Kalnejais - First Love is the Revolution

Soho Theatre presents First Love is the Revolution was first performed
at Soho Theatre on Friday 23 October 2015. Cast Emily Burnett Hayley Carmichael Samson Kayo Simon Kunz Lucy McCormick James Tarpey Creative Team

Playwright	Rita Kalnejais
Director	Steve Marmion
Set and Costume Designer	Anthony Lamble
Lighting Designer	Philip Gladwell
Sound Designer	Gareth Fry
Movement Director	Aline David
Fight Director	Bret Yount
Costume Supervisor	Sarah June Mills
Production Manager	Bernd Fauler
Deputy Stage Manager	Cassie Adey
Assistant Stage Manager	Annabel Butler
Wardrobe Maintenance	Scarlet Wallis
Props Supervisor	Alice Firebrace
Production Assistant	Paula McCafferty

CastEMILY BURNETT Emily is delighted to be making her professional debut in First Love is the Revolution at Soho Theatre. Emilys credits include: Say It/Its My Shout (BBC Wales); Sweet Sixteen/Its My Shout (BBC Wales); The Sparticle Mystery (CBBC); Pinocchio (Midsummer Festival Company); lolanthe (Concept Players) and Unga Bunga (Stage Daze). HAYLEY CARMICHAEL Hayley Carmichael is co-founder of theatre company Told By An Idiot. Their shows include: Too Clever By Half (Manchester Royal Exchange); The Fahrenheit Twins (Plymouth Theatre Royal/Barbican); Casanova (West Yorkshire Playhouse/Lyric Hammersmith); Im A Fool To Want You, I Weep At My Piano (BAC); A Little Fantasy (Plymouth Theatre Royal/Soho Theatre). Other theatre credits include Here Be Lions (The Print Room); Forests (Birmingham Rep/Barbican); Hamlet (Young Vic); Fragments (Bouffes du Nord); Cymbeline (Kneehigh/RSC); Zumanity (Cirque de Soleil); Theatre of Blood (NT/Improbable); The Dispute (RSC); Street of Crocodiles (Complicite/NT). Television credits include: Call The Midwife, Our Zoo, Garrows Law (all BBC).

Film credits include: Tale of Tales (Archimede); Phone Box (Facilitator Films); The Emperors New Clothes (Bonaparte Films). SAMSON KAYO Samsons theatre credits include: Back to the Future (Secret Cinema); August Town (RADA); Once Upon a Time in the 90s (Deptford Albany) and Silhouettes in the Dark Exposed (Hampstead Theatre). His television work includes: Aliens (Quite Funny Films Ltd / E4); The Javone Prince Show (Lovely Electricity/BBC2); Youngers series 1 & 2 (Big Talk Productions /E4); Misfits (E4) and Family V2 (pilot for Little Comet). Film work includes: Drink, Drugs and KFC. SIMON KUNZ Simon is an associate artist of Soho Theatre. His work at Soho Theatre includes: Edward Gants Amazing Feats of Loneliness, Mongrel Island, The Boy Who Fell Into The Book and Address Unknown. Other theatre credits include: Mojo (Duke of Yorks); Comedians (Lyric Hammersmith) and 55 Days (Hampstead Theatre).

Television work includes: Brass Eye; The Bible; Ashes to Ashes; IT Crowd; Just Henry; The Thick Of It; Endeavour; Sherlock; The Passing Bells; and Last Kingdom. Simons films include: Four Weddings and a Funeral; Young Poisoners Handbook; Golden Eye; The Parent Trap; The Bunker; Captain America; Alpha Papa and soon to be released Orthodox.LUCY McCORMICK Lucy McCormick trained at East 15 Acting School. She is a founder member of GETINTHEBACKOFTHEVAN performance company with whom she tours nationally and internationally to venues including Soho Theatre, Almeida Theatre, Latitude Festival, New Wolsey Ipswich, Cambridge Junction, PACT Zollverein (Germany), Noorderzon Festival (Netherlands) and Vienna Festwochen. Lucy has worked as a performer for Tim Etchells (In Between Time Festival Bristol), Andrew Hardwidge (Biennial of the Moving Image, Geneva), Lauren Barri Holstein (Barbican Centre, London) and Jasmina Cibic (Lugwig Museum Budapest). Other theatre credits include: As you Like It and Dusa Stas, Fish and Vi (both Worksworth Festival). Lucy also makes work under her own name and is a favourite on the UKs alternative cabaret and live art circuits. JAMES TARPEY James is delighted to be making his professional stage debut as Basti in First Love is the Revolution at Soho Theatre.

James began his career whilst studying at the Brit School of Performing Arts. Film credits include: The Worlds End (Working Title Films), Robot Overlords (Embankment Films), The Beat Beneath My Feet (Scoop Films), Hector (Victor Productions) and TV credits include: After Hours (Sky1). Company BiographiesRITA KALNEJAIS PLAYWRIGHT Rita Kalnejais studied acting at Victorian College of Art in Melbourne, Australia and has worked with Sydney Theatre Company, Belvoir, Griffin and Malthouse Theatres. The first play she wrote, BC, performed at Melbourne Arts Centre in 2009, (dir. Simon Stone.) Her second full-length play, Babyteeth, played at Belvoir Theatre in 2011 (dir. Eamon Flack) and in 2012 at State Theatre of South Australia (dir.

Chris Drummond). In 2012 Babyteeth is optioned by Like-Minded Films, adapted by Rita with Richard Roxburgh to direct. Her short plays Whistling In Bed and How to Get Very Clean were both commissioned and performed at Sydney Theatre. She was resident writer at Sydney Theatre Company in 2011 and in 2013/14 one of the Soho 6 at Soho Theatre. This is Ritas first play in London which premiered at Soho Theatre in October 2015 directed by the companys Artistic Director Steve Marmion. STEVE MARMION DIRECTOR Steve is Artistic Director of Soho Theatre.

For Soho Theatre, Steve has directed Death of a Comedian (co-production with Lyric Belfast and Abbey Dublin); Im Not Here Right Now, I Kiss Your Heart, The One, Pastoral, the French and English productions of Address Unknown, Realism (Whatsonstage Award-nominated); Mongrel Island, Fit and Proper People