Hackney Showroom Productions

  • The Legends of Them by Sutara Gayle AKA Lorna Gee

We are home for genre-defying theatre, collaborating with innovative artists – many with lived experience of injustice – to make shows that change the landscape of tomorrow’s theatre. With a refreshing invitation to national and international audiences, we engage a myriad of communities in memorable cultural experiences that address the problems and possibilities of our times.

We began producing theatre in 2017 with our critically acclaimed first show, FRAU WELT by Peter Clements and Oliver Dawe at Hackney Showroom, followed by a run at the Assembly Rooms for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2018.

Our second show BURGERZ by Travis Alabanza was a sell-out sensation in 2018 and returned to the stage in summer 2019, winning a Total Theatre Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. BURGERZ toured internationally in 2021 and 2022 and had its final performances at The Southbank Centre in 2023 before returning in 2026 to tour Australia.

Our third show FOR ALL THE WOMEN WHO THOUGHT THEY WERE MAD by Zawe Ashton, directed by Jo McInnes played in autumn 2019 at our pop-up theatre residency at Stoke Newington  Town Hall.

TOMORROW IS ALREADY DEAD by Ms Sharon Le Grand, directed by Sam Curtis Lindsay, played at Soho Theatre and Latitude Festival in the summer of 2023.

Our latest production, THE LEGENDS OF THEM by Sutara Gayle AKA Lorna Gee played at Brixton House and the Royal Court Theatre before embarking on a UK tour in autumn 2025.

We are currently developing a new show DOUGHNUT & MOUTH; an irreverent, family-friendly show about how safety is used as a smokescreen to suppress those who pose a perceived threat to authority.