Sarah Kosar - Armadillo

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Sam	Michelle Fox
John	Mark Quartley
Scotty	Nima Taleghani

Credits

Writer	Sarah Kosar
Director	Sara Joyce
Designer	Jasmine Swan
Lighting Designer	Jessica Hung Han Yun
Composer and Sound Designer	Anna Clock
Video Designer	Ash J Woodward
Movement Director	James Berkery
Casting Director	Sophie Holland CSA
Production Manager	Jack Greenyer
Stage Manager	Amber Skye Reece-Greenhalgh
Song Cover Arrangement and Performance	Rebecca Lucy Taylor

Cast from Media Recordings

Rebecca Roberts	Siobhn McSweeney
Kristy Cooper	Hannah Morrish
Bernie Jordan	David Shelley
Detective Cunningham	Cyril Nri
Cindy Jordan	Lu Corfield
Dorothy Sugar	Ann Queensberry
Beard	Scott Karim
Miss Winnie	Ashley McGuire
Jeff Bergman	Sean Hart

First produced by The Yard Theatre, 30 May 2019. The first production of Armadillo was supported by Arts Council England. Michelle Fox | SAM Theatre includes: Translations, If We Were Older (National Theatre); Medea (Bristol Old Vic), King Lear (Bristol Old Vic). Mark Quartley | JOHN Theatre includes: Maydays, The Tempest, Written on the Heart, Measure for Measure (RSC); Strife (Chichester Festival Theatre); Another Country, Macbeth (Trafalgar Studios); Ghosts (Rose Theatre); Private Peaceful (Theatre Royal Haymarket, Greenwich Theatre); The Tempest (Theatre Royal Bath); A Midsummer Nights Dream (Globe Theatre) Television and film includes: Criminal (Netflix), Shamed (Channel 4), Hoff the Record (Dave), In the Club (BBC), Cuffs (BBC), Siblings (BBC), Vera (ITV). Nima Taleghani | SCOTTY Theatre includes: The Merry Wives of Windsor, Romeo and Juliet (RSC); Laika, The Iron Man (Unicorn Theatre); Summit (Fuel Theatre); The Plough and the Stars (Abbey Theatre/US Tour); Mercury Fur (Middle Child/Hull Truck); The White Whale (Slung Low). Nima Taleghani | SCOTTY Theatre includes: The Merry Wives of Windsor, Romeo and Juliet (RSC); Laika, The Iron Man (Unicorn Theatre); Summit (Fuel Theatre); The Plough and the Stars (Abbey Theatre/US Tour); Mercury Fur (Middle Child/Hull Truck); The White Whale (Slung Low).

Television and film includes: Hatton Garden (ITV), Dublin Oldschool (Element), 90 Minutes (El Capitan), Casualty (BBC). Sarah Kosar | Writer Sarah is an internationally produced and published playwright. She was one of the Old Vic 12 in 2017/2018 and is the recipient of an Exceptional Promise in Playwriting visa. Theatre includes: Mumburger (off the WALL productions, Carnegie Stage American premiere; Old Red Lion, The Archivists Gallery London); Our Name Is Not John (Old Vic 12 2017/2018 reading, Old Vic); Hot Dog (The Last Refuge London, Thinking Cap Theatre American premiere); Spaghetti Ocean (Live Lunch reading, Royal Court); Big Body, Tiny Head (short audio play, Royal Court); Butter Brain (commission Young and Talented, Broadway Theatre/Theatre Royal Stratford East); Human Suit (First Drafts reading at The Yard, longlisted for Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting). Sarah holds an MA in Writing for Stage and Broadcast Media from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. She also has a BA in Theatre and a BA in Film from Penn State University.

She works full-time as the Director of Talent at music-tech start-up ROLI in Dalston, London. Sara Joyce | Director Sara most recently directed Dust by Milly Thomas (Soho Theatre, Trafalgar Studios); Hunch by Kate Kennedy (Assembly, Edinburgh); Best Life by Tamar Broadbent (Underbelly, Edinburgh). Other directing credits include Scar Test by Hannah Khalil (Soho Theatre); The Win Bin by Kate Kennedy, Three Short Beckett Plays by Samuel Beckett (Old Red Lion Theatre). Sara is an Associate Artist with Pan Pan Theatre Company. She was a director with Old Vic 12, Resident Director at Almeida Theatre and Resident Assistant Director at Soho Theatre. Sara was shortlisted for the KSF Emerging Artist Award, is a recipient of the Deutsche Bank Award for Creative Enterprises and received an Off West End nomination for Best Director.