This is Rory's RSC debut

Screen includes: Outlander, Blood of My Blood, Pistol, Then You Run, Alex Rider, Anxious People

Film includes: Untamed (directed by Jordan Chadwick), Man in Inland (longlisted for a BIFA for Best Breakthrough Performance), Dark Windows, DarkGame.

This is Troy's RSC debut

Theatre includes: Passion Fruit (Barbican); Slave Play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (West End); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (York Theatre Royal); The Visit (National Theatre); One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (English Theatre Frankfurt).

Television includes: Down Cemetery Road (Apple TV); Extraordinary season 1 (Disney+); Feel Good season 2 (Netflix); Not Going Out (BBC).

Film includes: The Lair (directed by Neil Marshall)

Previous RSC includes: Hamnet, Julius Caesar, Kingdom Come, Richard III – An Arab Tragedy.

Theatre includes: Cymbeline, The Taming of the Shrew, Princess Essex (Shakespeare’s Globe); Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (Complicite); Britannicus (Lyric Hammersmith); Living Newspaper (Royal Court); The Mysteries (Royal Exchange Manchester); Party Skills for the End of the World (Manchester International Festival); Margate/Dreamland, Get Stuff Break Free, The Eye Test (National Theatre); Attack of the Wolfdogs, The Show In Which Hopefully Nothing Happens, Baddies the Musical (Unicorn); The Body, A Mirror for Princes (Barbican); Cyrano de Bergerac (Northern Stage); Kidstown, The Passion, Praxis Makes Perfect, Shelflife (National Theatre Wales/Berlin Festspiele); There Has Possibly Been An Incident (Soho); A Speaker’s Progress (Peter Brook’s Bouffes du Nord Paris/Brooklyn Academy of Music); Pericles (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre). Nigel is an Associate at SHUNT.

Film and Television includes: One Hundred and Eighty (Dark Avenue Film Ltd); Doctors, Casualty, The Mysteries, Coast, The Lens  (BBC); Dream Agency (Forest Fringe/Arthaus); Cycles (Toynbee Films); The Gospel of Us (Welsh Film Council); Hairy Eyeball (Channel 4); England My England (Film 4); Robin Hood (Squint Opera); Better Than Life (Telecaster).

Awards include: Stage Award, Best Actor (Pops); Samuel Beckett Theatre Award (The Body).

This is Saffron's RSC debut

Theatre inlcudes: Inertia (Kings Playground); Blacklist – R&D (Mercury); Ain’t i a woman? (Tower); Top Girls (Liverpool Everyman). While training: Consensual, Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Laramie Project, Antigone, Boy Gets Girl (ALRA)

Television includes: Call The Midwife

Short films include: The Angry Man and the Washing Machine, Flying Monkey, Lungs, Estate

Commercials include: Un-Safe Spaces Now (Missing Link Films); Bloom & Wild (Academy Films); Aldi – Teatime Takedown (McCann London); EE – Best Seats in the House (Saatchi & Saatchi); Bose: Live Loud, Love Quiet (Pretty Bird); BT Infinity and Beyond (AMVBBDO)

Trained at: ALRA

This is Victoria's RSC debut

Theatre includes: This Is My Family (Southwark Playhouse); Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare’s Globe); The Lost Disc (Soho); Hedda Gabler, Get Carter, Season Ticket, Oh! What a Lovely War, Pub Quiz, The Wind in the Willows (Northern Stage); Cat On a Hot Tin Roof, Two (Manchester Theatre Awards Best Actress nomination), As You Like It (Manchester Royal Exchange); I Can’t Sing! (Palladium); Cooking With Elvis (Hull Truck); Tyne, 13.1, Jump, Me and Cilla, A Nightingale Sang, Rhino and the Drum (Live Theatre Newcastle)

Television includes: Vera, Ted Lasso, Rain Dogs, The Bay, Vic and Bob’s Big Night Out, Boy Meets Girl, The Kennedys, Hebburn, Truckers, The Ministry of Curious Stuff, Holby City and Steel River Blues

Film includes: Ammonite

This is Heather's RSC debut.

Theatre includes: The Book Of Dust: La Belle Sauvage (The Bridge Theatre, directed by Nicholas Hytner); We Could All Be Perfect (Sheffield Crucible); Run, Rebel (Pilot Theatre)

Television includes: DI Ray as a series regular in season 2, Grace (ITV); Call the Midwife, Casualty, Doctors (BBC); Isle Of Sh*te (upcoming, Channel 4)

Film includes: The Colour Room

Trained at: Royal Central School of Speech and Drama

This is Thalia's RSC debut

Credits include: Punk Rock (Theatre Royal Stratford East); Blue Corridor 15 (BBC Creating a Scene)

Trained at: Rose Bruford College

This is Ava's RSC debut.

Television includes: Ben Wheatley’s television series, Generation Z (Channel 4); Silent Witness (BBC); Believe Me (ITV)

Trained at: LAMDA

This is Nicki's RSC debut.

Theatre includes: By Forced Entertainment: Out of Order, And on the Thousandth Night, Complete Works: Table Top Shakespeare (International Tour); 12am: Awake and Looking Down (Festival d’Automne, Paris); Under Bright Light (PACT, Essen); Speak Bitterness (MCA Chicago); The Last Adventures (Asia Culture Centre, South Korea).

Other Productions include: Heartbreaking Final (Wiener Festwochen, Vienna); Trainers: or The Brutal Unpleasant Atmosphere of this Most Disagreeable Season (Gate); No Planet B (Jacksons Lane).

Previous RSC includes: The Winter's Tale, Pericles, Troy Story, Swingin' the Dream

Theatre includes: Coriolanus (National Theatre); The Other Boleyn Girl (Chichester); Ocean at the End of the Lane (West End/national tour); All My Sons (Manchester Royal Exchange/UK tour); Wild East (Young Vic); The Sweet Science of Bruising (Southwark Playhouse).

Screen includes: A Million Days, The Letter for The King (Netflix); The Great (Hulu); McMafia, Thirteen, Delicious, London Has Fallen, The Honorable Woman, Lewis, Doctor Who.   

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Trained: LAMDA

Previous RSC includes:The Tempest, Roberto Zucco and Measure for Measure

Theatre includes: Coven (Kiln); London Tide, Paradise, Jellyfish, Macbeth, My Country, Another World, An Oak Tree, Everyman, Edward II, Table, Timon of Athens (National Theatre); The Ocean at the End of the Lane (National Theatre/West End); Pygmalion, The Lorax, Cinderella (The Old Vic); Medea (Soho Place); A Christmas Carol (Rose, Kingston); Cleft (Rough Magic/Galway Festival); Bright Phoenix (Liverpool Everyman); Beryl (West Yorkshire Playhouse); 66 Books (Bush); Lidless (West End/Hightide); Draw Me Close, Vernon God Little and the Art of Random Whistling (Young Vic); The Bacchae, Mary Barton, Electra and Mayhem (Manchester Royal Exchange); Dancing at Lughnasa (Birmingham Rep); Romeo and Juliet, The Antipodes, Hamlet (Shakespeare's Globe); Comfort Me With Apples (Hampstead); Assassins (Sheffield Crucible),;Seasons Greetings, Popcorn (Liverpool Playhouse); The Laramie Project (West End); A Passage to India, The Magic Toyshop, Jane Eyre (Shared Experience); Maid Marian and her Merry Men (Bristol Old Vic)

Television includes: Supacell, Father Brown, Belgravia, My Country, Grantchester, Dark Angel, EastEnders, Prisoners' Wives, Call the Midwife, Land Girls, Sirens, South Riding, Silent Witness, Poppy Shakespeare, Bad Mother’s Handbook, Waterloo Road, No Angels, Murphy’s Law, Fat Friends, Outlaws, M.I.T, Casualty

Films include: Broken, The Libertine

This is Matilda's RSC debut

Theatre includes: BROS (King’s Head); A Very Expensive Poison (Chapter, Cardiff); Dissonance (Young Vic); DNA-I (Criterion)

Trained at: Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.

This is Bert's RSC debut.

Theatre includes: Caesar in Antony and Cleopatra, and Justice Shallow/Fenton in The Merry Wives of Windsor (Shakespeare’s Globe).

Screen includes: Most recently, Bert has had roles in Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes (Disney+); Say Nothing (FX); and Masters of the Air (Apple TV). He will be seen in French feature, Les Parfaits (directed by Ludovic Bernard) and will soon start work on The Bitter End (directed by Mike Newell).

Trained at: LAMDA.