CAST
Andrea Davy
Andrea Davy (Addie) trained at LAMDA.
Theatre credits include: Nine Night (Leeds Playhouse / Nottingham Playhouse), Home Girl (Derby Theatre), Treasure Island (Birmingham Rep), All My Sons (Manchester Royal Exchange & UK Tour), Death of a Salesman (Leicester Haymarket), The Railway Children, The Front Room, Crush, Far From the Madding Crowd, The Lizzie Play (UK Tour), Mini Momentum Festival (Lakeside Arts Centre), Moving Out: The Reporter (Sandfield Theatre); Mmapula (South Africa State Theatre); Dragon Breath (Waverly Studio), The Railway Children, Rumpelstiltskin (Nottingham Playhouse), An Ideal Husband (Leicester Haymarket), Cinderella (Polka Theatre), Passionate Women (Derby Playhouse), Peacemaker (Roundabout Theatre).
Television includes: Coronation Street, Emmerdale, Lawless, Wilmot, Barbara (ITV) Patrick Melrose (Sky / Showtime), Doctors, Kiss Me Kate (BBC).
Film includes: The Violators.
Mark Bonnar
Mark Bonnar (Benjamin Hubbard) is a multi-award-winning actor and the recipient of a BAFTA Scotland award for his performance in 2017’s Unforgotten.
Theatre includes: Instructions for Correct Assembly, A Girl in a Car with a Man (Royal Court), Queers, The Duchess of Malfi (Old Vic), Sixty Six Books – Falling Apart, Mammals (Bush), The Cherry Orchard, Dido Queen of Carthage, Philistines, Cyrano de Bergerac, Anthony & Cleopatra, Flight, Richard III, Chips with Everything (National Theatre), Novencento (Trafalgar Studios), Twelfth Night (Wyndhams), Three Sisters, Twelfth Night (Royal Exchange), Lost Highway (ENO/ Young Vic), Parade (Donmar), Much Ado About Nothing (Salisbury Playhouse), The Cherry Orchard (Oxford Stage Company), Robin Hood (Caird Co/ NT Loft), Richard III, The Country Wife (Crucible, Sheffield), Out in the Open (Hampstead), Tales from Ovid, Volpone (RSC), The Seal Wife (Wimbledon Attic Theatre).
Television includes: Department Q (Netflix), The Rig (Amazon) Guilt, Inside Number Nine, Defending the Guilty, Eric, Ernie and Me, Porridge, Apple Tree Yard, Murder is Easy, World on Fire, Summer of Rockets and Line of Duty (BBC); Quiz, Litvinenko, Unforgotten, Shetland for ITV; Human, Catastrophe (Channel 4).
Film includes: Napoleon, Last Breath, Say my Name, The Kid who Would be King, Take Down, Sunset Song, X-Moor, Camera Trap.
Anne-Marie Duff
Anne-Marie Duff (Regina Giddens) is a multi-award-winning actress with a hugely successful stage and screen career. Previous Young Vic: The Daughter in Law and The Soldiers Fortune. Theatre includes: Saint Joan, Collected Stories, Strange Interlude, King Lear, War and Peace, Husbands and Sons, Common, La Grande Magia (National Theatre), Oil, The House of Shades, (Almeida), Sweet Charity, Berenice, Days of Wine and Roses (Donmar Warehouse) Cause Celebre (The Old Vic), Macbeth (Lincoln Centre Theatre), Playboy of the Western World (Dublin Theatre), Vassa (Albery Theatre). Television includes: Bad Sisters (Apple TV+), Shameless, Suspect (Channel 4), Reunion, The Virgin Queen, The Salisbury Poisonings, From Darkness, The Accused - Mo's Story, Parade's End, Margot, Elizabeth - The Virgin Queen, Charles II, Wild West, Sinners, The Way We Live Now, The Cold War (BBC), Sex Education (Netflix), His Dark Materials (BBC One and HBO). Film includes: On Chesil Beach, Suffragette, Before I Go to Sleep, Molly Moon, Closed Circuit, Nowhere Boy, The Last Station, Is Anybody There?, French Film, Born Equal, The Waiting Room, Garage, Magdalene Sisters, Enigma, Mild and Bitter.
John Light
John Light (Horace Giddens/ William Marshall) trained at LAMDA and received an Olivier Award nomination for his performance in Taken at Midnight at Chichester Festival Theatre and in the West End.
Theatre credits include: Watch on the Rhine, Luise Miller (Donmar), The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage (The Bridge Theatre), Uncle Vanya (Theatre Royal Bath), The Son (The Kiln Theatre & Duke of York’s Theatre), Mary Stuart (Duke of York’s Theatre, Almeida), The Winter’s Tale, A Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakespeare’s Globe), Three Days in the Country, The Night Season (National Theatre), The Giant, Julius Caesar, The Tempest, The Seagull, In The Company Of Men, A Patriot For Me (Royal Shakespeare Company), The Blackest Black, My Boy Jack (Hampstead Theatre), Julius Caesar (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre), Carmen Disruption, The Master Builder, The Tower, Certain Young Men (Almeida), Apologia, Clocks and Whistles (Bush Theatre), True West (Sheffield Crucible), Hedda Gabler (Dublin Gate Theatre), Thom Pain (based on nothing) (Print Room).
Television includes: Showtrial, Around the World in 80 Days, Father Brown, Silk, North and South, Cambridge Spies, Love in a Cold Climate, Aristocrats, Holding On, Atlantis (BBC), Mars (National Geographic / FX), Murder in Provence, Maigret, Endeavour, DCI Banks (ITV), Band of Brothers (HBO).
Film includes: De Gaulle, Albert Nobbs, Scoop, Partition, Heights, The Lion in Winter, Trance, Dk2, 5 Seconds to Spare, The Ascension, Benedict Arnold, Agent Hamilton, A Rather English Marriage, Investigating Sex, Purpose.
Freddie MacBruce
Freddie MacBruce (Cal)
A recent graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Freddie will make his professional stage debut in The Little Foxes.
Anna Madeley
Anna Madeley (Birdie Hubbard) trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
Previous Young Vic: A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Theatre includes: The Height of the Storm (Wyndham’s Theatre London), Les Blancs, The Crucible (Old Vic), The Turn of the Screw (Almeida), Private Lives (Music Box Theatre New York), Becky Shaw (Almeida), Earthquakes (National Theatre), The Philanthropist (Donmar Warehouse / Roundabout New York), Contractions (Royal Court), Coram Boy (National Theatre), The Cosmonaut’s Last Message to the Woman he Once Loved in the Former Soviet Union (Donmar Warehouse), Colder Than Here (Soho Theatre), The Rivals (Bristol Old Vic), Ladybird (Royal Court), The Roman Actor, The Malcontent (Dir. Dominic Cooke), A Russian in the Woods (Dir Robert Delamere), Love in a Wood (Royal Shakespeare Company).
Television includes: All Creatures Great and Small (Channel 5 / PBS), A Gentleman in Moscow (Sky/Paramount), Secret Invasion (Disney+), Anatomy of a Scandal, The Crown (Netflix), Time, Unprecedented, A Child In Time, Anne Lister, Crooked House, Sense and Sensibility, The Secret Life of Mrs Beeton, Sitting in Limbo (BBC), Deadwater Fell, Secret State, Utopia, Consent (Channel 4), Patrick Melrose (Sky/Showtime), Code of a Killer, Poirot - what was it called?, Mr. Selfridge, Marple - A Pocket full of Rye, Affinity, The Old Curiosity Shop, Aftersun, The Royal, A Dinner of Herbs (ITV).
Film includes: Vindicta, The Nutcracker & the Four Realms, The Little Stranger, The Mercy, The Ones Below, A Fantastic Fear of Everything, Brideshead Revisited, In Bruges, Strawberry Fields, Stoned.
Stanley Morgan
Stanley Morgan (Leo Hubbard) trained at LAMDA.
Theatre credits include: The Breach (Hampstead Theatre).
Television includes: A Thousand Blows (Hulu), Serpent Queen (Starz), Sexy Beast (Paramount+), The Sandman (Netflix).
Film includes: Argylle, I Used to be Famous, Prize Fighter: The Life of Jem Belcher.
Steffan Rhodri
Steffan Rhodri (Oscar Hubbard).
Previous Young Vic: Blood Wedding
Theatre includes: Macbeth (Liverpool, Edinburgh, London, Washington D.C.), Killer Joe (Trafalgar Studios), Woyzeck, The Hairy Ape (The Old Vic), The Mentalists (The Old Vic / Wyndham's Theatre), This House (Chichester Festival Theatre / Garrick Theatre), Cyrano De Bergerac, Mary Stuart, Suddenly Last Summer, The Birthday Party, Troilus and Cressida, The Crucible, King Lear, Twelfth Night, Afore Night Come, Abigail's Party (Theatr Clwyd), Light Shining In Buckinghamshire (National Theatre), I'd Rather Goya Robbed Me Of My Sleep (Gate Theatre), Candide, A Mad World My Masters (RSC), Absent Friends (Harold Pinter Theatre), Posh (Duke Of York's Theatre), The Kitchen Sink (Bush Theatre), Clybourne Park (Royal Court Theatre), The Father (Chichester Festival Theatre), Richard II (Ludlow and Almagro Festivals), Abigail's Party (Hampstead Theatre / Wyndham's Theatre), The Tempest, The Two Noble Kinsmen (Shakespeare's Globe).
Television includes: the forthcoming Gavin & Stacey Finale, Death Valley, The Way, Men Up, Steeltown Murders, In My Skin, Three Girls, Apple Tree Yard, Under Milk Wood, Father Brown, Doctors, Gavin & Stacey, Belonging, Tales from Pleasure Beach, The Bench (BBC), We Hunt Together (BBC / Showtime) Das Boot, Temple, A Touch Of Cloth, Stella (Sky) Fifteen-Love, A Very English Scandal, The Hollow Crown S.2, Love Me (Amazon) House of the Dragon (HBO) Yr Amgueddfa / The Museum, Keeping Faith, Byw Celwydd, Mewn Twll, Hinterland, Pen Talar, Con Passionate (S4C), The Last Kingdom (Netflix), Wild Bill, Manhunt, Heartbeat, Wire In The Blood (ITV), Cucumber (Channel 4).
Film includes: the forthcoming Mr Burton, Anna, Edge of Summer, The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die, Don't Breathe 2, Dream Horse, Last Summer, Wonder Woman, Under Milk Wood, Ironclad, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, Submarine, The Big I Am, Cymru Fach, Ali G Indahouse, Solomon & Gaenor.
Eleanor Worthington-Cox
Eleanor Worthington-Cox (Alexandra Giddens) won an Olivier Award for Best Actress for her performance in the title role of Matilda the musical.
Theatre credits include: Next To Normal (Donmar Warehouse/Wyndham’s Theatre), The Secret Life of Bees (Almeida), Jerusalem (Apollo Theatre), Tom Cat (Southwark Playhouse), Bugsy Malone (Lyric Hammersmith), To Kill a Mockingbird (Regents Park Open Air Theatre), Matilda: The Musical (Cambridge Theatre).
Television includes: Britannia, The Enfield-Haunting (Sky), The Irregulars (Netflix), Cucumber (Channel 4), Hetty Feather (CBBC).
Film includes: Gwen, Action Point, Maleficent.
CREATIVES
Lillian Hellman
Writer
Lillian Hellman was born in New Orleans, grew up in New Orleans and New York City, and attended New York University and Columbia. Hellman was twice the recipient of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for the best play of the year. She was also awarded the Gold Medal for Drama from the National Institute of Arts and Letters. In 1972 a definitive edition of all her work for the theatre was published as The Collected Plays. Hellman received the National Book Award for An Unfinished Woman in 1969. She subsequently wrote two additional volumes of autobiography, Pentimento and Scoundrel Time. In the decades before her death in 1984, Hellman divided her time between New York and Martha’s Vineyard.
Theatre as playwright includes: The Children’s Hour, The Little Foxes, Watch on the Rhine, Another Part of the Forest, The Autumn Garden and Toys in the Attic.
Lyndsey Turner
Director
Lyndsey Turner is an Associate Director at the National Theatre.
Theatre includes: The Witches, The Crucible (also West End) and Under Milk Wood (National Theatre), A Number (Old Vic); Far Away, Faith Healer, Fathers and Sons (Donmar Warehouse); Hamlet (Barbican); The Treatment, Chimerica (Almeida); Girls and Boys, Posh (Royal Court).
Lizzie Clachan
Designer
Lizzie is an award-winning stage designer working in theatre, opera, dance and installation. She was a founding member of the arts collective Shunt. Lizzie won Designer of the Year at the International Opera Awards 2023.
Previous Young Vic includes: Yerma (Also The Armoury, NYC/Schaubuhne, Berlin), The Life of Galileo, Macbeth, A Season in the Congo.
Theatre includes: Robin Red Breast (Manchester Factory International); Long Day’s Journey Into The Night (Wyndham’s Theatre); The Witches, Rutherford and Son, Absolute Hell, As You Like It (National Theatre); Days of Wine and Roses (Broadway); August Ossage County, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Malmo Stadsteater); Assassins (Chichester Festival Theatre); Fever Syndrome (Hampstead Theatre); Blindness (Donmar Warehouse/ International & UK tour); A Number, White Noise (Bridge Theatre); Far Away and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Donmar Warehouse); The Son (Kiln/ West End)
Opera includes: Greek Passion (Salzburger Festspiele); Nixon in China (Staatsoper Hannover); Lucia Di Lammermoor (The Metropolitan Opera/ LA Opera); The Blue Woman, Seven Deadly Sins/Mahogany Songspiel (Royal Opera House).
Lucy Carter
Lighting Designer
Lucy is an award-winning lighting designer and artist who was worked extensively for theatre, ballet, dance, musical theatre, opera, and installations.
Previous Young Vic: Love and Money (Also Royal Exchange).
Theatre includes: Shirley Valentine, 2:22 and Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (West End), The Time Traveller's Wife (Storyhouse, West End), Much Ado about Nothing, Home I’m Darling, Husbands and Sons, Medea and Emil and the Detectives (NT), Persuasion (Rose Theatre, Kingston).
Opera includes: Alcina (RBO), The Turn of the Screw (Royal Danish Opera), Le nozze di Figaro (Paris Opera); Kát’a Kabanová (Rome, RBO), The Cunning Little Vixen, Orphée, Salomé, The Dream of Gerontius (English National Opera), Fiddler on the Roof (Grange Park Opera), La finta giardiniera (Glyndebourne Festival, La Scala), Peter Grimes (Aldeburgh).
Dance includes: Free Your Mind (Manchester International Festival) MADDADDAM, DYAD 1929, INFRA, Woolf Works, The Dante Project, McGregor + Mugler, Multiverse, Chroma and Autobiography (Wayne McGregor).
Tingying Dong
Sound Designer
Ting trained at LAMDA and is a sound designer, composer, and theatre maker.
As sound designer/composer, theatre includes: Klippies (Young Vic); London Tide, Dear Octopus (National Theatre); The Secret Garden, The Tempest (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder (Ambassadors Theatre/Bristol Old Vic/Edinburgh Festival); The Crucible (National Theatre/Gielgud Theatre. The Stage Debut Award for Best West End Creative Debut); Lyonesse (Harold Pinter Theatre); In The Ruins of the Big House (Factory International); Quiet Songs (Barbican); Rock’n’Roll, The Breach, Peggy For You, Folk (Hampstead Theatre); My Son’s A Queer (But What Can You Do?) (Ambassadors Theatre/Garrick Theatre/Leicester Curve/Edinburgh Festival /Turbine Theatre. WhatsOnStage Award for Best Off West End Production); A Doll’s House, Scissors (Sheffield Theatres); Twine (Yard Theatre); Macbeth (ETT/Shakespeare North/International Tour); Black Superhero (Royal Court); Watch On The Rhine (Donmar Warehouse); The Beekeeper of Aleppo (Nottingham Playhouse/UK Tour); A Christmas Carol (Nottingham Playhouse/Birmingham Rep/Alexandra Palace/BBC.)
Jessica Ronane CDG CSA
Casting Director
Film includes: Queer (Luca Guadagnino), Mickey 17 (Bong Joon Ho), Good Grief (Dan Levy), Emma (Autumn De Wilde) and The Kid Who Would Be King (Joe Cornish).
Theatre includes: The Little Foxes, Stranger Things, People Places and Things, Long Day’s Journey into Night, The Lehman Trilogy, The Glass Menagerie (West End); The Spy Who Came In From the Cold (Chichester); Ulster American (Riverside Studios); A Mirror (Almeida Theatre); The Real Thing, Pygmalion, The Dumb Waiter, Faith Healer, Endgame/Rough for Theatre II, A Christmas Carol, Lungs, A Very Expensive Poison, Present Laughter, All My Sons, The American Clock, Sylvia, A Monster Calls, Mood Music, Fanny & Alexander, Woyzeck, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead, King Lear, The Caretaker, The Master Builder, Dr Seuss’s The Lorax, The Hairy Ape, Future Conditional (The Old Vic); Girl From the North Country (The Old Vic/West End).
Television includes: True Detective: Night Country.
Upcoming projects include - Film - After The Hunt (Luca Guadagnino), The Woman in Cabin 10 (Simon Stone).
Jessica is co-chair of The Casting Directors Guild.
Kim Kasim
Wigs, Hair & Make Up Designer and Supervisor
Wigs, Hair & Make Up Designer: A Long Days Journey into Night (Wyndham Theatre).
Associate Wigs, Hair & Make Up Designer: The Witches (National Theatre).
Wigs, Hair & Make Up Supervisor: Tupperware of Ashes, Nye, Three Sisters, Anthony & Cleopatra, Follies, Red Barn & Evening at the Talkhouse (National Theatre).
Kev McCurdy
Fight Director
Kev is an Equity Registered Fight Director of 24 yrs & co-founder of The Academy of Performance Combat.
Previous Young Vic: The Homecoming, Mandela, Barbarians, Hamlet, Nora- A Doll’s House, Things Of Dry Hours, Fairview.
Theatre & Opera includes: Sister Act (Eventim Apollo); Les Misérables (Sondheim Theatre); Phantom of The Opera (Her Majesty’s Theatre); Carmen, The Barber Of Seville (Garsington Opera); An Officer And A Gentleman (UK tour); Othello,The Tempest; (RSC); Red Pitch, Wolves On Road (Bush Theatre); Guardians of The Galaxy (Secret Cinema); Trouble In Butetown, The Fear Of 13 (Donmar Warehouse); Brokeback Mountain (Soho Place); The Wizard Of Oz (London Palladium); Othello (National Theatre); Tambo and Bones (Stratford East), Player Kings (Noel Coward Theatre & UK tour).
TV & Film includes: The A List S2 (Netflix); John Carter Of Mars (Walt Disney / Pixar); Protein, Scopophobia, The Girl On The Platform (Broadside Films); The Lady Of Heaven (Enlightened Kingdom) Until I Kill You (ITV).
Directing: The Saliva Milkshake; The Glass Menagerie; Making of a Motherer; Jekyll And Hyde The Musical, The Fight.
Rebecca Gausnell
Voice and Dialect Coach
Rebecca Gausnell is a Voice & Dialect Coach for Theatre, Film & TV.
Previous Young Vic: The Inheritance, Blood Wedding, Winter.
Theatre Includes: Waitress: The Musical, True West, Admissions (West End); Camp Siegfried (Old Vic); A Song At Twilight (Theatre Royal Bath); A View From The Bridge (The Tobacco Factory); All My Sons (Rose Theatre Kingston Hong Kong Tour); Fiddler On The Roof (Liverpool Everyman); Blueberry Toast (Soho Theatre); Fool for Love (Found 111).
Television includes: Industry, The Serpent Queen, Emily in Paris, All the Light We Cannot See, Berlin Station, Pennyworth.
Film includes: The Killer, Magic Mike’s Last Dance, Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon, Close.
Phillippe Cato
Piano Composition and Musical Director / Jerwood Assistant Director
Phillippe (he/him) is a freelance director, dramaturg, singer songwriter, and composer. In January 2023, Phillippe co-founded Telluric., with producer Wayne Glover-Stuart, a company with the mission to tell representative LGBTQIA+ stories and narratives from global perspectives via theatre productions.
As Director: Finding Olokun (Telluric/Stanley Arts).
As Associate Director & Choral Arranger: A Raisin in the Sun (Headlong/Leeds Playhouse/Lyric Hammersmith Theatre/Nottingham Playhouse)
As Assistant Director: My Mother’s Funeral: The Show (Paines Plough/Mercury Theatre/Belgrade Theatre/Landmark Theatres/Royal & Derngate, Northampton); The Big Life (Theatre Royal Stratford East).
As Dramaturg: Always Maybe the Last Time R&D (Royal Court Theatre); The Merry Wives of Windsor R&D (Shakespeare’s Globe); Hot in Here (UK tour/Gate Theatre); The Importance of Being Earnest (ETT/Leeds Playhouse/Rose Theatre, Kingston/UK tour)
Phillippe was previously Senior Literary Associate at Royal Court Theatre, Associate Director at Theatre Peckham and New Work Associate at Paines Plough.
Aoife Scott
Jerwood Trainee Assistant Director
Aoife is an Actor, Director, and Facilitator. She is the Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director of Kitchen Revolt Productions, a new writing theatre company championing working class voices and telling stories that ignite meaningful conversations. She has trained as an Inclusive Practice Facilitator with The National Youth Theatre and has worked with London Bubble Theatre, Commonwealth Theatre (Cardiff) and Attic Theatre.
This is Aoife’s first project with The Young Vic.
As Director: Desmond’s Scared of the Smoking Sea (Jack Studio Theatre), Queer Failure (London Art Bar).
Assistant Director: Town Planning in the Apocalypse (The National Youth Theatre).
As an actor: What Lies Above (The National Youth Theatre), Silent Houses (Lion and Unicorn Theatre), Desire/Up All Night (The Duke of York), Bad Victims (The Courtyard Theatre), Wagatha (The National Youth Theatre) and IC9 (feature film).