MORE ABOUT THE CAST

Adrian Lester

Theatre credits include: Henry V, Othello (National Theatre; Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actor), Company (Donmar Warehouse/West End; Olivier Award for Best Actor), As You Like It (Cheek By Jowl), Red Velvet (London and New York; Critics’ Circle Best Actor Award), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and The Lehman Trilogy (Broadway; Tony Award nomination for Best Actor). He is soon to appear in TV drama PONIES (Sky TV) and new movie Mutiny (on general release August 2026).  Other television credits include: Sandman, Hustle, Undeclared War, Undercover, Life, Trauma, Trigger Point and London Spy.  Film credits include: Primary Colors, The Day After Tomorrow, As You Like It, Dust and Mary, Queen of Scots.

Susannah Fielding 

Previous RSC credits include The Merchant of Venice (as Portia opposite Patrick Stewart’s Shylock).  Other theatre credits include: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Bridge Theatre), The Country Wife, (Chichester Festival Theatre),The Crossing Plays (Royal Court), Bull (Young Vic), An Enemy of the People (Sheffield Crucible), The Merchant of Venice, American Psycho – The Musical (Almeida), The Beaux Stratagem, Much Ado About Nothing, The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other, Philistines and The Rose Tattoo (National Theatre). Television credits include: Here We Go, The Cleaner, Who is Erin Carter?, This Time with Alan Partridge, Life, Black Mirror and The Cockfields. Susannah won the Ian Charleson Award in 2014 for her portrayal of Portia in The Merchant of Venice (Almeida).

Levi Brown

Levi stars in the leading role for Stephen Knight’s drama This Town on BBC 1, for which he was nominated for Best Breakthrough Performance at both the Edinburgh TV Awards and Royal Television Society Awards. The show won the RTS Award for Best Limited Drama. He is currently filming the new series of Line of Duty for BBC1.  Other credits include Silo (Apple TV) and Girl Taken (Paramount+).

Joseph Christain

Theatre credits include: Cyrano (RSC) 

Sunny Chung 

Theatre includes: Cyrano De Bergerac (RSC); Twelfth Night (Trans What You Will Theatre).

Philip Cumbus

RSC credits include: Great Expectations

Theatre includes: The Comedy of Errors, The Tempest, Macbeth, The Lightning Child, Much Ado About Nothing, The Mysteries, Romeo & Juliet, Helen, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Holding Fire, The Merchant of Venice (Globe), Macbeth, Comus, ‘Tis Pity She’s A Whore, The Inn At Lydda (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse),The Best Man (Playhouse Theatre), The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Donmar Warehouse), The Importance Of Being Earnest (Vaudeville Theatre), Moon Tiger (Theatre Royal, Bath), Richard III (Trafalgar Studios), The Norman Conquests (Liverpool Playhouse), 66 Books (Bush Theatre), The Crucible (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), The Master Builder, First Light, In Praise of Love (Minerva Theatre Chichester), The Man Who Had All The Luck (Edinburgh Lyceum), The Notebook Of Trigorin (The Northcott Theatre), Edward II (Battersea Arts Centre), A Month In The Country, Vincent In Brixton (Salisbury Playhouse), The Duchess of Malfi (West Yorkshire Playhouse) and The Fence (The Wrestling School).

Greer Dale-Foulkes 

Theatre includes: Thirsty (Vault Festival); The Nutcracker (Myriad Entertainment); Darknet, The Playboy of the Western World (Southwark Playhouse); Gibraltar (Arcola Studio); The Tempest (Watermill, Newbury); While the Sun Shines (Lion & Unicorn); This Year It Will Be Different (Theatre 503); Head/Heart (Box of Tricks UK Tour/Theatre 503); Lidless (Trafalgar Studios); One Night in November (The Belgrade, Coventry); The Theatre Ep (HighTide/Latitude); Lulu (Gate Theatre); Judgement Day (Almeida).

Rachel Dawson

Theatre includes: Cyrano de Bergerac (RSC), The Mousetrap (UK Tour), The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Gillian Lynne Theatre, West End/UK & Ireland tour), Amelie the Musical, (Watermill Theatre, The Other Palace, Criterion Theatre, West End, UK & Ireland tour), A Christmas Carol (Northern Stage), Once (New Wolsey/Queens Theatre Hornchurch), A Little Night Music, Oliver!  (Watermill Theatre), The Jungle Book (UK Tour), The Snow Queen, (New Vic Theatre), These Trees are Made of Blood (Southwark Playhouse), The Hound of the Baskervilles, (York Theatre Royal), Will Harvey’s War, Cider with Rosie (Cheltenham Everyman), Tom’s Midnight Garden, (Birmingham Stage Company), The Terrible Infants, Ernest and the Pale Moon (International tour), The Vaudevillains (Charing Cross Theatre) and Twelfth Night (Minack Theatre).

Oliver Grant

Theatre includes: Cyrano de Bergerac (RSC), The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe (UK Tour and West End), Amelie (Watermill Theatre, UK Tour, The Other Palace and West End), War Horse (National Theatre/UK Tour), The Sheep Pig (Polka Theatre, UK Tour), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (with Flute Theatre at Orange Tree Theatre, Bridge Theatre and Chichester Festival Theatre), Pericles (FolkteaternGävle), As You Like It (Saville Gardens), The Last Days of Anne Boleyn (Tower of London/Historic Royal Palaces), Stickman (Scamp/UK Tour), Twelfth Night (Flute Theatre/English Touring Theatre)

Oliver also works as a puppeteer and associate director. 

Scott Handy

RSC credits include: Cyrano de Bergerac, Troilus and Cressida, The Merchant of Venice.

Theatre includes: Richard III (Almeida), Love the Sinner (National Theatre), Turandot (English National Opera), Macbeth (Chichester, Broadway and West End), The Tragedy of Hamlet (London, Paris, Japan, New York), As You Like it, The Duchess of Malfi (West End and World Tour – Cheek by Jowl – nominated for Ian Charleston award for classical acting), The Seagull (Bristol Old Vic), Hidden in the Sand (Trafalgar Studios), Faustus in Faustus (Hampstead Theatre), Twelfth Night, Cyrano de Bergerac (Chichester), Hay Fever (West End), Teeth ’n Smiles (Crucible, Sheffield), Son of Man (Northern Stage Company -nominated for performance of the year, North East Culture awards), An Inspector Calls (West End).

Taiva Hove 

Taiva Hove is currently training at LeBlanc School of Acting and The Amelia Appleby School of Performing Arts.
Theatre includes: Midnight (Todrick Hall workshop production, Sadler’s Wells).

Robert Jackson

Theatre credits include: Julius Caesar (RSC), The Play That Goes Wrong (Duchess Theatre); Brief Encounter (Stephen Joseph Theatre; Theatre By The Lake; Octagon Theatre;  UK Theatre Award Nomination, Best Supporting Performance), The Glee Club (Out Of Joint; The Kiln Theatre); She Ventures and He Wins (The Young Vic); Kiss Me Kate (The Watermill Theatre); Alice In Wonderland (Stephen Joseph Theatre) Around The World In 80 Days, Peter Pan, Gulliver’s Travels, Summer Holiday, A Christmas Carol, The Threepenny Opera, The Railway Children (The Octagon Theatre, Bolton); Stickman (UK/International Tour); Treasure Island (Creation Theatre, Oxford); Parkway Dreams, The Long Life & Great Good Fortune of John Clare (Eastern Angles); Progress, The Green Children (Red Rose Chain, Ipswich); The Sonnet Walk (Shakespeare’s Globe); Lido (Southwark Playhouse); Opening Doors (Soho Theatre); Romeo and Juliet (Kent’s Cavern, Torquay); The Ripper (Charing Cross Theatre); Sandbox’ (Waterloo East Theatre).

Joshua Maduike

Joshua is eight years old and is thrilled to be performing in this summer’s production of Cyrano de Bergerac. He attends the Chickenshed Theatre School in Southgate, where he recently played a central role in their Christmas production, “Red.” 

Elim Mapira

Elim Mapira is a young performer based in London. His previous credits include Lord of The Flies (BCC TV series), Shy FX music video (2024) and national commercials.

David Mildon

RSC includes: Cyrano de Bergerac

Stage includes: Carousel (Royal Festival Hall); Leaves (Jermyn Street); Dealer’s Choice (Trafalgar Studios); Consent (Harold Pinter);  Hamlet (Principal); Romeo and Juliet (International Tour); Accomplice (Menier Chocolate Factory-Original Cast); Dom (The Other Palace); Ionesco: Dinner at the Smiths (Riverside Studios and Paris); Enemy of the People (Union Theatre).

Matt Mordak

Matt graduated East 15 (Acting & Stage Combat) in 2022, he spent the beginning of his career working predominantly in motion capture across a variety of AAA video games (Hellblade 2 Senuas Saga, The Casting of Frank Stone, Fort Solis) working both as an actor and stunt performer. As his career has progressed, he has been working in TV and film (I Jack Wright, Hijack 2, Stand Your Ground, MobLand). He is now thrilled to be making his theatre debut with the RSC. 

Chris Nayak

RSC Includes: As You Like It, The Empress, Maydays, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Play for the Nation, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Love’s Labour’s Won, The Christmas Truce.

Theatre Includes: Wind in the Wilton’s (Wilton’s Music Hall); Macbeth, King Lear, All is True (Shakespeare’s Globe); The Wishing Tree (Little Angel); The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (National Theatre); Stand Up Diggers All (Pentabus Theatre); There or Here (Park Theatre); Anita and Me (Stratford East); Invasion! (Soho Theatre); Arthur and George, East is East, Wind in the Willows (Birmingham REP); A Passage to India (Shared Experience); The League of Youth, She Stoops to Conquer (Nottingham Playhouse); Indian Ink (Salisbury Playhouse); Romeo and Juliet, Lisa’s Sex Strike (Northern Broadsides); The Marriage of Figaro (Tara Arts); Mother Goose and the Wolf (Greenwich Theatre) and Punchkin: Enchanter (London Bubble).

Daniel Norford

RSC includes: Cyrano de Bergerac.

Theatre includes: Dr Strangelove (Noel Coward); The Welkin (National Theatre); Small Island (National Theatre); Noughts and Crosses (Pilot Theatre); Fast (Park Theatre); Rocky Shock (Tobacco Factory); Treasure Island (Birmingham Repertory Theatre); The Lion King (UK and International Tour); The American Clock (Finborough Theatre); Estate Walls (Oval House Theatre); The Notebook of Trigorin (Finborough Theatre); Aladdin (Greenwich Theatre); Mrs Reynolds and the Ruffian (Watford Palace Theatre); Caribbean Story (Hackney Empire & Arts Theatre); Cinderella (Watford Palace Theatre); The Caucasian Chalk Circle (China tour); Multiplex (Theatre Royal Plymouth); Cinderella (Bristol Hippodrome); Cinderella (The Mayflower, Southampton); Cinderella (Wimbledon); Cinderella (Nottingham Theatre Royal) and The Full Monty (Tour)

Josh Sneesby

Josh is a Grammy-nominated performer, an Associate Artist with National Youth Theatre, and Associate Composer with Complicité.

RSC credits: The Hypocrite, Peer Gynt. 

Theatre credits (as Composer, Musical Director and Performer): A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Tartuffe, Der Irrende Planet (Burgtheater); The Fall Of The House Of Usher, Das Weite Land (Ruhrtriennale International Festival); Kasimir Und Karoline (Residenz Theater, Munich); Peer Gynt (RSC); The Snow Queen, The Nutcracker (Theatr Clwyd); Story of Our Youth (Shaftesbury Theatre); Misanthropes (Old Vic); Albion, A Little Bit of Luck (Bush Theatre). 

Theatre credits (as Performer/Actor-Musician): Can I Live? (Complicité); Amélie (Watermill/UK Tour/The Other Palace); The Hypocrite (RSC/Hull Truck); The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (UK Tour); Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Chichester Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Béatrice Et Bénédict (Glyndebourne); These Trees Are Made Of Blood (Arcola/Southwark Playhouse); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night (Orange Tree Theatre); One Man, Two Guvnors (National Theatre/West End); The Comedy of Errors (National Theatre); The Wind In The Willows, The Legend Of King Arthur (York Theatre Royal). 

Radio & Dance (as Composer): The Dark Is Rising (BBC World Service/Complicité, nominated for BBC Audio Drama Award – Best Music and Sound); Purple Heart Warriors (BBC World Service, winner of Banff Festival Award and Rocky Award – Best Podcast); I Don’t Do Innocents (Paris Review); Wilf Goes Wild (MPTheatricals, winner of Offie for Innovation in Young Persons Theatre); Figures In Extinction Parts II & III (Complicité/Nederlands Dans Theater, winner of 2025 Sky Arts Dance Award).

Christian Patterson

RSC includes: The Secret Garden, Cymbeline, Pericles, Cyrano De Bergerac

Theatre includes: The American Clock (Old Vic), The Way of the World (Donmar Warehouse), Guys and Dolls (Donmar Warehouse National Tour), My Country: A Work in Progress (National Theatre), The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, Insignificance, All My Sons, Aristocrats, Rape of the Fair Country, Glengarry Glen Ross, As You Like It (Theatre Clwyd), Under Milk Wood (Theatre Clwyd/tour), St Nicholas, Blackbird, The Dying of Today, Blasted (The Other Room), Oliver! (Theatre Royal Drury Lane), Journey’s End (West End / UK Tour), The Gondoliers, The Merchant of Venice, The Water Babies (Chichester Festival Theatre), Peggy’s Song (National Theatre Wales), One Man, Two Guv’nors (Torch Theatre)