Cast |
Leah | Leah Brotherhead Sophie |
Sophie | Sophie Steer |
Creative Team |
Director | Jaz Woodcock-Stewart Designer |
Designer | Charlotte Espiner |
Lighting Designer | Rajiv Pattani |
Stage Manager | Rachel Darwood |
Producer | Claire Gaydon |
Cast
Leah Brotherhead Leah
Leah last appeared at the Bush Theatre in The Kitchen Sink . Her theatre credits include: As You Like It (The Lamb Players), Two Gentlemen Of Verona (Shakespeares Globe/Liverpool Everyman ), Wolf Hall & Bring Up The Bodies (RSC, Aldwych Theatre/The Winter Gardens On Broadway), Another Place (Theatre Royal Plymouth), Pride and Prejudice (Regents Park Open Air Theatre), Doctor Faustus (West Yorkshire Playhouse/Glasgow Citizens), People Like Us (Pleasance Theatre), Euphoria (Ensemble 52), DNA (Hull Truck/UK Tour).
TV credits include: White Gold, Doctors, Vera, Casualty and Boy Meets Girl. Leah is a BBC Carleton Hobbs Award winner and has played numerous roles for the BBC Radio rep company.
Sophie Steer Sophie
Sophies theatre credits include: Its True, Its True, Its True (Underbelly/New Diroama), Tank (Breach Theatre, National Tour), Still Ill (New Diorama), Astronauts Of Hartlepool (Winner of VAULT Festival Origins Award for new work), Sparks (Old Red Lion), Buckets (Orange Tree Theatre), Romeo & Juliet (Watermill Theatre).
TV credits include: Chickens (Big Talk Productions).
Short film credits include: Calibans Cave, Caliban and A Thousand Empty Glasses (Nominated for Best Short at Raindance/Palm Springs).
Creative Team
Antler Creator
A Bush Associate Artist 2017-18, Antler is an award-winning company, telling stories through theatre and film.
Winner of the IdeasTap Underbelly Award and Pulse Festival Suitcase Prize, nominated for The Stage Best Ensemble Award, and winner of Best Short Fiction at BFI Future Film Festival. Antler have transferred shows to the Bush Theatre, Soho Theatre and toured the UK.
Antler trained on Uri Roodners Contemporary Theatre Course at East 15 Acting School. Antler was co-founded by Daniela Pasquini, Richard Perryman, Nasi Voutsas and Jaz Woodcock-Stewart.
Previous credits include: This Way Up (2012), Maria 1968 (2012), Where The White Stops (2013-2014), If I Were Me (2015-2016), Days Like This (2016).
Jaz Woodcock-Stewart Director
Jaz is co-artistic director of Antler. She was a finalist for the RTST Sir Peter Hall Director Award 2018. She was also a finalist for JMK Award in 2016 and the Genesis Future Directors Award in 2017. She was recently on attachment at the National Theatre Studio working on a new play, Wifmon and has been nominated by National Theatre as part of MITOS21, the European Theatre Network, to workshop a new piece at Performance Laboratory Salzburg 2019.
Theatre credits include: Lands (Bush Theatre, UK Tour, Summerhall), The Bacchae (East 15), Civilisation (Yard Theatre), Days Like This (BAC, BeFestival), Youre So Relevant (Young Vic), If I Were Me (Soho Theatre, Underbelly), Where The White Stops (Underbelly, Bush Theatre, UK Tour), Whistleblower (ObamAmerica, Theatre 503) and Schoolboy (Little Pieces of Gold, The Cockpit). Film for Antler credits include: Emmeline (short) winner of BFI Future Film Award for Best Fiction.
Staff/Resident/Assistant Director credit includes: Network , (National Theatre), Lazarus (Kings Cross Theatre), Adler and Gibb (Royal Court tour), Measure for Measure (Young Vic), Stink Foot (Yard Theatre), Eye of a Needle (Southwark Playhouse).
Her training is a culmination of time spent on the National Theatre Studio Directors Course, The Jerwood Assistant Director Program at the Young Vic, Uri Roodners Contemporary Theatre course at East 15 Acting School and Dartington College of Arts.
Charlotte Espiner Designer
Charlotte studied Classics at Kings College, Cambridge before training in Set and Costume Design at the Motley Theatre Design School in 2011.
Theatre design includes: Parents Evening , The Play About My Dad (Jermyn Street Theatre), Acis and Galatea (St John Smiths Square), Kingdom Come (RSC), Summerfolk (Vanbrugh Theatre, RADA), Home Chat (Finborough Theatre), Adler and Gibb (Summerhall/Unicorn/The Lowry/Kirk Douglas Theatre), It is Easy to be Dead (Finborough Theatre/Trafalgar Studios), All or Nothing (West End/UK National Tour/Vaults), Mouthful (Trafalgar Studios), The Devil to Pay on Brook Street (Handel House Museum), Pal Joey (Karamel Club), The Dispute (Summerhall/Odeon Cinemas), The Winters Tale (Bernie Grants Centre), The Revengers Tragedy , The Tempest (Ovalhouse), This Child (Bridewell Theatre), Richard II (St James Church), Hamlet (The Rose Theatre), The Provoked Wife (Greenwich Playhouse), Entries on Love (RichMix), Abstract/Nouns (Pleasance).
Film design includes: The Rain Collector (Wigwam Films), Lizard Girl (BBC), Double Take (BAFTA/Channel 4), Paper Mountains (Ruby Productions), Copier (Screen West Midlands Digishorts), Mirror (Ruby Productions).
Rajiv Pattani Lighting Designer
Rajiv is one of the technicians at the Bush Theatre, working with Production Manager Michael and the creative teams to realise productions and events in both the theatre and the studio. He is also a lighting designer. Rajiv graduated from LAMDA in 2014 with qualifications in Stage Management and Technical Theatre, specialising in Lighting, Sound and AV.
Recent design work for the Bush includes: the reopening event Black Lives, Black Words , NASSIM (Traverse 2/Bush Theatre/International Tour, Edinburgh Fringe First winner 2017), Ramona Tells Jim directed by Mel Hillyard, Hijabi Monologues London.
Other lighting design credits include: Network Theatres STUD (VAULT Festival 2018), Screaming Secrets & Glass Roots (Tristan Bates Theatre), Tom Stoppards On the Razzle , Nina Raines Rabbit (Pleasance Theatre for LAMDA productions), Blood Wedding (Bread & Roses Theatre), Might Never Happen (Dolls Eye Theatre Company), Primadonna (VAULT Festival 2016), as well as various projects at the Arcola, Hampstead and the Unicorn. Rajiv was also Production Electrician on 4 Minutes 12 Seconds at Trafalgar Studios.
Rachel Darwood Stage Manager
Rachels theatre includes: As You Like It (Shakespeare in the Squares), Alice in the Cuckoos Nest, A Christmas Carol, The Books the Thing (Librarian Theatre), Unemployed Actors Union (Theatre N16), DARE Festival, Phone Home (Shoreditch Town Hall), The Midnight Gang (The Chickenshed), The Divided Laing, A Midsummer Nights Dream, A Steady Rain (Arcola Theatre).
Since completing her degree at Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance in 2014, Rachel has worked on a variety of productions. When not working as a stage manager, Rachel works as a member of the technical crew with ESS Hire, most recently working on the Jack Petchey Speak Out Finals . Every year Rachel enjoys going back to the Twinwood Vintage Festival where she works as one of the stage managers.
Thank You
Emily Aboud, Elizabeth Bisola Alabi, Yasmin Hafesji and Salome Wagaine
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