Team WaaH!
CAST AND CREATIVE TEAM
‘THE AMY’s ‘
AMY Dolan………………AMY DOLAN
AMY La…………………..SUNI LA
AMY Vieira………………NATASHA VIEIRA
RANI/CHARLEY…………DINA MOUSAWI
KERRY/NURSE…………RACHAEL HILTON
RABYAH………………….SHELLEY KING
Director……………………Poonam Brah
Designer…………………..Mila Sanders
Lighting Design…………..Ana Vilar
Movement Direction……..Elizabeth Ballinger
Sound Design…………….Hamid Seifalian
Stage Manager…………..Jessica Thanki
Production Manager……..Chris Corner
Web & Logo Design……..Ian McGregor
Rachael Hilton Kerry/Nurse
Graduated from ArtsEd School of Acting in 2007. Performed in rehearsed readings at The Rag Factory and The Orange Tree, both with writer Rachel Welch. She recently performed at The White Bear Theatre. She played Kerry in the original staged reading of Jesus Christ and Chocolate Pudding at Rich Mix with Kali. Rachael was in the original ComedySportz UK team, now based at Manchester Comedy Store. TV: Doctors and Grown-ups (BBC).
Shelley King Rabyah
Theatre: Free Outgoing, The Crutch, Mohair, The Burrow (Royal Court), Man of Mode, Women of Troy, Little Clay Tart, Tartuffe (RNT), Bombay Dreams (West End), Besharam, Bezhti (Birmingham Rep), Orpheus, The Modern Husband, Ion (Actors Touring Co.), Macbeth, Measure for Measure (Theatre Unlimited), Damian & Pythias (Globe), Troilus & Cressida, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Heer Ranjha, Danton’s Death, Antigone (Tara Arts), Top Girls (Royal Northampton). For Kali: Another Paradise, Paper Thin, Chaos, Calcutta Kosher, River on Fire. Film & TV: Code 46, Banglatown Banquet, A Secret Slave, See How They Run, Jewel In The Crown, King of the Ghetto, Tandoori Nights, Angels. Also many hours of short stories and plays for BBCR4.
Dina Mousawi Rani/Charley
Theatre: Ali To Karim (US tour incl Broadway), The Marriage Of Figaro (Players & UK tour), The Tempest (understudy), Mandragora King Of India, Journey To The West (Tara Arts), When Amar Met Jay (UK tour), Shakespeare And Tragedy (European tour), The King & I, Joseph And His Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat, West Side Story (Bradford Alhambra). TV: Coronation Street, Cold Feet (Granada), Dalziel And Pascoe (BBC), Gold, Wilderness Edge (Granada), King Girl (BBC), Just Us (ITV). Film: King of Bollywood (I Dream Productions), Asylum (Maximize Productions). Presenting: T4 (At It Productions/C4), Freedom Fighting, Capoeira (Satellite Productions), Shakespeare Works! (KJ Films).
Suni La Amy La
Trained at ALRA and graduated in 2008. Theatre: The Strong Breast Revolution (Canuk Theatre Co, Edinburgh Festival), Sohostreets (Soho Theatre), Hard Feelings, Arabian Nights, Shelter, Mr Paradise, The Cherry Orchard and The Winter’s Tale (ALRA). TV: Beamups, Buy in UK, Crimewatch.
Amy Dolan Amy Dolan
Since graduating from East 15, Amy has been working in TV, theatre and film. Theatre includes lead roles in two productions at the Unicorn Theatre London, Underbelly (Edinburgh Festival) and Theatre 503. TV credits include a lead in BBC drama Stand By Our Man and a supporting role in BBC drama Don’t Leave Me This Way as well as leads in commercials and short films. Earlier this year Amy went to Argentina to film a commercial and worked with film director Garth Jennings of Hammer and Tongs.
Natasha Vieira Amy Vieira
Natasha is from Jersey and trained in dance at Elmhurst School for Dance and acting at LAMDA and ALRA, graduating in July 2009. This is her professional stage debut. TV: Emma, Little Dorrit. At ALRA: The Heidi Chronicles, Daisy Pulls It Off, Tales from Ovid, Othello, The School Mistress, All’s Well That End’s Well, Why Do You Smoke So Much Lily?
Elizabeth Ballinger Movement Direction
Trained as an actor at Manchester Metropolitan School of Acting. Graduated from Guildhall School of Music and Drama with an MA in Training Actors Movement. During her studies she worked as Assistant Movement Director on Rhinoceros (Royal Court) and As You Like It (Watford Palace). She is currently an adjunct movement teacher at RADA and has taught movement and historical dance at Guildhall, the Drama Centre, Mountview, MMU School of Theatre and Rose Bruford. Other theatre: Movement for Fup (NT Studio), The Wake, A Lovely Sunday For Creve Coeur (RADA), As You Like It (Wein Kindertheater, Vienna), Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me (Barons Court Theatre), Work (Courtyard Theatre), Skunk (National Youth Theatre).
Poonam Brah Director
Poonam is passionately committed to fusing the potent combination of new writing with new theatrical form through a collaborative working method. Director: Unzipped (Maria Theatre, Young Vic), Daring Parings (Hampstead) Torn (Hackney Empire). Borderlines (Royal Court), A Sort Of Homecoming (Birmingham Rep), Winners, King Saturn (Soho Theatre), Chess For Asian Punks Losers And Dorks, Trees Aren’t That Thick (Readings, Stratford East), and Bells (Kali, Southwark Playhouse & UK Tour). Assistant Director to Richard Jones on Hobson’s Choice and Trevor Nunn on Skellig. Assisted Sean Holmes on a ‘revealing the process’ Julius Caesar (RSC). Artistic Associate at Stratford East, directed for the Soho Theatre new writing programme, for Kali’s new writing festivals and for the Royal Court International Residency.
Mila Sanders Designer
Trained at University of Wales and Wimbledon School of Art. Design: All the Little Things We Crushed (Almeida), Midsummer Night’s Dream (NT Education), Pub Quiz (New Writing North), Jelly Bean Jack (Little Angel), The Juniper Tree (Goat and Monkey), The Play of Daniel (The Clerks Group), Ruckus in the Garden, Who You calling a Superhero?, I’d Like to Thank the Judges (Hampstead), This To This (Union), 10 Suitcases (Kazzum). Costume design: Macbeth (NT Discover), Tombstone Tales And Boothill Ballads, St George And The Dragon, Jason And The Argonauts (Beggarsbelief), Unfolding Anderson (Theatre-rites), Pinocchio, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, The Little Mermaid (Kazzum).
Hamid Seifalian Music
Hamid has been an electronic music producer since 1995 and first performed on stage at Warwick University with the group 4UNO. He was a co-founder of the music and visual arts collective, Persistent Deviants putting on shows at the Trinity, Q club and Happiness Stans, culminating in their own festival, Wadstock ‘99. He then started an electro acoustic project, Vesl with fellow musician Graham Wakefield. Having worked with Poonam Brah as a sound designer in the past this is Hamid’s most realised theatrical sound design so far.
Jessica Thanki Stage Manager
BA in Theatre Production from London South Bank University. Whilst completing her degree she worked on many shows as an ASM and a 3 month placement at The Thirteenth Street Repertory Theatre in New York as a Literary Manager’s Assistant. Since graduating she has been ASM on pantomimes (West Wing, Slough) and ASM/Assistant Director on Another Paradise (Kali, Edinburgh Festival/UK tour). She stage managed Kali’s Talkback readings (Rich Mix) and The Maid (Odd Man Out Productions at Rich Mix). Jessica’s main interests lie in directing.