Meet Anna. A 21 year old with a passion for baking… and change making.
When Anna sees #activism trending on Instagram, she recognises an opportunity to share her story. But before she expresses her pre-heated passion online, she lays out steps she can take on and off screen, and thinks of boundaries she can set to safely call out injustice.
THE TEAM
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HANNAH BENSON
Artistic Director
HANNAH BENSON
Artistic Director
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Cara baldwin
co-founder
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TANYA AGARWAL
PRODUCing Consultant
Hannah is a Director, Dramaturg, Producer and Theatre Maker
With a fire in her belly to tell untold stories with tenderness, precision and electricity. Hannah's directoral work has been nominated for a WhatsOnStage award for Best Off-West End Production and won multiple awards including the UNTAPPED Award, LET Stepladder Award and Best Musical 2018 (Musical Theatre Review). Since founding the company in 2017, Hannah has led as a director on all Burnt Lemon theatre productions. Hannah is also training to become an illusion consultant for theatre.
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Credits include Millennials, The Other Palace (Director), SuperYou, West End Workshop (Associate Director), The Marathon Project (Co-Creator), Jerusalem, West End (Research Consultant), Tokyo Rose, UK Tour (Director), She Loves Me, Sheffield Crucible (Assistant Director), Shorts and Shocks, New Diorama (Assistant Director and Composer), The Half Moon Shania, Vault Festival and UK Tour (Director), Here Comes The Flood, Oxford Playhouse (Composer).
Hannah is also the director of Leicester Curve's CYCC MT Young Company.
Cara is an Actor, Singer and Writer
Cara founded Burnt Lemon in 2017 with Hannah, leading as co-artistic director until 2022. Cara wrote Burnt Lemon's first two musical productions The Half Moon Shania and Tokyo Rose. Her spoken word poems and plays are packed with political punch and she thrives in a collaborative rehearsal room. With a love for learning about the woman her history teacher forgot to recount, she's keen to fill the pages of her plays with the names she wishes she'd always known.
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Actor/Co-writer: Tokyo Rose
Actor/Writer: The Half Moon Shania
Writer: Here Comes the Flood
Actor: PADDED, BOXED
Writer: The Marathon Project
Tanya is a Producer
Tanya worked as Burnt Lemon's lead producer from 2018 - 2022 and shares the company’s vision to create innovative, thought-provoking theatre that makes for positive change. With an MA in Producing from Mountview and impressive credits including her work with Police Cops, Assembly, Kings Head and Paines Plough.
Tanya is now a producer for Paines Plough and works with Burnt Lemon as a producing consultant.
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For Burnt Lemon:
Producer: Tokyo Rose
Producer: The Half Moon Shania
Select Credits:
Police Cops In Space (Indonesia, Thailand)
Police Cops (China, Indonesia)
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