The Tempest Cast and Creatives Close Alonso David Bark-Jones This is David's RSC debut Theatre includes: The Stepmother (Chichester Theatre), Much Ado About Nothing (Theatr Clwyd), Hedda Gabler (Salisbury Playhouse), Arcadia (Nottingham Playhouse); Noises Off (The Old Vic tour), The Village Bike, Plenty (Sheffield Crucible), Much Ado About Nothing (Lamb Players/Lamb House Rye), Resilience (Bush Theatre), The 39 Steps (Criterion Theatre), The Way of the World (Royal & Derngate Northampton), The Forest, Machinal (National Theatre), Schippel the Plumber (Palace Theatre Watford), Julius Caesar (Birmingham Rep), All's Well That Ends Well, The Doctor's Dilemma (Manchester Royal Exchange), Some Sunny Day (Hampstead), Venice Preserv'd (Almeida), Dealer's Choice (National and Vaudeville), Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Wolsey Theatre Ipswich), She Stoops to Conquer (Derby Playhouse) Television includes: The Diplomat, Aliens, Secret Invasion, Dune Prophecy, Sweetpea, Industry, Running Grave, Call the Midwife, The Crown, Jekyll & Hyde, 24: Live Another Day, Cop in Paris, Midsomer Murders, Young James Herriot, The Pillars of the Earth, A Wing and a Prayer, Identity, Slings and Arrows, Life for Daniel, Rosemary & Thyme, No Angels, Victoria Cross Heroes, Doctors, New Tricks, Rough Treatment, Oliver Twist, Bramwell, Wilson, The Legacy of Reginald Perrin, Pride and Prejudice, Press Gang, Trainer Films include: Borg/McEnroe, Macbeth, Breakdown, Rest Stop, The Expatriate, RocknRolla, Sixty Six, The Calling, The Da Vinci Code. Prospero Kenneth Branagh Kenneth Branagh has been involved with 35 Shakespeare productions, including acclaimed screen adaptations of Henry V, Much Ado About Nothing and Hamlet He has directed 21 feature films, including Thor, Cinderella and Murder on the Orient Express Recent acting roles include such films as Dunkirk and Oppenheimer, and he will shortly be seen in The Devil Wears Prada 2 and opposite Ryan Reynolds in Mayday On TV he won both BAFTA and Emmy awards as Wallander His film Belfast won him the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. Recent theatre credits include: Ivanov, Macbeth, The Winter’s Tale and King Lear. Boatswain Darrell Brockis Previous RSC: The Two Gentlemen of Verona Theatre includes: Our American Queen (The American Vicarious), Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (West End), Private Lives, Hay Fever, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Blithe Spirit (The Mill at Sonning), The Wind in the Willows (Wilton’s Music Hall), House & Garden (Watermill), A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Comedy of Errors, Twelfth Night, The Taming of the Shrew, Henry V, The Merchant of Venice (Propeller), Robin Hood (City Varieties), Across the Dark Water (The Point), The Trial of Jane Fonda (Assembly Rooms), Batman Live (World Tour), Peter Pan (O2 Arena/US Tour), Messenger (Shunt), A Number, Dick Barton - Special Agent, Dead Funny (Theatre by the Lake, Keswick), Hamlet, The Grapes of Wrath, Summer Lightning, Chimneys (Pitlochry Festival Theatre), Killing Time, Don't Dress For Dinner, Funny Money, The Man Upstairs (Aldeburgh & Southwold), The Lady Vanishes (Triode), The BFG (Fiery Angel), For All Time, Othello (Southwark Playhouse), Romeo and Juliet (TNT - World Tour), The Taming of the Shrew (Creation), Equiano, The Focus Group, Flow My Tears The Policeman Said, Crash (The Ovalhouse), The Glass Menagerie, The Arcade (BAC) Film includes: The Dog Who Couldn’t Bark Radio includes: The Death of Grass Trained at: Webber Douglas. Spirit Halle Brown This is Halle's RSC debut Theatre includes: Noughts and Crosses (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), The Crucible (National Theatre and Gielgud Theatre), Home Song (Unicorn), Dolly Parton’s Smokey Christmas Carol (Southbank Centre) Workshops: Pavarotti, Marie Curie, Riviera Girl, Home Song, Swag Age: Shout Out, Joseon! Trained at: Arts Educational Schools. Trinculo Keir Charles Previous RSC includes: Arden of Faversham, The Roaring Girl, The White Devil, The Merchant of Venues, The Taming of the Shrew, The Tragedy of Thomas Hobbes Theatre includes: Hamlet (Chichester), Three Sisters (The Globe), South Pacific, Quiz (Chichester), Lottery of Love (Orange Tree) Television includes: Ellis (Channel 5), Grace (ITV), Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story (Netflix), Back to Life (BBC), Shadow & Bone S2 (Netflix), Stephen (Hat Trick), Flesh and Blood, End of the F*cking World (C4), The Salisbury Poisonings (BBC), Flack (Hat Trick), The Moorside Project (ITV), Miss Scarlet and The Duke (PBS), Death In Paradise (BBC), Silent Witness (BBC), Drifters (Channel 4), Quick Cuts (BBC), Green Wing (C4) Film includes: Man Up, Love Actually Awards: Olivier Award nomination for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Quiz. Master Philip Childs Previous RSC includes: The Taming of the Shrew, The Churchill Play (Barbican) Theatre includes: Only Fools And Horses The Musical (Tour), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Monaco), Deathtrap (The Mill at Sonning), The Mousetrap (West End - 70th anniversary cast), Only Fools And Horses The Musical (West End), Sting's musical, The Last Ship (Toronto), Long Day’s Journey Into Night (West End, New York and Los Angeles), Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (UK & International Tour), Wicked (West End) Television credits include: Toxic Town, Whitstable Pearl, The Trial, Emmerdale, EastEnders, Dream Team, Bernard’s Watch, The Bill, Woof, Backup, Out of Sight, Into The Fire, 2Point4 Children, Cracker, Peak Practice, Waiting For God, A Dark Adapted Eye, Minder, Inspector Morse, Sophia and Constance, Mile High, Murder City, Men Are Wonderful Film includes: Vera Drake, The Damned United Trained at: Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Offstage Understudy Stuart Edgar This is Stuart's RSC debut Theatre includes: Snow Queen (Perth Theatre), Restless Natives (RN Musical Ltd), Battery Park (Sleeping Warrior Theatre), The Scaff (Play, Pie and a Pint), Hermia’s Dream (McLellan Arts Festival), King Lear, Coriolanus, Macbeth, Three Sisters, The Lonesome West, Shook (RCS) Television includes: Half-Man (BBC/HBO) Film includes: Plaster, Fly-Tipping, The Low Road Previous work includes: touring musician (UK and Europe), working with Lewis Capaldi, Gerry Cinnamon, Fatherson, Vukovi Trained at: Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Spirit Amber Sylvia Edwards Previous RSC: Macbeth Credits include: Wild Rose (Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh), Jack and the Beanstalk, Cinderella (Edinburgh Festival Theatre), The Good John Proctor (Jermyn Street Theatre), Tina (Aldwych Theatre); Orphans (National Theatre of Scotland); Dirty Dancing (UK Tour); A Lightweight Disposable Product (The Vaults, London); 20th Century Boy (UK Tour) Films include: I Swear, Elegancia Trained at: New College Lanarkshire. Offstage Understudy Tallulah Hamilton Barr This is Tallulah's RSC debut Television includes: The Crow Girl (Paramount+) Trained at: Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Stephano Guy Henry RSC: Wendy & Peter Pan, Twelfth Night, King John, Cymbeline, All's Well That Ends Well, Volpone, and many others Theatre includes: Hayfever (Chichester Festival Theatre), The Coast of Utopia (National Theatre), Mary Stuart (Donmar) and many other productions at the National Theatre, Chichester Festival Theatre, Donmar Warehouse and in the West End Television includes: Holby City, Rome, John Adams, Young Sherlock, Extras, Sword of Honour, Lost in Austen, Colditz, Criminal Justice, Life in Squares, Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story, Grantchester, Lockerbie: A Search for Truth, Marie Antoinette, The Hairdresser Mysteries, The Chelsea Detective, The Burning Girls, Shakespeare & Hathaway, among many others Film includes: Tarzan, Another Country, Lady Jane, Starter for 10, England, My England, Bright Young Things, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 and Part 2, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Gonzalo Paul Jesson Previous RSC includes: Coriolanus, Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies, Troilus and Cressida, Hamlet, Henry VIII, Bingo, The Tempest, The Beggar's Opera, A Jovial Crew, The Winter's Tale, Antony & Cleopatra, Two Shakespearean Actors, Richard II Theatre includes: As You Like It (Theatre Royal Bath), The Moderate Soprano, Goose Pimples (Hampstead Theatre, West End), The Flight Into Egypt, Slavs (Hampstead Theatre); Cock, Love and Information, The Seagull, Travelling Light, A Life of the Mind, The Normal Heart (Royal Court); The Winter's Tale, The Cherry Orchard (Old Vic and New York), Mary Stuart, King Lear, Twelfth Night (Donmar); Bridge Project (The Old Vic); Awake and Sing, King Lear, Mrs Gaugin (Almeida); Death of a Salesman (Edinburgh Royal Lyceum); Rita, Sue & Bob Too, A State Affair (Soho Theatre); The Devil's Disciple, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Changeling, Hedda Gabler, Ghetto (National Theatre); Beggar's Opera, Flying Blind, Comings and Goings (Liverpool Everyman); Kiss Me Kate, Cornish Mystery Cycle (Northcott, Exeter); Alfie, Old King Cole, Almost Like Being (Library, Manchester) Television includes: The Trial of Christine Keeler, The Crown, The Beast Must Die, Chewing Gum, Vera, The Trials of Jimmy Rose, Margaret: Her Downfall, The Devil's Whore, Midsomer Murders, Foyle's War, The Amazing Mrs Pritchard, Slave Trader, Spooks, Rome, The Glass, A Touch of Frost, The Bill, Pie in the Sky, Resnick, The Rivals, A Very Peculiar Practice, Widows, Queen of Hearts Film includes: The Children Act, Marrowbone, Mr Turner, Coriolanus, Closer to the Moon, Vera Drake, All or Nothing, Acceptable Levels, The Ploughman's Lunch, Home Sweet Home Awards: Outstanding Performance of the Year in a Supporting Role at the 1986 Olivier Awards for Normal Heart. Antonio Mark Meadows Previous RSC includes: The Magician’s Elephant, The Constant Wife Theatre includes: Alfred Hitchcock Presents (Theatre Royal Bath), The Secret Life of Bees, The House of Shades (Almeida Theatre), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Tartuffe (Tobacco Factory Theatres), A Woman of No Importance (Classic Spring UK Tour), Orpheus Descending (Menier Chocolate Factory), Flowers for Mrs Harris (Sheffield Theatres/Chichester Festival Theatre), Quiz (Minerva Theatre/Chichester Festival Theatre/West End), 5/11 (Chichester Festival Theatre), King Lear, Six Pictures of Lee Miller (Minerva Theatre/Chichester Festival Theatre), King John (Globe), Richard III (Trafalgar Studios), Urinetown (St James’s Theatre/West End), Betty Blue Eyes, Mary Poppins (West End), Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), The Tempest (Theatre Royal Bath), Look Back in Anger, A Streetcar Named Desire, Up the Feeder, Down the Mouth, Aeroplane Bones (Bristol Old Vic), High Society (Sheffield Theatres), A Man of No Importance, The Spire, The Herbal Bed, The Magna Carta Plays, Epsom Downs (Salisbury Playhouse), Goodbye Barcelona (Arcola Theatre), The Three Musketeers (Rose Theatre Kingston), The Giant (Hampstead Theatre), Longitude (Greenwich Theatre), The Thrill of Love (Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough), Wonderful Town (Grange Park Opera) Television includes: McDonald and Dodds, Kiri, EastEnders, Casualty, Doctors Film includes: Mr. Burton, Nicholas Nickleby, High Heels & Lowlifes, Letters from Baghdad. Ariel Amara Okereke This is Amara's RSC debut Theatre includes: My Fair Lady (West End), Spring Awakening (Almeida), The Boy Friend (Menier Chocolate Factory), Oklahoma! (Chichester Festival Theatre), Les Misérables (West End), The Hired Man, West Side Story (National Youth Music Theatre), 13 The Musical (West End), Out There (British Youth Music Theatre) Television includes: The Morning After, Red Rose Film includes: The Choral, In the Lost Lands, Jitterbug, Sucka Punch Trained at: Arts Educational Schools Awards: Best Actress in a Musical at the Stage Debut Awards 2018 for the role of Cosette in Les Misérables. Spirit Razak Osman This is Razak's RSC debut Theatre includes: Sylvia (Old Vic), Samskara (Yard Theatre), Antigone (Regent's Park Open Air Theatre), The Pursuit of Joy (Jermyn Street Theatre) Television includes: So Long, Marianne, You Me and the Apocalypse, Doctors Writing credits include: Tube Chronicles (Etcetera Theatre), member of the Bush Writers’ Group Cohort (Bush Theatre) Trained at: Arts Educational School. Sebastian Henry Pettigrew Previous RSC includes: Edward II, Troilus & Cressida (Edinburgh International Festival/RSC) Theatre includes: Midsummer (Edinburgh International Festival), Quiz (Chichester Festival Theatre/West End), The Effect (Sheffield Crucible), Pitcairn (Chichester/The Globe), Of Mice and Men (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Straight (Sheffield Crucible/Bush Theatre), The Master & Margarita (Complicité), Anna Christie (Donmar Warehouse), Beautiful Burnout (Frantic Assembly), Hamlet (Wyndham's Theatre), Black Watch (National Theatre of Scotland/New York/Los Angeles/Barbican), The Bevellers (Citizens Theatre) Television includes: Payback, The Confessions of Frannie Langton, Midsommer Murders (ITV), La Templanza (Amazon Prime), The Winter Palace, The Crown (Netflix), Guilt, Death in Paradise, Taboo, New Blood, Shetland, Silent Witness, Line of Duty (BBC), The Relief of Belsen (Channel 4) Film includes: The Danish Girl (Working Title Films), The Aftermath (Fox Searchlight), Bagman (Lionsgate), The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde (Selkie Productions/Sky Arts) Trained at: Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Miranda Ruby Stokes This is Ruby's RSC debut Theatre includes: The Other Place (National Theatre at The Shed New York), The Habits (Hampstead Theatre), Till the Stars Come Down (National Theatre), That Face (Orange Tree Theatre) Television includes: Untitled Netflix Newfoundland Series, The Jetty, The Burning Girls, Lockwood & Co, Bridgerton series 1 and 2, Da Vinci's Demons, Not Going Out Film includes: Sunny Dancer, Madfabulous, Jay Kelly, Black Dog, A Banquet, Una, ROCKS, Where is Anne Frank, Nose Bleed, White Girl, Shagbands. Ferdinand Fred Woodley Evans Previous RSC includes: Wendy & Peter Pan (Barbican) Theatre includes: Outlying Islands, Orphans (Jermyn Street Theatre) Television includes: Bridgerton Trained at: Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Caliban Ashley Zhangazha This is Ashley's RSC debut Theatre includes: MJ The Musical, Tina The Musical, Henry V, Fences (West End), Much Ado About Nothing, Pericles, Danton’s Death (National Theatre), Measure for Measure (The Globe), Changing Destiny, Ah, Wilderness! (Young Vic), Death of a Salesman, Hamlet (Royal Exchange), Guys and Dolls (Talawa, Royal Exchange), The Country Wife (Chichester Festival Theatre), Terror (Lyric Hammersmith), The Lottery of Love (Orange Tree Theatre), A Raisin in the Sun, Macbeth (Sheffield Crucible), Image of an Unknown Young Woman (Gate Theatre), Human Animals, Belong, truth and reconciliation (Royal Court), Richard II, King Lear (also BAM, New York) (Donmar Warehouse) Television includes: Treasure Island, Betrayal, Manhunt: The Night Stalker, The Undeclared War, Victoria II, Humans, Ordinary Lies, Doctors Film includes: Parlour Games Radio and Audio include: Limelight, Cobalt, Rasselas - Prince of Abyssinia, Schreber, Lorenzaccio, Vergil, Supa Team 4 Awards include: First Prize Ian Charleson Award for Macbeth (Sheffield Crucible), UK Theatre Award Best Performance in a Musical for Guys and Dolls (Royal Exchange) Trained at: Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Previous Next Cast Alonso David Bark-Jones Prospero Kenneth Branagh Boatswain Darrell Brockis Spirit Halle Brown Trinculo Keir Charles Master Philip Childs Offstage Understudy Stuart Edgar Spirit Amber Sylvia Edwards Offstage Understudy Tallulah Hamilton Barr Stephano Guy Henry Gonzalo Paul Jesson Antonio Mark Meadows Ariel Amara Okereke Spirit Razak Osman Sebastian Henry Pettigrew Miranda Ruby Stokes Ferdinand Fred Woodley Evans Caliban Ashley Zhangazha Creatives Director Richard Eyre Set Designer Bob Crowley Costume Designer Fotini Dimou Lighting Designer Hugh Vanstone Composers Akintayo Akinbode and Stephen Warbeck Sound Designer Nicola T. Chang Video Designer Akhila Krishnan Movement & Intimacy Director Annie-Lunnette Deakin-Foster Casting Director Charlotte Sutton CDG Voice Patsy Rodenburg Associate Director Dadiow Lin Associate Set Designer Ros Coombes Royal Shakespeare Theatre Stratford-upon-Avon 13 May - 20 Jun 2026 Book Tickets Running time: TBC About the play Cast and Creatives Related events The plot Assisted Performances More Less About the play Cast and Creatives Related events The plot Assisted Performances The RSC Acting Companies are generously supported by The Gatsby Charitable Foundation In This Section About the play Multi-award winner Kenneth Branagh plays Prospero in Shakespeare’s final play, a meditation on art, power and freedom. Read More Related events Find out more about our production of The Tempest and how it was created, with our series of events. Find out more The plot Read a full synopsis of Shakespeare's The Tempest. 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