Rada Labworks: Waves

Additional Information

RADA’s MA Theatre Lab is an intensive year’s postgraduate training in performance, framed by the context of Laboratory Theatre practice and experimental theatre making. Students come to RADA from across the globe with existing professional experience, looking to extend their performing and devising skills to an advanced level. In a critically aware and collaborative learning environment, they develop the capacity to create innovative theatre and performance, bringing international practice from around the world into one unique course.

The Coronet Theatre is a risk-taking, international arts theatre in a restored and re-imagined Grade II listed building in London’s Notting Hill. The Coronet Theatre presents an eclectic programme of theatre, film, dance, music, poetry and visual art in its intimate 195-seat main auditorium and 90-seat studio space, re-named The Print Room in recognition of the company’s previous home at a nearby print works, and stunning bar.

The programme is created by Artistic Director Anda Winters in close collaboration with artists to present a fusion of multi-disciplinary international and UK work. The Coronet Theatre stages a mix of new productions, commissions and visiting artists, including a number of UK and world premieres, offering memorable, and often unexpected, experiences to audiences, while supporting established artists and nurturing new talent.

 

Cast and Creatives

Dylan Aiello (he/him)
Dylan Aiello is a London-based actor, theatre maker and performance artist that has worked across a wide variety of disciplines and venues in Europe and North America throughout his decade-long career . He has recently concluded training on the MA Theatre Lab at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. His work is always highly charged with bold physical storytelling, ecstatic humour, and brimming with heart and humanity as it faces themes of capitalist disenfranchisement, triumphing over grief, and bestial clown. Dylan has collaborated on performance projects with a wide variety of directors and artists including Theatre Re’s Guillaume Pigé, Lesley Ewen, Euripides Laskaridis, Ed Fornieles and Rosa Aiello.

Scarlett Love Stitt (she/her)
Scarlett Stitt is an actor and theatre maker based in London. She has been acting professionally for film, tv and theatre since the age of 11 when she landed the child lead in her first feature film. Scarlett graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 2022 and is taking her show ‘Kissing A Fool’ to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2023, which previews at Kings Head Theatre in July.

Luntu Masiza (he/him)
Luntu Masiza graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 2022. He has recently been nominated for Best Breakthrough Performer at The Naledi Theatre Awards in South Africa for The Island, dir. Dr John Kani, and has won the Best Actor Dikalos Award at The Cannes International Pan African Film Festival.

Olivier Van Den Hende (he/him)
Olivier Van Den Hende graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 2018. He’s recently played the lead in Call me Joan, a short film shot by Ali Farahani (Silent Child, Oscar for Best Short Film, 2018), along with being critically acclaimed for playing the Cyclops in a theatre production of Euripides’ Cyclops touring in established theatres around Europe.

Arianna Calgaro (she/her)
Arianna Calgaro is an Italian actress based in London. She trained in commedia dell’arte in Venice, and then graduated at “Carlo Goldoni” drama academy. She moved to London and trained with the National Youth Theatre, and Laurence Mitchell, before taking her master at RADA. She’s been working in cinema, both behind and in front of the camera, and she’s currently developing her own performances and plays, to affirm her aesthetics and raise concerns about feminism and politics.

Harun Ćehović (he/him)
Harun Cehovic is a young actor from Bosnia and Herzegovina. He graduated from the Academy of Performing Arts Sarajevo with a Bachelor’s degree in Acting and recently completed his Master’s degree in Theatre Lab at RADA. Harun has acted in several plays with the National Theater Sarajevo and has also appeared in short and feature films across Bosnia, Serbia, Croatia, and Italy. He is excited that a short movie he produced and wrote, “Finchley Lane,” is going to open the upcoming OFF Festival this summer.

Matthias Moret (he/they)
Matthias Moret is a French, London based actor and theatre maker. He completed an MA at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. They recently starred in an upcoming British feature film and are currently developing their own theatre work, focusing on social matters such as gender and sexuality. Matthias believes that theatre can be a vehicle for social transformation and understanding.

Helen Percival (she/her)
Helen Percival trained at RADA and is an actor, poet, singer and theatre maker. She has performed in numerous theatre productions and recently wrote and acted in her first short film ‘Yellow Roses’. She was nominated for the Spotlight Prize and has been described as ‘an impressive character actor’ by the British Theatre Guide. Prior to training as an actor, she studied Anthropology at Durham University and worked as a broadcast journalist in London and Paris, covering international breaking news stories.

Victoria Sasso (they/them)
Victoria earned their BFA in Acting from California State University, Fullerton before moving to New York City, where they worked professionally on projects ranging from national tours to Shakespeare Festivals to Musical Theatre. They are now based primarily in London, having just completed an MA at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Victoria is especially passionate about collaborating with other artists to create new work that tells stories from queer and feminist perspectives. www.victoriasasso.com

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