The kitchen

The Kitchen (2025)

Royal Central School of Speech and Drama - Embassy Theatre

Director: Robert Styles

Set Designer: Talitha Bella Sewell

Costume Designer: Izzy Jack

Lighting Designer: Felix Weis

Sound Designer: Coda Renken

Voice Coach: Claudette Williams

Dialect Coach: Gurkiran Kaur

Movement Director, Additional Choreography and Intimacy: Vanessa Ewans 

Fight Director: Jonathan Leverett

Costume Supervisors: Lia Waber & Karin Schuck 

Assistant Costume Supervisor: Marcolino Barboza Neto

Costume Makers: Esme Downs, Solene Catchpole, Iman Jones, Storm Williams, & Micaela Jordao-Viana

Dressers: Esme Downs, Solene Catchpole,& Iman Jones,

Associate Director: Callum Sharp

Assistant Set Designer: Elizabeth Hoffhines

Stage Manager: Jurui Yu

Deputy Stage Manager: Roman Terrazas

Assistant Stage Manager: Abby Walsh, Helena Stockford Parsons &
Immy Glover

Head of Lighting: Isaac Roitt

Deputy Head of Lighting: Oliver Stilwell

Assistant Lighting Designer and Programmer: Penny Lougher

Production Sound Engineer: Alice Manning

Flies: Harry Maltby

Stage Crew: Alex Webster & Brooklyn C. Eri

Dance Captain: Ashini Geen

Fight Captain: Halim Diwani

Intimacy Captain: Samuel Mandele

Production Manager: Shaz McGee

FOH Manager: Martin Juul Sorensen

Thanks to Men at Work, LAMDA, RADA, The Savoy, The National Theatre Green Store, Richard Parr, Consultant Chef - Paul Ritchie, Central Workshop and Mavi, Finn Meader, Watson Stage, National Youth Theatre, Lisa Bain & Alesha Grundy.

Cast - BA (Hons) Acting Third Year:

Manvir Bawa: Nicholas 

Josh Bradley-Lewis: Michael

Sumaiya Chaudhary: Gwen

Lucas Ciric: Gaston

Halim Diwani: Paul

Vanessa Dube: Bertha

Praise Durizeaut: Monique

Ashini Geen: Cynthia

Jahmaiah Guthrie: Frank

Samuel Mandele: Alfredo

Daniel McElroy: Raymondo

Jenisha Mitchell: Daphne

Archie Poole: Kevin

Julia Sophia-Haworth: Annie

Elouan Trebucq: Dimitri

Vin Vidanage: Violet

Bailey West: Peter

Daniil Zavalniuk: Hans

Cast - BA (Hons) Acting Second Year:

Sienna Atkinson-Aransiola: Hettie

Amari Barnes: Chef

Kieran Bresnahan: Margolis/Tramp

Rory Clayton: Max

Ethan Fiore: Magi/Marango

Fortune Ibrahim: Winnie

Elise Konig: Betty

Iris Papatheodorou: Jackie

Sonia Radu: Molly

Marcus Ryder: Head Waiter

Production photos by Cam Harle