Fabrice/Brian Kenneth Omole Olawale/Wole/Kwabena/Simon Ekow Quartey Elnathan/Benjamin/Dwain Jo Servi Abram/Ohene/Sizwe David Webber Design Associate Catherine Morgan Re-lighter and Production Electrician Rachel Bowen Lighting Associate Laura Howells Sound Associate Laura Hammond Wardrobe Supervisor Louise Marchand-Paris Cal Performances’ 2018 –19 season is sponsored by Wells Fargo. 2 Pre-Production Manager Richard Eustace Production Manager Sarah Cowan Company Stage Manager Julia Reid Deputy Stage Manager Fiona Bardsley Assistant Stage Manager Sylvia Darkwa-Ohemeng Costume Supervisor Lydia Crimp Costume and Buying Supervisor Jessica Dixon Co-commissioned by Fuel and the National eatre. Development funded by Arts Council England with the support of Fuel, National eatre, West Yorkshire Playhouse, e Binks Trust, British Council ZA, Òran Mór, and A Play, a Pie and a Pint. ABOUT THE ARTISTS Tuwaine Barrett (Wallace/Timothy/Moham - Central), Siblings (BBC 3), and work as a series med/Tinashe ) trained at Mountview Academy regular in Youngers , Series 2 (Big Talk/E4). of eatre Arts. Credits there include e Alchemist ; Macbeth ; A Lie of the Mind ; Ghosts ; Solomon Israel (Winston/Shoni ) trained at Othello ; If You Don’t Let Us Dream , We Won’t LAMDA. eater credits include e Fantastic Let You Sleep . Other work in theater includes Follies of Mrs Rich; Duchess of Malfi; Miss Little - Blue Orange (Soho eatre); A Streetcar Named wood; Kingdom Come; Twelh Night; e Com - Desire ; A Season in the Congo (Young Vic). e dy Of Errors; e Tempest (Royal Shakes peare Tele vision credits include Rellik ; A Discovery of Company); e Pulverised (Arcola/York ea - Witches ; Silent Witness . Film work includes Drop . tre Royal); Dutchman (Young Vic); Octa gon (Arcola); I Know All the Secrets in My World Elliot Edusah (Samuel ). is is Edusah’s first (Tiata Fahodzi) ; Chigger Foot Boys (Ovalhouse); professional role aer completing his training Juicy and Delicious (Nuffield Southampton); at LAMDA in 2018. eater credits at LAMDA Taking Steps (Old Laundry eatre). Television include e Taming of the Shrew ; Sucker punch ; credits include Lovesick; Doctor Who; I Live All’s Well at Ends Well ; e Flick . Prior to this, With Models; Josh; Brothers with No Game; Law his theater credits have included As You Like It and Order; Holby City; and Quick Cuts . Radio (e Brit School) and Heartfelt (eatre Royal work includes ree Strong Women (BBC). Stratford East). Mohammed Mansaray (Tanaka/Fifi ). eater Maynard Eziashi (Musa/Andile/Mensah ). Ezia - credits include One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest shi’s work in theater includes e Winter’s Tale; (Sheffield Crucible), lead roles in Mrs Dalloway , Pericles; Season of Migration to the North (Royal Jekyll & Hyde , and Othello for the National Shakespeare Company); Free Fall (Pleasance); Youth eatre’s repertory West End season. Faith v Reason (Bush); A Jamaican Airman For - Mansaray also has musical theater experience, sees his Death (Royal Court); A Respectable Wed - having appeared in Oliver! (eatre Royal ding (Almeida). Television credits include Bad Drury Lane) and Daddy Cool (Shaesbury Boys; e Changeling; Hallelujah Anyhow . Film eatre, world tour). His television credits in - work includes e Con tract; Kiss Kiss (Bang clude Tracey Beaker Returns (CBBC), Law & Bang); and Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls. Order UK , and e Bill (ITV). Film credits include M y Brother the Devil (Rock Rest Enter - Alhaji Fofana (Ethan ) won the 2017 Children’s tainment). BAFTA Award for Best Performance for his role as Ryan in Screwball . His television credits in - Patrice Naiambana (Tokunbo/Paul/Simphiwe ). clude Silent Witness (BBC), Holby City (BBC), eater: e Man Who Committed ought Josh (BBC3), Brotherhood (Big Talk/Comedy (Fringe First Award Winner); Rosamunde Hutt’s Opposite: Photo by Dean Chalkley. 22 ABOUT THE ARTISTS New Nigerians (Arcola); e Secret Lives of Baba (National eatre); Richard II (Shakespeare’s Segi’s Wives (Femi Elufowoju Jr. Ensemble); e Globe); e Absence of War (Headlong/UK Caretaker (Bristol Old Vic); Iyalode of Eti, tour); Spring Awakening (Headlong/West York - Duchess of Malfi (Utopia eatre); Othello ; e shire Playhouse/UK tour); Long Story Short Histories Cycle ; e Spanish Tragedy ; Cymbeline ; (Pleasance eatre); and Eye Of a Needle e Lion e Witch and e Wardrobe (Royal (Southwark Playhouse). Film/Television cred - Shakespeare Company); Pericles (Shakespeare’s its include Call the Midwife (BBC); Enterprice Globe); Steven Berkoff’s Coriolanus (West York - (BBC3); Undercliffe ; Zapped ; Porters ; e shire Playhouse); Mar cello Magni’s Tell em Current War ; and Titus Andronicus with Peter at I’m Young and Beautiful ; Ragamuffin Capaldi for Shakespeare’s Globe. Ekow was (Double Edge eatre). Television credits in - nominated for the prestigious 2015 Ian Charle - clude e Bible ; Torchwood ; Silent Witness ; son Award. Casualty ; In Exile . Film work includes Turn Up Charlie; Spectre ; Monochrome ; Schweit zer . Jo Servi (Elnathan/Benjamin/Dwayne ). Servi’s Founder of Tribal Soul Arts. theater credits include Chess (London Coli - seum); e Life (Southwark Playhouse); Dirty Anthony Ofoegbu (Emmanuel ). Ofoegbu’s Dancing (UK & European tour); Sunny Aer - theater credits include Circle Mirror Transfor - noon (Harold Pinter eatre); City of Angels ma tion (HOME, Manchester); Titus Andron i - (Donmar Warehouse); A Midsummer Night’s cus; Julius Caesar; Antony & Cleopatra (Royal Dream (Regent’s Park); Jersey Boys (Prince Shakes peare Company Rome season, 2017 –18); Edward eatre); Before the Dawn—Kate Bush Twelh Night (Nottingham Playhouse ); Death (Hammersmith Apollo); e En chanted Pig and the King’s Horseman (Royal National (New Victory eater, New York); e Human eatre); Twelh Night (Royal eatre, North - Comedy (e Young Vic & Watford Palace); amp ton); Oedipus at Colonus (Nevada Conser - Guys And Dolls ; Jailhouse Rock ; Rag time (Pic - vatory eatre); Treemonisha (Hackney Empire cadilly eatre); Cinderella (Old Vic eatre); and Battersea Arts Centre); and e Beatifi - Disney’s e Lion King (Lyceum eatre). Film cation of Area Boy world tour (West Yorkshire and television: Muppets: Most Wanted (Disney); Playhouse). Television credits include Moon - Saturday Live (Triffic Films); the Royal Variety fleet , Spooks , Casualty , Chambers , Family Affairs Performance (Granada). and e Bill . Film credits include J ustified , Bad Day , Dead Room , Plato’s Breaking Point , David Webber (Abram/Ohene/Sizwe ) trained e Killing Zone, and Samson and Delilah . at Rose Bruford. His theater work includes Death and the King’s Horseman and Leave Kenneth Omole (Kwame/Fabrice/Brian ) trained Taking (National eatre); e Hudsucker Proxy at the Rose Bruford Drama School. His theater (Nuffield Southampton and Liverpool Play - credits include Assata Taught Me (Gate ea - house); Catch-22 (Northern Stage); Sweet Bird tre); e Cane (e Bush eatre); is of Youth (Old Vic); Government Inspector Language (Edinburgh Fringe). Omole was also (Young Vic); What’s in the Cat for Contact nominated for Best Actor at the 2017 Stage (Royal Court); One Love (Bristol Old Vic and Debut Awards. Talawa); and e Big Life (Apollo, West End). Television credits include Chewing Gum ; Ekow Quartey (Olawale/Wole/Kwabena/Simon ). Prime Suspect ; Youngers ; Nan ; e Royal Body - eater credits include Amadeus (National guard ; How Not to Live Your Life ; and Being ea tre); People, Places & ings (National Human . Film work includes Captain Phillips ; eatre/Headlong/Exeter Northcott); Peter e Children Act ; Broken ; Tipping the Velvet ; Pan (National eatre); A Midsummer Night’s 51st State ; Among Giants ; e Avengers ; and Dream (eatre Royal Bath); As You Like It Getting Hurt . 22B PLAYBILL ABOUT THE ARTISTS . r e n n e r B c r a M y b o t o h P . e r t a e h T l a n o i t a N e h t t a s e l c i n o r h C p o h S r e b r a B Inua Ellams (writer ). Born in Nigeria, Ellams chester); e Brothers Size and Eurydice (Young is a cross-artform practitioner, a poet, play - Vic/Actors Touring Company); Barber Shop wright and performer, graphic artist and de - Chronicles (National eatre/Fuel/West York - signer, and founder of the Midnight Run— shire Playhouse); and Romeo and Juliet (Nation - an international, arts-filled, night-time, playful, al eatre). Opera credits include Nothing urban, walking experience. He is a Complete (Glyndebourne) and Tell Me the Truth About Works poet alumni and a designer at White Love (Streetwise Opera). Space Creative Agency. Across his work, Identity, Displacement, and Destiny are reoc - Rae Smith (designer ). Smith’s recent designs in curring themes in which he also tries to mix the the UK include Nightfall (e Bridge); Transla - old with the new: traditional African story - tions and Macbeth (National eatre); e Lion, telling with contemporary poetry, pencil with the Witch and the Wardrobe (West Yorkshire pixel, texture with vector images. His poetry Playhouse); Girl from the North Country (Old is published by Flipped Eye, Akashic, and Nine Vic, Noël Coward eatre, and e Public Arches; several plays by Oberon. eater, NY); is House (National eatre, Garrick eatre, and UK tour); e Goat or Bijan Sheibani (director ) was the artistic direc - Who is Sylvia? (eatre Royal Hay market); tor of the Actors Touring Company (2007 –10) and Stella (Hoxton Hall and Holland Festival).