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"Mayhem creates fantastic opportunities for young people, their dedication and enthusiasm is infectious and they consistently produce diverse and unique drama"
Shaheen Baig Casting Directorr
The Mayhem People/Staff Members... produce at least one major piece of work a year that is developed through a process or devising, improvisation and script writing with a professional writer. The core company is made up of young people between the ages of 16 and 25.
Ben May - Artistic Director
Directing for The Mayhem Company: The Butterfly Club – Southwark Playhouse, See you Tomorrow – Southwark Playhouse/Nabokov, Deluxe – Southwark Playhouse, 100° Fahrenheit – Southwark Playhouse and. Hamelyn Heights – Young Vic Studio.
Other Directing includes: It’s Behind You - International Theatre Festival, Sibiu, Romania, premiere of Philip Ridley’s Brokenville with Young Kosovan refugees in Dagenham, Iphigenia - Southwark Playhouse , Two - The Actors Centre and Spring Awakening - The Place. Training includes the Young Directors scheme with the National Theatre Studio.
Assistant directing with: David Hare (Heartbreak House - Almeida), David Lan (Pericles NT Studio) and Katie Mitchell (Endgame - Donmar Warehouse).
Acting: Gulliver’s Travels – Fox and Golden Age - Working Title.
Ben has worked extensively with young people both in this country and abroad including: CARE International in Macedonia with young people from Kosova living in refugee camps and host communities.
Sarah May - Associate Writer
Fiction includes: The Rise and Fall of a Domestic Diva (HarperCollins) The Rise and Fall of the Queen of Suburbia (HarperCollins) The Internationals (Chatto & Windus) Spanish City (Chatto & Windus) The Nudist Colony (Chatto & Windus) - shortlisted for The Guardian First Book Award.
Plays include: The Butterfly Club (Southwark Playhouse), See You Tomorrow (Southwark Playhouse), De-Luxe (Southwark Playhouse), 100° Fahrenheit (Southwark Playhouse) and Hamelyn Heights (Young Vic Studio).
Sarah’s currently completing her sixth novel due to be published by Harper Collins in December 09.
Anthony Adjekum - Associate Artist
Acting includes: Primeval, Judge John Deed, Holby City, The Bill and Casualty
Assistant director: The Butterfly Club (Southwark Playhouse) and See You Tomorrow (Southwark Playhouse)
Music: ADJEKUM Presents MY LIFE (Independent) selling over 3.000 copies.
He works as a freelance drama facilitator in a variety of settings including: primary and secondary schools, pupil referal units and Theatre Companies throughout London. He is currently working on a documentary about his trip to New York during Obama’s elections, featuring the British Actor Eamon Walker and US Artist Styles P.
