SCROUNGER
by Athena Stevens
Cast in order of speaking
| Scrounger | Athena Stevens |
| P.A. | Leigh Quinn |
Here. Now.
There will be no interval.
| Director | Lily McLeish |
| Designer | Anna Reid |
| Lighting Designer | Anthony Doran |
| Sound Designer | Julian Starr |
| Stage Manager | Lucy Barter |
| Assistant Director | Wiebke Green |
| Production Manager | Ian Taylor |
| Producer | Sarah Lawrie |
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Please turn your mobile phones off - the light they emit can also be distracting.
Our patrons are respectfully reminded that, in this intimate theatre, any noise such as the rustling of programmes, food packaging or talking may distract the actors and your fellow audience members.
We regret there is no admittance or re-admittance to the auditorium whilst the performance is in progress.
Athena Stevens | Scrounger / Playwright
Athena Stevens is a Playwright on Attachment at the Finborough Theatre, where her productions as actor and writer have included Scrounger as part of Vibrant 2019 A Festival of Finborough Playwrights, Genie as part of Vibrant 2017 A Festival of Finborough Playwrights and Schism (which subsequently transferred to the Park Theatre). For her work on Schism, Athena was nominated for an OffWestEnd Award for Best Female Performance in a Play and an Olivier Award.
Athena Stevens is a writer, performer and director. She is a Creative Council member and Associate Artist at Shakespeares Globe.
Writing includes Reluctant Spirit (BBC Radio 3) and Hello to the Trolls, a new commission from the National Youth Theatre. She is a BBC Writers Access Group member, a former writer on attachment with the National Theatre Studio and recently completed a screen version of her series Recompense as part of the Channel 4 Screenwriters Programme.
Acting includes understudying for A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (Trafalgar Studios), Juliet in Redefining Juliet (Royal Shakespeare Company at the Barbican Theatre) and Lady Macbeth (RADA).
Writing and acting her own work includes The Amazing Vancetti Sisters (Tristan Bates Theatre) and Dark Night of The Soul (Shakespeares Globe).
Forthcoming productions include directing and curating Notes to the Forgotten She-Wolves (Sam Wanamaker Season 2020 at Shakespeares Globe).
Film and Television include the feature documentary Day of Small Things (Channel 4), the short film The Conference (BBC) and three web series for YouTube.
She is currently launching the self-advocacy platform Make Your Own Damn Tea, is a Huffington Post contributor and is completing her first non-fiction book. Athena is also a TEDx speaker, and Equality in the Media Spokesperson for the Womens Equality Party.
Born in Chicago, she now lives in London. Athena was born with athetoid cerebral palsy.
Leigh Quinn | P.A.
Trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
Theatre includes The Crucible, A Little Night Music (Storyhouse, Chester), Troilus and Cressida, Richard II, Henry IV Parts I and II, Henry V, The Famous Victories of Henry V, Two Gentlemen of Verona (Royal Shakespeare Company, UK, China and New York), Pride and Prejudice (Open Air Theatre, Regents Park), The Low Road (Royal Court Theatre) and Dancing at Lughnasa (Tobacco Factory, Bristol).
Television and Film includes Year of the Rabbit, Case Histories, Shakespeare Live!, All the Milkmans Children, Three Lives, Best of Men and 8 Minutes Idle.
Lily McLeish | Director
Lily McLeish is a British-German theatre director. She read English Literature and Art History at the University of Cologne. She is a creative fellow of the Royal Shakespeare Company, long-term associate director to Katie Mitchell on productions across Europe, and director of Fizzy Sherbet, a new writing initiative for women playwrights.
Direction includes While You Are Here (DanceEast and The Place), Schism (Park Theatre), The White Bike (The Space), Unlocked (Glenside Hospital Museum for alldaybreakfast, Bristol), A Colder Water Than Here, awarded the Origins Award For Outstanding New Work (Vaults Festival), She Echoes (University of Northampton), Three Lives (Fringe Arts, Bath), Housekeeping (Southwark Playhouse), Absence (The Young Vic), This Despised Love (Royal Shakespeare Company Fringe), Old Times (Artheater, Cologne) and Footfalls (Severins-Burg-Theater, Cologne).
Associate Direction includes Anatomie eines Suizids, Bluets, Schlafende Mnner, 4.48 Psychosis, Reisende auf einem Bein, Happy Days (Deutsches Schauspielhaus, Hamburg), Orlando, Schatten, Ophelias Zimmer (Schaubhne, Berlin), Norma Jeane Baker of Troy (The Shed, New York), Anatomy of a Suicide, Ophelias Zimmer (Royal Court Theatre) and La Maladie de la Mort (Thtre des Bouffes du Nord, Paris).
Assistant Direction includes When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other, Cleansed, The Beaux Stratagem (National Theatre), The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Royal Shakespeare Company), Ariadne auf Naxos (Festival dAix en Provence), Lucia di Lammermoor (Royal Opera House, Covent Garden), The Forbidden Zone (Salzburg Festspiele and Schaubhne, Berlin), Wunschloses Unglck (Burgtheater, Vienna), Alles Weitere Kennen Sie Aus Dem Kino (Deutsches Schauspielhaus, Hamburg), Say It With Flowers (Hampstead Theatre), The Yellow Wallpaper (Schaubhne, Berlin), and Reise durch die Nacht, Ringe des Saturn, Hundsprozesse (Schauspiel, Cologne).
Anna Reid | Designer
Productions at the Finborough Theatre include Im Gonna Pray for You So Hard.
Trained at Wimbledon College of Art.
Design includes Dust (New York Theatre Workshop), Cash Cow, Paradise, The Hoes (Hampstead Theatre), The Sweet Science of Bruising (Wiltons Music Hall), Our Countrys Good, A Midsummer Nights Dream (Tobacco Factory Theatre), Soft Animals, Fury (Soho Theatre), Twelfth Night, Collective Rage, Dear Brutus, The Cardinal, School Play (Southwark Playhouse), Rasheeda Speaking (Trafalgar Studios), Marys Babies, Dry Land (Jermyn Street Theatre), Schism (Park Theatre), Grotty (Bunker Theatre), Tiny
Dynamite (Old Red Lion Theatre),
