Autumn 1, 2021
GBS Theatre
Stop Kiss
by Diana Son
(1998)
Cast (in alphabetical order) Creative Team
Sara Director
Katie Cherry Stella Kammel
Callie Designer
Chloe Fenwick-Brown Sophie Firth
Mr Winsley / Nurse Lighting Designer
Sam Liu Alex Forey
Peter / Det Cole Sound Designer
Samuel Tracy Daberechi Ukoha-Kalu
George Movement Director and Intimacy Coach
Benedict Wishart Elizabeth Ballinger
Voice / Dialect Coach
Esi Acquaah-Harrison
This amateur production is presented by Note: this production contains homophobia, partial
arrangement with Josef Weinberger Limited. nudity, assault and hate crimes.
Student Production Team
Assistant Director Chief Production Sound Scenic Art Assistants
Jess Cummings (Theatre Engineer Michael Enamejewa
Directing student at Birkbeck James Breedon Molly Healy
University) Lucy Leach
Production Sound Engineer Elizabeth Skellett
Production Manager Sylvia Wan Matt Webb
Ting Fang Tiffany Yu
Sound No 1 / Show Operator /
Head of Stage Radio Mic Co-ordinator Props Supervisor
Alfie Sissons Kieran Dye Sarah Hsien
Stage Manager Radio Mic Runner Props Assistants
Sam Marshall Mahrukh Khan Theo Corrance
Chaz Griffith-McCann
Deputy Stage Manager Sound Crew Rachel Leveney
Phoebe Francis Daniel Britton Mary Sharrock
Katie Glassbrook Charlie Stelling
Assistant Stage Manager Edward Latus River Toolis
/ Book Cover Mahrukh Khan Evie Witherell
Sophie Slobodjani Abbey Lye-Forster
Kacey Thurbon Show Crew
Assistant Stage Manager Daniel Britton
India Day Construction Katie Glassbrook
Head of Department Edward Latus
ASM 2s Taigh McCarthy Mahrukh Khan
Rachel Leveney Abbey Lye-Forster
Mary Sharrock Scenery Builder Kacey Thurbon
Taigh McCarthy
Chief Electrician
Dylan Mulholland Construction Crew
Bethany Bean
Deputy Chief Electrician Jack Finney
Abraham Walkling-Lea Simson Kandiah
Katherine Morton
Production Electrician Charlotte Wellbeloved
Skylar Turnbull Hurd Martin Wright
Lighting Programmer Costume Supervisor
Lucinda Plummer Vari Gardner (RADA graduate)
Lighting Operator Wardrobe Assistants
Ethan Hopper Marika Cholmondeley
Katie Kelson
Lighting Crew Jade Littlechild
Caoimhe Canning
Ethan Hopper Dressers
Dominika Kosieradzka Lucy Leach
Harry Leng Bloodworth Jade Littlechild
Abigail Sage
Courtney Tibbins Scenic Art
Head of Department
Camera Operators Iona Fern Ridley
Caoimhe Canning
Harry Leng Bloodworth
Courtney Tibbins
Biographies
Diana Son Sophie Firth
Writer Designer
Diana Son is an American playwright, television This is Sophie’s second design at RADA and she
producer and writer. Stop Kiss (GLAAD Media is very excited. She is in her third year on the BA
Award for Best New York Production) and Satellites (Hons) in Technical Theatre and Stage Management,
are her two full-length plays, however she has specialising in scenic art and design. Her previous
written many short plays including Blind Date, The credits at RADA include scenic art head of
Moon Please, Siberia, BOY, 2000 Miles and Wrecked department on King Lear (Shakespeare for young
on Brecht. Her television work has included Law audiences) and Red Velvet, as well as set and
& Order: True Crime - The Menendez Murders, costume designer on Consent (dir. Jasmine Teo).
American Crime, Blue Bloods, Southland, Law &
Order: Criminal Intent and The West Wing.
Alex Forey
Lighting Designer
Stella Kammel Alex is a third year student at RADA on the BA
Director (Hons) in Technical Theatre and Stage Management
Stella Kammel is a director and writer for theatre, specialising in lighting design. Previously he studied
radio, and film. She directed her stage plays Sonnet at University College London before switching
61: Short People and Portrait which were produced to drama full-time. He has been awarded the
at the RADA Festival and Theatre N16. Vectorworks Entertainment Scholarship 2020,
and two UCL Design Awards. His designs at RADA
Additional writing credits include: Sketching include: Monster (Gielgud Theatre), Graduate Tree
Dragons (short film, RADA); This Weird Normal (Vanbrugh Theatre), Manifestos (RADA Studios).
(radio series co-written by Susan Wokoma and
Asif Kahn, RADA); Sky Temp (radio, Audio Marvels); Other work as lighting designer includes:
Surface Tensions (radio, Dagaz Media); Out and Polyeucte (Theatre Royal Stratford East), Libuše,
Around (theatre reading, RADA); 4 Cherry Drive Rhapsody, From Here To Eternity (Bloomsbury
(radio, RADA); Sleeping In (radio, University of Theatre), Babel (Lyric Hammersmith), Into The
Westminster); Afternoon Delight (radio, RADA), Woods, Exhibition (Shaw Theatre), Daisy Pulls It
Cavities (radio, RADA). Off, A Sexual Odyssey, Written on the Body (Cockpit
Theatre), Songs for a New World (Drayton Arms), The
Additional directing credits include: Out and Around Piper of Hamelin (Rose Kingston), Henry V, Hiroshima
(Gielgud Theatre, RADA); The Importance of Being (Samuel Pepys Theatre), Grey Matter, Twelfth Night
Earnest (The Dalton School); The Sandbox (The (Edinburgh Fringe).
Dalton School); Salutations (The Dalton School).
As associate lighting designer: Quintessential
Dramaturgy credits include: One Night of Joseph (Peacock Theatre, Sadler’s Wells), Legally Blonde,
Kaufman by Dmitry Glukhovsky, produced by Belka The Drowsy Chaperone, RENT, The Pajama Game
Productions, performed as a staged reading at the (Pleasance), Modern Love (Etcetera Theatre).
Vaudeville Theatre; and Disulfanide a radio play
supported by the Royal Society of Chemistry and As assistant/relighter: Growl (Theatre Royal Bury
produced by Ignite and the Royal Welsh College St Edmunds, Curve Leicester, Rose Kingston), as
of Music. assistant: Parade, Legend Trippers, Anything Goes
(The Other Palace).
As a graduate of the BA Acting course at RADA, it
is a pleasure to return as a director to work with In between designs, Alex has also worked as a
RADA actors on this powerful and tender play. technician for Ammonite (Back To The Future The
Musical, The Mirror and the Light), Wyndham’s
Theatre, Shakespeare’s Globe, the Donmar
Warehouse, and the Lyric Hammersmith.
Biographies continued overleaf
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Daberechi Ukoha-Kalu
Sound Designer
Daberechi is a second year student at RADA on
the Foundation Degree in Technical Theatre and
Stage Management specialising in sound and
video. Daberechi describes themself as a full-time
creative, finding expression in ranges of mediums
from writing to editing to sound and video design.
Previously they’ve juggled working as a model and
working on productions before starting at RADA to
fully pursue their creative interests.
Their works at RADA include: Pomona (Sound
Operator, Gielgud Theatre), Against (Costume,
Jerwood Vanbrugh Theatre), Escape Room
(Assistant Stage Manager, Gielgud Theatre).
Previous works: No Fury, Producer and Stage
Designer; Copy Editor, Irin Journal; Son of Man,
Producer and Stage Manager.
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