Beneatha's Place cast sheet

BENEATHA’S PLACE
WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY
KWAME KWEI-ARMAH
CAST
Daniel Barnes / Professor Mark Bond Sebastian Armesto
Professor Shirley Jones / Aunty Fola Jumoké Fashola
Mr Nelson / Professor Gary Jacobs Tom Godwin
Mrs Nelson / Dr Harriet Banks Nia Gwynne
Joseph Asagai / Wale Oguns Zackary Momoh
Beneatha Cherrelle Skeete

CREATIVE TEAM
Writer and Director
Kwame Kwei-Armah
Designer
Debbie Duru
Lighting Designer
Mark Henderson
Sound Designer
Tony Gayle
Movement Director
Shelley Maxwell
Voice and Dialect Coach
Esi Acquaah-Harrison
Casting Director
Heather Basten CDG
Senior Casting Assistant
Fran Cattaneo
Casting Assistant
Iman Wilson
Jerwood Assistant Director
Ellis
Jerwood Trainee
Assistant Director
Tia-zakura Camilleri
Production Therapist
Rukiya Jemmott
Cultural Consultant
Professor Nicola Rollock
Company Stage Manager
Annette Waldie
Deputy Stage Manager
Aimee Woods
Assistant Stage Manager
Tayla Hunter
Production Manager
Craig Tye
Deputy Production Manager
Mengfei Liu
Props Designer and Maker
Jasmine Araujo
Illustrator
Israel Kujore
Lighting Programmer
Sam Ohlsson
Lighting Operator
Luke Jackson
Production Sound Engineers
Marcus Christensen
Ed Ferguson
Sound Number 1
Marie Zschommler
Stage Crew
Anna Eagle
Emma Horne
Technical Assistant
Stage Manager
Katherine Wallace
Costume Supervisor
Olivia Ward
Assistant Costume Supervisor
Ellen Rey De Castro
Costume Consultant
Damilaara Adeyemi
Wigs Supervisor
Suzanne Scotcher
Wigs Consultant / Loctician
for Zachary Momoh
Morris Aberdeen
Wardrobe Manager
Damilaara Adeyemi
Costume Maker
Mario Thompson
Production Carpenter
Rob Pearce
Set build and scenic art by
Centreline Fabrications
Additional scenic art by
Grit Eckert
Seda Sockmen
Lighting equipment supplied by
Robe Lighting
Sound equipment supplied by
Orbital Sound
Communications equipment
supplied by
Creative Technologies
Beneatha’s Place is generously supported by The Charlotte Aitken Trust
Special thanks to: Isabella Odoffin, Craig Tye, Fiona Kennedy, Simon Slater, Kristen Gilmore, SJ Roberts and Kemi Telford.
Cover image: Photography by Ian Hippolyte. Design by Émilie Chen.
Programme: Design by Eureka! Edited by Emma Gosden with Florence Bell and Aimee Dickinson
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THE CAST
SEBASTIAN ARMESTO
DANIEL BARNES/
PROF MARK BOND
Theatre includes:
Leopoldstadt (Wyndham’s
Theatre/Princess of Wales
Theatre, Toronto); Rocket to
the Moon, A Woman Killed With Kindness, Damned
by Despair (National Theatre); Anjin: The English
Samurai (Thelma Holt/HoriPro Japan); Wallenstein,
King Lear (Chichester Festival Theatre); Alaska
(Royal Court); Bedside Manners/Shock!/Taking
Steps (Frinton and Sheringham Summer Theatres);
The Taming of the Shrew (Cliveden Festival).
Television includes: A Small Light (Disney +);
The Terror (AMC); Cursed (Netflix); Gold Digger,
New Blood, Silent Witness, Poldark, Parade’s End,
Little Dorrit, Zen: Ratking, The Rise and Fall of
Rome, The Impressionists, The Virgin Queen,
Dr Who, Hawking, Murder, The Tudors (BBC);
Harlots (Hulu); Broadchurch III, The Palace,
The Bill, The Famous Five (ITV); Apple Tree Yard
(Kudos); Toast of London (Objective Productions);
Close to the Enemy (Little Island Productions);
Coalition (Channel 4).
Films include: Star Wars: The Force Awakens;
The Mercy; Tulip Fever; Far From the Tree; Pirates
of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides; Anonymous;
Dead Cat; Bright Star; Blood Monkey; We Call
Her Daisy; Losers Anonymous; My Last Summer;
Marie Antoinette; Dear Steven Spielberg; A Feast
at Midnight.
JUMOKÉ FASHOLA
PROF SHIRLEY JONES/
AUNTY FOLA
Jumoké Fashola is an awardwinning
broadcaster, actor
and jazz singer who can
currently be heard at the
helm of J to Z, BBC Radio 3’s premier jazz show;
and who also presents for BBC Radio London on
their Friday afternoon and Sunday breakfast shows.
Theatre includes: The High Table (Bush Theatre);
for all the women who thought they were Mad
(Hackney Showroom); The Secret Lives of Baba
Segi’s Wives (Arcola Theatre); CAP – A Medicinal
Love Story (Royal Court); Our Husband Has Gone
Mad Again, Trials of Brother Jero (Unilag); House
of Corrections (Riverside Studios); Lost in the Stars
(Queen Elizabeth Hall).
Music and musicals include: Dionne Warwick
and Friends (Royal Albert Hall); A Celebration of
Gershwin (Wembley); Handel’s Messiah (London
Arena); Requiem for the Earth, Beethoven’s Ninth,
Bernstein’s Mass (Royal Festival Hall); We Turned
on the Light (BBC Proms, Royal Albert Hall);
Snapshots (Hayward Gallery); The Lady: Sandy
Denny Tribute (Queen Elizabeth Hall); Excite!
(London Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Festival
Hall); A Taste of Africa (BBC Symphony Orchestra);
Song for a Phoenix (London Olympics).
Solo shows include: Dirty Little Secrets (St James
Theatre / Bush Theatre); Jazz Verse Jukebox
(Ronnie Scott’s / QEH /Hoxton Hall).
Television includes: Riches (ITV/Amazon); Big Age,
War Oratorio (Channel 4); Ama’s Story (Sky Kids);
Jazz Voice, Summer Holiday, Holiday Programme,
Summer Praise (BBC); Mimi’s World (Channel 5);
Hard Cell (Netflix); The Mirror in the Sun (NTA).
Radio / audio includes: Bess Loves Porgy (BBC
Radio 3 & 4); Oliver (BBC Radio 4); J to Z, The
Essay – Nina Simone (BBC Radio 3) Sunday
Breakfast: Inspirit, Jumoké Fashola Show (BBC
Radio London); Everywoman, Heart and Soul,
Aretha Franklin: Queen of Soul (BBC World
Service); Good Morning Sunday (BBC Radio 2);
The Ronnie Scott’s Radio Show (Jazz FM).
Solo album: The Condition of Being a Woman.
TOM GODWIN
MR NELSON/
PROF GARY JACOBS
Previous Young Vic: Best of
Enemies, Bingo.
Theatre includes: Best of
Enemies (Noel Coward Theatre); Tina: The Tina
Turner Musical (Aldwych Theatre); Woman in
Black (Fortune Theatre); Earthquakes in London
(National Theatre); ENRON (Noel Coward
Theatre); City of Glass (Lyric Hammersmith/59
Productions); Macbeth (Park Avenue Armory,
NYC); To Kill a Mockingbird (Regent’s Park
Open Air Theatre); The Taming of the Shrew
(Shakespeare’s Globe); The Crash of the Elysium
(Punchdrunk/MIF); Get Santa! (Royal Court);
Henceforward, Arsenic and Old Lace (Derby
Playhouse); Elizabeth Rex (Birmingham Rep);
The Little Mermaid (Bristol Old Vic); Cinderella
(St. James Theatre); Professor Bernhardi, Victory
(Arcola); Secret Heart, Volpone (Royal Exchange
Manchester); Skylight (Vaudeville Theatre).
Television includes: Doc Martin, The English,
Discovery of Witches, The Irregulars, Hendrix
& Handel, Joe All Alone, Coronation Street,
Knightfall, My Mad Fat Diary, Quacks,
EastEnders, Grease Monkeys, My Dad’s the
Prime Minister, The Hollow Crown: Henry VI,
Taboo, Family Tree, Psychoville.
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Film includes: Napoleon, Knockers, Alice
Through the Looking Glass, The Danish Girl,
The Last Dragonslayer, About Time.
NIA GWYNNE
MRS NELSON/DR
HARRIET BANKS
Theatre includes: Timon
of Athens, King Lear,
Titus Andronicus, Henry
IV Part I, Henry IV Part
2, The Orphan of Zhao, Boris Gudunov, The Life
of Galileo (RSC); Peter Pan (Birmingham Rep);
Coriolan/us, The Dark Philosophers (National
Theatre Wales); Clytemnestra, The Almond and
the Seahorse (Sherman Cymru); The Daughter in
Law, Dangerous Corner, Love Me Slender, Top
Girls (New Vic); Look Back in Anger (Northern
Stage); Lie of the Land (Edinburgh Festival);
Absurd Person Singular (Bolton Octagon);
Mirandolina (Royal Exchange Manchester); To Kill
a Mockingbird, The Invention of Love (Salisbury
Playhouse); Ghost City (Sgript Cymru); Who
Goes There? (dreamthinkspeak); Dogmouth (The
Evidence Room USA).
ZACKARY MOMOH
JOSEPH ASAGAI/
WALE OGUNS
Theatre includes: To Kill
a Mockingbird (Regent’s
Park Open Air Theatre);
From Morning to Midnight,
Othello (National Theatre).
Television includes: Parish (AMC), The Nevers
(HBO); Seven Seconds (Netflix); No Offence
(CH4/Disney+); Camping (Sky).
Film includes: Doctor Sleep (Warner Bros.),
Harriet (Universal), The Kill Team (A24).
CHERRELLE SKEETE
BENEATHA
Cherrelle Skeete is an
actress, writer, cultural
producer and co-founder of
Blacktress UK. In summer
2020, she received her first
writing commission from We Burn Bright as part
of the Better in Person Festival and is now writing
her debut play with the Soho Writers Lab.
Previous Young Vic: Fun Home.
Theatre as director includes: Michael X (Almeida).
Theatre as actor includes: The Fellowship, The
Phlebotomist (Hampstead Theatre); The 47th
(Old Vic); Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
(West End); The Seagull (Lyric Hammersmith);
King Hedley II (Theatre Royal Stratford East;
Black British Theatre Award for Best Supporting
Actress); The High Table (Bush Theatre); Three
Days in the Country, Amen Corner (National
Theatre).
Television includes: Black Cake (Hulu); Hanna
(Amazon); The Midwich Cuckoos (Sky).
Television includes: Y Sŵn (Swnll); The Long
Call, The Bill, Emmerdale (ITV); The Sandman
(Netflix); The Dumping Ground, The Snow
Spider, Shakespeare & Hathaway, The Syndicate,
Casualty, EastEnders, Stick or Twist, Zip and
Hollow, Belonging, Gwaith Cartref (BBC);
Temple (Sky).
Film includes: Tolkien (Fox Searchlight); Darkest
Hour (Working Title); Pride (Proud Films);
Shadow Dancer (Element Pictures); Resistance
(Rich Films) and The Organ Grinder’s Monkey
(Film4 and Warp Films).
‘I UNDERSTAND INHERITANCE...
THE COST OF IT ON YOUR SOUL
AND THE THINGS YOU DO TO
RID YOURSELF OF IT.’
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CREATIVE TEAM
KWAME KWEI-ARMAH
WRITER AND DIRECTOR
Kwame Kwei-Armah is Artistic Director of the
Young Vic theatre.
His work as a director includes: Twelfth Night, Tree,
Changing Destiny and The Collaboration (Young
Vic); The Collaboration (Broadway, Manhattan
Theatre Club); Jazz, Marley, Amadeus, Dance of
the Holy Ghosts, The Mountaintop, An Enemy of
the People, The Whipping Man and Things of Dry
Hours (Baltimore Center Stage); The Comedy of
Errors, Much Ado About Nothing, Detroit ’67 (Public
Theatre, New York); The Liquid Plain (Signature
Theatre, New York and Oregon Shakespeare
Festival); Porgy and Bess (Baltimore Symphony
Orchestra); the 2016 Olivier-nominated Best New
Play One Night in Miami (Donmar Warehouse).
As a playwright: A Bitter Herb, Blues Brothers, Soul
Sister (Bristol Old Vic); Elmina’s Kitchen, Fix Up,
Statement of Regret (National Theatre); Elmina’s
Kitchen (West End); Let There Be Love, Seize The
Day (Tricycle Theatre); Beneatha’s Place (Baltimore
Center Stage); One Love: Bob Marley Musical
(Baltimore Center Stage, Birmingham Rep).
Film work includes: Breaking (2022), starring
John Boyega.
TV includes: Walter’s War (2008, BBC).
DEBBIE DURU
DESIGNER
Debbie Duru is a designer for performance spaces.
Previous Young Vic: Mandela (as associate set
designer).
Theatre as set and costume designer includes: Run
Rebel (Pilot Theatre/Mercury Theatre); Ravenscourt
(Hampstead Theatre); The White Card (Northern
Stage); Two Billion Beats (Orange Tree Theatre);
The Song Project (Royal Court); ...cake (Theatre
Peckham); Dagny Wants to Dance (Bureau of Silly
Ideas); Josephine (Theatre Royal Bath).
Theatre as costume designer includes: Romeo and
Juliet (Almeida); Alice in Wonderland (Brixton
House; Offie nomination for costume design).
Theatre as associate set designer includes:
Get Up Stand Up! The Bob Marley Musical (Lyric
Theatre); Dick Whittington (National Theatre).
MARK HENDERSON
LIGHTING DESIGNER
Mark Henderson is a lighting designer with over
40 years’ experience and has designed extensively
for all the major theatre, dance and opera
companies in the UK and has lit over 70 West End
and over 25 Broadway productions.
Theatre includes: Standing at the Sky’s Edge,
Dancing at Lughnasa (both also Sheffield
Theatres), Paradise (National Theatre); The
Boy in the Dress (RSC); The Bodyguard, Girl
from the North Country (UK and international
tours); Oklahoma (Chichester Festival Theatre);
Sweet Charity (Donmar Warehouse); Light in
the Piazza (Royal Festival Hall); Into the Woods
(Theatre Royal, Bath); Newsies (Troubadour,
Wembley Park Theatre).
Opera includes: designs for English National
Opera, The Royal Opera, Welsh National Opera,
Opera North and Glyndebourne.
Dance includes: designs for English National
Ballet, London Contemporary Dance Theatre,
The Royal Ballet, Scottish Ballet, Northern
Ballet, Sadler’s Wells, Royal Ballet and Rambert.
Other performance includes: Kate Bush Live:
Before the Dawn.
Awards: Mark Henderson was the recipient of
the 1992, 1995, 2000, 2002, 2010 and 2016
Laurence Olivier Award for Lighting Design;
a 2006 Tony Award for The History Boys on
Broadway; the 2013 WhatsOnStage lighting design
award for Sweeney Todd; and a Welsh BAFTA in
2000 for his work on the televised opening of the
Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff.
TONY GAYLE
SOUND DESIGNER
Theatre includes: Sylvia, The 47th (Old Vic);
School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls
Play, Running with Lions (with Talawa) (Lyric
Hammersmith); Disney’s AIDA (in Holland);
Newsies (Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre);
My Neighbour Totoro (RSC at the Barbican);
Kinky Boots (New Wolsey); Playboy of the West
Indies (Birmingham Rep); Legally Blonde (Regent’s
Park Open Air Theatre); Spring Awakening, And
Breathe… (Almeida); Get Up Stand Up! The Bob
Marley Musical (Lyric Theatre); A Place For
We (Talawa/Park Theatre ); The Wiz (Hope Mill
Theatre); Blue/Orange (Theatre Royal Bath); Gin
Craze! (Royal & Derngate); The Living Newspaper,
Shoe Lady, Poet in Da Corner (also UK tour)
(Royal Court); Beautiful – The Carole King
Musical, Salad Days, American Idiot (all on UK
tour); Songs for Nobodies (also West End), Floyd
Collins (Wilton’s Music Hall); The Wild Party
(The Other Palace); Lazarus (King’s Cross).
Awards: 2023 Olivier Award for Best Sound
Design and 23rd Annual WhatsOnStage Award
for Best Sound (My Neighbour Totoro); Black
British Theatre Awards (BBTA) Light & Sound
Recognition Award 2019 and 2021.
Tony Gayle is a trustee of Wise Children,
co-director of Stage Sight and founder of
The Audio Cartel.
tonygayle.co.uk
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SHELLEY MAXWELL
MOVEMENT DIRECTOR
Previous Young Vic includes: Best of Enemies
(also West End), Winter, Why It’s Kicking off
Everywhere, Cuttin’ It (also Royal Court).
Theatre includes: August in England (Bush
Theatre); The Secret Life of Bees (Almeida);
Best of Enemies (Noël Coward Theatre); Tartuffe
(Birmingham Rep); The Time Traveller’s Wife:
The Musical (Storyhouse); Get Up Stand Up!
The Bob Marley Musical (Lyric Theatre); J’Ouvert
(Theatre503 and Harold Pinter Theatre); After
Life, Master Harold...and the Boys, Hansard,
Antony and Cleopatra, Twelfth Night (National
Theatre); Nine Night (National Theatre & Trafalgar
Studios); Equus (Theatre Royal Stratford East
& Trafalgar Studios); Tartuffe (RSC); Macbeth
(Shakespeare’s Globe); Faustus: That Damned
Woman (Headlong at Lyric Hammersmith and
Birmingham Repertory Theatre); Cinderella (Lyric);
Grey (Oval House); King Hedley II (Theatre
Royal Stratford East); Cougar, Dealing with Clair
(Orange Tree); A Streetcar Named Desire (Nuffield
Southampton/Clwyd Theatr Cymru/ETT); Rules for
Living (Royal & Derngate/Rose Kingston/ETT);
Apologia (English Theatre Frankfurt).
Television/film includes: Anansi Boys (Amazon);
Ear for Eye (BBC/Fruit Tree Media); Romeo
& Juliet (Sky Arts/PBS/National Theatre).
Awards: Best Choreographer at the inaugural
Black British Theatre Awards in 2019 for her
work on Equus.
ESI ACQUAAH-HARRISON
VOICE AND DIALECT COACH
Esi Acquaah-Harrison is a singer, voice and dialect
coach. She trained at Royal Central School of
Speech and Drama, where she achieved a MA in
Voice Studies.
Theatre as a voice and dialect coach includes:
The House of Shades (Almeida); Morinho
(Theatre503); Days of Significance (Arts
Ed); High Table, Lava (Bush Theatre); Punk
Rock (Theatre Royal Stratford East); Start
(Mountview); Desert Boy, Love and Money
(LAMDA); Pigeon English (Bristol School of
Acting); Stop Kiss (RADA); The Importance
of Being Earnest (ETT); Nine Night (Leeds
Playhouse); All Roads (Attic).
As a stage performer work includes: Totem from
2010-2019 as lead female singer and original cast
member (Cirque du Soleil); Disney’s The Legend
of the Lion King (Disneyland Resort, Paris).
Other singing and stage work includes: Luther
Vandross, classical singer Jessye Norman, Michael
Ball, Mariah Carey, Sir Tom Jones, member of
London Community Gospel Choir, Derren Brown
– SHOWMAN (West End).
Television includes: Sex Education (Netflix).
HEATHER BASTEN CDG
CASTING DIRECTOR
Heather Basten is an English casting director based
in London.
Theatre includes: Red Pitch (Bush Theatre);
God of Carnage (Lyric Hammersmith); Every
Leaf A Hallelujah (Regent’s Park Open Air).
Film and television include: Dreaming Whilst Black
(A24/BBC, to air later in 2023); Speak No Evil
(Universal Pictures / Blumhouse); Hoard (BBC
Film); Jungle (Amazon Studios).
Awards and recognition include: a Screen
International ‘Star of Tomorrow’; BAFTA
Breakthrough Artist; CDG Award Winner;
CSA Artios nominee.
ELLIS
JERWOOD ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
Ellis is a theatre maker and a filmmaker of Bajan
and Irish heritage from South East London. His
work explores Black working-class stories using
movement and music. He has worked across
multiple roles in theatre including facilitating,
writing and producing as a freelance director
working with many theatres including The Young
Vic, Almeida and Lyric Hammersmith.
As an assistant director work includes: The UK
Drill Project (Highrise Theatre at the Barbican).
As writer and director: an adaptation of Henrik
Ibsen’s The Master Builder (Evolution Festival
at the Lyric Hammersmith; No Dogs, No Blacks,
No Irish (Wooden Arrow Theatre).
Films include: cinematographer/co-director on
Deshi Girl (international tour/UK Asian Film
Festival 2023 at BFI Southbank); assistant
director for Blackness on Display – Monuments and
Museums (a documentary due for release in late
2023); new short film in development.
Curation/talks include: assistant curator for
the V&A Theatre & Performance department;
co-curator and talk for the V&A Theatre and
Performance festival (April 2023).
TIA-ZAKURA CAMILLERI
JERWOOD TRAINEE ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
Tia-zakura Camilleri is a storyteller, poet and
aspiring theatre director exploring intersectionality
and cultural politics through different art forms.
Recent work includes: assistant director on R&D
for The House of Jollof Opera, co-facilitating lyricwriting
workshops for young people as part of a
creative associateship with Fio.
Work in journalism includes: Welsh Agenda; ITV;
Xcellence Magazine; Unloc’d, her forthcoming
documentary on afro hair explored through
interviews, poetry and dance.
Tia-zakura Camilleri is a member of the Wales
Millennium Centre Youth Advisory Board and
National Lottery Youth Voice Team where she
focuses on improving accessibility for young people.
She plans to write and direct a spoken word-led
play that represents her community.
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RUKIYA JEMMOTT
PRODUCTION THERAPIST
Rukiya Jemmott is a London-born Black British
Caribbean cis-gendered woman and a systemic
psychotherapist. She has over 30 years’ experience
of working therapeutically with individuals, couples,
and families. She has a private practice called
Conversations In Colour where she provides a
reliable, boundaried space in which to explore
the difficulties which may arise in the course of
everyday lives and in family and work relationships.
Rukiya Jemmott works with theatres across the
UK, offering support and exploration to all staff
and creatives, cast members, front of house
staff, members of the stage management team,
executive directors and directors.
conversationsincolour.org.uk
PROFESSOR NICOLA ROLLOCK
CULTURAL CONSULTANT
Nicola Rollock is Professor of Social Policy and
Race at King’s College London and Director of
NIANRO Consulting which carries out research
aimed at improving racial justice. She is interested
in how we understand racism as a basis for
advancing meaningful change. She was previously
Specialist Advisor to the Home Affairs Select
Committee’s Macpherson Report: 22 Years On;
Senior Advisor to the University of Cambridge and
a member of Wellcome Trust’s Equality, Diversity
& Inclusion Steering Group. She is widely known
for her research which examines, for the first time
in the UK, the career experiences of Black female
Professors and the exhibition that led from this:
Phenomenal Women. She is featured as one of 50
WeAreTheCity HSBC-sponsored trailblazers for
championing gender equity and was selected in
2021 by apolitico as one of 100 most influential
academics in politics. In 2020, Times Higher
Education identified her as one of eleven scholars
globally to have influenced the debate in higher
education. Her book The Racial Code: tales of
resistance and survival was published by Penguin
Press in 2022.
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THE YOUNG VIC
OUR SHOWS
We produce new plays, classics, musicals, adaptations
of books, short films, digital projects and game
changing forms of theatre. We tour and co-produce
within the UK and internationally.
OUR ARTISTS
We foster emerging talent and collaborate with some
of the world’s finest directors, performers and
creatives, creating productions that say much about
the world we live in.
OUR AUDIENCES
We attract large audiences from many different
backgrounds and forge deep connections in our
neighbourhood, where we provide extensive free
activities. For many years, the Young Vic has been
synonymous with inclusivity, accessibility and creativity.
We keep our prices low and give 10% of our tickets
to young people, schools and neighbours irrespective
of box office demand.
OUR PARTNERS NEAR AT HAND
Each year we engage with over 15,000 local people –
individuals and groups of all kinds including schools and
colleges – by exploring theatre on and off stage. From
time to time we invite our neighbours to appear on our
stage alongside professionals.
OUR PARTNERS FURTHER AWAY
By co-producing with leading theatre, opera, dance, film
and TV companies from London and around the world,
we create shows neither partner could achieve alone.
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extraordinary record of nurturing talent’
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THE YOUNG VIC COMPANY
Artistic Director
Kwame Kwei-Armah
Executive Director
Lucy Davies
Associate Artistic
Director
Sue Emmas
Head of Artistic
Development
Teunkie van der Sluijs
Literary and
Dramaturgy Associate
Olivia Poglio-Nwabali
Young Associate –
Artistic Development
Luna Sigle
Head of Producing
Nisha Modhwadia
Associate Producer
Holly Aston
Producer
Christabel Holmes
Assistant Producer
(Maternity Leave)
Lucy Steward
Assistant Producer
(Maternity Cover)
Myles Sinclair
Creators Program
Producer
Sandra Thompson-
Quartey
Creators Program
Administrator
Khánh Ha Nguyên
Executive Assistant
Amy Cranston
Channel 4 playwright
Lulu Raczka
Young Vic Artistic
Associates
Glenn Davis
Alfred Enoch
Anna Fleischle
Marcus Gardley
Kate Hewitt
Afua Hirsch
Kirsty Housley
Alex Basco Koch
Doña Kroll
Gregory Maqoma
Prema Mehta
Duncan McLean
Chinonyerem Odimba
Wendell Pierce
Caitriona Shoobridge
Charles Randolph-
Wright
Charlotte Sutton
XANA
Development
Development Director
Pippa Moore
Senior Development
Manager
Ama Ofori-Darko
Development
Co-ordinator
Emily Hamilton
Finance
Finance Director
Cath Longman-Jones
Finance Manager
(Maternity Leave)
Janine Carter
Finance Manager
(Maternity Cover)
Orla Sanders
Finance Assistant
Amy Morbin
Marketing &
Audiences
Director of Marketing
and Audiences
Beatrice Burrows
Head of Press and
Communications
Su-Ann Chow-
Seegoolam
Senior Marketing
Manager
Steph Cullen
Senior Ticketing and
Sales Manager
Zoe Fitzpatrick
Social Media and
Digital Content
Manager
Florence Bell
Press Officer
Karl-Lydie Jean-
Baptiste
Digital Marketing and
Campaigns Officer
Aimee Dickinson
Operations
Operations Director
Rathi Kumar
Head of Systems and
Technology
Fi Joseph
Digital Systems Analyst
Damilola Senbanjo
Head of People
Maria Khan
Administrator
Sophie Byatt
Head of Theatre
Operations
Bryan Lewis
Facilities Assistant
Chiara Ciabattoni
Front of House and
Welcome Team
Manager
Ryan Mellish
Assistant Front of
House Manager
Eleanor Kumar
Assistant Welcome
Team Manager
Max Puplett
Ushers
Aisha Edwards
Albert Graver
Andre Da Silva-
Jenkins
Anna-May Wood
Ayisha Mi
Benjamin Clarke
Cassiopeia Berkeley-
Agyepong
Charlie Cuscito
Charlotte Micalef
Chenta Mariqueo
Ciaran Cross
Daniella Randall
Debbie Burningham
Dynzell Muguti
Eboni Dixon
Ellis Jupiter
Grace Kayibanda
Gracjana Rejmer-
Canovas
Grainne PC
Hana Jennings
Isaac Vincent
Jade Causton
Jida Akil
Joanna Selcott
Josh Hitchman-
Pinnock
Joyce Clark
Julie Patten
Kitti Wells
Lethaniel Stacey-
Coombe
Liam Thorley
Linden Sloan
Luke Garner-Greene
Lynn Knight
Malika Sandover
Matheus Vianna
Maurice Chung
Max Pawley
Melina Barnett
Michael Asiamah
Millie Whittam
Molly-Rose Curran
Oliver Byng
Owen Haslegrave
Paula Shaw
Sahana Rackal
Sharitah Boulton
Simone Bell
Starr Ballard
Tanjiana Bryan-Hesse
Taz Munyaneza
Tom Sparkes
Duty Managers
Lauren Holden
Sebastian Houillon
Production
Technical Director
Craig Tye
Head of Sound
Kyle MacPherson
Head of Stage
Rhodri Evans
Head of Costume
(Maternity Leave)
Sarah Hamza
Head of Costume
(Maternity Cover)
Olivia Ward
Head of Lighting
Faye Hetherington
Deputy Head of Sound
Neil McKeown
Deputy Head of Stage
Aaron Storey
Deputy Head of
Costume
Aimee Russam
Workshop Manager
Rachel MacLoughlin
Lighting Technician
Luke Jackson
Stage Technician
Emma Horne
Production
Administrator
Mengfei Liu
Young Associate –
Production
Audrey Owusu-
Frempong
Taking Part
Director of Taking Part
Shereen Jasmin
Phillips
Neighbourhood Theatre
Producer
Alisha Artry
Participation Producer
Aaliyah Antoine
Learning Producer
Melanie Anouf
Taking Part
Administrator
Michelle Cullimore
Young Associates
– Taking Part and
Creators Program
Alicia Pope
Elina Oliva Romo
Welcome Team
Edward Jones
Emily McCredie
Gracjana Rejmer-
Canovas
Joel Oladapo
Julie Patten
Kathy Bolt
Lethaniel Stacey-
Coombe
Mairin Schmidt
Sarah Baiden
Tia Harding
Tia Wingate
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challenging and inspiring work on our stages and with our local communities. Be right at the heart of it all.
Join us at the box office today or email the Development Team at development@youngvic.org
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