LIGHTING IN MAY

After seeing the callout for a female beatboxer singer rapper to collaborate on an R&D for an exciting new play Aminita had to apply and was over the moon to have been selected. As a musician for the week long research and development of 'Lightning In May' hosted by Mercury Theatre in Colchester.

Pictured: Director Emma Baggot, Composer and sound designer Giles Thomas, Movement Director Jennifer Jackson, Actor Writer Ethan Moorhouse, Actor Writer Ava Pickett, Actor/Musician Zoë West, Actor Musician Scott Brooks, Composer Facilitator Holly Khan, Costume Designer Grace Smart & Stage Manager Emelie Leger, Actor Writer Vocal Artist Aminita Francis.

Written and performed by Ava Pickett and Ethan Moorhouse Directed by Emma Baggott Meet May. She’s from ‘Crackton-on-sea’ and has just been dumped. Again. Fighting to contain her fury, May begins to unravel and god help anyone who gets in her way. Ava Pickett’s and Ethan Moorhouse’s blistering new play uses rage and rhyme to expose the effects of economic decline and rising inequality on our forgotten seaside towns.

Ava Pickett is from Clacton-On-Sea. She graduated from The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in 2018, she is also Soho Theatre Writers Lab Alumni. Recent acting credits include Peter Pan Goes Wrong (UK Tour) Copper and Steel (The Bunker Theatre). She is represented by Curtis Brown and has a number of screen projects in development and is the writer of BBC Radio 4 comedy Roots starring Vicky McClure.

Ethan Moorhouse, is from Steeple Bumpstead. He recently graduated from LAMDA in 2019. He is an actor and writer from who recently starred in Peter Pan Goes Wrong with Mischief Theatre.

Emma Baggott is a theatre director and teacher originally from Wales and now based in London. She trained at Goldsmiths and at the Young Vic. Emma’s work reflects current discourse it is her aim to make work which leaves the audiences changed. She believes she has a responsibility to contribute to the world she inhabits and address the state of society she occupies. Directing: Misfits (Queens Theatre Hornchurch), Leaving, (The Bunker), How To Kill Your Mother, (The Bunker), Stiletto Beach (Queens Theatre Hornchurch) Though She Be But Little She is Fierce (The Swirl, RSC), The Interview (The Biscuit Factory), Copper & Steel (The Bunker), Normal (Styx), The H Word (Shoreditch Arts Club), 10 Scenes for Women (Theatre Royal Haymarket), Scan Artists (The Round House/The Yard), Balloons (Redbridge Drama Centre). Associate/Assistant Directing: As You Like It (RSC, Barbican, UK Tour), The Village (Theatre Royal Stratford East), This House (Headlong, UK Tour), Aladdin (Salisbury Playhouse), McQueen (Theatre Royal Haymarket), City Stories (St James Theatre Studio), McQueen (St James Theatre), The Sound of Yellow (Young Vic), Tangent (New Diorama), One for the Road/Victoria Station (Print Room & Young Vic).