Do You Want Something To Cry For?

Mya Onwugbonu - Director/Producer

Mya Onwugbonu is a multi-disciplinary and multi-award winning creative. With published credits as a writer and poet, she ventured into writing and directing her debut spoken word theatre production, Hear Me Now. With sold-out shows at Southwark Playhouse (Nov 2022) and VAULT Festival (Feb 2023), where she went on to win ‘Show of the Week’ at VAULT Festival 2023 and ‘Best Director’ in the Black British Theatre Awards 2023. Mya has spent the last few years working in the community for the arts, cultivating relationships with Underexposed Arts, Black Cultural Archives and Poetic Unity. Creator and Director of her first short documentary, Soldiers From Ends, Mya has gone on to direct and write for Film and TV, forming lasting relationships with independent film companies like Blue Cuckoo Entertainment. After getting commissions for a TV Pilot for BLKINK Productions, Black History Celebration with Sky Creative and Brand Campaign Writer for IMG, Mya has become a member of Talawa Theatre, Hackney Empire and Omnibus Theatre’s Writers Rooms’ 2025 . Upcoming projects include, TWIN, a feature-length documentary shot in Chicago, US, and The Situationship, a short drama which she shot and directed. 

Jerome Scott - Writer & Performer 2

Jerome Scott is a multi-disciplinary artist who explores stories through writing and movement. He writes through a poetic lens exploring identity, intimacy, masculinity (not limited to). He is currently working towards a body of poetry that he is hoping to span across a number of mediums. Do You Want Something to Cry For is Jerome’s debut play, this piece will begin his trademark as an artist. Outside of this he also facilitates - he likes to create spaces of play and discovery and build work from the bodies and voices in the room. His most recent works have looked at movement direction for new writing, ‘PITCH’ with November Theatre and ‘How We Swim’ written by Tabby Lamb.  Recently he has been assistant director on the Talawa Theatre - TYPT Program.   

                

Jack D'arcy - Sound Designer

Jack is a sound designer and actor from Salford whose work frequently blurs the lines between musician and performer.  He is an Emerging Associate of the National Youth Theatre and trained with their award-winning REP theatre company. Recently, he designed sound for Company 3’s ‘C3 Festivals 2025’ and his work has been performed at Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch, The Lowry, Storyhouse Chester, the Edinburgh Fringe and beyond. His debut gig-theatre show ‘Terminal Sound’ is a supported project of the Lowry, Manchester, and is currently in second stage development.  Jack also releases music under the moniker ‘Mondegrin’, focusing on electronic and sample-based work."

Jahmiko Marshall - Lighting Designer

Jahmiko Marshall is a Lighting and Sound Designer from Bermuda. He obtained his Lighting Technology Certificate from Stagecraft Institute of Las Vegas. He was a student at LAMDA studying towards his BA Hons in Production and Technical Arts. Before arriving in London, Jahmiko was heavily involved in light design for all the productions at his High School in Bermuda which is where he developed his passion for theatre. He has then worked on shows such as for “black boys who have considered suicide when the hue gets to heavy” from the new diorama theatre up until the Garrick theatre, he has also worked on numerous other projects such as “is dat you yh” in brixton house. While also working on shows that have also been around London venues and eventually to Edinburgh fringe such as “for the love of spam” and "Tones"

Atlanta Sonson-Chapman - Show Operator 

Identifying as a multidisciplinary artist in design and performance, Atlanta's talents span a wide range of roles, including stage management, technical theatre and design. Atlanta's recent credits include: 99 Sleepless Nights and Painting Basquiat (The Cockpit); Going for Gold (Park Theatre & Daphne Joseph Hackett Theatre, Barbados); Nine Moons (Old Red Lion Theatre Pub & Lion & Unicorn); Mean Girls West End (Savoy Theatre); Last Goal Wins (Theatre Peckham & Union Theatre); Year 2 Solo Performance and Year 1 Writing Performance (RCSSD); Queer Collective, 60+ Collective, Into the Snow Globe, and Find Your Rhythm (Arcola Theatre); A Hole is a Hole and Christmas on Mars (London Performance Studios); Winter Writers Showcase and Home Sweet Home (HoneyTheatre); and Black Joy Cabaret (Theatre Deli).

                

Abimbola Ikengboju - Performer 1 

Abimbola is a Nigerian British actor , recent graduate from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. He is so thrilled to be part of this production! Previous credits include : Dirty Butterfly - Debbie Tucker Green at the orange tree theatre.