Behind The White Chip: a conversation on using the arts as a tool for change

📍 Club Soda Tasting Room & Bar, London
🗓️ Wednesday 25 June, 7pm–9pm
🎟️ Tickets £15 – includes an Everleaf Spritz (worth £9)

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What happens after the curtain comes down and the recovery journey begins?

Join us for a special conversation as we go behind the scenes of the hit Off-Broadway - and soon to be Off-West End - play The White Chip - a fast-paced, funny, and moving exploration of addiction, ambition, and recovery.

This exclusive event brings together a panel of actors, creatives, and lived experience voices to discuss how stories about sobriety are told on stage - and how art can open up new ways of thinking about alcohol, mental health, and personal change.

Whether you're sober, sober-curious, or simply interested in how theatre reflects real life, this is a space for open, honest, and inspiring conversation, with a delicious alcohol-free drink in hand.

🧠 What to expect:

• A relaxed panel discussion with the team behind The White Chip

• Insight into the play’s powerful recovery themes

• Free Everleaf Spritz (worth £9) on entry

• Time to connect with others in the mindful drinking and sober-curious community

• A welcoming atmosphere 

About the play:
The White Chip is a critically acclaimed comedy about a man hitting rock bottom—and finding his way back through sobriety. Written by Sean Daniels and recently staged in New York, it's raw, funny, and full of hope.

Now the team behind the show is bringing the conversation to London, in partnership with Club Soda.

💬 “What does rock bottom look like? And what might come after it?”
Come find out.

Click here to find out more about the play and to book tickets

Meet the Panel 

Sean Daniels – Playwright & Recovery Advocate

• Writer of The White Chip, his semi-autobiographical comedy about addiction and sobriety. The play premiered Off‑Broadway in 2019 and returned for an Off‑Broadway run at The Susan & Ronald Frankel Theater in January 2024
  
  

• Founder of the Recovery Arts Project & Anti‑Stigma Director at Live Tampa Bay, using theatre to reshape public conversation around addiction

Danielle Tarento – Producer & Casting Director

• Co‑producer of the UK premiere of The White Chip at Southwark Playhouse.
  
  

• Award‑winning Off‑West End producer: won Best Producer at the 2012 Off‑West End Awards, nominated for Producer of the Year (2015 Stage Awards), and listed as a top‑ten musical theatre producer in 2016 by The Stage.
  
  

• Co‑founder of the Menier Chocolate Factory; produced acclaimed shows like Titanic The Musical, Preludes, Grey Gardens, Company, Ragtime, and Dogfight.
  
  

Ed Coleman – Lead Actor

• Portrays the lead, Steven
  
  

• Recent screen credits include I Am Hannah (Channel 4) and The Ballad of Renegade Nell (Disney)..
  
  

Theatre work spans Leave a Message (Vaults Festival & Edinburgh Fringe), Steptoe & Son – Lost Sitcoms (BBC), and films such as Pride and 28 Weeks Later.