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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:
