Beyond the Stars
by Connor Allen and Roanna Lewis
Connor Allen
Since graduating from Trinity Saint David as an Actor, Connor has worked with many companies in Wales and beyond including Likely Story, Sherman Theatre, Tin Shed and We Made This. He is a member of National Youth Theatre of Great Britain and was also the winner of Triforces Cardiff Monologue Slam. As a writer, Connor has written for companies including Dirty Protest, National Theatre Wales and BBC Wales. Connor wrote Dom’s Drug Prayer for Sherman Theatre’s TEN / DEG series. He’s had an ACW funded debut play and two Literature Wales commissions. He is also part of the BBC Wales Welsh Voices 19/20 and The Welsh Royal Court Writers Group.
Roanna Lewis
Roanna trained at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts and has appeared in Ice Road for Raucous Theatre, The Girl With The Incredibly Long Hair for Wales Millennium Centre, City of the Unexpected: The Marvellous Medicine Machine for National Theatre Wales, Red Tap/Blue Tiger for Greenwich Theatre, Charlie Hebdo - An Epistolary Play at George Bernard Shaw Theatre, Chapel Street at Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch, The Two Noble Kinsmen at the White Bear Theatre and My People for Clwyd Theatr Cymru / Invertigo Theatre.
Beyond the Stars
Beyond the Stars is about two friends who build a rocket to travel into space to save their best friend. The show is about our connection to the stars, about loss and how we cope with that at a young age
“It’s super inspiring to have our idea chosen because it means that this magical idea can now be brought to life. Loss and grief are universal things that we all experience and sometimes we are not equipped to know how to deal with that. Especially at a young age. Hopefully this show can offer an alternative on how to navigate the subject and those feelings, especially with young people. With Covid, many young people have experienced the loss of loved ones and for many it may be the first time. So this show, we believe, is needed now more than ever. And we’re more than excited to get in a room to play and devise, to create the magical world of Beyond the Stars.”