Joe Turner’s Come and Gone
Written by August Wilson
Directed by Professor Baron Kelly
The Sainsbury Theatre
Friday 6 - Thursday 12 June 2025
This amateur production of “August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals Ltd. on behalf of Samuel French Ltd. www.concordtheatricals.co.uk
Content warnings: Contains themes of racism, animal death in a religious ceremony, attempted suicide, self-harm and flashing lights. Use of explicit language, blood and weapons. The play also depicts the long-term ongoing impact of racism on the lives of African Americans.
Creative Team
Director
Designer
Producer
Assistant Producer
Assistant Director
Sound Designer
Lighting Designer
Costume Supervisor
Voice Director
Movement Director
Intimacy Director
Wig and Hair Designer
Baron Kelly*
Elliott Squire*
Rebecca Lyle*
Bobby Harding*
Gus Hodgson
Angelika Marr
Neill Brinkworth*
Caitlyn Keaney*
Gurkiran Kaur*
Fumy Opeyemi*
Sam Goodchild*
Jobina Hardy*
Cast
Bynum Walker
Herald Loomis
Bertha Holly
Reuben Mercer
Zonia Loomis
Mattie Campbell
Martha Pentecost ‘Loomis’
Molly Cunningham
Rutherford Selig
Jeremy Furlow
Seth Holly
Jaylon Bolden
Jamal Colvin
Brie Covington
Kenndrick Horton
Géovanna Lewin-Rowe
Rebecca Matundu
Joz McCaw
Carys Murray
John Rice*
Roland Royal III
Nigel Sudarkasa
Production Team
Stage Manager
Deputy Stage Manager
Assistant Stage Managers
Production Managers
Production Lx
Deputy Lx/Programmer/
Green Book Captain
Amos Clarke*
Anya Williams
Sofia Altamirano
Nazaire Kilborne-Appiah
Jay Cheung
Meghan Sorohan*
James Knight
Ronan McKenna
*LAMDA staff member or visiting artist
Production Team
Production Sound Engineer
Lighting Technicians
Sound Assistants
Velia de Nicola
Finley Cozens
Caspar Edwards
Peter McNally
Rhianna Minhoca
Nicola Usher
Ash Vaughan
Inaaya Abdullah
Izzy Barton
Tammy Cheng
Ashlyn Fray
Kat Parry
Poppy Stewart
Jackson Walsh
Sound Operator Construction Crew
Production Carpenter
Deputy Prod Carpenter
Phoenix Morgan
Phoebe Bennett
Simon Calahan
Tilly Cox
Torrin Gieler
Amelia Hill
Arthur Moore
Indianah Raymond
Aryan Sherifi
Peter Johnston
Ace Turner
Originally Produced on Broadway By Elliot Martin, Vy Higginsen and Ken Wydro; produced in association with Yale Repertory Theatre (Lloyd Richards, Artistic Director; Benjamin Mordecai, Managing Director); associate producer, Jeffrey Steiner, Kery Davis and Charles Grantham.
World Premiere at Yale Repertory Theatre; Second Production at Huntington Theatre Company (Peter Altman, Producing Director; Michael Maso, Managing Director); Originally presented as a staged reading at the 1984 National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center.
*LAMDA staff member or visiting artist
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