Supporting Wall

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Supporting Wall was an award-winning London-based theatre and general arts production, promotion and management company, founded in 2008 by producers Ben Monks and Will Young and operated for nine years until 2017. [1] The company's own productions primarily focused on new writing and contemporary theatre, while management and publicity work has included projects across theatre, comedy, film, festivals, live music and dance - including work at the BFI Southbank, Royal National Theatre and many others. [2] During most of this time, Ben Monks and Will Young were also based at the Actors Centre as creative producers for the Tristan Bates Theatre. [3] [4] In November 2023 Will Young was appointed executive director of London's Royal Court Theatre. [5]

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Productions

Supporting Wall's original productions include:

ProductionWriterDirectorVenueYear
Blue Heaven Tennessee Williams Abigail Graham Finborough Theatre, London [6] 2009
Big Breath InOscar Wood & CompanyMatthew EvansTour, London & South East2009
Three Shit Hot ShortsDean StalhamSam Miller, Emily Lim, Pam Brighton Camden Fringe 2009
Moonfleece Philip Ridley David MercataliLondon & UK Tour2010
Election DramaVariousVariousNew Players Theatre2010
The Jewish Wife (JMK Award Winner [7] ) Bertolt Brecht Matthew Evans Battersea Arts Centre 2010
Tender Napalm Philip RidleyDavid Mercatali Southwark Playhouse [8] 2011
YellowDaniel SaleebDaniel SaleebTete a Tete Festival / Riverside Studios2011
Shallow SlumberChris Lee Mary Nighy Soho Theatre [9] 2012
Tender NapalmPhilip RidleyDavid MercataliUK Tour [10] 2012
Dark Vanilla Jungle (Fringe First Award winner [11] )Philip RidleyDavid MercataliSoho Theatre, London; Royal Exchange, Manchester and Pleasance, Edinburgh Festival2013
Our AjaxTimberlake WertenbakerDavid MercataliSouthwark Playhouse [12] 2013
Jonny & the Baptists: The Stop UKIP Tour Jonny Donahoe & Paddy GerversThe companyUK Tour / Soho Theatre [13] 2014
Dark Vanilla JunglePhilip RidleyDavid MercataliUK Tour & Soho Theatre [14] 2014
Jonny & the Baptists: The Satiric VersesJonny Donahoe & Paddy GerversThe company The Pleasance, Edinburgh Festival [15] 2014
Bull (Olivier Award Winner [16] ) Mike Bartlett (playwright) Clare Lizzimore Young Vic Theatre [17] 2015
Radiant VerminPhilip RidleyDavid Mercatali Tobacco Factory Theatre, Bristol / Soho Theatre, London [18] 2015
Jonny & the Baptists Rock The VoteJonny Donahoe & Paddy GerversThe companyUK Tour & Soho Theatre [19] 2015
You Look Tasty (A Play By A Tiger)Stewart PringleDavid MercataliThe Pleasance, Edinburgh Festival [20] 2015
Tonight with Donny StixxPhilip RidleyDavid MercataliPleasance, Edinburgh Festival [21] 2015
Jonny & the Baptists: The End Is NighJonny Donahoe & Paddy GerversThe company Paines Plough Roundabout Theatre (Southbank Centre / Summerhall, Edinburgh Festival) & UK Tour [22] 2015-16
OctagonKristiana ColonNadia Latif Arcola Theatre, London [23] 2015
Jonny & the Baptists: Eat the PoorJonny Donahoe & Paddy GerversThe company Paines Plough Roundabout Theatre (Summerhall, Edinburgh Festival) & UK Tour [24] 2016-17
Radiant VerminPhilip RidleyDavid Mercatali 59E59 Theaters, New York [25] 2016
Thirty ChristmasesJonny Donahoe, with Paddy GerversAlice HamiltonOld Fire Station, Oxford & New Diorama Theatre, London [26] 2017-18

Awards and nominations

Supporting Wall's productions won or were nominated for various awards, including for Bull the 2015 Olivier Award for Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre; [27] for Dark Vanilla Jungle a Fringe First Award [11] and a nomination for lead actress Gemma Whelan for the Stage Award for Best Solo Performance; [28] for Tender Napalm, winning the OffWestEnd.Com Award for Best Actress for Vinette Robinson [29] and a nomination for the Evening Standard Outstanding Newcomer Award for director David Mercatali; [30] for Shallow Slumber, nominations for the OffWestEnd.Com Best Actress Award for both Amy Cudden and Alexandra Gilbreath, as well as for Best New Play at the same awards; [31] and for The Jewish Wife,winning the JMK director's award for Matthew Evans. [7]

For Supporting Wall Ben Monks and Will Young were jointly nominated for the OffWestEnd.Com Best Producer Award twice consecutively in 2011 [32] & 2012. [33]

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  2. ↑ "Producer Profile: Ben Qasim Monks". Stage One. Retrieved 16 September 2020.
  3. ↑ "Year of the Producer". WhatsonStage. Retrieved 16 September 2020.
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  7. 1 2 "Winner 2010".
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