Climate Conversation Five: THE TRIALS and Better Futures
Dawn King (writer of The Trials) talks with Anjali Raman-Middleton and Tolmeia Gregory about youth activism and the inspiration it gives us all to take responsibility for a brighter future.
Recorded during the run of The Trials on 16 August 2022.
Dawn King is an award-winning writer working in theatre, film, TV, VR and radio. Her play THE TRIALS was a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize 2021. ADDICTIVE BEAT, a play for Boundless Theatre, UK, will be performed in a converted church in Southwark Park in September 2022. Her radical reinterpretation of THE CHERRY ORCHARD with director Katie Mitchell opens at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg in November 2022. She is also working on feature film PIG CHILD for Delaval Film and the BFI and adapting her play FOXFINDER for the screen with Elation Pictures and the BFI. Dawn’s previous work for the stage includes; FOXFINDER, BRAVE NEW WORLD, CIPHERS and SALT.
Website: www.dawn-king.com
Anjali Raman-Middleton is an A level student, environmental activist and co-founder of Choked Up, a campaign formed by black and brown young people to highlight the disproportionate impact toxic air pollution has on marginalised communities. Currently looking for gap year internships in environmental policy for September 2022-September 2023.
Article link: https://www.standard.co.uk/optimist/sustainable/climate-campaigners-gen-zero-young-activists-justice-cop26-b962469.html
Socials: @anjali_lrm
Tolmeia Gregory is a climate justice activist and digital artist, formerly known as ‘Tolly Dolly Posh’. Tolmeia launched her collection of animated stickers as a Varified Artist on the GIPHY platform. Alongside her activism, she works as a graphic designer and illustrator, collaborating with brands and clients on a variety of different projects and campaigns. Tolmeia is a resident artist at The Wilson, Cheltenham as part of the We Are Creators programme. She is also the host of the podcast, IDEALISTICALLY.
Website: https://www.tolmeiagregory.com/
Podcast: https://www.tolmeiagregory.com/idealistically-podcast/
Socials: @tolmeia
Zoë Svendsen is an associate artist at the Donmar Warehouse and a director, dramaturg and researcher. As artistic director of METIS Zoe creates research-led interdisciplinary performance projects exploring contemporary political subjects, including Love Letters to a Liveable Future (Season for Change/Cambridge Junction), Factory of the Future (Oslo Architecture Triennale), WE KNOW NOT WHAT WE MAY BE (Barbican Pit), World Factory (New Wolsey Theatre/ Young Vic), 3rd Ring Out - TippingPoint Commission Award. As dramaturg she has worked with Shakespeare’s Globe, Young Vic, the National Theatre and the RSC. Svendsen lectures in Drama and Performance at the University of Cambridge.
Clare Slater is the Head of New Work at the Donmar Warehouse. She also works as a freelance adaptor and dramaturg. She sits on the Creative Council of Shakespeare’s Globe and previously worked as Executive Director of the Gate Theatre in Notting Hill. Prior to that, Clare was the Assistant Literary Manager at the National Theatre, and worked in TV and film development.
Produced by Heather Pasfield with support from Josh Parr and Dadiow Lin for the Donmar Warehouse.
Audio Recording: Ed Borgnis, Simon Hendry, Max Hunter and Keegan Curran.
Audio Edit and Mix: Ed Borgnis
Reading list:
Tolmeia Gregory's podcast - https://www.tolmeiagregory.com/idealistically-podcast/
Anjali's CHOKED UP campaign - https://twitter.com/ChokedUp_UK?s=20&t=xBkgwCYQCkscv_65RN7ifQ
Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K Wilkinson's book, ALL WE CAN SAVE - https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/9780593237083?gC=5a105e8b&gclid=Cj0KCQjw9ZGYBhCEARIsAEUXITVZEE7FL97MeErCMJVBAbEPd2MKo-2nI1w91nT6_slWo9aKXhTULm8aAuQWEALw_wcB
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Climate Conversation Five: THE TRIALS and Better Futures
Dawn King (writer of The Trials) talks with Anjali Raman-Middleton and Tolmeia Gregory about youth activism and the inspiration it gives us all to take responsibility for a brighter future.
Recorded during the run of The Trials on 16 August 2022.
Dawn King is an award-winning writer working in theatre, film, TV, VR and radio. Her play THE TRIALS was a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize 2021. ADDICTIVE BEAT, a play for Boundless Theatre, UK, will be performed in a converted church in Southwark Park in September 2022. Her radical reinterpretation of THE CHERRY ORCHARD with director Katie Mitchell opens at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg in November 2022. She is also working on feature film PIG CHILD for Delaval Film and the BFI and adapting her play FOXFINDER for the screen with Elation Pictures and the BFI. Dawn’s previous work for the stage includes; FOXFINDER, BRAVE NEW WORLD, CIPHERS and SALT.
Website: www.dawn-king.com
Anjali Raman-Middleton is an A level student, environmental activist and co-founder of Choked Up, a campaign formed by black and brown young people to highlight the disproportionate impact toxic air pollution has on marginalised communities. Currently looking for gap year internships in environmental policy for September 2022-September 2023.
Article link: https://www.standard.co.uk/optimist/sustainable/climate-campaigners-gen-zero-young-activists-justice-cop26-b962469.html
Socials: @anjali_lrm
Tolmeia Gregory is a climate justice activist and digital artist, formerly known as ‘Tolly Dolly Posh’. Tolmeia launched her collection of animated stickers as a Varified Artist on the GIPHY platform. Alongside her activism, she works as a graphic designer and illustrator, collaborating with brands and clients on a variety of different projects and campaigns. Tolmeia is a resident artist at The Wilson, Cheltenham as part of the We Are Creators programme. She is also the host of the podcast, IDEALISTICALLY.
Website: https://www.tolmeiagregory.com/
Podcast: https://www.tolmeiagregory.com/idealistically-podcast/
Socials: @tolmeia
Zoë Svendsen is an associate artist at the Donmar Warehouse and a director, dramaturg and researcher. As artistic director of METIS Zoe creates research-led interdisciplinary performance projects exploring contemporary political subjects, including Love Letters to a Liveable Future (Season for Change/Cambridge Junction), Factory of the Future (Oslo Architecture Triennale), WE KNOW NOT WHAT WE MAY BE (Barbican Pit), World Factory (New Wolsey Theatre/ Young Vic), 3rd Ring Out - TippingPoint Commission Award. As dramaturg she has worked with Shakespeare’s Globe, Young Vic, the National Theatre and the RSC. Svendsen lectures in Drama and Performance at the University of Cambridge.
Clare Slater is the Head of New Work at the Donmar Warehouse. She also works as a freelance adaptor and dramaturg. She sits on the Creative Council of Shakespeare’s Globe and previously worked as Executive Director of the Gate Theatre in Notting Hill. Prior to that, Clare was the Assistant Literary Manager at the National Theatre, and worked in TV and film development.
Produced by Heather Pasfield with support from Josh Parr and Dadiow Lin for the Donmar Warehouse.
Audio Recording: Ed Borgnis, Simon Hendry, Max Hunter and Keegan Curran.
Audio Edit and Mix: Ed Borgnis
Reading list:
Tolmeia Gregory's podcast - https://www.tolmeiagregory.com/idealistically-podcast/
Anjali's CHOKED UP campaign - https://twitter.com/ChokedUp_UK?s=20&t=xBkgwCYQCkscv_65RN7ifQ
Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K Wilkinson's book, ALL WE CAN SAVE - https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/9780593237083?gC=5a105e8b&gclid=Cj0KCQjw9ZGYBhCEARIsAEUXITVZEE7FL97MeErCMJVBAbEPd2MKo-2nI1w91nT6_slWo9aKXhTULm8aAuQWEALw_wcB
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She has reported for the BBC from countries including Ethiopia, Haiti and the Dominican Republic. As a playwright her work includes Day of the Living which played at The Other Place as part of the RSC’s Mischief Festival in 2018 and At the Gates of Gaza, for which she won the Writers’ Guild Best Play Award in 2009.
Juliet’s most recent work includes the play The Whip which premiered at the RSC last year. She also worked on BBC 4’s 2019 monologue series Soon Gone: A Windrush Chronicle.
Lucy Kirkwood is a playwright and screenwriter.
Her most recent plays include The Welkin and Mosquitos, which both premiered at the National Theatre, The Children, which premiered at the Royal Court, Chimerica which premiered at the Almeida before transferring to the West End and winning the Olivier, Evening Standard and Critics’ Circle awards for Best New Play.
Lucy won the inaugural Berlin Lee UK Playwrights Award in 2013.
Lyndsey Turner is a theatre director.
Her work at the Donmar includes Brian Friel’s Philadelphia, Here I Come!, Fathers and Sons, Faith Healer and Aristocrats.
Her other theatre credits include Top Girls, Saint George and the Dragon, Light Shining in Buckinghamshire, Edgar and Annabel, There is a War at the National Theatre, Girls and Boys at the Royal Court, Tipping The Velvet at Lyric Hammersmith, Hamlet at the Barbican and Chimerica at the Almeida and in the West End.
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Climate Conversation Five: THE TRIALS and Better Futures
Dawn King (writer of The Trials) talks with Anjali Raman-Middleton and Tolmeia Gregory about youth activism and the inspiration it gives us all to take responsibility for a brighter future.
Recorded during the run of The Trials on 16 August 2022.
Dawn King is an award-winning writer working in theatre, film, TV, VR and radio. Her play THE TRIALS was a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize 2021. ADDICTIVE BEAT, a play for Boundless Theatre, UK, will be performed in a converted church in Southwark Park in September 2022. Her radical reinterpretation of THE CHERRY ORCHARD with director Katie Mitchell opens at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg in November 2022. She is also working on feature film PIG CHILD for Delaval Film and the BFI and adapting her play FOXFINDER for the screen with Elation Pictures and the BFI. Dawn’s previous work for the stage includes; FOXFINDER, BRAVE NEW WORLD, CIPHERS and SALT.
Website: www.dawn-king.com
Anjali Raman-Middleton is an A level student, environmental activist and co-founder of Choked Up, a campaign formed by black and brown young people to highlight the disproportionate impact toxic air pollution has on marginalised communities. Currently looking for gap year internships in environmental policy for September 2022-September 2023.
Article link: https://www.standard.co.uk/optimist/sustainable/climate-campaigners-gen-zero-young-activists-justice-cop26-b962469.html
Socials: @anjali_lrm
Tolmeia Gregory is a climate justice activist and digital artist, formerly known as ‘Tolly Dolly Posh’. Tolmeia launched her collection of animated stickers as a Varified Artist on the GIPHY platform. Alongside her activism, she works as a graphic designer and illustrator, collaborating with brands and clients on a variety of different projects and campaigns. Tolmeia is a resident artist at The Wilson, Cheltenham as part of the We Are Creators programme. She is also the host of the podcast, IDEALISTICALLY.
Website: https://www.tolmeiagregory.com/
Podcast: https://www.tolmeiagregory.com/idealistically-podcast/
Socials: @tolmeia
Zoë Svendsen is an associate artist at the Donmar Warehouse and a director, dramaturg and researcher. As artistic director of METIS Zoe creates research-led interdisciplinary performance projects exploring contemporary political subjects, including Love Letters to a Liveable Future (Season for Change/Cambridge Junction), Factory of the Future (Oslo Architecture Triennale), WE KNOW NOT WHAT WE MAY BE (Barbican Pit), World Factory (New Wolsey Theatre/ Young Vic), 3rd Ring Out - TippingPoint Commission Award. As dramaturg she has worked with Shakespeare’s Globe, Young Vic, the National Theatre and the RSC. Svendsen lectures in Drama and Performance at the University of Cambridge.
Clare Slater is the Head of New Work at the Donmar Warehouse. She also works as a freelance adaptor and dramaturg. She sits on the Creative Council of Shakespeare’s Globe and previously worked as Executive Director of the Gate Theatre in Notting Hill. Prior to that, Clare was the Assistant Literary Manager at the National Theatre, and worked in TV and film development.
Produced by Heather Pasfield with support from Josh Parr and Dadiow Lin for the Donmar Warehouse.
Audio Recording: Ed Borgnis, Simon Hendry, Max Hunter and Keegan Curran.
Audio Edit and Mix: Ed Borgnis
Reading list:
Tolmeia Gregory's podcast - https://www.tolmeiagregory.com/idealistically-podcast/
Anjali's CHOKED UP campaign - https://twitter.com/ChokedUp_UK?s=20&t=xBkgwCYQCkscv_65RN7ifQ
Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K Wilkinson's book, ALL WE CAN SAVE - https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/9780593237083?gC=5a105e8b&gclid=Cj0KCQjw9ZGYBhCEARIsAEUXITVZEE7FL97MeErCMJVBAbEPd2MKo-2nI1w91nT6_slWo9aKXhTULm8aAuQWEALw_wcB
