Cast and Creatives Cyrano de Bergerac Close Christian de Neuvillette Levi Brown Theatre includes: Macbeth (UK / Global Tour), In The Future We Are Astronauts (ArtReach), Run Rebel (Carbon Theatre) Theatre whilst training includes: A Streetcar Named Desire, Urinetown, Yerma, The Provoked Wife, The Cherry Orchard, False Flag Television includes: Babydoll, This Town, Silent Witness, Loss and Return, Invasion, High End Homeless, I Hate You Film includes: Gobble Trained at: Guildhall School of Music and Drama Edmond (Young Reserve) Joseph Christain Trained at: RADA Sister Claire / Madame Jodolet Sunny Chung Theatre includes: Twelfth Night (Trans What You Will Theatre) Short film includes: On A Scale From 1 to 10 Credits while training include: Deposit, The Watsons, Three Sisters, Julius Caesar, The Welkin, A View From The Bridge. Le Bret Philip Cumbus Previous RSC includes: Great Expectations Theatre includes: The Comedy of Errors, The Tempest, Macbeth, The Lightning Child, Much Ado About Nothing, The Mysteries, Romeo & Juliet, Helen, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Holding Fire, The Merchant of Venice (Globe), Macbeth, Comus, ‘Tis Pity She’s A Whore, The Inn At Lydda (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse), The Best Man (Playhouse Theatre), The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Donmar Warehouse), The Importance Of Being Earnest (Vaudeville Theatre), Moon Tiger (Theatre Royal, Bath), Richard III (Trafalgar Studios), The Norman Conquests (Liverpool Playhouse), 66 Books (Bush Theatre), The Crucible (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), The Master Builder, First Light, In Praise of Love (Minerva Theatre Chichester), The Man Who Had All The Luck (Edinburgh Lyceum), The Notebook Of Trigorin (The Northcott Theatre), Edward II (Battersea Arts Centre), A Month In The Country, Vincent In Brixton (Salisbury Playhouse), The Duchess of Malfi (West Yorkshire Playhouse),The Fence (The Wrestling School) Television includes: Silent Witness, The Crown, Whitstable Pearl, The Spanish Princess, Girlfriends, The Rebel, My Hero, A Touch Of Frost, Hope And Glory Abigail Greer Dale-Foulkes Theatre includes: Thirsty (Vault Festival), The Nutcracker (Myriad Entertainment), Darknet, The Playboy of the Western World (Southwark Playhouse), Gibraltar (Arcola Studio), The Tempest (Watermill, Newbury), While the Sun Shines (Lion and Unicorn), This Year It Will Be Different (Theatre 503), Head/Heart (Box of Tricks UK Tour/Theatre 503), Lidless (Trafalgar Studios), One Night in November (The Belgrade, Coventry), The Theatre Ep (HighTide/Latitude), Lulu (Gate Theatre), Judgement Day (Almeida) Television includes: Call The Midwife, The Last Station, Holby City Film includes: Boda Love, The Meteor, The Miracle, Magpie Band Member / Ensemble Rachel Dawson Theatre includes: The Mousetrap (UK Tour), The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Gillian Lynne Theatre, West End / UK & Ireland Tour), Amelie the Musical (Watermill Theatre / The Other Palace / Criterion Theatre / UK & Ireland Tour), A Christmas Carol (Northern Stage), Once (New Wolsey/Queens Theatre Hornchurch), A Little Night Music, Oliver (Watermill Theatre), The Jungle Book (UK Tour), The Snow Queen (The New Vic), These Trees are Made of Blood (Southwark Playhouse), Cider with Rosie (Cheltenham Everyman), The Terrible Infants, Ernest and the Pale Moon (International Tour), Twelfth Night (Minack Theatre), The Hound of the Baskervilles (York Theatre Royal) Film includes: Tramp, Cinderella Trained at: Bretton Hall Roxane Susannah Fielding Previous RSC includes: Wolf Hall, Bring Up The Bodies, The Merchant of Venice Theatre includes: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Bridge Theatre), The Country Wife (Chichester Festival Theatre), The Crossing Plays (Royal Court), Bull (Young Vic), The Merchant of Venice, American Psycho - The Musical (Almeida), The Beaux Stratagem, Much Ado About Nothing, Romeo and Juliet, The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other, Philistines, The Rose Tattoo (National Theatre), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, All New People (West End), Trelawny of the Wells (Donmar Warehouse), Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (ATG), School for Scandal (Theatre Royal Bath), An Enemy of the People (Sheffield Crucible), Breakfast with Ravenhill (Paines Plough) Television includes: Here We Go, The Cleaner, Who is Erin Carter?, Tom Jones, The Cockfields, This Time With Alan Partridge, Bloods, life, McDonald & Dodds, Doc Martin, Sticks and Stones, High and Dry, Silent Witness, The Great Indoors, Black Mirror, I Want My Wife Back, Catastrophe, Love Sick, Death in Paradise, Boomers, The Great Fire, Drifters, Father Brown, A Nice Arrangement, The Job Lot, Uncle, Pramface, Le Grand, Pete Versus Life, Dr Who, Filth, Midsomer Murders, Wallander Film includes: Deep Cover, Death on the Nile, The C Word, Kill Keith, Cosi, Watching Radio includes: Stone Blind, Magic Mobile, The Bedroom Farce, Leave It To Psmith, School for Scandal, Andromache, An Enemy of the People, Lady Windermere’s Fan, The Cherry Orchard Trained at: Guildhall School of Music and Drama Band Leader / Ensemble Oliver Grant Theatre includes: The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe (West End / UK Tour), Amelie (Watermill Theatre / UK Tour / The Other Palace / West End), War Horse (National Theatre / UK Tour), The Sheep Pig (Polka Theatre / UK Tour), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (with Flute Theatre at Orange Tree Theatre / Bridge Theatre / Chichester Festival Theatre), Pericles (FolkteaternGävle), As You Like It (Saville Gardens), The Last Days of Anne Boleyn (Tower of London / Historic Royal Palaces), Stickman (Scamp / UK Tour), Twelfth Night (Flute Theatre / English Touring Theatre) Oliver also works as a Puppeteer and Associate Director. Trained at: Royal Central School of Speech and Drama Comte de Guiche Scott Handy Previous RSC includes: Troilus and Cressida, The Merchant of Venice, Macbeth, Victoria, The Tempest, The Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night Theatre includes: Richard III (Almeida), Love the Sinner (National Theatre), Turandot (English National Opera), Macbeth (Chichester / Broadway / West End), The Tragedy of Hamlet (Bouffe du Nord/World Tour), As You Like it, The Duchess of Malfi (West End/World Tour - Cheek by Jowl), The Seagull (Bristol Old Vic), Hidden in the Sand (Trafalgar Studios), Faustus (Hampstead Theatre), Twelfth Night, Cyrano de Bergerac (Chichester), Hay Fever (West End), Teeth 'n Smiles (Crucible, Sheffield), Son of Man (Northern Stage Company), An Inspector Calls (West End) Television includes: Victoria, Grace, Liaison, Quiz, Will, Father Brown, Ripper Street, The Game, The Village, Hunted, The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler, The Yellow House, The Haunting of Toby Jugg, Midsomer Murders, Love from Colditz, Henry VIII, Newton’s Dark Secrets, Heat of the Sun, Dangerfield, The Moonstone, True Love, The Merchant of Venice, Heroes and Villains, Casualty, Poirot Film includes: The Testament of Ann Lee, Napoleon, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, Dangerous Romance, Macbeth, Seach’d, Match Point, The Tulse Luper Suitcase Part 2, The Gospel of St. John, Skagerrak, A Knight’s Tale, Shadowlands. As Director: Mount Herzog, Longing, Crossing Trained at: Royal Central School for Speech and Drama Arnauld Robert Jackson Previous RSC includes: Julius Caesar Theatre includes: The Play That Goes Wrong (Duchess Theatre), Brief Encounter (Stephen Joseph Theatre / Theatre By The Lake), The Glee Club (Out Of Joint / The Kiln Theatre), She Ventures and He Wins (The Young Vic), Kiss Me Kate (The Watermill Theatre), Alice In Wonderland (Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough) Around the World in 80 Days, Peter Pan, Gulliver’s Travels, Summer Holiday, A Christmas Carol, The Threepenny Opera, The Railway Children (The Octagon Theatre, Bolton) Stickman (UK/International Tour), Treasure Island (Creation Theatre, Oxford), Parkway Dreams, The Long Life & Great Good Fortune of John Clare (Eastern Angles), Progress, The Green Children (Red Rose Chain, Ipswich), The Sonnet Walk (Shakespeare's Globe), Lido (Southwark Playhouse), Opening Doors (Soho Theatre), Romeo and Juliet (Kent's Cavern, Torquay), The Ripper (Charing Cross Theatre), Sandbox (Waterloo East Theatre). Screen credits include: The Other One, Coronation Street, English In Mind. Trained: The Arts Education Schools, London Cyrano de Bergerac Adrian Lester Theatre includes: Henry V, Othello (National Theatre: Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actor), Company (Donmar Warehouse / West End), As You Like It (Cheek By Jowl), Red Velvet (London / New York), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Hamlet, The Tragedy Of Hamlet (London / Paris / Japan / New York), The Lehman Trilogy (National Theatre/Broadway), Kiss of the Spiderwomen, Fences, The Winter’s Tale, Hanging the President , A Midsummer Night’s Dream (National Theatre Tour), Guys & Dolls (Royal Albert Hall), Cost of Living (Hampstead Theatre), Hymn (Almeida), Romeo & Juliet (National Theatre). As Director: The Greatest Wealth (Old Vic) Television includes: Hustle, Undeclared War, Undercover, Life, Trauma, Trigger Point, Girlfriends, Red Band Society, London Spy, Curfew, Being Human, Merlin, Bonekickers, Ballet Shoes, Afterlife, Beyond, Ghost Squad, Jason & The Argonauts, Storm Damage, Silent Witness, Teaching Matthew, Sleep With Me, The Rook, Riviera, Renegade Nell, Sandman, When Romeo Met Juliet, Empire’s Children. As Director: Riviera, Hustle Film includes: Primary Colors, The Day After Tomorrow, As You Like It, Dust, Final Curtain, Scenes of a Sexual Nature, Starting Out In The Evening, Doomsday, All Is By My Side, Best, Born Romantic, Maybe Baby, Loves Labour’s Lost, Grey Lady, Up on the Roof, Les Soeurs Soleil, The Affair, Case 39, Euphoria, Mary Queen of Scots Adrian also featured in the 2019 Portrait Artist of the Year on Sky Arts. Jodolet / Carbon (Reserve) David Mildon Theatre includes: Carousel (Royal Festival Hall), Leaves (Jermyn Street Theatre), Dealer’s Choice (Trafalgar Studios), Consent (Harold Pinter Theatre), Hamlet (Principal Theatre), Romeo and Juliet (International Tour), Accomplice (Menier Chocolate Factory), Dom (The Other Palace), Enemy of the People (Union Theatre), Ionesco: Dinner at the Smiths (London and Paris), Bee Stings (Theatre 503), Bloody Poetry (King’s Head), The Importance of Being Earnest (Frinton Rep), Night of January 16th (White Bear), Blast Off (Soho Theatre), Sperm Monologues (BAC), Cyrano de Bergerac (White Bear), Dying City (The Cockpit), Scorched/Incendies (RADA), Comp (Tristan Bates Theatre), The 2nd Maiden’s Tragedy (Hackney Empire) Television and film includes: Juice, Staged, Happy Birthday Grandad David has performed literary readings for Radio 4, the British Library, Liars League and the French Institute. Trained at: LAMDA Valvert / Pierre (Reserve) Matt Mordak Television and film includes: I Jack Wright, Hijack 2, Stand Your Ground, MobLand Motion capture includes: Hellblade 2 Senua's Saga, The Casting of Frank Stone, Fort Solis (AAA video games) Trained at: East 15 Monfleury / Priest / Bernard (Reserve) Chris Nayak Previous RSC includes: As You Like It, The Empress, Maydays, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Love’s Labour’s Won, The Christmas Truce Theatre includes: Wind in the Wilton’s (Wilton’s Music Hall), Macbeth, King Lear, All is True (Globe), The Wishing Tree (Little Angel), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the NightTime (National Theatre), Stand Up Diggers All (Pentabus Theatre), There or Here (Park Theatre), Anita and Me (Stratford East), Invasion! (Soho Theatre), Arthur and George, East is East, Wind in the Willows (Birmingham REP), A Passage to India (Shared Experience), The League of Youth, She Stoops to Conquer (Nottingham Playhouse), Indian Ink (Salisbury Playhouse), Romeo and Juliet, Lisa’s Sex Strike (Northern Broadsides), The Marriage of Figaro (Tara Arts), Mother Goose and the Wolf (Greenwich Theatre), Punchkin: Enchanter (London Bubble) Television includes: We Hunt Together, The Job Lot, Primeval, Love Soup, Doctors, Judge John Deed, Casualty, Coronation Street, The Bill Radio includes: Spirit Rangers, Crookhaven, Bindi Business, The Brummie Iliad, Letters from a Young Indian Revolutionary Louis (Reserve) Daniel Norford Theatre includes: Dr Strangelove (Noel Coward), The Welkin, Small Island (National Theatre), Noughts and Crosses (Pilot Theatre), Fast (Park Theatre), Rocky Shock (Tobacco Factory), Treasure Island (Birmingham Repertory Theatre), The Lion King (UK/International Tour), The American Clock (Finborough Theatre), Estate Walls (Oval House Theatre), The Notebook of Trigorin (Finborough Theatre), Aladdin (Greenwich Theatre), Mrs Reynolds and the Ruffian (Watford Palace Theatre), Caribbean Story (Hackney Empire & Arts Theatre), Cinderella (Watford Palace Theatre), The Caucasian Chalk Circle (China Tour), Multiplex (Theatre Royal Plymouth), Cinderella (Bristol Hippodrome), Cinderella (The Mayflower, Southampton), Cinderella (Wimbledon), The Full Monty (Tour) Film includes: Up The Catalogue, Driftwood Trained at: East 15 Ragueneau Christian Patterson Previous RSC includes: The Secret Garden, Cymbeline, Pericles Theatre includes: The American Clock (Old Vic), The Way of the World (Donmar Warehouse), Guys and Dolls (Donmar Warehouse / National Tour), My Country: A Work in Progress (National Theatre), The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, Insignificance, All My Sons, Aristocrats, Rape of the Fair Country, Glengarry Glen Ross, As You Like It (Theatre Clwyd), Under Milk Wood (Theatre Clwyd / Tour), St Nicholas, Blackbird, The Dying of Today, Blasted (The Other Room), Oliver! (Theatre Royal Drury Lane), Journey’s End (West End/UK Tour), The Gondoliers, The Merchant of Venice, The Water Babies (Chichester Festival Theatre), Peggy’s Song (National Theatre Wales), One Man, Two Guv’nors (Torch Theatre) Television includes: The Dream Lands, The Pact, In My Skin, The English, A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story, Pride, Mr Selfridge, My Lady Jane, Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?, Industry, The Accident, Krod Mandoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire Film includes: Mickey 17, Pride, I Know You Know, Malice in Wonderland Christian is an Associate Artist of Theatr Clwyd and a Founder Member of Grand Ambition. Band Member / Ensemble Josh Sneesby Previous RSC includes: Peer Gynt, The Hypocrite (RSC / Hull Truck Theatre) Theatre includes: As Composer, Music Director and Performer: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Tartuffe, Der Irrende Planet (Burgtheater, Vienna), The Fall of the House of Usher, Das Weite Land (Burgtheater / Ruhrtriennale International Festival), Kasimir Und Karoline (Residenz Theater, Munich), The Snow Queen, The Nutcracker (Theatr Clwyd), Story of Our Youth (West End), Misanthropes (The Old Vic), A Little Bit of Luck (Bush Theatre), One Man, Two Guvnors (Music Director and Performer, National Theatre / West End). As Performer: Can I Live? (Complicité), Amélie a Musical (Watermill Theatre / UK Tour / The Other Palace), The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (UK Tour), The Comedy of Errors (National Theatre), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Chichester Theatre), Béatrice Et Bénédict (Glyndebourne), These Trees Are Made Of Blood (Arcola / Southwark Playhouse), Twelfth Night (Orange Tree), King Arthur (York Theatre Royal) Radio & Dance composition: The Dark Is Rising (BBC World Service / Complicité), Purple Heart Warriors (BBC World Service), Wild Goes Wild. Figures In Extinction II & III (Complicité / Nederlands Dans Theater) Other: Josh is a Grammy-nominated performer, an Associate Composer with Complicité and an Associate Artist with the National Youth Theatre Previous Next Cast Christian de Neuvillette Levi Brown Edmond (Young Reserve) Joseph Christain Sister Claire / Madame Jodolet Sunny Chung Le Bret Philip Cumbus Abigail Greer Dale-Foulkes Band Member / Ensemble Rachel Dawson Roxane Susannah Fielding Band Leader / Ensemble Oliver Grant Comte de Guiche Scott Handy Arnauld Robert Jackson Cyrano de Bergerac Adrian Lester Jodolet / Carbon (Reserve) David Mildon Valvert / Pierre (Reserve) Matt Mordak Monfleury / Priest / Bernard (Reserve) Chris Nayak Louis (Reserve) Daniel Norford Ragueneau Christian Patterson Band Member / Ensemble Josh Sneesby Creatives Director & Co-Adaptor Simon Evans Co-Adaptor Debris Stevenson Set & Costume Designer Grace Smart Lighting Designer Joshie Harriette Composer Alex Baranowski Sound Designer Donato Wharton Movement Director Sarita Piotrowski Fight and Intimacy Director Bethan Clark Dramaturg Rebecca Latham Casting Director Matthew Dewsbury CDG Music Director Josh Sneesby Voice & Text Barbara Houseman Associate Director Lydia McKinley About the Play Cast and Creatives Trailer Production photos Assisted Performances More Less About the Play Cast and Creatives Trailer Production photos Content Advisory Sharing the role of Small Boy are: Taiva Hove, Joshua Maduike and Elim Mapira. The RSC Acting Companies are generously supported by The Gatsby Charitable Foundation In This Section About the Play Olivier Award-winning actor Adrian Lester is Cyrano, fiercely funny and intensely romantic but with one large problem: his nose. Find out more Trailer Watch the trailer for this ‘Glorious’ (Financial Times) five-star production. Find out more Production photos Take a look at the stunning photos from the Stratford-upon-Avon run. Find out more Assisted Performances Find out about our assisted performances for Cyrano de Bergerac. Find out more You may also like