lottery for Slave Play by Jeremy
Empire Street Productions, Seaview and bb² present
SLAVE PLAY
Written by Jeremy O. Harris
Directed by Robert O’Hara
- Sign up for the ‘Pay What You Can’ Lottery Scheme launches today for the London premiere of Slave Play by Jeremy O. Harris.
- From 26 June, more than 200 tickets released every Wednesday for the following week will be available for £1 and above. To be the first to hear when the lottery goes live sign up here.
- Fisayo Akinade, Kit Harington, Aaron Heffernan and Olivia Washington star alongside James Cusati-Moyer, Chalia La Tour, Annie McNamara and Irene Sofia Lucio who reprise their roles from the original Broadway production.
- TICKETS ARE ON SALE NOW FROM WWW.SLAVEPLAYLONDON.COM.
Empire Street Productions, Seaview, and bb ² are delighted to announce that sign up for the ‘Pay What You Can’ lottery for Slave Play by Jeremy O. Harris (Daddy, Almeida Theatre; Euphoria, HBO), directed by Robert O’Hara (OBIE award-winning In The Continuum) launches today. Every Wednesday at 10am, starting on 26 June 2024, 30 tickets will be released for each performance the following week at £1 and above. To be the first to hear when the lottery goes live on 26 June sign up here. There will also be 10 seats released on the morning for each performance day at £20 each (maximum of two per person). For further details please visit www.slaveplaylondon.com.
Jeremy O. Harris said: “Working with James Bierman and the team at Empire Street has been a dream for many reasons, but chief among them is the commitment we share in discovering ways to remove barriers for those who have never seen a West End show. Financial insecurity is one of the greatest barriers to anyone trying to see a play and one that stopped me from seeing my first show on Broadway until I was well into my 20s (just a year before my own production – Slave Play – transferred). I hope this can spark more initiatives like it.”
Empire Street Productions are committed to ensuring affordability in the West End and are delighted to be bringing their ‘Pay What You Can’ lottery scheme to Slave Play after its success on the recent West End performances of Prima Facie and The Pillowman.
This ground-breaking play about race, identity and sexuality in twenty-first century America will play a strictly limited season from 29 June – 21 September 2024 at the intimate Noël Coward Theatre. Tickets are on sale now from www.slaveplaylondon.com
The cast includes Fisayo Akinade (The Crucible, National Theatre; Heartstopper, Netflix), Kit Harington (Game of Thrones, HBO; Industry S3, BBC), Aaron Heffernan (Brassic, Sky; Atlanta, FX) and Olivia Washington (I Am Virgo, Amazon Prime; Breaking, Bleecker Street) alongside James CusatiMoyer (Six Degrees of Separation, Broadway; Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Netflix), Chalia La Tour
(The Good Fight; Elementary, both CBS), Annie McNamara (Orange is the New Black, Netflix; Iowa, Playwrights Horizons) and Irene Sofia Lucio (The Americans, FX; Wit, Broadway) who will reprise their roles from the original Broadway production. The understudies completing the cast are Troy Alexander, Dimitri Gripari, Maite Jauregui, Prince Kundai and Malikah Mcherrin-Cobb.
The full creative team of Slave Play includes Clint Ramos (set design) Dede Ayite (costume design), Jiyoun Chang (lighting), and Lindsay Jones (composition and sound design), Amy Ball (casting), Aundrea Fudge (voice and dialect coach), Claire Warden (intimacy and fight director), Taylor Williams (original US casting) and Wabriya King (drama therapist) Byron Easley (US Choreographer) Jade Hackett (UK Choreographer).
Slave Play was originally staged in 2018 at New York Theatre Workshop before transferring to Broadway’s John Golden Theatre in 2019. The production received 12 nominations at the 74th Tony Awards, breaking the record previously set by the revival of Angels in America.
Jeremy O. Harris is the playwright and creator of Slave Play. Jeremy was nominated for two 2023 Tony Awards for producing The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window and Ain’t No Mo’. His play Daddy opened to acclaim at its UK premiere at the Almeida Theatre in March 2022. In June 2022, Daddy opened at the Tokyo Globe Theatre.
Jeremy co-wrote A24’s critically acclaimed Zola alongside director Janicza Bravo. His television credits include HBO’s Euphoria and Irma Vep. As an actor, Jeremy recently appeared on HBO Max’s Gossip Girl and returned as Grégory Duprée in Netflix’s Emily in Paris. He is executive producer of Invasive Species, a new play by Maia Novi which is playing until 30 June 2024 at The Vineyard’s Dimson Theater in New York.
Empire Street Productions, Seaview and bb² presents
Slave Play
Written by Jeremy O. Harris
Directed by Robert O’Hara
Designed by Clint Ramos
Costumes by Dede Ayite
Lighting by Jiyoun Chang
Compositions and Sound Design by Lindsay Jones
Wigs, Hair and Make Up by Cynthia De La Rosa
Casting by Amy Ball
Original US Casting by Taylor Williams
Voice and Dialect Coaching by Aundrea Fudge
Intimacy and Fight Direction by Claire Warden
Drama Therapy by Wabriya King
UK Choreography by Jade Hackett
US Choreography by Byron Easley
Noël Coward Theatre
85-88 St Martin’s Ln, London, WC2N 4AP
29 June – 21 September 2024
Performance Schedule:
Monday to Saturday 7.30pm
Wednesday and Saturday 2.30pm
Running Time: 2 hours without an interval
Age recommendation: 16+
Tickets: From £20
Limited PWYC tickets: From £1
Website: www.slaveplaylondon.com
Box Office: 0344 482 5151
Pay What You Can & Day Seats:
From 26 June 30 tickets per show will be released each week on the Wednesday before at 10am at £1 and above. A further 10 day seats will be released each performance day at £20 each. Maximum of two per person.
Socials:
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BIOGRAPHIES
EMPIRE STREET PRODUCTIONS
Empire Street Productions was set up by James Bierman to develop and produce work across theatre, television and film. Recent theatre credits include Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman starring Lily Allen and Steve Pemberton at the Duke of York’s Theatre; Suzie Miller’ s Olivier award winning Prima
Facie starring Olivier and Tony Award Winning Jodie Comer which transferred to Broadway in April 2023 after a sold out run at the Harold Pinter Theatre and a NTLive co production which is the highest grossing live event cinema of all time in the UK; Sam Shepard’s True West starring Kit Harington and Johnny Flynn at the Vaudeville Theatre; and Tracy Letts’ Killer Joe at the Trafalgar Studio starring
Orlando Bloom. Ballywalter, a feature film by Stacey Gregg and directed by Prasanna Puwanarajah;
Through the Dunes, a short film starring Ian Hart written & directed by Tim Price; and The Real Charlie Chaplin, directed by Peter Middleton & James Spinney. ESP are currently developing Film and TV projects with FilmNation, Complete Fiction and EOne.
SEAVIEW
Originally founded as a Broadway production company in 2012, Seaview is a New York based company disrupting and reshaping the paradigm of commercial storytelling. Powered by a strong curatorial aesthetic, we develop our slate of projects through a process of IP acquisition, creative collaboration, and partnership. While many of our projects originate in live experience, all are conceived with the expectation of creating franchisable entertainment brands designed to scale into film, tv, and podcast.
We are ferociously committed to disrupting industry standards by taking a radical approach to what we make and how we make it. Amplifying new and diverse voices, developing stories not traditionally told, and welcoming audiences who do not usually find themselves comfortable or invited into that space informs our core identity and guides our strategic decision making. By shifting perspectives of our audience, maximizing synergies with our collaborators, and empowering our creators, Seaview is boldly reimagining the future of entertainment.
bb²
bb² is a theater, film, television, and new media company that exists to support explosive artists, both established and emerging, in the building of dynamic work that meets at the intersection of art and entertainment.
Co-founded by Jeremy O. Harris and Josh Godfrey to amplify the work of underrepresented film and theatermakers from nascence to fruition, as well as mentorship to artists they are developing. Current projects include: a new Jordan Tannahill play directed by Robert O’Hara (Broadway Fall ‘24), a new Will Arbery play directed by Simon Stone (Broadway Spring ‘25).
Jeremy O. Harris is the playwright and producer of the multi-Tony nominated Broadway play, Slave Play. He was nominated for two 2023 Tony Awards for producing The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window and Ain’t No Mo’. Jeremy co-wrote A24’s critically-acclaimed Zola alongside director Janicza Bravo. He is currently developing new series for FX, HBO, and Legendary. He is also currently working with Universal, HBO Films, and Warner Bros.
Josh Godfrey most recently served as producer on the upcoming film Caddo Lake starring Dylan O’Brian and Eliza Scanlen (co-produced and financed by M. Night Shyamalan’s Blinding Edge Pictures) and
Topside, which made its World Premiere at SXSW (Best Directing Prize) and its International Premiere at the Venice Film Festival (Best Technical Achievement Award). He was an Executive Producer on Luca Guadagnino’s re-imagining of the horror thriller Suspiria with Amazon Studios, and on the company’s critically acclaimed film, Manchester By The Sea, which was nominated for six Academy Awards® including Best Picture (winning two, Best Original Screenplay and Best Actor).
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