Frantic Assembly’s Presents Brand-New Production

Full tour dates have been announced for Frantic Assembly’s brand-new production Lost Atoms,written by Anna Jordan (Succession/ Killing Eve, Yen, The Unreturning, We Anchor in Hope) and directed by Frantic Assembly artistic director Scott Graham (Metamorphosis/ Othello) as part of the celebrated company’s 30th anniversary programme of work.

Lost Atoms tells the story of a relationship: an extraordinary, transformative love. Or is that only in hindsight? Perhaps it was just typical? Or toxic? Or doomed from the start?  One thing’s for sure: It changed their lives.  Two people plunge deep into their shared pasts and propel themselves into multiple imagined futures.  At times hilarious, at times devastating, Lost Atoms explores how memory impacts the way we look at love, and asks what makes a truly ‘successful’ relationship?

Lost Atoms will premiere at Curve Leicester from 22 September – 4 October 2025, before touring to Theatre Royal York (7 – 11 October), Liverpool Playhouse(14 – 18 October), Belgrade Theatre Coventry (21 – 25 October), Mercury Theatre Colchester (4 – 8 November), The Lowry Salford Quays (11 – 15 November), Connaught Theatre Worthing (18 – 22 November), Mayflower StudiosSouthampton (25 – 29 November), Bristol Old Vic (13 – 24 January 2026) and The Lyric Hammersmith Theatre (29 January –  28 February).

Further creative team is also today announced. Lost Atoms is written by Anna Jordon, directed by Scott Graham, and produced by Kerry Whelan. The set design will be by Andrzej Goulding, lighting design by Simisola Majekodunmi, sound design by Carolyn Downing, costume design by Alice McNicholas and music supervision by Julie Blake. Commissioned and Produced by Frantic Assembly, Lost Atoms will be a co-production with Leicester Curve, Mayflower Southamptonand The Lyric Hammersmith Theatre.

Lost Atoms is part of a dynamic programme of work to celebrate 30 years of Frantic Assembly with other projects for 2025 including the return of The House Partyby Laura Lomas,co-produced byHeadlongand Chichester Festival Theatrein association with Frantic Assembly, and featuring six Ignition graduates in the cast, touring from 21 February – 10 May. May will see the premiere of a collaboration with Aurora Orchestra;Carnival is a new staging of Saint-Saëns’ The Carnival of the Animals and opens at the Southbank Centreon 3 May. 

Other projects to mark this milestone year include the release of an updated, third edition of the Frantic Assembly Book of Devising Theatre with new content from Scott Graham and a new devising challenge Frantic Mirrorsfollowing the success of Chair Duets which became a global phenomenon when it went viral inspiring people across the world to explore their creativity.  Fundraising efforts also continue into 2025 to save Ignition, Frantic Assembly’s innovative, free, nationwide, talent development programme for young people aged 16-24 from communities where access to the arts is limited or non-existent.  More news on Ignition will be announced soon.

Creative Team:  

Writer: Anna Jordan
Director: Scott Graham
Set Designer: Andrzej Goulding
Lighting Designer: Simisola Majekodunmi
Sound Designer: Carolyn Downing
Music Supervisor: Julie Blake
Costume Designer: Alice McNicholas

 Tour Dates

2025 

2026

Biographies

ANNA JORDAN – PLAYWRIGHT
Anna Jordan is a writer for theatre, film and TV.  Her TV credits include Succession (HBO), Killing Eve (Sid Gentle / BBC America) One Day ( Netflix), Becoming Elizabeth (Starz) and Film Club (Gaumont / BBC).  Her theatre credits include Pop Music (Paines Plough / Birmingham Rep – National Tour), We Anchor In Hope (Bunker Theatre), The Unreturning (Frantic Assembly – National Tour and Theatre Royal Stratford). Mother Courage and Her Children (Royal Exchange / Headlong) and Freak (Assembly Studios / Theatre503)  Anna won the Bruntwood Prize in 2013 for her play YEN, which has had productions at The Royal Exchange, Royal Court Theatre and MCC New York as well as several international productions. It was also shortlisted for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.

ANDRZEJ GOULDING – SET DESIGNER
Andrzej is an award-winning Set and Video Designer and Creator.   Set Design includes: Constellations (NCPA); The Unreturning (Frantic Assembly); Sane New World: Ruby Wax (UK Tour); Union (Lyceum, Edinburgh)    Video Designs include: Starlight Express (Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre); Just for One Day (The Old Vic/West End), 42 Balloons (The Lowry); People, Places and Things (National Theatre, West End, St Ann’s Warehouse); Groundhog Day (Broadway, Old Vic); &Juliet (Broadway, West End, Australia); Miss Saigon (Sheffield Crucible); Life of Pi (Broadway, West End, World Tour)

SIMISOLA MAJEKODUNMI – LIGHTING DESIGNER
Theatre includes: Sleeping Beauty (Broadway Theatre Catford), Odd and the Frost Giants (Unicorn Theatre); Pontypool (Wales Millennium Centre); Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare North & Theatre By The Lake); The Hound of the Baskervilles (Theatre by the Lake); Before I Go (Brixton House); My Father’s Fable (Bush Theatre); The Ballad of Hattie and James (Kiln Theatre); A Taste of Honey, Electric Rosary (Royal Exchange Theatre); Metamorphosis (Frantic Assembly & UK Tour); I, Daniel Blake (Northern Stage & UK Tour); Choir Boy (Bristol Old Vic); Es & Flo (Wales Millennium Centre); Sound of the Underground, Is God Is, Living Newspaper (Royal Court); Family Tree (Belgrade Theatre & UK Tour); Jack and the Beanstalk (Stratford East), Treason: The Musical in Concert (Theatre Royal Dury Lane); J’OUVERT  (Theatre503 & West End); A Christmas Carol  (Shakespeare North Playhouse).
Other credits include: Piratenkonigin (Nerderlandse Reisoper); Dark with Excessive Bright (The Royal Opera House); Traplord (Factory International, 180 Studios & Breakin’ Convention at Sadler’s Wells).
Awards: 2023 Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production for Traplord  for which Simi designed the Lighting. Nominated in 2022, 2023 & 2024 for Black British Theatre Awards Light Recognition Award and 2021 for Best Production Play for J’ouvert.

CAROLYN DOWLING – SOUNDS DESIGNER
Carolyn Downing is a Tony and Olivier award-winning sound designer working in a variety of fields including exhibitions, fashion, theatre and live events
Theatre includes, at The Bridge, A Number; for the Almeida, Summer and Smoke (also West End, Olivier Award nomination for Best Sound Design), Chimerica (also West End, Olivier nomination for Best Sound Design), Carmen Disruption and Blood Wedding; in the West End Life of Pi(also American Repertory Theater, Broadway (Tony Award, UK Theatre Award and Olivier nomination for Best Sound Design), Enfield Haunting, Death of a Salesman (from the Young Vic); Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World on UK tour; Downstate (with Steppenwolf, Chicago), The Normal Heart, The Welkin, As You Like It, The Motherfucker with the Hat and Dara at the National Theatre; Never Let Me Go at the Rose, Kingston; All My Sons at the Old Vic; Gypsyand The Producers at the Royal Exchange, Manchester; Me and My Girl and Fiddler on the Roof at Chichester Festival Theatre; Les Liaisons Dangereuses (also on Broadway), BLANK, Fathers and Sons and Absurdia at the Donmar Warehouse; The Low Road and Choir Boyat the Royal Court; Ben and Imo, Antony and Cleopatra,Coriolanus, The Winter’s Taleand Pericles for the RSC; and The Believers, Beautiful Burnoutand Love Song for Frantic Assembly.
Opera includes Benjamin, Dernière Nuit for Opéra De Lyon and After Dido for English National Opera.
Events and Exhibition include Sweet Dreams at Aviva Studios; Commonwealth Games Birmingham 2022 Opening Ceremony at Alexander Stadium; and Jean-Michel Basquiat: King Pleasure in New York/Los Angeles.

JULIE BLAKE – MUSIC SUPERVISOR
Julie Blake is a music supervisor and producer known for creating distinctive sonic experiences. For over 20 years, she has curated soundtracks that elevate storytelling across a range of mediums including film, TV, immersive installations, and live theatre. Throughout her career, Julie has held senior leadership roles at some of the music industry’s most ground-breaking labels and publishers, including Ninja Tune, Third Side Music, and Erased Tapes.
Julie is also the founder and director of AURA Productions, a UK-based music supervision and creative studio that collaborates with a roster of innovative contemporary composers to deliver genre-defying soundscapes for both screen and stage.
Julie has previously contributed her expertise to theatrical productions such as Green Space Dark Skies (Walk The Plank / BBC), Blade Runner and Stranger Things (Secret Cinema), Heisenberg - Wyndham’s Theatre (Elliott & Harper), Between Two Fires (Alexander Whitley Dance Company) and Heroes - Saint Ann’s Warehouse (Spiegelworld).

ALICE MCNICHOLAS – COSTUME DESIGNER
Alice is an Offie & Standing Ovation Award nominated costume designer, who trained in performance design at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.   Selected Credits: Link In My Bio (Grand Théâtre de la Ville de Luxembourg); Cavalleria Rusticana (Blackheath Halls Opera); Spring Awakening 15th Anniversary Concert (Victoria Palace); A Lady With A Dog, The Boys From Syracuse, Mother of Kamal (Gatehouse); Devil May Care (Southwark Playhouse); Love Goddess, La Callisto  (Cockpit); Concrete Jungle Book (Pleasance); Secret Garden, Dal Segno, Bell, Book and Candle, Lady or the Tiger, Duet, Next Door’s Baby, Critical Stage, Snow Queen  (Tabard); Queen  (Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh); Cinderella  (Kenton); Into the Woods, Legally Blonde (Playground); Vinegar Tom (Maltings); Selecting A Ghost  (Stanley Arts); Frantic Assembly’s Othello (Lyric Hammersmith & UK Tour, Costume Design Associate).
As Set & Costume Designer: Lifeline (Signature, New York); A Brief List of Everyone Who Died (Finborough); Ally in Wonderland, Our Teacher’s a Troll, Peter Pan & The Battle for Neverland (Ruined Theatre); Jack and the Beanstalk (Applecart Arts); Henry V, Present Laughter, Othello, The Importance of Being Earnest, Loves Labours Lost, School for Scandal (Changeling UK Tour).