Clutch

Bella Kear graduated LAMDA in July 2021 with a First-Class Honours Degree in Production and Technical Arts.

Credits as Sound Designer include: The Animal Kingdom (Hampstead), The Night Woman (The Other Palace), First Love is the Revolution (East15), The Faith Machine (RADA), Darling (Hope Theatre), Flux (Theatre503).

Credits as Associate Sound Designer include: Purple Snowflakes (Royal Court), Blue/Orange (Theatre Royal Bath), A Place For We (Talawa, Park)

She also has experience working as a Sound Editor, Sound No.2, Vision Mixer and Camera Operator.

Charlie Kafflyn plays Tyler and is making his professional, theatrical debut in Clutch. Graduating from East 15’s World Performance in 2021 Charlie enjoyed training in a multitude of storytelling techniques from across the globe. He has most recently been in the award-winning immersive production Locked in a Box. Originally from the West Midlands, Charlie is looking forward to being ‘back in Birmingham’!

Geoffrey Aymer plays Max. His previous theatre credits include Jitney (Old Vic Theatre/Headlong/Leeds Playhouse); The Taxidermist’s Daughter (Chichester Festival Theatre); Sunset Boulevard (Royal Albert Hall); GHBoy (Charing Cross Theatre); Apollo 13:The Dark Side Of The Moon (Online Production); Two Trains Running (ETT UK tour); The Color Purple (Leicester Curve/Birmingham Hippodrome); Robin Hood And The Arrow Of Destiny (Theatre Peckham); The Plague (Arcola); Driving Miss Daisy (Frinton Summer Theatre/Canal Cafe Theatre); The Importance Of Being Earnest (Original Theatre UK tour); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Young Vic); To Kill A Mockingbird (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre/UK tour/Barbican); MacBeth and The Lightning Child (Shakespeare’s Globe); Neighbors (Nuffield Theatre, Southampton); Angel House (Eclipse UK tour); and The Big Life (West End). As a writer his theatre credits include The Wonderful (Theatre Peckham); Anansi and the Magic Mirror (Talawa Theatre); The Oddest Couple (Theatre Royal Stratford East). His television appearances include Mr Winner; Guerrilla; Eastenders; The A Force; and The Real McCoy. On film he has appeared in Sket and Rag Tag.

After graduating with a degree in Interior Design from Liverpool John Moores University Georgia Wilmot worked on Misfits S3 (Channel 4), and as a costume trainee on Monroe (ITV) before deciding that Set Design was something to be explored.

Georgia’s set and costume credits include: BACK UP!, The Route, Project 2036 (Bush Theatre), Covered (New Heritage Theatre at Paddington Arts Centre), Superdrug’s YouTube channel Christmas campaign 2017, I knew you (Birmingham Repertory Theatre), days of significance (Questors Theatre). In 2018 Georgia had the opportunity to create concept designs and illustrations for Designer Tim McQuillen-Wright for Secret Cinemas Blade Runner.

Writing and illustration: Georgia illustrated the first children’s book from The adventures of series, as well as working as a digital design content creator for My Trauma, My healing with Simone Powderly. For the last year, Georgia has been working on writing and illustrating her first children’s book and creating work for Ealing BEAT.

Laura Howard is a Lighting and Sound Designer originally from Croydon. She graduated in 2020 from LAMDA’s Production and Technical Arts course and was a recipient of the William and Katherine Longman Charitable Trust Scholarship.

Laura’s Lighting Design credits include Exodus (National Theatre Scotland); Juniper & Jules (Soho Theatre); Dead Air (Stockroom); Moreno (Theatre 503); SPLINTERED (Soho Theatre); Cells out (Camden People’s Theatre);  We Never Get Off At Sloane Square (Drayton Arms); SHUGA FIXX vs The Illuminati (Relish Theatre); curious (Soho Theatre); The Moors, Three Sisters, I Hate it Here, Sparks, Nine Night, and The Laramie Project (LAMDA).

Assistant Lighting Designer credits include: Amadigi (English Touring Opera) and Constellations (Donmar/West End).

Philip J Morris began his theatre journey as an intern at the Birmingham REP in 2015 following his graduation from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.  During his time at The REP, he became Senior Youth Theatre Director and was the instrumental lead in a pilot project named Up My Street which was created to work specifically with vulnerable young black men across the city. Philip spent 2 years working as a Project Associate with the National Theatre at NT Public Acts before directing two showcases with Neighbourhood Theatre at the Young Vic.

In autumn 2021 he directed Sessions produced by Paines Plough and Soho Theatre and this year made his international directing debut with the premiere of Bitches by Bola Agbaje at Residenz Theatre in Munich. He is currently working as an Associate Artist at Company Three and will direct Of The Cut at the Young Vic this summer along with producing his first audio project with LAMDA and Audible.

Philip is the Artistic Director of Trybe House Theatre, a company which works closely with young black men aged 16-25 to create a space where theatre is used as a supportive outlet.

Ruth Burgon is a graduate of LAMDA and primarily works in new writing. Credits as Production Manager include Never Not Once (Park); BACK UP! (Bush Theatre); Nora, Let the Right One In (LAMDA). As Props Supervisor: Old Bridge (Bush Theatre). Stage Management credits include: Black is the Colour of My Voice (Seabright Productions); Coming Clean (King’s Head); Six (Bunker Theatre).

Ryan Avery-Long is a theatre maker from Slough, now based in Glasgow. As a student at the University of Edinburgh he performed and directed shows for Bedlam Theatre. Whilst performing at NSDF, Edinburgh Fringe and touring with the Shrinking Violet Collective’s Barry!, he made it a point to emphasise trans voices in the theatre industry. Since the pandemic, he has directed online shows, participated in dramaturgy and sensitivity reading, and is preparing to launch a trans-led theatre company. His practice is informed by gender performativity, devising, accessibility, and radical politics. He is currently working on some (straight) couples, a series of vignettes about relationships between trans men and women. Overall, as a theatre maker he believes in making work that comforts the disturbed and disturbs the comfortable, and above all to never be boring.

Will Jackson is a Birmingham based writer and theatre-maker. His first play Magic Hour: The Murder Mystery Disco! won him the Singularity of Vision and Best Ensemble awards at the 2019 National Student Drama Festival. Will was named ‘A Rising Comic Star’ by Attitude Magazine for his solo show Yours Sincerely, which has toured over 80 performances across the UK to venues including Soho Theatre, Birmingham REP & Paines Plough’s Roundabout.

Other stage writing credits include Fashion Spies and Confetti which both debuted as part of Coventry City of Culture 2021 and are running at Edinburgh Fringe this, summer. His radio play The Life & Works of Veronica St. Claude staring Divina de Campo & Len Blanco will air on BBC Radio this year. As a divisor and facilitator Will has worked with companies including Stan’s Cafe, KIT Theatre & Told by an Idiot.

Will was one of the Bush Theatre’s ‘Emerging Writers’ 2019/20 and is a BBC Arts New Creative. He is an Associate Artist of the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain and is the Artistic Director of Quick Duck Theatre (a New Vic KILN Associate Company and one of New Diorama Theatre’s emerging companies 2019-20).