Lusus

What happens when your neuroses come to life? What shape will they take? Don’t open the door.

Noa (Patsy Ferran) a young Gen Z Urbanite, suffers from continual FOMO. There is always someone somewhere doing something better than the choice she has made. When trying to keep a birthday arrangement with her mum and sister and attend a fun night out with successful friends, her wish to be in two places at the same time turns deadly. Cast Episode 1 No - Patsy Ferran Jen - Susannah Fielding Mindfulness Narrator - Caroline Faber Ash - Lainey Lipson Evie - Karima McAdams Club Hostess - Nantaara Jafri Smoker - Jacob Jackson Mum - Sara Jackson Taxi Driver - Avril Poole Bus Driver/Drunk - Paul Fulberg Kevin - Henry Newton Crew Production Company - Clarence Beeks Co-Creator/Writer - Samantha Newton Co-Creator/Director - Rachel Zisser Executive Producer - Sara Johnson Executive Producer - Daniel M Jackson Producer - Hannah Charman, Sister Music Casting Director - Sophie Kingston-Smith Casting Assistant - Lainey Lipson Composer - Na’ama Zisser Vocalists - Tomer Damsky, Aya Gavriel, Ron Sheskin, Quantum Choir Sound engineer - Laura Blake Sound engineer - Charlie Braham Sound engineer - Gareth Wood Sound Recording - The Sound Company Vocalist Recording - Marco Milevski, Mazkeka Studio Sound Design - King Lear Music & Sound Lead Sound Designer - Dugal Macdiarmid Asst Sound Designer - Ned Sisson Asst Sound Designer - Lauren Cooper

Tanya (Ella Bruccoleri) is home looking after her baby daughter while her wife Kate (Karima McAdams) works overseas. Their plans to try for more children fuels Tanya’s anxieties about the plastic crisis. As her panic about their impact on the planet grows larger…. so does the fatberg beneath their flat. They learn the hard way that the waste they create will come back to them as either food, or poison. Cast Tanya - Ella Bruccoleri Katie - Karima McAdams Mindfulness Narrator - Caroline Faber Police Officer/Newsreader - Annabel Miller Noa - Patsy Ferran Kevin - Henry Newton Crew Production Company - Clarence Beeks Co-Creator/Writer - Samantha Newton Co-Creator/Director - Rachel Zisser Executive Producer - Sara Johnson Executive Producer - Daniel M Jackson Producer - Hannah Charman, Sister Music Casting Director - Sophie Kingston-Smith Casting Assistant - Lainey Lipson Composer - Na’ama Zisser Vocalists - Tomer Damsky, Aya Gavriel, Ron Sheskin, Quantum Choir Sound engineer - Laura Blake Sound engineer - Charlie Braham Sound engineer - Gareth Wood Sound Recording - The Sound Company Vocalist Recording - Marco Milevski, Mazkeka Studio Sound Design - King Lear Music & Sound Lead Sound Designer - Dugal Macdiarmid Asst Sound Designer - Ned Sisson Asst Sound Designer - Lauren Cooper

Magnus (Alistair Petrie) is a surgeon who secretly believes that if he doesn’t do his daily rituals, his patients will die. We follow Magnus through the habitual voicemail messages he leaves for his ex-girlfriend Julia, but with each day she doesn’t answer, his rituals are further interrupted. The mindfulness podcast he listens to, in a desperate attempt to change, isn’t helping and might in fact be making things much worse. Cast Magnus - Alistair Petrie Julia - Ella Bruccoleri Mindfulness Narrator - Caroline Faber Old Lady - Tamar Baruch Voicemail/Lift - Stevie Ward Doctor - Annabel Miller Man - John Newton Kevin - Henry Newton Crew Production Company - Clarence Beeks Co-Creator/Writer - Samantha Newton Co-Creator/Director - Rachel Zisser Executive Producer - Sara Johnson Executive Producer - Daniel M Jackson Producer - Hannah Charman, Sister Music Casting Director - Sophie Kingston-Smith Casting Assistant - Lainey Lipson Composer - Na’ama Zisser Vocalists - Tomer Damsky, Aya Gavriel, Ron Sheskin, Quantum Choir Sound engineer - Laura Blake Sound engineer - Charlie Braham Sound engineer - Gareth Wood Sound Recording - The Sound Company Vocalist Recording - Marco Milevski, Mazkeka Studio Sound Design - King Lear Music & Sound Lead Sound Designer - Dugal Macdiarmid Asst Sound Designer - Ned Sisson Asst Sound Designer - Lauren Cooper

Alfie (George Robinson) and Lily (Izuka Hoyle) are in the first flush of love, when Alfie - who is prone to hypochondria - develops a cough. His worries about the cancer that killed his father, Lily’s exes and the malevolent fortune cookie at his birthday meal, result in a lump in his throat. Lily’s efforts - and her hair – seem to be as much a part of the problem as the solution as they both soon discover. Cast Alfie - George Robinson Lily - Izuka Hoyle Mindfulness Narrator - Caroline Faber Radiographer - Daniel M Jackson Waiter - Avril Poole Singing diner - Dugal Macdiarmid Documentary narrator - Annabel Miller Kevin - Henry Newton Crew Production Company - Clarence Beeks Co-Creator/Writer - Samantha Newton Co-Creator/Director - Rachel Zisser Executive Producer - Sara Johnson Executive Producer - Daniel M Jackson Producer - Hannah Charman, Sister Music Casting Director - Sophie Kingston-Smith Casting Assistant - Lainey Lipson Composer - Na’ama Zisser Vocalists - Tomer Damsky, Aya Gavriel, Ron Sheskin, Quantum Choir Sound engineer - Laura Blake Sound engineer - Charlie Braham Sound engineer - Gareth Wood Sound Recording - The Sound Company Vocalist Recording - Marco Milevski, Mazkeka Studio Sound Design - King Lear Music & Sound Lead Sound Designer - Dugal Macdiarmid Asst Sound Designer - Ned Sisson Asst Sound Designer - Lauren Cooper