New Writing Night
WRITERS
The Actors Class New Writing Night is a celebration of bold new voices and emerging work.
Created entirely by members of The Actors Class, this evening brings together original short plays and music written and performed by The Actors Class community.
Each piece is directed by Artistic Director: Mary Doherty, with the aim of getting new writing up on its feet in a supportive and professional environment.
Expect a vibrant mix of writing & performance - offering audiences a glimpse into exciting new work at an early stage of its life. All shared in one night at The Cockpit.
Date: Tuesday 10 February
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Cockpit Theatre
Running Time: 90 Mins approx
Tkts: https://www.thecockpit.org.uk/show/the_actors_class_-_new_writing_night
Amy Bentley-Klein
Pieces
'Bus Stop Baby' written by
Bus Stop Baby is a comedy-drama where three housemates’ night unravels when one of them staggers home claiming she’s rescued a baby from a bus stop.
Cast:
Maz: Rebecca Wake
Precious: Syakira Moeladi
Catie: Giorgia Valentino
Adeyinka Akinrinade is an actor and producer whose screen and stage work has earned attention across British TV, theatre and film. On television, she is known for her roles in Riches (ITV/AMAZON PRIME) and Champion (BBC/NETFLIX). Other on screen credits include Top Boy, Silent Witness, Grantchester, Temple, Everything I Know About Love and A Discovery of Witches.
Recent theatre credits include performances in Thanks For Having Me at Riverside Studios as well as roles with The National Theatre, Orange Tree Theatre, Theatre 503 and the Paines Plough Roundabout.
As a Creative Producer her credits include Festival Director of The British Urban Film Festival, Assistant Producer for Full House Theatre and Co-Producer of award winning independent short films, Lost Boys, Nāca and Aura. She also produced BFI funded, The Lost Land Girl. She recently was Associate Producer for Nouveau Riche “No More Mir Nice Guy” and most recently Produced “Beats” & “Are We Doing This Right” at Riverside Studios..
Bus Stop Baby marks her theatre writing debut.
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'The Wendy House' written by
Amy Bentley-Klein
The Wendy House is about an organisation committed to serving young women worldwide in securing a stable family life: through our rigorous refinement and match-making programme, with access to fertility monitoring and wellbeing. Formally an in-house breeding programme, we now accept outside submissions. Submit today and find your match.
Cast:
Alice: Molly Jenkins
Jess: Chioma Nwalioba
Eliza: Francesca Baker
Clara: Jennifer Darby
Martha: Emily Jackman
Mary: Florrie Antoniou
Amy is an actor, performer and costume designer from East London. She studied Drama and English Literature at The University of Greenwich and Art and Design at Camberwell College of Art.
She was awarded the BBC Radio Drama Norman Beaton Fellowship (runner-up prize) and in 2023 worked with internationally acclaimed visual theatre company Theatre Re as an apprentice in the re-development of their piece, Bluebelle.
Her work as an actor/performer includes The Crown S5 (Netflix) A Charles Paris Mystery (BBC Radio 4) 300 el x 50 el x 30 el by FC Bergman (Barbican) A Quiet Life (BBC Radio 3, BBC2, Riverside Studios, Greenbelt Festival) Something Inside So Strong (Arcola), Land Before Dreams (Gate Theatre).
She is a member of the Actor’s Class alumni and recently completed Introduction to Directing at RCSSD. She holds a Level 3 in British Sign Language accredited by Signature.
The Wendy House marks her writing debut.
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'One Way Out' written by
Four boys confronted by legacy, legislation, and leaving school, who will find their way out? Is your fate already decided or is there one way out?
Cast:
Tunde: Ashton Ogilvie Sands
Montel is a British-Jamaican theatre-maker from South London working across stage and screen. His debut play One Way Out won the UNTAPPED Award 2023 and was showcased at Theatre Peckham, New Diorama & Brixtonhouse. He has developed work with the Royal Court, Soho Writers Lab, Talawa, and BBC London Voices. As a director, Montel’s credits include Their Name is Joy (Theatre Peckham/NT Connections), Verified, STUCK (Multistory/Southbank Centre), and One Way Out. He also lead the GLOW project at Brixton House, supporting emerging talent.
His acting credits include Hamlet (National Theatre), Run It Back (Talawa), Macbeth (Orange Tree), and screen roles in Ransom (CBS), Code 404 (Sky), Casualty and Babies (BBC).
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'Same Penis Forever' written by
Corinne’s wedding guests arrive in 3 hours. Corinne is refusing to come out of the bathroom. Corinne’s bridesmaids should work together, right?
Cast:
Margot: Alice Lucy
Rose: Louise Lord
Sara: Grace Coulson Harris
Lou: Anna Fenton-Garvey
Bobby: Barney Doran
Barney Doran (they/them) is a British-Irish writer, performer and one half of Pound Puppy- they are currently developing a musical project for the summer programme at Kings Head Theatre and their new play ‘Gender Envy.’
Their recent work includes ‘10 things to tell yourself in line to the gay club’ with (Almeida Theatre through Kaleidoscope) The Great Redeemer (Pleasance) Dormouse (Kings Head Theatre in development with Counterminers) and Man on the Moon (White Bear/Riverside Studios.) Their short film ‘The Friendship Contract’ premiered at Mr Tibbs Comedy Festival. As a poet, their work has been published internationally most notably in Popshot Journal, Fruitcake Magazine and for the London LGBT Centre.
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'XI' written by
XI is a comedy-drama following a Warwickshire village cricket club in 2005. Adam and Izzie are newcomers, whose ideals clash with the traditions of rural community. A suicide, prior to the action of the play, shakes the club from its inertia. A racism allegation threatens to divide the community.
Cast:
Nigel: Dom Thomson
Pam: Grace Blackman
Julie: Charlotte Fishwick
Craig: Ciaran Duce
Adam: Josh Evans
Dom Thomson is an actor, writer and award-winning* cricketer.
Born and raised in Shakespeare’s hometown of Stratford-on-Avon, Dom was repelled from the theatre at an early age by one-too-many excruciating primary school productions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Stage credits include: The Nutcracker (Royal Albert Hall), Maar, Dora (Old Red Lion Theatre), Persuasion (Tabard Theatre and Tour), An Ideal Husband (UK Tour), Taskmaster: Live (Avalon Entertainment).
Writing credits include: This. Just this.
*South Northamptonshire Junior Cricket League Division 5 Runner Up 2010
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'Too Solid Flesh' written by
A satirical re-intrepretation of the gravedigger scene from Hamlet. Hamlet arrives at the morgue only to find the receptionist won’t allow Ophelia to be buried in a Christian burial because suicide doesn’t meet the regulations. Philomena Cunk meets Laurence Olivier navigating the admin of death.’
Cast:
Hamlet: Conor Moss
Gravedigger: Jodie Irvine
Madi is a writer, theatre-maker and award-winning performance poet. Her @aceagrams - supported solo show Massive Sense of Urgency, about an office temp trying to deconstruct capitalism, was performed at Latitude Festival and selected by The Old Vic for CONNECT: Now, a series of contemporary monologues. Further writer-performer credits include include commissions for BBC iPlayer, Shakespeare’s Birthplace Trust, and The Guardian. She is an alumnus of the London Library’s Emerging Writers Programme, Soho Theatre’s Comedy Lab, The Actors Class and is a former Roundhouse Poetry Slam Champion. She is from London and wears a lot of wool.
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'Cracks' written by
In a landscape split by cracks, a woman’s perfect circle is her only refuge. Then a man strides in, unshaken by the danger. When his steps begin to break her ground, she faces the truth: safety built on fear can’t hold when power refuses to stay outside.
Cast:
Woman: Sohaila Ferrier
Man: Tevin Deola
Jeremiah Brown is a Black British Jamaican writer and poet. He is a Royal Court Writers Group, Soho Theatre’s Writers Lab, and Barbican Young Poet alum.
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'The Family Of Things' written by
A calf is stillborn in the middle of the night at Keenan farm as two teenage farmer brothers prepare for their own mother’s inevitable death.
Cast:
Aine: Katherine Moran
Daragh: Robert Hook
Cian: Alex Britt
Anna is a writer-actor whose writing career began in writing for children’s animation before they gained experience working in writers rooms for feature films and theatre. They were selected for The Curtis Brown drama serial writing course. They have now started regularly collaborating with their writing partner Barney Doran, recently writing and performing at Almeida’s Kaleidoscope and currently writing a queer musical for Kings Head Theatre. Their recent acting debut in ‘The Other Bennet Sister’ will air on BBC in April ‘26.
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'Carol' written by
I’ve been writing songs for my bedroom walls since I first picked up a guitar at 14, Carol is a deeply personal song, and perhaps the most honest I’ve been with myself in a while. I’m excited to share it with you all.
Cast:
After graduating from RADA Jessica played opposite Kenneth Branagh in KING LEAR as Cordelia and The Fool, she reprised this role at The Shed in New York. Jess is also a writer, she has recently wrapped filming on GRUDGE JUDY, a short film she wrote, directed, and leads and is developing a queer anthology series.
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