Emily Aboud is a Director and a Writer of mixed heritage, born and raised in Trinidad and Tobago, based in London.
She won the Evening Standard Future Theatre Award in 2021. She is an associate artist at the Bush Theatre and Artistic Director of Lagahoo Productions.
Most recently, she was shortlisted for the 2025 RTST Peter Hall Award. She was shortlisted in 2023 as well. She was in the final round for the Genesis Fellow Associate Director at the Young Vic. She was shortlisted for the JMK Award 2021 and again in 2022. She was also shortlisted for the Genesis Future Directors Award and the Old Vic 12 2020.
Her directing credits include Disco Inferno (National Youth Theatre),Tender (Bush Theatre), Sweet Charity (Mountview), Rock DJ and Three Other Songs That Saved The World (New Diorama Theatre), Lady Dealer (Bush Theatre, Paines Plough Roundabout), Haemosporidian (Lyric Hammersmith), Flip! (Regional Tour with Fuel Theatre), Close Quarters (LAMDA, 2023), BOGEYMAN (Edinburgh Queen Dome, Fringe 2022), SPLINTERED, (also writer Edinburgh Fringe 2019, Soho Theatre 2023), Pink Lemonade (Bush Theatre 2021, Edinburgh Fringe 2019), British Book (Roundhouse 2021), Exceptional Promise (Bush Theatre), & Salty Irina (Ovalhouse) among others.
Associate/Assistant work includes The Harder They Come (Stratford East), Going Through (Bush Theatre) and the upcoming The Story (Olivier Theatre, National Theatre).
As a writer, she wrote and directed both SPLINTERED (Soho Theatre Mainhouse) and BOGEYMAN (Pleasance QueenDome). She's also written Insurrection: A Work in Progress Opera for the Royal Opera House that was staged in 2023. She is currently on commission by Pigfoot Theatre.
She has worked internationally, directing and assistant directing pieces in Trinidad & Tobago as well as throughout the UK.
A teacher and facilitator, she has led workshops for Talawa, GRAEAE amoung others. She has devised community projects with Cardboard Citizens, The Outside Project, Harrow Arts Centre and The National Youth Theatre, amount others.
She has directed drama school productions at Mountview, LAMDA, Central School of Speech and Drama, Oxford School of Drama, ALRA South and Italia Conti.
She also works as a writer and columnist for the Trinidad Guardian, writing feminist articles under the pseudonym, lagahoo.
She also performs regularly as a drag king, TriniDad & TooGayThough across the UK and Trinidad & Tobago. Performing in The Yard, VFD, The Glory and EartH Hackney as a finalist for the Man Up competition, the largest drag king competition in Europe
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Jenny was born and educated in Ireland. She went on to attend Pace University in New York where she developed a passion for film and the American style of screen acting.
She's a creative, instinctive and versatile casting director with a track record of numerous successes and award-winning productions that have gained an Oscar, BAFTAs, a Palme d'Or, RTS Award and an Evening Standard Best Newcomer Award.
Jenny worked with the late and legendary Mary Selway on a number of projects and remains grateful to Stephen Daldry for the training she received under his directorship at the Royal Court Theatre at the start of her career.
She's a member of the Casting Directors' Guild of Great Britain, was a panel judge for the Laurence Olivier Theatre Awards in 2007 and 2008, and is currently an assessor for OffWestEnd.com
Agent: max@jag-london.com
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See docsMatt is an award winning theatre director from North Yorkshire, now based in london. He trained at East 15 Acting School and was awarded the Bryan Forbes Bursary under the mentorship of Michael Attenborough CBE.
Matt was the National Theatre's new works department resident director 2018/19, he is an associate of the National Youth Theatre and regularly facilitates workshops for organisations including the Old Vic, Almeida Open Door and Generation Arts.
Agent: rachel@jag-london.com
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See docsMatilda is from Cornwall and works on projects for theatre, screen and games.
She was Head of Casting for Shakespeare’s Globe from 2012 to 2017, where she cast over 50 shows for the Globe and Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, including THE DUCHESS OF MALFI starring Gemma Arterton, David Dawson and Denise Gough; A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM starring Meow Meow, Anjana Vasan and Ncuti Gatwa; FARINELLI AND THE KING starring Mark Rylance; NELL GWYNN starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw; THE MERCHANT OF VENICE starring Jonathan Pryce and THE TEMPEST, starring Roger Allam, Jessie Buckley and Colin Morgan.
Recent theatre work includes UNCLE VANYA, TWELFTH NIGHT and RED SPEEDO all for the Orange Tree, THE HISTORY BOYS for Bath Theatre Royal, REVERBERATION and A CHILD OF SCIENCE both for Bristol Old Vic, as well as Danny Robins' smash-hit 2.22: A GHOST STORY including 3 West End runs and a sell-out UK and Ireland tour, with stars including Cheryl, Jake Wood, Stacey Dooley, James Buckley, Frankie Bridge, Sophia Bush and Jay McGuiness among others.
Film work includes Simon Amstell's feature debut BENJAMIN and POND LIFE directed by Bill Buckhurst.
Matilda has also worked on installation art projects such as Netia Jones' ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY for the Barbican and THE COMPLETE WALK, 37 short films by 15 directors starring 72 different actors, created to celebrate Shakespeare’s 400th Birthday.
She is a member of the Casting Directors' Guild of Great Britain & Ireland, a member of BAFTA Connect and a founding member of the Murmuration, a women-led arts producing collective that brings strategic and creative thinking together to make things happen in a smart, kind, artist-focussed way.
Matilda was Associate Casting Director at the Orange Tree (2023-4) and is Casting Consultant for Bristol Old Vic.
Agent: max@jag-london.com
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See docsWabriya is a qualified dramatherapist (Roehampton University), actress (The Oxford School of Drama), creative facilitator and Reiki practitioner. She combines her experience to support creatives alongside the rehearsal and performance period.
Theatre includes: Romeo & Juliet(Harold Pinter Theatre)The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind(Soho Place/ RSC) Prima Facie (Empire Street Productions);The Tempest, Driftwood, Falkland Sound, The Empress, Julius Caesar, (RSC); Cleansed, Otherland, Roots, Look Back in Anger, Portia Coughlan, King Lear, Alma Mater, Romeo and Juliet, The Secret Life of Bees (Almeida); After Sunday (Belgrade/Bush); Born With Teeth (Wyndham’s); Intimate Apparel, Clyde’s,Love and Other Acts of Violence, The Trials, (Donmar Warehouse); Alterations, Blues for an Alabama Sky ,Rockets and Blue Lights (National Theatre); Elektra, Barcelona (Duke of York’s); Slave Play (Noël Coward Theatre); Shifters (Cherry Lane Theatre NY/ Duke of York’s/Bush); A Strange Loop (Barbican); Romeo and Juliet (Jamie Lloyd); Red Pitch (Soho Place/Bush); For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Hue Gets Too Heavy (West End/Royal Court/New Diorama); Cowbois (Royal Court/ RSC) School Girls; or, The African Mean Girls Play (Lyric Hammersmith); Wicked, Cabaret, Hamilton, Moulin Rouge!, MJ the Musical (West End); Just for One Day (The Old Vic); Now, I See, Beautiful Thing, Tambo and Bones (Theatre Royal Stratford East); Samskara, Samuel Takes a Break, The Flea (The Yard); Bootycandy (Gate); Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (Complicité); Blue (ENO); Further Than the Furthest Thing (Young Vic).
Film and Television includes: The Wolf Will Tear Your Immaculate Hands (Quiddity Films); The Changing Room (Anima Goli Productions); Empire of Light (Searchlight Pictures); Chevalier (Element Pictures).
Agents: rachel@jag-london.com + simon@jag-london.com
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