RETROGRADE

Ian Bonar

Bobby

Theatre credits include Death of a Salesman (Young Vic/West End); Ma Vie en Rose (Young Vic); Jellyfish (Bush Theatre); Be Prepared (Edinburgh Festival Fringe/VAULT Festival); Arden of Faversham, The Witch of Edmonton, The Roaring Girl (RSC); The Blackest Black (Hampstead Theatre); Brilliant Adventures (Royal Exchange Theatre); Me as a Penguin (Arcola Theatre); DNA, The Miracle (National Theatre).

Television credits include: Deadline, I May Destroy You, Damilola: Our Loved Boy, New Blood, Holy Flying Circus, Going Postal.

Film credits include: Interlude in Prague, Spectre, Skyfall, Kon-Tiki, Starter for 10, 1234, Atonement, How to Lose Friends & Alienate People.

Ivanno Jeremiah

Sidney

Ivanno Jeremiah is a Ugandan-born television, film and theatre actor. He studied at the BRIT School of Performing Arts, and then at RADA.

Theatre credits include: The Convert, Measure for Measure (Young Vic); A Soldier’s Tale (City of London Sinfonia); The Nether, Truth and Reconciliation (Royal Court); Julius Caesar (RSC); The Suit (International Tour); Welcome Home (Pleasance Theatre); As You Like It (West Yorkshire Playhouse).

Film credits include: Woken, The Flood, Bees Make Honey, Film Stars don’t Die in Liverpool, Julius Caesar, The Veteran and Papadopoulos & Sons.

Television credits include: Lockwood & Co, A Discovery of Witches, Cold Feet, Counterpart, Humans, Black Mirror, Injustice, The Jury, Julius Caesar, The Hollow Crown, The Jury.

Daniel Lapaine

Mr Parks

For Kiln: The Invisible Hand, Holy Sh!t

Theatre credits include: The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare’s Globe); Other Desert Cities, Hedda Gabler (The Old Vic Theatre); The Winter’s Tale (Sheffield Crucible); The Dance of Death (Donmar at Trafalgar); All My Sons (Apollo Theatre); Scenes from the Back of Beyond, F**cking Games (Royal Court); Les Parents Terribles, King Lear (Sydney Theatre Co.); Island (Belvoir Street Theatre); Romeo and Juliet, Richard III, Hamlet (Bell Shakespeare Co.)

Television credits include: The Queen of Oz, Upright, Van Der Valk, Who is My Husband, Black Mirror: Black Museum, Black Mirror, The Durrells, Catastrophe, Critical, Vexed, Inspector Lewis, Vera, Identity, Moonshot, Hotel Babylon, Sex, The City and Me, Jane Hall, The Good Housekeeping Guide, Golden Hour, Jericho, Death on the Nile, Red Cap, Helen of Troy, I Saw You, Tenth Kingdom.

Ryan Calais Cameron

Writer

Ryan Calais Cameron’s For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Hue Gets Too Heavy premiered at New Diorama Theatre, transferring to Royal Court, then Apollo Theatre, West End in March 2023 (producers: Nouveau Riche/Boundless/New Diorama/Royal Court Theatre). At Black British Theatre Awards 2022 it won Best Production Play Award and Best Director Award [co-director]; at Stage Debut Awards 2022 the ensemble were joint-winners of Best Performer in a Play.

Other productions include Living Newspaper, My White Best Friend (and Other Letters Left Unsaid), (Royal Court Theatre); Human Nurture (Theatre Centre/Crucible Sheffield co-produced UK tour); Queens of Sheba [co-writer] (producers: Nouveau Riche/New Diorama/Soho Theatre) premiered at Edinburgh Festival Fringe and New Diorama, won Edinburgh Untapped Award, The Stage Edinburgh Award, Offie Award for Best Performance Piece. It toured UK and was revived twice at Soho Theatre before its 2023 run at Chelsea Factory, New York.

Also, Typical (Nouveau Riche/Soho Theatre) at Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Soho Theatre; Rhapsody won Off West End Adopt A Playwright Award 2018 and was produced at Arcola Theatre (Nouveau Riche); Timbuktu produced at Black Lives Black Words Festival, Bush/Theatre Royal, Stratford East (Nouveau Riche).  Ryan is the Co-Founder and Artistic Director of Nouveau Riche Theatre Company.  He also writes for Film and Television.

Amit Sharma

Director

Amit Sharma trained with Missing Piece 1 (Graeae Theatre Company). Work in theatre includes The Boy with Two Hearts (National Theatre / Wales Millennium Centre); One Under and The Solid Life of Sugar Water (also at the National Theatre) for Graeae and Theatre Royal Plymouth; Aruna and the Raging Sun for Graeae, the British Council, India and La Fura Dels Baus as part of UK/India Year of Culture 2017; Cosmic Scallies for Graeae and the Royal Exchange, Manchester; Iron Man for Graeae on UK and international tour; Prometheus Awakes for Graeae, Greenwich+Docklands International Festival, Stockton International Riverside Festival and La Fura Dels Baus, as part of London 2012 Festival. TV includes Then Barbara Met Alan, Hamish (Prix d’Italia winner, part of BAFTA-nominated Criptales season) and Thunderbox (part of BAFTA-nominated Criptales season). He was previously Deputy Artistic Director of Birmingham Rep, Associate Artistic Director at the Royal Exchange, Manchester and Associate Director at Graeae Theatre Company.

Frankie Bradshaw

Designer

Frankie Bradshaw is an award-winning designer for theatre, dance and opera.  She won the Best Creative West End Debut at the Stage Debut Awards 2019 jointly with director Lynette Linton for Sweat (Gielgud Theatre) and the Off West-End Best Set Design award in 2016.

Her many theatre credits include; Blues for An Alabama Sky (Lyttleton/National Theatre); Mad House (West End/Ambassadors Theatre); Local Hero (Minerva Theatre/ Chichester); Unexpected Twist, Two Trains Running (Royal & Derngate); House of Ife (Bush  Theatre); Hamlet (Dorfman/National Theatre Tour); We Started to Sing (Arcola Theatre); Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (Leicester Curve/UK Tour); A Christmas Carol, Beauty and the Beast (Rose Theatre, Kingston); The Long Song (Chichester Festival Theatre); The Lemon Table (MGC/Wiltshire Creative); Piaf, Skellig (Nottingham Playhouse); Assembly (Donmar Warehouse); Sweat (West End/Donmar Warehouse); Cinderella (Lyric Hammersmith); A Christmas Carol (Theatre Clwyd); Napoli Brooklyn (UK Tour/Park Theatre); Trying It On (UK Tour/RSC/Royal Court); Kiss Me Kate, Jerusalem, Nesting, Robin Hood (Watermill Theatre); Cookies (Theatre Royal Haymarket); On The Exhale (Traverse); Hansel (Salisbury Playhouse).

Opera designs include Macbeth, Idomeneo and Elizabetta (English Touring Opera) and for Dance, Pinocchio (Northern Ballet).

Amy Mae

Lighting Designer

Amy Mae graduated from the University of Winchester with a BA (Hons) in Stage Management and Performing Arts and went on to study at RADA, where she gained a merit in her Postgraduate Diploma in Stage Electrics and Lighting. She won the Scotsman Edinburgh Fringe First Award in 2022 and the Knight of Illumination award in 2015. She was shortlisted for the Arts Foundation Award in 2018

For Kiln: Girl on an Altar.

Theatre credits include: How a City Can Save the World, Wildfire Road (Sheffield Theatres); Shut Up, I’m Dreaming (National Theatre/School’s Tour); Vincent in Brixton (RADA);  Say Yes to Tess (Leeds Playhouse/Camden People’s Theatre); When We Dead Awaken (The Print Room at the Coronet); The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Heart (Royal Exchange); The Boy with Two Hearts (National Theatre/Wales Millennium Centre); Rockets and Blue Lights (National Theatre/Royal Exchange); seven methods of killing kylie jenner (Royal Court Theatre); Half Breed (Soho Theatre); The Playboy Of The Western World (Gaiety Theatre/Armagh/The Lyric Theatre Belfast); There Are No Beginnings (Leeds Playhouse); Two Trains Running (Royal & Derngate/ETT/RTST); Noises Off (Lyric Hammersmith); [Un]Leashed: Sense Of Time (Birmingham Royal Ballet); The Memory of Water (Nottingham Playhouse); The Trick (Bush Theatre/UK Tour); Wild East (Young Vic – Genesis Directors Award); Hansel and Gretel (Rose Theatre, Kingston); The Fishermen (Edinburgh Fringe/Arcola Theatre/UK Tour/West End);  Mountains: The Dreams of Lily Kwok (Royal Exchange, Uk Tour); Br’er Cotton (Theatre 503); Othello, Jekyll and Hyde, The Host (NYT Rep Season 2017); Half Breed (Talawa – Soho Theatre/Assembly Rooms); Start Swimming (Young Vic/Summerhall Edinburgh); The Ugly One (Park Theatre); Babette’s Feast (The Print Room); Sweeney Todd (Harringtons Pie And Mash Shop/West End/Off-Broadway).

Beth Duke

Sound Designer

Selected credits include: The Trial of Josie K (Unicorn Theatre); Akedah (Hampstead Theatre); Beauty and the Beast (Mercury Theatre); Amma VR Experience (Tara Theatre); Death Drop: Back in the Habit (Garrick Theatre/UK Tour); A Single Man (Park Theatre); Alice in Wonderland (Mercury Theatre); The Importance of Being Earnest (English Touring Theatre); Bridgerton (Secret Cinema); Mad House (Ambassador’s Theatre); Mog the Forgetful Cat (Royal & Derngate/Old Vic); Robin Hood (Bristol Old Vic); Death Drop (Garrick Theatre/Criterion Theatre/UK Tour); J’Ouvert (Harold Pinter Theatre/BBC); One Jewish Boy (Trafalgar Studios/West End/UK Tour); Typical Girls (Sheffield Crucible Theatre); Scenes with Girls, Living Newspaper (Royal Court Theatre); Isla (Theatre Clwyd); Tuck Shop West End (Garrick Theatre); Patricia Gets Ready (Pleasance Theatre/UK Tour); Gentlemen, Pipeline, A Fantastic Bohemian, Lovesick (Arcola Theatre); Reimagining (Almeida Theatre); Last Easter (Orange Tree Theatre); Mission (The Big House); One Under with Graeae Theatre Company (Plymouth Drum/UK Tour); Superstar, Anything is Possible if You Think Hard Enough About It (Southwark Playhouse); New Views (National Theatre); Silence (Mercury Theatre/UK tour); Together, Not the Same (Sadler’s Wells Theatre); Great Expectations (Geffrey Museum); The State of Things (Brockley Jack Studio);

As associate – The Manor (National Theatre); Gunpowder Immersive Experience (Tower Hill); War of the Worlds Immersive Experience (56 Leadenhall Street); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Tobacco Factory); Apollo 13 (Original Theatre Company); Dust (New York Theatre Workshop).

Juliet Horsley CDG

Casting Director

Juliet Horsley’s theatre credit’s include: Kerry Jackson, Welcome to Iran, Nine Night, Oslo, Twelfth Night, Peter Pan, The Plough and the Stars, Sunset at the Villa Thalia, The Suicide, As You Like It, The Motherf****r With the Hat, Three Winters, Treasure Island, The Silver Tassie, Blurred Lines, The World of Extreme Happiness, Protest Song, Edward II, Children of the Sun, Double Feature, Welcome to Thebes, Earthquakes in London (also on UK tour), The Holy Rosenbergs (National Theatre); Hobson’s Choice (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Disgraced (Bush); The Life of Galileo (Chichester Festival Theatre); Haystack, Ravens: Spassky vs Fischer, Botticelli in the Fire, Wild Honey, Hapgood (Hampstead Theatre); Thyestes, Light Shining in Buckinghamshire (Arcola); Copenhagen, Democracy (also at the Old Vic), Benefactors, Frost Nixon, Boeing Boeing, The Village Bike, A Taste of Honey (Sheffield Theatre)s; Ghosts, The Oresteia (Home, Manchester); A View from the Bridge (Liverpool Playhouse); Persuasion (Salisbury Playhouse); The Years Between (Royal & Derngate); Oslo (West End). Film includes Wall, The Send Off and the short films Boy, Alan and Samir and the Toughest Girl in the World.

As associate or assistant casting director, TV credits include: One Child, Jane Eyre, This Life +10, Afterlife,Party Animals, Rome, Murphy’s Law,Sex Traffic.

As associate or assistant casting director, film credits include: Tiger Raid, Take Down, The Painted Veil, Imagine Me and You.

Isobel Pellow

Costume Supervisor

Trained at London College of Fashion.

For Kiln: Girl on an Altar.

Costume Supervision includes: The Walworth Farce (Southwark Playhouse Elephant); A Christmas Carole (Southend Palace); Alice in Wonderland (Brixton House); House of Flamenka (West End); The Memory of Water, Blackout Songs (Hampstead Theatre); Urinetown (Royal Academy of Music); Green Eggs and Ham (Opera North); The Sweet Science of Bruising (Wilton’s Music Hall); The Crowning of Poppea (Hampstead Garden Opera/Jackson’s Lane Theatre); Five Plays (Young Vic); Britten in Brooklyn (Wilton’s Music Hall); Four Play, Clickbait (Theatre 503).

Costume Design includes: Twelfth Night (Theatre on Kew); The Lay of the Land (The Place); Death Drop (West End/UK Tour); Yes So I Said Yes, Not Quite Jerusalem, The Wind of Heaven (Finborough Theatre); Lysistrata (The Cockpit); Heather and Harry (Camden People’s Theatre); King Lear (Pleasure Dome Theatre Company); ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore (Tristan Bates Theatre); Tales of Offenbach (Opera Della Luna at Wilton’s Music Hall); Three Brothers (Theatre N16); The Xmas Carol (Old Red Lion); Sense and Sensibility, Mary Stuart,A Streetcar Named Desire (Oxford Playhouse); Blue Stockings,Hay Fever (Old Fire Station Theatre); The Accrington Pals (Ashcroft Theatre).

Jessica Mensah

Kiln-Mackintosh Resident Assistant Director

For Kiln: Girl on an Altar, The Wife of Willesden.

Jessica Mensah is currently the Kiln-Mackintosh Resident Assistant Director. She has trained on programmes such as: Stonecrabs Theatre Young Directors Programme (2021), the RTYDS placement at tiata fahodzi (2019) and the Young Vic’s Introduction to Directing programme (2017). She studied BA Theatre & Performance at Guildford School of Acting, University of Surrey. Her short film I Stand Proud was nominated for two FFTG Awards & screened as part of the festival in 2021. Jessica is also the Host & Founder of the YouTube Channel and Podcast called Living in our 20s. As director, theatre credits include: Yerma (Lyric Hammersmith Theatre); House (Southwark Playhouse); The Life of Olu (Soho Theatre/Theatre Peckham/Golden Goose Theatre); DRUM (Omnibus Theatre); Tales from the Frontline – part 4 (Talawa); Signed, Sealed, Delivered (National Theatre).

As Assistant Director, theatre credits include: The Snail House (Hampstead Theatre); Typical (Soho Theatre); Queens of Sheba (Edinburgh Fringe/New Diorama).