The Three Musketeers

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Porthos Ayesha Antoine

This is Ayesha's RSC debut

Theatre includes: Eureka Day (Gate), Between Riverside And Crazy (Hampstead), Out West: Go, Girl (Lyric Hammersmith), Blank (Donmar), White Teeth (Kiln), Napoleon Disrobed (Told By An Idiot, Theatre Royal Plymouth / Arcola / Birmingham Rep / Stephen Joseph, Scarborough), Hamlet (Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company at RADA), Life of Galileo (Young Vic), Dirty Great Love Story (Arts Theatre), Trade (Young Vic), The Suicide (National Theatre), Red Velvet (Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company / Garrick), The Wolf in Snakeskin Shoes (Tricycle), The Ghost Train (Told By An Idiot, Manchester Royal Exchange), The House That Will Not Stand (Tricycle), Venice Preserv'd (The Spectator's Guild), We Are Proud to Present... (Bush), Tartuffe (Birmingham Rep), Absurd Person Singular (Stephen Joseph Theatre), Cinderella (Theatre Royal, Stratford East), One Monkey Don't Stop No Show (Eclipse Theatre), The Mountaintop (Guildhall Theatre, Derby), My Wonderful Day (Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough / 59e59 Theaters Off Broadway / UK Tour), Big White Fog (Almeida) 

Film includes: Girl, Artemis Fowl, This Time (Short), Win (Short)  

Television includes: Bergerac (UKTV), Queenie (Channel 4 / Hulu), Grace, Endeavour (ITV), Both Sides Now, In the Long Run (Sky), Cursed (Netflix), Malory Towers, The Long Song, Pompidou, Bellamy's People, Mouth to Mouth, Holby City, Doctor Who, Grange Hill (BBC), Chewing Gum (Channel 4), Skins (E4)

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The Plot Teller Aitor Basauri

This is Aitor's RSC debut

Theatre includes: The Servant of Two Masters (Sheffield Crucible), Axomate (Seville Expo), Eulenspiegel, Karl’s Kuhne Gassenchau’s Grand Paradis, Stau in Zurich (Spymonkey, various venues), Senor Carrera’s Rifles (Young Vic). As Director: Little Prince (Donkey Productions), Un Vento Impetuoso (La Canoppia), Meci Y Me Fui (Pez Enraya)

Circus includes: Circus Knie, Swiss State Circus, Punto Fijo

Directing includes: Lily & Marlene (La Dinamica), Looking for Duende (Teatro Entre Escombros), Hondycops (Squadra Sua), Ferucchio Peru is Extraordinaire (Leebo Luby), Manifest Destiny (New York), Fabulous Bäckström Brothers (Finland), Entre Escobros ‘600 Teatro’ (Spain), Gloriator (Skipstick Productions, London), NMIIDP (Simone Riccio, London), Herr Ist Immer Der Natur (Die Drei Auf Den Baum), Discombobulated (Publick Transport), Ramshackadelicious (Bristol), Shake (The Last Baguette). As Director of Physical Comedy: Mack & Mabel (Chichester Festival Theatre). As Co-Director: Orpheus in the Underworld (Vienna Volksoper Operahouse)

Television includes: Solstrom (Bravo Cable Network)

Other: Aitor isounder, co-creator and performer Spymonkey, the UK’s leading physical comedy ensemble, based in Brighton. He is an acclaimed teacher of clown, regularly leading Spymonkey training in London, New York, Maine, Los Angeles and around the world, and for the Clown Doctors organisation in Germany, Austria and France.

Image credit © Barbara Palffy

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Ensemble Greg Bernstein

This is Greg's RSC debut 

Theatre includes: Fiddler On The Roof (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre / UK Tour), Sinatra (Birmingham Rep), A Monster Calls (UK Tour / The Kennedy Centre, Washington DC), Peter Pan, Caroline, Or Change (National Theatre), The American Clock (The Old Vic), 42nd Street (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane), Mary Poppins, Barnum (UK Tour), South Pacific (Kilworth House), Billy Elliot (Victoria Palace Theatre), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (London Palladium). 

Film includes: Wonka

Television includes: Casualty (BBC)

Commercials: Morrisons Christmas, Amazon Echo, Walkers

Training: Guildford School of Acting

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Abbess / Landlady Kimmy Edwards

This is Kimmy’s RSC debut  

Theatre includes: Disney’s Hercules (Theatre Royal Drury Lane), A Christmas Carol, Sylvia (Old Vic Theatre), The Odyssey (Unicorn Theatre), One Night of Tina (European Tour), Get Up Stand Up (Lyric Theatre), Kiss Me, Kate (Watermill Theatre), Dreamgirls (Savoy Theatre), In The Heights (King’s Cross Theatre), Memphis (Shaftesbury Theatre), Ghost The Musical (UK Tour), Hairspray (Germany), Tommy (English Frankfurt Theatre / German Tour), Legally Blonde (Savoy Theatre)

Television includes: Strictly Come Dancing (BBC), Olivier Awards (ITV)

Workshops: She Devil, Time Travellers Wife, 50 First Dates

Concerts: Ghost the Musical in Concert

Recordings include: Disney’s Hercules (Original West End Cast Recording), Get Up Stand Up (Original West End Cast Recording), Dreamgirls (Original West End Cast recording), Memphis (Original West End Cast Recording), Tommy (Original Frankfurt Cast Recording)

Other: Railway Ball 2015

Trained: Guildford School of Acting

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Rochefort Michael Elcock

RSC includes: Cowbois, Henry V

Theatre includes: Pinocchio, Romeo and Juliet, The Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare's Globe), The Little Mermaid, The Meaning of Zong (Bristol Old Vic), Julius Caesar (Southwark Playhouse), Hex, The Visit (National Theatre), Arthur/Merlin (Iris Theatre), 846 Live, Heartfelt (Theatre Royal Stratford East), In A Word (Young Vic), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), Groove on Down The Road (Queen Elizabeth Hall) 

Television includes: Queens of Mystery 

Film includes: Kitchen Sink 

Trained at: Central School of Speech and Drama

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The Queen Jasmine Elcock

Previous RSC includes: Fat Ham

Theatre includes: Fangirls (Lyric Hammersmith), The Crucible (Sheffield Crucible Theatre), Macbeth (English Touring Theatre)

Film includes: Sunny Dancer

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The King Matt Gavan

This is Matt's RSC debut

Theatre includes: Eureka Day (Nottingham Playhouse), As You Like It (Theatre Royal Bath), Taming of the Shrew (Sherman), Fanny & Alexander, King Lear (The Old Vic)

Television includes: Masters of the Air, Foundation (Apple TV+), Pennyworth (Warner Brothers)

Film includes: Christopher Robin (Disney), Murder on the Orient Express (Twentieth Century Fox)

Radio includes: Wulf the Saxon: A Story of the Norman Conquest (Heirloom), The Forsytes III (BBC Radio 4)

Commercial projects include: Project Cowboy

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Ensemble Kelise Gordon-Harrison

This is Kelise’s RSC debut 

Theatre includes: Firebird (Southwark Playhouse), A Christmas Fair (Oldham Coliseum / Not Too Tame), Romeo and Juliet (Liverpool Everyman), Best Mates, Top Bins, Venga Venga (The Royal Exchange), Alice in Wonderland (Shakespeare North Playhouse), Danesha (Box of Tricks), Burdens - Vignettes (Contact Theatre, Manchester), The Not So Big Bad Wolf (Wrongsemble), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Not Too Tame) 

TV and Film includes: Just Act Normal (BBC), Blackbird (Maverick Entertainment), WACO Untold: The British Stories (ITVX), Treading Water (Big North Films), Gone Clear (Fully Focused), Softy (Leaping Films), A Long Walk Home (Omnivert Media) 

Training: Rose Bruford College Wigan 

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Costard Nick Haverson

Previous RSC includes: Love’s Labour’s Lost, Much Ado About Nothing (RSC / Haymarket London), The Christmas Truce

For Told by an Idiot: The Cat and the Canary (Chichester), Charlie & Stan (UK & China Tour), The Horse You Rode In On (UK Tour), Beauty and the Beast (Lyric Hammersmith), Too Clever By Half (Royal Exchange Manchester)

For Improbable: The Devil and Mr Punch (Philadelphia USA / Barbican UK), Satyagraha (London Coliseum / Metropolitan Opera House NY), Theatre of Blood (The National Theatre), The Hanging Man (US Tour & Sydney Opera House) 

Other theatre includes: The Government Inspector (Chichester), One Man Two Guv’nors, Four Nights in Knaresborough, Amadeus (New Vic Theatre Stoke), The Yeomen of the Guard (Grange Festival Opera), Ben Hur (Watermill), 1984 (Broadsides), Low Pay Don’t Pay (Salisbury Playhouse), The Venetian Twins (Bolton Octagon), Ruby Moon (Northern Stage), Comic Potential (SJT Scarborough), A Family Affair, Little Shop of Horrors (New Wolsey), The Solid Gold Cadillac (Garrick), By Jeeves (Duke of York’s)

Television includes: Silo, Lynley, Scott & Bailey, Tales From the Old Bailey, Thank God You’re Here, Ashes to Ashes, Spooks, New Tricks, Casualty, Head Over Heels, The Bill, Wyrd Sisters (The Worst Witch 2)

Radio includes: Hilda, The Barchester Chronicles, Two to Tandem, Men Who Sleep in Cars

Films include: Matriarch, Muppets Most Wanted, Sweeney Todd, Hilary & Jackie, Susie Gold, The Tales of Despereaux, Men Who Sleep in Cars, Gli Zii 

Training: LAMDA

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Monsieur Treville / Landlord Martin Hyder

Previous RSC includes: The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Mouse and His Child 

Theatre includes: The Art of Illusion (Hampstead Theatre), My Brilliant Friend (National Theatre), Dead Dog in A Suitcase (And Other Love Songs) (Kneehigh / Tour / Liverpool Everyman), The Culture (Hull Truck), My Brilliant Friend (Rose Theatre, Kingston), Worst Wedding Ever (Salisbury Theatre), Tartuffe (Birmingham Rep), You Can’t Take It With You (Royal Exchange, Manchester), And The Horse You Rode in On (Told By An Idiot/Barbican), Bleak House (New Vic Theatre), Absent (dreamthinkspeak), The Abduction from the Seraglio, Let ‘Em Eat Cake, Of Thee I Sing (Opera North), Casanova (Told By an Idiot / WYP), Elephant & Castle (Aldeburgh Festival), Accidental Death Of An Anarchist, What The Butler Saw (Bolton Octogan), Jarman Garden (Riverside Studios), Pericles (Lyric Hammersmith), The Firework-Makers’s Daughter (Sheffield Crucible), Shoot Me In The Heart (Told By An Idiot)

Television & Film includes: Bergerac, Industry, Edge of Tomorrow, The Harry Hill Movie, The Sickie, Harry Hill’s TV Burp, The Omid Djalili Show, Ruddy Hell! It’s Harry and Paul, The Secret Show, The Mark Steel Lectures, The Lenny Henry Show, Big Train, 15 Storeys High, The Eleven O'Clock Show, How Do You Want Me?

Radio includes: Woof (Giddy Goat Productions), Ed Reardon’s Week, Clare In The Community, Fabulous Mr Mulliner Speaking, The Wit and Wisden of Martin Truelove, Harry Hill's Fruit Corner, The Mark Steel Lectures, Middlemarch, The Sunday Format, The Hudson and Pepperdine Show, Anthony and Cleopatra, Linda Smith's A Brief History of Timewasting (BBC)

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Kitty Natalie Kimmerling

Previous RSC includes: Henry V, The Tempest

Theatre includes: The Glass Menagerie (Rose Theatre, Alexandra Palace, Belgrade Theatre), Henry V Schools Tour (Donmar Warehouse), War Horse (National Theatre / UK & International Tour)

Television includes: War (Sky), Amandaland (BBC), Half Bad: The Bastard Son & the Devil Himself (Netflix)

Trained at: Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts

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Buckingham David Olaniregun

This is David's RSC debut 

Television includes: Star Wars: Andor (Disney+), Beyond Paradise (BBC 1), Mr. Ambassador (Jhasmen Studios), The B@it (Mother's Best Child) 

Theatre includes: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Bristol Old Vic / Leeds Playhouse, Headlong UK Tour), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakespeare's Globe / Headlong), Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare's Globe), Twelfth Night, War of The Worlds (National Youth Theatre REP Company), Run, Painkiller (Theatre Royal Stratford East) 

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D'Artagnan Simon Oskarsson

This is Simon's RSC debut

Theatre includes: North by Northwest (US Tour - Emma Rice Company), Dear Evan Hansen (2Enterain / Intiman Teatern), A Child’s Christmas in Wales (The Lucky Chance - Emma Rice Company), Hadestown (Carré), North by Northwest (UK Tour - Emma Rice Company), Hadestown (Lyric Theatre), The Book Thief (Leicester Curve), Robin Hood. The Legend. Re-written, 101 Dalmatians and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Regent’s Park), Claus – the Musical (The Lowry, Manchester), Assassins (Watermill / Nottingham Playhouse), Kärlek Skonar Ingen (Love Spares Nobody) (Gothenburg Opera House), Julia Capulet (Lilla Beddinge Teater), Kiss Me, Kate (Sheffield Crucible), ÖGONBLICK (LDMG scholarship residency), To Paint the Earth (Southwark Playhouse), Return to the Forbidden Planet (Upstairs at the Gatehouse)

Television includes: So Awkward (CBBC / BBCiPlayer), The National Television Awards, Olivier Awards 

Short film includes: Unity of Opposites, 03:03

Recording includes: Hadestown (Original West End Cast Recording), The Book Thief (Cast Recording), Dead or Alive (Cast Recording)

Workshops include: COMPANY (Broadway) 

Voiceover includes: Warthunder

Trained: Arts Educational Schools London

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Ensemble Theo Reece

This is Theo's RSC debut

Theatre includes: Sherlock Holmes (Regent's Park Open Air Theatre), Midnight (Sadler's Wells East), Cats (European Tour), Layton and Nikita - Live! (Drury Lane), Chicago (UK & International Tour), Elf (Dominion Theatre), The Spongebob Musical (UK Tour)

Television includes: Doctors (BBC)

Training: The Urdang Academy and Birmingham Ormiston Academy

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Aramis Patricia Rodriguez

This is Patricia's RSC debut

Patricia is a performer, director and playwright with 30 years’ international experience. 

Theatre includes: The Tempest (Shakespeare’s Globe), Nothing Happens (Twice), Derailed, Don Quixote, You & Me (Little Soldier, Touring Productions), Heads Will Roll, Get Happy (Told by an Idiot), Muckers (Conde Duque / Theatre Royal), No Way Out (Flight of the Scales), Ancestry (Tucan Riot, in development). As Co-writer and DIrector: Deadpan Karaoke (Ibuprofeno), Orsai (Teatro del Cuervo), caLORCAlor (Guayominí. Best Children’s Show in Asturias Awards 2023). As Co-writer, Director and Performer: Hamlet (Guayominí. Best Family Show Almagro 2025)

Teaching includes: Philippe Gaulier School (France), East 15 Acting School (UK), University of Leeds (UK), and international workshops in physical theatre, devising and comedy.

Other: Co-Founder of Little Soldier and Las Ganas (Spain). International performances in France, USA, Mexico, Spain, Poland, China, Lithuania, Luxembourg and Germany.

Trained: Philippe Gaulier, Aitor Basauri, John Wright, Paul Hunter 

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Milady Laura Rogers

This is Laura's RSC debut 

Theatre includes: The Ocean at the End of the Lane (National Theatre / Duke of York’s Theatre), When Winston Went to War with the Wireless (Donmar Warehouse), Pressure (Chichester Festival Theatre), Murder on the Orient Express (Chichester Festival Theatre / Bath Theatre Royal), The 39 Steps (West End), Macbeth, As You Like It, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Timon of Athens (Shakespeare’s Globe)

Television includes: Bad Girls, Doctor Who, Grantchester, EastEnders, Holby City, Doctors, New Tricks, Law & Order: UK

Training: Royal Academy of Dramatic Art

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Athos Sophie Russell

Previous RSC includes: As You Like It, The Comedy of Errors, King Lear, Antony and Cleopatra, The Drunks, American Trade, Oxygen 

Theatre includes: The Merry Wives of Windsor, Titus Andronicus, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night, Henry IV Part One, Henry IV Part Two, Henry V, Henry Vl, Richard lll, Emilia (Shakespeare's Globe), The Prudes, The Wolf From The Door, Collaborations (Royal Court Theatre), A Christmas Carol (Liverpool Playhouse / Spymonkey), Mrs Hudson’s Christmas Corker (Wilton's Music Hall / Spymonkey), Every Last Trick (Northampton Theatre Royal), You Can’t Take It With You (Told By An Idiot / Manchester Royal Exchange), Spyski! (Lyric Hammersmith), The Good Soul of Szechuan (Young Vic),  Get Happy, Stories from An Invisible Town (Barbican) 

Television includes: Kisses and Bumflicks, Living in Fear (Sky), I Hate Suzie (Sky / Bad Wolf), Casualty (BBC), Wire in the Blood (ITV) 

Film includes: The Invisible Woman, How I Got Here 

Trained: Middlesex University and ENSATT Paris

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Constance Tanvi Virmani

Previous RSC includes: Henry V 

Theatre includes: A World Elsewhere (Shakespeare’s Globe), Period Parrrty (Soho Theatre), Gigi and Dar (Arcola), Cyrano (Park Theatre / Traverse Theatre), Minority Report (Lyric Hammersmith / Tour), The Crown Jewels (Garrick Theatre West End), Two Billion Beats (Orange Tree), Life of Pi (Wyndhams Theatre West End), The Tempest (Theatre Royal Bath)

Television includes: Not Going Out (BBC1), Trying (Apple TV)

Training: Bristol Old Vic Theatre School

Company Manager Cat Buffrey | Stage Manager Isy Eagle Wilsher | Deputy Stage Manager Klare Roger | Assistant Stage Manager Amara Bryan

The RSC Acting Companies are generously supported by The Gatsby Charitable Foundation