Cast and Creatives Othello Close Lodovico Al Barclay This is Al's RSC debut season Theatre includes: Julius Caesar, Macbeth, The Odyssey, Hamlet (The Factory); Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing (AFTLS); The Tempest (Big Telly/Creation); The Wind in the Willows (Creation); A Christmas Carol (Arts Theatre); Fixer (Ovalhouse); A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Comedy of Errors, As You Like It, The Tempest, Twelfth Night (Sprite Productions); Richard III, Accidental Death of an Anarchist (Love and Madness); Twelfth Night (Original Theatre). Television includes: Slow Horses, The Crown, The Queen’s Sister. Film includes: Deep Cover, Beware the Trojan Horse, The Lady, The View from the Window, Bright Young Things. Montano Scott Brooksbank This is Scott's RSC debut season Theatre includes: London's Turbulent Son (Guildhall Yard), Mythosphere (Stone Nest, Shaftesbury Ave), As You Like It and Sonnet Sunday (Shakespeare’s 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); The Merchant of Venice (Creation); 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; 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. He is a leading member and Associate Director of experimental theatre company The Factory, with whom he has played 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. He also teaches and directs for Rose Bruford, Fourth Monkey, Central, LAMDA and Drama Studio London, and is a workshop leader and storyteller for the education department at Shakespeare's Globe. Trained at: Guildhall School of Music & Drama Messenger Ricardo Castro This is Ricardo's RSC debut season Theatre includes: Minority Report (Lyric Hammersmith, Theatre, Nottingham Playhouse and Birmingham Repertory Theatre), Wuthering Heights (Royal National Theatre), Come From Away (Phoenix Theatre), Motown (Shaftesbury Theatre & UK tour), Gobsmacked (Edinburgh Fringe & UK tour), Sister Act, Legally Blonde (Aberystwyth Arts Centre), Sister Act (Grange Park Opera), Fame (international tour), They’re Playing Our Song (Yvonne Arnaud Theatre) Television includes: The Man Who Fell to Earth (Paramount), The Chelsea Detective (BBC), Night Bus (Talent Television), Misfits (Channel 4), Ganancia (SIC Endemol) Film includes: Love Again (Sony Pictures), Humshakals (Fox Start Studios), Ek Tha Tiger (Yashraj Films), Jab Tak Hab Jaan (Yashraj Films) Duke of Venice John Paul Connolly Previous RSC includes: The Merchant of Venice, The Taming of the Shrew, The Tragedy of Thomas Hobbes Theatre incudes: Sonnet Walks, Shakespeare in the Abbey, Romeo and Juliet, Eyam and Richard lll/Twelfth Night (Shakespeare’s Globe), Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (National Theatre), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment), many seasons at The Orange Tree in Richmond and various plays at venues including the Royal Exchange, the Traverse, Oxford Playhouse, Northern Stage, York Theatre Royal, the Lyric Belfast, Hampstead Theatre, The Almeida CahootsNI Radio includes: Book of the Week - The Rule of the Land (Radio 4), Translations (Radio 4) and Words & Music (Radio 3). Television includes: Casualty, Victoria, Lucky Man(2), The Bill, Murder Rooms/The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes, the Armando Iannucci Shows, Lorna Doone, Birds of a Feather, Taggart, Berkeley Square, Sharman:Hearts of Stone, To Play the King and You, me and Marley. Trained at: RADA Sailor Jason Eddy This is Jason's RSC debut season Theatre includes: F**king Men (Waterloo East Theatre), The Rat Trap (Mint Theater - Off-Broadway), Everybody Is Gone (The New Wild, Berlin), Talented Mr. Ripley (The Faction/Wilton’s Music Hall), Astley’s Astounding Adventures (New Vic Theatre), Twelfth Night (Midsummer Scene, Dubrovnic/Vienna’s English Theatre/Bermuda Festival), Beauty and the Beast (Polka Theatre), Antony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare’s Globe), The Tempest (Teatro Vivo), The Odyssey (Teatro Vivo), Sense and Sensibility (UK National Tour), Breakfast With Emma (UK National Tour), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Guildford Shakespeare Company), Twelfth Night (Guildford Shakespeare Company). Television includes: The Blacklist (NBC), Wanderlust (BBC/Netflix) Berlin Station (Epix). Film includes: Could Be, An Intent To The Spirit, A View Of The World From 5th Avenue, HOME, The Forgotten Man, Wild Space. Trained at: The Guildhall School of Music & Drama. Clown Kevin N Golding Previous RSC includes: Much Ado About Nothing, Kunene and the King, Venice Preserved, The Provoked Wife, King Lear, Hamlet, Cymbeline Theatre includes: Meetings (Orange Tree Theatre), Witness for the Prosecution (Old County Hall, London), SAD (Omnibus Theatre, Clapham), Shakespeare in Love (National Tour), Sense of an Ending (Theatre503), Play Mas (Orange Tree Theatre), The Sting (Wiltons Music Hall), Home Sweet Home (Freedom Studios, Bradford), Throats (Pleasance Theatre), Othello (White Bear Theatre), Nina and Shaz (Brockley Jack), Otieno (Southwark Playhouse), Reality Chokes (Pentameters), Macbeth (Northcott Theatre), The Exchange (Jermyn Street Theatre), Children of the Crown (Nottingham Playhouse), Listen To Your Parents (Theatre Centre/National Tour) Television includes: Rosie Molly Gives Up Everything (Sky), Dark Matters 2 (Discovery Channel), Silent Witness (BBC), Footballers Wives (ITV), The Canterbury Tales: The Millers Tale (BBC) Film includes: The Beekeeper, Sunray, My Day, Chasing Shadows, It Never Sleeps, Je Suis Daddy, The Counterfeit Butterfly, The Plague Theatre includes HAMLET,KING LEAR and CYMBELINE with the RSC . Other theatre: Siblings of Divorce (Gerrys studio,Theatre Royal Stratford East), The Sting (Wiltons Music Hall), Sense of an Ending(Theatre 503), PLAY MAS ( Orange Tree Theatre), Home Sweet Home( National Tour), Othello(White Bear Theatre), Fan the Flame (Theatre Royal Stratford East), Throats( Pleasance Theatre), Otieno ( Southwark Playhouse),Macbeth (Northcott theatre), Nina and Shaz( Brockley Jack Theatre), Reality Chokes (Pentameters Theatre), The Exchange( Jermyn Street Theatre), Mother Courage and her Children(Nottingham Playhouse/Tour), Listen to your Parents (Theatre centre/Tour) Television includes: Dark Matters,Silent Witness,House of Games,Footballers Wives,The Canterbury Tales Films includes: Chasing Ghosts,My Day, It Never Sleeps, Lost a Girl,The Fallen Word,Counterfeit Butterfly,The Plague. Shorts includes: Jasper,Terminally Happy,Checking In Webseries: Dear Jesus Radio: Naija Bride Theatre includes HAMLET,KING LEAR and CYMBELINE with the RSC . Other theatre: Siblings of Divorce (Gerrys studio,Theatre Royal Stratford East), The Sting (Wiltons Music Hall), Sense of an Ending(Theatre 503), PLAY MAS ( Orange Tree Theatre), Home Sweet Home( National Tour), Othello(White Bear Theatre), Fan the Flame (Theatre Royal Stratford East), Throats( Pleasance Theatre), Otieno ( Southwark Playhouse),Macbeth (Northcott theatre), Nina and Shaz( Brockley Jack Theatre), Reality Chokes (Pentameters Theatre), The Exchange( Jermyn Street Theatre), Mother Courage and her Children(Nottingham Playhouse/Tour), Listen to your Parents (Theatre centre/Tour) Television includes: Dark Matters,Silent Witness,House of Games,Footballers Wives,The Canterbury Tales Films includes: Chasing Ghosts,My Day, It Never Sleeps, Lost a Girl,The Fallen Word,Counterfeit Butterfly,The Plague. Shorts includes: Jasper,Terminally Happy,Checking In Webseries: Dear Jesus Radio: Naija Bride Theatre includes HAMLET,KING LEAR and CYMBELINE with the RSC . Other theatre: Siblings of Divorce (Gerrys studio,Theatre Royal Stratford East), The Sting (Wiltons Music Hall), Sense of an Ending(Theatre 503), PLAY MAS ( Orange Tree Theatre), Home Sweet Home( National Tour), Othello(White Bear Theatre), Fan the Flame (Theatre Royal Stratford East), Throats( Pleasance Theatre), Otieno ( Southwark Playhouse),Macbeth (Northcott theatre), Nina and Shaz( Brockley Jack Theatre), Reality Chokes (Pentameters Theatre), The Exchange( Jermyn Street Theatre), Mother Courage and her Children(Nottingham Playhouse/Tour), Listen to your Parents (Theatre centre/Tour) Television includes: Dark Matters,Silent Witness,House of Games,Footballers Wives,The Canterbury Tales Films includes: Chasing Ghosts,My Day, It Never Sleeps, Lost a Girl,The Fallen Word, Counterfeit Butterfly,The Plague. Shorts includes: Jasper,Terminally Happy,Checking In Webseries: Dear Jesus Radio: Naija Bride Emilia Anastasia Hille Previous RSC includes: The Winter’s Tale Theatre includes: The Oresteia (Park Avenue Armoury), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Jewish Wife, The Maids (Young Vic), Hamlet (Barbican), The Effect, Dido Queen of Carthage, Waves, Women of Troy, A Dream Play, The Oresteia (National Theatre), Macbeth (European tour / New York), The Master Builder (Almeida), Forty Winks (Royal Court Theatre), The Dark, Morphic Resonance (Donmar Warehouse), Ashes To Ashes (Royal Court/Lincoln Center New York), Television includes: The Couple Next Door, A Gentleman in Moscow, I Hate Suzie S2, A Spy Among Friends, Dalgliesh, The Ipcress File, Baptiste, The Pembrokeshire Murders, Silent Witness, Keeping Faith, The Last Kingdom, West of Liberty, Requiem, Wanderlust, Class, Him, Humans, Not Safe For Work, You, Me and The Apocalypse, Prey, The Missing, The Tunnel, Getting On, The Bletchley Circle, The Fear, Bert & Dickie, Foyle’s War, Lewis, Poirot, Spooks, Tripping Order, Silent Witness ‘Nowhere Fast’, Cutting It, Outside The Rules, The Cazalet Chronicle, RKO 281, Storm Damage, Big Women Film includes: Love Gets A Room, Martyrs Lane, Mamma Mia 2, A United Kingdom, Trespass Against Us, Tulip Fever, The Riot Club, Snow White and The Huntsman, Awakening, Desert Flower, Good, Bloodline, The Hole, Five Seconds To Spare, The Wisdom of Crocodiles, New Year’s Day, The Escort Radio includes: Silos, Rare Earth, Cut To The Heart, Hippomania, The Air Loom Gang, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Mansfield Park Short film includes: Monster Heart Cassio Edward Hogg This is Edward's RSC debut season Theatre includes: The Hypochondriac (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield), Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare’s Globe), The Tempest (Theatre Royal Bath), Wild Duck (Almeida), Appropriate (Donmar Warehouse) Television includes: Buried (Amazon), The Irregulars (Netflix), Pennyworth (Starz), Taboo (BBC), Harlots (Hulu), Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell (BBC), Indian Summers (Channel 4), The Borgias, Dead Boss, Misfits Film includes: The Yellow Tie, Napoleon, Luther: The Fallen Sun, Kill Your Friends, White Lightnin’, The Program, Jupiter Ascending, Imagine, Mary Queen of Scots, The Comedian, Anonymous, The Phone Call Trained at: RADA Brabantio Colin Hurley Previous RSC includes: Troilus and Cressida, A Month In The Country, Hamlet, Camino Real Theatre includes: As You Like It, Hamlet, Twelfth Night, Richard III, Henry IV part 1, Henry IV part 2, Henry V, Henry VI, Anne Boleyn, All’s Well That Ends Well, Henry VIII, Romeo and Juliet, In Extremis, The Taming of the Shrew, Much Ado About Nothing, Measure For Measure, Troilus and Cressida, The Winter’s Tale, The Golden Ass, Macbeth (Shakespeare’s Globe), Remember This, Mary Stuart, King Lear, Richard III Wild Oats, The Oedipus Plays (National Theatre), Lear’s Shadow (The Brockley Jack), Hamlet, The Seagull, Boiling Frogs, Julius Caesar (The Factory), Loot, Sailor Beware (Lyric Hammersmith), The Woman In Black (Fortune Theatre), I am Shakespeare (Chichester), Britannicus, Hamlet, She Stoops to Conquer, The Dumb Waiter (Salisbury Playhouse), Henry V, Edward III (Theatre Clwyd), The Comedy of Errors (Bristol Old Vic), The Tempest (Chester Gateway) Television includes: Dreamland, Flowers, Stath Lets Flats, The Bill, The Chief, Peak Practice, Holby City, Eastenders Film includes: Portraits of Dangerous Women, The Joy of Growing Pineapples, Black Pond, The Darkest Universe, Henry V Bianca Madeleine Hyland Previous RSC includes: Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies Theatre includes: Hamlet, The Seagull, The Odyssey, Macbeth, Measure for Measure, Troylus & Cressida, Antony & Cleopatra, The Tempest (The Factory), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Orchestré National de Lyon), Hamlet (AFTLS), Richard III (Love & Madness), Othello (Downstage), Cymbeline, The Tempest, Three Sisters (Peripeteia) Television and film includes: Vanity Fair, Crooked House, Nowhere is Home Madeleine is also a singer/songwriter and formed her alt-folk band, The Amazing Devil, with Joey Batey, while at the RSC in 2014. They have since released three albums, Love Run, The Horror and The Wild and Ruin. Iago Will Keen Previous RSC includes: Prince of Homburg Theatre includes: Patriots, Quartermaine’s Terms (West End); Ghosts, Waste, Tom and Viv (Almeida); The Changeling, Macbeth (Cheek by Jowl); The Arsonists (Royal Court); The Coast of Utopia, The Duchess of Malfi (National Theatre) Screen/TV includes: The Gold, Ridley Road, The Pursuit of Love, His Dark Materials, Wolf Hall, The Musketeers (BBC); My Lady Jane, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (Amazon); The Crown (Netflix) Senator Graham Mackay-Bruce This is Graham's RSC debut season Theatre includes: Measure for Measure, Hedda Gabler (Bard in the Botanics, Glasgow), Kiss, Marry, Kill (Dante or Die), Beauty and the Beast (Newbury Corn Exchange), The Duchess (of Malfi) (Lyceum Theatre / Citizen’s Theatre), Travesties, The Last Witch, Chicago (Pitlochry Festival Theatre), Brigadoom (Oran Mor), Scrooge (Pitlochry Festival Theatre), No Way to Treat a Lady (Landor Theatre), Scrooge (National Tour), The Tempest (Italian Tour), A Christmas Carol (Byre Theatre), Cinderella (Sheffield Lyceum), Sleeping Beauty (Eden Court), La Cage aux Folles (English Theatre, Frankfurt), Hard Times (Union Chapel), Late and Lyrical (Jermyn Street theatre), Les Miserables (Palace Theatre), The Phantom of the Opera (Her Majesty’s Theatre). Television includes: Outlander (Starz TV) Film includes: Boheme for MTL Films (Channel 5). Trained at: Royal Academy of Music, University of Glasgow and University of Edinburgh Officer Johan Munir This is Johan's RSC debut season Theatre includes: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Opera Holland Park/Figure), Into The Woods (Scenario Two/Theatre Royal Bath), Broken Wings (Charing Cross Theatre), Rumi: The Musical (London Coliseum), Umm Kulthum & The Golden Era (The London Palladium), Broken Wings (Dubai Opera House, Katara Opera House), It Happened in Key West (Charing Cross Theatre), Little Women (Hope Mill Theatre), Tape (Drayton Arms), My Dad’s Gap Year (Bush Theatre). Workshops include: Papadopoulos! The Musical (The Other Palace-Studio), His Indian Boyfriend (Theatre Royal Stratford East). Audio includes: The Fisherman King (Storyside). Trained at: Cambridge University / The Royal Academy of Music Gratiano Jonathan Oliver This is Jonathan's RSC debut season Theatre incudes: Dmitry (Marylebone Theatre), Twelfth Night (USA tour), Julius Caesar, Macbeth, The Odyssey, The Seagull, Hamlet (Factory Theatre), The Cherry Orchard (Nottingham Playhouse), Waiting for Godot (Arcola), The Merchant of Venice (Oxford), 2 seasons at Shakespeare’s Globe, War and Peace (National Theatre), Julius Caesar (ESC), and Hamlet (Théatre Point, Corsica and Avignon Festival), The Magic Flute (Budapest Festival Orchestra), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Orchestre de Lyon), Dido and Aeneas (Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment). Television includes: EastEnders, Agincourt, The Angel of Death, Hannay, The Detective, King of the Ghetto, Defy. Films include: The Testing Point, Mike Leigh’s Peterloo, King Lear, Under Dickens Wing, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, The Projectionist, Active Imagination, The Outing, The Memorialist, Return of the Jedi and Tavernier’s La Mort en Direct / Deathwatch. Jonathan is a voice artist, and has recorded over 100 audiobooks. Recent podcasts include Lucas Cranach in Luther – in real time, and Admiral Baker in Devolution of the Species. Trained at: Manchester University. Ensemble Finlay Paul This is Finlay's RSC debut season Theatre includes: Oklahoma! (Wyndhams Theatre), The Comedy About A Bank Robbery (Criterion Theatre), Booze (Thundercrack, New York), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (East London Shakespeare Festival), The Interpretation of Dreams (The Bunker) Radio includes: Dark Harbour, Orlando (Audible), In Search of Lost Time, A Punk’s Progress (BBC Radio 4) Trained at: Guildhall School of Music and Drama Senator Andrew Price This is Andrew's RSC debut season Theatre includes: Hard Times, She Stoops to Conquer, A Government Inspector, Hamlet, 1984 (Northern Broadsides); Anna of The Five Towns (New Vic Theatre), Broken Time (Three Stones Media); Oliver Twist (Bolton Octagon); The Grouch (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Into the Woods (Linbury Studio, Royal Opera House); Tarka the Otter (Two Moors Festival); Wizard of Oz (Chester Gateway); Twelfth Night, Hamlet (Aquila Theatre Co., New York); Christmas Carol (Liverpool Playhouse); Red Red Shoes (Unicorn); Much Ado About Nothing (Cheek by Jowl); The Devil’s Disciple, Pericles (Royal National Theatre) Television includes: Close to the Enemy, The Genius of Mozart, Bloody Britain (BBC), Murder Investigation Team (Thames) Film includes: StarGirl, Far From the Madding Crowd, Ma part du gâteau, Batman Begins, Vanity Fair, The Clandestine Marriage Trained at: The Royal Scottish Conservatoire (Glasgow) and at l’École internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq (Paris) Ensemble Claire Redcliffe This is Claire's RSC debut season Theatre includes: Hamlet (Orange Tree Primary Shakespeare); A Christmas Carol (The Dukes); The Alchemist (Creation Theatre Company); Macbeth (AFTLS); Hamlet (National Theatre Primary Theatre); Wind in the Willows (Creation Theatre Company); Twelfth Night (AFTLS); But It Still Goes On (Finborough Theatre); A Midsummer Night's Dream (The Factory Company/Willow Globe); Much Ado About Nothing (AFTLS); Cyrano de Bergerac (Grosvenor Park Open Air); A Midsummer Night's Dream (Grosvenor Park Open Air); Charlotte’s Web (Birmingham Stage Company); Stepping Out (Salisbury Playhouse); Outward Bound (Finborough Theatre); A Wordless Thing (Theatre 503); Perchance to Dream (Finborough Theatre); As You Like It (Lamb Theatre); When We Are Married (Garrick Theatre); Quality Street (Finborough Theatre); The Merchant of Venice (Lamb Theatre); Oliver (Larnaca Amphitheatre); When We Are Married (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Great Expectations (Manchester Library Theatre); Hamlet (The Factory); Tom’s Midnight Garden (Manchester Library Theatre); Top Girls (Watford Palace Theatre); Dinah Lord in High Society (Shaftesbury Theatre); The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Kindertransport (Octagon Theatre), Question Time (Arcola Theatre); High Society (Regent’s Park Open Air); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Regent's Park Open Air); The Beggar’s Opera (Orange Tree Theatre); Engaged (Orange Tree Theatre), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Theatr Clwyd), The Road to Ruin (Orange Tree Theatre). Television includes: Cuckoo - Series 2 and 3 (BBC), Doctors (BBC), Eastenders (BBC), Holby City (BBC), The Royal (Yorkshire Television), Auf Wiedersehen Pet (BBC). Film includes: Pretty Red Dress, Christopher Robin, Charlotte Gray Desdemona Juliet Rylance This is Juliet's RSC debut season Theatre includes: As You Like It, The Tempest (BAM/The Old Vic/The Bridge Project); Ivanov, The Cherry Orchard, Three Sisters (Classic Stage Company); Othello (Theatre for a New Audience); The Winter’s Tale, Troilus and Cressida (Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre); I Am Shakespeare (Chichester Festival Theatre/UK Tour); Romeo and Juliet (Middle Temple Hall, London); Bash-Latterday Plays (Trafalgar Studios, West End). Television includes: Perry Mason (HBO), McMafia (BBC), The Knick (HBO), The Bends (FX), American Gothic (Amblin Television/CBS). Film includes: Arthur The King (Lionsgate), A Dog’s Purpose (DreamWorks/Amblin Entertainment), Frances Ha (IFC Films/Pine District Pictures), Love After Love (IFC Films/Secret Engine/Weedon Media),Sinister (Alliance Films), Days and Nights (IFC Films/ Artcine), The Artist’s Wife (Greyshack Films), Jill (Hugofilm Features). Juliet won the OBIE Award for Best Off-Broadway Performance 2010 for Rosalind in As You Like It (BAM/ The Old Vic/The Bridge Project). Juliet is an Ambassador for The Old Vic, the Founding Producer of Globe Stage and a Peace Ambassador for Peace One Day. Roderigo Jethro Skinner This is Jethro's RSC debut season Theatre includes: The Duchess of Malfi; The Hunt (The Almeida); Demons (Split Moon Theatre); Cosmic Trigger (Love And Will Productions); Tis Pity She’s A Whore (The Globe), Twelfth Night and Richard III (West End and Broadway), The Tempest (Mid-Wales Music Trust, Skäne (Hampstead), The Odyssey (The Factory & Creation Theatre), A Soldier’s Tale (Mid Wales Chamber Orchestra), Hamlet, The Seagull and Cymbeline (The Factory), subVERSE (Theatre503), Romeo and Juliet (Vienna’s English Theatre), The Snow Queen (Manchester Library Theatre) and Many Loves (Lilian Baylis). Television includes: Theodosia (HBO); Lockwood & Co (Netflix); The Mallorca Files, The Royals, Eastenders, Wire in the Blood (regular), Cold Feet, Coronation Street, The Bill, Peak Practice, City Central, Casualty, Grease Monkeys and The Misfit Soldier. Film includes: Us Amongst The Stones, Sign Language, Counting Backwards, First Date, Sh!ft, Replica, Freaky Deaky and Plyus Odin (2008 Best Actor Award at the ‘Russian Oscars’ in Sochi). Othello John Douglas Thompson This is John's RSC debut season. Theatre includes: Broadway: King Lear, Carousel, Jitney, A Time to Kill, Cyrano de Bergerac, Julius Caesar. Off Broadway: Satchmo At The Waldorf (Westside Theater); Endgame, The Emperor Jones (Irish Rep), Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Troilus & Cressida (New York Shakespeare Festival); King Lear (Yale Rep); The Forest (Classic Stage Company); Hedda Gabler (New York Theater Workshop); Tamburlaine, The Merchant of Venice, Othello, The Father, A Doll’s House, Macbeth, Oroonoko (Theater For A New Audience); Women Beware Women (Red Bull); Regional: Inherit The Wind (Pasadena Playhouse); The Iceman Cometh (Brooklyn Academy of Music/Goodman Theater); The Tempest (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company); Man In The Ring (Huntington Theater); Hamlet (ACT); Jesus Hopped The ‘A’ Train (Wilma Theater); Joe Turner’s Come And Gone (Mark Taper Forum); Antony and Cleopatra (Hartford Stage); Henry IV (Chicago Shakespeare); King Lear, Red Velvet, All’s Well That Ends Well, Richard III, The Dreamer Examines His Pillow, Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare & Company); Antigone, Ohio State Murders, Richard II, The Idiots Karamazov, Henry V, Mother Courage, Marat Sade, The Winter’s Tale (American Repertory Theater); Measure For Measure, Christmas Carol (Trinity Rep Theater) Broadway: King Lear, Carousel, Jitney, A Time to Kill, Cyrano de Bergerac, Julius Caesar. Off Broadway: Satchmo At The Waldorf (Westside Theater), Endgame, The Emperor Jones (Irish Rep), Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Troilus & Cressida (New York Shakespeare Festival), King Lear (Yale Rep), The Forest (Classic Stage Company), Hedda Gabler (New York Theater Workshop), Tamburlaine, The Merchant of Venice, Othello, The Father, A Doll’s House, Macbeth, Oroonoko (Theater For A New Audience), Women Beware Women (Red Bull) Regional: Inherit The Wind (Pasadena Playhouse), The Iceman Cometh (Brooklyn Academy of Music/Goodman Theater), The Tempest (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company) ,Man In The Ring (Huntington Theater), Hamlet (ACT), Jesus Hopped The ‘A’ Train (Wilma Theater), Joe Turner’s Come And Gone (Mark Taper Forum), Antony And Cleopatra (Hartford Stage), Henry IV (Chicago Shakespeare), King Lear, Red Velvet, All’s Well That Ends Well, Richard III, The Dreamer Examines His Pillow, Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare & Company), Antigone, Ohio State Murders, Richard II, The Idiots Karamazov, Henry V, Mother Courage, Marat Sade, The Winter’s Tale (American Repertory Theater) Measure For Measure, and Christmas Carol (Trinity Rep Theater) TV includes: The Gilded Age (HBO), Mare of Easttown (HBO), For Life (ABC), and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (HBO), and Law & Order (NBC), Madam Secretary (CBS), Conviction (NBC), Person of Interest (CBS), Gravity (STARZ) Film includes: High and Low (upcoming), Till, The Letter Room, 21 Bridges, The 355, Let Them All Talk, Wolves, The Bourne Legacy, Glass Chin, Midway and Malcolm X Awards: Thre- time OBIE Award winner, two-time Drama Desk Award winner, Lucille Lortel Award, Outer Critics Circle award, NAACP Image Award, Eugene O’Neill Medallion, Robert Brustein Award, Barrymore Award, Two time Elliot Norton Award winner, Samuel H. Scripps Award. Previous Next Cast Lodovico Al Barclay Montano Scott Brooksbank Messenger Ricardo Castro Duke of Venice John Paul Connolly Sailor Jason Eddy Clown Kevin N Golding Emilia Anastasia Hille Cassio Edward Hogg Brabantio Colin Hurley Bianca Madeleine Hyland Iago Will Keen Senator Graham Mackay-Bruce Officer Johan Munir Gratiano Jonathan Oliver Ensemble Finlay Paul Senator Andrew Price Ensemble Claire Redcliffe Desdemona Juliet Rylance Roderigo Jethro Skinner Othello John Douglas Thompson Creatives Director Tim Carroll Set & Costume Designer Judith Bowden Lighting Designer Paule Constable Composer and Company Voice Work James Oxley Sound Designer Donato Wharton Movement Director Alexis Milligan Fight Director Kev McCurdy Casting Directors Matthew Dewsbury CDG and Martin Poile CDG Assistant Director Nyasha Gudo About the play Cast and creatives The Plot Behind the Scenes Assisted Performances More Less About the play Cast and creatives The Plot Behind the Scenes Assisted Performances In This Section About the play Othello is at the peak of his powers, but in passing over his servant Iago, he has created a deadly enemy. Find out more The Plot Othello is manipulated by the man he thought was his friend, Iago, bringing about the destruction of everything he holds dear. Find out more Trailer Watch the trailer for Tim Carroll's invigorating new adaptation of Othello. Find out more Behind the Scenes See the cast of our new production of Othello in rehearsal, with John Douglas Thompson in the title role. See photos Assisted Performances Find out about our assisted performances for Othello. Find out more Related events Find out more about our production of Othello and how it was created, with our series of events. Find out more Learning Explore information and resources for teachers and learners on Othello Find out more Past productions and play history Our productions of Othello from 1979, 1989, 2004 and 2015 Read More Merchandise Buy now Othello on the Shakespeare Learning Zone Studying Othello? 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