Measure for Measure Cast and Creatives Close 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 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 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 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 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 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 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! 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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 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. 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 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 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 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. 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 Previous Next Cast Mariana / Francisca Emily Benjamin Isabella Isis Hainsworth Friar Peter Valentine Hanson Claudio Oli Higginson Juliet / Angelo's Assistant Miya James Duke Vincentio Adam James Provost Natasha Jayetileke Camera Operator Kaffe Keating Lucio Douggie McMeekin Angelo Tom Mothersdale Escalus Sion Pritchard Camera Operator Katie Singh Barnardine John Vernon Creatives Director Emily Burns Set & Costume Designer Frankie Bradshaw Lighting Designer Joshua Pharo Composer Asaf Zohar Sound Designer Christopher Shutt Movement and Intimacy Director James Cousins Video Designer Zakk Hein Casting Director Charlotte Sutton CDG Voice & Text Jeannette Nelson Assistant Director Bellaray Bertrand-Webb Royal Shakespeare Theatre Stratford-upon-Avon 13 Sep - 25 Oct 2025 Book Tickets Running time: To be confirmed About the play Cast and Creatives The Plot Related events Learning More Less About the play Cast and Creatives The Plot Related events Learning In This Section About the play Shakespeare's razor-sharp thriller of hypocrisy and corruption. 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