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and breathe…
BY YOMI SODE
.
DIRECTED BY MIRANDA CROMWELL
Registered charity number 282167
and breathe…
By Yomi Sode
.
Directed by Miranda Cromwell
16 June – 10 July 2021
CAST PRODUCTION TEAM Sound Op 1
Callum Donaldson
Junior Production Manager
David Jonsson Tom Horton Animation
Steven Spencer
Composer & Musician Stage Manager
Femi Temowo Lorna Seymour Film Collaborator
Evy Dutheil
Head of Costume
Claire Wardroper Film Collaborator
CREATIVE TEAM
Luke Unsworth
Chief Technician
Writer
Jason Wescombe Stage floor by
Yomi Sode
.
Gemstage Ltd
Lighting Technician
Direction
Robin Fisher Production and
Miranda Cromwell
Rehearsal Photos by
Theatre Technician
Light Isha Shah
Fraser Craig
Paule Constable
Scenic Artist
Sound
Claire Barnett
Tony Gayle
Video Programmer
Video
Isaac Madge
Ravi Deepres
Composer & Musician
Femi Temowo
Design Consultant
Miriam Buether
Costume
Claire Wardroper
Voice Coach
Hazel Holder
Assistant Director
Ewa Dina
Cover: David Jonsson photographed by Ravi Deepres
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David Jonsson photographed by Ravi Deepres
AN INTRODUCTION BY YOMI SODE
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As much as ‘and breathe…’ explores a loss in the The sequence is very unorthodox. The team have
family, I really wanted to investigate vulnerability, had to make sense of prose poems and adapt it to
pride, and culture. I wanted to dig further into theatre, which has been a fun process for all of us. It’s
behaviour, and the conditioning of behaviour over been brilliant to observe as a writer as it’s also shaped
time in regard to Black men. I experienced situations the sequence through the editing process. There’s
on a personal level with little knowledge of knowing something very outer body about this that is hard
how to deal. My coping mechanisms often being to explain, especially speaking from such a personal
tucked away somewhere. space, about a family that still feel the weight of the
loss.
I was interested in the many ways I adapted to the
places and spaces I either belonged to or entered. I guess I want the reader/viewer to process loss
Each of them calling a different side out of me. differently in ‘and breathe…’ I want to explore grief,
This sequence of poems provided opportunities to whether in laughter, anger, or just utter confusion.
understand code switching on a more personal and I want a very natural response to something that is
protective level. A level that in some cases can be taboo to think about. I want people that have gone
unhealthy, as well as oddly comforting. through bouts of grief in waves of guilt, to know they
are not alone.
While sitting through the rehearsals, I began to relive
experiences of the protagonist, Junior by listening I have experienced more losses in the last two years
to David and Miranda interrogate and question his than I can remember. One of them being a family
actions. They wondered why he didn’t say or do member due to COVID, and all of them not given
something in various situations, they questioned enough room to reflect or mourn.
his motive in relation to his cousin, Ade. The points
Some close friendships are not as close any more.
raised were often mirrors held up to my face. A weird
There is also loss there. All these things happening
experience in the first instance because should there
with no pit stops to refuel. It’s just to keep going,
be an elephant in the room, it was me. And in some
running on empty. The more I wrote about this, the
cases, they freely asked “what was going on?” This (I
tougher it became. So, to watch and hear this back
believe) was a new experience for all of us.
has been difficult. Everything crashing into itself.
‘and breathe…’ goes further into this exploration.
I am thankful to Miranda, David, Ewa, Tony, Femi,
Each poem serving itself as the voice I did not have
and Lorna for allowing space for the many tears and
at specific points in time. Moments that speak for the
consoling. It’s as if all the venting I needed to do
book, MANORISM. Moments the microaggressions
then, I’m doing now.
could have been challenged, or moments to contact
a family member that could really do with a caring
call. It’s one thing to write these thoughts to be read.
It’s another thing entirely to write this for a stage
adaptation.
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Aneephya / ʌh,niːfɪə /
Aneephyitis is the release of the aneephya toxin into the blood
stream. Announced by a sound similar to that of knuckles quietly
cracking, it is triggered roughly between ages 9–11, continuing into
adulthood, and later old age. This is specific to Black people as a
result of weathering and trauma carried down generations.
Aneephya: In relation to ancestry
Secrets often carry through generations. As universal as this
phenomenon may be across all racial and ethnic backgrounds,
studies show that the levels differ dramatically when it comes to
Black people. Dr Senyo Eriife YGLT (hons) notes the following
from his recent book – Aneephya: From the Cradle to the Grave:
White families tend to spill their tea so freely their gardens become
soft, limp and infested with root rot. This is not the case within Black
families. It’s as if the ground beneath their feet struggles to flower and
when it does, it dries up and dies.
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THE COMPANY
DAVID JONSSON FEMI TEMOWO
Junior Composer & Musician
For the Almeida: Mary Stuart (also West End). Femi Temowo is an award-winning musician and
composer who draws on musical influences from
Theatre includes: Don Juan in Soho (West End);
both West African and American jazz pioneers.
Pigeon English (Bristol Old Vic/ Edinburgh Fringe);
His phenomenally successful collaborations with
Romeo and Juliet (Riverside Studios); Ghosts (Theatre
alto saxophonist Soweto Kinch culminated in a
Bankside).
nomination for the Mercury Music Prize, a BBC
Television includes: Industry; Deep State; Endeavour. Jazz Award for Best New Group, and several MOBO
awards. In 2003, singer Amy Winehouse appointed
Femi music director of her band and he was featured
on her debut, Frank (Island, 2003).
Theatre as composer includes: Death of a Salesman
(Young Vic/ West End).
Solo albums include: Quiet Storm (Femitone, 2006);
Orin Meta (Femitone, 2011).
Albums as guitarist/musician include: An Ordinary
Day In An Unusual Place, Us3 (Universal, 2001);
Frank, Amy Winehouse (Island, 2003); Conversations
With The Unseen, Soweto Kinch (Dune, 2004 –
nominated for Mercury Prize); A Life In The Day
Of B19: Tales Of The Tower Block, Soweto Kinch
(Dune, 2006).
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REHEARSAL
Photography by Isha Shah
Clockwise from top left: David Jonsson; David Jonsson; Femi Temowo (Composer & Musician), Miranda Cromwell (Director), David Jonsson,
Ewa Dina (Assistant Director), and Yomi Sode
. (Writer).
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From top: Femi Temowo (Composer & Musician); David Jonsson.
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From top: David Jonsson and Miranda Cromwell (Director); Yomi Sode
. (Writer).
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From top: Yomi Sode
. (Writer); Femi Temowo (Composer & Musician).
10CREATIVE TEAM
YOMI SODE
. Other theatre includes: Wolf Hall (RSC/ West
Writer End/ Broadway); ear for eye; How to Hold Your
Breath; Clybourne Park; The Weir (Royal Court); A
Yomi Sode,
. is a Nigerian British writer, performer, and
Midsummer Night’s Dream; The Cripple of Inishmaan;
facilitator. He is a recipient of the Jerwood Compton
Peter and Alice; Privates on Parade (Michael
Poetry fellowship 2019 and was recently shortlisted for
Grandage Company/ West End); Teddy Ferrara; The
the Brunel International African Poetry Prize 2021. He
Chalk Garden; Othello (Donmar Warehouse); Happy
has read his work internationally at various festivals
Days; Feast; Vernon God Little (Young Vic); 17;
and performed his debut solo show COAT to sold-out
Herons and Blasted (Lyric Hammersmith).
audiences. His debut poetry collection, Manorism, will
be published in spring 2022 by Penguin Press. Opera includes: Benvenuto Cellini; Satyagraha; Medea;
Dr Dee (English National Opera); Billy Budd; Entführung
aus dem Serail (Glyndebourne); Roberto Devereux
MIRANDA CROMWELL
and Cav and Pag (Metropolitan Opera, New York).
Direction
Dance includes: Romeo and Juliet; Swan Lake; The
Theatre includes: Death of a Salesman (Young
Red Shoes; Sleeping Beauty; Play Without Words and
Vic/ West End, as co-director); Rockets and Blue
Dorian Gray (Matthew Bourne).
Lights (Manchester Royal Exchange/ BBC radio 3 -
Oncomm winner for best Audio production); Half Paule Constable was awarded the Olivier Award for
Breed (BBC iPlayer/Talawa Theatre/Soho Theatre/ Best Lighting in 2005 (His Dark Materials), 2006
Edinburgh Fringe Festival/India tour); Magic Elves; (Don Carlos), 2010 (The Chalk Circle), 2013 (The
Hey Diddle Diddle; Sense (Bristol Old Vic); Pigeon Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time) and
English (Edinburgh Fringe Festival/Bristol Old Vic); 2020 (The Ocean at the End of the Lane). She was
The Rest of Your Life (Bush Theatre); Death and awarded the Tony Award for Best Lighting in 2011
Treason (Bristol Old Vic/UK tour). (War Horse) and 2015 (The Curious Incident of the
Dog in the Night-Time). She is also an associate
Miranda Cromwell won the Olivier Award for Best
Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures and a founding
Director for Death of a Salesman, which also received
member of Freelancers Make Theatre Work.
a Black British Theatre Award for Best Production.
TONY GAYLE
PAULE CONSTABLE
Sound
Light
Theatre as Sound Designer includes: Get Up,
Paule is an Associate Director of the National
Stand Up! The Bob Marley Musical; The Wild Party;
Theatre where her credits include: The Visit; The
Bumblescratch (West End); From Here (Chiswick
Ocean at the End of the Lane; ‘Master Harold’...and
Playhouse); Gin Craze! (Royal & Derngate Theatre);
the boys; Follies; Pericles; Nine Night (also West End);
Titantic – The Musical (Guildford School of Acting);
Pinocchio; Mosquitoes; Common; Angels in America
The Living Newspaper; Shoe Lady (Royal Court);
(also Broadway); The Red Barn; The Threepenny
Poet In Da Corner (Royal Court and Tour); Beautiful
Opera; wonder.land; Behind the Beautiful Forevers;
& Disaster (Deafinitely Youth Theatre); Salad Days
The Light Princess; Table; This House (also West
(UK tour); West Side Story (Bishopsgate Institute);
End/ UK Tour); The Curious Incident of the Dog in
Songs For Nobodies (Wiltons Hall, co-design with
the Night-Time (also West End/ Broadway); Phèdre;
Justin Teasdale); Lazarus (Kings Cross Theatre);
Death and the King’s Horseman; Waves; War Horse
The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Arts Ed); Candide
(also West End/ Broadway/ International Tour);
(Bridewell Theatre); Floyd Collins (Wilton’s Music
Saint Joan and His Dark Materials.
Hall) and On The Line (audio play).
11Theatre as Associate Sound Designer includes: Cinema (PM Gallery London/ Wolverhampton Art
Dear Evan Hansen (West End); The Girl From The Gallery); Inside Out (Royal Opera House/ Deloitte
North Country (The Old Vic/ West End); Matilda Ignite Festival); Patriots (Guangzhou Photography
The Musical (international tour); Tina Turner The Festival); One Love: The Football Art Prize (The
Musical (West End/ Hamburg & Utrecht); Jersey Boys Lowry, Manchester); Museum (Museum of Lost
(UK tour); Here Lies Love (National Theatre/Seattle Heritage); Runner (Dance City/ Tyneside Cinema);
Repertory Theatre); Groundhog Day (The Old Vic); A Tale of (ICA); 22 (Worcester Art Gallery); Tremor
Disney’s Aladdin (West End/ Germany); Beautiful (Channel 4); Only A Game (v Impressions gallery);
(West End/ UK tour); The Book Of Mormon (West Spectator Sport; Broken Channek (Cornerhouse);
End/ UK tour); American Idiot (UK tour) and Spring Tyneside Journey (Newcastle Quayside); Still.Moving
Awakening (Lyric Hammersmith/ West End). (Southbank Centre); and Turandot (Edinburgh
Festival / Tokyo).
Tony Gayle is a Sound Supervisor/Consultant for
Bird College, Urdang Academy, London School Ravi Deepres is an award-winning artist,
Of Musical Theatre, American Musical Theatre photographer, and film-maker with an international
Academy, Narin Gylman and Old Vic Events. reputation for focusing on the intersection of the still
and moving image. He collaborates frequently with
choreographer Wayne McGregor. He has also worked
RAVI DEEPRES
with other globally renowned choreographers,
Video
directors, and musicians, including Saburo
Theatre includes: Crave (Film Design and Immersive Teshigawara, Phyllida Lloyd, Michael Clark, Zoviet
Broadcast Film, Chichester Festival Theatre); France, Shobana Jeyasingh.
Josephine & I (Bush Theatre / Public Theater, New
York) and Raj Packet (New National Theatre, Tokyo)
FEMI TEMOWO
Other recent work includes: Launch Artist for Composer & Musician
ITV Creates campaign 2019; Legacy (Royal Opera
Femi Temowo is an award-winning musician and
House Olympic Gala Ceremony); BRIT Awards
composer who draws on musical influences from
Opening 2016 sequence in collaboartion with Wayne
both West African and American jazz pioneers.
McGregor (O2 Arena); Gain Line (Gallery Film
His phenomenally successful collaborations with
Installation in partnership with FVU).
alto saxophonist Soweto Kinch culminated in a
Dance includes: Atomos (Studio Wayne McGregor/ nomination for the Mercury Music Prize, a BBC
Random Dance); The Raven Girl; Woolf Works; Jazz Award for Best New Group, and several MOBO
Qualia (Royal Opera House/ Wayne McGregor); awards. In 2003, singer Amy Winehouse appointed
Deloitte Ignite Festival 2014; Quartett (Royal Opera Femi music director of her band and he was featured
House); Genus (National Ballet of Canada/ Paris on her debut, Frank (Island, 2003).
Opera House/ Wayne McGregor); MitoSys (Film)
Theatre as composer includes: Death of a Salesman
(Shobana Jeyasingh Dance); Eden : Eden (Atlanta
(Young Vic/ West End).
Ballet/ Wayne McGregor); Entity (Sadler’s Wells/
Wayne McGregor); Dido and Aeneas (La Scala, Italy/ Solo albums include: Quiet Storm (Femitone, 2006);
Wayne McGregor); Nemesis (Sadler’s Wells/ Tour/ Orin Meta (Femitone, 2011).
Wayne McGregor);
Albums as guitarist/musician include: An Ordinary
Exhibitions/Installations/Commissions include: Day In An Unusual Place, Us3 (Universal, 2001);
The Voice and The Lens (IKON Gallery); The Gain Frank, Amy Winehouse (Island, 2003); Conversations
Line Film and Video Umbrella (Rugby Art Gallery With The Unseen, Soweto Kinch (Dune, 2004 –
and Museum/ ICIA Bath/ Leicester Phoenix); nominated for Mercury Prize); A Life In The Day
Perspectives (Birmingham Cathedral/ Magnum Of B19: Tales Of The Tower Block, Soweto Kinch
Photos); Michael Clark, Monologue (Violette (Dune, 2006).
Editions); Union (The Public, West Bromwich); Pure
12MIRIAM BUETHER CLAIRE WARDROPER
Design Consultant Costume
For the Almeida as Designer: Hymn; Shipwreck; Claire is Head of Costume at the Almeida Theatre,
Machinal; Albion; Boy; Game; When the Rain Stops and during her time here has supervised many
Falling; Judgement Day. productions including: Albion; Boy; Hamlet; Oil;
Against; Dance Nation; The Wild Duck; The Tragedy
Theatre and Dance as Designer includes: King
of King Richard II. Prior to her time as Head of
Lear; To Kill a Mockingbird; Three Tall Women; A
Costume, Claire was a freelance Costume Supervisor,
Doll’s House 2; The Children (Broadway); The Jungle
working at venues such as The National Theatre, The
(Young Vic/ West End/ New York); The Trial; Public
Royal Court and the Young Vic to name a few.
Enemy; Wild Swans; The Government Inspector; In the
Red and Brown Water; The Good Soul of Szechuan;
Generations; Measure for Measure (Young Vic); HAZEL HOLDER
Glass.Kill.Blubeard.Imp; Sucker Punch; Cock; In the Voice Coach
Republic of Happiness; Get Santa! (Royal Court); The
Theatre includes: Death of England: Delroy; Death
Children; Escaped Alone; Love and Information (Royal
of England; Small Island; Nine Night; Barber Shop
Court Theatre/New York); Wild, Sunny Afternoon
Chronicles; Pericles; Angels in America; Les Blancs;
(also West End); Chariots of Fire (Hampstead
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (National Theatre);
Theatre/West End); Bend it Like Beckham (West
Uncle Vanya (West End); Pass Over (Kiln); Death
End); The Father (Theatre Royal Bath); The Effect;
of a Salesman (Young Vic/West End); Richard II
Earthquakes in London (National Theatre); Six
(The Globe); Dreamgirls (West End - as Resident
Characters in Search of an Author (Chichester
Director); ear for eye; Poet in Da Corner; Father
Festival Theatre/ West End); Red Demon; The Bee
Comes Home from the Wars (Royal Court).
(Young Vic / Japan); Guantanamo: “Honor Bound to
Defend Freedom” (Tricycle Theatre/ West End/ New Film includes: Small Axe; Silent Twins; Death on the
York/ San Francisco); Frame of View (Cedar Lake, Nile.
New York); The Cherry Orchard (Amsterdam); Toot
TV includes: The Power.
(Oper Leipzig).
Opera as Designer includes: La Fanciulla Del West
EWA DINA
(ENO and Santa Fe Opera); Turandot; Wozzeck
Assistant Director
(ENO); Suor Angelica, Il Trittico – Suor Angelica
(Royal Opera House, as Set Designer); Anna Nicole Ewa Dina is a director, facilitator, actor, voiceover
(Royal Opera House and New York); Boris Godunov artist & poet. She is currently associate director at
(Berlin Opera); The Death of Klinghoffer (Edinburgh Nouveau Riche and one fifth of Theatre Peckham’s
Festival/ Scottish Opera). resident in-house theatre company: No-Table. As a
facilitator, Ewa regularly works for Company Three
Miriam trained in costume design at Akademie für
and has worked with the Kiln Theatre, Central
Kostüm Design in Hamburg, and in theatre design
School of Speech and Drama, The Pleasance, The
at Central Saint Martin’s, London. She won The
Damilola Taylor Centre and has co-created and
Linbury Prize for Stage Design in 1999 and received
facilitated a workshop on music, movement and
the Evening Standard Best Design Award in 2010
storytelling for Talawa Theatre Company. Music and
for Earthquakes in London and Sucker Punch, and in
movement are integral parts of Ewa’s process; she is a
2018 for The Jungle.
confident mover.
Theatre as Assistant Director includes: Sunnymead
Court – Assisting James Hillier (The Actors Centre).
Theatre as Director includes: The Kola Nut Does Not
Speak English (VAULT Festival 2020); Omish
13(Courtyard Theatre); Route (Tristan Bates Theatre/
Bread & Roses Theatre/ The Hope Theatre).
Theatre as Curator includes: Pleasance Fringe
Future’s Festival Week One: The Future is Noir.
Work as Actor-Mover includes: BAFTA Craft
Awards 2021; How We Love (VAULT Festival 2020);
One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest (The English Theatre,
Frankfurt); Custody (UK tour) (Prime Theatre &
The Art Machine); Run It Back (Talawa Theatre
Company).
Ewa graduated from the Rose Bruford BA Acting
course in 2019.
14UP NEXT…
‘Adrian Lester and Danny Sapani
deliver note-perfect performances’
THE TIMES
WHATSONSTAGE THE OBSERVER
HYMN
Adrian Lester and Danny Sapani photographed by Zeinab Batchelor. Concept by Émilie Chen.
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Mrs Nadia Boujo Mr. John Duffy
Mr M R Bowley Jeremy & Annie Edge
Stuart & Vanessa Brand Mrs Ehrnrooth
Mrs. Shirley Brihi Jennifer and Jeff Eldredge
Mr. Hugh Brooks Manuela Eleuteri
Dr & Mrs Raymond Brown Rusty & Victoria Elvidge
Tom & Gill Budd Nina Kaye & Timothy Nathan
William Burnand Dr Lydia Estridge
Dr Nigel Burton Pam Evans
Mrs Karen Caines Mrs Joy Eve
Richard Calder Mr & Mrs P D Falk
Andrew Campbell & Elizabeth Allen Anna May Feige
Steve Campbell Julia Feld
Mrs R J A Carawan Gogo & Lux
21Mr Stephen Ferns Andrew & Anita Harper
Ms M J Ferrier Mr Roger Harris
Ms Susan Ferry Mrs Helen M Harrison-Hall
Annie Field David Harrison
Ms Frankie de Freitas Michael Hart
Noel Fitzgibbon Ms A Magdalena Haslinger
Ms Ann Fitzpatrick Sarah Havens & Gregg Sando
Mr Colin Fleming Ms. Barbara Hay
Sue Fletcher Mr. Nigel Haygarth
Jane Fogg Caroline & Charles Hebbert
Mr P L Folmer Stefanie Heinzel
Karen Ford & Geoff Howe Mr Frederik Henderson
Miss Marina Foxlee Mrs Greta Hendy
Miss Kathy Macnamara Malcolm Herring
Mr. Ross Freeman Mrs Melanie Hewitt
Ms Jane French Patsy Hickman
Suzy Frith Catherine Hill
Ms Theresa Froehlich Jane Hill
Richard Frostick Mr Richard A Hill
Karen Gabbert Armand Rebecca Hiscocks
Ms Judy Garton-Sprenger Mrs Rosemary Hood
Mrs Cynthia Geller Jude Hucklesby
Mr Charles Gibbons Gareth Hughes
Miriam Gilbert Phillip & Psiche Hughes Trust
Ms Sarah Gillies Mr & Mrs Anne Hunt
Ms Ruth Gladwin Patrick Hurley
Dr. Andrew Martin William Glass Ms Caroline Hutchings
Jonathan Glasson QC & Jamie Lake Joyce Hytner
Mrs Gisela Gledhill Mrs. Rosie Hytner
Erica and Andrew Glew Krystyna Ireland
Janine Goedert Ms. Jill Iveson
Ms. Jude Goffe Simon & Sally Jackson
Mr Daniel Goldblatt Dr & Mrs P January
Steve & Cristina Goldring Christine Jay
Sylvia Goodman Andrew Jenkinson and Eric Ho
Paul Grandidge Mr. Richard N. Johnson
Mr Ian Grant Judith Jonas & Arthur Barlow
Marianne Gray Ms. Ayesha Karim
Mr Jonathan Green Mrs Margaret Kennedy
Nicholas Greenacre Margaret Kinsman
Dr. Natalie Greenwold Mr Tom Knox & Susie Hilton Knox
Keith Griffiths Daniela Koppe
Carol Grower Simon Korn & Co
Sonia Gulati Miss Tessa Kulik
Miss Catherine Gull Mr. Peter Lawrence
Ms. Helen Gurden Alan Leibowitz & Barbara Weiss
Mr N Guthrie Rose & Dudley Leigh
Annie Hale Roy & Jill Levien
Rosemary Hanson Kaye & David Lillycrop
22Ms. Deborah Lincoln Mr. Anton Ozornin
Dario Llinares & Bogdana Butnar Ellie Packer & Bob Freidus
Mr William Lock Mr N Parker
Sara Luder & Charles Newman Mrs. Rakshita Patel
Frances Lynn Miss Michele Payton
Alison Mable Ms. Anne Peck
Andrew Macdonald Ben & Christina Perry
Mr. Brian Mace Mr Steve Peskin
Emma Stone Mackinnon Lisa Phillips
Ms Isobel Macleod Alison Phillipson
Julia Marlow Mr. Jamie Russell Pidgeon
Ms Alexi Marmot Mark Plant
Ms. Pamela Martin Sally Posgate
Kendall Massey Edna & Arthur Pottersman
Jonathan Matheson Sue Prickett
Elvire Matsumura Marie Prutton
Nan-Yeong & Stephen Matthews Valerie Rademacher
Miranda McArthit Mr. Simon Randall
Bob McDonald Mr. Mark Ransford
Mrs Kathryn Mcgeary Ms. Mary C Rawlinson
John McGinley Pam Raynor
Maura McGowan Tim Read
Ms Jane Mcintyre Liz & Nick Reeve
Anna and Christopher McKane A J Reeves
Lynette & Willie McKechnie Dr Nicole Reinhardt
Mr. Adam Mcnestrie Scarlett Reiss
Heather Lou Mease Mr. Terry Reynolds
Mrs. Lucy Menendez Anthony Rhodes
Mr John Middleton Ian Rich
Ms A Millar David Rooksby
Miss Elizabeth Millward Mrs. Vivien Rose
Kate Monney Roger and Carol Best
E. Craig Moody Dr. J. Sandelson
Robin Bold & Wayne Morris Carole and John Sayers
Steve Morrison Joan Schachter
Jane Mulcahy Edward Schneider
Miss Allison Munroe Mr Chris Scott
William Murphy Tanya Seghatchian
Mrs VG Murray Jason Seigal and Aude Breusse
Mr & Mrs R Myddelton Bruce and Susannah Selby Bennett
Lady Naseby Dr Sennett
Gavin Neath C.B.E Rebecca Servadio
Mrs Sara Niedringhaus Mr Naveed Shah
Mr Stephen Norman Ms. Emily Shamma
Mr & Mrs B J O’Brien Mrs Susan Shammas
George Oates Angela Siegert
Carly O’Callaghan Mark Silverstein
Mrs Christina Oliva Ms. Sarah Skelton
Mr Simon Osborne Linda and Laurie Slavin
23Peter & Moira Smith LEGACY GIFTS
Peter Smith Anonymous
Bridget Somekh Lord & Lady Attenborough
Kade Spears Dr Barbara Beryl Collier
Unni Spiller Arthur Donald Fleming
Mrs L Spitz Clare Hope
Mrs. Anna Spring Ann Totterdell
Mrs Lucy Springett
Ms Victoria Stable ACCESS SUPPORTERS
Charlie Stebbings The Sobell Foundation
Mel & Marilyn Stein
The Stephens family PARTICIPATION SUPPORTERS
Mr Stephen Stephens Anonymous Supporters
Elizabeth Stern Aspen
Janis Susskind OBE Simon & Caroline Clark
Deborah and Davis Taggart The Mildred Duveen Charitable Trust
R.W & J.Taylor Elm Capital Associates Ltd
Michael Thomas The Don Hanson Charitable Foundation
David Thoms Gregory Nasmyth & Samantha Rowe-Beddoe
Steve Timothy Oak Philanthropy
Louise Toeman Charles Skey Charitable Trust
Mr. Bruce Tozer The Steel Charitable Trust
Dominic Treadwell-Collins The Taylor Family Foundation
Mr Brian Turner The Garfield Weston Foundation
Mr Chris Turner
Mr William Underhill BUILDING & INFRASTRUCTURE
Anthony Unwin The Backstage Trust
Donna and Richard Vinter The Rose Foundation
Phill Ward LAD The Wolfson Foundation
Sue & Alan Warner
Sophie & Stephen Warshaw EMERGING ARTIST SUPPORTERS
Mr Roger Watson The Martin Bowley Charitable Trust
Mr Tim Watson The Eranda Rothschild Foundation
Mr Kiffer Weisselberg The Garrick Charitable Trust
Robert & Sue Welsford The Genesis Foundation
Mr John Welz Idlewild Trust
Annette Whamond John & Sarah McNeil
Ailsa White Gregory Nasmyth a& Samantha Rowe-Beddoe
Andrew K. Wilcock Universal Music
Dr Peter Willis
Jamie Wilson AMBASSADORS
Ms Ann E F Wingate Sue Baring
Mrs. Jo Wood Georgiana Boothby
Ms. Valerie J Woollven Sarah Elson
David Wurtzel Stamos J Fafalios
Ernerst Yelf Mary Francis CBE
Dr. Bogdana Zoica Michael Gwinnell
Andrew Haigh
Lord Hart of Chilton
24Rick Haythornthwaite
Dorothy Henderson
Michael Hoffman
Linden Ife
Jack Keenan
John Kinder
Lady Rosemary Leith Berners-Lee
Georgia Oetker
Nigel Pantling
Lady Rayne
Jessica de Rothschild
Andrea Sullivan
Martha Tack
Andrew Wilkinson
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ALMEIDA
Kenneth David Burrows
A Michael Hoffman
William Palmer
DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL
Sian Hansen (Chair)
Jamie Arkell
William Burnand
Rupert Gavin
Andrew Goldstone
Karen Green
Susan Hahn
Massimo Marinelli
Aliceson Robinson
John Shakeshaft
Ivana Todd
LOCAL LIAISON COMMITTEE
Susan Hahn (Chair)
Rob Edge
Caroline Hoare
Linden Ife
Mandy Leadley
Maria Marinos
Jennifer Meech
Deirdra Moynihan
Clare Parsons
Demelza Short
25CORPORATE SUPPORT
The Almeida presents critically PRINCIPAL PARTNER
acclaimed, award-winning
productions and was awarded
The Stage’s London Theatre of the
Year in both 2016 and 2018. All
our Corporate Partnerships are
bespoke and developed together PARTNERS
with each company to create the
highest possible value.
Benefits can include:
• Brand alignment with bold,
exciting and award-winning
work and a leading UK arts N1 N1
organisation
• Exclusive client and staff
entertainment with the chance
to meet actors and creative
N1
teams
• CSR fulfilment by helping to
support our young people and
community work
• Exciting staff engagement
opportunities and corporate
training
To learn more about how a MEMBERS
partnership with the Almeida can
help meet your business objectives
N1 N1
contact the Development team
on 020 7288 4932 or email
partnerships@almeida.co.uk
N1 N1
N1 these companies are proud to be local to Islington.
Thanks to all other corporate donors including Elm Capital.
26THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT
We are incredibly grateful to everyone who has supported us with generous
donations and encouraging messages since our closure. We are excited to
welcome back in-person audiences and remain determined to continue to
share our work in whatever way we can.
Three Sisters (2019). Photo: Marc Brenner
Thank you for your belief in what we do. Your support is truly appreciated by all of us at the Almeida. We look
forward to sharing some great theatre with you in 2021.
WAYS TO SUPPORT
Text ALMEIDA 5 to 70460 to donate £5 CLICK TO DONATE
Text ALMEIDA 10 to 70460 to donate £10
BECOME A MEMBER
Text ALMEIDA 20 to 70460 to donate £20
You will be charged the donation amount plus your standard network charge.
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