Gloria
This public production is part of LAMDA’s 2026 Autumn Season II, and brings together our graduating MFA Professional Acting students and BA (Hons) Production and Technical Arts students, working alongside a professional creative team.
About the production
New York. A city that runs on ambition – and coffee.
In the offices of a notorious Manhattan magazine, ruthless editorial assistants vie for their bosses’ jobs and a book deal before they’re thirty. But bestselling memoir fodder is thin on the ground, and climbing the career ladder is hard when you’re trapped between Starbucks runs, jaded gossip and endless encircling cubicle walls…
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s Gloria is a razor-sharp comic drama about ambition, office warfare and hierarchies, where the only thing that matters is selling out to the highest bidder.
Adam’s JMK award winning production of Guards At The Taj won the Eastern Eye Best Director Award and was nominated for The Stage Debut Award in 2025. An alumni of the National Theatre and Donmar Warehouse Directing Residencies his directing credits include:
What Fatima Did (TARA), Before The Millenium (OFS), Guards At The Taj (Orange Tree/ JMK), Mantelpeace (Young Vic TP), Macbeth (LAMDA), Julius Caesar (RADA), Oliver Twist (Mountview), Pressure Drop (Immediate Theatre), Platform (East15), Second Person Narrative (Omnibus/ ALRA).
As Associate / Assistant:
The P-Word (Bush), Nancy Mcphee, R&D (Playful), Clyde’s (Donmar), When Winston Went To War With The Wireless (Donmar), Trouble In Butetown (Donmar), Sorry You’re not a Winner (Paines Plough)
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is a Brooklyn-based playwright, producer, Tony Award winner and two-time Pulitzer Prize for Drama finalist. Recent theatre credits include Appropriate (Winner! 2024 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play; Winner! 2014 Obie Award for Best New American Play, Signature Theatre), The Comeuppance (Signature Theatre), Girls (Yale Rep), Everybody (Signature Theatre), War (Yale Rep; Lincoln Center/LCT3), Gloria(Vineyard Theatre), An Octoroon (Winner! 2014 Obie Award for Best New American Play; Soho Rep, Theatre for a New Audience) and Neighbors (The Public Theater).
He currently teaches at Yale University and serves as Vice President of the Dramatists Guild council and on the boards of Soho Rep, Park Avenue Armory, the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and the Dramatists Guild Foundation. Honors include a USA Artists fellowship, a Guggenheim fellowship, the MacArthur fellowship, the Windham-Campbell Prize for Drama and the inaugural Tennessee Williams Award.
Onstage gun violence, blood effects, strong language throughout , references to overdose and drug use, suicide, trauma aftermath, sexual content, pregnancy, alcohol, discriminatory language, backstory of child abuse
No strobe or smoking cues in the text
Booking information
General sale will open soon. Once you have booked a ticket, you will receive an email confirmation. Read up on our latest audience guidelines.
Members of the industry: Secure your complimentary seat by emailing the Box Office on [email protected]
Pricing and concessions
Tickets cost £14, but we have £7 concessions tickets available to Hammersmith & Fulham residents, schools, students, or people who are over 65, under 18 or are on Job Seeker’s Allowance. You’ll just need to provide proof of your eligibility when you collect your tickets at the Box Office. We offer a complimentary ticket for carers, to book please call the box office on 020 8834 0500. If you belong to our Pathways Programme or work with any of our Pathways Partners you are entitled to complimentary tickets. Please contact the box office to book.
Booking your tickets
Book your tickets online or by calling our box office on 020 8834 0500.
Industry booking
If you’re a member of the industry, please email [email protected] to book your tickets.
Group tickets
We’re pleased to offer discounted tickets to groups of 10+ people. Standard tickets are discounted to £9 per person, while under 18’s tickets are discounted to £5 per person. To book, please contact [email protected]
E-Tickets
There is no need to collect tickets. You will be send an E-Ticket via email which you can present on arrival.
Refunds
Unfortunately, all tickets are non-refundable.
Getting to LAMDA
LAMDA is a two-minute walk from Barons Court Station or a ten-minute walk from either West Kensington or Hammersmith Station. Please note, our nearest station, Barons Court, is undergoing refurbishment works throughout 2026. Find out more.
Accessibility
The public areas of our building are fully accessible, with lift access to all floors and accessible toilet facilities available for each theatre. If you have any additional requirements you would like us to be aware of, please contact box office on 020 8834 0500.
