Director: Christian Holder
Musical Director: Joseph Roberts
Sound Designer: Joe Dines
Set Designer: Greta Dietz
Costume Designer: Willow Burrows
Lighting Designer: Josh Gadsby
Stage Manager: Lily Brown
Deputy Stage Manager: Vendy Pospisilova
Assistant Stage Managers: Lou Wright, Helena Purvis
Props Buyer: Mel Fritz
Production Manager: Shaz McGee
Assistant Stage Managers: Emily Cox, Sara Eeg Jonasmo, Thomas Quine
Production Sound Engineer: Grzegorz Staniewicz
Lighting Programmer: Will Lucus
Deputy Lighting Chiefs: Will Gibbs, Allie Hu
Costume Supervisor: Bex Kemp
Assistant Costume Supervisor: Nicola Stimpson
Costume Makers: Katy Adeny, Sophie Loy, Ninti-El Samuels-Regis, Alissa Tsyplakova, Felicity White
Photography: Patrick Baldwin
By the Way meet Vera Stark is a play about a maid trying to find her way into the acting industry in Hollywood in the 1930s. She discovers what she would do, to be able to have a shot at being a star. Later in the play, the audience sees her throughout her career, prodominantly in the 1970s where the woman who was so eager at the start of her career has turned into an angry and alcohol fuelled individual after her experiences within it. The play explores racisism, the treatment of women in the industry, alcohol and drug abuse and references to suicide.
In this production I was the Costume designer alongside Greta Dietz who was the Set Designer. In the show there were 7 costume makes which meant I had the opportunity to follow a design from start to finish. There were over twenty costumes with multiple quick changes, the fasted being 5 seconds. So it was important to design with timings in mind, but at the same time It was really interesting to explore so many time periods in one show.