The 18-25 BYC in COMMUNION. Photo credit Harry Elletson.
The 18-25 Bush Young Company invites you to take a seat at the table. Pull up a chair, get [un]comfortable and share in the occasion.
COMMUNION noun
com.mu.nion
1: an act or instance of sharing
Whether it’s a raucous family dinner, an overdue catch-up with close friends, or the quarterly board meeting – so many of life’s important moments take place when we come together around a table.
The edges of the table are scuffed, table-cloth stained, and someone’s wedged something under one of the legs, but there is much to offer and much to experience. Join us in COMMUNION as we explore cultures, traditions, and ideas through stories and food. The first production from the new 18-25 Bush Young Company – created with and directed by Katie Greenall.
Adam Jefferys (he/him) is a Lighting Designer and Production Manager from Essex. Previously, he was the Technical Manager of the New Diorama Theatre.
Recent work includes: Foreverland (Southwark Playhouse); Playfight (Summerhall Festival); I Love You, Now What? (Park); The End, Communion, My Father’s Fable, Elephant (all Bush); The Bleeding Tree, Under The Kundè Tree (both Southwark); The Great Privation (Theatre503); The Olive Boy (UK Tour); Murder In The Dark (UK Tour); It Is I, Seagull (UK Tour); Soon, Pilot (both Summerhall); Philosophy of The World (Cambridge Junction); After The Act, War & Culture (both New Diorama); Project Dictator (New Diorama & Edinburgh); Jekyll and Hyde (Derby); Everything Has Changed (Tour & Edinburgh); Dorian (Reading Rep).
For more of Adam’s work please visit his website: adamjefferys.com
Georgia Wilmot is a set & costume designer. After graduating with a degree in Interior Design from Liverpool John Moores University, Georgia 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: Elephant (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 Cinema’s Blade Runner. In 2021 Georgia designed sets for the Bush Theatre’s, Project 2036 which included: Pawn (by Devon Muller), One Day (by QianEr Jin) and LimBo (by Latekid). In August 2021, Georgia returned to Bush to design the set and costume for the Young Company introductory performance Back Up! (Devised and Directed by Katie Greenall)
Writing and illustration: Georgia illustrated the first children’s book fromThe adventures of series, as well as working as a digital design content creator for My Trauma, My Healing with Simone Powderly. During the last year, Georgia has written and illustrated her first children’s book and created a range of illustrations as part of a diversity and inclusion campaign.
James Dawson is a Freelance Production Manager for theatre, opera and dance working across London, nationally and internationally with a passion for touring work, performance art and community projects.
Recent projects include: interactive children’s play space REPLAY (Southbank Centre); A View From The Bridge (Headlong); Love & Rebellion Festival (Birmingham Rep); Marikiscrycrycry’s GONER (global tour).
James has worked as a production manager with Young Vic Theatre, Unicorn Theatre, Hampstead Theatre, Battersea Arts Centre, Bush Theatre, Pace Live entertainment, National Youth Theatre, Chichester Festival Theatre and The Yard Theatre.
Katie Greenall (she/they) is a director, theatre maker & writer. Since graduating with a degree in Acting and Community Theatre from East 15, she has been delivering projects and making work with Young People and Communities all over London and internationally. She was worked with organisations such as the Donmar Warehouse, NYT of GB and the National Theatre. Katie is the Young Company Director at the Bush Theatre and Theatre Royal Stratford East. Previously she has directed Back Up!, ANTHEM & Pass It On at the Bush Theatre. In 2023, As We Face The Sun– which she co-directed with Bush Theatre Artistic Director Lynette Linton- was nominated for an Offie.
Katie also makes autobiographical work, that often explores fatness, queerness and community. They are the writer & performer of award winning autobiographical solo show FATTY FAT FAT and this summer will be at Edinburgh Fringe Festival performing their show BLUBBER at Summerhall.
Lois Sime (she/her) trained in Stage Management as Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Previous credits include: The Last Word (Marylebone); For Tonight (Adelphi); Brassed Off (Aberystwyth Arts Centre); You Bury Me (Paines Plough); Mother Goose (Hackney Empire).
Mateus Daniel is a Movement director, dancer and facilitator from south London. He has built a love and curiosity for telling stories physically that express themes of culture, race, change and transitions, and has used his experiences within dance and theatre to influence his current lyrical style. Mateus trained at East 15 Acting school in Physical theatre and graduated in 2019. Alongside performing he has been able to facilitate and lead various masterclasses in movement for companies such as Talawa Theatre company, The Pappy Show, The Almeida Theatre, The Young Vic and The BBTA’s (The Black British Theatre Awards). In addition Mateus is a 2022 nominee for Best Choreographer or Movement Director for The Black British Theatre Awards for his work on Passion Fruit at New Diorama Theatre. As Movement Director: Passion Fruit (New Diorama); Human Nurture (Theatre Centre); One Way Out (Theatre Peckham); Chicken Burger and Chips (Brixton House); The Boys Are Kissing (Theatre 503); Vardy v Rooney The Wagatha Christie Trial (Ambassador Theatre); As We Face The Sun (Bush Theatre); TERRA XYZ (Wonderland magazine); TRIBE (Young Vic); Stranger Things: The First Shadow (Phoenix Theatre), No More Mr Nice Guy (Broadway theatre/Bristol Old Vic)
Nicola T. Chang is an award-winning composer/sound designer for stage and screen. She was the Composer/Sound Designer on the 2020/21 Old Vic 12 cohort and a current BAFTA Connect Member (Film Composer). She was a co-winner of the Evening Standard Future Theatre Fund (Audio Design) in 2021, and has received four Off West-End Award nominations in Sound Design.
Selected theatre credits include: For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Hue Gets Too Heavy (West End/Royal Court/New Diorama); My Neighbour Totoro (RSC/Barbican); Kerry Jackson (National); Top Girls (Liverpool Everyman); TRIBE, Of the Cut (Young Vic); The Ministry of Lesbian Affairs (Soho Theatre); The Swell (Orange Tree); Macbeth (Leeds Playhouse); All Mirth and No Matter (RSC); The Real and Imagined History of the Elephant Man (Nottingham Playhouse); White Pearl (Royal Court); Dziady (Almeida), NEST (LEEDS 2023); Miss Julie (Chester Storyhouse); Little Baby Jesus (Orange Tree) and The Death of Ophelia (Shakespeare’s Globe).
Stella Wang is a stage manager and writer with an MA degree in creative writing from the University of Warwick.
Recent credits include: Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) (Kiln); Saw: Escape Experience (The Path Entertainment Group); Camden Fringe Festival (The Hope). Shows including Asian Girl in Therapy, Brown Girl Noise, Horrigan and Howell: Two’s a Crowd, Must Be This Gay to Ride, Friction Burn, Body 115, and Something to Take Off the Edge; DNA (Tara Theatre).
