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THE MINISTRY OF LESBIAN AFFAIRS

17 Jun - 12 Jul 2025

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Kiln Theatre, Antic Productions and Damsel Productions present

The Ministry of Lesbian Affairs

by Iman Qureshi 

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The Ministry of Lesbian Affairs, the only lesbian choir in the country, are trying to win their place on the Pride mainstage. In a run-down church hall with an OWL (Older, Wiser Lesbian) at the helm, the ragtag choir navigate love, loss, and trying to agree on song choices. But despite their best intentions, they find that harmony comes at a price.

Packed with laugh out loud moments and lots of lesbian drama, this heartwarming musical comedy returns following its sold-out premiere at Soho Theatre in 2022.

The Ministry of Lesbian Affairs premiered at the Soho Theatre in a coproduction with Damsel Productions in 2022.

Important Information

Please note this production uses haze.

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Special Performances

Alcohol Free Performance: Mon 30 Jun, 7.30pm
Post show Q&A: Thu 26 Jun, 7.30pm

Access Performances

Captioned Performances: Thu 3 Jul, 7.30pm
Relaxed Performance: Wed 9 Jul, 2.30pm
Touch Tour: Thu 10 Jul, 6pm
Audio Described Performance: Thu 10 Jul, 7.30pm

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Ticket Prices

£15 – £40

Duration

150 minutes including an interval

Dates

17 Jun - 12 Jul 2025

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Music rehearsals

Cast

Fanta Barrie

Ellie
Fanta Barrie

Ellie

Fanta Barrie graduated from Rose Bruford in 2018 and went straight into Songlines (High Tide/Edinburgh Festival).

Theatre credits include: Belly Up (Turbine Theatre); The Loved Ones (Gate Theatre); The Ministry of Lesbian Affairs (Soho Theatre); The Lovely Bones (UK Tour); The Amber Trap (Theatre 503/Damsel productions) and The Cereal Café (The Other Place).

Television credits include: My Lady Jane (Amazon).

Liz Carr

Fi
Liz Carr

Fi

Theatre credits include: The Normal Heart (for which she won an Olivier award for Best Supporting Actress in a Play), And Others (National Theatre); Unspeakable Conversations (Druid Theatre); Assisted Suicide The Musical (Royal Festival Hall); The Ugly Girl, In the House of the Moles (Bluecoat Theatre, Liverpool); It Hasn’t Happened Yet (Wolverhampton Arena); George Dandin, Mother Courage, The Vagina Monologues (Graeae Theatre Company); The Exception & The Rule (Young Vic).

Television credits include: Loki Season 2 (Marvel Studios); The Witcher Series 2 & 3 (Netflix); Good Omens Series 2 (Amazon Studios); Better Off Dead?, This Is Going To Hurt, Then Barbara Met Alan, Who Do You Think You Are?, Criptales, Les Miserables, Silent Witness, CBeebies Bedtime Stories (BBC); Devs (DNA Films) and The OA Series 2 (Netflix).

Film credits include: Infinite (Paramount); Le Accelerator (Filmrage) and The Beaten (Short Film).

Zak Ghazi-Torbati

The Men
Zak Ghazi-Torbati

The Men

Theatre credits include: The Hypochondriac (Crucible Theatre Sheffield); The Busy Body (Orange Tree Theatre) Scratches (Jermyn Street Theatre); Hot Gay Time Machine (Soho Theatre/Trafalgar Studio/The Other Palace); A Girl, Standing (Theatre503); Twelfth Night (European Tour); Antigone/Lysistrata and Measure for Measure (Cambridge Arts Theatre).

Television credits include: I Hate You (Big Talk Productions); Doctors (BBC) and The Age of Outrage (BBC Wales).

Radio credits include: Cymbeline (BBC Radio 4).

Leah Harvey

Lori
Leah Harvey

Lori

Theatre credits include: Emelia (Shakespeare’s Globe); Girl in the Machine (Young Vic); As You Like It (@SohoPlace); The Wonderful World of Dissocia (Theatre Royal Stratford East); Small Island (National Theatre); Yous Two (Hampstead Theatre); The Tempest (The Donmar at King’s Cross Theatre/St. Ann’s Warehouse, New York); Henry IV and Julius Caesar (The Donmar at King’s Cross Theatre).

Television credits include: Sweetpea (Sky Atlantic); A Gentleman in Moscow (Paramount+); Foundation – Seasons 1 and 2 (Apple TV+ – BAFTA Nominated for Best Supporting Actress 2022); Search and Destroy (Hulu); Les Miserables (BBC One) and Uncle (BBC).

Film credits include: Tuesday (A24); Fighting With My Family (Channel 4 Films); On The Road (Revolution Films) and Dustbin Baby (BBC).

Georgie Henley

Ana
Georgie Henley

Ana

Georgie Henley is an actress, writer and director. She is best known as young Lucy in all three Narnia franchise films. She is a graduate of Cambridge University, where she starred in and directed many theatre productions and wrote and directed her first short film, Tide.              

Television credits include: The Diplomat (Netflix), Partygate (Channel 4 – Royal Television Society Award for Best Single Drama).

Mariah Louca

Bridget
Mariah Louca

Bridget

Theatre credits include: The Doctor (Almeida Theatre/Adelaide Festival/UK tour/West End/Park Avenue Armory, New York); Multiple Casualty Incident (The Yard); Burnt at the Stake (Or the Whole of the Truth) (Shakespeare’s Globe); The Ministry Of Lesbian Affairs (Soho Theatre); Best Of Enemies (Young Vic/Noël Coward Theatre); Maryland (Royal Court/Battersea Arts Centre); Queer Upstairs (Royal Court); Cherry Jezebel(Liverpool Everyman); Suspect Device (Kabosh Theatre/Outburst Festival, Belfast); All Mod Cons (Lyric Theatre, Belfast); Julius Caesar, Playing For Time, A Dream, The Sheffield Mysteries, 20 Tiny Plays About Sheffield (Sheffield Crucible); Tuesdays At Tesco’s, Bloom, Blossom, Bloom (Southwark Playhouse); Bumps(Theatre503); Ajar(Theatre By The Lake/Graeae); The Interview (The Mono Box/PLAYSTART) and The Vagina Monologues (Theatre Deli).

Television credits include: the forthcoming What It Feels Like for a Girl (BBC); Waterloo Road, Eastenders, Casualty and Doctors (BBC).

Film credits include: the forthcoming rom-com Jingle Bell Heist and Re-displacement (short).

Serena Manteghi

Dina
Serena Manteghi

Dina

For Kiln: English (Also RSC).

Theatre credits include: Otherland (Almeida); Bleak Expectations (Criterion); Hound of the Baskervilles (UK Tour); Hamlet (Shakespeare’s Rose); Eurydice (Soho Playhouse, NY); Build a Rocket (Stephen Joseph/ UK Tour); The Rise and Fall of Little Voice (Stephen Joseph); Echoes (Brits Off Broadway); My Mother Said I Never Should (The Other Place); The Railway Children (Kings Cross); HEART (Traverse); Mucky Kid (Theatre503); Agammemnon, Macbeth (Southwark Playhouse); The Tartuffe (York Theatre Royal); Some Small Love Story (Arts) and The Beggar’s Opera (York Theatre Royal).

Television credits include: The Diplomat (World Productions/Alibi); The Other Half (RangaBee/ Dave) and Mrs Wilson (Bronte Films/BBC).

Film credits include: Miss Jihadi (Heavy Wait Productions).

Shuna Snow

Connie
Shuna Snow

Connie

Shuna trained at The Poor School. She has worked for the RSC, the National Theatre and extensively in London/UK regional theatre.

Theatre credits include: The Ministry of Lesbian Affairs (Soho Theatre); The Swell (The Orange Tree); Brideshead Revisited (ETT); Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, Julius Caesar The Winter’s Tale (Mercury Theatre Colchester). Iron (Offies Awards nominated Best Actress – Old Red Lion Theatre); Hamlet (Actors From The London Stage, US tour).

Television credits include: Big Mood (Channel 4).

Film credits include The Boy In The Woods.

Creative Team

Iman Qureshi

Playwright

Iman Qureshi

Playwright

Iman Qureshi is an award-winning writer for stage and screen. Her break-out play The Funeral Director won the prestigious Papatango New Writing Prize in 2018 and premiered at Southwark Playhouse directed by Hannah Hauer-King. Her next play The Ministry of Lesbian Affairs also directed by Hauer-King, premiered on the Soho Theatre’s main stage in 2022 to great acclaim. She held the position of writer in residence at the National Theatre for a year in 2023 and is now writing a new play under commission. She is also developing new work with the Almeida, English Touring Theatre, Papatango, and the Royal Court and she is developing a new musical. For screen, she completed a two year first look deal with Paramount+ in 2021 and previously her short Home Girl, directed by Poonam Brah was selected by Film London for their London Calling short film slate and was later selected for the 2019 BFI Flare Festival. Her short film The Ceremony (Open Sky) was selected for the Vancouver International Film Festival 2022, and won Best Screenplay at the Artists Forum Festival of the Moving Image.

Hannah Hauer-King

Director
Hannah Hauer-King

Director

Hannah Hauer-King is an Olivier nominated and award winning director and dramaturg. Directing work includes: Olivier nominated The Swell (Orange Tree Theatre), Offie winning The Brief Life and Mysterious Death of Boris III, King of Bulgaria (Arcola Theatre/ New York transfer), The Ministry of Lesbian Affairs (Soho Theatre), The Funeral Director (Southwark Playhouse & UK Tour 2019), Circle Game (Southwark Playhouse), Fabric (Soho Theatre), Call Me Fury (Hope Theatre) The Amber Trap (Theatre 503), Grotty (Bunker Theatre), Fury (Soho Theatre), The Swell (Hightide Festival), Breathe (Bunker Theatre), Revolt She Said Revolt Again (RCSSD), Clay (Pleasance Theatre), Dry Land (Jermyn Street Theatre). Associate/Assistant work includes: Fiddler On The Roof (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), The Wife Of Willesden (Kiln Theatre, ART Boston and BAM NY), Romeo & Juliet (Shakespeare’s Globe), Daytona (Park Theatre & Theatre Royal Haymarket), Radiant Vermin (Soho Theatre), Titus Andronicus (Greenwich Theatre). Cabaret works includes: Witt n Camp (Soho Theatre), Siblings (Crazy Coqs), Lilith (Bunker Theatre). Hannah is the co-founder of Damsel Productions and was Resident Director at the National Theatre Studio.

Anna Reid

Designer

Zoe Spurr

Lighting Designer

Nicola T Chang

Composer, Co-Sound Designer and Co-Musical Director

Tingying Dong

Co-Sound Designer

Viki Calver

Co-Musical Director

Bethan Clark

Intimacy & Fight Director

Stuart Burt CDG CSA

Casting Director

Yael Elisheva

Associate Director

Khaled Abunaama

Dialect Coaching

Danielle Levy

Costume Supervisor

Production Team

Alysha Laviniere

Production Manager

Goose Masondo

Deputy Production Manager

Katie Bachtler

Company Stage Manager (Rehearsals)

Cheryl Firth

Company Stage Manager (Running)

Louisa 'Lola' Glading

Deputy Stage Manager

Georgina Pittman

Assistant Stage Manager (Book Cover)

Anna LeClair

Technician

El Theodorou

Sound No. 1

Franny Lagemann

Sound No. 2

Lisa Brindley

Wardrobe Manager

Calum Walker

Production Carpenter

Paul Salmon

Production Electrician

Rosie Stroud

Production Sound Engineer

Imogen Clarke

Lighting Programmer

Jess Wilson

Rigger

Set built by

Ridiculous Solutions, Steeldeck Rentals

Nadine Rennie CDG

Original Production Casting

Co-Producers

Emma Hall

Antic Productions

Kitty Wordsworth

Damsel Productions