Cast and Creatives

Emily Benjamin_c_ the artist_382002
Mariana / Francisca Emily Benjamin

Previous RSC includes: Twelfth Night 

Theatre includes: A Knight’s Tale (Manchester Opera House), Bronco Billy (Charing Cross Theatre), Cabaret (West End), Bat Out of Hell (West End/Manchester Opera House/London Coliseum/Ed Mirvish Theatre Toronto), The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe (The Bridge Theatre), Zog:Live! (UK Tour) 

Other credits include: Lift Off! (Concert), Home, Miss Wales (Workshop) 

Trained at: Performance Preparation Academy

 

 

 

 
Isis Hainsworth_2025_c_ the artist_402284
Isabella Isis Hainsworth

This is Isis’s RSC debut

Theatre includes: The Outrun (Edinburgh International Festival/Royal Lyceum Theatre), The House of Bernarda Alba (National Theatre), Romeo & Juliet (Almeida), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Bridge Theatre), Moonlight/Nightschool (Harold Pinter Theatre), Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour (National Theatre Scotland), What Now? (Strange Town at the Traverse) 

Television includes: Red Rose, Les Miserables, The Victim, Harlots, Wanderlust, One of Us, In Plain Sight

Film includes: Catherine Called Birdy, Metal Lords, Emma, Misbehaviour

Valentine Hanson_2025_c_ the artist_402281
Friar Peter Valentine Hanson

This is Valentine’s RSC debut 

Theatre includes: The Seagull (Barbican), The Lehman Trilogy (Gillian Lynne Theatre), The Grapes of Wrath, The Effect (National Theatre Lyttleton Stage), The Importance of Being Earnest (English Touring Theatre at Rose Theatre Kingston/Leeds Playhouse/ National Tour), Orpheus Descending (Theatr Clwyd/Menier Chocolate Factory), Still Lives (The Old Waiting Room, Peckham Station), We Anchor in Hope (Bunker Theatre), Handfast (Summerhall, Edinburgh Festival), The Sisterhood (Belgrade Theatre, Coventry), Hector (Eden Court/Ambassadors Theatre), Cuming and Going (Bush Theatre), StopSearch (Catford Broadway Studio), Footprints in the Sand/Letting Go/For One Night Only (Pursued by a Bear), Word Peace: A Celebration (Globe), Festen, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (Lyric Theatre), The Tempest (Orange Tree Theatre), G.I. Blues (Forest Forge Theatre Company), After the End of the World (Red Ladder, National Tour), Positive Mental Attitude (Theatre Centre, National Tour), The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn (Classic Theatre, National Tour) 

Television includes: The Friday Night Project, Murder City, Casualty

Film includes: Scartown, London Voodoo

 

 

Oli Higginson_2025_Photo by Phil Sharp_402344
Claudio Oli Higginson

This is Oli’s RSC debut 

Theatre includes: Othello (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse), After Sex, Napoleon Blown Apart (Arcola Theatre), The Last Five Years, Smoke (Southwark Playhouse), Lava (Soho Theatre), A Christmas Carol (Old Vic), The Haystack (Hampstead Theatre), Maggie & Ted, The Last Five Years (Garrick Theatre), Julius Caesar (Sam Wanamaker Festival, Globe), The Assassination of Marcus Garvey (Theatre503) 

Television includes: Bridgerton, Cursed, This England, The Pursuit of Love, Julia, The Chelsea Detective Season 2 

Radio includes: If We Are Moses, Doctor Who - Early Adventures After The Daleks 

Trained at: Guildhall School of Music and Drama

Miya James_2025_c_ the artist_402286
Juliet / Angelo's Assistant Miya James

This is Miya’s RSC debut 

Theatre includes: London Tide (National Theatre), The Crucible (Gielgud/NT Productions), The 47th (Old Vic) 

Television includes: Midsomer Murders 

Trained at: LAMDA 

Adam James _2025_Photo by George Fox_402342
Duke Vincentio Adam James

This is Adam’s RSC debut

Theatre includes: Consent (National Theatre/Harold Pinter Theatre), King Charles III (Almeida/Wyndham’s Theatre/Broadway), Girl From The North Country (Noel Coward Theatre), Shipwreck (Almeida Theatre), The Happy Tragedy of Being Woke (Complicité), Bull (Young Vic/Sheffield Crucible/Off Broadway 59E59 New York), My Child, Now or Later (Royal Court), 13, Blood and Gifts, Gethsemene (National Theatre), The Pride (Off-Broadway – Lucille Lortel Theater, New York), The Memory of Water, Tiger Country, Rapture, Blister, Burn (Hampstead Theatre), Much Ado About Nothing (Wyndham’s Theatre), King Lear, Time and The Conways, Poor Superman, Snake in Fridge (Royal Exchange Theatre), An Enemy of the People, Glass Menagerie, Chimes at Midnight (Chichester Festival Theatre/Minerva Theatre), Rabbit (Old Red Lion/Trafalgar Studios/Off Broadway 59E59 New York), Original Sin (Sheffield Crucible)

Television includes: Murder Before Evensong, Dalgliesh (Acorn TV/Channel 5), Young Sherlock (Amazon Prime), The Buccaneers (Apple TV+), The Day of the Jackal (Sky), Mr Bates vs The Post Office, The Long Shadow, Belgravia: The Next Chapter, Hotel Portofino, The Suspect, Belgravia, Sleep With Me, Secret Diary of a Call Girl, Grantchester, Lewis, A Touch of Frost, Foyles War, The Commander, Trust, Sharpe’s Regiment (ITV1/ITVX), The Couple Next Door, Coalition, Drifters, As If, Cold Lazarus (Channel 4), Treason, YOU (Netflix) Vigil, I May Destroy You, Doctor Foster, Life, King Charles III, Extras Christmas Special, Hustle, Ashes To Ashes, The Game, The Crimson Field, Miranda, Catherine Tate’s Nan Special, Doctor Who Easter Special, Jonathan Creek Christmas Special (BBC) Deep State II (Disney), Family Tree, Band of Brothers (HBO/BBC), The Assets, Life of the Party (ABC), Law & Order (NBC), The Lost Battalion (Fox TV), Murder On The Orient Express (CBS)

Film includes: Wicked: For Good, Wicked, We Live In Time, The Penitent, Johnny English III, A Little Chaos, Last Chance Harvey, Road To Guantanamo

Natasha Jayetileke _2023_c_ the artist_365446
Provost Natasha Jayetileke

Previous RSC includes: The Buddha of Suburbia

Theatre includes: Pandemonium (Soho Theatre), The Secretaries (Young Vic), NW Trilogy (Kiln Theatre), Romantics Anonymous (Globe), Bend it Like Beckham (Phoenix Theatre), Eurobeat (Novello Theatre), Nitin Sawhney's Mahabharata (Sadler's Wells), Wah! Wah! Girls (Kneehigh/Sadler's Wells), The Lion King (Lyceum Theatre), Takeaway (Theatre Royal Stratford East), Britain's Got Bhangra (National Tour), The Snow Queen (Nuffield, Southampton), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (New London Theatre) 

Television includes: The Cage, Feel Good, The Kemps - All True, Deceit; Bumps, Silent Witness, Years and Years, Doctors, Eastenders, The Most Beautiful Hands of Delhi, The Royals, Hollyoaks and Hustle 

Film includes: A Private War  

Radio includes: Poetry Please 

Trained: University of Cambridge and Laine Theatre Arts 

Kaffe Keating_2025_c_ the artist_402343
Camera Operator Kaffe Keating

This is Kaffe’s RSC debut 

Theatre includes:  Julius Caesar, Macbeth (The Factory), Compositor E (Omnibus Theatre), Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night (Actors From the London Stage), Henry IV (Willow Globe/Old Red Lion Theatre), Girlband (Matchstick), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (West End/World Tour, National Theatre), The Secret Seven (Storyhouse, Chester), POSH (Nottingham Playhouse/Salisbury Playhouse), Johnny Got His Gun (Metal Rabbit Productions), 4 Hours and 37 Minutes (Stiching The English Theatre, The Hague), Our Days of Rage (National Youth Theatre/Old Vic Tunnels), Prince of Denmark (National Theatre, Cottesloe)

Television includes: Gangs of London

Short films include: The Alter, Nation Down 

Video games include: Spellforce III, Squadron 42 

Trained: Guildhall School of Music and Drama.  

Douggie McMeekin_2025_c_ the artist_402282
Lucio Douggie McMeekin

Previous RSC includes: Wendy & Peter Pan 

Theatre includes: South Pacific (Sadlers Wells), The Breach (Hampstead Theatre), Anna Karenina (Sheffield Crucible), Bach & Sons (Bridge Theatre), Dirty Crusty (The Yard Theatre), The Night Before Christmas (Southwark Playhouse), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Young Vic)

Television includes: Too Much, The Decameron, Ragdoll, The Beast Much Die, Harlots, Traitors, Chernobyl, The Crown, Midsomer Murders, Gert Lush. 

Film includes: Steve, Worry Time, Joy, Catherine Called Birdy, The Hustle, The Call Up

Trained: LAMDA

Tom Mothersdale_2025_c_ the artist_402346
Angelo Tom Mothersdale

This is Tom’s RSC debut 

Theatre includes: London Tide, John, Cleansed (National Theatre), Love and Other Acts of Violence (Donmar Warehouse), Blue Water, Cold and Fresh, A Thousand Stars Explode in The Sky (Lyric Hammersmith), The Cherry Orchard (Young Vic), Richard III, Boys, The Glass Menagerie (Headlong), Glass, Kill, Bluebeard, Imp, The Woods (Royal Court), Dealing with Clair (Orange Tree Theatre), Oil (Almeida Theatre) 

Television includes: Brian & Maggie, Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light, Bodies, Culprits, Alex Rider, War of the Worlds, Van der Valk, Treadstone, A Discover of Witches, Hanna, Electric Dreams - The Hood Maker, King Charles III 

Film includes: Overlord, Black Noise 

Trained: Rose Bruford Drama School 

 

 

 

 

Sion Pritchard_2025_c_ the artist_402345
Escalus Sion Pritchard

This is Sion’s RSC debut

Theatre includes: Odyssey '84, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Sherman Theatre), Petula (NTW/Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru/August012), Draenen Ddu, Lleu Llaw Gyffes (Theatr BaraCaws), A Night in the Clink (Papertrail), Tracking (Sherman Theatre / Theatre 503), Belonging (Re:Live), Last Christmas (Dirty Protest at Edinburgh Fringe, Soho Theatre and The Traverse), Crazy Gary’s Mobile Disco (Waking Exploits), Silly Kings (NTW), Hollti, Y Storm/The Tempest, Bobi A Sami (Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru), Muscle (Hull Truck Theatre/Bristol Old Vic), Blink (FAB Theatre/Brits Off Broadway Festival/59E59 Theatres, New York), Porth Y Byddar (Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru/Clwyd Theatr Cymru), Fuddy Meers (Scamp/Arts Theatre), Y Byd A’i Brawd, Indian Country (Sgript Cymru), Copenhagen, Much Ado About Nothing, Cyrano de Bergerac, Hamlet, Rape of the Fair Country, Glengarry Glen Ross, Bruised, As You Like It, Taking Steps, Roots, The Taming of the Shrew, A Small Family Business, A History of Falling Things, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Way It Was, The Druid’s Rest, Hobson’s Choice (Theatr Clwyd)

Television includes: Mudtown, Doctor Who, Mammoth, Hidden, Tourist Trap, The Indian Doctor, Doctors, Casualty, Phoneshop. Welsh language television credits include: Ar Y Ffin, Rybish, Craith, Bang, Pili Pala, Byw Celwydd, Tir, Dim Ond Y Gwir, Pen Talar, Caerdydd, Ar Y Tracs, Cowbois Ac Injans, Talcen Caled, Treflan, Pen Tennyn

Radio includes: Bravo Two Charlies, Dog In A Manger, Bad Ark, Losing Paradise, Curious Under The Stars, Tracks, Indigo, Ten Days That Shook The World, Perimeter, The Coming Tide, Everyone’s Got A Story, Richard II, Borderland, Now, Where Were We?, Colli Awen, Crosei Bob Dim, Perthyn, Arden of Faversham, Mabinogi, Three Sisters

Katie Singh_2025_c_ the artist_402381
Camera Operator Katie Singh

This is Katie's RSC debut

Theatre includes: Biting Point (Middle Child), Ballet Shoes, National Theatre Up Next Gala (National Theatre), Moulin Rouge! (Piccadilly Theatre), A Soldier’s Girl (Cockpit Theatre), Aladdin (Prince Edward), West Side Story (UK Tour)

Film and television includes: What’s Love Got to Do with it?, Bridgerton, Beauty and the Beast.

Trained: Laine Theatre Arts and Elmhurst Ballet School.

John Vernon_2025_c_ the artist_402285
Barnardine John Vernon

This is John's RSC debut

Theatre includes: The Importance of Being Earnest, Coriolanus, London Tide, Dear Octopus, The Red Lion (National Theatre), Giant, Noises Off, Mad House, COCK, Uncle Vanya, Bitter Wheat, The Price, King Lear, The Birthday Party (West End), The Seagull (Barbican Centre), Eureka Day (Old Vic), North by Northwest, Pressure (Royal Alexandra, Toronto), A Room with a View (Tour), Hobson’s Choice (Theatre Royal Bath/West End), Pygmalion (Vienna’s English Theatre), In Broad Daylight (Tricycle), Ben & Joe’s (King’s Head), Macbeth (Pentameters, Hampstead), Hamlet (Rose, Chelsea), Tess of the d’Urbervilles (Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh), Orion and the Great Bear (Traverse, Edinburgh/The Warehouse, Croydon), QRs and AIs Clearly State (King's Head), Translations (George Wood Theatre)

Television includes: DI Ray, Call the Midwife, Doctors, Longford, The Knock, EastEnders, The Bill, Heartbeat, Medics, Harry Enfield Show, Poirot, Brief Encounter, The New Adventures of Robin Hood

Film includes: Russian Whispers, Ma part du Gâteau, Princess in Love, Warrior Angels

Trained: Coventry School of Drama
  • Royal Shakespeare Theatre

    Stratford-upon-Avon

    13 Sep - 25 Oct 2025 Book Tickets
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