DEVIL WITH THE BLUE DRESS
Cast
HILLARY Flora Montgomery
MONICA Daniella Isaacs
LINDA Emma Handy
BETTY Dawn Hope
CHELSEA Kristy Philipps
SAXOPHONIST Tashomi Balfour
Creative Team
Writer Kevin Armento
Director Joshua McTaggart
Set & Costume Designer Basia Bikowska
Lighting Designer Jess Bernberg
Sound Designer Anna Clock
Assistant Sound Designer Claire Fuller
Production Manager Sarah Cowen
Production LX Phillip Burke
Stage Manager Maria Gurevich
Assistant Stage Manager Verity Bate
Assistant Directors Jessica Bickel-Barlow, Rebecca Vaa
Casting Director Emily Jones
Movement Director Erin Eloise
Vocal Coach Rebecca Gausnell
Photography Helen Murray
PR Chloe Nelkin Consulting
Producers The Bunker Theatre, Desara Bosnja, Seaview Productions
The world premiere of Devil With The Blue Dress was presented at The Bunker Theatre, London on 4th April 2018
Special thanks to: Arts Council England, Philip and Chris Carne, CoLab Menier Chocolate Factory, National Theatre, Almeida Theatre.
HILLARY Flora Montgomery
Theatre credits include: The Deep Blue Sea (Clive Brill Productions); Gaslight (Royal Alexandra, Toronto); Arcadia (English Touring Theatre); Doonregan (Jermyn Street Theatre); Good Grief (Theatre Royal Bath); In The Next Room (Theatre Royal Bath); The Heart of Robin Hood (RSC); The Good Soldier (Theatre Royal Bath); Uncle Vanya (Birmingham Rep); How Many Miles to Basra (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Taming of the Shrew (Bristol Old Vic); Walk Hard (Tricycle Theatre); Dinner (Wyndhams Theatre, Michael Codron Productions); A Reckoning (Soho Theatre); The Shape of Things (Gate Theatre, Dublin); Bash (Gate Theatre, Dublin); The Four Alice Bakers (Birmingham Rep); Miss Julie (Lyric Theatre, Belfast winner Best Actress Irish Times Theatre Awards); Hamlet (Norwich Playhouse); Drive On (Lyric Theatre, Belfast); Gaslight (English National Tour); Loco Country Lonesome (Irish National Tour/Olympia Theatre Dublin)
Film credits include: Mothers Milk; The Daisy Chain; Speed Dating; Anner House; Basic Instincts 2; After; Man to Man; Benedict Arnold; Goldfish Memory (Winner Best Actress Monte Carlo Film Festival); Discovery of Heaven; When Brendan Met Trudy (Winner Best Actress Las Palmas Film Festival, Shooting Star Berlin Film Festival).
TV credits include: A Very English Scandal (BBC); Grantchester (ITV); Quirke Elegy For April (BBC); Wodehouse in Exile (BBC); Endeavour (Mammoth); Father And Son (Left Bank Pictures); Midsomer Murders (Bentley Productions); Inspector Murdoch Mysteries: Under The Dragons Tale, Poor Tom is Cold, Except the Dying (Shaftesbury Films); Pulling Moves (BBC Belfast); Hans Christian Anderson (Film & General/Hallmark); Ultimate Force (Bentley Productions); Monarch Of The Glen (BBC); An Unsuitable Job For A Woman (Ecosse Films); Body Story 2: Allergy (Wall To Wall); Urban Gothic (Urban Gothic Productions); Metropolis (LWT/Granada); PoirotMurder of Roger Ackroyd (Carnival); A Certain Justice (Anglia); Heat of the Sun (Carlton); Wuthering Heights (LWT); Mosley (Channel 4); The Perfect Blue (BBC); Bugs (Carnival for BBC); The Governor (BBC Productions); The Bill (Talkback Thames).
Radio includes: Glittering Prizes, The Corrupted and regular Radio 4 dramas.
MONICA Daniella Isaacs
Theatre credits include: Hear Me Raw (Soho Theatre/Arcola Theatre/Edinburgh Fringe); Come In, Sit Down (Tricycle Theatre); Mush and Me (Bush Theatre/Adelaide Fringe Holden Street Theatres Award winner, Edinburgh Fringe Ideas Tap Underbelly Award winner); Long Story Short (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Defining Moments of Truth and Deception (Soho Theatre); Our Days of Rage (Old Vic Tunnels, National Youth Theatre); Relish (National Youth Theatre); Eye/Balls (Soho Theatre, National Youth Theatre); Eating Ice Cream on Gaza Beach (Soho Theatre, National Youth Theatre).
Film credits include: Morning After; Moving On; Fogbound.
TV credits include: Fleabag; Holby City; Superminds; Burnside; Night and Day.
Daniella is also a writer. Her debut play Hear Me Raw was shortlisted for the Mental Health Fringe Award and she has various projects in development for both stage and screen.
LINDA Emma Handy
Theatre credits include: Handbagged (Eleanor Lloyd Productions); Miss Julie (Chichester Festival); From the Mouth of Mothers (Pleasance Theatre); Thursday (ETT/Brink Productions Adelaide Festival, Australia); The Boy Who Fell Into a Book (Soho Theatre); Flare Path (Haymarket Theatre); Speechless (Shared Experience, Traverse Theatre); Edward Gants Amazing Feats of Loneliness (Headlong); Crown Matrimonial (ACT Productions); A Midsummer Nights Dream (Lisbon Opera Festival); Vincent in Brixton (Royal National Theatre/Wyndhams Theatre/Playhouse Theatre London, West End); 50 Revolutions (Trafalgar Studios); The Merchant of Venice (RSC); Bad Weather (RSC); Twelfth Night (RSC); The Wood Demon (Playhouse Theatre London, West End); Csonger es Tunde (Merlin International Theatre, Budapest).
Film credits include: Fast Girls (Damian Jones); Balham vs Clapham (Yarwood Films); Vincent in Brixton (Screenstage/BBC4 Films); Vacuums (Quincy Jones, Yes/No Productions); Iris (Fox/Miramax/Mirage/BBC); Club Le Monde (Simon Rumley Productions); Velvet Goldmine (Miramax)
Television credits include: Trust Me (RED Productions); Doctor Who (BBC); Doc Martin 7 and 8 (Buffalo Pictures for ITV); The Coroner (BBC); The Worst Witch 1 and 2 (BBC/Netflix); Threesome (Big Talk, BBC); Doctors (BBC); Holby City (ITV); Wire in the Blood 2-7 (ITV); Silent Witness (BBC); Beneath the Skin (ITV); William and Mary 2 (ITV); Hear the Silence (BBC Films); The American Embassy (HBO); See Me (Channel 4 Films); The Bill (ITV); Innocents, The Bristol Heart Babies (Channel 4 Films); Black Cab (World Productions); Pretending to Be Judith (ITV).
