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CAST

Performer	Nicki Hobday
Performer	Nando Messias

CREATIVE TEAM

Writer	Sylvan Oswald
Director	Hester Chillingworth
Co-Designers	Naomi Kuyck-Cohen
Joshua Gadsby
Sound Designer	Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley
Assistant Director	Myles OGorman
Design Assistant	Hazel Low
Production Manager	Andreas Ayling
Stage Manager	Caroline Meer

CAST

NICKI HOBDAY

PERFORMER

Nicki Hobday is a contemporary theatre maker and performer. She currently works with renowned experimental performance company Forced Entertainment, with whom she tours nationally and internationally. Shows for Forced Entertainment include: Out of Order ; And On the Thousandth Night; Complete Works: Table Top Shakespeare; Speak Bitterness and The Last Adventures . Other collaborations include: SHUNT; Sarajevo War Theatre; ODA Theatre Kosovo and Chung Ying Theatre (Hong Kong). Nicki is also a qualified personal trainer.

NANDO MESSIAS

PERFORMER

Nando Messias trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. His work straddles performance art, dance and theatre, combining beautiful images with a fierce critique of gender, visibility and violence. As well as a practitioner, Nando is a movement director and a researcher of queer theory and performance with a number of publications in the field. Nandos work includes: The Pink Supper; The Sissys Progress (National Tour); Shoot the Sissy and Death and the Sissy .

CREATIVE TEAM

SYLVAN OSWALD

WRITER

Sylvan Oswald is a US-based, award-winning interdisciplinary artist who creates plays, texts and video. His language-driven work uses meta-theatricality and formal irreverence to challenge structures of identity. Recent work includes: phantasmagorical western High Winds (X Artists Books) and the lo-fi web series Outtakes , exploring trans identity. He is currently assistant professor of playwriting at UCLAs School of Theatre, Film & Television, an affiliated artist at Clubbed Thumb and an alum of New Dramatists.

HESTER CHILLINGWORTH

DIRECTOR

Hester is a director and artist based in London. They are Thinker-in-Residence (Young People, Gender & Live Art) at the Live Art Development Agency and a Fellow of the Centre for Contemporary Theatre at Birkbeck University. Directing work includes: That Night Follows Day (Forced Entertainment at The Southbank Centre/as well as versions in South Korea and China); A Pair of Pantos (National Tour) and Ten Plagues (Mark Ravenhills song cycle for Marc Almond). They also curated the exhibition In Visible Ink - Queer Heroes for the National Theatre and Queer Upstairs (The Royal Court). Hester has been collaborating with internationally renowned performance company Forced Entertainment since 2009 and established the companys Participation strand, founding their young company Art Breakers. From 2008-18 Hester was Artistic Director of GETINTHEBACKOFTHEVAN, before starting up Hester Chillingworth Company in 2019 for their own work, which includes a trilogy of shows currently in progress to premiere in 2021.

NAOMI KUYCK-COHEN

CO-DESIGNER

Naomi is a designer for performance. She also co-designs work with Joshua Gadsby. Co-design credits include: There Is A Light That Never Goes Out: Scenes From The Luddite Rebellion (Royal Exchange Theatre); Trap Street (Schaubhne & New Diorama); Dinomania (New Diorama) and dreamplay (The Vaults). Designs include: in a word (Young Vic); Amsterdam (The Orange Tree, Actors Touring Company and Theatre Royal Plymouth); The Greatest Play In The History Of The World (Trafalgar Studios, Royal Exchange Theatre and Traverse Theatre); Nightclubbing (Tour); OUT (Tour); The Tyler Sisters (Hampstead Theatre); And Yet It Moves (Young Vic Taking Part); The Tempest (Royal Exchange Theatre Young Company); Fuck You Pay Me (The Bunker); The Sandman and What Was Left (Southwark Playhouse); Passin Thru (Lyric Hammersmith) and Feast (Battersea Arts Centre and Tour).

JOSHUA GADSBY

CO-DESIGNER

Joshua trained at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Occasionally he co-designs with designer Naomi Kuyck-Cohen. Credits as co-designer include: There Is A Light That Never Goes Out: Scenes From The Luddite Rebellion (Royal Exchange/Kandinsky); Trap Street (Schaubhne and New Diorama/Kandinsky); Dinomania (New Diorama/Kandinsky) and dreamplay (Vaults). Credits as Lighting Designer include: in a word (Young Vic); Half Life (Albany and Tour); A Kettle of Fish (The Yard); Tyler Sisters, Alligators and R and D (all Hampstead Theatre); Still Ill (New Diorama/Kandinsky); Airswimming (Vaults); Consensual and I wont make it on my own (both Nuffield Southampton Theatres); I Call My Brothers and Caught (Arcola); Returning to Haifa (Finborough); The Leftovers (Curve and Tour); The Slightly Annoying Elephant (Little Angel and Tour); A Dangerous Woman (Birmingham REP and Tour); How To Keep Time (Rich Mix and Tour) and The Island (French Tour/Freedom Theatre).

DANIELLE BRATHWAITE-SHIRELY

SOUND DESIGNER

Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley is an artist working predominantly in animation, sound and performance. Their work seeks to archive the experience of being Black and Trans while using fiction to imaginatively retell stories. More recently their interactive work blurs the lines between the responsibility that viewers have when they engage in tourism of minority groups. Credits include, RESSURECTION PRO LEAGUE (Les Urbains) as well as work in the Barbican, Tate Late and Auto Italia. Other credits include: We Dig (Oval Theatre); I tried to fuck up the system (premiered at Welcome Collection) and Hotter Than a Pan (The Yard).

MYLES OGORMAN

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

Myles is a theatre director and co-artistic director of Helikon Theatre Company. Previous work as assistant director includes: The Wind of Heaven (Finborough Theatre). Previous work as director includes: WoLabs Actor-Writer Showcase (Bunker Theatre/Lion and Unicorn Theatre); Medea Speaks, Crave, Hamlet (Edinburgh Festival Fringe); The Winters Tale (OSO Arts Centre/The Hat and Brighton Fringe); The Oresteia, The Merchant of Venice (ADC Theatre) and His Dark Materials (Fitzwilliam Museum). Training includes: Living Pictures with Lyndsey Turner and JMK Trust/Envelope Room Director-Designer Residency at Traverse Theatre.

HAZEL LOW

DESIGN ASSISTANT

Hazel Low is a London based Theatre Designer and Illustrator. Recent projects include: Belly Up (Vault Festival); Men Come Second (Barons Court Theatre); Feels (Lyric Hammersmith); Memories (Lyric Hammersmith and UK tour); An Exhibition in First Impressions (The Place) and Delorean (Assembly Rooms for Edinburgh Fringe). As Associate Designer: The Little Prince (Omnibus Theatre).

ANDREAS AYLING

PRODUCTION MANAGER

Andreas credits as Production Manager include: Kunene & The King (The Ambassadors); Miracle on 34th Street (Liverpool Playhouse); Dead Equal (Edinburgh Fringe); Who Cares (UK Tour); Kunene & The King (Swan Theatre); A Christmas Carol (RST); Roller Disco (Soho Theatre); What The Butler Saw (Curve/Theatre Royal Bath); The Twits (UK tour); Bat Out Of Hell Press Launch (London & Manchester); Santa (Jamie Wilson Productions); Tell Me On A Sunday (UK tour); Accolade (St. James Theatre); The Full Monty (UK tour) and In The Heights (Southwark Playhouse). As Assistant Production Manager: multiple RSC productions (S-U-A, London and UK Tour); Bat Out Of Hell (Manchester Opera House); Opera Holland Park (2013-16); Aladdin (Prince Edwards); Around The World In 80 Days (Workshop); Viva Forever (Piccadilly Theatre) and Mamma Mia (Novello). As Technical Manager: The Railway Children, In The Heights (Kings Cross Theatre). Andreas wishes to thank Simon, Ted, Steve and Spencer for their continued support.

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