Crowning Glory. Somalia Seaton

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      THEATRE ROYAL STRATFORD EAST PRESENTS

       CROWNINGGLORY

      By Somalia Seaton

      First performed at Theatre Royal Stratford East on Thursday 17 October 2013

       CAST

      (in alphabetical order)

      Halfbreed Allyson Ava-Brown

      Pickyead Toyin Ayedun-Alase

      Panther Lorna Brown

      Haircomb Sheri-An Davis

      Token Katie Hayes

      Bal-Ead T’Nia Miller

      Bounty Rebecca Omogbehin

       CREATIVE TEAM

      Written by Somalia Seaton

      Directed by Dawn Reid

      Designed by Nick Barnes

      Lighting by Chloe Kenward

      Sound by Sarah Weltman

      Projection Design by Dick Straker

      Movement by Coral Messam

      Associate Designer (Costume) Amita Kilumanga

       PRODUCTION TEAM

      Production Manager Chris Musgrave

      Company & Stage Manager Sarah Buik

      Deputy Stage Manager Marie Costa

      Assistant Stage Manager Cleo Maynard

      Wardrobe Manager Katie Aldous

      Video Programming and Video Editing Benjamin Walden

      Set Construction Factory Setting

      Hair & Makeup Allison Edwards

      Casting Assistant Naomi Money

      Casting Assistant Lauren La Rocque

       CAST

       ALLYSON AVA-BROWN HALFBREED

      Theatre Royal Stratford East credits include: Jack & The Beanstalk, Martina Cole’s Dangerous Lady Theatre credits include: Snakes and Ladders (Soho Theatre, Nightingale Theatre), The Swallowing Dark (Theatre503, Everyman Playhouse Studio), Praise Singer (Hackney Empire), The Wiz (Birmingham Rep, West Yorkshire Playhouse), Moonshadow Concert (Royal Albert Hall, tour), Les Misérables (Queens Theatre), London Road (National Theatre Studio), The Tempest, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra (RSC, Stratford, West End, tour), Hairy Fairies (Fick! Productions), Simply Heavenly (Trafalgar Studios), Les Misérables (Danish tour), Passports to the Promised Land (Nitro Theatre Company), Rent (Olympia, Dublin), The Villains Opera and Honk (National Theatre).

      Film credits include: Ambition to Live (One Umbrella/Tri-Force Productions).

      Television credits include: Secret Diary of a Call Girl (ITV2), Casualty, Doctors, Bear Behaving Badly, The Wrong Door, EastEnders, Sea of Souls, Kerching!, Holby City (BBC).

      Recording credits include: Love Beyond soundtrack, Simply Heavenly soundtrack, Return of the Jedi, Toni Morrison’s Beloved.

      Allyson has been nominated in the Best Actress category for the role of Martha Sullivan in The Swallowing Dark for the 2011 OffWestEnd Awards and also won the Mobo Award for Best Unsigned Act in 1998.

       TOYIN AYEDUN-ALASE PICKYEAD

      Theatre credits include: Peckham: The Soap Opera (Royal Court Theatre), Carpe Diesal (TimeWave Festival), Skeen! (Ovalhouse Theatre), Gang*Star (The Complete Works LTD), Ignite (Soho Theatre), Slamdunk (Hackney Empire).

      Film credits include: Clipper (Urban Media Production), Walls (Bohemian Pictures/The Coca Cola Company). Television credits include: Redbull Commerical (Gramma Films), Miss London Sketch Show (BBC3 Comedy).

      Radio credits include: Adana in British and Proud.

       LORNA BROWN PANTHER

      Lorna trained at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.

      Theatre Royal Stratford East credits include: The Big Life, Da Boyz, Funny Black Women on the Edge, Shoot to Win, One Dance Will Do. Theatre includes: Damned by Despair (National Theatre), Fear (The Bush), Clybourne Park (Royal Court, Wyndham’s Theatre), Short Fuses (Bristol Old Vic), Once on This Island (Hackney Empire, tour), Things of Dry Hours (Manchester Royal Exchange, Gate), 93.2FM (Royal Court), Trade (RSC), The Cry of the Cricket (The National Theatre Literary Department), The Homage Behind (The Criterion), The Weave (Soho Theatre), Anansi Steals the Wind (Talawa Theatre), Up Against the Wall (Tricycle Theatre), Othello (New Vic), Zumbi (tour), Once on This Island (Birmingham REP, West End), Miss Carib (Albany). Film credits include: Taking Stock, Les Misérables, World War Z, Gambit, Little Soldier. Television includes: True Love, Outnumbered, The Catherine Tate Show, Doctors, The Bill, The Vivienne Vyle Show, The Ronnie Ancona Show, Much Ado About Nothing, French and Saunders, Family Business, Holby City, Rough Treatment, Bad Girls, Casualty, Anna Lee.

      Radio Credits: The Big Life, Forbidden Fruit.

      Nominated for a Robert award (the Danish equivalent of the Oscar), for the part of Lilly in Lille Soldat. Lorna is also a singer-songwriter.

       SHERI-AN DAVIS HAIRCOMB

      Sheri-An Trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama on the BA 3 year Acting Course.

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