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 Manager Wilkie Morrison Luke MacBride Production Sound Engineer / Scenic Art Sound Operator Head of Department Stage Manager Florence Hand Sophie Firth Rebecca Kerby Radio Mic Co-ordinator Scenic Artists Deputy Stage Manager James Breedon Anita Gander Daisy Jones Liberty Monroe Radio Mic Runners Seda Sokmen Altindag Assistant Stage Manager / Wilkie Morrison Emma Turner Book Cover Laura Whittle-Letchford Broadcast Scenic Art Assistants Andrea Scott Jordan Deegan-Fleet Assistant Stage Managers Roma Farnell Sarah Back Sound Crew Lucinda Plummer Millie Drury Alfie Sissons Spiky Saul Daberechi Ukoha-Kalu ASM 2 Abraham Walking-Lea Props Maker India Day Isabelle Whitehill Charlotte Thorogood Chief Electrician Construction Project Manager Show Crew Sammy Emmins Luke MacBride Alfie Sissons Daberechi Ukoha-Kalu Production Electrician Assistant Construction Project Abraham Walkling-Lea Reese Graham Manager Isabelle Whitehill Joel Mansi Thomas Programmer Special thanks: Alex Forey Scenery Builder Royal Academy Opera Alice Harvey The Old Vic Lighting Operator Henrietta Mathias Jasper Leigh Zoë Sim Set Lighting Construction Crew Rebecca Gale Benet Doeringer Lizzie Hodge Follow Spot Captain Dylan Mulholland Dylan Mulholland Alfie Sissions Skylar Turnbull Hurd Follow Spot Operators Daberechi Ukoha-Kalu Benet Doeringer Abraham Walking-Lea Skylar Turnbull-Hurd Isabelle Whitehill Lighting Crew Costume Supervisor Jayden Hendricks-Kynaston Zoe Hammond Jasper Leigh Iona Ridley Wardrobe Assistants Sophie Reshad Allison Silberberg Biographies Lolita Chakrabarti be out later this year. Her debut novel, Breaking Writer the Maafa Chain, is scheduled to be published in Lolita Chakrabarti is an award-winning playwright September 2021 by Jacaranda. and actress. Writing credits include the stage adaptation of Life of Pi, which has won eight major theatre awards to date and will open in the West Natalie Pryce End in November 2021; the ambitious Invisible Designer Cities (MIF); Hymn, which was streamed live from As Set and Costume Designer, theatre credits the Almeida in lockdown and will open to live include: 846 Live (Greenwich and Docklands audiences in July 2021 and Red Velvet, which International Festival); Me for the World (Young Vic); opened in London, before transferring to New Ducklings (Manchester Royal Exchange); The Tide York and returned to the West End, winning nine (UK tour); Not Now Bernard (Unicorn Theatre). As major theatre awards, including Most Promising Co-Set and Costume Designer: For All the Women Playwright at the Evening Standard Awards, in Who Thought They Were Mad (Stoke Newington the process. Lolita curated The Greatest Wealth Town Hall). As Costume Designer, theatre credits at The Old Vic, writing one of eight monologues include: Tales of the Turntable (Southbank Centre); to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the NHS. Ragtime (ArtsEd). As Costume Supervisor: The The series was updated in 2021, during the Covid Winter’s Tale (Shakespeare’s Globe). pandemic with a monologue written by Bernardine Evaristo and performed by Sharon D Clarke. Film credits include: My Name is Leon, Myrtle, Acting credits include playing Queen Gertrude, Fourteen Fractures, Fellow Creatures, Swept Under opposite Tom Hiddleston, in Sir Kenneth Branagh’s Rug. Hamlet (RADA), Fanny & Alexandra (Old Vic) and Free Outgoing (Royal Court) and TV credits include Natalie is a set decorator trainee through the Talking A Casual Vacancy (BBC1/HBO), To Provide All Point Mentoring Network, and a costume trainee People (BBC2), Beowulf (ITV), Jekyll and Hyde (ITV), with Trainee Finder, both for film and television. Riviera (Sky), Criminal (Netflix) and Defending The Guilty (BBC). Roberto Esquenazi Alkabez Forthcoming acting projects including Vigil (BBC1), Lighting Designer Wheel of Time (Amazon) and Showtrail (BBC1). Born and raised in Panama City, Panama, Roberto moved to the United Kingdom to pursue higher education. Most of his previous experience as a Anni Domingo lighting designer took place in Panama, working Director in community theatre and as part as his own Anni Domingo, actress, director and writer, works production company, NIU Panama. Some of his extensively in radio, TV, films and theatre, having credits while at RADA include: The Winter’s Tale, trained at Rose Bruford College of Speech and Margot Monroe’s Nibelungenlied, Consent and more. Drama. She has worked in America, Europe, Africa Production photos and contact information can be and in many theatres around UK including The found at his website, robertoesquenazi.com. National Theatre in Inua Ellam’s highly successful Three Sisters, a play set in Nigeria during the Biafran War. She toured in Robert Icke’s The Doctor Cathy Dixon to Australia early in 2020 which ended abruptly Sound Designer due to COVID19. She currently lectures drama and Cathy is in her final year on the BA (Hons) in directing at St. Mary’s University in Twickenham, Technical Theatre and Stage Management Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama, and specialising in sound. Her previous design roles at RADA. Anni’s poems and short stories are include the Phase One Escape Room (Gielgud published in various anthologies and her plays Theatre), The Winter’s Tale (Vanbrugh Theatre), produced in the UK. An extract from her novel and Close Quarters (Gielgud Theatre), as well as Breaking the Maafa Chain won the Myriad Editions Associate Sound Designer and Sound No. 1 on First Novel competition in 2018 and is featured sunlight is the best disinfectant (GBS Theatre). She is in the New Daughters of Africa (2019) anthology passionate about musicals, video game audio, and edited by Margaret Busby. Her first screenplay, immersive theatre, and hopes to get some touring Blessed Assurance has just been filmed and will experience after graduating in August! RADA Supporters Thank you to all those who donate in support of our training, our students, our creative and outreach programmes. Principal Partner Silver partners Warner Bros. 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