Heart Wall

Kit Withington

Writer

Kit Withington is a playwright from Manchester.

Kit was a member of the Soho Theatre Writers’ Lab in 2018, and her play Scrap was shortlisted for the Tony Craze Award. Kit was part of the Emerging Writers’ Group at the Bush Theatre in 2021. She has also been part of both an Intro Group and a Long Form Group at the Royal Court.

In 2021 she wrote Our Moon Under Water for Edition 6 of the Royal Court’s LIVING NEWSPAPER. In 2023 Kit’s play AS WE FACE THE SUN was produced by The Bush for their 18-25 young company. In 2025, her first radio drama Nearly Light was Highly Commended for Best Single Original Drama at BBC Audio Awards.

Katie Greenall

Director

Katie Greenall (she/they) is a director, theatre maker, and writer based in NE London/Manchester, specializing in new writing, solo autobiographical work, and youth/community projects. They are Associate Director (Creative Exchange) at the Royal Exchange Manchester, and previously Associate Director at the Bush Theatre, where she also led the Young Companies. Notable directing credits include COMMUNION, As We Face the Sun (Offie-nominated), ANTHEM, Pass It On & Back Up! (Bush Theatre) and We All Know How This Ends and here, here, here (Theatre Royal Stratford East). They were also the Associate Director on Barcelona at the Duke of York’s Theatre.

As a writer, Katie was part of the Roundhouse Poetry Collective and a Resident Artist (2018-19). She has been long-listed for the Channel 4 Screenwriting Course, alumni of the Soho Writer’s Course and was a finalist for the Popcorn Award in 2023. Her solo show FATTY FAT FAT won the VAULTS Origins Award (2019) and had a sold-out run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Their current solo show BLUBBER explores body image through synchronised swimming and whales, and after a critically acclaimed run at Summerhall in 2024, will tour nationally and internationally in 2026.

Hazel Low

Set & Costume Designer

Hazel Low is a performance designer and collaborator across theatre, live art and spatial design.

Recent Credits include: Playfight (Paines Plough, Roundabout and UK Tour); The Glorious French Revolution (New Diorama Theatre); Blubber (Summerhall); The Legend of Ned Ludd (Liverpool Everyman); succession theme is my ringtone (Rose Theatre); Tiger (Omnibus Theatre); Bonfire (Derby Theatre, Sheffield Theatre, Non Such); As We Face The Sun and Pass It On (Bush Theatre); Who Killed My Father (Tron Theatre and Scottish Tour – co-design with Blythe Brett); Splintered (Soho Theatre); Brilliant Jerks (Southwark Playhouse); Paradise Now! (Bush Theatre -co-costume designer and design associate); I, Joan (Shakespeare’s Globe – design associate); Bogeyman (Pleasance Queendome);The Magic Flute (Royal College of Music – co-designed with Rosie Elnile); Trainers (Gate Theatre – design assistant).

Spatial design projects include NDT Broadgate (design associate) and the Royal Court’s pop up bar Court in the Square in 2021.

Jatinder Chera

Casting Director

For the Bush: Heart Wall; Miss Myrtle’s Garden; Lavender, Hyacinth, Violet, Yew; The Real Ones; A Playlist for the Revolution; Sleepova; The P Word.

Other theatre includes: The Waves (Jermyn Street Theatre); Marriage Material (Lyric Hammersmith); Scenes from a Repatriation, G (Royal Court); The Comeuppance (Almeida); The Flea, Samuel Takes a Break, Multiple Casualty Incident (The Yard); Sweat (Royal Exchange).

Awards include: Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre, Sleepova and The P Word.

Mateus Daniel

Movement Director

Mateus Daniel is a Movement director, Choreographer and facilitator from south London. He has built a love and curiosity for telling stories physically that express themes of culture, change and transitions, and has used his experiences within dance and theatre to influence his current gothic lyrical style. His work can be seen on various leading UK stages, magazines and films and his personal projects thematically take on a melodramatic, gothic perspective. In addition Mateus was a 2022 nominee for Best Choreographer or Movement Director for The Black British Theatre Awards. 

Movement Director credits include: Passion Fruit (New Diorama); Chicken Burger and Chips (Brixton House); The Boys Are Kissing (Theatre 503); Vardy v Rooney: The Wagatha Christie Trial (Ambassador Theatre); Our eyes look to God (Festival d’Aix-en Provence); What I hear I keep (Talawa 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); Communion (Bush Theatre); Vitamin D (soho theatre); Purgatory (Donmar warehouse); B*tch Boxer (Watford Palace Theatre); a practical guide on how to save the world… (Tara Theatre); spectacle of the surreal (V&A Museum); How to win against History (Bristol Old Vic).

Esther Taylor

Costume Supervisor

Esther is a Fashion Stylist working on commercial and editorial projects. She studied Textile for Fashion Design at Manchester School of Art and has worked for brands like Getty Images, Nike, John Lewis, Jack Wills and ASOS. She is excited to join the world of costume for the first time for Not Your Superwoman at the Bush.

Mwen

Sound Designer and Composer

Mwen (they/them) is a multifaceted artist, working as a theatre sound designer and composer, music producer, and live performing artist. Their creative practice blends the realms of music technology, electronic music, live sound, and performance.

Simisola Majekodunmi

Lighting Designer

Simisola Majekodunmi trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (RADA) with a degree in Lighting Design.

Theatre credits include: The Ballad of Hattie and James (Kiln); A Taste of Honey, Electric Rosary (Royal Exchange); Metamorphosis (Frantic Assembly, UK Tour); I, Daniel Blake (Northern Stage & UK Tour); Choir Boy (Bristol Old Vic); Es & Flo (Wales Millennium Centre); Sound of the Underground, Is God Is, Living Newspaper (Royal Court); Family Tree (Belgrade Theatre & UK Tour); Treason: The Musical in Concert (Theatre Royal Dury Lane); J’OUVERT (Theatre503/West End); Starcrossed (Wilton’s Music Hall); A Christmas Carol (Shakespeare North Playhouse); Nine Night (Leeds Playhouse); Human Nurture (Sheffield); The Wiz (Hope Mill Theatre).

Dance credit includes: Dark with Excessive Bright (Royal Opera House); Traplord (180 Studios); The UK Drill Project (Barbican); Born to Exist (Netherlands and UK Tour); AZARA – Just Another Day & Night (The Place); Puck’s Shadow (Watford Palace).

Ruth Harvey

Lighting Programmer

Ryan Hay

Production Dramaturg

Ellie Fulcher

R&D Dramaturg

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.

Chloe Stally-Gibson

Production Manager

Chloe is a freelance production manager and former associate artist of Zoo Co Theatre Company and ChewBoy Productions.

Her recent work includes: Shifters (Bush & Duke of York’s); Punch, A Face In The Crowd (Young Vic); Perfect Show For Rachel (Barbican); Tender, This Might Not Be It, Insane Asylum Seekers (Bush); Playhouse Creatures (JCTP); Silence (Tara Theatre).

Chloe Wilson

Company Stage Manager on book

Chloe Wilson’s theatre credits include: Potted Panto (Apollo / The Core, Corby Cube); Trainspotting Live and Oi Frog and Friends! Live (UK Tour); August in England (Bush); Afterglow and Straight White Men (Southwark Playhouse Borough); Operation Epsilon (Southwark Playhouse Elephant), Disruption (Park); The Social (North England Tour).

Stage Manager credits include: Echo Land (R+D) (Rich Mix); Nevergreen (Poplar Union); A Silver Bell, Liminal, Clean @17 and Death and Dancing (Kings Head); The Mikado (The Maltings); Juliet & Romeo (The Gatehouse).

Assistant Stage Manager credits include: Windfall (Southwark Playhouse); L’Enfant Prodigue and Passion, Poison and Petrifaction (Susie Sainsbury, Royal Academy of Music).

Her credits while studying include: Stage Manager for The Wolves, Colossal and Chigger Foot Boys. Deputy Stage Manager for Spring Awakening and After Mrs Rochester. Assistant Stage Manager for Boudica and A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Rhea Cosford

Assistant Stage Manager

Rhea Cosford studied Drama at Queen Mary University of London before going on to train in Stage and Events Management at Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.

Stage management theatre credits include: 2:22, A Ghost Story (Criterion); Trade (Pleasance); Walk Right Back – The Everly Brothers Story (UK Tour); Phantasmagoria (Kali /Southwark); What Would Jarvis Do? (Omnibus); Multiple Casualty Incident (Yard).

Aino Teppo

Stage Management Placement

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).

Joel Trill

Vocal Coach

Joel Trill’s recent work in theatre includes: The 47th, A Number and Bagdad Cafe (Old Vic), All My Sons and As You Like It (Queens Theatre Hornchurch), Statements After An Arrest Under The Immorality Act (Orange Tree), Love Letters (Queens Theatre), J’Ouvert (Harold Pinter), Mirror Mirror, Master Harold and The Boys (National), Rockets & Blue Lights (Royal Exchange), Trojan Horse (Battersea Arts Centre), A Taste of Honey (Trafalgar Studios), Two Trains Runnin (Royal & Derngate), Red Dust Road (National Theatre of Scotland), Strange Fruit (Bush Theatre), One Night in Miami (Nottingham Playhouse), Glass Menagerie (Arcola). Film & TV: The White Lotus, Riches, The Confessions Of Frannie Langton, Gangs of London (Season 2), The Crown (Season 5), Citadel, My Name is Leon, Empire, The Ancestors, Queen & Slim, Mama Ks Team 4, There’s Something About The Movies.

Katie Grist

Makeup & SFX Artist