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Seldom Shane David-Joseph

This is Shane’s RSC debut 

Theatre includes: Bleak Expectations (Criterion Theatre, West End), Jerusalem (Apollo Theatre, West End), Accidental Death Of An Anarchist (Sheffield Crucible/ The Lyric, Hammersmith), Magic Goes Wrong (Apollo Theatre, West End), A Christmas Carol (Bristol Old Vic), The Railway Children (Kings Cross Theatre) 

Screen credits include: The Thursday Murder Club (Netflix), Dr Who (BBC), Nightclub (Short), Temple (Sky One), The Runner (Wulf Runner Films) 

Shane also narrated the Audiobook for Lewis Hamilton's latest biography "Sir Lewis" by Michael E. Sawyer.  

Trained at: Bristol Old Vic Theatre School (winner of The Peter O’Toole Award 2019)  

 

 

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Tom Ziggy Heath

RSC includes: The New Real

Theatre includes: Scenes from the Climate Era (Gate Theatre), Wendy and Peter (Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh), French without Tears (The Orange Tree)

Television includes: A Thousand Blows (Disney+), Father Brown, What Remains (BBC One), Harlots, Harlots II (Hulu), The Miniaturist (BBC), Cold Feet (ITV), Black Mirror: Hated In The Nation (Netflix), Spies of Warsaw (BBC4)

Film includes: One Life, Greatest Days, How to Build a Girl, Denial

 

 
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Diamond Martins Imhangbe

This is Martins’ RSC debut 

Theatre includes: Othello (Riverside Studios), Between Riverside and Crazy (Hampstead), Death of a Salesman (Young Vic), The Tragedy of King Richard II (Almeida Theatre), Absolute Hell (National Theatre), The Barbershop Chronicles (Fuel Theatre) 

Television includes: Bridgerton (Netflix) 

 

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Mansion Roger Ringrose

This is Roger’s RSC debut 

Theatre includes: Birdsong (UK tour), The Other Boleyn Girl (Chichester Festival Theatre), Witness For The Prosecution (London County Hall), Great Expectations (Attic Theatre Company), Untold Stories (The Watermill Theatre), Each His Own Wilderness (The Orange Tree), Travesties, The Importance of Being Earnest (Birmingham Rep), The Picture (Salisbury Playhouse), Bud Take The Wheel (Edinburgh Festival), Much (Cock Tavern Theatre), Burnt By The Sun, Never So Good (National Theatre), Copenhagen (Tabard Theatre), King Henry VI Part III (Globe), Jean D’Arc (Avignon Festival), In Good King Charles’ Golden Days, Saint Joan, Man and Superman, Pygmalion (Shaw Festival/MFP), The Duel (Lyric Hammersmith), Vincent (Harrogate Theatre), Dial M for Murder, The Woman in Black (Vienna’s English Theatre), King Lear (Barbican), Stallerhof (Southwark Playhouse), Anyone for Breakfast (National Tour), Hippolytus, The Norman Conquests, Dial M For Murder (National Tour), Plaza Suite (National Theatre Bordeaux), The Shattered Vessel (Riverside Studios) 

Television includes: A Tale of Two Cities, Believe Me, The Hack, Joan, The Long Shadow, Stonehouse, The Fear Index, Behind Her Eyes, The Witcher, Years & Years, Anne, Guiltology, Tina and Bobby, Outlander, Berlin Station, Call The Midwife, Doctors, Broadchurch, Mr Selfridge, The Musketeers, The Hour, Hollyoaks Later, Eternal Law, Coronation Street, Waking The Dead, The Oaks, Silent Witness, The Bill, Theatre of Death, Spooks, Sherlock Holmes

Film includes: Scandal in ’97, Clan, Stan & Ollie, Odyssey, Latvia, The Rookery, Crumbs, The Life of Oleg Gordievsky, Love Loss, London Sonnet

Radio includes: Stormy Applause, Henry V, First of Millions, Charles Paris, Death and the Penguin, Rogers, Hart and Hammerstein, The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, Churchill versus Reith, War of Words, North and South, Splinter Cell: Firewall, Microserfs, Exit Game, Hellcats, Life Class, Henry IV Part I, The Jester of Astapovo, Mill on the Floss, The Voyage of The St Louis 

 

 

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Pearl Ellen Thomas

This is Ellen’s RSC debut 

Theatre includes: The Wife of Willesden; Egusi Soup, Tiata Delights, Moon on a Rainbow Shawl (Almeida), Statement Of Regret, The American Clock, Fuente Ovejuna (National Theatre), The Estate (Soho Theatre), Vagina Monologues (Tour), Blest Be The Tie (Royal Court), Twelfth Night (Royal Exchange Manchester),  A Bitter Herb (Bristol Old Vic),  Amen Corner (Tricycle Theatre and Nottingham Playhouse), Channel 4 Sit Com Festival – Sisters (Riverside Theatre), Criminals in Love (Contact Theatre, Manchester), Leonara’s Dance (Black Theatre Co-operative), Echo in the Bone (The Women’s Playhouse Trust - Lyric Hammersmith), Twelfth Night (Birmingham Rep) 

Television includes: Eastenders,  Mount Pleasant, Bev, Teachers, Lenny Henry In Pieces and Christmas Special, Cardiac Arrest, London Bridge, Holding On, The Jury, Buried Treasure, Father Brown, The Cleaner, Death In Paradise, Maax , In The Long Run, The Queen and I, Dark Money , Mount Pleasant, Critical, Humans, Come Fly With Me, Coming Of Age, Casualty, Moses Jones, New Tricks, Outnumbered, Bremner and Fortune, Losing It, Little Miss Jocelyn, The Play’s The Thing, Trial and Retribution, The Marshioness Disaster, William & Mary, Hidden City, Never Never (Ch 4), Active Defence, Where There’s Smoke, Ultraviolet, Kavanagh QC III; Ruth Rendell’s Simisola; Beck, French & Saunders, Hallelujah Anyhow 

Film includes: Mrs Harris Goes to Paris; Golden Years, Love Punch, It’s A Lot, Ashes, Ryan and Ronnie, Jonny English 2 Clubbed, Breaking and Entering, Risk Addiction, South West Nine, Michael Winterbottom’s Wonderland; Some Voices, Secret Laughter Of Women

Radio and voice includes: The Republicans; I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings Singin and Swingin, What Does The K Stand For, Say Goodbye Twice, Why is The Sky So Blue, Writing The Century, Statement of Regret, Claire In The Community, Mrs Holloway in Silver Street, Face and Unspoken. Ellen also voiced 130 episodes of the popular children’s series, Jim Jam & Sunny for Wish Films and is the voice of Ambessa in The Arcane Franchise

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Ruby Cat White

RSC includes: Cymbeline 

Theatre includes: Great George Street (Carne Studio Theatre), The Watsons (Menier Chocolate Factory/Harold Pinter Theatre, West End), Dear Audrey (Trafalgar Studios), Petroleuse (Lyric Hammersmith), The Watsons (Chichester Festival Theatre), Shudder (Soho Theatre), Our Town (North Wall Arts Centre), The Heresy of Love (Oxford School of Drama), Girls Will be Girls (Oxford Playhouse/Greenside @ Infirmary Street) 

Television includes:  The Capture, The Librarians: The Next Chapter, Bridgerton S4, Threesome, Black Mirror, Nature’s Calling, Ten Percent, Dracula, Doctors 

Film includes:  Farewell She Goes 

Short film includes: Now’s Your Time, You Are What You Eat, The Mediator, The Group, Kill Them With Kindness, Taste, Fifty-Four Days, Where All Are Free, The Maid, Me Too 

Radio includes: Othello, Skylight, White Teeth 

Cat received the Best Actress award at the Cannes Film Festival’s Diversity in Cannes showcase, presented by the BFI and Viola Davis’ JuVee Productions. 

Trained at: Oxford School of Drama 

 

 

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