Jo Bradley

Director, Dramaturg, Producer, Theatre Critic

SEEN

Director & Dramaturg: SEEN by Xavier Hazard

NIDA Festival of Emerging Artists, The Space Theatre, December 2023

SEEN is a platonic love story that stages the digital.

It’s 2017. Year 11. New friends Andrew and Asha arrange their first kiss over Messenger. And promptly realise they’re gay. As they come of age, their unconventional friendship plays out over six years of text messages.

Written for the NIDA Festival of Emerging Artists, SEEN is a new work about gen z friendships and internet culture.

Photography by Phil Erbacher

DIRECTOR’S NOTE
When developing SEEN with playwright Xavier Hazard, my intention was to depict authentically the way young people talk to one another on the internet. In my directing, I’ve sought to capture how it feels to communicate via texts (the intimacy, immediacy, the perceived privacy to speak your innermost thoughts), rather than how it looks (two people holding phones).

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Creative/Production Team

Writer Xavier Hazard
Director Jo Bradley
Dramaturg Jo Bradley
Set and Costume Designer Elle Fitzgerald
Lighting Designer Chris Milburn
Sound Designer Carol Gonzales
Video Designer Adetokunbo (TK)Abioye
Assoc. Lighting Designer Harry Smyth

Production Stage Manager Sherydan Simson
Stage Manager Thomas Shepherd
Construction Manager Nick Day **
Costume Supervisor Giulia Zanardo
Video System Supervisor Thomas Howieson
Head Electrician Yasmin Breeze
Properties Maker Grace McCann
Technical Assistant(s)
Holly Nesbitt
Justin Boerst
Thomas O’Brien

Cast (in order of appearance)
Andrew Faisal Hamza
Asha Lilian Valverde
Bryn Thomas Russell
Voice of Judy Frankie McNair*
Corey Ashan Kumar*

* represents a non-NIDA student. ** represents NIDA staff