Tender

Cast & Creatives

Casting to be announced.

• Eleanor Tindall

  Writer

  
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  Eleanor Tindall

  Writer

  Eleanor is a writer from London. Her play What If Orpheus Was Four Sad Women was one of the five plays shortlisted for the 2024 Verity Bargate Award, longlisted for the 2025 Bruntwood Prize and is under commission at Soho Theatre as part of their ReDraft Scheme.

  Previously, Eleanor’s debut play Before I Was A Bear (Soho Theatre) gained her a nomination for Best Writer at The Stage Debut Awards in 2020. She has been a member of various writers programmes, including Soho Theatre Writers Lab, & was part of the BBC Voices cohort in 2024.

  Eleanor’s adaptation of Macbeth, produced by the Donmar Warehouse, toured schools across Camden & Westminster & reached over 3500 young people.

  Tender was a finalist for the Ambassador Theatre Group’s Playwriting Prize in association with Platform Presents.

• Emily Aboud

  Director

  
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  Emily Aboud

  Director

  Emily Aboud is a Trinidadian theatre director. She was shortlisted for RTST Peter Hall Award in 2025 and 2023, and shortlisted for the JMK Award in 2021 and 2022. She is a recipient of the Evening Standard Future Theatre Award. 

  Recent credits include: Nine Sixteenths (Brixton House); Disco Inferno (National Youth Theatre); Sweet Charity (Mountview); Flip! (Regional Tour, Soho); Lady Dealer (Paines Plough Roundabout / Bush); SPLINTERED (Soho main house, also writer – shortlisted for the Tony Craze Award); Salt Slow (RCSSD); BOGEYMAN (Edinburgh Fringe 2022, also writer); Pink Lemonade (Bush). 

  Associate and Staff Director Credits include: The Harder They Come (Stratford East) and The Story (National). 

  As a Caribbean theatre maker, her work draws inspiration from the political community theatre she grew up making in Trinidad – a combination of music, movement, direct audience address, and theatricality.

• Alys Whitehead

  Set and Costume Designer

  
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  Alys Whitehead

  Set and Costume Designer

  Alys Whitehead is a set and costume designer who trained at Central Saint Martins.

  As designer, Alys’ theatre work includes: Bedroom Farce (Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch); Revenge: After the Levoyah (Summerhall); This Might Not Be It (Bush); The Angry Brigade (LAMDA); Sorry We Didn’t Die At Sea (Park); Snowflakes (Park); Lysistrata (Lyric Hammersmith); Sad (Omnibus); Maddie (Arcola).

  As associate designer, her work includes: Macbeth (Harold Pinter ); The Glass Menagerie (Rose, Belgrade , Alexandra Palace and UK Tour); Earthworks (Young Vic); My Beautiful Laundrette (Leicester Curve & UK Tour); Wordplay (Royal Court); Zoe’s Peculiar Journey Through Time (Theatre Rites/Southbank Centre & International Tour); Sea Creatures (Hampstead). As assistant designer: Dixon and Daughters (National).

• David Doyle

  Lighting Designer

  
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  David Doyle

  Lighting Designer

  David Doyle is a multi-award-winning lighting designer from Ireland.

  Lighting work includes: Bellringers (Hampstead /Paines Plough Roundabout); Bullring Techno Makeout Jamz (Royal Court/Paines Plough Roundabout/UK Tour); we were promised honey! (59E59/Paines Plough Roundabout/UK & International Tour); Life According to Saki (New York Theatre Workshop/Edinburgh Fringe); Instructions and Little Deaths (Summerhall); SAP (Paines Plough Roundabout/Soho Theatre/UK Tour); Nation (Paines Plough Roundabout); Boy in Da Korma (Jermyn Street /Pleasance); Fabulous Creatures and Anna Bella Eema (Arcola); Carmen, EAST, and Outlying Islands (King’s Head); The Last Show Before We Die (Yard/Bristol Old Vic/Paines Plough Roundabout); Douze, The Power of Wow, and Confirmation (UK & Ireland Tour); ADMIN (Project Arts Centre/Irish Tour); Brendan Galileo For Europe (Irish Tour); Richard Carpenter is Close to You and; My Name is Saoirse (International Tour).

  David also works as a producer and is currently the Executive Producer for Jermyn Street Theatre.

• Ellie Isherwood

  Sound Designer

  
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  Ellie Isherwood

  Sound Designer

  Ellie Isherwood is a sound designer, composer, actor/musician and synth-pop artist (BYFYN). Her “quietly ground breaking” work spans a vast array of forms, from site-specific theatre, to binaural audio experiences, to musical theatre. Recent work includes composition and sound design for Fringe First Award-winning production: Son of a Bitch (Summerhall); Rock DJ (New Diorama) and; The Odyssey (Unicorn).

• Jessie Anand Productions

  Producer

  
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  Jessie Anand Productions

  Producer

  Jessie Anand Productions makes theatre and opera that is fresh and playful. Since it was founded in 2018, the company has premiered nine new plays: Bungalow (Theatre503); Tender and This Might Not Be It (both Bush); Tiger (Omnibus); Orlando (59E59, New York / Pleasance, Edinburgh / VAULT Festival); Pennyroyal (Finborough); Yellowfin (Southwark Playhouse); MAGDALENE (Arcola) and Blue Thunder (VAULT Festival). 

  Other productions include the national premieres of Angus Cerini’s Griffin Award-winning play The Bleeding Tree (Southwark Playhouse) and Amy Beach’s 1932 opera Cabildo (Wilton’s Music Hall / Arcola). Jessie Anand Productions is thirteen times Offie-nominated and is supported by Stage One. The company returns to the Bush following the recent success of Maggots in the Studio.

• Broccoli Arts

  Associate Producer

  
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  Broccoli Arts

  Associate Producer

  Broccoli Arts produces theatre primarily for/by/about lesbian, bisexual & queer people who experience misogyny. Founded by Salome Wagaine in 2019, now run by Eve Allin, Broccoli exists to produce theatre that has variety, ingenuity and relevance. We enable queer writers and creatives to make work that is not defined solely by identity, aiming to produce work which is enjoyable, political & innovative.

  Broccoli productions include This Might Not Be It by Sophia Chetin-Leuner (Bush Theatre, 2024), Salty Irina by Eve Leigh (Summerhall, 2023) Before I Was a Bear by Eleanor Tindall (Bunker Theatre, 2019 & Soho Theatre, 2022).

  Broccoli is supported by Stage One.