Constellations - Nick Payne
National Theatre Drama School – Graduate Production
Director: Emily O’Brien-Brown
Cast: Yali Manskleid, Marz Cooper, Eleanor Timms, Lainey Drake, Dong Hae Shin, Ami Coleman-McElle, Luke Smith, Charlotte Palmer, Noah Sargent
Costume Design: Jaime Dorner and Emily O’Brien-Brown
Lighting Design: Max Woods
Movement Director: Vincent Crowley
Constellations explores love, grief, and the infinite possibilities of choice through the lives of Marianne and Roland. For this graduating production, I reimagined the play for a cast of nine, deconstructing and stitching together 15 distinct universes. Sharing roles across the ensemble allowed each actor to explore facets of the characters, revealing how small decisions ripple through identity, relationships, and existence.
The production became a multiverse of human connection, where familiar moments—a meeting, a first date, a heartbreak—unfold differently in each universe. Working with a fearless ensemble, we embraced the play’s structural and emotional complexity, creating a world where infinite possibility and deeply human truth coexist.
