Cast and Creatives The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind Close Agnes Kamkwamba Madeline Appiah Previous RSC includes: The Winter’s Tale, Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice, The Taming of the Shrew Theatre includes: Cymbeline (Globe), Kerry Jackson, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Here We Go; Welcome to Thebes (National Theatre), Tina Turner The Musical (Aldwych), Hamlet (Harold Pinter Theatre), The Hotel Cerise (Theatre Royal Stratford), Iyalode of Eti (Utopia Theatre/Rich Mix/Arcola), In The Next Room or The Vibrator Play (St James Theatre), The Duchess of Malfi (Old Vic), Speechless (Shared Experience), Off the Endz (Royal Court), Mother Goose (Greenwich Theatre), It Felt Empty When the Heart Went at First… (Arcola/Clean Break), Arabian Nights (New Vic), Dionysis Unbound (Bridewell Theatre), 200 Years, Cinderella (Watford Palace), The Wedding Dance (Birmingham Rep/Tour), Restoration (Oxford Stage Company), I Have Before Me… (Calypso), Brezhnev’s Children (BAC), Ms Ross: The Lady and Her Music (Neptune Theatre) Television and film includes: Death in Paradise, Partners in Crime, Doctors, Gavin and Stacey, Eastenders, Holby City, Blood of My Blood, Black Mirror, Jungle, The Box, In the Long Run, Elephant, King for a Term, The Bill. Ensemble Lori Barker This is Lori’s RSC debut Theatre includes: The Harder They Come (Stratford East), Tina: The Musical (West End), Bodyguard (China tour), Ghost The Musical, Hairspray, Legally Blonde (UK tour), Juicy Bits, Play Mas (Orange Tree) Pantomimes include: Cinderella (Theatre Royal Nottingham), Jack & The Beanstalk (Hackney Empire) Television includes: Doctors, The Lenny Henry Birthday Show, Haven Holidays, Harvey’s ‘Sofas for You’ (TV commercial) Trained at: The Urdang Academy Annie Kamkwamba Tsemaye Bob-Egbe This is Tsemaye’s RSC debut Theatre includes: Play On! The Musial (UK Tour/Lyric Hammersmith), Six the Musical (West End), Tammy Faye workshop (Almeida Theatre), Tina Turner in Tina: The Tina Turner Musical (West End), An Evening of Tina (Tour), Pippin (Garden Theatre), Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (West End), The Vaudevillians (Les Enfants Terribles, Edinburgh Fringe), Tweedy’s Reduced Pantomime (Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham), The Winter’s Tale (RCSSD) Film/TV includes: Pretty Red Dress, The BBC One Show, ITV This Morning, Britain’s Got Talent Live Final Voice-over includes: Benjamin Bat, Second Extinction, Horizon Forbidden West Other: Several internal and external campaigns which include Great Western Railway, AMEX, Adidas, Asics, Maggi, Microsoft, Vodafone, and H&M. Trained at: Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (RCSSD) Mike Kachigunda / Blessings Owen Chaponda This is Owen’s RSC debut Theatre includes: The Lion King (West End), I’m Your Rope (Jermyn Street Theatre), Sunset Boulevard (The Curve), The Color Purple (The Curve/Birmingham Hippodrome), Back To The Future Musical (Manchester Opera House). Trained at: Bird College Chief Wimbe McCallam Connell This is McCallam’s RSC debut Theatre includes: Boubil & Schönberg’s Martin Guerre (The Old Vic), The Colour Purple (UK Tour), Playboy of the West Indies (Birmingham Rep), Small Island (National Theatre) Alongside his theatre work, McCallam is a platinum-accredited recording artist and songwriter whose collaborations include Grammy Award–winning writers, producers and artists, most notably Tina Turner. Jeremiah Kamkwamba / Patience Eddie Elliott This is Eddie’s RSC debut Theatre includes: Noughts & Crosses (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), A Strange Loop (Barbican), Blues For An Alabama Sky (National Theatre), The Lion King and Motown: The Musical (West End), Spamilton (Menier Chocolate Factory), We Will Rock You - Original UK tour, South Pacific (Barbican and UK tour), Assassins (Watermill and Nottingham Playhouse), Drive Ride Walk (Greenwich), Dry Cleaned (Intermission), Puss in Boots (Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds), The Music Man (Chichester), A Chorus Line, The Buddy Holly Story (The Gaiety Theatre), Isle of Man, Five Guys Named Moe (Theatre at the Mill, Belfast), Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater Concert (The Other Palace) Television includes: The War Between The Land And The Sea, Riches, Eastenders, Doctors Trained at: the Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts. Offstage Understudy Tad Hapaguti This is Tad’s RSC debut Theatre includes: Fame (European Tour), The Book of Mormon (West End and UK Tour), The Little Shop of Horrors (The Factory Playhouse), Sweet Charity (The Factory Playhouse) Workshops include: The Afterschool Death Day Club, Kin The Musical Trained at: Emil Dale Academy Offstage Understudy Daniel Haswell This is Daniel’s RSC debut Theatre includes: Tina The Musical (Aldwych Theatre), The Drifters Girl (UK Tour), Ain’t Too Proud (Prince Edward Theatre), The Book of Mormon (UK Tour), Motown: The Musical (UK & Ireland Tour), West End Christmas (The Actors Church, Covent Garden) Film includes: The Labyrinth of the Turtles Trained at: Royal Academy of Music Charity Shaka Kalokoh This is Shaka’s RSC debut Theatre includes: The Odyssey (Unicorn Theatre), Henry V (Donmar Warehouse / Schools Tour), The Lion The Witch & The Wardrobe (Gillian Lynne) Trained at: Guildhall School of Music and Drama Gilbert Mofat Idriss Kargbo This is Idriss’s RSC debut Theatre includes: Burlesque the Musical (Savoy Theatre), Austenland (Savoy Theatre), The Seeker (Theatre Royal Drury Lane), I Wish You Well (Criterion Theatre/ Edinburgh Fringe), Pippin 50th Anniversary Concert (Theatre Royal Drury Lane), Gypsy (Manchester Opera House), Five Guys Named Moe (Marble Arch Theatre), Wicked The Musical (Apollo Victoria), Shrek The Musical (UK & Ireland Tour), The Scottsboro Boys (The Young Vic), Thriller Live (Lyric Theatre), Oliver! (Theatre Royal Drury Lane), Disney’s The Lion King (Lyceum Theatre) Television includes: Casualty, Doctors, Bad Education, Spent, Years & Years, Grinch The Musical Film includes: Snow White, Mugged!, Been So Long Trained at: The Sylvia Young Theatre School and The Urdang Academy. Mister Ofesi Newtion Matthews This is Newtion’s RSC debut Theatre includes: The Harder They Come (Stratford East), Kinky Boots (UK & Ireland Tour), Once On This Island (Regent's Park Open Air Theatre), Get Up, Stand Up! The Bob Marley Musical (Lyric Theatre, West End), Camelot in Concert (London Palladium), The Frontline (Globe), Black Power Desk (Old Vic) Television and film includes: Electric Queens of Brixton, People We Hate At the Wedding, The X Factor, The Voice Trained at: WAC Performing Arts & Media Trywell Kamkwamba Sifiso Mazibuko This is Sifiso’s RSC debut Theatre includes: Girl From the North Country (Old Vic), A Good House (Royal Court), Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations (Ira Pittelman, Tom Hulce, Stephen Gabriel & Jamie Wilson Productions Ltd), Hamilton (Cameron Mackintosh Ltd), Motown The Musical (Adam Spiegel Productions), Dreamgirls The Musical, Malindadzimu, I,Medea (SABAB Theatre), A Land Without People, The First Actress (Palindrome Productions), Dancers (Wrought Atlas Theatre Ensemble), The Tempest (Flute Theatre), The Theatre is a Blank Page (Anne Bogart, SITI Company, Ann Hamilton), The Tempest (Ohio State University) Television includes: The Winter King, Willow, Similla’s Sense of Snow, Masters of The Air Film includes: Here be Giants, Pretville Trained at: The Ohio State University, Master of Fine Arts Acting Mika Kamkwamba Choolwe Laina Muntanga This is Choolwe’s RSC debut Theatre includes: Alfred Hitchcock Presents (Theatre Royal Bath), A Night With Janis Joplin (Peacock Theatre), The Bodyguard (Festival Ljubljana), Cheeky Little Brown (Stratford East) Film includes: A Night with Janis Joplin Concerts include: Pippin 50th Anniversary Concert (Theatre Royal Drury Lane), Olivier Awards 2024 (Royal Albert Hall), BBC Proms (Royal Albert Hall) Commercials include: Abba Voyage Music videos includes: Genesis – RAYE Trained at: Arts Educational William Kamkwamba Alistair Nwachukwu This is Alistair’s RSC debut Theatre includes: The Line of Beauty (Almeida), Choir Boy (Bristol Old Vic) Film includes: A Friend of Dorothy Television includes: Shadow and Bone, NCIS: Tony and Ziva Mizeck Tomi Ogbaro This is Tomi’s RSC debut Theatre includes: Ignatius! (Tramshed Theatre), Book of Will (Shakespeare North), Rapunzel/Alice in Wonderland (Liverpool Everyman/Playhouse), Book of Dust (Bridge Theatre), The Wonderful World of Dissocia (Theatre Royal Stratford East), Jane Eyre (New Vic/SJT), Seagulls (Octagon Theatre), An Act of Care (York Theatre Royal), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), Sweet Charity (Watermill Theatre) Television includes: Endeavour, Holier Than Thou, Temple Film includes: Rose’s Baby, See How They Run, Dao Hides No Name Trained at: Rose Bruford School of Theatre and Performance Ensemble Alex Okoampa This is Alex’s RSC debut Theatre includes: Play On! (Lyric Hammersmith/UK Tour), RENT (New Theatre/Queens Theatre), The Color Purple (Birmingham Hippodrome/UK Tour); EI8HT - An Original Musical Presentation (The Other Palace), TINA: The Tina Turner Musical (Aldwych Theatre), Motown the Musical (UK & Ireland Tour), Babes in Arms (Ye Olde Rose & Crown Theatre) Television includes: The Five, Vodafone Commercial, 3M Command Commercial Music videos include: Toddla T, Aitch (feat. TAET) – Hide N Seek, ENNY – Charge It Trained at: Arden School of Theatre Khamba Yana Penrose This is Yana’s RSC debut Theatre includes: The Magic Flute (Glyndebourne Opera House), Animal Farm (UK Tour), 101 Dalmatians, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), An Enemy of the People (UK Tour), A Christmas Carol (Storyhouse, Chester), How Love Is Spelt (Southwark Playhouse), Emily Rising (Little Angel Theatre), The Ballad of Rudy (Royal Exchange, Manchester), Jack (Derby Theatre) Film and Television includes: Rose Of Nevada, The Case Against Space, Humans Trained at: Academy of Live and Recorded Arts Edith Sikelo Helena Pipe This is Helena’s RSC debut Theatre includes: Noughts & Crosses (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), Blues For An Alabama Sky (National Theatre), What Do You See? (The Pappy Show), In This World (Theatre For Young People), The Time Traveller's Wife (Apollo Theatre), School of Rock (UK and Korea Tour), Nativity! The Musical (UK Tour), Oklahoma! (Grange Park Opera), Bare! A Pop Opera (Neptune Theatre), The Color Purple (TROIKA Bermuda) Television includes: Queenie Previous Next Cast Agnes Kamkwamba Madeline Appiah Ensemble Lori Barker Annie Kamkwamba Tsemaye Bob-Egbe Mike Kachigunda / Blessings Owen Chaponda Chief Wimbe McCallam Connell Jeremiah Kamkwamba / Patience Eddie Elliott Offstage Understudy Tad Hapaguti Offstage Understudy Daniel Haswell Charity Shaka Kalokoh Gilbert Mofat Idriss Kargbo Mister Ofesi Newtion Matthews Trywell Kamkwamba Sifiso Mazibuko Mika Kamkwamba Choolwe Laina Muntanga William Kamkwamba Alistair Nwachukwu Mizeck Tomi Ogbaro Ensemble Alex Okoampa Khamba Yana Penrose Edith Sikelo Helena Pipe Creatives Director Lynette Linton Book and Lyrics Richy Hughes Music and Lyrics Tim Sutton Set and Costume Designer Frankie Bradshaw Choreographer Shelley Maxwell Lighting Designer Oliver Fenwick Sound Designer George Dennis Video Designer Gino Ricardo Green Wigs, Hair and Make Up Designer Cynthia De La Rosa Music Supervisor Liam Godwin Orchestrator Benjamin Kwasi Burrell Puppet Designer Nick Barnes Puppetry Director Laura Cubitt Fight Director Kate Waters Dramaturg George Harrison Dramatherapist Wabriya King Casting Director Heather Basten CDG Music Director Ashton Moore Voice and Dialect Joel Trill Creative Associate Chiwetel Ejiofor About the Play Cast and Creatives Behind the scenes Assisted Performances Related Events More Less About the Play Cast and Creatives Behind the scenes Content Advisory Assisted Performances ADDITIONAL CREATIVES: Associate Director TD Moyo | Assistant Dramaturg Owen Chaponda The RSC Acting Companies are generously supported by The Gatsby Charitable Foundation In This Section About the Play A bold and uplifting new musical telling the true story of a boy who hopes to defy expectations and give hope for tomorrow. 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