Cast and Creatives

Nancy Carroll_2025_c_ the artist_379600
Gertrude Nancy Carroll

RSC includes: Twelfth Night, As You Like It, Henry IV parts 1 and 2, The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe, Winter’s Tale 

Theatre includes: The Cabinet Minister (Menier Chocolate Factory), Marjorie Prime (Menier Chocolate Factory), Rock n Roll (Hampstead Theatre), Betrayal (Theatre Royal Bath), Manor, The Magistrate, After The Dance, The Enchantment, Man of Mode, The Voysey Inheritance, The False Servant, The Talking Cure (National Theatre), The Moderate Soprano (Hampstead and Duke of Yorks), Closer, The Recruiting Officer (Donmar Warehouse), House of Games, Waste, King Lear (Almeida), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Sheffield Crucible), You Never Can Tell (Garrick), See How They Run (Duchess), The Duck House (Vaudeville), Still Life/Astonished Heart (Liverpool Playhouse).  

Television includes: Dalgleish, Ghosts of Beirut, Father Brown, The Crown, Murder in Provence, Stephen, Will, Suspicions of Mr. Whicher, Lewis, Silent Witness, Agatha Raison, Queens of Mystery, Call the Midwife, Cambridge Spies 

Film includes: Magic Mike -The Last Dance, The Gathering Storm, Iris, An Ideal Husband 

 

Actor Jared Harris wears a grey blue suit and white shirt
Claudius Jared Harris

RSC includes: Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, A Clockwork Orange, & The Silent Woman 

Theatre Includes: The Homecoming (The Young Vic), A Period Of Adjustment (Almeida), Hamlet (NJ Shakespeare Festival), Humble Boy (Theatre for A New Audience, NYC), More Lies About Jerzy (The Vineyard, NYC), Ecstasy (The New Group, NYC),  King Lear, Tis Pity She’s a Whore, Henry IV Parts 1 & 2 (NY Shakespeare Festival)

Television includes:  Chernobyl (HBO), The Terror (AMC), The Crown (Netflix), Mad Men (AMC), & The Two Of US (VH1)

Film includes: Reawakening, Lincoln, Brave The Dark, Sherlock Holmes A Game of Shadows, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Happiness, & I Shot Andy Warhol. Animation: The Sea Beast, The Boxtrolls

 

 

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Ghost / First Player Anton Lesser

RSC includes: The Winter’s Tale, Cymbeline, The Taming of the Shrew, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Two Shakespearean Actors, Richard II, Some Americans Abroad, Richard III 

Theatre includes: The Pope (Theatre Royal and Derngate), A Doll’s House (Donmar Warehouse), The Vertical Hour (Royal Court Theatre), Julius Caesar (Barbican/tour), Lucky Ones (Hampstead Theatre), Private Lives, Mutabilitie, Wild OatsThe Birthday Party (National Theatre), Art (Wyndham’s Theatre) 

Television includes: Andor (Disney+), 1899 (Netflix), The Trial of Christine Keeler (Ecosse Films), Endeavour (Mammoth Screen Ltd), Game of Thrones (HBO), The Crown (Left Bank / Netflix), Will (TNT), Hooten & The Lady (Red Planet / SKY), The Hollow Crown, The Hollow Crown: Henry V (Neal Street Productions), The Escape Artist (Endor Productions), Mad Dogs (Left Bank Pictures), Spies of Warsaw (Fresh Pictures Ltd), Secret State (Company Pictures), The Scapegoat (Island Pictures), The Man Who Crossed Hitler (Hardy Pictures), The Hour (Kudos), Primeval: Webisodes (ITV), The Politician’s Wife (Channel 4), Wolf HallThe GameThe MusketeersFather Brown, Atlantis, Dickensian, BetterRipper Street, Garrow’s Law, Five Daughters, Holby CityCasualty 1909Little DorritDickensInvasion EarthLorna DoonePerfect StrangersThe Scarlet Pimpernel, Vanity Fair (BBC) 

Film includes: The Yellow Tie, Benediction, Charlotte Gray, Imagining Argentina, Girl in the Café, Miss Potter, Einstein and Eddington, River Queen, The Kaiser’s Last Kiss, Flutter, On Chesil Beach, Closer To The Moon, Gatecrash, Kindred, The Courier, Disobedience 

Anton is an RSC Associate Artist. 
Elliot Levey_2024_c_ the artist_379598
Polonius Elliot Levey

RSC includes: The Comedy of Errors 

Theatre includes: Cold War, Nine Lessons and Carols, The Three Sisters (Almeida); Cabaret, Good, Mary Stuart, The Ruling Class, Much Ado About Nothing (West End); Snowflake (Kiln); St Joan, Coriolanus (Donmar); The Mighty Walzer (Royal Exchange); Kafka’s Dick (Theatre Royal Bath); Canvas (Chichester Festival Theatre); Danton’s Death, The Habit of Art, All’s Well That Ends Well, England People Very Nice, Henry IV Parts 1 & 2, His Dark Materials (National); Beasts and Beauties (Bristol Old Vic); How Much Is Your Iron, Monkey! (Young Vic); Loves Work (Gate); On Ego, On Religion (Soho); Take Flight (Menier Chocolate Factory); The Tempest (British Council Tour/A&BC); Three Sisters on Hope Street (Hampstead/Liverpool Everyman); Tonight We Fly (Trestle); The Warp (Ken Campbell Company). 

Television includes: Bookish, We were the lucky ones, Queenie, Anne, This Way Up, The Amazing Mr. Blunden, Endeavour, Life, Truth Seekers, Quiz, Martin’s Close, The State of the Union, Peaky Blinders, Press, Watergate, Black Earth Rising, Silent Witness, Man Down, The Child in Time, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Wrong Mans, Ripper Street, Jamaica Inn, New Tricks, Truckers, Da Vinci’s Demons, Parade’s End, A Touch of Cloth, Casualty, Amnesia, Beau Brummel, Eastenders, Fat Friends, Holby City, Hotel Babylon, Lump in my Throat, Robin Hood, Sex, the City and Me, Sirens, Jason and the Argonauts. 

Film includes: Murder on the Orient Express, Denial, Fallen, The Master of York, Florence Foster Jenkins, The Lady in the Van, Spooks, Philomena, The Wall, The Queen, Filth and Wisdom, Song of Songs, Supertex, Book of John. 

 Awards include: Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Cabaret). 

 

 

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Horatio Kel Matsena

RSC includes: Pericles

Theatre includes: Dear England (West End), Shades of Blue (Matsena Productions / Sadler’s Wells), Dear England (National Theatre), Joseph K and the Cost of Living (National Theatre Wales), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Director - Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama), A Monster Calls (Old Vic and US tour), The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby Part 1 & 2 (Bristol Old Vic/BOVTS) 

Television includes: Mixtape, Galwad, The Light, Brothers in Dance: Anthony and Kel Matsena, Doctors

Film includes: Mad Heidi, Are You Numb Yet? 

Radio includes: Galapagos, Fahrenheit 451 

Lewis Shepherd_2024_c_ the artist_379599
Laertes Lewis Shepherd

This is Lewis' RSC debut

Theatre includes: Dear England (National Theatre), I Fucked You In My Spaceship (Vaults Festival), Super High Resolution (Soho Theatre),

Film includes: 10 Swords and The Moon

Founder and Artistic Director of INCEPT COLLECTIVE

Trained at: Rose Bruford College

Luke Thallon with arms folded in front of him
Hamlet Luke Thallon

This is Luke's RSC debut

Theatre includes: Patriots (Almeida, West End & Broadway), Leopoldstadt, the Pinter at the Pinter season (West End), Present Laughter, Camp Siegfried (The Old Vic), Cold War, Nine Lessons and Carols, Albion (Almeida Theatre), After Life (National Theatre), Cock (Chichester Festival Theatre), The Inheritance (Young Vic)

Luke was listed by The Stage in 2022 as one of the top 25 theatre-makers of the future. He won the Clarence Derwent Award for his performance in Leopoldstadt in the West End. He was made an ambassador to The Old Vic in 2024.

Trained at: Guildhall School of Music and Drama

 

 

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Ophelia Nia Towle

This is Nia’s RSC debut

Theatre includes: A View From The Bridge (Theatre Royal Haymarket in a transfer from the Theatre Royal Bath), The Crucible (Gielgud Theatre), The Ocean At The End of the Lane (Duke of York's Theatre)

Film includes: Persuasion, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Late, Sparklers, They Found Her In A Field

Trained at: Guildhall School of Music & Drama

  • Royal Shakespeare Theatre

    Stratford-upon-Avon

    8 Feb - 29 Mar 2025 Book Tickets
  • Running time:

    To be confirmed

Next performance:

8 February, 7:00PM

Royal Shakespeare Theatre
Stratford-upon-Avon