Maureen Lennon - Us Against Whatever

Cast

Anna / 3 Edyta Budnik

Steph / 2 Josie Morley

MC / Sheila / Dean Windass / Nigel Farage Emma Thornett

Tara / 1 / Interviewer Severine Howell-Meri

Neil / 4 / Man / Jordan Joshua Meredith

Michal / The Doctor / 5 Adam Hadi

Creative Team

Writer Maureen Lennon

Collaborator Nastazja Somers

Director Paul Smith

Composer and Musical Director James Frewer

Designer Bethany Wells

Lighting Designer Jess Addinall

Sound Designer Ed Clarke

Projection Designer Daniel Denton

Movement Director Adam Hadi

Assistant Director and Dramaturg Matthew May

Drum Supervisor Joshua Meredith

Script Support Meg Badorek-Miszczuk

Production Team

Production Manager Emily Anderton

DSM Danielle Harris

Stage Manager, Hull Shona Wright

Stage Manager, Liverpool Helen Lainsbury

In association with Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse and Hull Truck Theatre

Developed with the support of the National Theatre, British Council and Polish Cultural Institute

Maureen Lennon (Writer)

Theatre includes: Gobble, The Washerwomens Warning (Bellow); Bare Skin On Briny Waters (Bellow, with Tabitha Mortiboy); The Cautionary Tale of Horrid Ham Carver (Bellow, with Tabitha Mortiboy); The Way Home (Paines Plough: Come To Where Im From); A Long Morning Quiet (Sheffield Theatres: 4x15).

Maureen is an associate artist of Middle Child and a Leeds Playhouse FUSE writer. In 2017 she was shortlisted for the Walter Swan Prize and Bare Skin On Briny Waters received two award commendations from the NSDF Edinburgh Award.

Nastazja Somers (Collaborator)

As theatre director: (VAULT Festival).

Originally from Poland Nastazja is a London-based theatremaker and activist. She is the founder of HerStory: Intersectional feminist festival and co-founder of DANGEROUS SPACE, an all female company. Nastazja has made work both in the UK as well as internationally. She is currently finalising her Masters in Applied Theatre at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.

Paul Smith (Director)

Paul is a founding member and the artistic director of Middle Child. For Middle Child: One Life Stand (Paines Plough Roundabout/UK Tour); All We Ever Wanted Was Everything (Bush Theatre/ Paines Plough Roundabout); I Hate Alone ; Ten Storey Love Song ; Weekend Rockstars ; Mercury Fur and Saturday Night & Sunday Morning .

Paul is an associate artist of Hull Truck Theatre, where he was assistant director on The Rise and Fall of Little Voice and A Taste of Honey . He graduated from the LAMDA Directing Course in 2011.

James Frewer (Composer and Musical Director)

For Middle Child: One Life Stand (Paines Plough Roundabout/ UK Tour); I Hate Alone ; All We Ever Wanted Was Everything (Bush Theatre/Paines Plough Roundabout); Mercury Fur ; Weekend Rockstars ; Modern Life Is Rubbish and Saturday Night & Sunday Morning.

Theatre includes:

As composer: Mixtape (Royal Exchange); The Hundred and One Dalmatians (Birmingham Rep); Twelfth Night (Orange Tree); Folk (Birmingham Rep/Watford Palace/Hull Truck Theatre); Get Carter (Northern Stage/UK Tour); Sleeping Beauty ; Cinderella ; A Taste of Honey (Hull Truck Theatre); The Thing About Psychopaths (Red Ladder Theatre/UK Tour). As musical director and performer: The Snow Queen (New Vic Theatre); Dancehall (Cast Doncaster); The Night Before Christmas (Soho Theatre); This House (National Theatre, dep performer).

As sound designer: The Season Ticket (Pilot Theatre/Northern Stage); This Land ; Red Sky at Night (Pentabus); A Further Education ; Deluge (Hampstead Theatre); Love Me Do (Watford Palace Theatre); The Ugly Sisters (Rash Dash/UK Tour). James is an associate artist of Middle Child.

Bethany Wells (Designer)

For Middle Child: All We Ever Wanted Was Everything (Bush Theatre/Paines Plough Roundabout).

Recent work includes: Legacy (York Theatre Royal); TRUST (Gate Theatre); Party Skills for the End of the World (Nigel Barrett/Louise Mari); The Department of Distractions ; The Desire Paths ; Partus (Third Angel); Cosmic Scallies (Graeae/Royal Exchange); We Were Told There Was Dancing ; The Factory (Royal Exchange Young Company); Removal Men (Yard Theatre); Dark Corners (Polar Bear); Seen and Not Heard (Complicite Creative Learning); THE FUTURE (Company 3); Late Night Love (Eggs Collective); Live Art Dining (Live Art Bistro); Race Cards (Selina Thompson); Correspondence (Old Red Lion Theatre); My Eyes Went Dark (Finborough Theatre); WINK (Theatre 503).

Bethany is an associate artist of Middle Child.

Jess Addinall (Lighting Designer)

Theatre includes: Ugly Duckling (The Herd); The Ballad of Paragon Station (Hester Ullyart); Beach Body Ready (The Roaring Girls); Macbeth (RSC Schools); 60 Seconds (in association with The Roaring Girls) and The Children (Hull Truck Youth Theatre).

Jess is the associate lighting designer for The Roaring Girls and is a technician at Hull Truck Theatre.

Ed Clarke (Sound Designer)

For Middle Child: All We Ever Wanted Was Everything (Bush Theatre/Paines Plough Roundabout); One Life Stand (Paines Plough Roundabout/UK Tour).

Theatre includes: Leave Taking ; The Royale ; The Invisible ; Perseverance Drive ; Fear (Bush Theatre); A Super Happy Story (About Feeling Super Sad) (Silent Uproar); A Christmas Carol ; A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian (Hull Truck Theatre); Showboat (New London Theatre); The Infidel (Theatre Royal Stratford East); Orpheus (Little Bulb Theatre at BAC/ worldwide); Baddies (Unicorn Theatre); The Realness ; Politrix ; Phoenix ; KnifeEdge and Babylon (The Big House); Beauty and the Beast (Young Vic/worldwide); Danny Boyles Frankenstein (National Theatre); Backbeat (Duke of Yorks Theatre); The Mysteries and The Good Hope (National Theatre); The Railway Children (Waterloo International Station/Roundhouse Theatre Toronto); Fatal Attraction (Theatre Royal Haymarket); His Teeth (Only Connect Theatre); Baby Doll (Albery Theatre); Alex (Arts Theatre/UK and International tour) and Old Times, A Dolls House (Donmar Warehouse).

Ed was nominated for the Olivier Award for Danny Boyles Frankenstein in 2012. He is an associate artist of Middle Child.

Daniel Denton (Projection Designer)

Design credits include: The Little Prince (Protein Dance); Sundowing (Kali Theatre Company); James Grahams: Sketching (Wilstons Music Hall); On Rafterys Hill (Abbey Theatre); Misty (Bush Theatre/Trafalgar Studios); As You Like It (Theatre by the Lake); Flashdance: The Musical (UK/ International Tour); To Love Somebody Melancholy (UK Tour); Ready Or Not (Arcola Theatre/UK Tour); Peter Pan (Exeter Northcott Theatre); Bumblescratch (Adelphi Theatre); Biedermann and the Arsonists (Sadlers Wells).

Daniel is an associate of video design collective Mesmer.

Adam Hadi (Cast and Movement Director)

Adam has five years of acting experience with Pijana Sypialnia Theatre, Warsaw and is soon to graduate from the Faculty of Acting of the Warsaw Film School.

Matthew May (Assistant Director and Dramaturg)

For Middle Child as an actor:

As an actor: Ten Storey Love Song ; Saturday Night & Sunday Morning and Modern Life Is Rubbish.

Theatre includes: Pig (Silent Uproar).

Matthew is a founding member of Middle Child.