THANK YOU!

We’ve raised over £2800 with our crowdfunding campaign, to support the development of the show, working towards a showing in November 2023 and a first production in summer 2024.

With support from: Alice & Jon Steinberg, Amanda Thomas, Andrew & Jo Cripps, Anne & Ian Cripps, Annette Corbett, Chris Newman, David Megarrity, Davinia Hamilton, Debra Salem, Dominic Varney, Emily Louizou, Emily Rose Simons, Emma Wolfin Golding, Ernaldo Data, Grace O’Keefe, Greig Rapley, Gretchen Brosius, Helen & Chris Jones, Ian Fleming, Ilayda Arden, Jack Dryden, James Sherwood, Jeanne de Rougemont, Jo Millar, Jo Stephenson, Justine Abri-Hodder, Kandy Rohmann, Karina Garnett, Kate Tasker, Kirsty Greenwood, Lizzie Vogler, Maria Marquis, Maura Halloran, Michael Clulow, Mick Tasker, Monica Krogstad, Namrata Trivedi, Neil & Val Tasker, Neil Abrahams, Neil Bastian, Paige Rogers, Paul & Linda Wray, Sarita Lewis, Sharlit Deyzac, Shauna Carrick, Steve & Di Tindell, Sue & John Wilks, Tom Arnold, Tom McGrath.

Writer Amy Clare Tasker is a theatre maker and songwriter. She taught herself to play the ukulele in 2019, and discovered a wonderland of music-lovers, community events, festivals, and creative expression. Amy is a co-director of Pinecone Performance Lab, where she writes, performs, directs, and embraces an all-around “theatre maker” ethos. Amy wrote and performed the play with songs HOT (Helen of Troy), which premiered at The Cockpit in February 2020. Her next musical The Queen is Mad, co-written with Tom James McGrath, will premiere at the Lion & Unicorn Theatre in March 2024.

Since 2022, she has been a member of the Book Music & Lyrics workshop, honing the craft of writing for musical theatre. Amy also works with The Cockpit on the Voila! Theatre Festival and the Theatre Maker artist development programme.

Director Nicky Allpress‘srecent credits include The Shape of Things (Park Theatre), The Walworth Farce, and Romeo & Juliet (Southwark Playhouse); Crackers! (Polka Theatre), My Fair Lady (The Hexagon, Reading); Market Boy (Union Theatre); Invisible Me (Bloomsbury Festival); Moment of Grace (Lockdown Film); Summon up the Blood (RSC Open Stages community project, director and adapter of Henry IV, V and VI). She is currently in preparation for he 60th anniversary tour of Oh What a Lovely War with six actor musicians. As Associate Director she worked on Dragons & Mythical Beasts (Regents Park and Tour); My Brilliant Friend (National Theatre); Summerland (film dir Jessica Swale); Finishing the Picture (Finborough Theatre).

Nicky works closely with writers in the development of new plays and musicals, creating a a new writing residency at the Swiss Church Covent Garden to help 16 writers host readings, workshops, and development rehearsals to further their new work. Nicky is about to start her third year in the Book Music & Lyrics workshop, under the auspices of Tim Sutton, Jason Carr and David James.

Dramaturg Tricity Vogue, AKA Heather Tyrrell, is a seasoned scriptwriter and lyricist, as well as a celebrated ukulele player and cabaret performer. Her most recent theatrical collaboration was as lyricist on Alma, a new original musical produced by Théatre de Namur, Belgium, created by director Fabrice Murgia and celebrated drag queen Peggy Lee Cooper.

Tricity spent a decade working in television (credits include My Family, Totally Frank, Holby City, Byker Grove and the Teletubbies) before she fell down a rabbit hole into London’s cabaret scene. As an international cabaret performer and musician, Tricity Vogue has staged five hit Edinburgh Fringe shows, and played venues including London’s Royal Festival Hall, Royal Albert Hall and Wiltons Music Hall with her All Girl Swing Band. Her “drag action musical” Heels of Glory, co-written with composer Richard Link, was awarded development funding from the Arts Council of England, and headlined the Pride in London Festival 2016 at Chelsea Theatre.