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Frances Poet is a Glasgow based writer of stage, screen and radio. Stage plays include: Small Acts of Love (Citizens Theatre 2025, Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Finalist 2026), The Prognostications of Mikey Noyce/ Fruitcake (Oran Mor 2022, Tron Theatre 2025), Still (Traverse Theatre 2021), Maggie May (Leeds Playhouse/Queens Theatre Hornchurch/Leicester Curve, Susan Smith Blackburn Finalist 2021), Fibres (Citizens Theatre/Stella Quines 2019), Gut (Traverse Theatre/Tron Theatre 2018, Writers’ Guild Best Play Award 2019) and the multi-award winning Adam (National Theatre of Scotland tour 2017-19.) Stand & Deliver: The Lee Jeans Sit-In will tour Scotland April-June 2026 (National Theatre of Scotland/Tron Theatre).
Frances Poet is a Glasgow based writer of stage, screen and radio. Stage plays include: Small Acts of Love (Citizens Theatre 2025, Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Finalist 2026), The Prognostications of Mikey Noyce/ Fruitcake (Oran Mor 2022, Tron Theatre 2025), Still (Traverse Theatre 2021), Maggie May (Leeds Playhouse/Queens Theatre Hornchurch/Leicester Curve, Susan Smith Blackburn Finalist 2021), Fibres (Citizens Theatre/Stella Quines 2019), Gut (Traverse Theatre/Tron Theatre 2018, Writers’ Guild Best Play Award 2019) and the multi-award winning Adam (National Theatre of Scotland tour 2017-19.) Stand & Deliver: The Lee Jeans Sit-In will tour Scotland April-June 2026 (National Theatre of Scotland/Tron Theatre).
Broadway: Stranger Things: The First Shadow, Cult of Love, Yellow Face, Suffs; Off-Broadway: Other(ShowTown), The Keep Going Songs (LCT3), The Apiary (Second Stage), Merry Me (New York Theatre Workshop), White Girl In Danger (Second Stage/Vineyard), Public Works’ The Tempest, Suffs (The Public). Love and appreciation for her family, friends, and Christian.
Off-Broadway credits: OTHER, Distant Thunder, Between Two Knees. Touring credits: SIX (Boleyn Tour), Hamilton (Philip Tour), Waitress (1st National), MOTOWN The Musical (1st & 2nd National), The Book of Mormon (2nd National), and Jersey Boys (Chicago Tour). Amber is a proud member of the Absentee Shawnee Nation of Oklahoma and graduated from the University of Oklahoma. As always, Boomer Sooner!
Broadway: Stranger Things: The First Shadow, Cult of Love, Yellow Face, Suffs; Off-Broadway: Other(ShowTown), The Keep Going Songs (LCT3), The Apiary (Second Stage), Merry Me (New York Theatre Workshop), White Girl In Danger (Second Stage/Vineyard), Public Works’ The Tempest, Suffs (The Public). Love and appreciation for her family, friends, and Christian.
Recent credits: Elevator Repair Service’s Ulysses at The Public, Ethan Slater’s Marcel on the Train at Classic Stage Company, BEDLAM’s Are The Bennet Girls Ok?. Larin specializes in building immersive worlds, blending theatrical realism with cartoon textures. You can see her work in a Plus 1s sketch comedy hour, or in The Magnet’s weekly Musical Megawatt.
Susan Keappock is thrilled to be joining KENREX. Selected Broadway: Liberation, Elf, The Cottage, Death of a Salesman, Chicken & Biscuits, To Kill a Mockingbird, Chicago, Wicked, Once, Rock of Ages. Off-Broadway: N/A, Nevermore: The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe, reasons to be pretty, [title of show]. Other: The Jimmy Awards. Graduate of Texas A&M (BBA) and Brooklyn College (MFA). Proud ATPAM member. Love to Lois, George, and Harry.
Broadway/tour: Titanique; Ragtime (LCT); Oh, Mary!; Parade (Broadway/tour); How to Dance in Ohio; Into the Woods (Broadway/tour); The Jimmy Awards. Off-Broadway: Audible Theater, Mexodus, Romy & Michele. Upcoming: Galileo, The Bad News Bears. showtown.nyc.
Raz Golden is a director of theatre and film. His work employs new and classical stories to dissect history, performance, and pop culture, while centering the stories of people of color. He has directed and developed work with Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the Orchard Project, New York Theatre Workshop, Hudson Valley Shakespeare, Second Stage, the National Queer Theatre, the Mercury Store, the Public Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, and NYU Tisch. He has been a NYTW 2050 Fellow, a Drama League 2019 Fellow, and a member of Roundabout Directors Group Cohort 2. As a filmmaker he has collaborated on numerous projects with the creative agency Adventure We Can.
Directing: Julius Caesar (Hudson Valley Shakespeare), The Seven, How to Catch Creation (Juilliard), Smote This (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), The Thanksgiving Play (Dorset Theatre Festival), What the Constitution Means to Me (Weston Theatre Company), Orestes (SUNY Purchase), Golden Leaf Ragtime Blues (Shakespeare & Company). Associate Directing: KENREX (dir. Ed Stambollouian); The Picture of Dorian Gray (dir. Kip Williams); Romeo+Juliet, An Enemy of the People, Macbeth (dir. Sam Gold); Good Night Oscar (dir. Lisa Peterson).
Film: Union County, Good One, Omni Loop. Broadway: Death of a Salesman, John Proctor is the Villain,All In, Romeo and Juliet, Stereophonic, Illinoise, An Enemy of the People, The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window, POTUS…, Slave Play, What the Constitution Means to Me. Upcoming: The Chaperones,Ancient History, Via Negativa, Thumb. TaylorWilliamsCasting.com
Sarah Golding is a movement director and choreographer working across theatre and contemporary dance. She co-founded SAY Dance Company, whose work has featured at the National Theatre, across the West End, and internationally in New York and China. Her work on the West End production of Cruise earned her a nomination for a Black British Theatre Award. Choreographer/Movement Director credits include: KENREX: A True Crime Thriller (The Other Palace; Sheffield Theatres); Once on This Island (Theatre Royal Drury Lane); ARCANE Shanghai (Punchdrunk & SMG Live); Jamie Lloyd’s Romeo & Juliet (SAY, Duke of York’s Theatre); Jamie Lloyd’s The Effect (SAY, National Theatre; The Shed, New York); Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Tokyo; London Palladium); Cruise (Apollo Theatre; Duchess Theatre);Donna Summer Reimagined (Roundhouse); The Songs of Joni Mitchell (Roundhouse); Dave Okumu Concert (Roundhouse); The Wizard of Oz (Watermill Theatre); Say Something (SAY, NDC Wales national and international tour); Little Women (Park Theatre); REVERB (Luail National Dance Company of Ireland tour); The Album Live (SAY, international tour); The Album (SAY, UK tour); Skool Edition (SAY, UK tour); Call to Mind (Maiden Voyage, UK tour); Kalena (Phoenix Dance Theatre); The Intro (BalletBoyz UK tour); Blood and Belief (U.Mi-1, London Fashion Week); STATE (Mapdance 2021); Into the Woods(LAMDA; Edinburgh Fringe); Amélie (Urdang); Carrie (Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama); Oh What a Lovely War (Mountview); Primetime (Royal Court). Performer credits include: STOMP (West End and international tour); The Album Live (SAY, Montreal); Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony 2022; The Internet is Serious Business (Royal Court) Performer. Film credits include: The Marvels(Marvel Studios).
Giles Thomas trained in Sound Technology at Liverpool Academy for Performing Arts.
Giles Thomas’ work in theatre as sound designer includes Man and Boy, The LeftBehinds at the National Theatre; KENREX at Sheffield Theatres, Southwark Playhouse and The Other Palace; A Christmas Carol(ish) at Soho Place, untitled f*ck m*ss s**gon play at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester International Festival and the Young Vic; Private Lives at the Donmar; Tao of Glass at Manchester International Festival & international tour; The Comeback in the West End.
As composer and sound designer, work includes ‘Master Harold’ …and the boys and Pomona (also the Royal Exchange Theatre and the Orange Tree) at the National Theatre; Dublin Gothic and An Octoroonat the Abbey, Dublin; Safe Space, Lord of the Flies, The House Party, The Vortex, Plenty and Cock at Chichester; The Crucible, The Contingency Plan and Contractions at Sheffield Theatres; The Glass Menagerie, The Almighty Sometimes and How My Light is Spent Wish List (also Royal Court) and Yen(also Royal Court) at the Royal Exchange Theatre; The Dumb Waiter at Hampstead Theatre; Faustus: That Damned Woman at the Lyric Hammersmith and Birmingham Rep; Equus and A Streetcar Named Desire for English Touring Theatre.
Previous theatre credits include: Measure for Measure (RSC); Noughts & Crosses (Regent’s Park); The Reckoning (Arcola); KENREX: A True Crime Thriller, Contradictions (Sheffield Theatres); Stranger Beasts, A Raisin in the Sun, The House Party, Corrina, Corrina (Headlong); The Hot Wing King, The Odyssey, Jekyll and Hyde — schools tour (National Theatre); Crave, random generations (Chichester Festival Theatre); The Human Body, Love and Other Acts of Violence (Donmar Warehouse); A Little Princess (Theatre by the Lake); A Christmas Carol (Rose); Untitled F*ck M*ss S**gon Play (Young Vic);Let the Right One In, Cosmic Scallies, How My Light is Spent (Royal Exchange); Wolf Witch Giant Fairy(Royal Opera House); Extinct (Theatre Royal Stratford East); The Litten Trees (Fuel); The Bee in Me(Unicorn); Going Through (Bush); Future Bodies (HOME); Nanjing (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse); Removal Men (Yard); Burning Doors (Belarus Free); Bodies, Midnight Movie (Royal Court).
Anisha Fields is a set and costume designer, and graduate of the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. She was named as one of The Guardian’s 12 theatre stars to watch, and was a finalist for Told by an Idiot’s Naomi Wilkinson Award.
Recent and upcoming credits include As You Like It, English and King Lear First Encounters (all Royal Shakespeare Company); Choir, Mom, How Did You Meet The Beatles (both Minerva, Chichester Festival Theatre); The Limit (Royal Opera House, Linbury); A Ghost In Your Ear, Octopolis, Blackout Songs (all Hampstead Theatre); Pandemonium (Soho Theatre); The Little Prince, I Wish I Was A Mountain, Squirrel, Wendy (all The Egg, Bath Theatre Royal); Robin Hood and the Christmas Heist (Rose Theatre); Kes (Bolton Octagon/Theatre By The Lake); Walworth Farce, Yellowfin (Southwark Playhouse); Alice in Wonderland (Mercury Colchester); Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Tobacco Factory/Salisbury Playhouse); Macbeth, A View From The Bridge, Beautiful Thing (Tobacco Factory).
Opera credits include, as costume designer, Pelleas et Mellisande, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Wahnfried(Longborough Festival Opera); Acis and Galatea (Buxton Opera House).
Theatre includes: Hamlet (Royal Shakespeare Company); The Drowned Man, Faust (Punchdrunk); Cops(Southwark Playhouse); Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, The Merchant of Venice (Guildford Shakespeare); Mae Riot’s Screaming Twenties (Tilted Productions); Scorpio (Theatre503); Love Suicides (La MaMa ETC); The Tempest (American Repertory Theater); True Love (Zipper Theatre). TV includes: “Young Sherlock,” “Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan” (Amazon Prime); “The Crown” (Netflix); “FBI: International” (CBS). Film includes: Florence Foster Jenkins, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, The Two Faces of January, The Conductor, Borg vs McEnroe.
Kelly Burke is a US actor and voice artist, often based in London. Favorite roles include: Off Broadway: Love for Sale. West End: Passion Play, Zelda, Natalie Barney’s Last Salon. Film/television: Macbeth, Bonding, Justice League, “Law and Order,” “FBI: International,” “American Gods.” Hosts the podcast “Mae Riot’s Screaming Twenties.” @kellyeburke
The Alcove at the Lortel presents… Yellow Wallpaper 2.0 2020 by Jennifer Maisel Directed by Jackson Gay
Cast: Amelia Workman and Arye Gross
Stage Directions: Neil Levi
FEAST! By Calamity West Directed by Elly Green
Cast: Jennifer Van Dyck, Michael Emerson, Christopher Innvar, Wayne Firestone
Digital reading premiere: October 16, 2024
The Revolutionary’s Son By Terence Anthony Directed by Delicia Turner Sonnenberg
Cast: Cheri VandenHeuvel, Eric Pargac, Elliot Sagay, and Pete Pasco
Digital reading premiere: October 1, 2024 (and on demand until October 15th on Vimeo with registration)
The Deodand, or: The Rat Play By Justice Hehir Directed by Joan Sergay Digital Reading premiere: October 23rd, 2023
Racist Actor By Daniel York Loh Directed by Lucy Jane Atkinson
The Brick and the Lucille Lortel Theatre’s Alcove New Play Development Program present Red Sky At Night by Eve Leigh May 22, 2023 7pm ET
