Not Your Superwoman

Emma Dennis-Edwards

Writer

Emma Dennis-Edwards is a writer and performer of Jamaican and Trinidadian heritage whose work spans theatre and television. Her acclaimed solo play Funeral Flowers premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, winning a Scotsman Fringe First Award and the Filipa Bragança Award for Best Female Solo Performance. The production toured London to critical acclaim. Her play Bricks was developed through the Old Vic 12 programme and shortlisted for the Alfred Fagon Award. Emma is currently under commission with Cardboard Citizens and Clean Break, continuing her commitment to socially driven storytelling.

On screen, her original drama Consent aired on Channel 4 and was nominated for both Broadcast and RTS Awards, with Emma nominated for Best Writer – Drama at the RTS Awards. She has also written for BBC series including Champion, Boarders, EastEnders, Holby City, and Casualty.

Lynette Linton

Director

Alex Berry

Set and Costume Designer

Alex Berry is a set and costume designer for theatre, opera and film based in London. She trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School having previously studied at the Royal Northern College of Music and Koninklijk Conservatorium, The Netherlands, as a musician. She was recently nominated for best costume design for Macbeth (an undoing) in the Drama Desk Awards 2024, New York.

Recent projects include: Intimate Apparel (Donmar); Shifters (Duke of Yorks/Bush); Treasure Island, Macbeth (an undoing) (Lyceum, Edinburgh); Hansël Und Gretel (Royal Academy of Music); Trials and Passions of Unfamous Women (Clean Break, Brixton House); Every Brilliant Thing (Theatre by the Lake); A Matter of Choice (Panoptic Films); The Barber of Seville, Don Giovanni (Nevill Holt Opera); No Sweat (The Pleasance London); The Rape of Lucretia (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland); Spring Awakening (Redgrave); Right Place Wrong Tim (Channel 4); A Tender Thing (The Theatre, Chipping Norton); Rabbits (Park Theatre); The Cunning Little Vixen (Royal College of Music); The Lighthouse (Hackney Showroom); Song of Riots (Battersea Arts Centre); The River (Brewery); Blue Stockings (Tobacco Factory).

Jai Morjaria

Lighting Designer

Jai trained at RADA.

Theatre design includes: Intimate Apparel, The Trials (Donmar); Barcelona (Duke of York’s); Why Am I So Single? (Garrick Theatre); Othello (National); The Buddha of Suburbia (RSC); The Secret Garden (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Wuthering Heights (National/International Tour); Animal Farm (Royal Stratford East/Leeds Playhouse); Choir (Chichester Festival Theatre); Abigail’s Party (Royal Exchange); Barnum (Watermill Theatre); Macbeth (International Tour/Shakespeare Theatre Company, Washington); Cuckoo (Royal Court); Accidental Death of an Anarchist (Haymarket Theatre/Lyric Hammersmith/Sheffield Theatres); My Son’s A Queer (But What Can You Do?) (New York City Center/Ambassadors Theatre/Garrick Theatre/Turbine Theatre); August in England, House of Ife, Lava (Bush); Chasing Hares (Young Vic); Lost and Found (Factory International); I’ll Take You To Mrs. Cole (Complicité). Film design includes: The Magic Finger (Roald Dahl Company). Awards include Association of Lighting Designer’s ETC Award; nominated for Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Lighting Design and Honourable Mention for Profile Award for Theatre Lighting.

Gino Ricardo Green

Video Designer

Gino Ricardo Green is a director and video/projection designer. He is the co-founder of Black Apron Entertainment.

Credits as Video/Projection Designer include: Backstroke, Intimate Apparel (Donmar); Barcelona, Treason: The Musical in Concert(West End); A Child of Science (Bristol Old Vic); Samuel Takes A Break, The Flea (The Yard); The Legends Of Them (Hackney Showroom/Brixton House); I (ATC/Theatre Royal Stratford East and UK Tour); Wolves on Road, August In England, Lava (Bush); Othello (NT, Co-Video Designer); The Ballad of St Johns Carpark (Icon Theatre); That is Not Who I Am (Royal Court); Kabul Goes Pop: Music Television Afghanistan (Brixton House & Hightide); Edge (NYT); Children’s Children (Director of Photography/Editor – ETT); Beyond The Canon and Poor Connection (RADA); Sweat (Donmar & West End); Passages: A Windrush Celebration (Black Apron at the Royal Court); Hashtag Lightie (Arcola); Lightie (Gate Theatre).

Credits as Associate include: Small Island (National); Get Up Stand Up! The Bob Marley Musical (West End); Be More Chill (The Other Palace & West End).

Max Pappenheim

Sound Designer

Recent theatre includes Boy Out The City, The Night of the Iguana, Cruise (West End); A Doll’s House Part 2, The Way of the World (Donmar); Henry V (Shakespeare’s Globe/Headlong); Anthology, Blackout Songs, Sea Creatures, Linck and Mülhahn, The Fever Syndrome, Labyrinth (Hampstead Theatre); The Children (Royal Court/Broadway); Old Bridge (Bush Theatre. Off West End Award for Sound Design, Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre); Ophelias Zimmer (Royal Court/Schaubühne); Village Idiot, One Night in Miami (Nottingham Playhouse); The Ridiculous Darkness (Gate Theatre); Humble Boy, Blue/Heart, The Distance (Orange Tree Theatre); The Cherry Orchard, A Kettle of Fish (Yard Theatre); The Mirror Crack’d, Wish You Were Dead, Being Mr Wickham, The Habit of Art, The Homecoming, My Cousin Rachel (UK Tours).

Opera and Ballet includes The Limit (Royal Ballet); The Marriage of Figaro (Salzburger Festspiele), Miranda (Opéra Comique, Paris); Hansel and Gretel (BYO/Opera Holland Park); Scraww (Trebah Gardens); Carmen: Remastered (ROH/Barbican).

XANA

Sound Designer

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

Shelley Maxwell

Movement Director

Shelley Maxwell won the award for Best Choreographer at the inaugural Black British Theatre Awards in 2019 for her work on Equus.

Theatre includes: Macbeth (Donmar); The Time Traveller’s Wife (Apollo); Mlima’s Tale (Kiln); Untitled F*ck M*ss S**gon Play (Royal Exchange / Young Vic); August in England (Bush); The Secret Life of Bees (Almeida); Best of Enemies (Noël Coward / Young Vic); Tartuffe (Birmingham Rep); The Time Traveller’s Wife: The Musical (Storyhouse); Get Up, Stand Up! The Bob Marley Story (Lyric); J’Ouvert (Harold Pinter / Theatre503); After Life, Master Harold…and the Boys, Hansard, Antony and Cleopatra, Twelfth Night (National); Nine Night (National / Trafalgar); Equus (Stratford East / Trafalgar); Tartuffe (RSC); Macbeth (Globe); Faustus (Headlong at Lyric / Birmingham Rep); Cinderella (Lyric); Grey (Ovalhouse); King Hedley II (Stratford East); Cougar, Dealing with Clair (Orange Tree); Winter, Why It’s Kicking off Everywhere (Young Vic); Cuttin’ It (Young Vic / Royal Court); A Streetcar Named Desire (Nuffield / Clwyd Theatre Cymru / English Touring Theatre); Rules for Living (Royal & Derngate / Rose / English Touring Theatre); Apologia (English Theatre Frankfurt).

Television/Film includes: The Marvels (Disney); Anansi Boys (upcoming on Amazon); Ear for Eye (BBC/Fruit Tree Media); Romeo & Juliet (Sky Arts/PBS/National Theatre).

Cynthia De La Rosa

Hair & Makeup Designer

Cynthia De La Rosa’s design in theatre includes: Alterations, Blues for an Alabama Sky, Standing at the Sky’s Edge, Beginning (National); Slave Play, Beginning, Barcelona, Shifters, Standing at the Sky’s Edge (West End); “Daddy”: A Melodrama, The Tragedy of Macbeth, Shipwreck, The Twilight Zone, Against and Boy (Almeida); Jitney, Sylvia (Old Vic); The Watsons (Menier Chocolate Factory); Allelujah! (Bridge); Strange Fruit, Boys Will Be Boys (Bush); Frost/Nixon (Sheffield Crucible); The Convert, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Once in a Lifetime (Young Vic); Clyde’s, Intimate Apparel (Donmar).

TV Design includes: Too Much, We Are Lady Parts, Everyone Else Burns, Dreaming Whilst Black, Stath Lets Flats, Riches. Film Design includes: Animol, and short films, Tommies, My Jerome, I Am Mary, The Track, Farewell She Goes.

Deirdre O’Halloran

Dramaturg Support

Deirdre O’Halloran was the previous Literary Manager at the Bush Theatre, working to identify and build relationships with new writers, commission new work and guide plays to the stage.

At the Bush she’s dramaturged plays including Olivier Award winners Baby Reindeer by Richard Gadd and The P Word by Waleed Akhtar, Lava by Benedict Lombe and An Adventure by Vinay Patel.

Deirdre was also previously the Literary Associate at Soho Theatre, where she worked as a dramaturg on plays including Girls by Theresa Ikoko and Fury by Phoebe Eclair-Powell. She led on Soho Theatre’s Writers’ Lab programme and the biennial Verity Bargate Award.

As a freelancer, Deirdre has also been a reader for Out of Joint, Sonia Friedman Productions and Papatango.

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).

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.

Hazel Holder

Voice & Accent Coach

Theatre includes: Alterations, The Importance of Being Earnest, A Tupperware of Ashes, The Hot Wing King, Death of England trilogy, The Effect, Grenfell: in the words of survivors, Small Island, Nine Night, Barber Shop Chronicles, Angels in America (National); Clydes, A Dolls House; Part 2, Marys Seacole, Constellations (Donmar); The Seagull (Barbican); Stereophonic, Waiting for Godot, Sunset Blvd., The Glass Menagerie, 2:22, C*ck, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, Dreamgirls (resident director) (West End), Ulster American (Riverside Studios); Mlima’s Tale, Retrograde, Pass Over (Kiln); The Homecoming, Best of Enemies, Death of a Salesman, The Convert (Young Vic) Giant, ear for eye, Pigs and Dogs (Royal Court); August in England (Bush); Richard II (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse). 

Television includes: A Thousand Blows (Disney +); Silo (Apple TV+); Small Axe (BBC). Film includes: The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (Amazon); The Silent Twins (Focus Features).

Amelia Michaels

Assistant Director

Amelia Michaels is a British-Bajan Actor, Director, Theatre maker and Facilitator born and bred between London and the Midlands. She is a hybrid in many aspects which has been her superpower, allowing her to work across various forms, disciplines and communities. In 2024 and 2025, she solo produced 7 shows across 5 festivals of her debut play MANDEM for which she is also the Writer and Co-Director. An alumnus of China Plate’s well established producing course ‘Optimists’, Amelia is currently focusing on birthing her directing career. Outside of her own work she’s most recently assisted Corey Campbell on Romeo & Juliet (a Belgrade Theatre, Bristol Old Vic and Hackney Empire co-production). She’s currently a member of the 2025/26 ‘New Associates’ cohort with New Perspectives Theatre company in order to support the overall growth of her practice, and as an actor she can most recently be seen in Suspect on Disney+.

Luca Panetta

Lighting Programmer

Luca is a freelance Lighting Designer, Associate, and Lighting Programmer. He trained at LAMDA (London Academy of Music & Dramatic Arts) in Production Technical Arts.

As LX Programmer, Luca has worked on shows at venues such as Donmar Warehouse, Young Vic, Watermill Theatre, Chichester, NTLive & Bush Theatre, and across the West End

Credits as Associate include: Barcelona, Why Am I So Single (West End); Macbeth (2023/24 UK WarehouseTour); The Merchant of Venice 1936 (RSC & UK Tour); A Face In The Crowd (Young Vic); A Playlist for the Revolution (Bush).

Credits as Lighting Designer include: Maria de Rudenz (Battersea Arts Centre) for which he won a Profile award for Outstanding Achievement in Opera; Edith (The Lowry / Theatr Clwyd); If Opera’s 2022, 2023, 2025 Seasons; Diary of a Somebody (Seven Dials Playhouse) for which he was nominated for an Offie in Lighting Design; Polko (Paines Plough Roundabout)

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).

Anna Sheard

Company Stage Manager

Anna trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.

Credits for Bush Theatre include: Chiasoscuro

Credits for other theatre include: Intimate Apparel, Clyde’s, Teenage Dick, Sweat (Donmar & Gielgud Theatre); Alterations, Blues for an Alabama Sky (National); The School for Scandal (RSC); An Enemy of the People (Wessex Grove, Duke of York’s); Barcelona (ATG, Duke of York’s); Pressure (Royal Alexandra Theatre, Toronto, Jonathan Church Ltd); Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare’s Globe); The Vortex, Crave, random/generations (Chichester Festival Theatre); The Fellowship, Peggy for You (Hampstead Theatre); After the End (Royal Stratford East); House/Amongst the Reeds (Clean Break); Trust, Twilight: Los Angeles 1992, Assata Taught Me, I Call My Brothers (Gate Theatre).

Africa Blagrove

Assistant Stage Manager

Africa Blagrove is an Assistant Stage Manager based in London with Jamaican heritage. She began her stage management journey after securing a work placement with Get Up! Stand Up! The Bob Marley Musical, which sparked her passion for the stage management industry.

Africa has a deep passion for creating and sourcing props that help bring theatre to life. They find joy in the details and discovering or crafting pieces that enhance storytelling, reveal character, and ground the world of the play in something tangible.

Her ASM credits include: 1536 (Almeida); Play On! (Bristol Old Vic & Lyric Hammersmith); Alice in Wonderland (Brixton House); My Father’s Fable (Bush); Samuel Takes a Break … (The Yard); #Blackis… (New Diorama).