Kyoto

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Tanzania / Mark Mwandosya Jude Akuwudike

RSC includes:  A Winter’s Tale, Pericles,  Brixton Stories, Macbeth, Macbett, God In Ruins 

Theatre includes: Three Sisters, Moon on a Rainbow Shawl (National Theatre), The Convert (Young Vic), A Mirror (Trafalgar Studios), 1984 (Hackney Old Town Hall), A Slight Ache & The Dumb Waiter (Greenwich Theatre), House of Ife (Bush Theatre), Henry V (Donmar Warehouse), The Faith Machine (Royal Court), Great Expectations (English Touring Theatre), Othello (Glasgow Citizens Theatre), Othello (USA tour) 

Television includes: The Crown, Gangs of London, Fortitude, In The Long Run, Chewing Gum, Friday Night Dinner, Cucumber, Law & Order  

Film includes: Eyimofe, Beasts of No Nation, The Tempest, Touched By A Stranger, Sahara, A World Apart, The Little Mermaid., The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim 

Trained at: RADA 

 

 

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Shirley Jenna Augen

RSC debut season 

Theatre includes: Nachtland (Young Vic); Leopoldstadt (Longacre Theatre, Broadway/ Wyndham's Theatre, West End); Bartholomew Fair (Shakespeare’s Globe); The Comedy About a Bank Robbery (Criterion); The Knowledge (Charing Cross Theatre); The Witches (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Bad Jews (UK Theatre Award/The Arts Theatre/St. James Theatre/Theatre Royal, Bath); The Way Of The World (Chichester Festival Theatre); Rufus Norris’ Sleeping Beauty (Birmingham Repertory Theatre); Chicken Soup with Barley (Royal Court); The Gondoliers (Sierra Madre Playhouse); A Christmas Carol (Grove Theater Centre); A Murder Is Announced (The Lyceum/Arrow Rock); The Boys From Syracuse, The Two Gentlemen Of Verona (Commonwealth Shakespeare Co) and The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Wilton Playshop). 

Television includes: Episodes and The Night Watch 

Film includes: Josephine and the Roach and Penelope in the Treehouse. 

Radio includes: Chicken Soup with Barley and A Year at the Races. 

 

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Secretariat Olivia Barrowclough

RSC debut season

Theatre includes: Good Day (Vaults Festival 2023), Chekhov’s Dildo (Hope Theatre), The Afflicted (Groupwork), The Dark Carnival, Interiors (Vanishing Point), One More Sleep Till Christmas (Citizens Theatre), Balm in Gilead, Macbeth, All My Sons, The Cherry Orchard (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland), The Words of Others (On The Verge Festival at the Citizens Theatre 2017)

Television includes: Casualty, Bridgerton, Novels That Shaped Our World, Theodosia, Shetland S5

Film includes: Big Night (Short)

Radio includes: North and South, Another Time, Another Place, The Moons Dress

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Raul Estrada-Oyuela Jorge Bosch

This is Jorge's RSC debut season.

Theatre includes: El método Grönholm, Espía a una mujer que se mata, Invencible, El nombre, Feelgood, Speaking in Tongues, Luces de Bohemia, Todos eran mis hijos, Glengarry Glen Ross, Donde pongo la cabeza, ¡Tú come bollos…! 

TV includes: Canguros, La forja de un rebelde or More than Friends, Médico de Familia, Todos los hombres son iguales, El Comisario or Periodistas, Las Abogadas, El Marqués, Todos Mienten, Los Farad, Amar es para siempre, Rappa, Todos mienten, Caronte, No te puedes seconder, Criminal (España), La caza. Monteperdido, El accidente, Buscando el norte, Isabel, Bienvenidos al Lolita, Gran reserve, Doctor Mateo, 14 de Abril. La República, ¿Hay alguien ahí?, Cazadores de hombres, Soy El Solitario, Herederos, Círculo rojo, Cuenta atrás, Hospital Central, Al filo de la ley, El pantano  

Film includes: Hotel Bitcoin, Dominus Videt, Kepler, Sexto B, La estrategia del pequinés, El doble más quince, Zipi y Zape y la isla del Capitán, Las ovejas no pierden el tren, Gente en sitios, Adivina quién viene a comer mañana, Cinco metros cuadrados, Planes para mañana, Cándida, La caja Kovak

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USA/ Wirth/ Eisenstat Nancy Crane

RSC debut season

Theatre includes:  A View from the Bridge (Headlong); Summer and Smoke (Almeida & W End), Dance Nation, Against (Almeida); Chimerica (Almeida & W End); Yellowfin, A Lie of the  Mind, Next Fall (Southwark Playhouse); The Sewing Group, Now or Later, The Sweetest Swing in Baseball, Our Late Night, The Strip (Royal Court); Teddy Ferrara (Donmar); Vieux Carre (King’s Head); The Children’s Hour (W End); Design for Living (Old Vic); Love the Sinner, Angels in America (National Theatre); Re-Orientations (Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre); Chains of Dew, Trifles (Orange Tree); The Girl in the Goldfish Bowl, Six Degrees of Separation (Sheffield Crucible); The Price (National Tour); Habitat (Royal Exchange Manchester).

Television includes: The Buccaneers, Inside Man, The Crown (series 5), Suspicion, The Girlfriend Experience, Call the Midwife, Avenue 5, Chimerica, Black Earth Rising, Melrose.

Films include: The Current War, Leavey, The Danish Girl, Woman in Gold, Batman: The Dark Knight, The Road to Guantanamo, The Machinist.

 

 

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Fred Singer Vincent Franklin

This is Vincent's RSC debut season.

Theatre includes: The Snail House (Hampstead); Mary Stuart (Almeida); Laughton (Stephen Joseph); This House (National Theatre); That Day We Sang (Manchester International Festival); Pygmalion (Ipswich Wolsey); All My Sons (Oxford Stage Company); The Marriage of Figaro, The Changeling, The Baltimore Waltz and The Country Wife (Harrogate Theatre). 

TV includes: Happy Valley, The Thick Of It, Cucumber, Gentleman Jack, I Hate You; The Witchfinder; Midsomer Murders; Bodyguard; Doc Martin; Decline and Fall; Tubby and Enid; Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell; Twenty-Twelve; Grandma's House; The Wrong Mans; Being Human; No Holds Bard; Oliver Twist; Lead Balloon; The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle; Five Days; The Virgin Queen; Casanova; Hustle; The Worst Week of My Life; Green Wing; The Shoreditch Tw*T; People Like Us; The Office; Chambers; Sir Gadabout; A Line in the Sand; The Infinite Worlds of H. G. Wells; Berkeley Square and Kavanagh QC. 

Film includes: God's Spy; Allelujah!; Censor; The Wilds; Yesterday; Bright Star; The Illusionist; Confetti; The Bourne Identity; From Hell.  

Vincent is also a regular collaborator with Mike Leigh, having appeared in Peterloo, Mr Turner, Vera Drake and Topsy Turvy. 

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AOSIS / Kiribati Andrea Gatchalian

RSC debut season 

Theatre Includes: Ikaria (Park Theatre), Borderlands (Royal Court Theatre), The Wolves (The Space), The Kindness of Strangers (Vaults).  

Television includes: The Road Trip, Bad Education.  

Film Includes: A Cuban Girl’s Guide To Tea and Tomorrow 

Trained at: Mountview  

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Japan / Ohki Togo Igawa

RSC includes: The Fair Maid of the West, The Rover and The Great White Hope.   He made his debut at the RSC in 1986 as the first Japanese actor 

Togo Igawa started acting in Japan more than 50 years ago and moved to England in 1983. 

Theatre includes: After Life (Royal National Theatre), The Good Person of Szechwan (The Crucible/Lyric Hammersmith), The Cherry Orchard (Bristol Old Vic/Royal Exchange), The King of Hell’s Palace (Hampstead Theatre) 

Television includes:  Invasion, The Crown, Giri/Haji, The IT Crowd, Dr Who  

Film includes: Eyes Wide Shut, Topsy-Turvy, The Last Samurai, Johnny English Reborn, Le Hérisson. 

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Don Pearlman Stephen Kunken

RSC debut season 

Theatre includes: Enron (Broadhurst Theater), The Columnist (Samuel J. Friedman Theatre), High (The Booth Theater), Rock’ n’ Roll (Bernard Jacobs Theater), Frost/Nixon (Bernard Jacobs Theater), Festen (Music Box Theater), Proof (Walter Kerr Theatre).

Off-Broadway credits include: An American Daughter (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Apple Family Plays (The Public Theater), Nikolai and The Others (Lincoln Center Theater), Our Town (Barrow St. Theatre). 

Television includes: A Spy Among Friends (Britbox), Showtime, Billions, The Handmaid’s Tale, The Affair (Showtime), The Good Wife (CBS), Unforgettable (CBS), Blue Bloods (CBS), The Sopranos (HBO), The Apple Family Plays (PBS).  

Film includes: Cafe Society, Hillbilly Elegy, Jason Bourne, The Wolf of Wall Street, Bridge of Spies, Taking Woodstock. Mr. Kunken’s film directorial debut Before, During, After took home top prizes at four International Film Festivals and is distributed by Gravitas Ventures 

 

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China / Zhong Kwong Loke

RSC debut season 

Theatre includes: The Great Wave (Royal National Theatre), Pah-la and You For Me For You (Royal Court), Labour of Love (Noel Coward, West End), What Remains of Us (Bristol Old Vic), The Apology (Arcola London), Summer Rolls (Park Theatre, Bristol Old Vic),  Dear Elizabeth (Gate Theatre, Notting Hill).  

Television includes: Gangs of London (HBO-SKY), The Feed (ITV Amazon) and a Disney+ series.  

Radio includes: At Sea on Inya Lake, Another Land, Our Father the Mountain, The Joy Luck Club.  

He was a founder member of New Earth Theatre, which champions East/SE Asian work and practitioners, and frequently runs acting workshops in East Asia. 

Trained at: Guildhall School of Music and Drama 

 

 

 

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Germany / EU / Merkel Ingrid Oliver

RSC debut season 

Television includes: Sweetpea, Late in Life, Dr Who, Gameface, Plebs, The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret, Watson & Oliver (BBC) 

Film includes: Last Christmas, The Hustle 

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Bolin / Al Gore Dale Rapley

RSC includes: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Theatre includes: As You Like It (Shakespeare’s Globe); Singin’ in the Rain (Japan and UK tour); Gypsy (Manchester Royal Exchange); The Bridges of Madison County (Menier Chocolate Factory); Richard III and Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare’s Rose Theatre, York); Addams Family Musical (UK tour); King John (Rose Theatre, Kingston); Richard III (Leeds Playhouse); Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Playhouse Theatre); Wicked (UK tour); Larisa and the Merchants (Arcola); Hello Dolly! (Leicester Curve); The Merchant of Venice & Holding Fire (Shakespeare’s Globe); Heartbreak House (Palace Theatre Watford); Professor Bernhardi (Arcola); Mamma Mia! (Prince Edward Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream and High Society (Regents Park Open Air Theatre); Six Characters Looking for an Author (Young Vic); Lady into Fox and A Christmas Carol (Lyric Hammersmith); Flora the Red Menace (Orange Tree Theatre); The Tempest and Philoctetes for Cheek By Jowl.

Television includes:  This England, Das Boot, Silent Witness, Poirot, Casualty, Eastenders, Aquila, Medics

Film includes: Mein Prinz Mein König (Germany), Paper Mask

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OPEC / Al Sabban Raad Rawi

Previous RSC includes: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Naked Robots, The Beaux’ Stratagem 

Theatre includes: Sons of the Prophet (Hampstead Theatre), The Taxidermists’ Daughter, Fred’s Diner (Chichester Festival Theatre), Measure for Measure (Donmar Warehouse), Salome, Stuff Happens, The Waiting Room, Antony & Cleopatra (National Theatre), Breaking The Code, The Moonstone, The Man With A Flower In His Mouth, As You Like It (Manchester Royal Exchange), Chilcot (LUNG at The Lowry & Battersea Arts Centre), The Great Game: Afghanistan (Tricycle Theatre/US tour), Invasion (Soho Theatre), The Fever Chart (Theatre Royal, York), Medea (Creon), The Romans in Britain, A View From The Bridge, Queuing For Everest (Sheffield Crucible), Called To Account, Nurember: The Three Responses, Half The Picture (Tricycle Theatre), Bombay Dreams (West End), Much Ado About Nothing (Cheek By Jowl), Shoot (Jermyn Street Theatre), The Winter’s Tale (Method & Madness), The Simpleton Of The Unexpected Isle (Orange Tree Richmond), The Brutality Of Fact (New End, Hampstead), A Flea in Her Ear (Theatr Clwyd /West Yorkshire Playhouse), Deborah’s Daughter (Library Theatre), Madman of The Balconies, Oblomov (Gate Theatre), Berenice, The Maids (Lyric Hammersmith), The Care of Time (Anglia), Animal (Southampton), Eurovision (Drill Hall), The Cherry Orchard, Women Beware Women (Oxford), Dead Men (Traverse), The Miser (Birmingham / tour), Buck Ruxton (Lancaster), Birds Of Passage (Hampstead), Fitting For Ladies, Measure For Measure (Edinburgh Lyceum), Sara (Cheek By Jowl), Cymbeline, Science Fictions, Arabian Nights (Shared Experience) 

TV includes: Faithless, Epic, The Bastard Son & The Devil Himself, Brassic, Sick Of It, Unforgotten 2, Tyrant, The Honourable Woman, The Bible, The Tudors, Generation Kill, Death Becomes Him, House of Saddam, Wire In The Blood, Spooks, Murphy’s Law, Trial & Retribution VII, Judge John Deed, Dr Willoughby, Cadfael, Bodyguards, Young Indy ‘Travels With Father’, Half The Picture, heroes & Villains ‘The Queen Of The East’, Degrees Of Error, Bugs ‘Hot Metal’, The Bill ‘High Drivers’, Supper At Emmaus, The Detectives, Hostages, Big Battalions, A Cotswold Death, Murder Of A Moderate Man, The Trial Of Klaus Barbie, Bergerac, Tales Of The Unexpected, This Is David Lander, The One Game, Making News, Blind Justice, Holby City, The Bill, Coronation Street 

Film includes: Official Secrets, A Private War, Paradise War, Spy, A Hundred Streets, Wall, The Devil’s Double, Conan The Barbarian, Green Zone, Traitor, The Kingdom, Nina’s Heavenly Delights, Mona Lisa, Misunderstood, Midnight Express, One Crazy Thing,  

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UK / Prescott / Houghton Ferdy Roberts

RSC includes: Silence, Twelfth Night 

Theatre includes: Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing, The Tempest (Shakespeare’s Globe), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Filter Theatre/HOME), Girl From The North Country (Old Vic/Runaway Productions), Fatherland (Frantic Assembly), Filter’s 12th Night, Macbeth, Faster (Filter), Plaques & Tangles (Royal Court Theatre), Lampedusa (High Tide, Soho Theatre), Shakespeare In Love (Noel Coward Theatre), Water (Filter Theatre, London, Sydney and New York), Pigeons, Talk Show, The President Has Come To See You (Open Court at the Royal Court), If You Don’t Let Us Dream, We Won’t Let You Sleep (Royal Court Theatre), Three Kingdoms, Three Sisters (Lyric Hammersmith), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Filter Theatre and Lyric Hammersmith), Wallenstein, A Christmas Carol, The Sea (CFT), On Religion (Theatre Poche Brussels), The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Filter Theatre/National Theatre), The Birthday Party, The Dumb Waiter, Aladdin (Bristol Old Vic), The Fixer (Almeida Theatre), Girl in a Goldfish Bowl (Sheffield Crucible), Frankenstein (Derby Playhouse), Switchback (Sweetscar/Glasgow Tron), Playing The Victim (Royal Court/Told By An Idiot), The Contractor (Oxford Stage Company), Another Country (Arts Theatre, West End), The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, Beautiful Thing, The Changeling (Salisbury Playhouse) 

Television includes: Dark Angel, Foyles War, MI High, The Whistleblowers, The Bill, Goldplated, The Afternoon Play – Your Mother Should Know, Holby City, Doctors 

Film includes: What You Will, Mr Nice, Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll, Honest. Ozma 

Ferdy is a Co-Founder & Co-Artistic Director of Filter Theatre 

 

  • Swan Theatre

    Stratford-upon-Avon

    18 Jun - 13 Jul 2024 Book Tickets
  • Running time:

    To be confirmed

Next performance:

18 June, 7:30PM

Swan Theatre
Stratford-upon-Avon