Wendy & Peter Pan

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Skylights / Swing Shadow John Sodiq Akanmu

This is John’s RSC debut 

Film includes: Mission Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, Spy Assassin, The Last Tree as Kash, Hustle, Hello Au Revoir, Humans 

Trained at: The BRIT School in Performing Arts, Identity School of Acting, LA Acting Studios (Los Angeles), and the University of Portsmouth 

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Shadow Joe Anthony

This is Joe’s RSC debut 

Theatre whilst training includes: Spring Awakening, Sister Act (recipient of the Ian Fleming scholarship) 

Trained at: Arts Educational School

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Shadow James Berkery

This is James’s RSC debut

Theatre includes: Wendy & Peter Pan (Leeds Playhouse), The Last Ship (USA Tour)

Television and Film includes: Black Mirror – Eulogy, Joy, Enola Holmes 2, Been So Long, Will, House of the Dragon, Napoleon, The Winter King

Choreographer and Movement Director work includes: The Wolf, the Fox and the Leopard, Censor, Toni_with_an_i, M3GAN, A Christmas Carol, The Deep (Eastern Angles Centre), Penny (Pleasance), Armadillo (The Yard), Hamlet (Petersfield Shakespeare Festival), Shadow Kingdoms (Theatre503)

Associate Choreographer and Movement Director work includes: Girl From The North Country (Old Vic & West End), Billy Elliot (Curve, Leicester), Wendy & Peter Pan (Leeds Playhouse), The Last Ship (USA & Canada Tour)

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Shadow Kazmin Borrer

This is Kazmin’s RSC debut 

Theatre includes: The Parent Agency (Storyhouse, Chester), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (UK Tour), Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (UK Tour and Los Angeles), Salome (London Coliseum, ENO), Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens (Insideout Productions, The Tron Theatre) 

Film & television includes: Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, How to Talk to Girls at Parties, Little Red Hoodie

Trained at: Arts Educational School

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Shadow Lili-Evangeline Bryden

This is Lili-Evangeline’s RSC debut 

Theatre whilst training includes: Confessions, Made in Dagenham

Film includes: The Conjuring: Last Rites

Television includes: My Friend Jane, Britain's Got Talent

Trained at: London College of Music

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Mrs Darling Lolita Chakrabarti

Previous RSC includes: Hamnet (Swan Theatre/West End)

Theatre includes: Summer 1954 (Bath Theatre Royal/Tour), The Hunt (St Ann’s Warehouse, New York), Hamlet (RADA), Fanny & Alexander (Old Vic), John Gabriel Borkman (Donmar Warehouse), Free Outgoing (Royal Court) 

Television includes: Silo, Screw, Born to Kill, Vigil, Showtrial, The Wheel of Time, The Casual Vacancy, Delicious, Beowulf, Jekyll and Hyde, Riviera, Criminal 

Playwright credits include: Red Velvet, (Tricycle Theatre, London/St Ann’s Warehouse, New York/West End), Life of Pi (Sheffield Crucible/West End/Boston/Broadway/UK, US & International Tour).

Other writing credits include: Hymn (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre/Almeida), Invisible Cities (MIF/ Brisbane Festival). As Dramaturg: Sylvia (Old Vic), Message in a Bottle (Peacock Theatre/US Tour)

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Shadow / Doctor / Crocodile Harrison Claxton

This is Harrison’s RSC debut 

Performance includes: Exit (European Tour), Olion (Pontio), Boy-ish (Matsena Productions), Sir Elton John and Olly Alexander performance at the 2021 Brit Awards 

Screen credits: Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, Silent Twins, Red, White and Royal Blue 

Music videos include: Kylie Minogue, Paloma Faith, Nemo 

Choreography work includes: Carreg Ateb,  A Triumph of Art (commissioned by The National Gallery in Trafalgar Square, artist Jeremy Deller and director of Fran Wen, Gethin Evans)

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Martin the Cabin Boy Joe Hewetson

This is Joe’s RSC debut 

Theatre includes: Fine, Thanks, My Neighbours Are Kind of Weird (Edinburgh Fringe Festival)

Television includes: W1A, Sex Education, Too Much, Game of Thrones 

Film includes: Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

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Peter's Shadow Christopher Jeffers

This is Christopher’s RSC debut 

Theatre includes: Closure (Theatre Royal Windsor), The Bodyguard (Dominion Theatre/International Tour), Starlight Express (Germany, 25th Anniversary Cast), Man in the Mirror (International Tour), Fame: The Musical (UK & Ireland Tour) 

Television includes: Waterloo Road, Riot Women, Smoggie Queens, The Other One, Father Brown, We Might Regret This, Doctor Who, Domino Day, A Whole Lifetime with Jamie Demetriou, Coronation Street, The 4 O’Clock Club, Bridgerton

Film includes: Blitz, A Prancer Tale, Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga (Netflix), Rocketman, Cruella, Death on the Nile, The Amateur

Other: As a dancer, Christopher has performed at Disneyland Paris, The Brit Awards, and worked on Netflix’s KAOS, as well as appearing in a range of commercials and modelling campaigns.

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Smee Scott Karim

This is Scott’s RSC debut

Theatre includes: London Tide, Othello, Dara, Great Britain (National Theatre), The Flea (Yard Theatre), 2.22 A Ghost Story (Lyric Theatre), Chasing Hares (Young Vic), The Invisible Hand (Kiln Theatre), Oklahoma!, The Country Wife (Chichester Festival Theatre), The Arrival, The Invisible (Bush Theatre), Young Marx (Bridge Theatre)

Television includes: The GameHalo, Dracula, The Dumping Ground, The Great, Electric Dreams: Crazy Diamond, Britannia

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Shadow Alexander Kranz

This is Alexander’s RSC debut 

Theatre includes: & Juliet (UK Tour), Mahamaya Electronic Devices (Sadler’s Wells), To Wong Foo: The Musical (Hope Mill Theatre) 

Theatre whilst training:  Kipps, The Witches of Eastwick 

Trained at: Urdang

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Peter Pan Daniel Krikler

This is Daniel’s RSC debut 

Theatre includes: Fiddler on the Roof (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre/Barbican), Austenland (Savoy Theatre), Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet (Donmar Warehouse), The Motive and The Cue, The Normal Heart (National Theatre), The Book Thief (Leicester Curve), The Secret Life of Bees (Almeida Theatre), The Tempest, Macbeth (Guildford Shakespeare Company), Fighting Irish (Belgrade Theatre), Pippin (Charing Cross Theatre), 4000 Miles, Present Laughter (Old Vic), Unicorns, Almost (Bristol Old Vic), Homos, Or Everyone In America (Finborough Theatre), Pink Mist (Bristol Old Vic/UK Tour), Jersey Boys (Dodger Productions), Mamma Mia! (Novello Theatre), Bare: A Pop Opera (Union Theatre), Loserville (Garrick Theatre/West Yorkshire Playhouse) 

Theatre whilst training: A Serious Case of The Fuckits, The Heresy of Love

Film and Television includes: The Halcyon

Trained at: Central School of Speech and Drama, Laine Theatre Arts

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Slightly Max Lauder

This is Max’s RSC debut 

Theatre includes: Romeo and Juliet, Treasure Island, Tipping The Velvet (Richard Burton Company)

Film includes: From Sidney With Love

Trained at: Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama 

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Swing Shadow Meg Matthews

This is Meg’s RSC debut 

Theatre includes: Grease (Secret Cinema), Alice in Wonderland (Immersion Theatre), Humbug (Truman Brewery), The Brave & The Waves (Dockyard Chatham), Wonder Boy (Bristol Old Vic), Green Shoots (York Theatre Royal), Guardians of the Galaxy (Wembley Park)

Film includes: Custody, Echo’s of the Lost, Once a Ranger, Tooth-Fairy V, Viking Revenge, Confession. Shockwaves 

Television includes: McDonald & Dodds 

Trained at: ArtsEd

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Tink Charlotte Mills

Previous RSC includes: Wendy & Peter Pan, The Winter’s Tale 

Theatre includes: Doncastrian Chalk Circle (National Theatre/CAST Doncaster), Love’s Labour’s Lost, Much Ado About Nothing, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Gabriel (Globe), The Country Wife (Chichester Festival Theatre), Abigail’s Party (Theatre Royal Bath Productions), Merlin (Royal and Derngate), Therese Raquin (Theatre Royal Bath), Jerusalem (Royal Court/West End/Broadway), By Jeeves (Landor Theatre), Billy Liar (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Old Vic 24 Hour Plays (Old Vic), Theatre EP (Hightide/Latitude), Paradise Lost (Southwark Playhouse), Iphigenia (Crucible Theatre) 

Television includes: Small Prophets, Doctors, Casualty, Dodger, Malpractice, Protection, The Moorside, Doctor Thorne, A Very Royal Scandal, Behind Her Eyes, Letter for the King, Agatha Raisin, The Bastard Executioner

Film includes: Wilhelm Tell, Daddy Issues (Short), The Apology (Short), I’m Here (Short)

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Michael Darling Kwaku Mills
Previous RSC includes: Edward II 

Theatre includes: Underdog: The Other Other Bronte (National Theatre/Northern Stage), The Art of Illusion (Hampstead Theatre), King Lear (Globe), Queer Upstairs (Royal Court Theatre), Perspective (National Theatre), Hay Fever (Salisbury Playhouse), Candida (Orange Tree Theatre), Dark Sublime (Trafalgar Studios), Good Dog (Watford Palace Theatre/UK tour), The End of Eddy (Unicorn Theatre/UK tour) 

Television includes: Extraordinary, Urban Myths: The  Trial of Joan CollinsThe Other One, I Hate You

Film includes: The Trouble With Jessica 

Trained at: RADA

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Tom Darling Alexander Molony

Previous RSC includes: Macbeth 

Theatre includes: Bodies (Royal Court Theatre), South Pacific (Cadogan Hall) 

Film includes: Peter Pan & Wendy, The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales

Television includes: The Reluctant Landlord, Claude, Raa Raa The Noisy Lion

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Tootles Kyle Ndukuba

This is Kyle's RSC debut

Theatre includes: Romeo & Juliet (Belgrade Theatre/Bristol Old Vic/Hackney Empire) 

Television includes: Grace, Ellis 

Trained at: LAMDA

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Doc Swain Guy Rhys

Previous RSC includes: Wendy & Peter Pan 

Theatre includes: Moby Dick (Royal Derngate/Simple 8), Macbeth (English Touring Theatre), Much Ado About Nothing, Rock Paper Scissors (Sheffield Crucible), Mother Courage (Headlong/Royal Exchange Theatre), Arturo Ui, St Joan (Donmar Warehouse), Pomona (Orange Tree/National Theatre/Royal Exchange Theatre), 24 Hours Of Peace, A View From The Bridge, Bird (Royal Exchange Theatre), Beyond These Walls (Northern Broadsides), Aesop’s Fables, Grimm Tales, Not Now Bernard, My Father Odysseus, Jason & The Argonauts (Unicorn), Star Cross’d (Oldham Coliseum), Rafta Rafta (Bolton Octagon), A Streetcar Named Desire (Theatr Clywd), The Ramayana, Murmuring Judges, Transmissions (Birmingham Rep), The Allotment (New Perspectives/Edinburgh), The PowerBook, Mother Courage (National Theatre), Hijra (Leeds Playhouse), Mrs Dalloway (Arcola), Romeo & Juliet (Chichester Festival Theatre) 

Television includes: Brassic 7, The Witcher: Blood Origin, The Ipcress File, The First Team, MotherFatherSon, The Crimson Field, Holby City, Outlaws, Sorted, Doctors, Dalziel & Pascoe, Disability Benefits, Fallout, No Angels, Emmerdale, Fat Friends, The Last Detective, A&E, Big Bad World 2, The Bill

Film includes: The Festival, Mary, Queen Of Scots, How To Build A Girl 

Radio includes: Still Here, Restless Dreams, Relativity, Schreber, Zola: Sex, Blood & Money, Kukutis In The Dark

Trained at: Drama Centre

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Wendy Hannah Saxby

This is Hannah’s RSC debut 

Theatre includes: The Crucible (Globe), Some Demon (Arcola Theatre/Bristol Old Vic), Julius Caesar, Playhouse Creatures, Earthquakes in London (Richard Burton Theatre Company)

Television includes: Gentleman Jack 2Holby City, Doctors, Shakespeare & Hathaway, Malory Towers

Film includes: The First Two

Trained at: Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama

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Knock Bone Jones Hadley Smith

This is Hadley’s RSC debut 

Theatre includes: As Actor: The Three Musketeers (The New Vic), Macbeth, Romeo & Juliet (Dickens Theatre Rep), War of The Roses Live (KOME Entertainment), Wendy & Peter Pan (Leeds Playhouse), The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz, King Arthur (Gods and Monsters Rep), The Jungle Book (The Madinat Theatre, Dubai), Richard III (Combat Veteran Players), Glitter Punch (Kings Head Theatre), The Frozen Roman (National Tour), Brilliance (UK Tour). As Fight Director: Kynren - An Epic Tale of England (Eleven Arches), Jitney (Leeds Playhouse), The Three Musketeers (Immersion Theatre), Macbeth (YSC)

Screen includes: Emmerdale, 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown, The Last Leg, Silence Is Golden, The Hordes of Khan - Sabaton, The Viking Revenge

Trained at:  Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts.

Hadley is also a Fight Director and qualified Stage Combat Instructor with BADC

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Captain Hook / Mr Darling Toby Stephens

Previous RSC includes: Hamlet,A Midsummer Night's Dream, All's Well That Ends Well, Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus, Measure for Measure, Cheapside, Tamburlaine, The Pilate Workshop, Wallenstein, Unfinished Business

Theatre includes: Corruption(Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, Lincoln Center), The Forest (Hampstead Theatre), The Real Thing (The Old Vic), Private Lives (Gielgud), Danton's Death, Oslo (National Theatre/Harold Pinter)

Film includes: Die Another Day, Mārama

TV includes: Jane Eyre, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Black Sails, Lost in Space, A Cruel Love, The Split: Barcelona, Percy Jackson and the Olympians.

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Tiger Lily Ami Tredrea

Previous RSC includes: Hamlet Hail To The Thief

Theatre includes: London Tide, The Crucible (National Theatre), The Good Person of Szechwan (Sheffield Crucible Theatre), The 47th (Old Vic)  

Television includes: Black Mirror, Prime Target, My Lady Jane, Three Body Problem

Film includes: Strangers

Trained at: LAMDA

Marcello Walton_2025_c_ the artist_403394
Murt the Bat Marcello Walton

Previous RSC includes: Titus Andronicus, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, The Heart of Robin Hood 

Theatre includes: The Talented Mr Ripley (Faction Theatre/UK & International Tour), Macbeth (Propeller Theatre), The Three Musketeers (Rose Theatre, Kingston), Macbeth (Globe), The Seagull, Abandonment, Beautiful Thing (Theatre Royal, York), The Wicked Lady (New Vic, Stoke on Trent), Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet (Regent’s Park), Jamaica Inn (Salisbury Playhouse), The Three Musketeers, A Chorus of Disapproval, The Beggar’s Opera (Bristol Old Vic)

Television includes: The Split Series 3, Outlander, Dracula, The Bill, The Last Detective, Murder in Suburbia, When in Rome, My Hero, Sherlock Holmes, Rick Mayal Presents Dirty Old Town, Crusades, Peak Practice 

Film includes:  Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One, Rise of the Footsoldier 3, Rush, Captain America, Interview With A Hitman, In the Name of Ben Hur, Intimacy, Jesus the Curry King, First Night

Short film includes:  Nuisance

Web series includes: Kannada

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John Darling Fred Woodley Evans

This is Fred’s RSC debut 

Theatre includes: Outlying Islands (Jermyn Street Theatre) 

Television includes: Bridgerton 

Trained at:  Royal Academy of Dramatic Art

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Curly Tom Xander

Previous RSC includes: A Midsummer Night’s Dream 

Theatre includes: Mean Girls (Savoy Theatre), The Book of Mormon (Prince of Wales Theatre), Fado (ATG), Out the Box (National Theatre), Magic at the Musicals (Royal Albert Hall), The Show Must Go On: Live! (Palace Theatre and Sky Arts), Yarico (Workshop) 

Film includes: Seneca: On the Creation of Earthquakes, Jolt

Television  includes: The Larkins, Holby City

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