After Sunday

Sophia Griffin

Writer

Corey Campbell

Director

Corey Campbell is the Creative Director of the Belgrade Theatre, having previously been the Theatre’s Co-Artistic Director for 2021.

Corey is also the Artistic Director of Strictly Arts Theatre Company, formerly supported by the Belgrade’s Springboard talent development programme. Through productions such as Green Leaves Fall and the critically acclaimed, Edinburgh sell-out show Freeman, Corey has used a collaborative, devising process to bring stories from real people to the stage, building long-lasting relationships with audiences through targeted workshops and outreach programmes, with a particular focus on African and Caribbean communities.

In December 2019, Corey devised and performed in Club 2B, an immersive experience which saw the Belgrade’s B2 auditorium transformed into a cabaret lounge and featured live music, theatrical performances, and interactive gaming tables. Corey’s flagship production for the Belgrade in his tenure as Co-Artistic Director has been SeaView, a new digital television series created, produced, and filmed in the West Midlands using a unique Writers Room project which involved local emerging writers from the region. SeaView was created using theatrical devising techniques, from an original, pre-pandemic idea by Corey. It celebrates a Black working class aspirational family and all the things they
come up against on their journey to achieve great things. SeaView premiered at the Belgrade in 2021.

In 2022 Corey directed the new drama, Fighting Irish, which was a sell-out success and marked Corey’s final project for the Belgrade as Co-Artistic Director for UK City of Culture 2021, before he moved forward to commence projects as Creative Director. Most recently, Corey devised, directed and starred in the acclaimed Belgrade Theatre production, Big
Aunty in April 2023. In February 2024 Corey directed an acclaimed new Belgrade Theatre production of Romeo and Juliet.

Grace Barrington

Dramaturg

Grace is a dramaturg and playwright based in Birmingham. She enjoys working on plays that embrace complexity, test form and ask questions that get under our skin. Outside of writing, she works to build better cultural infrastructure in the city, particularly exploring how we grow and sustain creative relationships that are rooted in care. 

Claire Winfield

Set Designer

Claire Winfield has been at the Belgrade for nine years, first as deputy, and currently as Head of Paint shop for Belgrade Theatre Scenery. This is her fourth design on stage at the Belgrade Theatre. She previously designed Two Pints, 2025, Swim Aunty Swim, 2024 and Big Aunty, 2023. 

Before starting at the Belgrade, she was employed as the resident designer and painter for Harrow School, and as a scenic artist for Hornchurch and Nottingham Playhouse. 

XANA

Composer

XANA is a composer, spatial sound artist, music supervisor and a haptic specialist sound designer developing accessible audio systems for theatre and live art spaces. Xana is the music science and technology lead and project mentor supporting Black artists and inventors at audio research label Inventing Waves.

Theatre credits: After Sunday (Belgrade); Alterations (National); Conversations After Sex (Park Theatre); Pig Heart Boy (Unicorn Theatre); Shifters, Barcelona (Duke of York); Dead Girls Rising (Silent Uproar, UK Tour); Not Your Superwoman, Speed, The Real Ones, My Fathers Fable, Elephant, Sleepova, The P Word, Strange Fruit (Bush); The Architect (ATC/GDIF); Beautiful Thing (Stratford East); Imposter 22, Word:Play, Living Newspaper #4 (Royal Court); Rumble In the Jungle (Rematch:Live); Anna Karenina (Edinburgh Lyceum, Bristol Old Vic); Intimate Apparel, The Trials, Marys Seacole (Donmar); Earthworks, Sundown Kiki: Reloaded, The Collaboration, Sundown Kiki, Changing Destiny, Fairview, Ivan and the Dogs (Young Vic); …cake (Theatre Peckham); Who Killed My Father (Tron); as british as a watermelon (Contact); Hyde and Seek (Guildhall); Burgerz (Hackney Showroom); King Troll (The Fawn); Everyday (Deafinitely) (New Diorama); Black Holes (The Place); Hive City Legacy (Roundhouse); Main Character Energy, But Daddy I love her, Glamrou: From Quran to Queen, Curious, Half-Breed (Soho Theatre); Blood Knot, Guards At The Taj (Orange Tree Theatre); Samuel Takes A Break, SEX SEX MEN MEN (Yard); Limp Wrist & Iron Fist, Everything I own, Is Dat Yu Yeah (Brixton House).

Black British Theatre Awards; Best Sound Design 2023 (Win), Best Sound Design 2024 (Win) 

Theatre Awards Offie; King Troll (The Fawn) (Win), Shifters (Win), Guards at The Taj (Win), Sleepova (Nom), The P Word (Nom), Blood Knot (Finalist)

Olivier: Olivier Award for The P Word production award 2023, Olivier Award for Sleepova production award 2024

Ali Hunter

Lighting Designer

Ali is a Lighting Designer working across dance, theatre and opera. She won the inaugural Profile Award for Outstanding Achievement in Theatre for Red Pitch.

Recent lighting design credits include: Three Little Pigs (Unicorn); Last Rites and If You Fall (Bristol Old Vic, UK tour); Permission (Tara Theatre); Wolves on Road (The Bush); Bangers (Bristol Old Vic, UK tour); How I Learned to Swim (Roundabout, Brixton House, Bristol Old Vic); Autumn (Park Theatre); Red Pitch (@sohoplace); The Bleeding Tree (Southwark Playhouse); Meetings (Orange Tree); Protest (Northern Stage, UK tour); Titus Andronicus (Shakespeare’s Globe); Beautiful Evil Things (Tobacco Factory, UK Tour); The Wizard of Oz; Notes from a Small Island; Othello and Brief Encounter (The Watermill); Samskara (Yard Theatre); Sugar (BBC iPlayer); Don’t Forget the Birds and Rattlesnake (Live Theatre); You are Also Us (Rich Mix); Dvihina; Inscribed in ‘Me’ and Happy Fathers’ Day (The Place); Happyendingfication and Crabs in a Barrel (Dance Xchange and The Place).

Naomi Thompson

Costume Designer

Naomi is currently the wardrobe supervisor at Belgrade Theatre. She studied fashion and textiles in Birmingham, Walsall and Nottingham. Upon graduating she interned as a costume maker in Venice, Italy. 

Naomi later went on to work as an e-commerce fashion stylist and freelanced as a designer and maker, her designs were featured in fashion shows in Birmingham, London and New York. She entered the theatre industry as a trainee at the Young Vic Theatre in 2018, gaining skills in dressing, administrating, buying, costume supervising, wardrobe management and designing. 

Credits include: Romeo and Juliet and Oedipus Rex (Crescent Theatre); Twelfth Night; The Convert; Tree and She Ventures and He Wins (Young Vic); Tree (Manchester International Festival); Richard II and Snow Globe (Shakespeare’s Globe); As You Like It (Queens Theatre, Hornchurch); The Third Day Live (Punchdrunk Theatre Company); Can I Live? (Complicité Theatre Company); Trouble in Mind (National Theatre); Birmingham Commonwealth Games 2022 (Birmingham Ceremonies); To The Streets! Musical (China Plate Theatre/Birmingham Hippodrome); The Colour Purple (Curve Theatre/ Birmingham Hippodrome); My Mother’s Funeral (Paines Plough) Play On! (Talawa Theatre Company) Big Aunty; Cinderella; Swim; Aunty, Swim!; Dick Whittington; Romeo and Juliet; Two Pints (Belgrade Theatre).

Wabriya King

Production Dramatherapist

Wabriya is a qualified Dramatherapist (Roehampton University), Actress (The Oxford School of Drama), creative facilitator and Reiki practitioner. Wabriya combines her experience to support creatives alongside the rehearsal and performance period. 

Wabriya is the Associate Dramatherapist for the Bush Theatre and has supported all productions since 2021.

Theatre credits: Born With Teeth (Wyndham’s Theatre); Intimate Apparel;  Love and Other Acts of Violence; The Trials; Clyde’s (Donmar Warehouse); Alterations; Blues for an Alabama Sky; (National Theatre); Elektra; Barcelona (Duke of York’s Theatre); Slave Play (Noël Coward Theatre); Shifters (Duke of York’s Theatre/Bush Theatre); A Strange Loop (Barbican Centre); Otherland; Roots; Look Back in Anger; Portia Coughlan; King Lear; Alma Mater; Romeo & Juliet; Secret Life of Bees (The Almeida); Romeo & Juliet (Jamie Lloyd); Red Pitch (Soho Place/ Bush Theatre); For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When The Hue Gets Too Heavy (West End, Royal Court, New Diorama Theatre); School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play (Lyric Hammersmith); Wicked; Cabaret; Hamilton; Moulin Rouge; MJ The Musical (West End); Just For One Day (Old Vic Theatre); Now, I See, Beautiful Thing, Tambo & Bones (Stratford East); Falkland Sound, The Empress, Julius Caesar (RSC); Cowbois (Royal Court/RSC); Samskara; Samuel Takes a Break; The Flea (The Yard); Bootycandy (Gate Theatre); Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (Complicité); Blue (ENO); Further than the Furthest Thing (Young Vic); Fantastically Great Women Who Changed The World (The Other Palace/ UK tour); Becoming Nancy (Birmingham Rep); Revealed (Belgrade Theatre); SHED: Exploded View (Manchester Royal Exchange); Matthew Bourne’s Romeo & Juliet (New Adventures); Family Tree (Actors Touring Company). 

Film credits: The Changing Room (Anima Goli Productions), Empire of Light (Searchlight Pictures); Chevalier (Element Pictures).

Simeon Blake-Hall

Assistant Director

Theatre credits: Hymn (Almeida Theatre); Mother Courage and Her Children (Royal Exchange Theatre); Bullring Techno Makeout Jamz (Bunker Theatre); Run It Back (Hackney Showroom); From the Ground Up (Almeida Theatre); The Fall (Finborough Theatre) 

Television credits: Surface (Apple TV+); Doctors (BBC).

Kritika Agarwal

Associate Designer

Kritika is a Set and Costume Designer, currently a resident Creative Associate at the Belgrade Theatre. They will also be part of the Nest Residency with Talking Birds in October.  Inspired by fashion, architecture, and fine art, Kritika’s work explores storytelling through texture, colour, and silhouette, with a commitment to sustainable and accessible theatre-making.

Recent credits: Sense & Sensibility (Barnfield Exeter Theatre); The War of the Worlds (Belgrade Theatre); Two Pints (Belgrade Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe 2025); Romeo & Juliet (Belgrade Theatre, Bristol Old Vic, Hackney Empire); Baskerville Hound (Rose Theatre), and Santi & Naz (Wardrobe Theatre & Soho Theatre). Additionally, Kritika has worked with BYMT before in: Wonderland in Alice (Octagon Theatre); Angry Salmon (Bridewell Theatre, Theatre Royal Plymouth).

Cecilie Hvidbak Østergaard

Casting Assistant

Cecilie Hvidbak Østergaard holds a BA in Theatre & Performance Art, a BA in Humanitarian Law, and an MSc in Social and Cultural Psychology (LSE, 2025). She has worked as Producer for Danish Dance Theatre, consulting dramaturg for various Scandinavian arts organisations, and Casting Coordinator at Kiel Casting and ArtCast (2018–2023), contributing to 185+ national and international productions for clients including IKEA, Those Who Kill, and Nowness. Her career further includes extensive experience as both performer and choreographer.

Titilola Dawudu

Original Dramaturg

Titilola Dawudu was the previous Associate Dramaturg at the Bush Theatre, heading up the Literary department. She worked with the Artistic Director and Associate Artistic Director to commission and nurture news plays and ideas, working closely with writers, managing writing groups and the talent development pipeline.

Titilola was the dramaturg for an early iteration at Ovalhouse of Tyrell Williams’s award-winning play Red Pitch. She dramaturgically supported some of the RSC’s 37 Plays winners, most notably Dreaming and Drowning by Kwame Owusu.

Titilola co-created and edited Hear Me Now Audition Monologues for Actors of Colour with Tamasha, published by Oberon Books. Hear Me Now Volume Two was published in August 2022 by Methuen Drama. As a writer, Titilola has written for Theatre Royal Arojah in Abuja, Nigeria, Theatre Peckham, Ovalhouse, Beyond Face and Soho Theatre.