FLAMING THEATRE PRESENTS
LULLA
PROGRAMME
Lulla: a fragment word, echoing lullaby, sleep and childhood.
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Content Warning
Lulla contains haze and flashing lights, sexual content, strong language, horror/nightmare elements, scenes of homophobic behaviour and bullying.
CAST AND CREATIVES
Robin Berry
(he/him)
Dad/Dollmaker/Lady Nightshade 3
Robin Berry trained at East 15 and has been acting on stage, screen and in virtual productions for over 20 years.
As an educator, Robin specialises in motion capture, animal movement and screen acting. He is the head of Motion Capture at East 15 and co-directed the award-winning animated short We Few Survivors (YouTube).
Recent credits include A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder (BBC), Ted Lasso and Star City (Apple TV), The Rings of Power (Amazon), Prima Facie (Embankment Films), Andor (Disney) and The Tempest (Jamie Lloyd Company).
Madeleine MacMahon
(she/her)
Mum/Gran/Lady Nightshade 2
An actor and comedian from Gloucestershire, Madeleine is the Max Turner Prize Winner, a BBC New Comedy Longlister and Funny Women Semi-Finalist/’One To Watch’.
Film/TV: Eastenders; Doctors (BBC); The Freedoms (Amazon Prime); This Little Girl (BFI/Best Actress, Best Performance and Best Supporting Actress Nominations); Blindfold (Best Supporting Actress - BIFA).
Theatre includes: Breathless (Soho Theatre, New York Times Critic’s Pick, Drama Desk ‘24 Outstanding Solo Performance Nominee); A Super Happy Story (About Feeling Super Sad); Sh*t Life Crisis (Silent Uproar); 21 Pounds; Cider With Rosie; Beatrix Potter & the Tailor of Gloucester (Cheltenham Everyman); Baby, He Loves You; Mercury Fur (Middle Child); Kings; The Dark Room; Kubrick3 (New Diorama). Madeleine is a regular performer in pantomimes at Hereford Courtyard, where she is now also the Assistant Director.
Anna Marks Pryce
(she/her)
Marin
Anna is a born and bred Londoner with Jewish heritage; an actor, multi-instrumentalist, mover and vocalist working across the UK and Europe. Graduating Mountview in 2024, Anna received high praise in the critically acclaimed Aether by The Stage’s Fringe Five Emma Howlett, in both its Edinburgh run and London transfer, as well as performing in sharings of exciting new work by the Old Vic 12’s Madelaine Moore and the Royal Court’s Georgie Dettmer.
Theatre: Aether (Jermyn Street Theatre & Summerhall Arts - Edinburgh Fringe Festival); A Hairy Tale (Tobacco Factory Theatre, Bristol); Sycamore (Ecterera Theatre); Older (Riverside Studios); The (Beat) Rover (Bold Elephant); This Swollen Thing (Riverside Studios); 4 Girls The First Letter E (Kings Head Theatre); It’s OK, I Still Think You’re Great (Barons Court Theatre); The Inside/Outside Life of Madge Gill (Art In The Docks) and The Creature (Rose Theatre Kingston & Exerzierhalle - Oldenburgisches Staatstheater, Germany)
Voiceover: Alma Mater (Almeida Theatre)
Meg Walls
(she/her)
Dolores/Lady Nightshade
Meg Walls is a queer, mixed race actor from Leicester.
She graduated from the BA Acting course at Rose Bruford College in 2025. Credits include Twelfth Night (Changeling Theatre), Fly Me to the Moon (Pleasance Theatre), As We Face the Sun (Bridewell Theatre) and Much Ado About Nothing (RBC).
Ben SantaMaria
(they/them)
Writer and Producer
Ben is a queer and non-binary writer based in Epping. They’re artistic director of Flaming Theatre and a Theatre503 dramaturg. Ben is a BAFTA Connect member and was selected for the Criterion Theatre New Writing Programme, Soho Theatre Edinburgh Lab, Mercury Playwrights and National Theatre Directors Course.
Other plays include: Demons (Paines Plough Tour the Writer/Mercury Theatre mentored), Really Want to Hurt Me (Arts Council England-supported UK tour/Theatre503/Soho Rising Festival/Assembly Hall - Edinburgh Fringe), Is This Desire? (Omnibus rehearsed reading; Theatre503 International Playwriting Award and Bread & Roses Playwriting Award longlists), Jarman Garden (Riverside Studios; Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award finalist), In Need (Verity Bargate Award top 10%).
Films include: Develop (Iris Prize Micro-Short Award finalist).
Ben’s Sussex University PhD is published as Cruising Culture (Edinburgh University Press).
Martha J. Baldwin
(she/her)
Director
Martha is a queer and neurodivergent theatre director from West Yorkshire, specialising in bold physicality and movement theory.
She graduated with Distinction from Drama Centre London in 2021 with her production of Mud (Maria Irene Fornes). She is a multi-sector artist and has been developing new LGBTQ+ work as well as Theatre for Young Audiences.
Professional directing credits include: Taliesin (touring). Assistant Director credits include: The Return of Benjamin Lay (Finborough Theatre), Rejoicing at Her Wondrous Vulva the Young Woman Applauded Herself (Ovalhouse). Martha is also an experienced stage manager, facilitator and puppeteer.
Isabella Van Braeckel
(she/her)
Set and Costume Designer
Isabella is an Offie Award-winning Production Designer and Art Director for Theatre, Dance, Opera, Immersive Productions and Film. She has presented her work in both large and small venues across the U.K. as well as in Europe, South America and the Middle East.
Theatre Includes: Ancient Grease (The Vaults - Fringe Award Nominee for Set Design); Alice in Wonderland, Tiny Tim’s Christmas Carol (Orange Tree Theatre); Wicked Witches (Pleasance Theatre); The Flowers of Srebrenica (European Tour); Die Rheinnixen (BAC - Offie Winner for Design); The Ring Cycle (York Hall); The Dream, The Pilot, The Polar Eagle, Midnight Train to Marrakesh (Teateri, Sweden); As Long As We Are Breathing (Arcola); Dorian, Blanket Ban, The Lesson, Gatsby (Southwark Playhouse); Jules & Jim, The Oyster Problem, Cancelling Socrates, The Dog Walker (Jermyn Street Theatre); The Dwarfs (White Bear); Liminal (Kings Head Theatre); DUAL (Vault Festival, U.K. Tour)
Immersive Productions include: Peppa Pig’s Surprise Party (Metrocentre); Rhythm & Ruse (Vaults); Humbug (Truman Brewery); Peaky Blinders: The Rise (Riyadh Festival); Dirty Dancing (Secret Cinema) Associate Design Includes: Yentl (as U.K. designer, Dann Barber, Marylebone Theatre); The White Factory (Galya Solodovnikova, Marylebone Theatre); Burgerz (Soutra Gilmour, World Tour); The Boys in the Band (Rebecca Brower, Park Theatre); Eclipsed (Chiara Stephenson, Gate Theatre)
Nat Norland
(they/she)
Sound Designer
Nat is an Offie nominated sound designer, writer and theatremaker. They have worked as a sound designer with artists such as Emergency Chorus (Ways of Knowing, Landscape 1989, Celebration), initiative.dkf (By Their Fruits), SUBJECT OBJECT (Instructions), and Joseph Morgan Schofield (Here Comes the Sun), as well as institutions from RCSSD to OH! Open House in Singapore. They co-lead theatre company why this sky, sound designing and co-directing their current show DOGGY with support from the New Diorama Theatre. They have worked as a performer with Alan Fielden (Container, 99 Plays). They are a Barbican Young Poet, and have had poetry shortlisted for the Aesthetica creative writing award, the Jane Martin Prize, the Wildfire Words New Voices award, and longlisted for the National Poetry Competition.
Skylar Turnbull Hurd
(she/her)
Lighting Designer
Skylar is a freelance lighting designer.
Since graduating in 2023, Skylar has been awarded the ALPD Michael Northern Award 2025, the Profile Award for Outstanding New Designer in Theatre 2024, and was also shortlisted for the Stage Debut Award for Best Designer in 2024. Her work can be found at skylarturnbullhurd.com
Recent Credits Include:
As Lighting Designer: Quartet In Autumn (Arcola); Hot L Baltimore (North Wall); Her Naked Skin (Mack); Swallow The Lake (Mercury Colchester); Ivories (Old Red Lion); Looking for Giants (King's Head & Camden People's); Rhythm & Ruse (Vaults); Howl (Wilton's); These Demons (503).
As Associate Lighting Designer & Relighter: Between The River and the Sea (Royal Court); Help! We Are Still Alive (Seven Dials Playhouse); Tapped (UK Tour).
As Assistant Lighting Designer: 13 Going On 30 (Manchester Opera); Hercules, Mean Girls, Stranger Things - The First Shadow (West End); A Strange Loop (Barbican); Mandela (Young Vic).
Television: Love Island; The Heat.
Abigail Sage
(she/her)
Associate Lighting Designer and Programmer
Abigail is a freelance lighting designer, programmer, and associate. She holds an AB from Harvard University and a BA from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
Recent projects as lighting designer include dad don’t read this (St. Luke’s Theater, NYC), Time Passes (Target Margin Theater, NYC), Orpheus Descending (The Cockpit), The Comfort Woman (Omnibus Theatre), and The Village Where No One Suffers (Jack Studio Theatre). Her work can be found at sagelightingdesign.com.
Lucy Fennell
(she/her)
Intimacy Director
Lucy is an innovative and pragmatic intimacy professional working in film, TV and live performance. Her signature robust but flexible approach makes for authentic story-telling and safeguards the creative process, without compromising on the safety of all involved. Lucy is especially interested in consensual depictions of intimacy in devised or improvised performance, and is keen to platform work by and about the LGBTQIA community.
Her recent work on screen includes Queen Charlotte (Netflix), True Detective (HBO), The Continental (Lionsgate) and All of Us Strangers (Film4).
Alex Moran
(he/him)
Associate Producer
Alex has been producing live entertainment for over 16 years. He’s won multiple theatre awards as an artist and is the founding member of northern horror makers Thunder Road. He has worked with over 100 venues across 5 different countries, and appeared in the first ever UK, Ireland and South Africa tour of War Horse, widely regarded as the most successful production in National Theatre history.
Producer credits include: It’s Not A Game (UK Tour); The Void (UK Tour); Shock Horror (four UK Tours between 2022-2025); 1984 (Regional Tour and The Edge, Chorlton); The Body Snatcher (UK Tour and Harrogate Theatre); The Invisible Man, 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, The Count Of Monte Cristo and Hyde (Harrogate Theatre).
Awards include: Manchester Evening News Theatre Award (Best Performance) and the Jane Horrocks Award (Outstanding Achievement).
Anna Eagle
(she/her)
Technical Stage Manager
Anna is a freelance technical stage manager and relighter. She has enjoyed worked across queer theatre, children's theatre and mid-scale tours for the last four years.
Her recent credits include: Double Double (Barn Theatre), tell me straight/aggy (Park Theatre), The Very Hungry Caterpillar (on tour with Royo), The Baddies (on tour with Freckle Productions), Christmas Carol (on tour with Dukes Theatre), Wind in the Willows (Kew Gardens), Houdini's Greatest Escape (on tour with New Old Friends) and Pixie and the Pudding (Little Angel Theatre).
Christina Angus - Scenic Artist
Isabela Way - Costume Trainee
Matthew Parker - Press and PR
Alex Jackson - Key Art
NOTES ON THE REFERENCES MENTIONED IN THE PLAY
The Three Greek Fates, Atropos and Atropa belladonna (Deadly Nightshade)
References to popular hymns, poems, rhymes and lullabies are scattered throughout the play:
“Now the Day Is Over” by Sabine Baring-Gould.
“All Through the Night” – “Ar Hyd y Nos”, a Welsh song with lyrics by John Ceiriog Huges, translated into English by Harold Boulton, and other popular variations.
“Hush, Little Baby”, a traditional lullaby.
“Rock-a-bye Baby”, a traditional nursery rhyme and lullaby.
“Wynken, Blynken, and Nod” by Eugene Field.
“Ladybird Ladybird”, a traditional nursery rhyme.
“Ode to a Nightingale” by John Keats.
“Hey Diddle Diddle”, a traditional nursery rhyme.
“Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush”, a traditional nursery rhyme.
“The Itsy Bitsy Spider”, a traditional nursery rhyme.
“This Little Piggy”, a traditional nursery rhyme.
LULLA LGBTQ+ CARE PACK
We’ve collaborated with our partner organisations, Free2B Alliance and Schools OUT, to create this list of resources for support and guidance if you’ve been affected by any of the play’s content.
Free2B Alliance’s 1:1 and group support for LGBTQ+ young people.
Free2B Alliance’s support for parents and carers of LGBTQ+ children.
Helplines and services you can contact if you need immediate or out of hours support, either for yourself or if you’re worried about a friend. In emergencies, please call 999.
Switchboard - the national LGBTQIA+ support line.
Schools OUT - the charity working towards equality in education for LGBTQ+ people since 1974.
