Written by Clare Barron Dance Nation
Directed by Lucy Curtis
The Carne Studio Theatre
Tuesday 10 - Tuesday 17 June 2025
Content warnings: Contains adolescent characters in sexual situations and discussions, depictions of self-harm and gore/ blood special effects. Use of explicit language throughout.
This amateur production of “Dance Nation” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals Ltd. on behalf of Samuel French Ltd. www.concordtheatricals.co.uk
DANCE NATION received its UK premiere at the Almeida Theatre, London, September 2018.
Playwrights Horizons, Inc., New York City, produced the World Premiere of DANCE NATION in 2018 with support from an award by the National Endowment of the Arts, and a generous gift from Scott M. Delman.
Special thanks to The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Trust for supporting new plays at Playwrights Horizons, and special thanks to the Time Warner Foundation for its leadership support of New Works Lab at Playwrights Horizons.
DANCE NATION was developed at the Perry-Mansfield New Works Festival, June 2015, with the Atlantic Theatre Company, and presented as part of the Contemporary American Voices Festival at Long Wharf Theatre, September 2016.
DANCE NATION was written, in part, in residence at SPACE on Ryder Farm, and received extensive workshop time and space as part of New Dramatists’ Jerry A. Tishman Playwrights Creativity Fund.
Creative Team
Director
Designer
Producer
Assistant Producer
Assistant Director
Sound Designer
Lighting Designer/Green Book Captain
Costume Supervisor
Voice Director
Movement & Intimacy Director
Choreographer
Lucy Curtis*
Finlay Jenner*
Rebecca Lyle*
Bobby Harding*
Hope Wishart
Megan Parker
Patrick McAneny
Hannah Danson*
Cassidy McCartan*
Nicoletta Bonanni*
Jacob Wolstencroft*
Production Team
Stage Manager
Deputy Stage Manager
Assistant Stage Manager
Production Manager/Green Book Captain
Production Lx PSE
Production Carpenter
Deputy Production Carpenter
Construction Crew
Heather Trevelyan
Vicky Shannon*
Brooke Sangster
Alexander Hoppe
Abigail Brophy
Holly Higgs
Peter Johnston
Ace Turner
Phoebe Bennett
Simon Calahan
Tilly Cox
Torrin Gieler
Amelia Hill
Arthur Moore
Indianah Raymond
Aryan Sherifi
Lighting Technicians
Sound Operators
Bastie Colclough
Abigail Quelch
Inaaya Abdullah
Poppy Stewart
Jackson Walsh
*LAMDA staff member or visiting artist
Luke Sofia
Vanessa/The Moms
Zuzu
Maeve
Connie
Dance Teacher Pat
Ashlee
Amina
Tobias Adetula
Cassie Clark
Zella Clay
Gracel Delos Santos
Ada Grey
Dishari Kargupta
Gavin Rasmussen
Rẹmi Shorunke-Samuel
Ashnah Strongheart
*LAMDA staff member or visiting artist
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