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Writer of The Real Ones | Meet Waleed Akhtar

Thu 20 Jun 2024 | Our People, Our Plays

Next up in our main house is the world-premiere of The Real Ones, a funny and honest love letter to platonic soulmates. You might be familiar with him, but here’s everything you need to know about the returning Bush writer, Waleed Akhtar. This is not Waleed’s first time  His play The P Word had its…

Writer of My Father’s Fable | Meet Faith Omole

Tue 11 Jun 2024 | Our People, Our Plays

Next up in our main house is the world-premiere of My Father’s Fable, the debut play from Olivier Award nominee, Faith Omole. Here is everything you need to know about the incredibly talented writer and performer behind the production. She is already an award-winning playwright Even though My Father’s Fable is her debut production, her…

Protest series 2024: first pieces released

Mon 10 Jun 2024 | Our People, The Bigger Picture

Today, we’re releasing the first pieces of our new Protest series. We believe the connection between art and protest is vital. In a time of immense global turbulence, our Protest series aims to provide a stable platform for artists to shed light on and explore injustices that persist in our world. Our Protest series is…

Rebekah Murrell

Tue 16 Apr 2024 |

Rebekah Murrell is an actor and director. She directed the premiere of Yasmin Joseph’s award-winning Notting Hill Carnival play J’ouvert at Theatre503 in 2019, and its 2021 West End transfer, produced by Sonia Friedman Productions.

Other work includes Yasmin Joseph’s First Winter (The Place), a play inspired and performed by retired Caribbean nurses in Bedford whose work laid the foundations of the NHS, and Knock Down Brixton (Brixton House), a site-specific journey through five Brixton writers’ stories of their town.

In 2023, Rebekah was selected for the inaugural cohort of Aluna Labs, a development programme for women stage directors working on screen. She is a BAFTA Connect member, and was one of the Evening Standard’s Ones To Watch 2022. She received an Ian Charleson Commendation for her Juliet at the Globe, and was nominated for Best Creative West End Debut (Stage Debut Awards) and Best Production (Visionary Honours Awards) for her work on J’ouvert.