Radio Elusia

Weekly Episodes on Monday from 26th April 2021
a Boundless Podcast Production

Be ready. Be listening. And do not be afraid. This is Radio Elusia.

What happens when all communication is sanctioned and you can never be sure who is listening? An original scripted thriller about transmission, revolution and pirate radio from producers Boundless Theatre. With an immersive sound design and original music by FATHER, the audience is asked to be ready, be listening and do not be afraid. This is Radio Elusia.

Set in the sprawling fictional city of Elusia, Radio Elusia is a weekly podcast from Boundless Theatre, about transmission and revolution.

Radio Elusia by Nina Segal was originally commissioned and developed as part of Extended Universe by Boundless Theatre in partnership with Teater Grob, Entropia and Sala Beckett co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.

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Joseph Adelakun Season 1

Joseph is a graduate of Rose Bruford College.

Theatre credits include: The Winter’s Tale, Comedy Of Errors(National Theatre), Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, Titus Andronicus (RSC), Richard II (Arcola Theatre), What The Thunder Said (Theatre Centre), Boi Boi Is Dead (West Yorkshire Playhouse, Watford Palace Theatre), Back To The Future (Secret Cinema), In the Jungle of the Cities (Arcola Theatre), Whole (20 Stories High), Run! A Sports Day Musical (Polka Theatre).

Screen credits include: Pokémon: Detective Pikachu (Legendary Entertainment), The Mime, Love Bitten (Dan Allen Films),Rosemary Jane (London Film School) and Little Big Planet PS Vita(Sony)

Valerie Vansovica Season 1

Valerie Vansovica is a British-Russian actor.

She attended the RADA Foundation and is currently part of Open Door, FILM CLUB, Theatre Peckham Company and The Orange Tree Youth Theatre Company. She is currently in rehearsals for “Stuff I Buried In A Small Town” (Mike Bartlett) directed by Toby Clarke, Theatre Peckham and is one of the actors in Ross Willis’ ongoing devised piece at The Orange Tree Theatre.

Chantelle Amon Season 1

Chantelle is an upcoming multi-disciplinary actor and writer with an interest in costume design. Her goal is to continue to tell stories with the push for diversity behind the scenes.

Pip Williams Season 1

Pip Williams is an actor, writer and director based in London and Cambridge.

A graduate of UEA’s English and Literature degree, he is also the co-artistic director of his own company We Talk Of Horses, who performed their second show “Where Is Ban Ki-moon?” in venues across London last year. He has performed with MoCo Theatre and Somna Theatre, and has written and directed work at the Southwark Playhouse. He is a member of the National Youth Theatre and has worked extensively in making theatre with young people.

Megan Jarvie Season 1

Megan Jarvie is an actor who trained at The MGA Academy of Performing Arts / Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts.

Theatre credits include: Frankie in The Countess (Evcol Entertainment); Princess Rose/Queen Geraldine in Sleeping Beauty (The Big Tiny UK); Assistant Director/Intimacy Director on Dogfight (Southwark Playhouse with BTA); Director and soloist in Songs for Jeremy (Southwark Playhouse); Betty in The Great American Trailer Park Musical (Edinburgh Fringe, Beyond Broadway Productions).

Television credits include: Archie the Inventor’s niece Megan in Balamory (CBBC).

Credits whilst training: Gladys in The Pajama Game (Greenwich Theatre, Mountview Academy), Ado Annie/Dance Captain in Oklahoma! (Mountview Academy); Chris in Carrie the Musical (Mountview Academy); Alex in The Distance (Mountview Academy).

She would like to say a huge thank you to her wonderful friends, her family back home in Scotland and partner for their constant love and ongoing support.

Joe Matty Season 1

Joe is a London-based actor and director originally from the Midlands and is currently playing

the lead role, Jay, in Fires Our Shoes Have Made, an original piece of gig theatre from Pound of

Flesh . After achieving great critical success at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2019, the show is

now touring to a number of different venues and festivals across the country.

Joe received formal actor training from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art before going on to

complete a BA in English and Theatre Studies at the University of Warwick. During his time at

RADA, Joe benefitted from roles such as Orlando ( As You Like It) , Henry ( That Face ), and

Tusenbach ( Three Sisters ). Joe then went on to play a variation of roles at Warwick including

the title role of Hamlet, Benedict ( Much Ado ), Jacques ( As You Like It ), Luke ( Brilliant

Adventures ), Mr Bernstein ( Little Shop of Horrors ), Young Buddy ( Follies ).

Most recently Joe played the cameo role of Jeff in Timpson: The Musical at the Stockwell

Playhouse. In 2018, Joe performed at the National Student Drama Festival, playing Ash in a

production of Chris Goode’s Speed Death of the Radiant Child and was also a part of Don’t Pity

the Felon’s immersive production of Pomona playing Charlie. Directorially, Joe was given the

opportunity in 2019 to direct a production of Alistair McDowall’s space thriller X at the Warwick

Arts Centre.

Joe has a keen interest in work which playfully explores narrative structures, music and he

especially loves Shakespearean performance. Beyond acting Joe is a budding musician and

singer and has a strong interest in sport and fitness. Radio Elusia presents Joe’s first taste of

voice acting and is extremely excited to be given the opportunity to work with such a vibrant and bold company.

Mary Malone Season 2

Richard McIver Season 2

Aminita Francis Season 2

Creatives

Nina Segal Radio Elusia Season 1 Writer

Nina Segal is a playwright. Her previous productions include: (This Isn’t) A True Story (Almeida Young Company); Dismantle This Room (Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Downstairs; Bush Theatre); In the Night Time (Before the Sun Rises) (Gate Theatre; Orange Tree Theatre; Teatro Belli, Rome; Atlantic Amplified Series, NYC), Big Guns (Yard Theatre) and Danger Signals (New Ohio, NYC). Upcoming productions include: Radio Elusia (Boundless Theatre); In the Night Time (Before the Sun Rises) (Staatstheater Mainz, Know Theatre of Cincinnati) and Big Guns (Theater Ingolstadt). Nina has been a finalist for Theatertreffen Stückemarkt (2018) and the Yale Drama Series Prize (2016), a recipient of a HighTide First Commission, and a Project 2036 bursary recipient (Bush Theatre, 2017/18).

Rob Drummer Director

Rob joined Boundless Theatre in July 2016 as Artistic Director and become sole CEO in 2019. Rob leads the organisation including commissioning new work and developing artists and projects as well as leading strategy for engaging young adults across the artistic programme. Currently working with Arts Council England on the strategic development of the Impacts & Insights Toolkit, Rob is passionate about new ways to innovate around more audiences engaging with theatre and better understanding the impact of the arts on young adults specifically.

For Boundless, Rob has directed NATIVES by Glenn Waldron (2017), CONFIDENCE by Judy Upton (2018) and RADIO ELUSIA by Nina Segal (2020).

Before joining Boundless he was Associate Dramaturg at the Bush Theatre where for three and a half years he ran the Literary Department and was responsible for all playwriting work including the commissioning and development of new plays for production. He has established partnerships with Playwrights of New York (PoNY), delivered projects with Kudos Film & Television and established a partnership with Drama Centre London and Oberon Books on the ‘Student Guide To Writing: Playwriting’.

Prior to joining the Bush Rob was the first Literary Manager for HighTide Festival Theatre where he supported the expansion of the festival, doubling the number of productions and before leaving the company directed Luke Barnes’ ‘Eisteddfod’ (Latitude), ‘Endless Poem’ (London 2012 Festival) and ‘Perish’ (HighTide & Public Theater, New York).

As a Dramaturg and Director Rob has worked with playwrights at theatres including The National Theatre, Hampstead Theatre, Bristol Old Vic, Contact, York Theatre Royal and Theatre503. Rob was one of the first recipients of an Artists’ International Development Fund from the Arts Council and British Council and spent time working in South Africa with playwrights and theatre makers at the Baxter and Market Theatres.

Rob is a Board Member for the Bermondsey Business Improvement District, where Boundless are proudly based.

rob@boundlesstheatre.org.uk

@robert_ad

Robert Awosusi Associate Director

Robert is a director / theatremaker based in London.

Theatre includes: Personal Statements [rehearsed reading], Background Noise [rehearsed reading] (National Theatre); Bullring Techno Makeout Jamz, Virtue (The Bunker); The Derek Smith Show (Karamel Club); phroot sahlad (The North Wall / Lyric Hammersmith/ Camden People’s Theatre); Lockout, Roost (The North Wall); The Lost (Young Vic)

Associate director: WE KNOW WHAT WE MAY BE [Artistic Associate](Barbican)

Assistant director: “Daddy” – A Melodrama (Almeida Theatre), Fairview (Young Vic), Let Kilburn Shake (Kiln Theatre), The Slave (Tristan Bates Theatre); The Trial (Young Vic)

Robert is a member of the Boundless Theatre Advisory Group and was recently on the Board Shadowing Programme run by Artistic Directors of the Future.

Father Original Music & Sound Design

Father is a music composition and sound-design studio which works on the principle that sound and image should work in tandem.

Founded by Joe Farley and Freddie Webb, Father uses a variety of approaches that bridge musicality and sound design for rich, provocative and emotive sonic landscapes.

wearefather.com

@father_insta

James Nash Radio Elusia Season 2 Writer

James Nash is a director and writer. He runs the company anorak and has previously worked at Camden People’s Theatre, Zoo Venues and the Gate Theatre.

Pronouns: he/they

@jmsnsh

Jane Morris Radio Elusia Season 2 Writer

Jane Morris is a 21 year old transfeminine writer and director based in the South West. Her previous work includes the Eddie and NSDFE award nominated Spring Awakening: A Reimagining, and the Liverpool Fringe Best New Writing award winning 10 Days That Shook The World. Her play Nude has been shortlisted for the Through The Mill prize, and she is also a writer on Season 1 of the podcast Folklore.

Pronouns: She/Her

10 Days That Shook The World: https://youtu.be/XCZrB_8mkGI

Extract of Nude for the #WhereTo Project: https://youtu.be/1D5cccni2RA

Again, for the Factory Theatre Workshop: https://youtu.be/ajZ1OvDxvug

@MiloJaneWriter on Insta

@janefsmorris on Twitter

Sadhana Narayanan Radio Elusia Season 2 Writer

Sadhana is a member of the New Vic Youth theatre, working on projects such as the 2019 National Youth Theatre Connections show ‘The Sad Club’ and Heritage Lottery funded Dorothy Clive project. She’s also a contributor on the Voice magazine, an online platform for young people interested in art, culture and politics.

Pronouns: she/her

www.voicemag.uk/users-portfolio/sadhana-n

@sadhana.jpg

Jack Donaghue Radio Elusia Season 2 Writer

Jack Donoghue is an actor and writer based in Manchester and London. He has appeared as a series regular on Grantchester, as well as having performed in shows such as Gangs of London and Holby City. He has written and performed the show ‘Grey Matter’ at the Edinburgh Fringe, and written, produced and performed the short ‘Autonomy of Being’ with Gaze productions. He is currently finishing a BA in economics at the University of Manchester

Pronouns: He/Him

Spotlight: https://www.spotlight.com/5811-8944-0457

Autonomy of Being: https://www.gaze-productions.com/autonomy-of-being

@wetnurse

Kc Gardiner Radio Elusia Season 2 Writer

Kc is a writer and actor based in SW London. Her scene ‘What We Tell Our Children’ was written and performed as part of the Almeida Theatre’s 2020 digital festival, ‘Shifting Tides’.

She is a recent acting graduate of the National Youth Theatre’s Playing Up company and is a Young Theatre Maker with London Bubble Theatre Company. She has just finished a project with London Bubble to develop and perform an original monologue ‘Tell Us Something Interesting’ as part of their film series ‘South London Stories’ which will go live on 11th of February.

Pronouns: she/her

@kcgardinerr

Nina Cassells Radio Elusia Season 2 Writer

Nina Cassells is an actor, writer and co-founder of Project Period. She has previously worked at Shakespeare’s Globe, The Yard Theatre, and is currently part of the Royal Court’s playwriting group. Her monologue ‘142 days’ is due to be published at the end of this year, as part of Team Angelica’s collection of speeches.

Pronouns: She/her

@ninacassells

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