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Welcome to Jaja’s! This bustling Harlem braiding salon is where neighbourhood women come to have their greatest hairstyle dreams come true, all in the hands of a lively group of West African, immigrant braiders.
Across one hot summers day, these women experience everything in the pressure cooker of the sweltering shop: from demanding customers to secrets and lies, laughter and betrayal. But each of these women has big dreams as well, dreams which increasingly pit them against the city they call home.
Creative team
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Amy Belson
Executive Director
Amy Belson
Executive Director
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Rachel O’Riordan
Artistic Director
Rachel O’Riordan
Artistic Director
Rachel O’Riordan is Artistic Director and CEO of the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre where she launched her critically acclaimed debut season in Autumn 2019 with a triumphant adaptation of A Doll’s House by Tanika Gupta.
She recently directed an acclaimed revival of Brian Friel’s Faith Healer at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre. Her most recent collaboration with Gary Owen was on Romeo & Julie at the National Theatre which is currently in development for a film adaptation. She also directed the sold-out remount of Iphigenia in Splott at the Lyric, which was featured as one of The Guardian’s 50 best theatre shows of the 21st century and was Number 1 in The Guardian’s Top 10 Theatre Productions of 2022, Other Lyric shows include: co-directing the Lyric’s 2020 post covid reopening production Out West; Timberlake Wertenbaker’s seminal play Our Country’s Good, which saw Timberlake revisit the play for the first time; Love, Love, Love by Mike Bartlett, in the 10 year anniversary revival; Martin McDonagh’s The Beauty Queen of Leenane with Chichester Festival Theatre. Previously, she was Artistic Director and CEO of Sherman Theatre, Wales and transformed the venue which won The Stage’s Regional Theatre of the Year Award under her leadership. Directing credits include: the Olivier Award-winning Killology, Bird, The Cherry Orchard and Iphigenia in Splott. She was Artistic Director of Perth Theatre, Scotland between 2011 and 2014 and won The Critics’ Award for Theatre in Scotland for Best Director and Best Ensemble for The Seafarer by Conor McPherson. From 2002 to 2011, she co-founded and ran Ransom Productions in Northern Ireland. This year, she will direct End, by David Eldridge for the National Theatre.
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Project Manager
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Project Manager
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Cast
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Amy Belson
Executive Director
Amy Belson
Executive Director
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Rachel O’Riordan
Artistic Director
Rachel O’Riordan
Artistic Director
Rachel O’Riordan is Artistic Director and CEO of the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre where she launched her critically acclaimed debut season in Autumn 2019 with a triumphant adaptation of A Doll’s House by Tanika Gupta.
She recently directed an acclaimed revival of Brian Friel’s Faith Healer at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre. Her most recent collaboration with Gary Owen was on Romeo & Julie at the National Theatre which is currently in development for a film adaptation. She also directed the sold-out remount of Iphigenia in Splott at the Lyric, which was featured as one of The Guardian’s 50 best theatre shows of the 21st century and was Number 1 in The Guardian’s Top 10 Theatre Productions of 2022, Other Lyric shows include: co-directing the Lyric’s 2020 post covid reopening production Out West; Timberlake Wertenbaker’s seminal play Our Country’s Good, which saw Timberlake revisit the play for the first time; Love, Love, Love by Mike Bartlett, in the 10 year anniversary revival; Martin McDonagh’s The Beauty Queen of Leenane with Chichester Festival Theatre. Previously, she was Artistic Director and CEO of Sherman Theatre, Wales and transformed the venue which won The Stage’s Regional Theatre of the Year Award under her leadership. Directing credits include: the Olivier Award-winning Killology, Bird, The Cherry Orchard and Iphigenia in Splott. She was Artistic Director of Perth Theatre, Scotland between 2011 and 2014 and won The Critics’ Award for Theatre in Scotland for Best Director and Best Ensemble for The Seafarer by Conor McPherson. From 2002 to 2011, she co-founded and ran Ransom Productions in Northern Ireland. This year, she will direct End, by David Eldridge for the National Theatre.
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Project Manager
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