COLLECTIVE RAGE: A PLAY IN 5 BETTIES had its UK premiere at Southwark Playhouse in January 2018 with the following cast and creative team:
CAST
BETTY 1
Sara Stewart
BETTY 2
Lucy McCormick
BETTY 3
Beatriz Romilly
BETTY 4
Johnnie Fiori
BETTY 5
Genesis Lynea
CREATIVE TEAM
Director
Charlie Parham
Producers
Emma Hall, Nik Holttum
Designer
Anna Reid
Sound Designer & Composer
Hollie Buhagiar
Lighting Designer
Zoe Spurr
Choreographer
Nichola Treherne
Casting Director
Claudia Blunt
Stage Manager/Production Manager
Cat Compson
Assistant Producer
Lexi Clare
Assistant Stage Manager
Sophie Mason
Costume Supervisor
Lily OHara
With thanks to:
Linda Riley, Roxy Bourdillon, Fiona Hughes and the team at DIVA Magazine, Frances Lewis and the team at MAC Cosmetics, ETT Forge, Daniel Parker at Tattoed Now, Helen Brannigan, Francis Parham, Katie Lam, Lynne Millar, Rachel Viola, Samuel French, Archie Sinclair, Millen Belay, the team at Southwark Playhouse, Arts Council England, Olly Rowe, Pamela Wilson, Nicola Hall, Cathryn Wright and the team at Stonewall, Oberon Books, Thurstan Redding, Tom Rasmussen, Allegra Le Fanu, Emily Forbes, Chris Morgan and all artists involved in our Second Half Programme.
CAST
BETTY 1 Sara Stewart
Theatre credits include: Dinner With Friends (Park Theatre); Hay Fever (Duke of Yorks); Enron (West End/Tour); Six Degrees of Separation (Old Vic); The Hour We Knew Nothing Of Each Other and Present Laughter (National Theatre); The Pain and the Itch and Etta Jenks (Royal Court); Proof (Donmar Warehouse); A Month in the Country and Troilus and Cressida (RSC); Outcry (Cheek by Jowl); Temptation (Westminster); A Dolls House (Rose); The Real World (Soho Poly); Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Scotland Tour); Contractions (Sheffield Crucible); Jumpy (Theatre Clwyd); Heartbreak House (Chichester Festival); Serious Money (Birmingham Rep) and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Lyric, Belfast).
Television credits include: Doctor Foster, The Night Manager, Quirke, Fresh Meat, New Tricks, NCS Manhunt and Pramface (BBC); Rebus, Mr Selfridge, Midsomer Murders, Secret Diary of a Call Girl, Robin Hood, Poirot, Supply and Demand and A Touch of Frost (ITV) and A Very Social Secretary and Drop the Dead Donkey (C4).
Film credits include: Transformers 5, Philomena, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, The Road to Guantanamo, A Cock and Bull Story, Batman Begins, Mrs Brown and The Winslow Boy.
BETTY 2 Lucy McCormick
Lucys debut solo show Triple Threat had sell-out runs at Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Dublin Fringe Festival and Soho Theatre. Lucy won the Best Performer award at the Dublin Fringe Festival, was nominated for an Emerging Artist award at the Total Theatre Awards and won the TV Bomb Groundbreaker Award in Edinburgh. Triple Threat was included in the Guardians Top Ten Comedy Shows of 2016.
Lucy co-founded GETINTHEBACKOFTHEVAN, a performance company in 2008 with whom she has performed extensively in both the UK and Europe at venues including Soho Theatre, Almeida Theatre, Latitude Festival, Anti Festival (Finland), Festwochen (Vienna), PACT Zollverein (Germany), BoraBora (Denmark) and Noorderzon Festival (Netherlands).
Theatre credits include: the lead role in Roller Diner (Soho Theatre); Cinderella (Oxford Playhouse); The Naked Truth (National Tour); First Love is the Revolution (Soho Theatre); Splat! (Barbican); Dusa, Fish, Stas and Vi (Northern Lights); As You Like It (Wirksworth Festival); On Stage: Live From Television Centre (BBC4) and Uncle David 2 (Avant-garde Film Alliance).
BETTY 3 Beatriz Romilly
Beatriz Romilly trained at Drama Centre London.
Theatre credits include: Much Ado About Nothing, Doctor Faustus, The God Of Soho and Henry VI Parts 1, 2, and 3 (Shakespeares Globe Theatre); The Duchess Of Malfi (Nottingham Playhouse); A Midsummer Nights Dream (Shakespeares Globe Theatre/International Tour); French Without Tears and The Sacred Flame (ETT); The Rover (Hampton Court Palace); The Three Musketeers and the Princess of Spain (ETT/ Traverse Theatre); This Much Is True (Theatre503); Bacchafull (Dirty Market Theatre) and After Independence, Silver Birch House and Pera Palas (Arcola Theatre).
Film credits include: Henna Night.
Television credits include: Born With It, Doctors, Green Green Grass and The Bill.
Radio credits include: Credit Card Baby and The Honorary Consul (BBC4).
BETTY 4 Johnnie Fiori
Theatre credits include: originating the role of Motormouth Maybelle in the original London cast of Hairspray (Shaftesbury Theatre); The Sunshine Boys (Savoy Theatre, Ahmanson Theatre, LA); Vernon God Little (Young Vic Theatre); Bob Balabans critically acclaimed production of The Exonerated and Robert Lepages opera 1984, Thoroughly Modern Millie and 125th Street. As part of the Cultural Olympiad and London 2012, Johnnie acted in Mark Rylances What You Will: Pop-up Shakespeare troupe; performing impromptu pieces in public spaces around the capital.
Television credits include: Episodes.
Film credits include: Powder Room and Woody Harrelsons Lost in London.
BETTY 5 Genesis Lynea
Theatre credits include: The BodyguardMusical (Adelphi Theatre), In the Heights (Kings Cross Theatre); Jesus Christ Superstar (Regents Park Theatre); Bend it Like Beckham (Phoenix), Legally Blonde (Curve, Leicester); Ode to Leeds (West Yorkshire Playhouse) and The Wild Party (The Other Palace).
Dance credits include: Jessie Js Do it Like a Dude music video, Live the London Look (Rimmel commercial) and a credit as choreographer for the first ever Female Boxing Olympic Championship 2012.