Previous Work
Ikaria
2022-2023
Park Theatre, UK tour.
Written and directed by Philippa Lawford.
Produced and Associate directed by Izzy Parriss.
Lighting by Shane Gill.
Music by Laurie Blundell.
Set design by Philippa Lawford and Izzy Parriss.
This production was supported by Arts Council England.
The playtext of IKARIA was published by Methuen Drama.
Maybe we shouldn't always stay here. Maybe we should stay at yours, or you should stay at yours and I should stay here. Sometimes.
Runner-up for the Ambassador Theatre Group Playwrights’ Prize 2022.
OFFIE Short Run Commendation.
No. 2 on Broadway World’s list of Best Theatre of 2022.
Simon has returned to uni after taking a year out. He just wanted to get on with his finals and not slip back into old, destructive habits. Mia, a first-year, is enjoying the explosive freedom of life away from home.
Simon doesn’t want to leave his room. But then he meets Mia.
Ikaria is a love story about finding salvation in someone else.
★★★★★ Broadway World
★★★★★ West End Best Friend
★★★★★ Operation Live Theatre
★★★★½ Salterton Arts Review
★★★★½ The Reviews Hub
★★★★ Theatre Reviews North
★★★★ Curtain Call Reviews
★★★★ Always Time for Theatre
★★★★ The Peg
★★★★ Rated Reviewed
★★★★ Everything Theatre
★★★★ The Spy in the Stalls
★★★★ Rachel Reviews
★★★★ 1 Show More
Cast:
James Wilbraham
Andrea Gatchalian
Amaia Aguinaga (Old Red Lion run)
Clea Myers (Old Red Lion run)
David Matthews (Old Red Lion run)
Chris Bruce (Old Red Lion run)
Rivers of Milk
A rehearsed reading, written and directed by Philippa Lawford.
2023
A Pinch of VAULT.
A prince watches his father.
A boy trembles on the mountain.
An archaeologist weeps in his hotel room.
RIVERS OF MILK is a story about disappearing boys.
Cast:
Marcus Harman
Emile & Emily
By Mojola Akinyemi, Nurit Chinn and Philippa Lawford.
Directed by Philippa Lawford.
2023
VAULT Festival.
“I see it when I blink. Just for a second. Every single time.”
Emile and Emily are best friends in a flat share, flight attendants confronting gravity, and strangers facing a shared loss.
Two characters, three stories: a dizzying exploration of possibility.
Cast:
Isaiah St Jean
Francesca Eldred
David Matthews
Mollie Monkton
Sara Hazemi
Adam Mirsky
imaginary natural beings
By Mojola Akinyemi.
Directed by Philippa Lawford and Mojola Akinyemi.
2022
The Glitch - A Pinch of Vault.
The Girl, our Girl, is not alright. But she is trying to be.
A rehearsed reading of a new play by Mojola Akinyemi, performed as part of A Pinch of VAULT 2022.
Scholar’s Creek
By Billie Esplen.
Directed by Billie Esplen.
2022
White Bear Theatre.
Somewhere in the Deep South, sometime…
A misunderstood teen girl is falling for a mysterious farmhand with a dark past.
Meanwhile, in London…
Nina and Noa are wasting their youth on flashcards and fantasies about their teachers. They’ve never done drugs, they’ve never been to a party. They’ve never even been kissed…
And they’re absolutely never going to admit that they fancy each other.
Scholar’s Creek is a queer romantic comedy about how the stories we consume affect the ones we tell about ourselves.
Generously supported by Arts Council England.
★★★★★ London Theatre Reviews