Dynamic creative team announced for Daddy Issues at Seven Dials Playhouse
The dynamic creative team has been announced for one-woman show Daddy Issues, written by Soho Writer and Offie Award-winner Lewis Cornay. Daddy Issues interrogates the lengths we’ll go to forget the things that haunt us. Hollowed out by loss, Imi is desperately trying to satiate this gap with anything that will numb reality. As she spirals, she fights to remember all the reasons why she must choose to live.
Produced by Liam Gartland for Gartland Productions, Daddy Issues premieres at Seven Dials Playhouse this October. This powerhouse production draws on award-winning, exciting talent from London’s theatre scene. Director Jane Moriarty has worked on many award-winning and critically acclaimed productions, most recently as Associate Director on the much-lauded West End production of Prima Facie starring Jodie Comer. Previous directing work includes It’s Not Like It’s Illegal, Stratford East; Diamond, Bush Theatre, Underbelly, BBC Arts; Queen Margaret, Blue Stockings, Sweet Charity, Mountview; Orpheus Descending, Arts Ed; Boston Marriage, Cockpit Theatre and Can’t Stand Up for Falling Down, White Bear Theatre. Her production of The Apologists, Vault Festival, Omnibus Theatre, transferred to Sydney in 2021 and was nominated for the Sydney Theatre Awards. Moriarty was previously Resident Director at the National Theatre Studio and in 2019 she was Resident Director on the West End production of The Inheritance. Moriarty’s debut short film Kitchen Tales premiered at the Newport Beach Film Festival 2021, and stars Nikesh Patel (Starstruck) and Sheena Bhattessa (Paddington), with original music by Oscar-winning composer Stephen Warbeck.
The set and lighting for Daddy Issues is designed by Andrew Exeter. He was a 2020 Stage Debut Award nominee for his Lighting Design on High Fidelity at the Turbine Theatre and is an OFFIE nominee on his design for LIFT at Southwark Playhouse. His work as Production Designer on Lift at Southwark Playhouse, created rich visuals that What’s on Stage called marvellous. His design work includes the UK tours of Oti Mabuse: I Am Here and Johannes Radebe: Freedom, the German International Tour of Das Spongebob Musical. Exeter’s spectacular set design (Broadway World) for Millennials at The Other Palace was widely praised as a wonderful abstract world (West End Best Friend).
Christopher Reid has created the sound design for Daddy Issues. Reid has over twenty years experience of working on a variety of theatrical productions in the West End, on Broadway and around the world. Most recently, Reid’s work as Sound Designer on The Inheritance at Noël Coward Theatre and Young Vic saw him nominated for the 2019 Olivier Award for Best Sound Design. When the show transferred to Broadway in 2019, Reid was nominated for the 2020 Drama Desk Award for Best Sound Design for a Play.
This collective of vibrant talent is completed by Costume Designer Sophia Pardon and Video Designer Lewis Den Hertog. In Daddy Issues, Imi, played by Bebe Cave (Victoria, ITV; Tale of Tales, Matteo Garrone; Great Expectations, Lionsgate), finds herself stuck between spaces and yearns for the past whilst trying to move forward, allowing the audience to consider what we inherit from our family, and what pieces of trauma are passed on when they leave us behind. Daddy Issues is Assistant Directed by Gabrielle Scawthorn, with Production Management by Eve Hawes and Betty Smith is Company Stage Manager.
