His previous directing work includes plays with Talawa Theatre Company, Manchester Royal Exchange, New Heritage Theatre, and the New Vic. His work at Birmingham Rep includes Joe Penhall’s Blue Orange Concubine Stuff I Knew You Abuelo, Jump! We’ll Catch You Made In India/Britain and Exhale. I Wonder If (presented with YV Taking Part) had a run at the Young Vic Theatre in late 2022 before going on a community tour, and Daniel was the Creative Associate on the UK Premiere of Bootycandy at Gate Theatre. His directing work at the Bush Theatre includes the upcoming Lenny Henry’s August in England (co-directed with Lynette Linton) which opens spring 2023, Red Pitch by Tyrell Williams (Stage Debut Award Winner 2022) and Temi Wilkey’s The High Table (Stage Debut Award winner 2020). Prior roles include Associate Director at Birmingham Rep Theatre (after initially joining as part of the Regional Theatre Young Director Scheme), Resident Director at the National Theatre Studio, Associate Artist at Theatre Royal Stratford East, Resident Assistant Director at The Finborough Theatre, and on the Young Vic’s directing programme. He is currently Associate Artistic Director at the Bush Theatre, London, having joined the team in 2019 alongside Artistic Director Lynette Linton.

Co-directed by the Bush Artistic Director, Lynette Linton ( Sweat, House of Ife), and Associate Artistic Director, Daniel Bailey ( Red Pitch, The High Table), August in England makes its world premiere in April 2023.ĭaniel Bailey is a director, dramaturg and writer for stage and screen. Written and performed by Lenny Henry in his playwriting debut, the celebrated actor and comedian brings his vast talents onto the stage in this intimate one-man show. Poignant and hilarious in equal measure, August in England gives insight into the lives impacted by the injustice of the Windrush scandal. Listen up, he is ready to tell his own story.

So, when faced with deportation to a country he has no memory of, he isn’t prepared to go quietly. Between his three kids, devoted wife-to-be, and part-ownership of a fruit and veg shop, he is proud of the life he has built since landing in his beloved West Bromwich. I been trying to tell it someone and nobody listenin’Ĭharming, flawed, and with the gift of the gab, we all know a man like August Henderson. Lenny Henry stars in his playwriting debut exploring a life impacted by the Windrush scandal.

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