Close Goneril Leona Allen This is Leona’s RSC debut Theatre includes: An Inspector Calls (UK Tour, PW Productions), A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story (Nottingham Playhouse and Alexandra Palace), Anansi The Spider, Christmas in the Sunshine (Unicorn Theatre), After Birth (UK Tour), Holes (UK tour), I’d Rather Go Blind (Omnibus Theatre), The Meeting (Chichester Festival Theatre), My Brother, My Sister and Me (Polka Theatre), The Crucible (UK & Luxembourg Tour), Pride and Prejudice (Sheffield Crucible), The Walworth Farce (Olympia Theatre, Dublin), Girls Like That (Unicorn Theatre) Television includes: The Devil’s Hour (Amazon Prime), The Third Day: Autumn (Sky, HBO, Punchdrunk) Film includes: The Scar (no.w.here/HOME Manchester). Albany / Cornwall Scott Brooksbank Previous RSC includes: Othello Theatre includes: Cymbeline, The Tempest, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, The Odyssey, Hamlet, The Seagull, Round Two, As You Like it, Cymbeline, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Pericles, Timon of Athens, Troilus & Cressida, Love's Labour's Lost, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night and Measure for Measure (The Factory), London's Turbulent Son (Guildhall Yard), Mythosphere (Stone Nest, Shaftesbury Ave), As You Like It, Sonnet Sunday (Globe), Gone Fishing (The Vaults Festival, Waterloo), Laurel and Hardy (Frinton), The Magic Flute (Budapest Festival Orchestra), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (National Orchestra of Lyon), Mobile 4 (Orange Tree Theatre), iAm (Spid Productions), Bread (Metta Theatre for Theatre Uncut at The Young Vic), The Spire (Salisbury Playhouse), Brazil, Prometheus (Secret Cinema), Macbeth (Baz Productions), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Jagged Fence), 3rd Ring Out (Metis Arts), Now is the Hour (Edinburgh), seasons at Stafford Festival (Shakespeare and Sevenoaks Playhouse(, The Merchant of Venice, Macbeth, Robin Hood, A Comedy of Errors (Creation), MoonJourney (Pleasance), Treasure Island (Coventry) Radio includes: numerous plays as part of the BBC Radio Drama Company Trained: Guildhall School of Music & Drama and Creative Learning Practitioner at the RSC. Edmund Lee Drage This is Lee’s RSC debut Theatre includes: Twelfth Night, All’s Well That Ends Well, The Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare in the Squares), The Sound of Music (Pitlochry Festival Theatre), The Threepenny Opera (Minack Theatre), The Spanish Tragedy (Old Red Lion), Chariots of Fire (Gielgud, West End), Oh What A Lovely War (UK tour), The Water Engine (Old Vic Tunnels), The Hot Mikado (Watermill Theatre), Saturday Night (Jermyn St Theatre) Television includes: Silo Comedy includes: VAULT Festival, Brighton and Edinburgh Fringe Trained: Glasgow School of Art Edgar Deven Modha Previous RSC includes: The Buddha of Suburbia Theatre includes: Dear Octopus (National Theatre), Auntie’s House (King’s Head), United Queendom (Les Enfants Terribles), East is East (Northern Stage / Nottingham Playhouse), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (New Wolsey), Game of Love and Chai, Macbeth; Kanjoos the Miser (all for Tara Arts) Television includes: Doctors, Top Boy, Citizen Khan Film includes: The Chef, Shoot Me. 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Trained: Birmingham School of Acting and National Youth Theatre Gloucester Michele Moran Previous RSC includes: Hecuba, Don Carlos, Othello, Volpone Theatre includes: Paradise Now (Bush Theatre), Beyond The Fence (Arts Theatre), Carousel (Opera North), The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Leicester Curve), Love in a Glass Jar, B for Baby (Abbey Theatre), Play Boy of the Western World, The Snow Queen, Alice in Wonderland, James and the Giant Peach (Nuffield Theatre), A Little Night Music, The Prince’s Play, Pericles (National Theatre) Film includes: Blockhead (World Premiere ‘Frightfest’ August 2025), Satisfaction (Saint Halo Productions) Television includes: The Hardacres, Casualty, Call The Midwife, Doctors, Hotel Portofino, Into the Badlands, The Witcher Radio and Video Game projects include: Juno and the Paycock (BBC Radio 3), Baldurs Gate III (Larian Studios), Eyes of Hellfire (Gambrinous Ireland) Trained at: Trinity College, Dublin and the Welsh College of Music and Drama Regan Vigs Otite This is Vigs’s RSC debut Theatre includes: Palace (Theatre Peckham), Stomach (Camden Peoples Theatre) Film includes: Shoobs, Milk Radio includes: Gatsby in Harlem Audiobook credits include: Hercs, As Waters Rise (Almeida Theatre) Trained at: LAMDA Fool / Cordelia Nkhanise Phiri This is Nkhanise’s RSC debut Theatre includes: Alice in Wonderland, Millennium Girls (Brixton House), Primary Playwrights (Soho Theatre), Babel (Camden People’s Theatre),The Trial of Josie K (Unicorn Theatre), Animal Farm, Ordinary Miracle, Othello (National Youth Theatre's REP Company Tour) ReAct: The Woods, Breathing Space (Royal Court), Abandon (Lyric Hammersmith) Screen work includes: Say! Less!, A Grade Students Radio and voice work includes: faith, Hope and Glory, Ashes to Ashes, Assam to Oolong, If Not Now When (Audible and National Theatre), Beneath Our Feet (Jump Shark and no more superheroes) Trained at: National Youth Theatre's REP Company King Lear Oliver Senton Previous RSC includes::A Christmas Carol, The Fairy Portal Camp (with Slung Low), Coriolanus, All's Well That Ends Well Theatre includes: The School For Scandal (Dubrovnik), Coriolanus (National Theatre), Beauty & The Beast (Rose Theatre, Kingston), Peter Pan Goes Wrong (Apollo Theatre & UK Tour), Showstopper! The Improvised Musical (Apollo Theatre), Mamma Mia! (Prince of Wales), The Mob (Orange Tree), The Scarecrow and his Servant (Southwark Playhouse), Twelfth Night, The Merchant of Venice (Theatre Royal Bury St. Edmunds), The Lady’s Not For Burning (Chichester Festival Theatre), The Count of Monte Cristo (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Cosmic Trigger (Cockpit Theatre), The Tempest (Norfolk and Norwich Festival), Arsenic & Old Lace (Derby), Three Sisters (Harrogate Theatre), The Invention of Love (Salisbury Playhouse), War Correspondents (UK Tour), The Warp (Deptford Albany, Millennium Drome 99-2000), The School of Night (Willow Globe, Globe, Royal Court), Scene & Heard (Theatro Technis), all for Slung Low - Flood (Hull City of Culture), Camelot: The Shining City (Sheffield Crucible), The White Whale, The Gifting (Leeds), All The Joy That You Can Wish (Shakespeare North Playhouse) Television includes: Trigger Point, Call The Midwife, Should We Bomb Auschwitz?, Frankie & Emma, White Heat, Doctors, EastEnders, Casualty, Hollyoaks, My Dad's The Prime Minister, Nuremberg, Cathedral Film includes: Wimbledon, Sink, Seagull Audio includes: The Sherlock Homes Casebook, Miss Marple, Bomber, Ben Hur, Roads To Freedom, Journey To The Centre of the Earth, Trodd en Bratt say 'Well Done You', Showstopper!, Doctor Who Adventures, several Robert Anton Wilson books for Audible/Hilaritas Press Previous Next Cast Goneril Leona Allen Albany / Cornwall Scott Brooksbank Edmund Lee Drage Edgar Deven Modha Gloucester Michele Moran Regan Vigs Otite Fool / Cordelia Nkhanise Phiri King Lear Oliver Senton Creatives Director Justine Themen Set & Costume Designer Anisha Fields Movement Director Martin Hylton Composer Arun Ghosh Dramaturg Stewart Pringle Casting Director Matthew Dewsbury CDG Casting Director Charlie Metcalf About the play Tour Venues Interview with Director Justine Themen More Less About the play Tour Venues Content Advisory The RSC Acting Companies are generously supported by The Gatsby Charitable Foundation In This Section About the play Our First Encounters production of King Lear will tour from September to December 2025. Find out more Tour Venues Find your nearest venue for our tour of First Encounters King Lear 2025 Find out more Interview with Director Justine Themen We sat down with the Director of First Encounters: King Lear to explore the visionary way we are using Shakespeare's works to tackle issues that young people feel most strongly about. Find out more You may also like