Scratch July 2023

Performed at the Lion and Unicorn

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July 2023 Plays & Writers:

And I Mean That Sincerely by Nathaniel Brimmer-Beller

Netch by Becca Chadder

A Very Proud, Ill-Natured Boy by Annie Keegan

Scotch Tape by Eddie Holmes-Milner

Postcoital by Siofra Dromgoole

Some of the Men I’ve Met Who Make Me Realise I’ll Always Be a Boy by Ros Watt

Actors:
Adam Mirsky, Gráinne Dromgoole, Emily Cosaitis, Naomi Denny, Warren Graham, Holly Godliman, Flo Guy, Jessica Enemokwu, Sara Hazemi, Catrin Walker-Booth, Tilly Botsford, Marcus Harman, Barnany Tobias, Misha Domadia & Ros Watt

Creative Team: 

Director/Curator – Izzy Parriss 
Creative Producer – Maddy Chisholm-Scott 
Administrative Producer – Enrose Ramos 
Lighting & Sound Designer/Technical Operator – Shane Gill 

Photography by Jake Bush

Meet the Writers

About Ross Watt: 
Ross Watt is an actor and writer who trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama on the BA Acting (CDT) course. In 2020 they were one of six who graduated from the Vault New Writers programme which culminated in a scratch at the Pleasance Theatre featuring their play, Care for a Cabaret. Ros will go on to work with National Theatre of Scotland on their latest production of Dracula : Mina’s Reckoning. Previous acting credits include, Godot is a Woman (Silent Faces), Wait Till The End (Pappy Show) and Never Swim Alone (Stonecrabs Theatre).

About Siofra Dromgoole: 
Siofra Dromgoole is an award-nominated playwright who has written four plays: Baby What Blessings, Ripe Tomato, If It Didn't Matter and Walk Swiftly and With Purpose, which have been performed to critical acclaim at theatres across the UK, London and Australia. She is currently under commission by Full Rogue Theatre to write a play pitched as "Succession in Ancient Greece" exploring the beginnings of Western theatre. She has screen projects in production and development, including with BBC and Netflix, and has taken part in the BBC Drama Writersroom and TV Drama Writersroom. Siofra's first radio play, F is For Furniture, was produced earlier this year for BBC Radio 3 and she has had a book of poetry published by the San Mei Gallery.  

About Nathaniel Brimmer-Beller: 
Nathaniel Brimmer-Beller is a mixed-race and Jewish playwright and director. He has directed 28 theatrical productions and written ten original plays, including five premieres at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (★★★★★ “Genius” - Broadway Baby), and multiple London runs with his production company Black Bat Productions. His recent works include theatre-industry satire The Kindness of Strangers at VAULT Festival, the 1970s-set musical thriller In Everglade Studio set for a Fringe run with Assembly in August 2023, and pressure-cooker story of Black and Jewish tension Blood Red Apples & Deep Gold Honey, which was developed with the Almeida Theatre and nominated for the George Devine Award in 2022. Nathaniel is represented by Independent Talent Group Ltd.

About Annie Keegan: 
Annie is an Edinburgh-based writer originally from Dublin. She was an artist on Druid Theatre’s FUEL residency 2019/2020, and participated in the Lyric Theatre’s New Playwrights Programme 2019. Previous credits include Down the Drain (Dublin Fringe 2018), Gonne (The New Theatre 2019), and Gabagool (No Touching Theatre Festival 2020). 

About Eddie Holmes-Milner: 
Eddie Holmes-Milner is a writer and director based in London. He is the Co-Director of Poets' Pens Productions and studies playwriting on the John Burgess Playwriting Course. In August, he will be assistant directing 'The Marriage of Figaro' with the Westminster Opera Company at the Chateau de Panloy, Port D'Envaux.

About Becca Chadder: 
Becca is a Playwright in Residence at The Watermill Theatre, was a Creative Associate at Jermyn Street Theatre from 2022-23, and was nominated for the Evening Standard Future Theatre award. Theatre as Director includes: As You Like It - Primary Shakespeare (The Orange Tree Theatre), La Voisin (VAULT Festival), The Poison Belt (Jermyn Street Theatre), Summer’s Park Adventure (Deptford Park), Her Romeo (Wee Red Bar), Number, Please. (Edinburgh Fringe/UK Tour). Theatre as Associate Director includes: Mandela (The Young Vic). Theatre as Assistant Director includes: The Importance of Being Earnest (UK Tour), Cancelling Socrates (Jermyn Street Theatre), The Ballad of Maria Marten (UK Tour), Cabildo (Wilton’s Music Hall). Theatre as Writer includes: Through The Looking Glass, The Girl of Ink and Stars (The Watermill Youth Ensemble).

About the Lighting/Sound Designer: 
Shane Gill is a freelance lighting designer based in London. Along with design, Shane works at Pearl in University College London where he fuses his love of theatre and science to create realistic immersive experiments to improve how people interact with cities. Recent design credits include Ikaria (Old Red Lion Theatre Pub), Blister (Dublin Fringe Festival),  Fridget (Dublin Fringe Festival, Winner of Little Gem Award), The Shaughraun (Smock Alley Theatre), Bump (Edinburgh Fringe Festival), Test Dummy, Electric (Irish National Tour) and Disco Pigs/Sucking Dublin (Reality:check productions).

Meet the Actors

  • ADAM MIRSKY

    AND I MEAN THAT SINCERELY

    Adam is an actor and theatre-maker whose work has taken him to Iceland, Ukraine, America and across the UK. He has experience in devising, physical theatre, musical theatre and puppetry, and his work ranges from site-specific community projects to major UK theatres and the West End. On screen, Adam features in SUBWAY’s latest advertising campaign and can be seen in ITV’s Endeavour.

  • GRÁINNE DROMGOOLE

    AND I MEAN THAT SINCERELY

    Gráinne trained at the National Youth Theatre and Oxford School of Drama. Since graduating, she has performed as Jessica in The Merchant of Venice 1936 (RSC, Watford Palace), in The Dance of Death (Arcola, UK Tour), Baby, What Blessings (The Park Theatre) and Ripe Tomato (VAULT Festival) which she co-wrote with Siofra Dromgoole. The Merchant of Venice 1936 will be re-opening at the RSC in September 2023. Radio includes: In the Absence of Geoff (BBC3), The Night They Tried to Kidnap the Prime Minister (BBC4) and Crooked House (BBC4).

  • EMILY COSAITIS

    AND I MEAN THAT SINCERELY

    Emily is a London / Maltese actress who trained at Rose Bruford.

    Recently Emily has Starred in the short film Scarlet, voiced over the Channel 5 documentary the Lady of the Lake, and performed a rehearsed reading of William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.

  • NAOMI DENNY

    NETCH

    Naomi is an English & Bajan actor and writer from Brighton. She is a Soho Theatre Writers’ Lab Alumni and is the first recipient of Tamasha Theatre Company’s artist mentorship programme. Theatre credits include: Maryland (Royal Court), All The Happy Things (Theatre503), Selected Recordings Of Us (The Space), Essentially Black (Soho Theatre), Paper Straws (VAULT Origins Award 2020). Television and film credits include: Breathtaking (ITV), Dreamland (Sky), Gateways Grind (BBC), The Sticksman Record (4Deuce Productions), Let’s Dance Again (Met Film School), Still Not Getting It (Girl Code Theatre), Misnomer (Aella Jordan-Edge).

  • WARREN GRAHAM

    NETCH

    Warren Graham is a 2020 graduate from Italia Conti and performed in numerous projects including ‘Swim’ which was a trybe House production performed at the National, alongside featuring in the upcoming short films, ‘Jujuman’ and ‘1up’.

  • HOLLY GODLIMAN

    NETCH

    Holly Godliman is an actor from London. She is a recent graduate from The Royal Welsh

    College of Music and Drama, 2020-2023 and has previously trained at RADA on their

    foundation course. During her time at RWCMD she was awarded the English-Speaking Union Award for Text and Shakespeare, and was chosen as a finalist for the Carleton Hobbs Bursary Award.

  • FLO GUY

    NETCH

    Flo has been acting since her early teens, training at LAMDA on the 3 year BA course from 2018-2021. After her training, she landed her first role in the ITV Drama ‘Tom Jones’, as well as acting in various short films, notably ‘Over Her Shoulder’, that premiered this May at the Castle Cinema. Flo has loved participating in Play Club, her self made drama group, and is excited to discover what work they can produce next, through their passion for improv and watching and learning from each others craft.

  • JESSICA ENEMOKWU

    A VERY PROUD, ILL-NATURED BOY

    Jessica Enemokwu is a British Nigerian actor. After securing a degree in Biochemistry from Queen Mary University of London, Jessica became one of the 16 actors who trained with the National Youth Theatre REP company 2022/23. Her recent works include Much Ado About Nothing at the Duke of York’s theatre, Gone Too Far at Theatre Royal Stratford East and Bakkhai at the Holloway Road rehearsal theatre. Jessica is represented by Dawn Green at Creative Artists Management.

  • SARA HAZEMI

    A VERY PROUD, ILL-NATURED BOY

    Sara Hazemi is an actor and writer from London. She recently performed in ‘A Sudden Violent Burst of Rain’ (Gate Theatre), for which she received an OFFIE nomination for Lead Performance, and has been in workshops at The Almeida and the Royal Court. Other theatre credits include: ‘Half-Empty Glasses’ and ‘The Ultimate Pickle’ (Paines Plough Roundabout REP tour); ‘Tales from Hans Christian Andersen’ (Guildford Shakespeare Company); ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ (Guildford Shakespeare Company); ‘Oedipus at Colonus’ (Cambridge Arts Theatre); ‘Othello’ (European Theatre Tour); ‘A Series of Improvable Events’ (The Cambridge Impronauts at Edinburgh Fringe, Gilded Balloon). Television credits include: This Is Going to Hurt (BBC); The Cockfields (Gold)

  • CATRIN WALKER-BOOTH

    A VERY PROUD, ILL-NATURED BOY

    Catrin is an actor, writer, and voice artist. She is a graduate of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, where she was awarded the John Wills Memorial Prize for Skills in Satire. Prior to drama school training, Catrin was a member of the National Youth Theatre’s Rep Company with whom she appeared in their 2016 West End season. Since graduating she has appeared in original productions by O-Region, the Hall for Cornwall, Kneehigh, Coppice/The Pleasance and in association with Exeter Northcott. Catrin has written for the G7's Behind the Postcard initiative, and provides dramaturgical support for emerging South West playwrights through the Hall For Cornwall’s New Artists Network. Otherwise, you’ll find her tucked into a blanket narrating audiobooks.

  • TILLY BOTSFORD

    SCOTCH TAPE

    Tilly is an actor and musician from South London who will be graduating from LAMDA this summer. Theatre credits include: Yseult in ‘Tristan & Yseult’ (LAMDA); Capt. Anna Sands in ‘Close Quarters’ (LAMDA); Actor-Musician in ‘London’ (LAMDA); Rosalind in As You Like It (Pleasance Theatre); Jenny in Mosquitoes (Bedlam Theatre); Anna in Going Slightly Mad (Bedlam Theatre Fringe). Short film credits include: Emer in ‘Sister’ (Will Peppercorn), Daughter in ‘You Will See Everything’ (Definitely Fine).

  • MARCUS HARMAN

    SCOTCH TAPE

    Marcus Harman has recently finished his run as the alternate Evan in Dear Evan Hansen at the Noel Coward Theatre, where he was a member of the original west end cast from 2019.

  • BARNABY TOBIAS

    POSTCOITAL

    Barnaby Tobias graduated from the Oxford School of Drama in 2020. He’s mostly known for playing series regular ‘Dev’ in Netflix’s The A List. Theatre credits include Artist Descending A Staircase (The King’s Head), Importance of Being Ernest (Theatre Royal Windsor) Edie (Theatre 503). He will appear in upcoming short films I’m Going to give You a Ticket (Marcus Liversedge) and Alone (Shian Denovan) and has recently finished a run of Cymbeline at the RSC (2023).

  • MISHA DOMADIA

    POSTCOITAL

    Misha Domadia is a British Indian actor who has completed the Acting Foundation Diploma course at LAMDA. Theatre credits include: New Horizons (Act II Festival), King George in Broad Daylight (Redbridge Drama Centre), Hildegard (Barons Court Theatre) and upcoming Brown Girl Noise (The Hope Theatre). Short film credits include: The Loud Truth (London Film Academy), Kira’s Big Day Out (University of Westminster), Unapologetically,Me (Essex Visual Arts). Misha also co-wrote and performed in In The Name Of for LAMDA’s MishMash Festival and has appeared in commercials for NatWest, Wimbledon & TikTok.

  • ROS WATT

    SOME OF THE MEN I’VE MET WHO MAKE ME REALISE I’LL ALWAYS BE A BOY*

    Ros Watt is an actor and writer who trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama on the BA Acting (CDT) course. In 2020 they were one of six who graduated from the Vault New Writers programme which culminated in a scratch at the Pleasance Theatre featuring their play, Care for a Cabaret. Ros will go on to work with National Theatre of Scotland on their latest production of Dracula : Mina’s Reckoning. Previous acting credits include, Godot is a Woman (Silent Faces), Wait Till The End (Pappy Show) and Never Swim Alone (Stonecrabs Theatre).

    *Written and performed by Ros

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