Mercury READS – APEX by Emma Louise Howell
About APEX: No one told Belles life was gonna be this way. Bored, jobless and stuck in the pits she grew up in, she wants out. Until an unexpected message slides into her DMs and changes everything. Because when life gives you lemons, twist them, pulverise them, stamp them into the ground until you don’t have to work anymore hun.
Written by Emma Louise Howell and Directed by Jessica Lazar.
Warnings: Strong language
Emma Louise Howell
Writer
Emma Louise Howell is a writer and director from East Anglia. She recently graduated from RADA and Birkbeck, where she won the Michael Ross Prize for her first play, Patterns. Other writing credits include: Houses of Sand (Boundless Theatre), Home Bird (BBC Upload), Hide and Seek (NSDF), The Last Straw (Arcola Theatre). She was a Mercury Playwright 2021/22 and is currently a New Associate with New Perspectives.
Jessica Lazar
Director
Jessica Lazar is a freelance director and part of award-winning theatre company Atticist. Her productions have won awards including the Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh Award, and been nominated for eleven Off West End Awards including Best Director and Best Production and the Holden Street Award.
Theatre credits include Rafaella Marcus’s Sap (Roundabout @ Summerhall / MAST 2022 / Vaults 2020), Lisa D’Amour’s Anna Bella Eema (Arcola 2019), Iman Qureshi’s this is a love story and Sam Potter’s Unicorn (North Wall Arts Centre 2019), David Greig’s Outlying Islands (King’s Head Theatre 2019), Christina Murdock’s Dangerous Giant Animals (Edinburgh Fringe / United Solo Fest New York / Park Theatre 2018), Steven Berkoff’s East (King’s Head Theatre 2018), and Katherine Rundell’s Life According to Saki (New York Theatre Workshop Fourth Street Theatre 2017 / Edinburgh Fringe 2016). Audio credits include Margaret Perry’s A Passion Play and Rafaella Marcus’s The You Play Vols. 1-2 (2020, 45North from Written on the Waves series).
In 2021/22 she was an ERDF Mercury Creative at Mercury Theatre, and in 2019/20 was an EVOLVE Artist in Residence at Oxford Playhouse.
Georgina Fairbanks
Belle
Georgina trained as an actor at the Oxford School of Drama and upon graduating was nominated for the Spotlight Prize. Since then she has been building her career both on stage and screen. In 2022 she co-founded, Ox Productions, and performed in their debut solo show, The Unicorn, at The Pleasance for the 2022 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Credits include: Suspicion – Discovery HD, Geek Island – UKTV, The Unicorn – The Pleasance, New Face for Fast Time – Soho Theatre, Henry V – Rose Playhouse, Machinal – Pegasus theatre, Dignity (short) – NV Films
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