Cast and Creatives

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Voltemand Rob Alexander-Adams

This is Rob’s RSC debut 

Theatre includes: Punch (Apollo Theatre), Mrs Warren’s Profession (Garrick Theatre),  A Mirror (Trafalgar Theatre), Brokeback Mountain (Soho Place), Stranger Things (Phoenix Theatre), The Caretaker, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Racing Demo, Noises Off (Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich),  Alice Adventures in Wonderland (Library Theatre, Manchester), The Sunset Ship (Young Vic), Keeper of the Flame (UK tour) 

Film and television includes: Deadweight, Aesthetik, Collision Course, Capture (NFTS),  Suspect (ITV), Burnt Flowers, Exit (Fausti Films), The Fifth Element (Zaltman Films), The Bill (Thames TV), The Chief (Anglia TV) 

Trained at: Rose Bruford 

 

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Polonius Richard Cant

RSC includes: Henry VI Rebellion/ Wars Of The Roses, Maydays, Hamlet, Cymbeline, Much Ado About Nothing

Theatre includes: The Importance of Being Earnest, The Normal Heart, Mr Gum And The Dancing Bear, War Horse (National Theatre), Twelfth Night (Regent’s Park), What It Means (The Lot at Wilton’s), The Vortex (Chichester), Chariots of Fire, Talent, Original Sin, The Country Wife (Sheffield), Orlando (West End), Pins & Needles, Handbagged/ Wife (Kiln), After Edward/ Edward The Second (Globe), Stella (LIFT), Medea (Almeida), The Trial (Young Vic), Saint Joan/My Night With Reg (Donmar Warehouse), Salome (Headlong), As You Like It, Troilus And Cressida (Cheek by Jowl), Other People (Royal Court)

Television includes: Shakespeare & Hathaway, It’s A Sin, The Crown, Silent Witness, Outlander, Taboo, Mapp & Lucia, Bleak House, Dr Who, Gunpowder, Treason & Plot, The Way We Live Now, Midsomer Murders, Gimme Gimme Gimme, Shackleton

Film includes: Stan & Ollie, Mary Queen Of Scots, My Policeman, The Lawless Heart, Sparkle, Take Care

Radio and Voice include: Bleak House (Amazon Audible), Road To Heaven, Spirit Rangers, Ehrengard, Assassin’s Creed

 

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Ensemble Kat Collings

This is Kat’s RSC debut 

Theatre includes:  A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Bridge Theatre), The Lion King (West End), Orphée (English National Opera)  

Film includes: The Rally (short) - Winner of Waves Film Festival 2024, Barbie, Snow White, Paddington in Peru, Birds of Paradise 

Movement includes: IT Dansa company - Barcelona, National Dance Company - Wales, Ate9 Dance company - Los Angeles, Peaky Blinders Festival - Rambert Dance Company.  

Kat has performed for fashion brands such as Burberry, Kenzo, Vivienne Westwood, Givenchy and for music artists Harvey Causon, Coldplay, Kae Tempest, Jax Jones and Ben Howard.  Kat has movement directed for music artists Imogen, Harvey Causon, Gabriel Gifford, Meelo and for Fraulein Magazine and WUL magazine. Kat movement directed alongside the stunt team for TV series Supacell (Netflix)  

Trained at: Tring Park School for the performing arts & Rambert School 

 

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Claudius Raymond Coulthard

RSC includes: Cyrano De Bergerac, Heresy of Love, Measure For Measure, The Merchant of Venice 1936 (and tour) 

Theatre includes: Summerfolk, Troilus And Cressida, The Merchant of Venice, The Coast Of Utopia, The Relapse, Women Beware Women (National Theatre), The King’s Speech (Chichester/Birmingham/National tour), Heartbreak House (Chichester), Half-life, Monsieur Popular (Ustinov Studio, Theatre Royal Bath), What’s In A Name (Birmingham Rep), Caligula (Donmar Warehouse), Black Comedy/Real Inspector Hound (West End), plus leading roles in Rep Theatres all over the country.  

Film includes:  The Muppets Christmas Carol, The English Patient, Red Joan, Eisenstein, The Best Man 

Television includes: Hotel Babylon, Emma, Extras, He Knew He Was Right, Emmerdale, Castles, Rhodes, Davinci’s Demons, Mr Selfridge, Shakespeare And Hathaway, Sister Boniface, Father Brown, Silent Witness, Foyles War, Casualty, The Infinite World of HG Wells, Gentleman Jack, Doctors, The Rook, The Royals, Call The Midwife, Agatha Christie A Life In Pictures, Casualty, Luv  

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Hamlet Ralph Davis

Previous RSC includes: Tamburlaine, Timon of Athens, Richard III, King John

Theatre includes: Much Ado About Nothing, The Tempest,King Lear (Globe), Othello (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse), A Streetcar Named Desire (Almeida Theatre), Blue/Orange (Ustinov Studio), Valued Friends (Rose Theatre Kingston), The Deep Blue Sea (Chichester Festival Theatre), The Open House (Ustinov Theatre/The Print Room)

Television includes: Film Club, SAS: Rogue Heroes, Life After Life, Small Axe, House of the Dragon, Big Boys

Trained at: RADA

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Marcellus Maximus Evans

RSC includes: Titus Andronicus  

Theatre includes:  Never Let Me Go (Rose Theatre/Bristol Old Vic)  

Television includes: VisionQuest (Marvel/Disney+), Coronation Street, The Bay (ITV), Creeped Out (BBC) 

Voice work includes: Harry Potter – Full-Cast Audio Editions (Audible/Pottermore) 

Trained at:   Guildhall School of Music and Drama 

 

 

 

 

 

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Ghost / Player King Ian Hughes

RSC includes: The Merry Wives of Windsor, Henry IV PI & II, Twelfth Night, The Theban Trilogy, Romeo & Juliet, Hamlet (Special commendation), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (World Tour), King Lear, The Venetian Twins, Elgar’s Rondo, The Comedy of Errors, The Rivals, The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe, The Winter’s Tale, Merry Wives: The Musical, Troilus & Cressida, The RSC : 50 Musical Years (concert) and The Opening of the New RSC Theatre Concert 

Theatre includes: Les Miserables (Sondheim Theatre, UK, International Tour & World Arena Tour), Strife (Chichester Festival Theatre), Guys & Dolls (Chichester Festival Theatre and The Savoy Theatre), Donkeys' Years (Rose Theatre Kingston), The Thirty-Nine Steps (Criterion Theatre), Eugenius (The Other Palace), Peter Pan (Kensington Gardens), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (RSC/City of London Sinfonia), Shakespeare in Love (Theatre Royal Bath), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Palladium), The Lion King (Lyceum Theatre), The Real Inspector Hound, Black Comedy (Donmar Warehouse Productions), The Robbers (The Gate), The Government Inspector (Clwyd Theatr), The Dramatic Exploits of Edmund Kean (London & Washington DC). Also regional theatre in Manchester, Cardiff, York, Harrogate, Coventry. Tours with The British Actors Theatre Company and The Wales Actors Company.   Winner of the 1st Royal National Theatre/Ian Charleson Award for Best Actor for the title role in Tarquarto Tasso at the Lyric Hammersmith. 

Television and film includes: Beyond Paradise, Miss Scarlet and the Duke, A Very Royal Scandal, The Diplomat, Masters of the Air, Seacole, Shakespeare & Hathaway, The Alienist, Ransom, White Gold, Dr Who, Eastenders, Stella, Doctors, Torchwood, Holby City, Casualty, Margaret, Robin Hood, Foyle’s War, Gavin and Stacy, MI High, Our Mutual Friends, Doom, The Road To Guantanamo, A Waste of Shame, Blackpool, State of Play, Swiss Tony, Death of a Salesman, Bright Young Things 

Radio includes: over 40 plays including Pandemic, Five Days in May, All Things Betray Thee, The Wrong Box, Fairest Isle (BBC Radio 4) 

Audio: 15 plays for The Archangel Complete Shakespeare and over 70 television documentary narrations 

Trained at: The National Youth Theatre of Wales, Birmingham University 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
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Player Queen CJ Johnson

This is CJ’s RSC debut 

Theatre includes: Small Island – revival, Small Island, The Light Princess (National Theatre), 101 Dalmatians (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), 42nd Street (Theatre Royal Drury Lane), Little Shop of Horrors (Royal Exchange), Beyond The Fence (Arts Theatre), Oliver! (UK Tour), Rent (Duke of York's Theatre), The Three Musketeers (Rose Theatre), Piaf (Donmar/ Vaudeville Theatre), The Woman in White (Palace Theatre), Lend Me A Tenor (Plymouth Theatre Royal), Chess (Oslo Spektrum Arena), The King and I (Ireland tour), Jesus Christ Superstar (English Speaking Theatre, Frankfurt), Sinatra With The Nelson Riddle Orchestra (London Palladium), Zipp! (Duchess Theatre) 

Workshops include: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Pinocchio (NT Studio), & Juliet, The Enormous Crocodile  

Film and television includes: Supacell 2, The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes (Netflix), Call The Midwife (BBC), The Players (Afrikar Ltd), Small Island (NT Live), Mousie (Award – Best Actress) (Kewhaven Pictures), Galavant (ABC), Beyond The Fence (Sky Arts (Kewhaven Pictures)

Training: Royal Academy of Music  

  

 

 

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Guildenstern Julia Kass

This is Julia’s RSC debut 

Theatre includes: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Palace Theatre), The Assembled Parties (Hampstead Theatre) 

Trained at: RADA 

 

 

 

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Gertrude Poppy Miller

RSC includes: Bartholomew Fair, The Two Gentlemen of Verona 

Theatre includes: The Hunt, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Almeida Theatre), Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (West End and Broadway), Richard III (Globe), Dmitry (Marylebone Theatre), Three Sisters, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Filter/Lyric Hammersmith), Twelfth Night (Filter/Kiln Theatre), Water (Filter/BAM), Macbeth (Filter/Tobacco Factory), Hamlet (Northampton Theatre Royal)  

Film includes: The Second Best Marigold Hotel, Sex and Drugs and Rock & Roll 

Television includes: Such Brave Girls, Death in Paradise, Tommy & Tuppence, Line of Duty, A Song for Jenny, Mapp and Lucia, Endeavour, The Gathering, Goldplated, Emma, House of Anubis, Red Cap, Buried, Torn, If I Had You, Attachments 

Trained at: The Webber Douglas Academy  

  

 

 

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Ophelia Georgia-Mae Myers

RSC includes: Henry VI: Rebellion & Wars of the Roses  

Theatre includes: Henry VIII, All’s Well That Ends Well, Titus Andronicus (Globe), The Da Vinci Code (Wiltshire Creative & Mercury Theatre), Frankenstein (Leeds Playhouse & ITD), Dismissed (Soho Theatre), Function – West End Gala (Duke of York Theatre) 

Short film includes: Breath of Another, Ruth 

Trained at: Royal Central School of Speech and Drama 

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Cornelius / Priest Mark Oosterveen

This is Mark’s RSC debut 

Theatre includes:  Cutting the Tightrope (Arcola and Edinburgh International Festival), The Last King of Scotland (Sheffield Crucible), I Need an Adult (Lyric Hammersmith), The Grift (Tarento Productions), Breaking the Code (Royal Exchange, Manchester), New Friend (Arcola), Bedroom Farce, Private Lives and The Late Edwina Black (Sheringham Little Theatre), Foreplay (King's Head), How to Begin (Soho Theatre), Above & Beyond (Look Left Look Right), Why Can't We Live Together? (Theatre 503), Love's Comedy, Mary Goes First (Orange Tree), When Chaplin Met Gandhi (Kingsley Hall), Not About Heroes (Lion & Unicorn), Personal Enemy (59E59, New York City), Pythonesque (Underbelly, Edinburgh), Muhmah (HighTide Festival) 

Screen work includes: Hedda, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (Amazon Prime Video), The Girlfriend Experience, Benediction (Netflix), Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes (Disney+), Silent Witness, BAFTA-winning improvised episode of Casualty, Doctors, EastEnders (BBC), Django (Sky), Unforgotten (ITV) 

Mark also works extensively in voice over, and is the associate writer/director of the award-winning documentary Grand Theft Hamlet (Mubi). 

 

 

 

 

 

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Barnardo Djibril Ramsey

This is Djibril’s RSC debut 

Theatre includes: Romeo and Juliet Tour (Orange Tree Theatre & GSC) 

Trained at: The Television Workshop, Open Door and Guildhall School of Music and Drama 

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Horatio Colin Ryan

RSC includes: Snow In Midsummer, Love's Sacrifice, The Jew of Malta, Volpone, Wendy and Peter Pan 

Theatre includes: Little Shop of Horrors (Sheffield Crucible), My Brilliant Friend (National Theatre), After Edward, Edward II, The Secret Theatre, Macbeth, The Lightning Child (Globe), Frankenstein (Royal Exchange Theatre), Shakespeare in Love (Disney/Sonia Friedman Productions), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Northampton Royal & Derngate), deadkidsongs (Theatre Royal Bath), The Importance of Being Earnest (Riverside Studios), I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky (Theatre Royal Stratford East/Barbican) 

Television includes: Boundless (Amazon), Christmas Ghost Story: Lot No. 249, Casualty, Death in Paradise, Shakespeare and Hathaway, Doctor Who, Leonardo, Hounded, Shelfstackers (BBC) 

Video Game credits include: Hades II (Supergiant Games), Final Fantasy XIV (Square Enix), The Last Story (Nintendo) 

 

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Ensemble Jonathan Savage

This is Jonathan’s RSC debut 

Theatre includes: Lord of The Flies (Chichester Festival Theatre), London Road (National Theatre), The Deep (Eastern Angles), The Hunt (Almeida at St Ann’s Warehouse, New York), The Burnt City (Punchdrunk), Jingle Horse (Winter Guests at the Norwegian Opera House), While You are Here (The Place), Alternativity (Hope Theatre & The Bread & Roses), For a Black Girl (The Curve Slough), The Glove Thief (The Bunker), The Angelic Aspiration (New Diorama), If We Shadows Have Offended and Kodak (Gothenburg Opera Dance Company) 

As a dancer, Jonathan performed in Cinderella and Alice (Scottish Ballet), and multiple productions for Gothenburg Opera Dance Company (2014–2017) and Rambert Dance Company (2011–2014) 

Trained at: Central School of Ballet and Drama Studio London 

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Rosencrantz Jamie Sayers

This is Jamie’s RSC debut 

Theatre credits whilst training include:   Blithe Spirit, Measure for Measure,  Romeo and Juliet 

Trained at: Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama 

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Francisco Leo Shak

This is Leo's RSC debut 

Theatre includes: Cinderella: A Fairytale (The Royal Lyceum Edinburgh) 

Theatre whilst training: A Monster Calls, Much Ado About Nothing (Guildford School of Acting) 

Trained at: Guildford School of Acting 

Leo is a multi-instrumentalist from Scotland and he is also on the Board of Trustees for the theatre company Wonder Fools. 

 

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Laertes Benjamin Westerby

RSC includes: All’s Well That Ends Well, Henry VI: Rebellion, Wars of the Roses

Theatre includes: Mrs Warren’s Profession, Witness for the Prosecution (West End), Chariots of Fire (Sheffield Crucible), Charley’s Aunt (Watermill Theatre), Tom, Dick and Harry (New Vic), Macbeth (UK Tour)

Screen includes: All’s Well That Ends Well (Sky Arts), Wake

Radio includes: Calmer (BBC), A Place Called Us

Trained at: Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA)

 

 

 

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