Ryan Calais Cameron - Typical

Typical was first performed

at Pleasance Beneath, Edinburgh

on 31 July 2019

Cast

RICHARD BLACKWOOD

PERFORMER

Theatre credits include: Typical (Pleasance Beneath, Edinburgh/Soho Theatre, London); Frankie and Johnny (Northern Stage); Shrek (Theatre Royal Drury Lane, London); Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Novello Theatre, London); Angel House (New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich/UK tour); The Unexpected Guest (Bill Kenwright Ltd); The Brothers (Hackney Empire).

Film credits include: Deus (Goldfinch); Curiosity Kills (Jerico Lane Pictures); Meet the Guvnors (Fullwell 73); Still Waters (Still Waters the Movie LTD); Krish and Lee (Jaffa Films); Outside Bet (Gateway Films); Anuvahood (Gunslinger); Dont Stop Dreaming (Stereo Nation).

Television credits include: Death in Paradise (Red Planet Pictures); EastEnders (BBC); Casualty (BBC); Harleys Angels (Rialto Films); Britannia High (ITV); Danis House (BBC); Ask TV Sketch Show (Roc Motion); Shoot the Messenger (BBC); The Little Miss Jocelyn Show (BBC).

Creative Team

RYAN CALAIS CAMERON

WRITER

Ryan is the winner of the 2018 Off West End Adopt A Playwright Award. He is an alumnus of the Royal Court Writers Programme 2017 and the Soho Young Company 2016/17. Ryans play Queens of Sheba won the 2018 Edinburgh Untapped Award, having played to sell-out audiences at the Camden Peoples Theatre in October 2017. Its four-week run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2018 sold out, garnering four- and five-star reviews across the board, and winning the Edinburgh Stage Award 2018.

Plays include: Typical (Soho Theatre/Pleasance Beneath); Rapture (Royal Court commission); The Tide (Talawa); Queens of Sheba (Underbelly/New Diorama); Rhapsody (Arcola Theatre); Timbuktu (Theatre Royal Stratford East).

CARRIE HITCHMAN

STAGE MANAGER

Carrie is a theatre maker, glitter lover, production, tour and stage manager.

Company stage manager credits include: You Stupid Darkness (Paines Plough).

Tour manager credits include: Peaches Christs Drag Becomes Her (Soho Theatre); The Vaudevillians: Jinkx Monsoon & Major Scales .

Stage manager credits include: Wild Bore (Traverse Theatre); Free Admission (Ursula Martinez/Soho Theatre).

Assistant production manager credits include: Robin Hood (Theatre Royal Stratford East); Staging a Revolution (Belarus Free Theatre).

HAZEL HOLDER

DIALECT COACH

Hazel Holder is a performer and voice and dialect coach. Voice and dialect coach credits include: Steve McQueens Small Axe (BBC/Amazon); Small Island , Pericles , Nine Night , Angels in America , Les Blancs and Ma Raineys Black Bottom (National Theatre); Death of a Salesman , The Convert (Young Vic); Richard II (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse Shakespeares Globe); Superhoe (Talawa Theatre Company/Royal Court Theatre); Our Lady of Kibeho (Royal & Derngate, Northampton); Caroline, or Change (Playhouse Theatre); The Madness of George III (Nottingham Playhouse); ear for eye (Royal Court Theatre); The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? (Playful Productions/ Theatre Royal Haymarket); Caroline, or Change (Chichester Festival Theatre); The Mountaintop , The Emperor , Cuttin It (Young Vic); Girls (Talawa Young Peoples Theatre/Soho Theatre).

DURAMANEY KAMARA

SOUND DESIGNER

Sound designer credits include: Instructions for Correct Assembly , My Mums a Twat (Royal Court Theatre); Katzenmusik (Young Court); Tottenham Symphony (Beyond the Court); Roman Candle (Theatre503/Edinburgh Fringe Festival); 1001 Nights (Hoxton Hall); Mid-Autumn Dancers (China Exchange); The Hoes (Hampstead Theatre); The Dark (Ovalhouse/Tobacco Factory).

INGRID MACKINNON

MOVEMENT DIRECTOR

Ingrid Mackinnon is a London-based movement director, choreographer, teacher and dancer.

Movement director credits include: #WeAreArrested , Kingdom Come (Royal Shakespeare Company); #DR@CULA! , A Midsummer Nights Dream (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama); Fantastic Mr . Fox (associate Nuffield Southampton/national & international tour); Barbarians (assistant Young Vic).

Choreography and rehearsal direction credits include: The Headwrap Diaries (assistant choreographer and rehearsal director), Our Mighty Groove (rehearsal director) (all Uchenna Dance); Boy Breaking Glass (rehearsal director), Hansel and Gretel (assistant choreographer and rehearsal director) (all Vocab Dance/Alesandra Seutin).

Ingrid holds an MA in Movement: Directing & Teaching from Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. She is also co-founder of MoveSpace.

ZAHRA MANSOURI

SET & COSTUME DESIGNER

Zahra Mansouri graduated in 2009 from Central Saint Martins with a BA (Hons) in Design for Performance. She has been nominated twice for Off West End Awards and has earned herself the role of Associate Designer at Fourth Monkey Theatre School. Whilst pursuing her career as a theatre designer, Zahra was also a competitive Ballroom and Latin dancer, or designing and making gowns for private clients and at Couture House Chrisanne. She now prides herself on informing her practice with a keen knowledge of movement and how people inhabit space on set.

Upcoming shows include: Sleeping Trees Christmas Show (Battersea Arts Centre); The Girl Who Fell (costume supervisor Trafalgar Studios).

Recent work includes: Dead Man Walking (Oldenburgisches Staatstheater); Nazzar The Brave (Armenian Opera Company).

Other work includes: 3Women , Late Company (Trafalgar Studios); Films in Concert (Royal Albert Hall), Orlando Knole House (BFI Flare); The Great Gatsby (Wiltons Music Hall); This Little Life of Mine , American Wife , Hamlet , Much Ado About Nothing (Park Theatre); Finding Butterfly (Limehouse Town Hall); The Marked (Ovalhouse); The Cause (Jermyn Street Theatre).

As costume associate: The Trenches (Southwark Playhouse); Inside Pussy Riot (Saatchi Gallery); The Toxic Avenger (Arts Theatre).

JESSICA MENSAH

DIRECTORS ASSISTANT

Jessica Mensah is a recent graduate in BA Theatre and Performance from the University of Surrey, Guildford School of Acting. She is currently on the Regional Theatre Young Director Scheme three-month placement at Tiata Fahodzi as part of the Artistic Director Leadership Programme. Previously she has devised, written and directed the piece Fuse with her university theatre company. In 2017/18 she embarked on a placement year at Kiln Theatre, where she worked extensively throughout the creative learning department. Her role ranged from assisting in administration, managing and producing the projects for young people, to also being an assistant practitioner for schools projects and assistant director for the youth theatre production of Blanket . Alongside her placement year, Jessica was part of the Young Vics Introduction to Directing Course in 2017 and took part in the Young producers programme at Battersea Arts Centre, producing the event Off the Track to end their 2018 Homegrown festival. She was an assistant director for Queens of Sheba in 2018, produced by Nouveau Riche. Jessica is also a Young Ambassador for Brent as part of the London Borough of Culture project, for which she performed a spoken word piece called This is Brent . Her current career aspirations are to become a theatre director and producer.

ANASTASIA OSEI-KUFFOUR

DIRECTOR

Anastasia Osei-Kuffour is a writer and director, trained through the Young Vic Directors Programme. She is currently Associate Director at Theatre503 and just completed two years as Trainee Artistic Director at Tiata Fahodzi as part of the Artistic Director Leadership Programme, and is Artistic Director of Wrested Veil theatre company.