The 14-17 Bush Young Company has some things they want to teach you. Strap in for a whirlwind journey through learning everything you were never taught but really want to know.
Whether it’s learning to ballroom dance like a pro on Strictly, doing close-up magic better than Penn & Teller, or just the impossible task of folding a fitted sheet, Pass It On is about life lessons big and small.
We all sit through the same classes, leaf through the same textbooks, being told what we should learn. But when you’re approaching adulthood, suddenly you realise all the things that have fallen between the gaps.
Join us for a joyful and powerful exploration of the things we know, the things we wish we’d learnt and things we can’t wait to teach you. Our young company returns to our main stage following the success of last summer’s HORIZON.
Emily Mei-Ling Pearce trained at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama graduating with a BA Honours in Stage Management.
Theatre credits include: The Secret Life of Bees (Almeida); Paradise Now!, Fair Play, Red Pitch (Bush); Only An Octave Apart (Wiltons); Treason in Concert, Kinky Boots in Concert, Chess the Musical in Concert (Theatre Royal Drury Lane); Lotus Beauty (Hampstead); A Place For We (Park); Pippin (Charing Cross).
TV credits include: The Big Blow Out and The Piano (both Channel 4).
Hazel Low (they/them) is a performance designer working across theatre, live art and spatial design. They are particularly interested in work that is multidisciplinary, challenges form, and inherently collaborative.
Recent credits include: Splintered (Soho); Brilliant Jerks (Southwark Playhouse); Paradise Now! (co-designed with Rosie Elnile, Bush Theatre); Bogeyman (Pleasance, Edinburgh Fringe); The Blue House (Blue Elephant); Who Killed my Father (co-designed with Blythe Brett, Tron); The Magic Flute (co-designed with Rosie Elnile, Royal College of Music); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Latimer Estate).
As well as design for Live Performance, Hazel also took part in the Prayer Workshops led by Rosie Elnile and the Gate Theatre where they conceptualised ‘Myth of Binary and Body’, a digital installation exploring how we costume trans bodies, a piece of work they are still developing. Hazel was also design associate on NDT Broadgate in 2020, where they helped conceptualise and action the ideals and aesthetics of the space, and were one of Broadgate’s resident designers when it was open.
Kathrine Payne (they/them) is an actor and theatre maker from Stockport, who trained at LAMDA. Kathrine is a member of Sweet Beef, a queer theatre collective making interactive, political, devised work. Sweet Beef were named Pleasance Associate Artists 2024. Kathrine also makes solo work; their debut show plewds had a sold out run at Theatre Deli earlier this year.
Acting credits: Hamlet (National Theatre); Purdah (Mind Out Theatre); MEATSACKS (R&D, Kandinsky).
Devising credits: plewds (Theatre Deli); I Hate It Here (Sweet Beef).
Khalil Madovi is a 25-year-old music artist, composer, writer, actor and filmmaker. He emerged in 2012 with a hit TV series and has since embarked on a diversified career in arts and entertainment, working with the likes of Channel 4, Amazon Studios, Warner Bros. and more. After composing for and featuring in ‘Can I Live?’, a new piece of experimental theatre in collaboration with Complicité and The Barbican, in 2021, he went on to design for Bush Theatre’s critically acclaimed ‘Red Pitch’, for which he received an Offie nomination. Other credits include Jermyn Street Theatre’s ‘The Poison Belt’, The Old Vic’s ‘This Is What The Journey Does’ and Bola Agbaje’s ‘Gone Too Far!’ with the National Youth Theatre. The BAFTA winning south London native is currently shooting his self-written and directed visual album, ‘A COLD HEARTED SUMMER’, which is due for release in 2024. @KhalilMadovi Khalilmadovi.co
Lauren Hastings (she/they) is a Stage Manager, and recent graduate of The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, who is currently based in London. Her recent stage work includes: The research and development, as well as the VAULTS performance, of It’s a Motherf**king Pleasure by FlawBored, and Russell Bolam’s The Woods (Southwark Playhouse)
Phao May (she/her) is a London based Movement Director, Choreographer and Artist. She holds a foundation in acting from RADA, and a MA in Movement: Directing and Teaching from Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. She is an associate artist for National Youth Theatre, facilitates youth engagement programmes and lectures in higher education.
Phao has dance training in tap, modern, classical ballet and burlesque and has performed and produced cabaret shows around London. Phao is passionate about igniting movement that is expressive, multi-dimensional and performer-centred and cultivating an empowering environment of collaboration and play
Simeon Miller (he/him) has worked as a Lighting Designer since he graduated from Mountview Academy in 2010. He works across theatre, dance, musicals, ‘gig theatre’ and devised work. He enjoys contributing to new writing, especially socially and politically conscious work which amplifies oppressed and radical voices.
Selected recent credits include: Alice In Wonderland (Liverpool Everyman / Plymouth Theatre Royal); The Sun Shines For Everyone (Lyric Hammersmith); The Book of Will (Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch / Bolton Octagon / Shakespeare North Playhouse); Ruckus (Southwark Playhouse / Summerhall, Edinburgh); Jekyll and Hyde (Derby Theatre / Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch); Christmas in the Sunshine (Unicorn); Follow the Signs (Soho); The Poison Belt (Jermyn Street); Project Dictator (New Diorama); An Adventure (Bolton Octagon); Metamorphoses (Globe); The Mob Reformers (Lyric Hammersmith); Subject Mater (Edinburgh Fringe); Black Holes (International Tour); and High Rise eState of Mind (UK Tour).
