THE NICETIES
by Eleanor Burgess
Cast in order of speaking
Janine | Janie Dee |
Zoe | Moronk Akinola |
The action takes place at an elite university in the American Northeast, Spring 2016.
The performance lasts approximately two hours.
There will be one interval of fifteen minutes.
Director | Matthew Iliffe |
Designer | Rachel Stone |
Lighting Designer | Luca Snchez |
Sound Designer | Kate Marlais |
Stage Manager | Chloe Forestier-Walker |
Press Representative | Susie Safavi |
Producer | Giles Chiplin |
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.
Moronk Akinola | Zoe
Trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
Theatre whilst training includes The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, Wonder Boy, The Dissociation of Shirley Mason, The Railway Children, The Mill on the Floss, 19th Floor, The Flora Sandes, Beowulf, Philistines, A View from the Bridge, Ma Raineys Black Bottom, The Importance of Being Earnest, Twelfth Night and Lungs.
This is Moronks professional stage debut.
Janie Dee| Janine
Theatre includes Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Ustinov Studio, Bath), Passion (Cantiere Internazionale dArte), Follies, Women of Troy, Johnny on a Spot, Carousel for which she won the Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical (National Theatre), Moonlight, Night School (Harold Pinter Theatre), Monogamy (Park Theatre), Linda (Manhattan Theatre Club), Hand to God (Vaudeville Theatre), The Seagull, Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet (Open Air Theatre, Regents Park), Ah, Wilderness! (The Young Vic), 84 Charing Cross Road (Salisbury Playhouse), A Midsummer Nights Dream (Shakespeares Globe International Tour), Blithe Spirit (Gielgud Theatre), Putting it Together (St. James Theatre), Hello Dolly!, The King and I (The Curve, Leicester), NSFW (Royal Court Theatre), Noises Off (The Old Vic and Novello Theatre), Alls Well That Ends Well (Shakespeares Globe), Private Lives (Nottingham Playhouse), The Little Hut (National Tour), Calendar Girls (Nol Coward Theatre), Woman in Mind (Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough), Shadowlands (Wyndhams Theatre), Mack and Mabel (Criterion Theatre and National Tour), Donkeys Years (Comedy Theatre), Celebration, Old Times (Gate Theatre, Dublin), The Apple Cart, Old Times, Much Ado About Nothing, Design for Living (Theatre Royal Bath), Betrayal (Duchess Theatre and Theatre Royal Bath), Diva at the Donmar (Donmar Warehouse), A Month in the Country, Three Sisters (Chichester Festival Theatre), My One and Only (Piccadilly Theatre and Chichester Festival Theatre), Paradise Moscow (Opera North), Comic Potential for she won the Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Play (Lyric Theatre and Manhattan Theatre Club) and The Shakespeare Revue (Royal Shakespeare Company).
Film includes Official Secrets, Dare to be Wild, Me and Orson Welles, The Trouble with Dot and Harry, The Driving Seat and Celebration.
Television includes Chimerica, Crashing, Harold Pinter: A Celebration, The Murder Room, Death in Holy Orders, Midsomer Murders, House of Cards, Heartbeat and Londons Burning.
Eleanor Burgess | Playwright
Eleanor Burgess's work has been produced at Manhattan Theatre Club, McCarter Theatre Center, Geffen Playhouse, Huntington Theatre Company, the Alliance Theatre, Writers Theatre, Milwaukee Theatre, Geva Theatre Center, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, the Contemporary American Theatre Festival, Portland Stage Company, and more, and developed at Playwrights Horizons, The New Group, New York Theatre Workshop, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Alley Theatre, the Hermitage Artists Retreat, the Lark Play Development Center, and the Kennedy Center/NNPN MFA Playwrights Workshop. She has been a member of the Dorothy Strelsin New American Writers Group at Primary Stages, Page 73's writers' group Interstate 73, The Civilians R&D Group, and New York Theatre Workshops 2050 Fellowship. Originally from Brookline, Massachusetts, she studied history at Yale College and Dramatic Writing at NYU/Tisch.
Matthew Iliffe | Director
Productions at the Finborough Theatre include Lionel Bart and Alun Owens musical Maggie May and Colleen Murphys new play Geography of Fire/La Furie et sa Gographie as part of Vibrant 2019 A Festival of Finborough Playwrights.
He previously directed the European premiere of The Burnt Part Boys which was nominated for the OffWestEnd Award for Best Director and Best Musical Production (Park Theatre) and Precious Little Talent (The Albany).
Matthew graduated from the University of Bristol with a first-class honours degree in Theatre and Performance Studies, and trained on the StoneCrabs Young Directors Programme, in association with The Albany. He has served as an assistant director for National Youth Music Theatre and Insane Root Theatre Company.
Rachel Stone | Designer
Theatre includes Apologia, Hand to God (English Theatre Frankfurt), Dessert, Stalking the Bogeyman, Upper Cut, Short and Stark (Southwark Playhouse), Worlds End, Boy With Beer (Kings Head Theatre), Calamity Jane (Tring Park School of Performing Arts), Cabaret (ACT Aberdeen), Sweeney Todd (Twickenham Theatre), That Face, Carousel (Landor Theatre), Songs for a New World, My Mother Said I Never Should (Bridewell Theatre), Ruffled (Theatre 503) and Company (Pleasance Theatre London).
Associate Designs include Handbagged (National Tour, Roundhouse Theatre Washington and 59E59 Theaters, New York), Disco Pigs (Irish Repertory Theatre, New York), The Grinning Man (Trafalgar Studios), Bad Jews (Arts Theatre) and The EL Train (Hoxton Hall).
Assistant Designs include Tree (The Young Vic), The Bridges of Madison County (Menier Chocolate Factory), True West, Dead Funny (Vaudeville Theatre), Cendrillon (Glyndebourne), Knights Tale (Imperial Theatre, Tokyo), Agrippina, Oliver!
