The Winter's Tale Cast and Creatives Close Hermione Madeline Appiah Previous RSC includes: Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice, The Taming of the Shrew Theatre includes: Cymbeline (Globe), Kerry Jackson, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Here We Go; Welcome to Thebes (National Theatre), Tina Turner The Musical (Aldwych), Hamlet (Harold Pinter Theatre), The Hotel Cerise (Theatre Royal Stratford), Iyalode of Eti (Utopia Theatre/Rich Mix/Arcola), In The Next Room or The Vibrator Play (St James Theatre), The Duchess of Malfi (Old Vic), Speechless (Shared Experience), Off the Endz (Royal Court), Mother Goose (Greenwich Theatre), It Felt Empty When the Heart Went at First… (Arcola/Clean Break), Arabian Nights (New Vic), Dionysis Unbound (Bridewell Theatre), 200 Years, Cinderella (Watford Palace), The Wedding Dance (Birmingham Rep/Tour), Restoration (Oxford Stage Company), I Have Before Me… (Calypso), Brezhnev’s Children (BAC), Ms Ross: The Lady and Her Music (Neptune Theatre) Television and Film includes: Death in Paradise, Blood of My Blood, Black Mirror, Jungle, The Box, In the Long Run, Elephant, King for a Term, Partners in Crime, Doctors, Gavin and Stacey, EastEnders, The Bill, Holby City Florizel Lewis Bowes This is Lewis’s RSC debut Theatre includes: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Theatre Space North East) Theatre while training includes: The Frontline, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, A Month in the Country, Sucker Punch, The Government Inspector, Suddenly Last Summer, Medea, A Bastardized King John Trained at: LAMDA Shepherdess Amelda Brown This is Amelda’s RSC debut Theatre includes: For Alexander Zeldin - The Confessions (National Theatre/European Tour), Love (European Tour/The Armory), Apart from George, Macbeth (National Theatre/USA), Fen, A Mouthful of Birds (Joint Stock), Adler & Gibb (Royal Court), Chaste Maid in Cheapside (Globe), Trap Street (Kandinsky), Abigail’s Party, Beautiful Thing (Donmar Warehouse/Duke of York’s, West End) Television includes: Seconds Out, Call the Midwife, The Rainbow, Sherlock Holmes, Lovejoy, Class Act Film includes: Little Dorrit, Hope and Glory, V for Vendetta, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince Trained at: RADA Leontes Bertie Carvel Previous RSC includes: Matilda The Musical (Stratford/West End/Broadway) Theatre includes: Pygmalion, The 47th, The Hairy Ape (Old Vic), INK (Almeida/West End/Broadway), Bakkhai, Rope (Almeida), Damned By Despair, The Man of Mode, The Life of Galileo, Coram Boy (National Theatre), Doctor Dee (Manchester International Festival), The Pride (Royal Court), The Circle (Chichester/Tour), Parade (Donmar), Faustus (Etcetera), Professor Bernhardi, Rose Bernd (Arcola), Macbeth (Union Theatre), Revelations (Hampstead) Television includes: A Knight of The Seven Kingdoms, Dalgliesh, The Crown, The Sister, The Pale Horse, Baghdad Central, The Crown, Doctor Foster, Coalition, The Wrong Mans, Babylon, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, Restless, Hidden, The Crimson Petal & The White, Just William, Sherlock, Midsomer Murders, Waking The Dead, Primeval, John Adams, Doctor Who, Holby City, The Genius of Beethoven, Bombshell, Agatha Christie: A Life In Pictures, The Lost World of Mitchell and Kenyon, Hawking Film includes: The Tragedy of Macbeth, Les Miserables Trained at: RADA Dancer / Ensemble Rhianna Compton This is Rhianna’s RSC debut Theatre includes: Salt of the Earth (Venice Biennale), Hamlet: A Commentary, Songs of Lear, Island, Return to the Voice (Song of the Goat Theatre), The Kaspar Hauser Experiment (The Space), Little Thunder (Institute of Grotowski) Film includes: A Bear Remembers, Why Alice Music includes: NYX: Electronic Drone Choir (Queen Elizabeth Hall, Roundhouse, Rewire Festival) Emilia Hilda Cronje This is Hilda’s RSC debut Theatre includes: Mies Julie (Baxter Theatre/International Tour), Ebola (Theatre for Africa), Song of Achilles (Rose Theatre), As You Like It (Edinburgh Fringe), Meek (Applecart Arts) Screen includes: Die Dekonstruksie van Reta Blom, Gerrit Schoonhoven’s Twee Grade van Moord, Charles Fourie’s Agterplaas, and supporting turns in The Recce Television includes: Clan of the Cave Bear, Binnelanders, History of All of Us, Infested 2, Bundu Buddie’s Trained at: Waterfront Theatre School and Trinity College London Hilda won the Ovation Award for Excellence in Theatre at the National Arts Festival for Ebola Clown (Young Shepherd) Ryan Duval This is Ryan’s RSC debut Theatre while training includes: The Front Line, The Invincibles, The Seagull, Medea, A Bastardized King John, Saint George and the Dragon (LAMDA), Manhood (Edinburgh Fringe Festival) Short film includes: Chain Trained at: LAMDA Antigonus Matthew Flynn Previous RSC includes: The Prince of Homburg, Julius Caesar, Romeo and Juliet Theatre includes: The Interview (Park Theatre), Private Peaceful (Nottingham Playhouse), Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, The Crucible (Storyhouse Chester), Agnes Colander (Ustinov Bath, Jermyn St), Child of Science (Bush Theatre), Wild Honey, 55 Days (Hampstead Theatre), City Stories (55East59 New York), I am a Walrus (Young Vic), Children of the Sun, War Horse (National Theatre), The Winter’s Tale, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Rose Rage, Henry V, Comedy of Errors, Twelfth Night (Propeller, West End, New York and International venues), Mare Rider (Arcola), Henry V, Troilus and Cressida (Globe), A Streetcar Named Desire, Macbeth, Mayor of Zalamea (Liverpool Everyman/Playhouse), The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Northampton Theatre Royal), A View from the Bridge (English Touring Theatre), As You Like It, Macbeth, How Many Miles to Basra? (West Yorkshire Playhouse), 1984, Julius Caesar (Royal Exchange Manchester), The Gentlemen’s Tea Drinking Society (Old Museum Arts Centre Belfast), Hangover Square (Finborough Theatre), Hamlet (Bristol Old Vic), Meat (Plymouth), Romeo and Juliet (Derby Playhouse), An Ideal Husband (Gielgud Theatre) Television includes: Say Nothing (Disney/FX), Cobra: Rebellion (Sky), Great Expectations (BBC,FX), Finding Alice, Coronation St, Emmerdale, Innocent, Lucan, Midsomer Murders, Foyles War, After Thomas (ITV), Lawful Killing, Casualty, Doctors, Holby, The Quatermass Experiment (BBC), The Passion (HBO, BBC), The King Must Die (CH4) Film includes: Femi, Sahara, Pride, A Stitch in Time, Franklyn, Broken Lines, Black Sheep Trained at: Drama Centre London Perdita Leah Haile Previous RSC includes: Pericles Theatre includes: The Lovely Bones (UK Tour), Harry Potter And The Cursed Child (The Palace Theatre, West End), Instructions For Correct Assembly (Workshop - Royal Court), The Crucible (Manchester Royal Exchange), Slick (National Youth Theatre) Television includes: The White House,Flatmates, Casualty, Doctors, The Musketeers,The Five Film includes: Snow White, Slate Trained at: National Youth Theatre Autolycus / Time Kathryn Hunter Previous RSC includes: Timon of Athens, A Tender Thing, Antony and Cleopatra, King Lear. As Director: Othello, Everyman Theatre includes: King Lear (Globe), The Chairs (Almeida), Happy Days (Bouffes du Nord), The House of Bernarda Alba (Manchester Royal Exchange), WHY, Fragments and The Valley of Astonishment (Young Vic, Bouffes du Nord and on international tour), Prometheus Unbound (Epidaurous Festival), The Emperor and Kafka’s Monkey (Young Vic, HOME Manchester, TFANA, New York), King Lear (Young Vic, Tokyo Globe), Sotto Voce (Asolo Theatre, Florida), Cyrano De Bergerac (Southwark Playhouse), Hearts (Ex Machina), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (TFANA, New York), One Green Bottle and The Diver (Tokyo Metropolitan/Soho/European tour), The Bee (Tokyo, Soho, New York, Hong Kong), Yerma (Arcola), Calixto Bieito’s Celestina (King’s Theatre, Edinburgh), Whistling Psyche, Doña Rosita (Almeida), Richard III, The Taming of the Shrew (Globe), Macbeth, Electra (Leicester Haymarket), Far Away (Bouffes du Nord), The Rose Tattoo and The Devils (Theatr Clwyd), Live Like Pigs, The Recruiting Officer, Our Country’s Good (Royal Court), The Hypochondriac (Lyric Hammersmith), Women of Troy (The Gate), Spoonface Steinberg (Ambassadors, Washington), Mother Courage (Shared Experience), The Skriker (National Theatre), Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, The Visit (Olivier Award: Best Actress), Foe, Out of the House Walked a Man, Anything for a Quiet Life, Help! I’m Alive and The Winter’s Tale (Théâtre de Complicité) Television includes: Black Doves, Andor, Grotestquerie, Landscapers, Les Misérables, Black Earth Rising, Flowers, Tron: Uprising, Rome, NCS: Manhunt, Silent Witness, Grushko, Maria’s Child, Anything For a Quiet Life Film includes: Ray Gunn, Ladies First, Hedda, Megalopolis, The Tragedy of Macbeth (New York Film Critics Circle Award 2021), Poor Things, The Front Room, The Pod Generation, Inland, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, All or Nothing, Tale of Tales, The Baby of Macon, Simon Magus, Orlando Directing credits include: Gigi (Arcola Theatre), Napoleon Disrobed (Told By An Idiot), The Birds (National Theatre), Mr Puntila and his man Matti (Almeida, Albery and Traverse), Wiseguy Scapino (Theatre Clwyd), The Glory of Living (Royal Court), The Comedy of Errors, Pericles (Globe), My Perfect Mind (Young Vic/Tour) Dancer / Ensemble Chihiro Kawasaki This is Chihiro’s RSC debut Dance work includes: Natasha, Pierre, the Great Comet of 1812 (Donmar Warehouse), The Burnt City, The Drowned Man Hollywood Fable (Punchdrunk), We are as Gods (James Cousins Company/Battersea Arts Centre), Nutcrusher (Sung Im Her), Within Her Eyes (James Cousins Company), Blossfeldt; Placebo (Clod Ensemble), World Piano Day in collaboration with Float (National Gallery), Scissorella (Eleesha Drennen) Music videos include: Azizam (Ed Sheeran), Two Fish and the Elephant (Khruangbin), Big God; King, Heaven Is Here, My Love (Florence and the Machine), Eve of Destruction, Dig Your Own Hole (The Chemical Brothers & Aurora), Sister 2 Sister (Ibeyi), Motorways (GoatGirls), Thanks for the Dance (Leonard Cohen), The Gods We Can Touch (Aurora), Virtue (BlocParty), I'm The Drama (Bebe Rexha), The Dream of Delphi album (Bat For Lashes), Don’t Wanna Rush (Fineart), Youth (Troye Sivan) Opera includes: Khovanshchina (Salzburg Easter Festival), Wozzeck (Aix Festival, France), Weimar Nightfall: The Seven Deadly Sins (LA Philharmonic/Walt Disney Concert Hall), The Rake’s Progress (Stanislavski Theatre, Moscow/Aix Festival/National Opera) Television includes: Dope Girls; Time of Your Life, Frankenstein’s Wedding Live in Leeds, Nourouz Persian New Year Feature films include: Matilda, The Marvels, Catherine, Called Birdy; Cats, Brave New World, Maleficent 2, Mari and The Mummy Film includes: Linzer Klangwolke, Cinderella Games, Varla (Lovesick Nowness), Business is Bruta, Flaw, Ladyblackshirt, Contagion for BBC Arts Culture in Quarantine Site-specific performance includes: Terminal 1 (Glastonbury), Salt of the Earth (Sophie Hunter, Venice), Waldorf Project (Chapter Three/Futuro), La Traviata, Swan Lake welcome performance (Royal Opera House), The Great Masked Ball (The Lost Estate), A is for Ants (Jack Davison), Haenyo, Underwater film & photography (Zena Holloway), Duchampiana (Lilian Hess, Biennale, Venice Immersive) Trained at: A&S Ballet (Japan) and Tring Park Arts Educational School Paulina Aïcha Kossoko Previous RSC includes: Kyoto, The Taming of the Shrew Theatre includes: The Vote (Donmar Warehouse), Antony & Cleopatra (Chichester Festival Theatre and Liverpool Playhouse), Welcome To Thebes, The Observer (National Theatre), La Dispute (Abbey Theatre Dublin), Yours Abundantly (Gillian Plowman Productions), Richard III (Southwark Playhouse), Blithe Spirit (Watford Palace), The Evocation of Papa Mas (Told By An Idiot), The Magic Carpet (Lyric, Hammersmith), Celestina (Birmingham Rep/Edinburgh International Festival), Signes de vie (Igi Theatre Company), The Vagina Monologues (Arts Theatre), Monkey (Young Vic), Wedding Story (Soho Theatre), Andromache (Living Pictures), Macbeth, Yerma (BAC), The Old Curiosity Shop (Southwark Playhouse), The Cherry Orchard, Demons and Dybbuks, The Black Dahlia and Buried Alive (Method and Madness), The Two Gentleman of Verona (Globe), Antony and Cleopatra (Riverside Studios), Julius Caesar (Alley Theatre, Houston), Inheritance (Eastern Angels) Film includes: Wasted, Radiator, The Fever and Claude Chabrol’s La comédie du pouvoir Television includes: Sick Note, Skins, In Deep, Coronation Street, Casualty, Eastenders, Doctors, Kingmakers Radio includes: The Number One Ladies Detective Agency, Today Polixenes John Light Previous RSC includes: The Giant, Julius Caesar, The Tempest, The Seagull, In The Company Of Men A Patriot For Me Theatre includes: Little Foxes (Young Vic), Watch on the Rhine, Luise Miller (Donmar Warehouse), The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage (The Bridge Theatre), Uncle Vanya (Theatre Royal Bath), The Son (The Kiln Theatre & Duke of York’s Theatre), Mary Stuart (Duke of York’s Theatre, Almeida), The Winter’s Tale, A Midsummer Night's Dream (Globe), Three Days in the Country, The Night Season (National Theatre), The Blackest Black, My Boy Jack (Hampstead Theatre), Taken at Midnight (Chichester Festival Theatre, West End), Julius Caesar (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre), Carmen Disruption, The Master Builder, The Tower, Certain Young Men (Almeida), Apologia, Clocks and Whistles (Bush Theatre), True West (Sheffield Crucible), Hedda Gabler (Dublin Gate Theatre), Thom Pain (Based On Nothing) (Print Room) Screen includes: Showtrial, Around the World in 80 Days, Father Brown, Silk, North and South, Cambridge Spies, Love in a Cold Climate, Aristocrats, Holding On, Atlantis, Mars, Murder in Provence, Maigret, Endeavour, DCI Banks, Band of Brothers, De Gaulle, Albert Nobbs, Scoop, Partition, Heights, The Lion in Winter, Trance, Dk2, 5 Seconds to Spare, The Ascension, Benedict Arnold, Agent Hamilton, A Rather English Marriage, Investigating Sex and Purpose Mover / Ensemble Mkiyah Page-Gordon This is Mkiyah’s RSC debut Theatre (whilst training) includes: Seven Guitars, Mother Clap’s Molly House, Richard III, The Oresteia, The School for Scandal, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, A Streetcar Named Desire, As You Like It, The Seagull, Three Sisters Music Videos include: Curry Goat and Rice/Oscars (ZHINO) Commercials include: Very Christmas Advert, Luminocity Southend Trained at: The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama Dancer / Ensemble Rakhee Sharma This is Rakhee’s RSC debut Theatre includes: Khovanshchina (Complicité), Salt of the Earth (Venice Film Festival), The Bitten Peach (Stratford East), In Our Own Words (Parliament House of Commons), Wuthering Heights (Royal Exchange Theatre), Macbeth, If Not Now, When? (National Theatre), Crystal Clear (Old Red Lion), The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca (Royal Exchange Manchester/Hull Truck Theatre), Shadow (Schaubuhune) Television incudes: Brassic, Dope Girls, The Bay, The Long Shadow, Eastenders, The Power, The Third Day Film includes: Unicorns Camillo Raphael Sowole Previous RSC includes: Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet Theatre includes: The Merchant of Venice (Almeida), Measure For Measure (Young Vic), Macbeth (Barbican) Television includes: The Dreamlands, The Crow Girl, Grime Kids, Watch A Whole Lifetime, The Great, Black Earth Rising Film includes: Apartment 7A, Munich: The Edge of War, Starred Up Jailer / Ensemble Richard Sutton This is Richard’s RSC debut Theatre includes: Statements After An Arrest Under The Immorality Act (Orange Tree Theatre), Ghost Stories (West End), Transmissions (Birmingham Rep), The Cow Play (Brighton Theatre Festival) Television includes: Suspect, Kaos, The Crown, Mary & George, The Terror, Liaison, Line of Duty, Boomers, Silent Witness, Sherlock, Our Girl, The Missing, Humans, Jekyll & Hyde Film includes: Sonic The Hedgehog 3 Trained at: Birmingham School of Speech & Drama Previous Next Cast Hermione Madeline Appiah Florizel Lewis Bowes Shepherdess Amelda Brown Leontes Bertie Carvel Dancer / Ensemble Rhianna Compton Emilia Hilda Cronje Clown (Young Shepherd) Ryan Duval Antigonus Matthew Flynn Perdita Leah Haile Autolycus / Time Kathryn Hunter Dancer / Ensemble Chihiro Kawasaki Paulina Aïcha Kossoko Polixenes John Light Mover / Ensemble Mkiyah Page-Gordon Dancer / Ensemble Rakhee Sharma Camillo Raphael Sowole Jailer / Ensemble Richard Sutton Creatives Director Yaël Farber Set & Costume Designer Soutra Gilmour Lighting Designer Tim Lutkin Composer Max Perryment Sound Designer Dan Balfour Movement Director Imogen Knight Fight and Intimacy Director Yarit Dor Casting Director Julia Horan CDG Music Director Lindsey Miller Voice & Text Paula Stephens Associate Designer Rachel Wingate Assistant Director Aaliyah Mckay Dramaturg Drew Lichtenberg Royal Shakespeare Theatre Stratford-upon-Avon 12 Jul - 30 Aug 2025 Book Tickets Running time: To be confirmed About the play Cast and Creatives The Plot Assisted Performances Related events More Less About the play Cast and Creatives The Plot Assisted Performances Related events In This Section About the play Yaël Farber directs Shakespeare's enigmatic story of love, loss and rebirth. Read More The Plot A short summary of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale. Find out more Assisted Performances Find out about our assisted performances for The Winter's Tale. Find out more Related events Find out more about our production of The Winter's Tale and how it was created with our series of events. Find out more Past productions Find out more about some of our key past productions of The Winter's Tale. Read More You may also like
