Productions

The Color Purple (UK Tour 2022)


Marsha Norman, Allee Willis, Brenda Russell and Stephen Bray


Produced by Birmingham Hippodrome and Leicester Curve.


Revival Direction for Tour: Lakesha Arie-Angelo

Original Direction: Tinuke Craig

Design: Alex Lowde

Associate Designer: Ricardo Pardo

Musical Supervisor: Alex Parker

Musical Director: Ian Oakley

Choreographer: Mark Smith

Associate Choreographer: Iona Waite

Resident Choreographer: Bree Smith

Lighting & Video: Joshua Pharo

Sound: Tom Marshall

Dialect Coach: Hazel Holder

Fight Director: Kevin McCurdy

Intimacy Consultant: Gerrard Martin

Wigs, hair & Make-up: Cynthia De La Rosa

Costume Supervisor: Naomi Thompson

Wigs, hair & Make- up Supervisor: Nicole Iroh

Stage Management team: Richard Llewelyn, Jan Baird, Francesca Mai

Photography: Manual Harlan


***** All That Dazzles

"With phenomenal direction by Tinuke Craig and Lakesha Arie Angelo, the staging of this production is genius"


***** TheatreandTonic
"Directed on stage by Lakesha Arie-Angelo... it proves an unmissable, life-affirming production that will leave you uplifted and inspired."



The Ancestors


Portchester Castle


By Lakesha Arie Angelo


Director:  Jade Lewis

Movement Director - Sara Dos Santos

Composer & Sound Designer - Romarna Campbell

Production and Costumer Designer - Libby Todd

Additional Sound Design - Will Berger

Post Production - Black Apron Entertainment

Dramaturg - Gail Babb

Director Of Photography & Film Lead - Jay Jones & Phoebe Fleming

Costumer Supervisor - Nicole Garbett

Production Manager - Jack Greenyer

Technical Manager - Sean Laing

Company Stage Manager - Marina Dunford

Stage Management team - Ruth Collett, Odette Robertson, George Ruston

Assistant Director - Udoka Maya Okonkwo

Assistant Director - Anna Chauri Phillips

Costume Assistant & Dresser- Imogen Mason

Costume Assistant - Molly Tackleberry

Wardrobe Manager - Rebecca Cartwright

Wardrobe Manager - Naomi Gibbs

Make-Up Artist- Megan Burke





Shuck 'n' Jive

by  Cassiopeia Berkeley- Agyepong & Simone Ibbett-Brown

Soho Theatre
Design: Ranya El Refaey
Lighting: Jai Morjaria
Sound: Anna Clock
Movement: Diane Alison-Mitchell
Stage Manager: Grace Lewis
Photography: Helen Maybanks 


**** Broadway World
**** Afridiziak.com
 'witty, messy and perceptive' The Stage
'fierce, fearless and cerebral production' The Guardian
'exuberant playfulness, meta and structural theatre experiments' Stagedoor
Summer Fest

By Yolanda Mercy

Bunker Theatre
Director: Lakesha Arie-Angelo
Design: Jasmine Swan
Lighting: John Castle
Sound: Anna Clock
Movement: Phao Wheatley, Kane Husbands
Video: Ben Bull
Assistant Direction: Phao Wheatley
Company Stage Manager: John Caswell
Photography: Ali Wright
soft animals
 
by Holly Robinson 

Soho Theatre
Director: Lakesha Arie-Angelo
Design: Anna Reid
Lighting: Ali Hunter
Sound: Anna Clock
Stage Manager: Katie Bachtler
Photography: Helen Maybanks

***** A Younger Theatre
***** The Upcoming 
**** A Spy in the Stalls
'Lakesha Arie-Angelo’s deftly fluid production' Stagedoor.

The Hoes
By Ifeyinwa Fredrick

Hampstead Theatre
 Design: Anna Reid
Lighting: Jai Morjaria
Sound: Duramaney Kamara
Stage Manager: Katie Bachtler
Photography: Robert Day

**** The Evening Standard
**** Broadway World
**** The Upcoming
**** The Stage
**** The I
'Lakesha Arie-Angelo’s production has a hectic vivacity' The Guardian 
'Exudes Black Girl Magic' The Stage
Graveyard Gang

By Lakesha Arie-Angelo

Poplar Union/ Community tour
Direction: Simone Watson
Producer: Purple Moon Drama

Upcoming Projects:

(Untitled) A Very Serious Unserious Black Hair Courtroom Drama the Musical.

Book & Lyrics by Lakesha Arie-Angelo. Music & Lyrics by NeOne The Wonderer


A  Very Serious Unserious Black Hair Courtroom Drama the Musical is a satirical, fantastical drama about friendship, the black hair care industry and capitalism. The dramedy is set to 90's R&B, Hip-Hop and New Jack Swing. Jade and Ebony, feuding founders and CEO's of Mahogony Crown Magazine are being tried for crimes against humanity. When their defence lawyer doesn't show up to court, they have to learn to settle their differences to self-represent. Chaos ensures when the courtroom flips into a strange dimension where hair products become witnesses, ghosts of black hair pioneers appear and a big wig grows so large that it takes over the entire courtroom. Jade and Ebony not only have to save their reputation and friendship but the entire universe too. This Little Shop of Horrors and Jerry Springer the Opera-esque musical asks can commerce and care ever truly co-exist?