Twelfth Night

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Olivia Freema Agyeman

Previous RSC includes: Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing

Theatre includes: White Rabbit Red Rabbit (Soho Place), Romeo and Juliet (Duke of York’s Theatre), God of Carnage (Lyric Hammersmith), Apologia (Trafalgar Studios)

Television includes: Dreamland, New Amsterdam, Sense8, Rubenesque, The Carrie Diaries, Old Jack’s Boat, Law and Order: UK, Survivors, Little Dorrit, Dr Who, Torchwood, Silent Witness, Crossroads

Film includes: The Matrix Resurrections, Eat Locals, North v South

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Priest Emily Benjamin

Previous RSC includes: Twelfth Night

Theatre includes: 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)

Trained at:  Performance Preparation Academy

 

 

 

 

 
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Antonio Norman Bowman

Previous RSC includes: Twelfth Night  

Theatre includes: Brigadoon (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), Thursday with Elvis (GBL Productions), The Bodyguard (Ljubljana Festival), Mamma Mia (Novello Theatre), Kiss Me Kate (Lyric Belfast), 42nd Street (Drury Lane), Murder Ballad (Arts Theatre), King Lear (Manchester Royal Exchange), Of Mice & Men (Birmingham Rep), Henry V (Noel Coward Theatre), Macbeth (Manchester International Festival & Park Armoury, New York), Finding Neverland (Leicester Curve), Mack & Mabel (Southwark Playhouse), End of The Rainbow, Cats, Grease, Sunset Boulevard, West Side Story, Masterclass, Pirates of Penzance (UK No 1 Tour), Mamma Mia (Prince of Wales), Twelfth Night (Donmar Warehouse/Wyndham’s Theatre), High School Musical (Hammersmith Apollo), Parade (Donmar Warehouse), Lady Be Good,  A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Regent's Park Open Air Theatre), Carousel (Chichester Festival Theatre), Guys & Dolls (Donmar Warehouse/West End), Les Miserables (West End and UK Tour)

Television includes: Poldark, Holby CityThe Spanish PrincessMr. 11Don’t Look BackLos Dos Bros Saint & The Saint pilot

Film includes: Firebrand, The Hessen Affair

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Second Officer /Orsino's Attendant / Sailor 1 George Fletcher

Previous RSC includes: Twelfth Night

Theatre includes: The Secret Garden (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), The Beautiful Future is Coming (Jermyn Street Theatre), Spur (Vault Festival), After Birth (Omnibus Theatre), Snow White (Theatre 503), Eigengrau (Waterloo East Theatre) Wood (VAULT Festival), And Tell Sad Stories of The Death of Queens (King’s Head Theatre), Frankenstein (Watermill Theatre / Wilton’s Music Hall)

Television includes: Doctors, Eastenders, Call The Midwife

Radio includes:  Becoming Meg Dashwood, Doctor Who: The Demon Song; The War Master: Hearts of Darkness

Trained at: RWCMD

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Sir Andrew Aguecheek Demetri Goritsas

Previous RSC includes: Twelfth Night

Theatre includes: Inferno 67 (Ronnie Scott’s), The Shark is Broken (West End/Royal Alexandra, Toronto), ear for eye, The Sweetest Swing in Baseball, Boy Gets Girl (Royal Court), Machinal, Mr Burns (Almeida Theatre), All the President’s Men?, His Girl Friday, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Find The Sun (National Theatre), Assassins (Library Theatre), Street Scene (ENO)

Television includes: Neuromancer, 10 Percent, The Fear Index, The Alienist, Black Mirror, Ransom, Episodes, Modus II, A Poet in New York, Twenty Twelve, Torchwood, Spooks, The Special Relationship, The Path to 9-11, Nixon’s the One, Baddiel’s Syndrome, Viper, The Sentinel, The New Addams Family, Millennium, The Prisoner of Zenda Inc, Highlander

Film includes: Clayface, Billion Dollar Spy, Three Quick Breaths, Ear for Eye, Radioactive, Rocketman, The Catcher Was a Spy, Darkest Hour, Papillon, Borg vs McEnroe, Snowden, Everest, Rush, Austenland, X-Men: First Class, Good Vibrations, The Whistleblower, A Mighty Heart, Road to Guantanamo, Thunderbirds, Spy Game, The Bourne Identity, Saving Private Ryan, Excess Baggage, Little Women

Trained at: Central School of Speech & Drama

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Feste Michael Grady-Hall

Previous RSC includes: Twelfth Night, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Venice Preserved, Imperium I&II, Oppenheimer, The Shoemaker’s Holiday, As You Like It, Hamlet, All's Well That Ends Well, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The City Madam, Cardenio 

Theatre includes: Romeo and Juliet (Theatre Royal Stratford East), The Wonderful World of Dissocia (Theatre Royal Stratford East), The House of Shades (Almeida),  Othello (ETT Dubai), Julie (Northern Stage), Minotaur (Polka Theatre/Theatre Clwyd), Despair, Antigone, The White Guard, Burnt by the Sun (National Theatre), Thyestes (Arcola), Romeo and Juliet (Theatre of Memory), one-man show Later Showers, Play On Words (Three's Company/Edinburgh Fringe) 

Television includes: PierreEmmerdale, The RegimeJack RyanCasualty, DoctorsDoctor Thorne

Film includes: The Swing, Hoard, Through the Larkin Glass, How Was Your Week?, Ruth, Silent Night, Venus and the Sun, Clash of the Titans 

Voice work includes: Three’s Company’s Adventure Department, Old Haunts  

Other: Michael is co-founder of Three's Company and Smooth Faced Gentlemen 

Training: RADA

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Maria Danielle Henry

Previous RSC includes: Twelfth Night, The Hypocrite, A Christmas Carol 

Theatre includes: Choir (Chichester Minerva), Quiz (Chichester/Tour), A Play for the Living in a Time of Extinction (Headlong), Afterlife, My Brilliant Friend (National Theatre), What if, if Only, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, Queens of the Coal Age,   B!RTH, Closer (Royal Exchange Manchester), Husk (Hope Mill Theatre), The Book Thief, Up Against the Wall (Bolton Octagon), Playhouse Creatures, Votes for Women (New Vic), Mighty Atoms (Hull Truck Theatre), Miss Julie (Et Cetera Theatre), Earl of Mo Bay (Nottingham Playhouse), Once Upon a Time in Wigan (UK Tour), The Comedy of Errors, As You Like It, Stig Of The Dump, Romeo and Juliet, Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Wind in the Willows,  Merry Wives of Windsor (StoryHouse) 

Television includes: The Good Ship Murder, The Reckoning, Time 2, The Odd Squad, The Beaker Girls, My Mum Tracy Beaker, Silent Witness, Lost Christmas, Moving On, Torchwood, No Offence, Doctors, Katy, Survivors, Paradox, Candy Cabs, BrokenThe Third DayDiamond Geezer, Emmerdale, Leah’s Trial

Film includes: Soul Boy

Other: Danielle has performed in numerous radio drama's for Radio 4

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Viola Gwyneth Keyworth

Previous RSC includes: Twelfth Night

Theatre includes: To Kill a Mockingbird (Gielgud Theatre), As You Like It, The Heresy of Love (Globe Theatre), The Life and Times of Fanny Hill (Bristol Old Vic), Raising Martha (Park Theatre) 

Television includes: Death Valley, Lost Boys & Fairies, Defending the Guilty, Vodka Diaries, The Trouble with Maggie Cole, Dr Thorne, The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, Alex Rider, The Crown, Black Mirror, Craith, Bang, Wasted, Misfits

Film includes: The Scurry,The Toll, Elfie Hopkins, Closer to the Moon

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First Officer / Orsino's Attendant / Sailor 2 Michael Lyle

Previous RSC includes: Twelfth Night, A Christmas Carol 

Theatre includes: The Mousetrap 70th Anniversary UK Tour, Amadeus (National Theatre), The Game of Love and Chance (Arcola), Season’s Greetings (Stephen Joseph Theatre/New Vic), No Villain (Trafalgar Studios), A Super Happy Story About Feeling Super Sad (Hull Truck/Silent Uproar), Screwface (Bush), Belle: Rapid Write Response, The Sexual Awakening of Peter Mayo (Theatre503), The History Boys (Theatre Royal Bath/West Yorkshire Playhouse/UK tour), Home Theatre (Theatre Royal Stratford East), Talking to Alice (Greenwich Theatre), This One Goes Out to All My Motherf*ckers Back Home (Soho Theatre), Every Bit of My Love, Aim of the Game (Old Vic New Voices), Sweet Love Remember’d (Shakespeare’s Globe), For the Best (Unicorn), Lord of the Flies (Watford Palace)

Television includes: The Sandman, The Last Hours of Laura K, Eastenders, Doctors

Film includes: My Grandson Charlotte, Number One Fan, New World, Nuryan 

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Sea Captain / Olivia's Attendant Cat McKeever

Previous RSC includes: Twelfth Night 

Theatre includes: Everything Between Us (Finborough Theatre), Julius Caesar (Bridge Theatre), The First Man (Jermyn Street Theatre), St. Christopher (Greenwich Theatre), The Melting Pot (Finborough Theatre), Good Gracious Good Friday (Theatre 503/White Bear), What The Butler Saw (Rawlife Productions), Goblin Market (Lyric Theatre/Edinburgh Fringe Festival) 

Television includes: Breathtaking, Derry Girls 

Film includes: Ballywalter 

They are also known as ‘Cat Phisher’, award-winning drag and cabaret artist, performing musical comedy, burlesque and hosting events across the UK and Ireland since 2021.  

Trained at: Guildhall School of Music and Drama

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Fabian Daniel Millar

Previous RSC includes: The Constant Wife, Twelfth Night, The Winter’s Tale

Theatre includes: The Play That Goes Wrong (Duchess Theatre, West End), The Pillowman (Duke of York’s, West End), Antony & CleopatraMeasure for Measure (Globe), The Government Inspector (Marylebone Theatre), House of Shades (Almeida), King LearEdward IIFrankensteinThe White GuardA Midsummer Night’s Dream (National Theatre), The Wonderful World of Dissocia (Theatre Royal Stratford East), The Winston MachineThere Is A Light That Never Goes Out (Kandinsky/Royal Exchange Theatre), Against Captain’s OrdersThe Crash of the ElysiumThe Black DiamondThe Night Chauffeur, The Drowned Man (Punchdrunk), Return to Elm HouseRomeo and Juliet (Battersea Arts Centre), The Grift (Town Hall Hotel), Prom Kween (Underbelly Edinburgh), Goosebumps Alive (The Vaults), The Oresteia (Home Manchester), Stink Foot (The Yard), Accomplice (Menier Chocolate Factory), Intrigue & Love (Southwark Playhouse), Ker-Ching! (Frantic Assembly), Sorted (Theatre503), Something I Wrote in a Hurry (Lost Theatre Company), The Unspeakable (ETT), Twelfth NightRichard III, Macbeth (The Faction), Hamlet, Twelfth Night (Winchester Theatre Royal/Edinburgh Fringe)

Other: Daniel has also translated and adapted Intrigue & Love, The Robbers, Mary Stuart, Fiesco and Joan of Arc, all with Mark Leipacher, as part of The Faction Theatre Company’s Complete Works of Schiller

Television includes: Casualty, London Kills, Britannia, Warren, Doctors, Psychoville, Eastenders, GrownUps, Two Pints of Larger and a Packet of Crisps, Holby City, Trying Again, Vincent, Instinct

Film includes: Downton AbbeyThe Current War

Trained at: LAMDA

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Orsino's Attendant Reece Miller

Previous RSC includes: Twelfth Night

Film includes: I’m a Mess Right Now (NFTS)

Credits whilst training include: Sticks and Stones (dir Diyan Zora), Angels in America Part One: Millennium Approaches (dir Roger Haines), The Winslow Boy (dir Georgia Green)Pericles (title role, dir Rachel Bagshaw), Macbeth (dir Philip Sheppard), As You Like It (dir Aoife Smyth)

Reece also enjoys using his funny bone and trained under world-renowned clown master, Philippe Gaulier, in Paris, as well as being an actor-musician and singer.

Trained at: RADA

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Orsino Daniel Monks

This is Daniel's RSC debut

Theatre includes: The Cherry Orchard (Donmar Warehouse and St Ann's Warehouse), The Seagull (Playhouse Theatre), The Normal Heart (National Theatre), Teenage Dick (Donmar Warehouse), Lord of the Flies (Sydney Theatre Company), The Real and Imagined History of the Elephant Man (Malthouse Theatre)

Television includes: Waiting For The Out, All Her Fault, A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms, Dead Hot, Kaos, The Split 2, Silent Witness

Film includes: In the Room Where He Waits, Ricky Stanicky, Pulse

Trained at: 16th Street Acting Studio & Actors Centre Australia

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Olivia's Woman (Kate) Charlotte O'Leary

Previous RSC includes: Twelfth Night

Theatre includes: Troilus and Cressida (Globe), Trueman and the Arsonists (Roundhouse), Jerusalem (West End, Apollo), Shandyland (Northern Stage), When the Sea Swallows Us Whole (The Vaults), Mission Control (National Theatre Wales), On the Other Hand We’re Happy, Daughterhood, Dexter, Winter’s Detective Agency, Island Town, Sticks and Stones, How to Spot an Alien (Paines Plough/Theatr Clwyd), Under Milk Wood (The Watermill), Hush (Paines Plough)

Television includes: Death Valley, The Witcher, Bang

Radio includes: Her Story, An Accident That Wasn’t Your Fault, Torchwood

Trained at: Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama

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Curio / Organist Thom Petty

Previous RSC includes: Twelfth Night, All’s Well That Ends Well, Richard III

Theatre includes: 1984 (West End), Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Donmar Warehouse & NT Live), The Merchant of Venice (Stafford Gatehouse), Oh What a Lovely War! (Oldham Coliseum), The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Bolton Octagon), Light Shining in Buckinghamshire (National Theatre), In Our Skin (Midlands Arts Centre), Housed (Old Vic), Macbeth (Cockpit Theatre), Three Sisters (White Bear Theatre)

Television includes: Breathtaking, Coronation Street, A Cruel Love, Fool Me Once, Breeders

Film includes: Mary Queen of Scots, The Drifters, Born a King, Who’s Counting (short)

Audio includes: The Archers, The Paternoster Gang, Audiobooks I May Be Wrong and Other Wisdoms from Life as a Forest Monk, One Grand Summer, Built on a Lie, The Rain, The Runaway, The Disappeared

Writing: Slaughter on Suspicion, Ticker, Confectionary/Applause, Coast, Chaconne

Trained at: LAMDA

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Sebastian Rhys Rusbatch

Previous RSC includes: Twelfth Night, Wendy and Peter Pan 

Theatre includes: The Comedy Of Errors (Globe), Three Billy Goats Gruff (Chichester Festival Theatre/ Unicorn Theatre), Waiting for Lefty (Two Lines), Mephisto A Rhapsody (The Gate), Knives in Hens (Perth Theatre), The Rivals (Bristol Old Vic/Citizens), Mametz, The Persians (National Theatre of Wales), Hannah, Not Now Bernard, Henry V (Unicorn Theatre/Tour), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Lyric, Hammersmith/Royal Exchange/UK Tour), Greenland, Our Class (National Theatre), Eurydice (Young Vic), Sitcom Trials (Leicester Square) 

Television includes: Steeltown Murders, Sherlock, Merlin, In Search of Pete Doherty 

Film includes: Polly Has The Keys, Dirt Ash Meat, Nobody Listens Anymore, Burn Burn Burn, Zero Dark Thirty, Hunky Dory 

Radio includes: Ed Reardon 

Trained at: The Guildhall School of Music and Drama

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Sir Toby Belch Joplin Sibtain

Previous RSC includes: Romeo & Juliet

Theatre includes: The Starry Messenger (Wyndham's Theatre), Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train (Young Vic), Beaux Stratagem, Dara, The Oak Tree, Behind The Beautiful Forevers, Othello, The Absence of War, The Wind In The Willows, Murmuring Judges  (National Theatre), Godchild (Hampstead Theatre Downstairs), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Globe), King Lear (Almeida), The King and I, (Leicester Curve), An Enemy Of The People (Sheffield Crucible), A Streetcar Named Desire ( Nuffield Southampton),The Crucible (Bolton Octagon), Hamlet,  Wuthering Heights (West Yorkshire Playhouse)

Television includes: House of The Dragon, Andor, Invasion, The Witchfinder, White Gold, Hard Sun, Doctor Who, Avenue 5, Nightflyers, Safe, Marcella, Vera, Maigret, No Offence, Emerald City

Film includes: American Sweatshop, Heavyweight, The Strangers, Head Full of Honey, VP, Ghost Recon

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Orsino's Attendant / Pianist Tom Sowinski

Previous RSC includes: Twelfth Night  

Theatre includes: Barnum (The Watermill Theatre), Shakespeare’s R & J (Reading Rep), Million Dollar Quartet (NCL), As You Like It, Camelot, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Mini Summer Night’s Dream and Kiss Me Kate (The Watermill Theatre), Cilla - The Musical (UK and Ireland Tour), The Glenn Miller Story (London Coliseum), The Buddy Holly Story (UK Tour), Roll Over Beethoven (Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch)

Other: Tom is a multi-instrumentalist, touring and performing for theatre shows and music festivals both abroad and in the UK. He is also Jay Osmond’s pianist when he tours his show in Britain, which features songs by The Osmonds

Trained at: Rose Bruford College and New York Film Academy and Tring Park

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Malvolio Samuel West

Previous RSC includes: title roles in Hamlet, Richard II. As director: As You Like It (Swan Complete Works), Hamlet (RSC Fringe)

Theatre includes: The Writer (Almeida), Enron (Chichester, Royal Court and West End), Betrayal (Donmar), Ivanov and Trigorin in the Young Chekhov season (Chichester), Caryl Churchill's A Number (Sheffield, Menier Chocolate Factory and Cape Town) and Drunk Enough to Say I Love You (Public Theater New York), Arcadia (National Theatre).

Screen includes: six series of All Creatures Great and Small, Slow Horses, The Crown, W1A, Small Axe, Mr Selfridge, Cambridge Spies and the films Darkest Hour, The Gentlemen, Howards End, On Chesil Beach, Suffragette, Van Helsing, Notting Hill, Zeffirelli's Jane Eyre, Archipel (in French), Hyde Park on Hudson and the voice of Pongo in Disney's 101 Dalmatians II.

Radio: plays by Pinter, Coward, Frayn, Stoppard, Giles Terera and his partner Laura Wade. 

Other: As a reciter, he has appeared with all the major British orchestras and at the Last Night of the Proms. He’s also narrated lots of documentaries and more than 100 audiobooks. Sam has directed 13 plays and two operas: Così fan tutte for English National Opera and The Magic Flute for the Palestine Mozart Festival. From 2006 to 2008 he ran the Sheffield Crucible, where he revived Howard Brenton’s The Romans in Britain

In various media Sam has played Brutus, Hal, Henry V, Coriolanus, Benedick, Bertram, Bassanio, Macduff, Octavius, Demetrius and the Bishop of Winchester. He is an Associate Artist of the RSC and a trustee of the Campaign for the Arts.

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Valentine David Whitworth

Previous RSC includes: Twelfth Night

Theatre includes: The Comedy Of Errors (Persever Productions), Tuesdays with Morrie, Woman in Black (GEST in Gothenburg), Skin in the Game (Old Red Lion), Lilies and Sweets (Pleasance), The Wind of Heaven (Finborough), A Day by the Sea (Southwark Playhouse), French Without Tears (English Touring Theatre), Vieux Carré, In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel (Charing Cross Theatre), Aladdin (Aylesbury, Milton Keynes and Bristol Hippodrome), Sleeping Beauty (Waterside, Aylesbury), London Wall (Finborough, transferred to The St. James), Rigor Mortis (Finborough), Classical Studies  (Arcola), The Second Mrs. Tanqueray (Rose Theatre Kingston), London Assurance (National Theatre), Wuthering Heights (Birmingham Rep and National Tour), The Mousetrap (St. Martin’s), Pride and Prejudice, Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Henry V, As You Like It, The Dark Lady of the Sonnets, Love’s Labour’s Lost and The Two Noble Kinsmen (Open Air Theatre in Regent’s Park)

David was a regular member of the Read Not Dead company at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at Shakespeare’s Globe. He spent several years in regional rep theatres like Leicester, Pitlochry, Bolton, Oldham, Watford and Harrogate. 

He s an Associate of the Orange Tree Theatre and among many productions going back to the 1970s are: French Without Tears, The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd, The Thunderbolt, Mary Goes First, A Journey to London, Double Double, Trifles, Sauce for the Goose, King Lear, Magnificence

Films include: Love’s Kitchen, Little Dorrit  Television includes: The Alan Titchmarsh Show, The Bill, Nicholas Nickleby, Jasper Carrott, Big Deal, Poldark, Miss Jones and Son, Colditz, Z Cars, Coronation Street, A Family at War, Barlow, Armchair Theatre
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