CAST
| Jeanine | Akiya Henry |
| Victor | Douggie McMeekin |
| Synda | Abiona Omonua |
TEAM
| Writer | Clare Barron |
| Director | Jay Miller |
| Designer | Emma Bailey |
| Sound Designer and Additional Composition | Josh Anio Grigg |
| Composer | Jonah Brody |
| Lighting Designer | Rajiv Pattani |
| Choreographer | Darcy Wallace |
| Casting Director | Serena Hill |
| Assistant Director | Georgia Green |
| Fight Director | Yarit Dor |
| Voice Coach | Jessica Tobert |
| Assistant Movement Director and Chaperone | Alice Laidler |
| Production Manager | Dan Gosselin |
| Company Stage Manager | Eleanor Dear |
| Deputy Stage Manager | Kirsten Buckmaster |
| Stage Manager | Shannon Gibson Durr |
| Production Electrician | Luca Snchez Roldn |
| Production Sound Engineer | Oscar Thompson |
| Deputy Production Manager | James Dawson |
| Builder | Dominic Kelly |
VOICES
Sarah Ridgeway
Shannon Tarbet
Vivian Oparah
Mark Quartley
Lorna Gayle
Clare Barron
DANCERS
Poppy Caton
Levinia-Star Dunn
Farrah Francis
Zian Desole
Cyrine De Los Reyes
Tia Isaac
Shanice Mawoneke
Tze-Yann Wijnholds
Mia Lawson
Aurelia Hunt
First produced by The Yard Theatre, 24 October 2019.
Akiya Henry
JEANINE
Theatre includes: Coram Boy , Once In A Lifetime , Anything Goes , Loves Labour Lost (National Theatre); The Little Matchgirl , Twelfth Night , Under The Black Flag , Coriolanus (Shakespeares Globe); Much Ado About Nothing , Henry V (RSC); Medea , An Oak Tree , A Midsummer Nights Dream , Swallows and Amazons (Bristol Old Vic); Sense Of An Ending , Cake and Congo (Theatre 503); The Enchanted Pig , Skellig (Young Vic); The Beggars Opera , Hello Dolly , The Tempest (Open Air Theatre Regents Park); Just So , A Midsummer Nights Dream (Chichester Festival Theatre ) ; Mottled Lines (Orange Tree Theatre); Deposit (Hampstead Theatre); The Nutcracker and The Mouse King (Unicorn Theatre); Perseverance Drive (Bush Theatre); Aint Misbehavin (Sheffield Crucible Theatre); The Dark (Ovalhouse).
Film includes: Macbeth , Rabbit Fever , The Best Man , De Lovely .
Television includes: Obsession: Dark Desires , Silent Witness , Captain Mack , Little Britain , Bing , Moominvalley , The Rubbish World of Dave Spud , 101 Dalmatians , Hilda , Bottersnikes & Gumbles .
Douggie McMeekin
VICTOR
Theatre includes: The Night Before Christmas (Southwark Playhouse); A Midsummer Nights Dream (Young Vic); Wendy & Peter (RSC).
Film includes: Nasty Women , The Hustle , The Call Up .
Television includes: Chernobyl , Harlots , Traitors , The Crown .
Abiona Omonua
SYNDA
Theatre includes: Caroline , Or Change (Hampstead Theatre, Chichester Festival Theatre); Guys And Dolls (Royal Exchange Theatre); Hamlet (Tara Arts); Soul (Royal & Derngate/Hackney Empire); The Color Purple (Menier Chocolate Factory); Legally Blonde (Savoy Theatre); Parade (Southwark Playhouse); Hairspray (UK Tour); Hot Mikado (The Watermill); Wild Party (Arts Educational).
Film includes: Beauty And The Beast .
Television includes: Cucumber .
Clare Barron
WRITER
Clare Barron is a playwright and actor from Wenatchee, Washington. Her plays include: Dance Nation , which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the winner of the Relentless Award, the winner of an Obie Award and received its premiere at Playwrights Horizons in New York City and subsequently at the Almeida Theatre in London and is now playing across the USA and internationally; You Got Older , which received its world premiere with Playwriting Fellowship and the Paula Vogel Award at the Vineyard, and a former member of Youngblood and the Soho Rep Writer-Director Lab.
Jay Miller
DIRECTOR
Jay has most recently directed at The Yard The Crucible by Arthur Miller ( Evening Standard , The Sunday Times ); This Beautiful Future by Rita Kalnejais ( The Stage , The Guardian ); Removal Men by M. J. Harding ( The Guardian ); Lines by Pamela Carter ( The Guardian ); The Mikvah Project by Josh Azouz ( The Stage , Time Out Critics Picks).
Jay Miller is the theatre director who founded The Yard Theatre and has led the organisation since its conception. Jay grew up in Newcastle, studied at Cambridge University and trained at LEcole de Jacques Lecoq in Paris, and at the National Theatre, London. At The Yard, Jay has identified and launched the careers of a number of artists who have gone on to be commissioned and produced by internationally recognised organisations, such as the National Theatre, Royal Court, Channel 4, Netflix and many regional venues in the UK.
Emma Bailey
DESIGNER
Emma is an award-winning set and costume designer based in London. Having started her career in architecture she uses her spatial and draughting skills to explore her fascination with 3D and 2D design and performance. Her work comprises many elements of design including fashion, illustration and sculptural installation.
In 2011 Emma was awarded the prestigious Linbury Prize for Stage Design with her production Roy Orbison in Clingfilm at the Royal Opera House. Emma has also been a JMK finalist 3 times and once as runner-up in 2014 with director Kim Pearce.
Emma has designed for a range of venues, including the Royal Opera House, Royal Shakespeare Company, Young Vic and Pyramid Stage Glastonbury. Emma designed the sets for Six The Musical which is running in Londons West End and is touring the globe to critical and audience acclaim and is on Broadway in 2020.
Rajiv Pattani
LIGHTING DESIGNER
Rajiv graduated from LAMDA in 2014 with qualifications in Stage Management and Technical Theatre, Recent design work includes: Dismantle This Room (Jerwood Downstairs Royal Court Theatre); Wolfie (Theatre503); (Vaults Festival 2019); Babylon Beyond Borders (Bush Theatre); Bullet Hole (Park Theatre Park90); Leave Taking (Bush Theatre); Roman Candle (Theatre503, Manchester 53Two, Ivy Studio Greenside Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2018); Dismantle This Room Project 2036 (Bush Studio).
Josh Anio Grigg
SOUND DESIGNER AND ADITIONAL COMPOSITION
Josh Anio Grigg mainly works in the medium of sound, but also includes other new media practices as well as arts facilitation ideas into his projects.
In 2008 he completed a Drama, Theatre and Performance degree at Roehampton University of Surrey.
He has designed and performed sound in many spaces in London including the National Theatre, The Gate and The Yard Theatre as well as creating and performing sound in festivals across Europe under a variety of names.
Jonah Brody
COMPOSER
Jonah Brody is an Integrative Psychotherapist and Composer. He currently works as a facilitator running retreats combining psychedelics and psychotherapy. When not doing this he tours with bands, writes pop songs and looks after his tiny son. His theatre credits include Removal Men (The Yard); This Beautiful Future (The Yard); Mother Land (Young Vic); Stroke Odysseys (The Place and Touring).
Darcy Wallace
