Denzel Baidoo
Bukayo Saka
Denzel Baidoo
Bukayo Saka
Denzel Baidoo trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. His work in theatre includes The Nutcracker at the Bristol Old Vic. TV includes Suspicion (Apple TV), Screw and Consent (Channel 4). Film includes The Last Swim and Restless.
Nick Barclay
Ensemble
Nick Barclay
Ensemble
Nick Barclay’s work in theatre includes Dear England at the National Theatre (also in the West End); Charlotte and Theodore at Theatre Royal, Bath; John Gabriel Borkman, Bach and Sons and The Southbury Child (also at Chichester) at the Bridge; Private Lives, Murder with Love, Stone Cold Murder, Dial M for Murder, Murder Mistaken, The Titfield Thunderbolt, Strictly Murder, Strangers on a Train, The Fantastic Mr Fox, Dead Funny, Fly Me to the Moon and The Boundary on UK tour; Going Ape at Dance Attic; Spider’s Web at the Mill at Sonning; Twelfth Night, Engagement with Murder, The Odd Couple and The Last of the Red Hot Lovers for the Queen Elizabeth Acting Company; Five Finger Exercise at Manor Pavilion, Sidmouth; The Complete Works of Shakespeare (Abridged) for Popular Productions; Newsrevue at the Canal Cafe; Romantic Comedy for Panache and Brio; The Gareth Jones Memorial Theatre, Dangerous Corner, One Man Protest, House Guest, Treasure Island, Run for Your Wife, Spider’s Web, Communicating Doors, Dancing at Lughnasa and Look Back in Anger for Bruce James; Round and Round the Garden, Boeing Boeing, Kind Hearts and Coronets, Private Lives, Wait Until Dark, The Long Mirror, Abigail’s Party, Educating Rita, Sleuth and Wait Until Dark for Charles Vance; Art and Stones in His Pockets for SH!; and The Mousetrap and The 39 Steps on UK tours. TV includes Jumbo: the Plane that Changed the World. Film includes City of Stories, Weekender and Red Mercury and the short film A Very British Cult.
Josh Barrow
Jordan Pickford
Josh Barrow
Jordan Pickford
Josh Barrow completed the Epic Stages course with National Youth Theatre. His work in theatre includes Dear England (also in the West End) and If Not Now, When? at the National Theatre; Time and Tide at Park Theatre and Norwich Theatre; Lit for HighTide at Nottingham Playhouse; The Outsider at the Print Room; Silk Road at the Vaults Festival, Live Theatre, Newcastle and Trafalgar Studios; Zigger Zagger for the National Youth Theatre; and Just Because I’m Paranoid… and Drinking Concrete at the Royal Court. TV includes Royal Bastards: Rise of the Tudors, Vera 10 and Temple. Film includes #Hero and the short films The Trap and My Brother is a Mermaid. Audio includes First Out and If Not Now, When?
TASHINGA BEPETE
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TASHINGA BEPETE
Ensemble
Tashinga Bepete trained at Mountview. His work in theatre includes Dear England at the National Theatre (also in the West End); Tempest for Wildcard; and Cabildo for Jessie Anand. TV includes Sex Education, Doctors, Princess Mirror-belle, Emigration and Red Rose. Film includes The Railway Children Returns, Batgirl and the short films Bittersweet and Activities of Daily Living.
GUNNAR CAUTHERY
Gary Lineker
GUNNAR CAUTHERY
Gary Lineker
Gunnar Cauthery’s work in theatre includes Dear England (also in the West End), Another World: Losing Our Children to Islamic State, The Suicide, This House and The White Guard at the National Theatre; Saving Grace at Riverside Studios; All My Sons at the Old Vic; Ravens: Spassky vs Fischer, Wild Honey, Wonderland and The Empty Quarter at Hampstead; Mack and Mabel (also on UK and Ireland tour) and The House of Special Purpose at Chichester; Little Shop of Horrors at the Royal Exchange; Privacy at the Donmar Warehouse; The Winter’s Tale and Henry V for Propeller; A View from the Bridge at Edinburgh Royal Lyceum; and Harvest at Oxford Playhouse. TV includes EastEnders, Doctor Who, Casualty, The First Team, Mars, Genius: Einstein, The Tudors, The Demon Headmaster and Just William. Film includes Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, Eurovision, The Nest, War Horse and Benjamin Dove. Radio includes Home Front, Tommies, Watership Down, Reykjavík, Planet B and Wives and Daughters.
WILL CLOSE
Harry Kane
WILL CLOSE
Harry Kane
Will Close trained at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts and the University of Illinois. His work in theatre includes Dear England at the National Theatre (also in the West End); Bad Altitude, 1599 and Great British Mysteries for Soho Theatre; Mediocre White Male at the King’s Head, Park Theatre and for Assembly; The Maze and The Odyssey for Teatro Vivo; Golem for 1927, the Young Vic and on international tour; Mixed Doubles at Adelaide Fringe; Good People at the English Theatre of Frankfurt; Dracula and Romeo and Juliet at the Broadway; and The Fossil at Charing Cross Theatre. TV includes Buffering and The Luisa Omielan Show. Short film includes Don’t Bury It, As Time Goes By, Animals, Flatmates and Deleting Emily. Radio includes Mediocre White Male, The Internexit, Sketchorama and Sketchorama Extra.
CRYSTAL CONDIE
Alex Scott
CRYSTAL CONDIE
Alex Scott
Crystal Condie trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Her work in theatre includes Dear England (also in the West End), All of Us and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time for the National Theatre; The Wife of Willesden at Kiln; Be My Baby and Hamlet at West Yorkshire Playhouse; A Christmas Carol at Bristol Old Vic; Twelfth Night for Filter; Robin Hood and Marian, Unearthed and The Gift at the New Vic; Black Crows and Octagon at the Arcola; Rumpelstiltskin and Lrksong at Theatre Royal Bath; and The Windsors in the West End. TV includes A Whole Lifetime with Jamie Demetriou, The Lovebox in Your Living Room, Casualty and Doctors.
Joseph Fiennes
Gareth Southgate
Joseph Fiennes
Gareth Southgate
Joseph Fiennes’ work in theatre includes Dear England (also in the West End) and Love’s Labour’s Lost for the National Theatre; A View from the Bridge (also at Bristol Old Vic) and Epitaph for George Dillon in the West End; Les Enfants du Paradis, Son of Man and The Herbal Bed at the RSC; Ross and Cyrano de Bergerac at Chichester; 2000 Feet Away at the Bush; Edward II at Sheffield Crucible; A Month in the Country at the Albery; and Real Classy Affair at the Royal Court. Work in TV includes The Handmaid’s Tale, American Horror Story and Pretty/Handsome. Film includes The Mother, Risen, Strangerland, Hercules, Against the Current, The Escapist, The Color of Freedom, Running with Scissors, Goodbye Bafana, Shakespeare in Love, Man to Man, Enemy at the Gates and Elizabeth.
Will Fletcher
Jordan Henderson
Will Fletcher
Jordan Henderson
Will Fletcher trained at Bristol Old Vic and RADA. His work in theatre includes Dear England at the National Theatre (also in the West End); The Wanamaker Festival at Shakespeare’s Globe; and The Girl Who Fell at Trafalgar Studios. TV includes Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power and Tom Jones. Film includes The Great Escaper, The Road Dance and the short films Dive, Pearly White and Conversations at Dusk. Radio includes Kingmaker.
Kate Kelly Flood
Ensemble
Kate Kelly Flood
Ensemble
Kate Kelly Flood’s work in theatre includes Housed at The Old Vic, Burnt Toast at the Edinburgh Assembly Rooms and Theatre503, Swallow at the Tristan Bates Theatre, Casserole for Actors East and Dumb Waiter at the Lost Theatre. TV includes I Hate Suzie Too. Film includes Forgive me Father, Unthinkable Conversations, One More, and You Don’t Know Anything.
DARRAGH HAND
Marcus Rashford
DARRAGH HAND
Marcus Rashford
Darragh Hand trained at London College of Music. Work in theatre includes Dear England at the National Theatre (also in the West End); L’amant Anonyme at Glyndebourne; Bangers for Cardboard Citizens and Soho Theatre; The Land of Lost Content at Pleasance; and For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Hue Gets Too Heavy for Nouveau Riche at New Diorama, the Royal Court and in the West End. TV includes Grace and Silent Witness.
Will Harrison-Wallace
Ensemble
Will Harrison-Wallace
Ensemble
Will Harrison-Wallace trained at ALRA. His work in theatre includes Dear England (also in the West End) and The Lehman Trilogy (also in the West End and Park Avenue Armory, New York) at the National Theatre; The Odd Couple, Moonlight and Magnolias and A Match Made in Heaven at Frinton Summer Repertory; Hamlet on UK tour; Noye’s Fludde at Blackheath Halls Opera; Merchant of Venice at London Contemporary; Heartbreak Hotel at The Jetty, Greenwich; Peckham – The Soap Opera at the Royal Court; A View from the Bridge at the Broadway, Catford; The Water Engine at the Old Vic; Richard III on UK tour; and The Shark is Broken in the West End and Toronto. TV includes Thomas and Friends, Killer Cops and The Snipist. Film includes Spin State, The Holly Kane Experiment and Guardians of the Galaxy. Radio includes The Corrupted, Beyond the Time Machine, Frankenstein, Jamaica Inn, Mrs Warren’s Profession, Barred and Blood Brothers. Video games include Divinity – Original Sin II, The Assembly, Assassins Creed – Chronicles, Old Gods Rising, Aces & Adventures, Murderous Muses and Lords of the Fallen.
Miranda Heath
Ensemble
Miranda Heath
Ensemble
Miranda Heath trained at the Midlands Academy of Dance and Drama. Her work in theatre includes Dear England (also in the West End) and The Ocean at the End of the Lane at the National Theatre; United Queendom for Les Enfants Terribles; Small Wonders for Punchdrunk; The Jungle Book and The Comedy of Errors for Oddsocks; Twelfth Night for YellowBelly Theatre; and Betrayal in the West End. TV includes Grace, Fifteen-Love, EastEnders, Code 404, Cursed, Get Even and The Capture. Film includes Giddy Stratospheres, Get Luke Lowe and the short films Make Do or Mend, Nothing to Lose and Corpucia.
John Hodgkinson
Greg Clarke
John Hodgkinson
Greg Clarke
John Hodgkinson’s work in theatre includes Dear England at the National Theatre (also in the West End); The Provoked Wife, Venice Preserved, Twelfth Night, Love’s Labour’s Lost and Love’s Labour’s Won for the RSC; The Country Wife and Aristo at Chichester; The Ferryman (Olivier Award nomination) and The Eleventh Capital at the Royal Court; Orson’s Shadow at Southwark Playhouse; Donkey’s Years at the Rose, Kingston; The Libertine at the Citizens, Glasgow; Unscorched for Papatango; White Rabbit Red Rabbit and A Walk On Part (also at Soho Theatre and the Arts) for Live Theatre; Behud at Soho Theatre; His Dark Materials, Hapgood (also at West Yorkshire Playhouse), Uncle Vanya, Murmuring Judges and Racing Demon at Birmingham Rep; The Winter’s Tale for Headlong and Schtanhaus; Absurdia and The Front Page at Donmar Warehouse; A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Taming of the Shrew at Regent’s Park; Hangmen at the Royal Court and on Broadway; and Best of Enemies for the Young Vic and Headlong in the West End. TV includes Life After Life, Catherine the Great, Red White and Blue, Rillington Place, Victoria, Witless, The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret, Big Bad World, The Escape Artist, Whitechapel, Silk, Holby City, Criminal Justice, Fallout, Heartbeat, Broken News, Brief Encounters – All in Day’s Work, Doctors, EastEnders, My Family, Peep Show, Lee Evans’ Show, Chambers, Kiss Me Kate, Roy Dance is Dead, People Like Us, Pure Wickedness and Boyz Unlimited. Film includes Napoleon, Heart of Lightness, Leave to Remain, Skyfall, Thunderpants and Firelight.
LLOYD HUTCHINSON
Sam Allardyce
LLOYD HUTCHINSON
Sam Allardyce
Lloyd Hutchinson’s work in theatre includes Rockets and Blue Lights, Absolute Hell, Salome, Plough and the Stars, The Beaux Stratagem, Husbands and Sons, Collaborators, The Observer, The Permanent Way and The Night Season for the National Theatre: To Kill a Mockingbird in the West End; ; Light Falls and The Taming of the Shrew for the Royal Exchange; A Very Expensive Poison and A Flea in Her Ear for the Old Vic; King Lear and Stones in his Pockets for the Duke of York’s Theatre; The Seagull and The Birthday Party for the Lyric Hammersmith; A Midsummer Night’s Dream and A Respectable Wedding at the Young Vic; Little Revolution, Measure for Measure and The Lightning Play for the Almeida; A View from the Bridge for Liverpool Playhouse; The Orphan of Zhao and Boris Godunov for the RSC; and Life is a Dream for the Donmar Warehouse. TV includes Joy to the World, Blackshore, Bad Sisters, Romeo & Juliet, MotherFatherSon, Manhunt, White Gold, Catastrophe, Utopia and Titanic. Film includes Mickey 17, Ballywalter, The Little Stranger, Florence Foster Jenkins, Anonymous, Mrs Henderson Presents, Pulling Moves and Gladiatress.
DERVLA KIRWAN
Pippa Grange
DERVLA KIRWAN
Pippa Grange
Dervla Kirwan’s work in theatre includes Aristocrats and Exiles at the National Theatre; A Handful of Stars and Poor Beast in the Rain at the Bush Theatre; An Absolute Turkey at Shakespeare’s Globe; Dangerous Corner at the Garrick Theatre; The Weir and Betrayal at Donmar Warehouse; Mr Foote’s Other Leg at Hampstead Theatre; Macbeth, King Lear and Uncle Vanya at Chichester Festival Theatre; Jesus Hopped the A Train at the Young Vic; Frankie and Johnny at Minerva Theatre, Chichester; Hush at the Royal Court; Fathers and Sons at The Gate Theatre, Dublin; A Little Like Drowning for Druid Company; and The Glass Menagerie at Peacock Theatre, Dublin. TV includes True Detective, The Reunion, Smother (Nominated for IFTA for Actress in a Leading Role), The Stranger, Silent Witness, Strangers, Strike Back, Krypton, Safe House, The Fuse, The Silence, Agatha Christie’s Marple, Material Girl, Moving On, Law and Order: UK, True Dare Kiss, Doctor Who, Casanova, 55 Degrees North, Hearts and Bones, Happy Birthday Shakespeare, Randall & Hopkirk, Dalziel & Pascoe, Ballykissangel, Goodnight Sweetheart. Film includes The Keeper, Interlude in Prague, Luna, Silent Hours, Entity, Ondine, Dangerous Parking, School for Seduction, December Brides, With or Without You, Pete’s Meteor.
ALBERT MAGASHI
Jadon Sancho
ALBERT MAGASHI
Jadon Sancho
Albert Magashi trained at Italia Conti. Dear England is his professional theatre debut. TV includes Still Up and Sherlock. Film includes Firecracker and the short film Anthony.
Tom Mahy
Ensemble
Tom Mahy
Ensemble
Tom Mahy trained at Drama Centre London. His work in theatre includes Brokeback Mountain at Soho Place Theatre; Othello and The Importance of Being Earnest at the Changeling Theatre; and Vincent River at Trafalgar Studios (nominated for Offie for Best Male Performance). TV includes Small Axe.
KEL MATSENA
Raheem Sterling
KEL MATSENA
Raheem Sterling
Kel Matsena trained at Bristol Old Vic. His work in theatre includes Dear England at the National Theatre (also in the West End); A Monster Calls at the Old Vic and on UK tour; and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (as director) at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. TV includes alwad, Brothers in Dance: Anthony & Kel Matsena and Doctors. Film includes Mad Heidi and the short films Are You Numb Yet? and Romantic Gestures. He is Co-Artistic Director of Matsena Productions.
LEWIS SHEPHERD
Dele Alli
LEWIS SHEPHERD
Dele Alli
Lewis Shepherd graduated from Rose Bruford College in 2022 and was a Spotlight Prize Nominee the same year. His work in theatre includes Dear England at the National Theatre (also in the West End); Super High Resolution for Soho Theatre; and I F*cked You in My Spaceship for Vaults Festival. Film includes 10 Swords and The Moon for Shopfloor Films. Lewis is the Founder and Artistic Director of the arts collective INCEPT COLLECTIVE.
Griffin Stevens
Harry Maguire
Griffin Stevens
Harry Maguire
Griffin Stevens trained at ArtsEd. His work in theatre includes Tom Stoppard’s Leopoldstadt for the Wydndham’s Theatre directed by Patrick Marber; Inkheart for Home Theatre in Manchester; Skull in Connemara directed by Chris Lawson and the UK tours of Dealers Choice and In Praise of Love directed by Patrick Kearns.
TV includes Absentia Series 2 for Sony; The Split for the BBC and Jack Thorne’s Glue for Channel 4. Film includes The Critic directed by Anand Tucker and The Roads Not Taken for BFI/BBC Films.
PAUL THORNLEY
Mike Webster
PAUL THORNLEY
Mike Webster
Paul Thornley’s work in theatre includes Dear England (also in the West End), London Road, Noises Off and The Miracle at the National Theatre; The Three Musketeers at the Rose, Kingston; It’s a Wonderful Life at the Wolsey, Ipswich; In the Red and Brown Water at the Young Vic; Not a Game for Boys at Manchester Library; Private Fears in Public Places at the Stephen Joseph, Scarborough, the Orange Tree and New York; Escape from Pterodactyl Island for Brave New World; Up on the Roof at the Mercury, Colchester; Kiss Me, Kate and Paint Your Wagon for the New Shakespeare Company; The Tempest and All’s Well That Ends Well at Regent’s Park; and A Chorus of Disapproval, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (also on Broadway), Spend Spend Spend and Scrooge in the West End. TV includes Sexy Beast, Criminal Record, A Small Light, The Gold, Vera, Lockwood and Co., Silent Witness, The Sister Boniface Mysteries, The Nevers, Rise of the Tudors, Agatha Raisin IV, Treadstone, Shakespeare and Hathaway, Good Karma Hospital, Trauma, The Crown, Father Brown, By Any Means, Trollied, Big Bad World, Above Suspicion, Silk, Just William, Poirot, In Dalston No One Can Hear You Scream, Murderland, Mutual Friends, The Bill, Ashes to Ashes, Rapunzel, Foyle’s War, Love Soup, Life Begins, Death Becomes Him, Recovery, Viva Blackpool, Green Wing, The Brief, Midsomer Murders and Alibi. Film includes The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, The Mercy, Minions, The Brothers Grimsby, London Road, Man Up, Camera Trap, Les Misérables, Broken, The Somnambulists and Metamorphosis.
TONY TURNER
Greg Dyke
TONY TURNER
Greg Dyke
Tony Turner’s work in theatre includes Dear England (also in the West End), The Visit, This House, Burnt by the Sun, Present Laughter, Playing with Fire, The UN Inspector and The Alchemist at the National Theatre; The Quest for the RSC; The School for Scheming at the Orange Tree; Journey’s End on tour; Personal Enemy for Brits Off Broadway at 59E59; Ink (also in the West End), Measure for Measure, Big White Fog and Enemies at the Almeida; The House of Special Purpose at Chichester; One Night in November at the Belgrade; The Jail Diary of Albie Sachs at Salisbury Playhouse; A Mad World, My Masters and Neville’s Island at New Wolsey, Ipswich; The Madness of George III at West Yorkshire Playhouse; The Danny Crowe Show at the Bush; Christmas Carol at New Vic; Talent at Colchester and Watford Palace; Communicating Doors at Manchester Library Theatre; Macbeth and Othello at Liverpool Everyman; Romeo and Juliet at Birmingham Rep; The Mirror and the Light, Journey’s End, This House and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time in the West End. TV includes Gentleman Jack, Quiz, Delicious, Downton Abbey, Loving Miss Hatto, Holby City, Silk, Doctors, Maxwell, Party Animals, Gavin and Stacey, Trial and Retribution XIII, Derailed, Foyle’s War, Eyes Down, Red Cap, Heartbeat, Always and Everyone, Coronation Street, The Ward, The Lakes, The Bill, Children’s Ward, The Riff Raff Element, Emmerdale and September Song. Radio includes The Archers and work with the BBC Radio Drama Company.
TRISTAN WATERSON
Ensemble
TRISTAN WATERSON
Ensemble
Tristan Water’s work in theatre includes Tree for Green Door Productions; Beautiful Thing at the Tobacco Factory and on tour; The Spine at Unity Theatre and on tour; All Roads at New Wimbledon Studio and on tour. TV includes Life of Boys and Kidnapped. Film includes Holy Beef. Radio includes Faith, Hope & Glory.
RYAN WHITTLE
Eric Dier