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The Phlebotomist was first performed at Hampstead Theatre Downstairs, London, on 12 April 2018 with the following cast:
| BEA | Jade Anouka |
| DAVID | Vincent Ebrahim |
| AARON | Rory Fleck Byrne |
| CHAR | Cherrelle Skeete |
| Director | Sam Yates |
| Designer | Rosanna Vize |
| Lighting | Zoe Spurr |
| Sound | Alex Twiselton |
| Video | Duncan McLean |
| Casting | Lucy Hellier |
The Phlebotomist transferred to Hampstead Theatre Upstairs, London, on 19 March 2019 with the following cast:
| BEA | Jade Anouka |
| DAVID | Mark Lambert |
| AARON | Rory Fleck Byrne |
| CHAR | Kiza Deen |
| ENSEMBLE | Claudia Cadette |
| ENSEMBLE | Edward Wolstenholme |
| Director | Sam Yates |
| Assistant Director | Nimmo Ismail |
| Designer | Rosanna Vize |
| Video Designer | Louise Roades-Brown |
| Lighting | Zoe Spurr |
| Video | Sinad Diskin |
| Composer | Isobel Waller-Bridge |
| Movement | Michela Meazza |
| Casting | Lucy Hellier |
ELLA ROAD
WRITER
Ella is a writer and actor from London. The Phlebotomist is the first play shes written. She is currently writing new commissions for the Almeida Theatre, Hampstead Theatre and Theatre Royal Plymouth, and is also in development on a number of projects for TV, Film and Radio.
Ella is co-founder of the new writing company Flux Theatre, which aims to champion new voices in the arts. She also teaches English, facilitates workshops, and writes the occasional poem. Ella was a Soho Theatre Young Writer 2017/18, and is one of the Bush Theatres Emerging Writers of 2018/19. She has also been selected for the BBC Drama Writers Programme 2019/20. The Phlebotomist is a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.
CAST AND CREATIVE TEAM
JADE ANOUKA
BEA
Theatre work includes Cover My Tracks (Old Vic); Shakespeare Trilogy (Donmar at Kings Cross); Doctor Faustus (West End); Julius Caesar ; Henry IV and The Tempest (Donmar/St. Anns Warehouse, NY); So Here We Are (Royal Exchange/High Tide); Chef (Soho); The Vote (Donmar); Omeros (Sam Wanamaker); Clean (Traverse/59E59, NY); Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet (Shakespeares Globe); Moon on a Rainbow Shawl (National Theatre); Romeo and Juliet (Bolton Octagon); Wild Horses (Theatre503); Loves Labours Lost (Shakespeares Globe/US Tour); Blood Wedding (Southwark Playhouse); Twelfth Night (York Theatre Royal); The Taming of the Shrew and The Merchant of Venice (RSC); The Penelopiad (RSC/NAC, Canada) and Handas Surprise (Little Angel Theatre).
Film work includes Baby Gravy ; The Dark Channel ; A Summer Hamlet and A Running Jump.
Television work includes Trauma ; Chewing Gum ; Lucky Man ; The Vote ; Shakespeare Uncovered ; Doctor Who ; Secrets and Words and Law & Order: UK .
MARK LAMBERT
DAVID
Most recent theatre work includes The Ferryman (Gielgud/Jacobs Theatre, New York). Other theatre includes Dancing at Lughnasa (Garrick); Juno and the Paycock (Dublin/UK tour - Olivier nomination for Best Supporting Actor); Molly Sweeney; The Three Sisters; Art; A Month in the Country; Aristocrats; The Spirit of Annie Ross; Romeo and Juliet and The Importance of Being Earnest (all Gate theatre); The Memory of Water (Vaudeville); Alls Well That Ends Well (Gielgud for RSC); Festen and Our Countrys Good (both Royal Court); Long Days Journey Into Night (Young Vic); Ariel ; The Gili Concert; Twelfth Night; Barbaric Comedies (Irish Times Theatre Awards Nomination); Heartbreak House ; and She Stoops to Conquer (all Abbey Theatre, Dublin).
Film work includes Veronica Guerin; A Prayer for the Dying; Evelyn; The Journey; The Tigers Tale; Breakfast on Pluto; Jude and Borstal Boy .
Television work includes Women on the Verge; The Bailout; Rebellion; Roy (series regular); An Crisis; RAW (Season 3 series regular); Single Handed: Stolen Child; Cracker; Vanity Fair; The Tudors; Heartbeat; Inspector George Gently; Proof; Rosemary and Thyme; A Touch of Frost; Casualty; The Young Ones and Sharpes Regiment.
RORY FLECK BYRNE
AARON
Rory trained at RADA. Theatre work includes Anna Karenina (Abbey); King Charles III (Wyndhams); The Vortex (Gate, Dublin); That Face (Landor); The Lion in Winter (Haymarket); Disco Pigs (Young Vic); Cause Clbre (Old Vic) and Antony and Cleopatra (Liverpool Everyman).
Film work includes The Foreigner ; Vita and Virginia ; Night of the Lotus ; Tiger Raid ; Vampire Academy: Blood Sisters and The Quiet Ones .
Television work includes Death in Paradise ; Harlots ; To Walk Invisible ; Jack Taylor ; Midsomer Murders ; Damo & Ivor and Grantchester .
Short film work includes Inbox ; Bodies and Untitled Blues.
KIZA DEEN
CHAR
Kiza trained at RADA. Theatre work includes Random (Leeds Playhouse); Brer Cotton (Theatre503); Expensive Sh*t (Soho); Trouble In Mind (Theatre Royal, Bath); Hamlet ; As You Like It and Alls Well That Ends Well (all RSC) and Yard Gal (RADA Festival). Television work includes Silent Witness and Hollyoaks .
