Lunatic 19s
A Deportational Road Trip
by Tegan McLeod
Cast in order of speaking
Alec | Devon Anderson |
Gracie | Gabriela Garca |
The United States of America, today.
The performance lasts approximately ninety minutes.
There will be no interval.
Director | Jonathan Martin |
Designer | Carla Goodman |
Lighting Designer | Kevin Treacy |
Sound Designer | Juan Ernesto Daz |
Stage Manager | Diana Fraser |
Our patrons are respectfully reminded that, in this intimate theatre, any noise such as rustling programmes, talking or the ringing of mobile phones may distract the actors and your fellow audience-members.
We regret there is no admittance or re-admittance to the auditorium whilst the performance is in progress.
Devon Anderson | Alec
Theatre includes #Hashtag Lightie (Arcola Theatre, Gate Theatre and Theatre Royal Stratford East), Scrape Off The Black (National Theatre) and Concrete Jungle (Riverside Studios).
Television includes Casualty, Night Bus, Sinbad, EastEnders, Who Killed Summer?, Doctors, Hollyoaks and Kerching.
Gabriela Garca | Gracie
Gabriela is originally from Mexico.
Trained at Arts Ed London.
Theatre includes West Side Story (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester), In The Heights (Kings Cross Theatre), Strictly Ballroom (Piccadilly Theatre), Ghost (UK Tour for David Ian), Sweet Charity (English Theatre, Frankfurt), Hot Stuff (Queens Theatre Hornchurch), Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens (The Space) and Rent (Greenwich Theatre).
Tegan McLeod | Playwright
Born in Iowa City, Iowa, Tegan McLeod later moved to the UK where she went on to study English at Oxford University. She began acting with the National Youth Theatre and her first play Never Such Rain, written at age 18, was a runner-up in the Oxford New Writers Festival. Upon graduating, Tegan became one of only two playwrights, internationally, to be awarded a full scholarship to the University of Texas at Austin as a Michener Fellow in Playwriting and Screenwriting. Whilst there, she had numerous productions including the world premiere of her first opera, Rose Made Man, an opera about Trans identity. Her play Girls in Cars Underwater was developed at Center Stage Baltimore, featured in the Ignition Festival at Victory Gardens, Chicago, and was selected for the Eugene ONeill Theater Center: National Playwrights Conference. Last year, her play Lover Think Lover was included in The New Groups Spring Reading Festival. This is her first full length play to be seen in the UK.
Jonathan Martin | Director
Trained as a theatre director at Drama Centre, London and the cole Philippe Gaulier in Paris.
Theatre includes Enron (The Curve, Leicester), The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (HOME, Manchester), Insignificance (Liverpool Playhouse), Ballroom, Pinocchio, A Class of Our Own, Hansel and Gretel, Little Red Riding Hood (Theatre Royal, Stratford East), The Dispute (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield), The False Servant (Gate Theatre), Blood Wedding (Half Moon Theatre), Macbeth, Top Girls, Happy Days, Playland (Centro de Investigicon Teatral, Lima), Living Together, In Praise of Love, Bus Stop (The Mill at Sonning), Estate Agent (Red Ladder Theatre), PVT War (Latchmere Theatre), Of Future Mice and Men and Women (Kaboodle Theatre), In The Run of Time (Old Red Lion Theatre), The Unseen Hand (Bridge Lane Theatre), Bloody Instruction, Dr No (Moving Parts), Sorry For Tomorrow, The Indian Wants The Bronx, Casino (Soho Poly Theatre), The Blood Knot (Impact Theatre), and Mobile 4, Measure For Measure (Edinburgh Festival). He was the Principal of Drama Centre, London between 2011-2018 where he directed public productions of Scenes From the Big Picture, The Kitchen, A Russian in the Woods, The Misanthrope, Rose Bernd, The Imposter, One Flea Spare, Balm in Gilead and The Strip.
Carla Goodman | Designer
Trained in Nottingham, London and New York.
Theatre includes Martha, Josie and the Chinese Elvis (Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough), Lose Yourself (Sherman Theatre, Cardiff), Don Juan Comes Back From The War (RADA), Romeo and Juliet (Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond), Wolves Are Coming For You (Pentabus and Everyman Theatre), Joy (Theatre Royal, Stratford East), Pride and Prejudice (Nottingham Playhouse and York Theatre Royal), Looking At Lucian (Theatre Royal Bath), Gabriel (Richmond Theatre and UK Tour), Ariodante (Royal Academy of Music), Heartbreak Hotel (The Jetty, Greenwich), As the Crow Flies (Pentabus and Salisbury Playhouse), Miss Nightingale (The Vaults), How To Date A Feminist, Kitchen to Measure (Arcola Theatre), Rise (Old Vic New Voices), Jack and the Beanstalk (Cast Theatre, Doncaster), Miss Julie (Etcetera Theatre), Pig Farm (St. James Theatre), Truce (New Wimbledon Theatre), What Flows Past The Baltic (Nottingham Playhouse), Theatre Uncut (Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, and UK Tour), Listen, We're Family (Wiltons Music Hall), Much and Me (Bush Theatre), I Am Your Neighbour (Oval House site specific), A New Face For Fast Times (Soho Theatre), The Love Project (Arts Depot and UK Tour), Nola (Underbelly, Edinburgh), Step Live! (Royal Academy of Dance and Southwark Centre), Mr Happiness (Old Vic Tunnels) and Bud Take the Wheel (Shaw Theatre and Underbelly, Edinburgh).
Kevin Treacy | Lighting Designer
Theatre includes A Dolls House (Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith), Killology (Royal Court Theatreand Sherman Theatre, Cardiff), Bird (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, and Sherman Theatre, Cardiff), The Cherry Orchard, The Weir, The Dolls House, Romeo and Juliet (Sherman Theatre, Cardiff), Unfaithful (Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh), Blithe Spirit, Macbeth (Perth Theatre and Tron Theatre, Glasgow), Love Billy (Lyric Theatre, Belfast),