Cast and Creatives

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Olivia Freema Agyeman

This is Freema’s RSC debut

Theatre includes: 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, Rulers and Dealers, Aisha The American 

 

 

 

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Priest Emily Benjamin

This is Emily’s RSC debut 

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

This is Norman’s RSC debut 

Theatre includes: 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/Wyndhams Theatre), High School Musical (Hammersmith Apollo), Parade (Donmar Warehouse), Lady Be Good (Regents Park Open Air Theatre), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Regents Park Open Air Theatre), Carousel (Chichester Festival Theatre), Guys & Dolls (Donmar/West End), Les Miserables (West End and UK Tour)

Television includes: Poldark, Holby City (BBC), The Spanish Princess (Starz), Mr. 11 (Tiger Aspect), Don’t Look Back (Undercover Productions), Los Dos Bros (Hat-Trick) & The Saint Pilot (Castel Film) 

Film includes: Firebrand, The Hessen Affair 

 

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Second Officer /Attendant George Fletcher

This is George’s RSC debut 

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), And Tell Sad Stories of The Death of Queens (King’s Head Theatre), Frankenstein (Watermill Theatre / Wilton’s Music Hall) 

Television includes: Doctors, EastEnders (BBC), Call The Midwife (BBC/Neal Street Productions) 

Radio includes: Doctor Who: The Demon Song; The War Master: Hearts of Darkness (Big Finish Productions)

Bally Gill
Orsino Bally Gill

Previous RSC includes: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo & Juliet (2018 Ian Charleson Award), Macbeth; Coriolanus; Salome; Vice Versa; Always Orange; Fall of the Kingdom, Rise of the Foot Soldier

Theatre includes: The Harmony Test (Hampstead Theatre), When the Crows Visit (Kiln Theatre); The Island Nation (Arcola Theatre)

Television includes: Interview with the Vampire S2 (AMC); Under the Bridge (Disney); Sherwood (BBC); Slow Horses (Apple/See Saw Films); This is Going to Hurt (BBC); The Lazarus Project (Sky); Manhunt (ITV1); Around the World in Eighty Days (Federation Entertainment); Wanderlust (BBC); NW (BBC)

Film includes: Allelujah (Pathe/BBC); Bus Driver (Batavia Productions)

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Sir Andrew Aguecheek Demetri Goritsas

This is Demetri’s RSC debut 

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).  

Television includes: 10 Percent (Amazon), The Fear Index, The Alienist, Black Mirror (Netflix), Episodes (Showtime), Modus II (TV4), A Poet in New York, Twenty Twelve, Torchwood, Spooks (BBC), The Path to 9-11 (ABC) 

Film includes: Ear for Eye, Radioactive, Rocketman, The Catcher Was a Spy, Darkest Hour, Papillon, Borg McEnroe, Snowden, Everest, Rush, Austenland, X-Men: First Class, Good Vibrations, A Mighty Heart, Thunderbirds, The Bourne Identity, Saving Private Ryan, Little Women. 

Trained at: the Central School of Speech & Drama. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Feste Michael Grady-Hall

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

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

Television includes: Emmerdale (ITV), The Regime (HBO), Jack Ryan (Prime), Casualty, Doctors (BBC), Doctor Thorne (ITV) 

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 credits include: Three’s Company’s Adventure Department, Other Haunts 

Michael is co-founder of Three’s Company and Smooth Faced Gentlemen

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Maria Danielle Henry

RSC includes: The Hypocrite, A Christmas Carol

Theatre includes: Husk (Hope Mill Theatre), Quiz (Chichester/Tour), A Play for the Living in a Time of Extinction (Headlong); Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, Queens of the Coal Age, B!RTH, Closer (Royal Exchange Manchester); Afterlife, My Brilliant Friend (National 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; Host Merry Wives of Windsor (StoryHouse)

Film and TV includes: The Good Ship Murder 2, Time 2 (BBC), The Odd Squad  Silent Witness, Lost Christmas, Moving On, Torchwood, No Offence, Doctors, Katy, Survivors, Paradox, Candy Cabs (BBC), The Beaker GirlsMy Mum Tracy Beaker (CBBC), Third Day (Sky/HBO, Punch Drunk), Broken (BBC/LA Productions), Diamond Geezer, Emmerdale (ITV); Leah’s Trial (C4); Soul Boy (Ipso Facto Films)

Danielle has performed in numerous radio dramas for Radio 4.

 

 

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Viola Gwyneth Keyworth

This is Gwyneth's RSC debut season.

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 (BBC), The Trouble with Maggie Cole, Dr Thorne, The Suspicions of Mr Whicher (ITV), Alex Rider (Amazon), The Crown, Black Mirror (Netflix), Craith (S4C/BBC), Bang (S4C), Wasted, Misfits (Channel 4)  

Film includes: The Toll, Elfie Hopkins, Closer To The Moon.  

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

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First Officer /Orsino's Attendant Michael Lyle

RSC includes: 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 S2 (Netflix); The Last Hours of Laura K; Eastenders; Doctors (BBC)  

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

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Sea Captain Cat McKeever

This is Cat’s RSC debut 

Screen includes: BallywalterBreathtaking (ITV)

Cat is also known as their alter ego ‘Cat Phisher’, a gender-bending, award-winning drag artist performing comedy, cabaret, burlesque, circus/side show and regular event hosting in London since 2021. 

Trained: Guildhall School of Music and Drama

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Fabien Daniel Millar

RSC includes: 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(Shakespeare’s 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 - Offie nomination: Best Actor in a Play); Accomplice (MenierChocolate 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).

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: CasualtyLondon KillsBritanniaWarrenDoctorsTrying AgainBeautiful DayPsychovilleDoctorsEastEndersGrownupsTwo Pints of Lager and a Packet of CrispsHolby CityVincentInstinct.

Film includes: Downton AbbeyThe Current War.

Trained at: LAMDA

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Curio Attendant Reece Miller

This is Reece’s RSC debut

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: RADA

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Olivia's Woman Charlotte O'Leary

This is Charlotte’s RSC debut

Theatre includes: 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 and 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 (BBC), The Witcher (Netflix) and Bang (S4C3) 

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

Trained: Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama

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Curio Thom Petty

Previous RSC includes: All’s Well That Ends Well and Richard III

Other 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 (ITV), Fool Me Once (Netflix), Breeders (Sky)

Film includes: Mary Queen of Scots, The Drifters, Born a King

Audio includes: The Archers (BBC Radio 4), The Paternoster Gang (Big Finish), 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: Ticker (BFI short film, Iris Prize finalist, Best Short: Fastnet, The Short Cinema, Boyne Valley), Confectionary/Applause (Mercury Theatre), Coast (Platform Presents Playwright Prize finalist), Chaconne (Best Short Film Screenplay Amsterdam International Film Festival)

Trained at: LAMDA

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Sebastian Rhys Rusbatch

RSC includes: Wendy and Peter Pan 

Theatre includes: The Comedy Of Errors ( Shakespeare's 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: Dirt Ash Meat, Nobody Listens Anymore, Burn Burn Burn, Zero Dark Thirty, Hunky Dory 

Radio: Ed Reardon Trained at: The Guildhall School of Music and Drama 

Trained at: The Guildhall School of Music and Drama

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Sir Toby Belch Joplin Sibtain

RSC includes: Romeo & Juliet 

Theatre includes: The Starry Messenger (Wyndhams 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 ( Shakespeare's 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: Andor S1-2, The Witchfinder, Invasion , Avenue 5, White Gold Series 2, Nightflyers, Safe, Marcella Series 2, Vera,  Hard Sun, Maigret, No Offence, Emerald City, Doctor Who

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

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Ensemble Tom Sowinski

This is Tom’s RSC debut 

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).  

Tom is also a multi-instrumentalist performing for theatre shows and being a frontman for a rock ‘n roll show. Most recently, he was seen as the pianist for Jay Osmond’s theatre show featuring songs of The Osmonds.  

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

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Malvolio Samuel West

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

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

Screen includes: 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. 

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

This is David’s RSC debut 

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
  • Royal Shakespeare Theatre

    Stratford-upon-Avon

    5 Dec 2024 - 18 Jan 2025 Book Tickets
  • Running time:

    To be confirmed

Next performance:

5 December, 7:15PM

Royal Shakespeare Theatre
Stratford-upon-Avon