“IT’S FRIDAY, 5PM, THE STREETS’R TIPSY WITH POSSIBILITY, EXPECTATION...

EVERYBODY’S DREAMING, BEAMING, GETTING STEAMING FOR THE NIGHT AHEAD…”

CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT

Written by Danielle Phillips

A Play, A Poem, and A Party 

A clubland coming-of-age story, Children of the Night follows Lindsay Jenkins, a young Donny lass with an A in English, a thirst for rave and £4.25 for the taxi home. 

Amidst the chaotic finale of 90s nightlife, the backdrop of post-Thatcher Britain and during the UK’s first heterosexual HIV cluster, Children of the Night is a love letter to the working-class cultural pulse of the North, mixing kitchen-sink drama with dance-floor euphoria.

Shortlisted for the 2023 Women’s Prize for Playwriting

Shortlisted for the 2024 New Diorama Theatre Untapped Award

Made the top 9% of the BBC Open Writers Call 2024

Inspired by the testimony of 30 people from Doncaster.

Supported by Arts Council England, Right Up Our Street, Cast and Stage One..

Trailer (2023 version)

Making Of The 2023 Show

CAST & CREATIVE TEAM

2026 Touring Production

Writer - Danielle Phillips

Director - Kimberley Sykes

Set & Costume Designer - Hannah Sibai

Lighting Designer - Jessie Addinall

Dramaturgy by Kimberley Sykes & Stephanie Dale

Producer - Lauren Townsend

2023 Production, Cast Doncaster

Writer - Danielle Phillips

Director - Ruby Clarke

Set & Costume Designer - Hannah Sibai

Sound Designer - Annie May Fletcher

Lighting Designer - Jessie Addinall

Dramaturgy - Stephanie Dale

Producer - Lauren Townsend

Production Manager - Oliver Brown

Stage Manager on Book - Rebecca Hitchcox

Cast (2026 Touring Production)

  • Danielle Phillips - Lindsay

    Danielle is a stage and screen actor from Yorkshire.

    She most recently starred as ‘Alice’ in ‘Masters of the Air,’ A Steven Spielberg & Tom Hanks production for Apple TV. Danielle also received a nomination for an ‘Evening Standard Future Theatre Award 2021’.

    Television credits include: The Sister Boniface Murder Mysteries (BBC/Britbox), Father Brown (BBC)

    Film credits include: Ready Player One (Warner Bros)

    Stage credits include: Sky Comedy Rep (Birmingham Rep), The Upstart Crow (The Gielgud), Trying It On by David Edgar (RSC, Royal Court)

  • More to be announced...

Cast (2023 Production - Cast, Doncaster)

  • Danielle Phillips - Lindsay

    Danielle is a stage and screen actor from Yorkshire.

    She most recently starred as ‘Alice’ in ‘Masters of the Air,’ A Steven Spielberg & Tom Hanks production for Apple TV. Danielle also received a nomination for an ‘Evening Standard Future Theatre Award 2021’.

    Television credits include: The Sister Boniface Murder Mysteries (BBC/Britbox), Father Brown (BBC)

    Film credits include: Ready Player One (Warner Bros)

    Stage credits include: Sky Comedy Rep (Birmingham Rep), The Upstart Crow (The Gielgud), Trying It On by David Edgar (RSC, Royal Court)

  • Luke Broughton - DJ Don

    Luke lives in Leeds and trained at Bretton Hall College. His theatre credits include Kes (Derby Playhouse), NOLA (Look Left, Look Right) Horrible Histories (Birmingham Stage Company/Sydney Opera House), The Worm Collector and Crap Dad (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Revengers Tragedy, (Well Fangled Theatre) World’s Apart and Freefalling (Red Ladder Theatre Company)

    Luke’s television and film credits include Gunpowder (Kudos) Coronation Street, Emmerdale and Heartbeat (ITV) Boy A (Cuba Pictures) Hollyoaks (Lime Pictures) Buried (World Productions), The Driver and The 4 O’ Clock Club (BBC).

    Radio credits include Stone, Des Res, A Painters Sky and Sorry Boys you Failed the Audition (BBC)

  • Andy McLeod - Terry

    Andy's stage credits include:

    There Should Be Unicorns (Middle Child Theatre), Macbeth (Kenneth More Theatre), the UK and International tour of User Not Found (Dante Or Die), Secret Life of Humans (New Diorama Theatre), Down & Out in Paris and London (New Diorama Theatre), Kings (Smoke & Oakum) Vassa Zheleznova (The Faction/Southwark Playhouse) and Border Men (King's Head Theatre).

    His screen credits include:

    The Outlaws (Big Talk Productions), EastEnders (BBC),The Beast Must Die (New Regency Productions), Sham Love Series (Zikora Studios), Past Tense (SAE Institute), The Nest (Beyond Fiction) and The Introduction (The Curious Room).

  • Rosa Hesmondhalgh - Jen

    Rosa Hesmondhalgh is an actor and playwright from Leeds.

    Past theatre credits include: Madame Ovary (Edinburgh Fringe & UK tour), The Snow Queen (Yvonne Arnaud Theatre), Doctor Jekyll & Mr Hyde (Storyhouse Chester), Trial By Laughter (UK Tour, Watermill Theatre).

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