Lucy Light had its NYC premier at The New Stage Performance Space in April 2024
The performance was dedicated to Isabelle Duperray, a wonderful teacher, mother, actress and so much more.
Next Minute Productions is an award winning Film and Theatre company. Next Minute was formed in 2021 when Siobhán and Imogen sat down in a Le Pain Quotidian and decided to make a short film. Next Minute Productions collaborated with Ozaki studios to create this short film - The Reunion, which was nominated for Lovesick Film Festivals best picture and which awarded Imogen best actress. The film won the Indie Shorts Award for best acting duo and received an honorable mention from Blackbird Film Festival. After shooting The Reunion Next Minute collaborated with a public high school in Cleveland, Ohio to film three pilot episodes of a web series Survival: A Day Job Series. This created the opportunity for high school students to have an education experience on set both in front of and behind the camera. At the end of 2023 Next Minute mounted their first full theatrical production, the original play Friends & Lovers & Others, at The Tank in NYC. Tonight you are seeing Next Minute’s first staged performance the two woman show Lucy Light. We hope to see this show grow monumentally in the coming years. With its team having roots in England and Ireland, it is Next Minute’s aspiration to produce this play across the pond as well as around the United States. Due to the subject matter of the show we would also love to see this play have a life on college campuses, in high schools, and at charity events across the country. If you’d like to support our ventures please follow along on our website (nextminuteproductions.com), at your Instagram (@nextminuteproductions).
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Siobhán Carroll (she/her) is an Irish-American actor and writer who received her B.F.A. in acting from Boston University. On screen credits include: co-star on Amazon Prime’s MR. & MRS. SMITH, series regular (Petra) in the Black Oak TV series MS/MANAGE, Laura in PERFECT PARTY, etc. On-stage credits include: The Thin Place (Gloucester Stage), A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, Blue Kettle & Here We Go (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company), Romeo & Juliet (New Repertory Theatre CRC tour), It's A Free Country (SheNYC), and Macbeth (The Cutting Room), etc. Siobhán's one-woman show Is This You was part of DQT's American Women playwrighting fellowship. Siobhán is the co-founder of Next Minute Productions. siobhancarroll.com; @siobhancarroll
Lucy
Imogen Finlayson is an award winning British/New Zealand actress who trained at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts (New York Company, 2019), and the Cours Florent (Paris). Some of her recent theater credits include: The Groundlings (Sonyo Theater), Murder In The First (Soho Playhouse), The Woman In Black (The Mckittrick Hotel, The McCarter Princeton, Festival Hall Charleston), The Art of Killin It (Future Proof), Friends And Lovers and Others (The Tank), Nightmare Gothic (Teatro SEA), Which Way to The Ivy Covered Well (Rochester Fringe), Tamerlane (Poe International Fest) and many more. She has also worked in film and physical theater productions. Awards: ‘Best Actor’ Lovesick film festival, ‘Best Duo’ IndieFest International for ‘The Reunion'. You can find her resume at this link: https://app.spotlight.com/6296-7832-4257Sarah was one of ten young writers selected to work with The Royal Court theatre, London on their Open Court Festival 2016. Her audio play 'The Flower Show' ran for three weeks at The Royal Court during July 2016, and her play ‘The Night Tella’ was presented in the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs, as part of the festival. She performed 'The Night Tella’.
Director
Emma K. Campbell started studying the craft of performance at a young age. Her studies have led her to Tanglewood, Idyllwild Arts, Interlochen Arts, and Paul McCartney’s LIPA in Liverpool. She has performed in touring choirs and shows throughout the country. Some of her favorite performances include “The Fool” in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night and as a traveling pirate and various Murder Mysteries, most recently Murder In The First at The Soho Playhouse. You may also find her singing The National Anthem in the tri-state area for the NYRR and other sporting events. Although she has participated in many cabaret collaborations and solo shows in the city she is beyond excited to perform in The Groundling with Sonyo Theatre as Karen. Youmay follow her journey online: Instagram: emmacampbellmusic or Website: http://www.EmmaK.site
Playwright
Sarah Milton is an award-nominated writer and performer based in Brighton, UK. She is an alumni of London's Lyric Hammersmith (2013), Soho Theatre (2014/15), HighTide (2015) and RADA Advances in Script Writing 2015.
Sarah was one of ten young writers selected to work with The Royal Court theatre, London on their Open Court Festival 2016. Her audio play 'The Flower Show' ran for three weeks at The Royal Court during July 2016, and her play ‘The Night Tella’ was presented in the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs, as part of the festival. She performed 'The Night Tella’.
Sarah's one woman play ‘Tumble Tuck’, in which she starred, was placed highly on the Soho Theatre's Verity Bargate 2015 Award list. It was presented by The Old Vic New Voices at Wilderness Festival in August 2016, and then the Soho Theatre, London in the Soho Rising season during October 2016. BackHere! Theatre produced ‘TumbleTuck' for The Underbelly in Edinburgh 2017. It transferred to The King's Head Theatre in April 2018 as the headline show of their 'Who Runs The World?' festival and was nominated for an Off West End Award nomination for Best Performance Piece.
Sarah's play 'Lucy Light’ ran at the Theatre N16, London for three weeks to critical acclaim in September 2017. Milroyd Productions produced a new version of the same play at VAULT Festival 2019, also to rave reviews.
Sarah's one-woman show '4' was presented by Bruised Sky Productions at Park Theatre, London in 2022. In September 2022, she was made an Associate Artist of Bruised Sky Productions.
Sarah's plays ‘Tumble Tuck’, ‘Lucy Light’, '4' and 'The Night Tella' are all published by Bloomsbury Methuen Drama.
Sarah was 1 of 12 writers (out of 3000 applicants) on the 2019 Channel 4 (UK) Screenwriting programme led by Philip Shelley.
She was nominated for a 2019 Edinburgh TV Festival New Voice Award in the Stage to Screen category for ‘Tumble Tuck’.
Sarah’s feature film adaptation of her play ‘Lucy Light’ placed as a quarter finalist in the international Shore Scripts 2020 Feature Film competition and was shortlisted for the Screen & Story 2021 Film Festival Screenplay competition.
Her feature length film 'Project Baby' was commissioned by Reel One Entertainment in 2021. It wrapped in the United States in the summer of 2022, was directed by Haylie Duff, is currently in post production and set for release in 2023. She is currently in development on her next film with Reel One; 'Love Reunited'.
Her short film 'SCOFFED' - commissioned and developed by ManChild Films - it wrapped in December 2022 in London. It was released in Spring 2023.
Sarah is currently in development on her first original television idea 'O' with Double Dutch productions.
Sarah trained at London's Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts on the BA (Hons) Acting course, graduating in 2012. For her writing she is represented by Independent Talent Group. For her acting she is represented by The Soundcheck Group.