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Dear Elizabeth

“I hope you aren’t thinking that I am a) dead b) annoyed. I’m neither, but I did have flu.”

Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell were two of America’s most brilliant poets. Throughout their lifetime, they wrote over 400 letters to each other; spanning decades, continents, political eras. Their connection was messy and profound, platonic yet romantic, intense and intangible. A love that resists easy definition.

These are their words.

Susan Smith Blackburn award winner Sarah Ruhl has crafted a stunning and quietly bold piece of theatre about what it means to love someone, and all the questions we regret never asking.

CAST

We’re excited to announce that two different performers will take the roles of Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell for each performance. They will meet each other, the audience, and the story of Robert and Elizabeth at the same time. They won't know how the story ends: they will discover it with the audience.
The performers include:

Keep checking our website for updates on who will be performing and when.

17 January - Thalissa Teixeira & Sam Spruell
18 January - Shalisha James-Davis & Emun Elliott
19 January - Lucy McCormick & Annabel Baldwin
21 January - Caoilfhionn Dunne & Joseph Akubeze
22 January - Jade Anouka & Jonjo O'Neill
23 January - Nina Bowers & Phoebe Fox
24 January - Tamsin Greig & Angus Wright
25 January - Travis Alabanza & Charlotte Josephine
26 January matinee - Amelia Stubberfield & Angela Clerkin
26 January evening -  Christopher Green & Chris Brett Bailey
28 January - Temi- Wilkey & Seiriol Davies
29 January - Emma Dennis Edwards & Elizabeth Chan
30 January matinee - Jo Clifford & Paul Bazely
30 January evening - Linda Broughton & Jon Foster
31 January - Kwame Owusu & Frankie Henry
1 Februrary – Samuel West & Jo Horton
2 February matinee - Emma Frankland & Neil D'Souza
2 February evening - Tim Crouch & Nadia Albina
4 February - Lois Chimimba & Sule Rimi
5 February  - Sue MacLaine & Paul Ready
6 February matinee - Lucy Bairstow & Gabby Wong
6 February evening – Shane Zaza & Amanda Hale
7 February - Chris Thorpe & Kayla Meikle
8 February - Lucy Ellinson & Leo Bill
9 February matinee - Isabel Adomakoh Young & Helena Lymbery
9 February evening - Dickie Beau & Hattie Morahan

Running Time: Approx. 1 hour 40 minutes.

★★ ★★ ★★ EXTRA DATES ADDED DUE TO POPULAR DEMAND ★★ ★★ ★★

11 February evening -  Anjana Vasan & Tobias Menzies
12 February evening – Luke Norris & Eileen Walsh
13 February matinee – Kwong Loke & Annie Siddons
13  February evening – Michael Shaeffer & Martina Laird
14 February evening –Susan Wokoma & Hammed Animashaun

THERE IS STRICTLY NO LATECOMERS FOR THIS PERFORMANCE.

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Start:
7:30pm Monday  - Saturday

Matinee:
3:00pm Saturdays and Tuesdays

 

Press Night: 22 January
Young People’s Night: 25 January
Supporters Night: 31 January
Caption Night: 5 February

Cast & CREATIVES

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Isabel adomakoh young
Isabel Adomakoh Young
Isabel is an actor and writer. After studying English at Cambridge, she trained with NYT Rep, then joined the Royal Shakespeare Company for their 2019 Swan Season. Her co-creations include the binary-bending Pecs Drag Kings company, award-winning Brainchild Festival and the ‘Lionboy’ book trilogy, published in 36 languages and adapted by Complicité. Had 2020 gone to plan, she’d have toured in musical Milky Peaks and played lead in a London Shakespeare production.  Theatre includes: Venice Preserved and The Provoked Wife (RSC Swan Theatre); Meatballs (Hampstead Theatre); Dear Elizabeth (Gate Theatre); To Kill A Mockingbird (Lyric Hammersmith); Macbeth (Garrick); Victoria’s Knickers, Consensual, Pecs Drag Kings: The 80s Show (Soho Theatre); Bite Your Tongue (Hackney Showroom); The Peasant’s Soul (reading- Shakespeare’s Globe); Brood (Arcola)
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Chris Thorpe
Chris Thorpe
Chris was a founder member of Unlimited Theatre and still works and tours with the company. He is also an Artistic Associate of live art/theatre company Third Angel. He has worked with, among others, Forest Fringe, Slung Low, Chris Goode, RashDash, Belarus Free Theatre and Portuguese experimental company mala voadora - his fourth piece for the company, Your Best Guess opened at Lisbon's Almada festival in 2015. He also plays guitar in Lucy Ellinson's political noise project #TORYCORE and works with the National Student Drama Festival.
 
Chris is an Associate at the Royal Exchange, Manchester. His play for the Exchange, There Has Possibly Been An Incident was selected by Simon Stephens for the Stuckemarkt in Berlin, 2014.  It has been produced in Denmark and Sweden, on German radio, and is about to open in Saarbrucken and Vienna.
 
He has an ongoing collaboration with director Rachel Chavkin from New York's TEAM. Their first piece Confirmation, is currently touring internationally and they are starting to develop their next. His other main collaborator is poet Hannah Jane Walker with whom he made The Oh Fuck Moment and I Wish I Was Lonely.
 
Currently Chris is touring Confirmation and Unlimited's Am I Dead Yet? He is writing a new version of Beowulf for the Unicorn Theatre, and a new piece, Victory Condition for the Royal Court. He is also working on Truck for the Royal Exchange with Sam Pritchard, who directed There Has Possibly Been An Incident.
 
The texts for There Has Possibly Been An Incident and Confirmation, as well as work with Hannah Jane Walker, are published by Oberon Books. His work with mala voadora is published in English and Portuguese.

Chris has written Chorus for The Iphigenia Quartet. 
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Lucy Ellinson
Lucy Ellinson
Lucy is an actor and theatre maker, specialising in devised and experimental performance and international new writing. She is an associate artist with Third Angel and Forest Fringe. Previous credits for the Gate include: the Chorus in Trojan Women, Julian Assange in Tenet (Greyscale Theatre/Gate Theatre) Previous theatre credits include: Oh The Humanity! and other good intentions (Northern Stage; Soho Theatre); Presumption (Third Angel); Money: The Game Show, Mission to Mars, The Swing Left, Tangle (Unlimited Theatre); 3rd Ring Out, Two Perspectives (Metis Arts); Where We Meet, Who We Are, Speed death of the Radiant Child, Homemade (Chris Goode); A Thousand Shards of Glass (Jane Packman Co.); 15 Minutes Live, They Only Come at Night, Helium (Slung Low); Monsters (dir: Christopher Haydon, Arcola); Land Without Words (dir: Lydia Ziemke) #TORYCORE (Forest Fringe, Gate Theatre, The Arches Brick Award). Radio credits include: The Fall (Clare Duffy).
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Sue MacLaine
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Nadia Albina
Nadia Albina
Theatre credits include: Macbeth (Shakespeare’s Globe); Told From the Inside (Royal Court); Five Plays – You Are So Relevant (Young Vic); Robin Hood (Theatre Royal Stratford East); Hecuba, Othello, The Merchant of Venice (Royal Shakespeare Company); A Stab in the Dark, Secret Theatre (Lyric Theatre Hammersmith); Reasons to be Cheerful (Southbank Centre, New Wolsey Theatre); Shakespeare 365, Henry V (Orange Tree Theatre); Twelfth Night (Orange Tree Theatre and Tour); The Iceberg (En Mass Theatre Company); The Red Ladies (The Clod Ensemble); Nabakov Shorts (Trafalgar Studios); A Thousand Words (Tessellate Theatre Company); Rosetta Life (National Theatre Studio); The Space Between (Tour); A Lie of the Mind (Battersea Arts Centre); Good (Sound Theatre); Petrograd (The Old Red Lion); Cyrano de Bergerac, Richard III, Twelfth Night (Tremor Cordis). Film credits include: Othello, The Merchant of Venice, Making It. Television credits include: Coronation Street (ITV); Paralympic Opening Ceremony (Channel 4); Come Fly With Me, Whites, Doctors, Beautiful People (BBC).
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Emma frankland
Emma Frankland
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Jo clifford
Jo Clifford

Jo is a playwright and performer. She is the author of about 90 performed plays.

In 2018, she performed her THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO JESUS QUEEN OF HEAVEN as the Christmas show at the Traverse. The show sold out and attracted 26,008 signatures to an online petition demanding it be banned.

She also performed EVE (which she co-wrote with Chris Goode) for the National Theatre of Scotland in Dundee, Nairn, and Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

Her FIVE DAYS WHICH CHANGED EVERYTHING was broadcast on BBC Radio 4; her short film, THESE ARE MY HANDS, which she wrote and performs,  is being shown in cinemas throughout the world.

Her ANNA KARENINA was performed in Tokyo; and she was one of a cast of 12 women in Taishani’s DC:SEMIRAMIS, a performance art installation in the Tramway, Glasgow.

Her queer adaptation of THE TAMING OF THE SHREW opens in the Sherman, Cardiff, and tours to the Tron, Glasgow, in Feb/Mar 2019.

She is a proud father and grandmother and lives in Edinburgh.

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Jo horton
Jo Horton
Stage credits:
Othello (Shakespeare’s Globe), All’s Well That Ends Well (RSC), As You Like It (RSC), Belongings (Hamstead Theatre), The Cherry Orchard (Birmingham Rep), Town (Royal/ Derngate), The Gods Weep (RSC), Days of Significance (RSC),  Once a Catholic (The Royal Court)
Television and Film credits:
Endeavour (Mammoth/ ITV), Dark Angel (ITV 1), Silent Witness (BBC 1), Partners in Crime (BBC1), Children Next Door (Channel 4/ Raw TV), Knifeman (AMC), The Suspicions of Mr Whicher (ITV), Father Brown (BBC), London’s Burning (Juniper Communications), Doctors (BBC), Permanently Excluded  (BBC), New Tricks (BBC), The Bill (ITV), Midnight Man (ITV/ Carnival), Bike Squad (ITV), Doctors (BBC), Holby Blue (BBC), Five Days (BBC/ HBO), Robin Hood (BBC/ Tiger Aspect), Spooks (BBC/ Kudos), Eleventh Hour (ITV/ Granada), Afterlife (BBC), Foyle’s War (ITV), Fishtank (BBC)
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Emma dennis edwards
Emma Dennis Edwards
Emma is a writer and performer of Jamaican and Trinidadian heritage; she trained as an actor at The BRIT School and East15 Acting School. Emma recently performed her self-penned play Funeral Flowers at The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, which won the Scotsman’s Fringe First Award and Filipa Bragança award for best solo performance. Previous Stage Credits include: New Futures & Festival (Pentabus Theatre Company), After Orlando (The Finborough), Rise Up (Belgrade, Hull Truck, Pegasus) Upper Cut (Southwark Playhouse) Fast Track (The North Wall Arts Centre) Clean (The Traverse Theatre and 59e59 theaters, New York), Crash (North Wall Arts Centre and Arcola Theatre), Hurried Steps (Brighton Dome, The Cockpit Theatre, Dukes Theatre Lancaster) A New World Order (Shoreditch Town Hall, Barbican and Hydrocracker Theatre) Bussin’ It (Oval House Theatre, Camp Bestival), Millennium (Vineyard Theatre, New York). Previous Television and Film credits includes: Trap for Cinderella (Forthcoming Productions) BBC Ident Over the Rainbow (Red Bee Media), The Naked Poet (Triple Threat Media). 
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Seiriol Davies
Seiriol is a musical theatremaker who trained at the London International School of Performing Arts. He has made shows with companies like Punchdrunk, You Need Me, Gideon Reeling and Beady Eye. He was half of the cult time-travelling knees-up variety act Underbling and Vow, and writes songs with the dark glam, Weimar-fabulous band Temper Temper.
 
His first full-length play Moon River, an unsettling comedy about the social lives of the over-70s, was developed by the Soho Theatre and produced at the Pleasance and he later devised, composed and performed Mess with Caroline Horton, which won The Stage Award for Best Ensemble, 2012 and toured internationally.
 
Seiriol’s first musical How To Win Against History, about Henry Cyril Paget, the cross-dressing black sheep Marquis of Anglesey, opened at the 2016 Edinburgh Fringe to critical acclaim, and played two consecutive total sellout runs there in 2016 and 2017. It then toured the UK before transferring to a sellout run at London's Young Vic in December 2017. It has won several awards including a The Stage Award and the Wales Theatre Award.
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Amelia stubberfield
Amelia Stubberfield
Amelia is a theatre-maker, actor, writer and comedian. After training as an actor at The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, they have worked on numerous projects including performances at The Yard, The Bush and Camden People's Theatre and The Vaults. They are currently developing their own solo show and were named as "One to Watch" by the Funny Women 2018 Awards. Recent credits include Bullish by Milk Presents (UK tour) and the latest show from Greg Wohead, Call it a Day, which premieres at The Yard in January 2019.
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Charlotte josephine
Charlotte Josephine
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Phoebe fox
Phoebe Fox
Theatre includes: Anna, Twelfth Night, There is War (National Theatre), A View From the Bridge (Young Vic, Wyndham’s, Broadway), The Acid Test (The Royal Court Theatre), Sixty-Six Books (Bush Theatre), King Lear (Almeida Theatre) Film and Television includes: Curfew (Tiger Aspect), Black Mirror (Channel 4), New tricks, A Poet In New York, The Musketeers (BBC), The Aeronauts (Amazon Studios), War Book, (Sixteen Films).
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?Caoilfhionn Dunne
Caoilfhionn Dunne
Caoilfhionn Dunne's theatre credits include Katie Roche (Abbey Theatre), The Nest (Lyric Belfast, Young Vic), Wild (Hampstead Theatre), Forever Yours, Mary Lou (Theatre Royal, Bath), Our Country's Good, The Veil (National Theatre) Fathers and Sons, The Night Alive (Donmar Warehouse). Her television credits include Love/Hate, Vexed II, Little White Lies and for film; In View, Wrath of the Titans, Corduroy.
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Annabel baldwin
Annabel Baldwin
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Joseph akubeze
Joseph Akubeze
Hailing from Hayes and Harlington via Cambridge University and the Bristol Old Vic Theatre school, ex-Mormon Joseph is a writer/actor. Joseph will next be seen in Disney’s Cruella  and Olivia Emden’s debut short film Acrimonious. Other recent film credits include Romola Garai’s debut feature Outside, Ben Bond’s Drifters and Anthony Byrne’s In Darkness.  Television work includes Tom Veriton’s Bridgerton, Zach Braff’s Ted Lasso and Steve Bendelack’s Ill Behaviour. Joseph currently has a number of TV shows in development including one with Channel 4 and one with the BBC.
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Hannah Ringham
Hannah Ringham - Collaborator
Hannah Ringham is a co-founder and performer of the UK award winning performance collective SHUNT.  Her recent theatre credits include Islands (Bush Theatre), The Architects (Shunt), The Present (Unicorn Theatre, Battersea Arts Centre), Cadavre Exquis (2012), Contain Violence – Site Specific (Lyric Hammersmith), Ooogly Boogly (2008), Tropicana (Shunt). She has performed and toured internationally with many other companies including Tim Crouch, Kassys (a collaborative performance with Kassys, The Nature Theatre of Oklahoma and Nicole Beutler), Caroline Horton, Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin.
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Angus wright
Angus Wright
Theatre includes: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Donmar Warehouse), Hamlet (The Harold Pinter Theatre/ ATG), Hamlet (Almeida), 1984 (Playhouse Theatre), Oresteia (Almeida), Oresteia- Trafalgar Studios (ATG), The Cherry Orchard (Young Vic), Twelfth Night/ Richard III (The Globe on Broadway), Privates on Parade (Michael Grandage Company), The Master and Margarita (Complicite), The Cat in the Hat (National Theatre/ Young Vic/ Theatre De La Ville,  Paris), Wastwater (Royal Court Theatre), Design for Living (Old Vic Theatre), Mrs Affleck (National Theatre), The Tragedy of Thomas Hobbes (RSC), Merchant of Venice (RSC), War House (National Theatre), St Joan (National Theatre), The Seagull (National Theatre), Measure for Measure (Complicite), A Dream Play (National Theatre), Stuff Happens (National Theatre), Three Sisters (National Theatre), Twelfth Night (The Globe), Three Sisters (Chichester Festival Theatre), The Importance of Being Earnest (Nottingham Playhouse), Talk of the City (RSC), Chips with Everything (Royal National Theatre), A Midsummer’s Night Dream (Almeida), The Rivals (National Theatre Studio), Early Morning (National Theatre Studio), Mother Courage (Royal National Theatre), A Mongrel’s Heart (Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh), Salome (European Tour), Private Lives (Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh), Hamlet (RSC), The Theban Plays (RSC), The Dybbuk (RSC), Henry IV I&II (RSC), Twelfth Night (RSC), Too Clever by Half (Moscow Arts Theatre School), Uncle Vanya (Moscow Arts Theatre School) Film includes: Official Secrets, The Little Stranger, The Rabbits Foot, Rouge One, A Little Chaos, Jack Ryan, Maleficent, Closed Circuit, Private Peaceful, The Iron Lady, Affair of the Necklace, Bridget Jones’s Diary, Charlotte Gray, Cutthroat Island, Dr Sleep, First Knight, Frankenstein, Jilting joe,  Kingdom of Heaven, Labyrinth, Nicholas Nickleby, RKO 281, The Bank Job, The Lover’s Prayer, The Whipping Boy Television includes: The Year of the Rabbit (Objective Fiction), Plebs 4 (Rise Films), Midsomer Murders (Bentley Productions), Flowers (Kudos Film and TV Ltd), Peep Shows (Objective Productions), Jekyll and Hyde (ITV J&H Ltd), Father Brown  Series 3 (BBC), Sons of Liberty (A&E Studios for History Channels), Breathless (ITV Studios Ltd), Murder on the Home Front (Carnival), Being Human Series 4 (Touchpaper TV), The Sarah Jane Adventures (DW Productions Ltd), Above Suspicion (La Plante Productions), Attachments (Carlton UK), Between the Lines (BBC), Boudica (Box TV), Brilliant (Native/ BBC10 X 10), Cambridge Spies (BBC), Casanova (Red Productions), Crocodile Shoes (Red Productions), Dalziel & Pascoe (BBC), Duck Patrol (LWT), Hotel Babylon (Carnival), Pie in the Sky (SelecTV), Solider Solider (Carlton UK), The Bill (Thames TV), The Painted Lady (Granada), The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall (Talkback Thames for Channel 4), The Vice (Carlton), The Way We Live (BBC), Waking the Dead (BBC), Whistleblower (BBC), Winter Solstice (Own Two Feet Productions), Wire in the Blood (Coastal Productions)  Radio includes: The Secret Pilgrim (BBC Radio 4), Plenty (Catherine Bailey Productions), Precious (Pier Productions)
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Linda broughton
Linda Broughton
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Dickie Beau
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Sule rimi
Sule Rimi
Theatre includes: Sweat (Donmar Warehouse), Measure for Measure (Donmar Warehouse), Love and Information, Desire Under the Elms (Sheffield);  Barber Shop Chronicles (NT/Australia/New Zealand);  Mary Stuart, They Drink it in the Congo (Almeida);  The Suicide (NT);  The Rolling Stone (Royal Exchange, Manchester/WYP/Orange Tree);  The Odyssey: Missing, Presumed Dead (ETT/Liverpool Everyman);  Bordergame National Theatre of Wales);  Babes in the Woods (Rainbow Valley Productions);  Othello (Fluellen Theatre Company); Muscle (Shock N Awe);  Serious Money (Waking Exploits);  Robinson Crusoe, Aladdin (Owen Money Theatre Company);  Stanley’s Magic Lamp and the Heart of Darkness (Twm O’r Nant). Film includes:  Ashens & the Quest for the Game Child; Bad Fucking; The Adventurer: Curse of the Midas Box; Silent Night, Bloody Night: The Homecoming; The Machine; Elfie Hopkins and the Gammons; Night of the Living Dead: Resurrections; Rock ‘N’ Roll Killers; Eastern Promises; Daddy’s Girl; Starter for Ten. Television includes:  Black Earth Rising;  Death in Paradise;  Birds of a Feather Christmas Special; Strikeback; Casualty; Unforgotten; Stella; DNN: Definitely Not Newsround; 4 O'Clock Club; Mistresses; Crash; Caerdydd; The Black Lion; Y Pris; Scrum IV; Doctor Who; Fondue; Sex and Dinosaurs; The Story of Tracey Beaker
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Lucy bairstow
Lucy Bairstow
Credits include: Fat Girls Don't Dance, director, (Roundhouse, BAC, Rich Mix, Bristol Old Vic, Underbelly Edinburgh Fringe 2016, winner of Saboteur Best Spoken Word Show 2017), DIGS, creator/performer, (Pleasance London, Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh Fringe 2017), SEXY, movement director, (Camden Peoples Theatre, Roundhouse, The Wardrobe Theatre, Bristol Old Vic, Nottingham Playhouse, Bikeshed, Wales Millennium Centre, The Shelley Theatre, The Marlowe, 2017/18), Crumbles Search for Christmas, performer, (West Yorkshire Playhouse, 2017) Skate Hard, Turn Left, performer/creator, (BAC, 2018), Essex Girl, director, (BAC, Roundhouse, Soho Theatre, 2018/19) North & South, creator/performer (Theatre in the Mill, 2018/19)

Lucy is currently writer in residence at Balbir Singh Dance Company in West Yorkshire
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Jonjo o'neill
Jonjo O'Neill
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Lucy McCormick
Lucy McCormick
Lucy McCormick is an actor/performer based in London. Her hit show Triple Threat, took the Edinburgh Fringe by storm in 2016 and had a sell-out run at the Soho Theatre in 2017. Her other theatre credits include: Collective Rage (Southwark Playhouse); Roller Diner(Soho Theatre); Cinderella (Oxford Playhouse); The Naked Truth (National Tour); First Love is the Revolution (Soho Theatre); Big Hits (International Tour);  SPLAT! (Barbican); Violent Incient (Arnolfini Bristol); External (National Tour); Dusa, Fish, Stas, Vi (Worksworth Festival); As You Like It (Worksworth Festival/Jagged Fence Productions); The House of Bernada Alba (Tristan Bates Theatre) Lucy won the Dublin Fringe Best Performer Award, Glasgow's Brick  Award and the TV Bomb Groundbreaker Award for her show Triple Threat. She was further nominated for Emerging Artist at the Total Theatre Awards Edinburgh Festival. She has also received a Off West End Award nomination for Best Female for her role in Collective Rage.
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Jade anouka
Jade Anouka
Jade Anouka’s stage roles include The Greatest Wealth (The Old Vic), Queen Margaret (Royal Exchange), The Phlebotomist (Hampstead Theatre), Cover My Tracks (The Old Vic), Shakespeare Trilogy (Donmar Warehouse), Doctor Faustus (The Jamie Lloyd Company), Henry IV (St Anne’s Warehouse, New York), So Here We Are (Royal Exchange/High Tide), Chef (Soho), The Vote and Henry IV (Donmar Warehouse), Chef (Edinburgh Fringe), Omeros (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse), Clean (59E59 Theatres New York), Julius Caesar (St Anne’s Warehouse, New York), Clean (Traverse Theatre), Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare’s Globe), Julius Caesar (Donmar Warehouse), Moon On A Rainbow Shawl (National Theatre), Hamlet (Shakespeare’s Globe), Romeo and Juliet (Bolton Octagon), Wild Horses (Theatre 503), Love’s Labour’s Lost (Shakespeare’s Globe / US tour), Blood Wedding (Southwark Playhouse), Twelfth Night (York Theatre Royal), The Taming of the Shrew (RSC), The Merchant of Venice (RSC), The Penelopiad (RSC/National Arts Centre Canada), Handa’s Surprise (The Little Angel Theatre).  On television she has appeared in Turning Up Charlie, Cleaning Up, Trauma, Chewing Gum, Lucky Man, The Vote, Shakespeare Uncovered: Romeo and Juliet, Doctor Who:The Bells of Saint John, Shakespeare Uncovered: The Comedies, Shakespeare Uncovered: The Tempest, Shakespeare Uncovered: Hamlet, Secrets and Words: Mightier Than The Sword, Law and Order:UK.  On film, Jade has appeared in The Rhythm Section, Fisherman’s Friend, Baby Gravy, The Dark Channel, A Summer Hamlet, T-Police Field, A Running Jump, That Serious Face and Happy Hour.  On radio she has appeared in Assata Shakur:The FBI’s Most Wanted Woman and World On The Move.
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Nina Bowers
Nina Bowers
Nina Bowers is an Actor and Theatre Maker, Her theatre credits include THE HISTORIES (Shakespeare's Globe) THE WOLVES (Theatre Royal Stratford East) directed by,Ellen McDougall; THE MAGIC FLUTE (Aix-en-Provence Festival) for Complicité,directed by Simon McBurney; CRAVE (The Pit, Barbican) directed by Julie Cunningham; TWILIGHT: LOS ANGELES 1992 (The Gate Theatre) directed by Ola Ince and TOMORROW I'LL BE TWENTY (regional tour) for Complicité,directed by Catherine Alexander. Nina also collaborated with Ellen and Hannah on the making of DEAR ELIZABETH at The Gate. She is a member of DIRTY RASCALS THEATRE COLLECTIVE and has written and performed two original shows: NINA TALKS ABOUT HER VALUES and AN EVENING WITH THE MANTIS FROM ATLANTIS both at Camden People’s Theatre.
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Tamsin greig
Tamsin Greig
Tamsin Greig is an Award Winning actor of Stage & Screen.  Her theatre work: A Kind of Alaska/Landscape (Pinter season (Harold Pinter Th), Labour of Love (Noel Coward Th); Twelfth Night (National Th), The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures (iHo); Longing (Hampstead Th), Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Playhouse - Olivier nomination for Best Actress in a Musical); Jumpy (Royal Court/Duke of York’s); The Little Dog Laughed (Garrick - Oliver Award Nomination for Best Actress 2011); Gethsemane (National Theatre); God of Carnage (Gielgud); Much Ado About Nothing (RSC - Winner of The Critics Circle Award and Olivier Award for Best Actress Award (2007); King John (RSC.  Her film work includes Tamara Drewe (British Independent Film Awards Nomination – and an out of competition hit at Cannes); The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel; Breaking the Bank, Stop the World/  Television work includes: Elementary  Episodes (5 Series- BAFTA nomination); White Heat; Friday Night Dinner (4 series BAFTA nomination);The Guilty – 3 part series,  Diana & I,Emma; The Diary of Anne Frank; Love Soup (2 Series); Green Wing (2 Series – Royal Television Society's Award 2006/BAFTA Nomination 2006 - British Comedy Award Nomination 2005); Black Books (3 Series), People Like Us; Happiness.
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Travis alabanza
Travis Alabanza
Travis Alabanza is a performer and writer based in London. Their theatre credits include Putting Words in Your Mouth (Roundhouse), Jubilee (royal exchange, Lyric Hammersmith) and recently a sold-out, critically acclaimed run of their own show Burgerz (Hackney Showroom, Oval House, Royal Exchange). Outside of theatre, their writing and activism surrounding LGBTQ+ rights has appeared in Vogue, BBC, Huffington Post, The Guardian, Independent, and they have given talks at over 120 international institutions including The Tate, V&A, Harvard University, and Royal Academy of art.
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Christopher Green
Christopher Green is a theatrical and broadcast provocateur. His experiential theatre credits as creator, writer, and director include: Prurience: an experiential entertainment about porn, which was performed at the Royal Festival Hall at the Southbank Centre July 2017 and transferred to the Guggenheim in New York March 2018 (the Guggenheim’s first theatrical commission), VIP, The Frozen Scream (co-written with Sarah Waters) and Office Party (co-created with Ursula Martinez, directed by Cal McCrystal).

Christopher is the author of Overpowered: The Science & Showbiz of Hypnosis. He is a trained hypnotherapist and has reinvented the stage hypnotism routine in his theatre show The Singing Hypnotist. This was developed when he was the first Artist in Residence at The British Library in 2012. Christopher was the curator of Victorian Popular Entertainments: There Will Be Fun! at the British Library which ran from 2016-2017. He scripted the material for his own repertory company of performers to support the exhibition.

Christopher regularly writes for BBC Radio 4, including 9 series of Tina C and many radio plays. His most recent is How Success Ruined Me, a two hander with entertainment legend Roy Hudd about music hall singer, Fred Barnes. Christopher’s previous radio drama series The Experience of Love, a five-part series exploring queer history in the late 20th Century, is now being developed for television.

He performs as characters such as country music singer, Tina C. who has recently published her autobiography, Complete & Utter Country, rapping pensioner Ida Barr and cultural critic Jedd O’Sullivan. Christopher has won multiple awards the first being the Olivier award for Best Entertainment in 2004 and the most recently, best Cabaret Show at Brighton Festival 2017.

Christopher’s works in development include Music Hall Monster: The Insatiable Mr Fred Barnes for production at Wilton’s Music Hall in May 2018, a commission from the Gate Theatre, London and the large-scale immersive show, The Home, in association with Entelechy Arts and The Albany for production in 2019.

Christopher is an Artistic Associate of Alexandra Palace, Wilton’s Music Hall, Duckie, Entelechy Theatre Company, and Creative Cowboy Films (Australia)
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Christopher brett bailey
Christopher Brett Bailey
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Lois Chimimba
Lois Chimimba
Lois Chimimba trained at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts.  

Recent theatre includes: wonder.land for the National Theatre and the Manchester International Festival. 

Other theatre includes: Pitcairn (Shakespeare's Globe, Chichester and UK tour); Nightingale and Chase (Albany Theatre); A Long and Happy Life (Vibrant Festival); Laridae (White Bear Theatre); Deep (Talawa Theatre). 

Television includes: Radges, Fried, Holby City (all BBC)

Film includes:The Proposal and Earth, Air, Fire, Water 

Radio includes:The Three Musketeers 
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Thalissa teixeira
Thalissa Teixeira
Thalissa Teixeira’s theatre work includes Othello, The Broken Heart, The Changeling (Shakespeare’s Globe), Yerma (Young Vic), The Night Watch (Manchester Royal Exchange), BU21 (Theatre503), Electra (Old Vic). Her television work includes The Musketeers; and for film, Take Down.
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Kayla meikle
Kayla Meikle
Theatre includes: Ear For Eye (Royal Court); Dance Nation (Almeida); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Jack & the Beanstalk (Lyric, Hammersmith); I Have Mouth & I Will Scream, People Who Need People, Streets (Vaults Festival); Macbeth, Romeo & Juliet (National); Primetime (Royal Court); The Taming of the Shrew (Arts); Operation Black Antler (Blast Theory); Merlin (Nuffield); All That Lives (Ovalhouse). Television includes: The Capture, Afterlife, Will, Bitesize Learning. Film includes: Soundproof, State Zero, Every Eight Minutes, Samira’s Party.
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Emun elliott
Emun Elliott
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Shalisha James Davis
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Sam spruell
Sam Spruell
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Elizabeth chan
Elizabeth Chan- Writer and Performer
Elizabeth Chan trained at Ecole Philippe Gaulier in Paris and at Drama Centre London. Theatre includes: Mephisto [A Rhapsody], Dear Elizabeth (Gate Theatre); Shakespeare Walks and Shakespeare in the Abbey (Shakespeare’s Globe); Macbeth, Light Shining in Buckinghamshire (National Theatre); Celebration Florida (Soho Theatre); Henry IV (Donmar Warehouse); Chimerica (Almeida/West End); The Wheel (National Theatre of Scotland); Into the Numbers (Finborough); B!irth (Royal Exchange); The Suger-Coated Bullets of the Bourgeoisie (HighTide); Caught, Hamlet is Dead (Arcola); Don’t Shoot the Clowns (Fuel); An Argument About Sex (Traverse/Tramway); Cinderella (Lyric Hammersmith). TV includes Vera, Chimerica, No Offence, Motherland, The Last Dragonslayer, Last Tango in Halifax, Cucumber, Holby City, Black Mirror and Silent Witness.  
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Anjana vasan
Anjana Vasan
Anjana Vasan trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama. Recent Theatre Credits include: Behind the Beautiful Forevers & Dara (National Theatre), Macbeth (Manchester International Festival/ Broadway) Taming of the Shrew & Much Ado about Nothing (RSC), Radicalisation of Bradley Manning (National Theatre Wales), 66 Books (Bush Theatre) and Golgotha (Tristan Bates). TV & Film include: Fresh Meat (Channel 4) & Cinderella (Disney).
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Kwong loke
Kwong Loke
Theatre work includes:
The Great Wave (National Theatre), Labour of Love (Noel Coward, West End), New and Now (Royal Court), You For Me For You (Royal Court), You Never Touched Dirt (Royal Court at Edinburgh), The Lulu Plays (Almeida Theatre), Hiawatha (Bristol Old Vic), Global Baby Factory (Yellow Earth Theatre), Summer Rolls (Rich Mix), The Changeling (Finborough Theatre), Rashomon, Scenes from Paradise (Riverside Studios), The Magic Paintbrush, The Snow Lion (Polka Theatre), Blue Remembered Hills (UK Tour), Tibetan Inroads (Gate Theatre), Two Gentlemen of Verona (Singapore Drama Centre), The Soldier’s Tale (South Bank).
 
His television work includes:
The Feed (ITV Amazon), Gangs of London (HBO-Sky), As Time Goes By, Love Hurts, Blue Peter, Casualty, The Knock, The Monkey King.
 
His radio work includes:
At Sea on Inya Lake, Another Land, Our Farther the Mountain, Joy Luck Club.
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Frankie Henry
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Helena lymbery
Helena Lymbery
Theatre includes: Run Sister Run (Soho Theatre/Sheffield Theatres/Paines Plough); Mr Gum and the Dancing Bear; Treasure Island; This House; The Cat in the Hat; ...some trace of her; Women of Troy; Attempts on her Life; Iphigenia at Aulis; His Dark Materials; Wicked Yaar; Henry V (National Theatre); Dear Elizabeth (Gate Theatre); Queen Margaret (Royal Exchange Theatre); Pity; Rough Cuts: God Bless the Child; The Laws of War (Royal Court); The Wolves Are Coming For You (Pentabus); Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (West End); We Want You To Watch (RashDash/National Theatre); The Secret Agent (Young Vic/Theatre O); After Dido (Young Vic/ENO); Sleeping Beauty (Young Vic); Coasting (Bristol Old Vic); Faith, Hope and Charity; (Southwark Playhouse); Think About Japan (Southwark Playhouse/Nabokov); Yerma (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Blackpool (Theatre 503); Light Shining in Buckinghamshire (Arcola Theatre); Al Gran Sole Carico D'Amore (Salzburg Festival); Hansel and Gretel (Catherine Wheels/Barbican); Watership Down; The Magic Carpet (Lyric, Hammersmith);  Mammals (Bush Theatre); Blue Remembered Hills (New Victoria Theatre, Stoke). Television includes: Doctor Foster, Father Brown, Oliver Twist, Alastair McGowan's Big Impression, The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, The Bill, Nietta's Farm, Oranges and Lemons. Film includes: London Road.
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Angela clerkin
Angela Clerkin
Recent theatre includes: Vessel by Sue MacLaine (BAC), Long Live Queen James directed by Scottee (Whitehall Palace), The Secret Keeper directed by Angela Clerkin & Lucy J Skilbeck (UK Tour), O’Brien in 1984 (Oxford), The Importance of Being Earnest (Birmingham Rep), Everyone by Jo Clifford (BAC), The Haunting of Hill House directed by Melly Still (Liverpool Playhouse, Sonia Friedman), Early Days of a Better Nation (Coney, UK tour), Chris Goode’s Monkey Bars (Fringe First, Traverse, UK tour), The Bear (ClerkinWorks & Improbable UK tour), and Improbable's Panic (Barbican, Sydney Opera House, UK tour). Other theatre includes shows at Northern Stage, Young Vic, Cottesloe, Lyric Hammersmith, Nottingham Playhouse, New York off-Broadway, Brisbane Festival, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Curve Leicester, ICA, Almeida, Old Vic. TV includes : Dr Who, Humans, Holby City, EastEnders, Dalziel & Pascoe, My Family, Sugar Rush, The Office & Dean Spanley. Angela runs her own theatre company ClerkinWorks and is an Associate Artist with Chris Goode & Company and Improbable.
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Kwame Owusu
Kwame is part of Gate Generations Kwame Owusu is a director, writer and actor. He is currently Resident Assistant Director at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre. He recently graduated with First Class Honours in Drama and English Literature from The University of Manchester, and is now studying on an MFA in Theatre Directing at Birkbeck, University of London. His directing credits include Pomona (Edinburgh Festival Fringe), The Wolf From The Door (John Thaw Studio Theatre), and Whiskey Wednesdays (Kickitdown Productions). He was a Trainee Assistant Director on the world premiere of Rimini Protokoll’s Utopolis at Manchester International Festival 2019. His assistant directing credits include Running with Lions (Lyric Hammersmith / Talawa Theatre Company). His acting credits include The Letters Project (Gate Theatre), Dear Elizabeth (Gate Theatre), Lost Boys (Unity Theatre), and Waiting for Godot (Theatre Royal Brighton).
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Leo Bill
Leo Bill

Theatre includes: The Tragedy of King Richard The Second  (Almedia), Curtains (Rose Theatre) A Midsummers Nights Dream, The Glass Menagerie, (Young Vic), Hamlet (The Barbican), Light Shining in Buckinghamshire, A Woman Killed With Kindness, Pains of Youth, The Observer, The Hothouse, The Reporter (National Theatre), Posh (Royal Court) and  Beautiful Thing (Sound Theatre).

Film includes: Rare Beasts, In Fabric, Peterloo, Hamlet, Alice in Wonderland - Through The Looking Glass, Mr Turner, A Long Way Down, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Me and Orson Wells, Becoming Jane, The Living and the Dead, Kinky Boots, These Foolish Things, The Fall, Vera Drake, LD50, Two Men Went To War, 28 Days Later, All or Nothing and Gosford Park 

TV includes: The Long Song, The Strike Series, Taboo, The White Queen, Pramface, The Borgias, Words of Captain Scott, Dr Who - A Christmas Carol, Home Time, Ashes to Ashes, Lead Balloon, Sense and Sensibility, Jekyll, Bash, A Very Social Secretary, Silent Witness, Messiah III, Eroica, The Canterbury Tales, Spooks 2, Midsummer Murders, Harry Enfield’s Celeb, Surrealismo, Attachments IIand Crime and Punishment.  

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Temi Wilkey
Temi trained at Cambridge University. Her theatre credits include: TERMINAL 3 & ACT (Print Room); JUBILEE (Lyric Hammersmith, Royal Exchange); THE COMEDY OF ERRORS (National Theatre Learning); HOW TO HOLD YOUR BREATH (The Royal Court); THE WORLD'S WIFE, MACBETH and PRIVATE PEACEFUL (all National Youth Theatre Rep). Television credits include: YEARS AND YEARS (BBC); MANHUNT (ITV) Temi is also the playwright behind THE HIGH TABLE, that opened at the Bush Theatre.
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Tim crouch
Tim is an Obie award-winning playwright, director and theatre-maker. He was an actor before starting to write and he still performs in much of his work. Plays include his illustrated text for the National Theatre of Scotland, Total Immediate Collective Imminent Terrestrial Salvation (Edinburgh International Festival, Royal Court and tour), I, Cinna (the poet) (Royal Shakespeare Company and Unicorn Theatre, London), Beginners (Unicorn Theatre, London), Adler & Gibb (Royal Court and tour), The Author (Royal Court and tour), An Oak Tree (Traverse Theatre, National Theatre, Off-Broadway and tour), I, Malvolio (Brighton Festival and tour), ENGLAND – a play for galleries (Traverse Theatre/The Fruitmarket Gallery and tour) Shopping for Shoes (National Theatre schools tour) and My Arm (Traverse Theatre and tour). As a director: Peat (Ark, Dublin), Jeramee, Hartleby and Oooglemore (Unicorn Theatre, London), The Complete Deaths (Spymonkey/Brighton Festival), The Taming of the Shrew and King Lear (Royal Shakespeare Company). Tim created and co-wrote Don’t Forget the Driver, a six-part series for BBC2, which won Best TV Comedy at the Venice TV awards, 2019.
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Sarah Ruhl – Writer
Sarah Ruhl's plays include How to Transcend a Happy Marriage; For Peter Pan on her 70th Birthday; The Oldest Boy; In the Next Room, or the vibrator play (Pulitzer Prize finalist, Tony Award nominee for best new play); The Clean House (Pulitzer Prize Finalist, The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize); Passion Play (Pen American award, The Fourth Freedom Forum Playwriting Award from The Kennedy Center); Orlando; Late: a cowboy song; Dear Elizabeth; Dead Man's Cell Phone (Helen Hayes Award); Eurydice; and Stage Kiss. She is a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and a Tony Award nominee. Her plays have been produced on Broadway at the Lyceum by Lincoln Center Theater, off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons, Second Stage, and at Lincoln Center's Mitzi Newhouse Theater. Her plays have been produced regionally all over the country and have also been produced internationally, and translated into over twelve languages. Ms. Ruhl received her M.F.A. from Brown University where she studied with Paula Vogel. She has received the Steinberg Distinguished Playwright award, the Susan Smith Blackburn award, the Whiting award, the Lily Award, a PEN award for mid-career playwrights, and the MacArthur "genius" award. Her book of essays 100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write was published by Faber and Faber was a Times Notable Book of the Year. She teaches at the Yale School of Drama and lives in Brooklyn with her family.
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Jon Nicholls – Composer and Sound Designer
Jon Nicholls studied composition at the London College of Music and electroacoustic music at Dartington. Music / sound scores for theatre include Spring Storm, Beyond The Horizon and The Holy Rosenbergs (National Theatre);  Bakersfield Mist (Duchess), Bracken Moor, Mermaid  (Shared Experience), Who's  Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Sheffield Crucible); Yerma (Gate); The Norman Conquests (Liverpool Playhouse);  Red Light Winter, The Welsh Boy, deadkidsongs, The Double and the Spanish Golden Age season (Theatre Royal Bath, Ustinov); The Wind In The Willows, Dancing at Lughnasa, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Eden End, Humble Boy, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, In Praise of Love and the Young America season (Northampton), Blue Remembered Hills, Art, The Changeling, Silas Marner (Theatr Clwyd); Rutherford and Son (Northern Stage); Katherine DeSouza, The Mothership, Linda (Birmingham Rep); Amadeus, Masterclass, Be My Baby (Derby Playhouse); Private Lives, Much Ado About Nothing, If I Were You, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Arcadia, The Heretic, The Seagull (Library Theatre, Manchester); The Picture (Salisbury Playhouse). Screen work includes scores for numerous documentaries for the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Sky, and over 30 short films. Extensive music and sound design for BBC radio drama includes: The Broken Word, Pink Mist, Erebus, Laurels and Donkeys, In Memoriam, At The Mountains of Madness, The Shadow Over Innsmouth, Between Friends, Babel’s Tower, Faust, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Caesar Price Our Lord, It’s Better with Animals, The Histories of Herodotus, The Time Machine, Zen & The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Five Fever Tales and What I Heard About Iraq (Prix Italia Jury Special Mention). He's composed two operas: Falling Across and most recently Flicker which was premiered at Sadlers Wells in 2013. 
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Ed Borgnis – Technical Manager
Ed takes a lead on making sure the spaces we work in are as accommodating as possible for incoming productions and their teams. He then provides support during show running, and for all staff throughout the year. He's keen on opportunities to tread lightly environmentally and lives for those barely-perceptible but unexpectedly devastating moments of sound design. Away from work, Ed is keen on being on or in water. Ed is an experienced Production Manager and has looked after several shows at the Gate including Chimera, Trust, Dear Elizabeth, and Land Without Dreams (2019); programmes for Shubbak, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama (RWCMD) and Harrow Club; as well as various archive and online projects including 2020’s Letters. Ed has worked for the sound departments of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), The Royal Ballet, Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, Shakespeare's Globe and Kiln Theatre. He has a postgraduate Engineering degree from University of Warwick and grew up in London and Norfolk. (he/him)
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Phil Massingham – Production Electrician
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Jenny Skivens – Stage Manager
Jenny Skivens is a freelance Stage Manager. Recently Jenny began working with City Academy, stage managing various performances and showcases throughout the year.

Her credits include: King Lear, An Octoroon (Orange Tree Theatre), Julius Caesar, Othello (Guildford Shakespeare Company), Cinderella, Merchant of Venice, Antony & Cleopatra, Tales From King James, Doctor Faustus, Rapunzel, Romeo & Juliet (Creation Theatre Company), Roald Dahl’s City of the Unexpected, Praxis Makes Perfect, The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning (National Theatre Wales), SummerSalt Festival (Melbourne Recital Centre), Open East Festival, L’Orfeo (Barbican), Alice in Wonderland, Shelf Life (Volcano Theatre Company), Suicide Note From Palestine (Freedom Theatre), Sense & Sensibility (Rosemary Branch Theatre), World Enough & Time (Fluff Productions), Jack in the Beanstalk (Polka Dot Pantomimes).
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Sally Hardcastle – Design Assistant
Sally Hardcastle is a performance designer and assistant based in London. Since graduating with a degree in Theatre Design from Rose Bruford College she has worked with organisations including Wild Rumpus, The Bread and Roses Theatre, 42nd Theatre Company, London Bubble and The Redbridge Drama Centre. She has assisted designers including Gary McCann, Hannah Wolfe and Takis. She is also co-founder of new theatre company, Matipo. Sally has a particular interest in new writing and community based theatre. She is currently designing Footprints In The Snow at the Winchester Discovery Centre. Sally is thrilled to be working with Moi Tran on this production of Dear Elizabeth at the Gate Theatre.
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Lucy Morris – Stage Management Support
Lucy is a London based Stage Manager. She trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, graduating with a BA(Hons) in Stage Management. Her work at Central includes Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. (Deputy Stage Manager) and she interned on Punchdrunk’s Small Wonders. Professional credits include Suffrageddon (Stage Manager) and The House Fairy (Assistant Stage Manager). Lucy is also the co-founder and General Manager of Ondervinden.
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Jessica Hung Han Yun – Lighting Designer
Lighting Designer credits include: EQUUS (ETT); Pah-la (Royal Court); Armadillo (The Yard); Seven Methods of Killing Kylie (Royal Court);The Human Voice (Gate Theatre); Cuckoo (Metal Rabbit Productions); Snowflake (Arts Old Fire Station); One (Bert & Nasi International Tour); Forgotten (Yellow Earth & Moongate UK Tour); Dear Elizabeth (Gate Theatre); Into The Clouds (Nonsuch Theatre Company International Tour); Hive City Legacy (Hot Brown Honey & Roundhouse);The Party’s Over (Nonsuch Theatre Company); Gypsy Disco (Boomtown Festival); Becoming Shades (Chivaree Circus); Nine Foot Nine (Sleepless Theatre Company).
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Ellen McDougall – Artistic Director and Joint CEO (2017-2022)
Ellen is Artistic Director at the Gate Theatre. Previous credits at the Gate include – Dear Elizabeth (2019), Effigies of Wickedness (2018), The Unknown Island (2017) and Idomeneus (2014). Other credits include Our Town (Regents Open Air) and The Wolves (Stratford East); Othello (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at the Globe); the Lyric’s annual pantomime – Aladdin (2016) and Cinderella (2015); The Rolling Stone (Orange Tree Theatre and Manchester Royal Exchange); The Remains of Maisie Duggan (Abbey Theatre, Dublin); The Glass Menagerie (Headlong); Anna Karenina (Manchester Royal Exchange); Henry the Fifth (Unicorn Theatre); Glitterland (Secret Theatre/Lyric Hammersmith) and Ivan and the Dogs (Actors Touring Company/Soho Theatre) – nominated for an Olivier Award. Ellen was formerly part of the Secret Theatre Company at the Lyric Hammersmith. She trained as an assistant to Katie Mitchell and Marianne Elliott. She was awarded an International Artists’ Development Award (ACE/British Council) in 2012.
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Moi Tran – Co-Director
Moi Tran is an Artist/Performance maker/Researcher and Designer, her practice explores the intersections between Contemporary Art and Live Performance. Tran’s work includes as set & costume designer for Theatre, Film, Dance and Opera. She is founder of East Asian Ticket Club, an engagement platform for the BESEA community. Recent Theatre include: Chiaroscuro(Bush);White Pearl(Royal Court);Dear Elizabeth(Gate); Summer Rolls (Park); Under the Umbrella (Belgrade/Tara Arts);Deluge (Hampstead). Recent Art Performance include: The Bolero Effect - (VCCA Vietnam ,Hanoi);The Circuit- A Movement Scenario (Prague Quadrennial/OvalSpace/SPILL Festival);Three Women and a Duck (Vietnam, Laos, Thailand);The Other day you sat too far away from me( Henry Moore Courtyard);SLEEP( Live Art Development Agency, Royal Court). Recent Awards/Commissions include: ArtHouse Artist in Residence;SPILL Festival; Curator Encounter Bow Chisenhale Dance; British Council Vietnam 2019;Arts and Culture Fellowship SEA 2019; OV12 Artist 2018.
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Nina Harding – Stage Manager
Nina studied Theatre: Writing, Directing and Performance at the University of York. Since graduating in 2017, she has worked as a Stage Manager in London. Credits include: Stage Manager-Props: A Small Place (Gate Theatre).  Technical Assistant Stage Manager: Cinderella (The New Victoria Theatre), and Home Sweet Home (Tour). Assistant Stage Manager: Dido (Unicorn Theatre), and Dear Elizabeth (Gate Theatre). Stage Manager on The Book: Stripped (The Kings Head Theatre), Catherine and Anita (The Kings Head Theatre), Yokes Night (Theatre Royal Stratford East), and The Melting Pot (Finborough Theatre).
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Nigel Barrett – Performer
Nigel Barrett is an award winning actor and theatre maker. He is a member of the shunt collective and has been working with Louise Mari since 2006, when they started the shunt lounge together – the infamous arts venue under London Bridge Station. He is also an associate director with Sulayman Al-Bassam Theatre and Sabab, with whom he made The Arabic Shakespeare Trilogy for the RSC, Peter Brooks Bouffe du Nord and BAM New York. Theatre includes :- THE MYSTERIES (Royal Exchange Manchester), 100: UNEARTHED (Wildworks), PARTY SKILLS FOR THE END OF THE WORLD (Manchester International Festival and Shoreditch Town Hall), KINGDOM COME (RSC), MARGATE/DREAMLAND (Shoreditch Town Hall), BLASTED (Barrel Organ / Styx), Big Bad Wolf in BADDIES the Musical (Unicorn Theatre), THE EYE TEST (National Theatre), EVERYONE (Chris Goode and Co), THE IPHIGENIA QUARTET (The Gate), CYRANO DE BERGERAC (Northern Stage Co), PRAXIS MAKES PERFECT (NTW / Berlin Festspiele), MAD MAN (Theatre Royal Plymouth), THERE HAS POSSIBLY BEEN AN INCIDENT (Royal Exchange Manchester), GET STUFF BREAK FREE ( National Theatre), THE PASSION (National Theatre Wales/Wildworks ), PERICLES (Regents Park) and RICHARD III - An Arab Tragedy (RSC). Film and television includes :- DOCTORS , CYCLES , THE GOSPEL OF US, THE BOAT, HELLO YOU, CASUALTY, MEET THE PILTDOWNS, HAIRY EYEBALL, DAWSON’S CREEK SPECIAL, THE MYSTERIES, DEADLINE, THE LENS, SEXUAL HEALING, ENGLAND MY ENGLAND
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Yasmin Hafesji
Yasmin Hafesji is Associate Director at the Gate. She was a member of the Young Vic Introduction to Directing Programme 2017, led by Natalie Abrahami. As director, theatre includes: George (Gate Generations, Gate Theatre); LETTERS (Gate Theatre Online, Co-Director), Rhino(s) (Lyric Evolution Festival, Lyric Hammersmith); Rashida (Fresh Direction: Replay project, as part of the Young Vic Directors Program, Young Vic, Maria); Two Heads and a Hand & The Jokers (Shubbak Festival Staged Reading, Gate Theatre); A Little Iraqi (The Upsetters Takeover Festival, Bunker Theatre); Watch Me Dance! (White City Youth Theatre Summer Project, Bush Theatre); Young Writers Group Showcase (Bush Theatre, Studio). As assistant director, theatre includes: Women Beware Women (Globe Theatre); Fairview (Young Vic Theatre); Dear Elizabeth (Gate Theatre); The Mob Reformers (Lyric Hammersmith).
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“I hope you aren’t thinking that I am a) dead b) annoyed. I’m neither, but I did have flu.”

Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell were two of America’s most brilliant poets. Throughout their lifetime, they wrote over 400 letters to each other; spanning decades, continents, political eras. Their connection was messy and profound, platonic yet romantic, intense and intangible. A love that resists easy definition.

These are their words.

Susan Smith Blackburn award winner Sarah Ruhl has crafted a stunning and quietly bold piece of theatre about what it means to love someone, and all the questions we regret never asking.

CAST

We’re excited to announce that two different performers will take the roles of Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell for each performance. They will meet each other, the audience, and the story of Robert and Elizabeth at the same time. They won’t know how the story ends: they will discover it with the audience.
The performers include:

Keep checking our website for updates on who will be performing and when.

17 January – Thalissa Teixeira & Sam Spruell
18 January – Shalisha James-Davis & Emun Elliott
19 January – Lucy McCormick & Annabel Baldwin
21 January – Caoilfhionn Dunne & Joseph Akubeze
22 January – Jade Anouka & Jonjo O’Neill
23 January – Nina Bowers & Phoebe Fox
24 January – Tamsin Greig & Angus Wright
25 January – Travis Alabanza & Charlotte Josephine
26 January matinee – Amelia Stubberfield & Angela Clerkin
26 January evening –  Christopher Green & Chris Brett Bailey
28 January – Temi- Wilkey & Seiriol Davies
29 January – Emma Dennis Edwards & Elizabeth Chan
30 January matinee – Jo Clifford & Paul Bazely
30 January evening – Linda Broughton & Jon Foster
31 January – Kwame Owusu & Frankie Henry
1 Februrary – Samuel West & Jo Horton
2 February matinee – Emma Frankland & Neil D’Souza
2 February evening – Tim Crouch & Nadia Albina
4 February – Lois Chimimba & Sule Rimi
5 February  – Sue MacLaine & Paul Ready
6 February matinee – Lucy Bairstow & Gabby Wong
6 February evening – Shane Zaza & Amanda Hale
7 February – Chris Thorpe & Kayla Meikle
8 February – Lucy Ellinson & Leo Bill
9 February matinee – Isabel Adomakoh Young & Helena Lymbery
9 February evening – Dickie Beau & Hattie Morahan

Running Time: Approx. 1 hour 40 minutes.

★★ ★★ ★★ EXTRA DATES ADDED DUE TO POPULAR DEMAND ★★ ★★ ★★

11 February evening –  Anjana Vasan & Tobias Menzies
12 February evening – Luke Norris & Eileen Walsh
13 February matinee – Kwong Loke & Annie Siddons
13  February evening – Michael Shaeffer & Martina Laird
14 February evening –Susan Wokoma & Hammed Animashaun

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