National Theatre Connections 2024: 10 Plays for Young Performers

About Abi ZakarianAlexis ZegermanCharlie JosephineElgan RhysJosh AzouzLuke BarnesMojisola AdebayoSian OwenTitas Halder

Abi Zakarian is the author of six full-length plays including A Thousand Yards and Swifter Higher Stronger; she is one of the playwrights-in-residence for the Schoolwrights scheme in East London. Charlie Josephine is an actor and a writer. Their work includes Bitch Boxer BLUSH and Pops. They can be found at charliejosephine.com Luke Barnes is an award-winning playwright screenwriter and theatre-maker using live performance and film to tell stories and make a good night out thats also useful as humans and as a community. Highlights include: Freedom Project (Leeds Playhouse) The Jumper Factory (Young Vic) The Sad Club (National Theatre) No One Will Tell Me How To Start A Revolution (Hampstead Theatre) All We Ever Wanted Was Everything (Bush Theatre Paines Plough Roundabout with Middle Child) Bottleneck (Soho Theatre with HighTide) Chapel Street (Bush Theatre) Weekend Rockstars and Ten Storey Love Song (Hull Truck with Middle Child) and The Saints (Nuffield Theatre). He is an avid Liverpool fan and average (to poor) musician. Mojisola Adebayo is a playwright performer director producer workshop facilitator and lecturer. She has a BA in Drama and Theatre Arts an MA in Physical Theatre and her PhD is entitled Afriquia Theatre: Creating Black Queer Ubuntu Through Performance (Goldsmiths Royal Holloway and Queen Mary University of London). Mojisola trained extensively with Augusto Boal and is an international specialist in Theatre of the Oppressed often working in locations of crisis and conflict. She has worked in theatre radio and television on four continents over the past 25 years performing in over 50 productions writing devising and directing over 30 plays and leading countless workshops from Antarctica to Zimbabwe. Her own authored plays include Moj of the Antarctic: An African Odyssey (Lyric Hammersmith and Ovalhouse London) Muhammad Ali and Me (Ovalhouse Albany Theatre London and UK touring) 48 Minutes for Palestine (Ashtar Theatre and international touring) Desert Boy (Albany Theatre London and UK touring) The Listeners (Pegasus Theatre Oxford) I Stand Corrected (Artscape Ovalhouse London and international touring) and The Interrogation of Sandra Bland (Bush Theatre London).