Michael McKeever’s hit off-Broadway play DANIEL’S HUSBAND will make its UK Premiere at the Marylebone Theatre in London for a limited season from 4 December 2025 – 10 January 2026, directed by Alan Souza.
David Bedella (three-time Olivier Award winner for & Juliet, In the Heights & Jerry Springer: The Opera), Luke Fetherston (Big Mood, Channel 4), Raiko Gohara (A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, Netflix), Joel Harper-Jackson (Cock, Ambassadors Theatre) and Liza Sadovy (Olivier Award win for Cabaret, The KitKat Club, West End) will star as Barry, Mitchell, Trip, Daniel, and Lydia respectively.
An unflinching look at the nature of love. DANIEL’S HUSBAND asks us—among other things— to consider where our strongest convictions live: in our hearts or in our minds.
Daniel and Mitchell live a meticulously curated life; they have successful careers, a beautifully appointed home, devoted friends, and a profound love for one another. But an unexpected crisis jeopardises their boundlessly bright future, shaking the foundation of their relationship and testing the strength of their devotion. DANIEL’S HUSBAND wrestles with the nature of commitment and the complexities of our intricately layered beliefs.
DANIEL’S HUSBAND had its world premiere at Wilton Manors’ Island City Stage in 2015, and won three Carbonell Awards, including Best New Work.
In 2017 the show was produced by the historic Cherry Lane Theatre in New York City, where it was nominated for an Off-Broadway Alliance Award for Best New Work and returned in 2018 to New York City in a commercial production at the Westside Theatre Upstairs. It has since had various productions across the United States and around the world.
DANIEL’S HUSBAND will be directed by Alan Souza with set & costume design by Justin Williams, lighting design by Jamie Platt, sound design by Sarah Weltman, casting by Arthur Carrington, and artwork by Steph Pyne Design.
More information about the cast of Daniel’s Husband
David Bedella (Barry) is a three-time Olivier Award winning actor. He won the 2020 Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Musical for & Juliet, the 2016 Olivier Award & What’s On Stage Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Musical for In The Heights, the 2015 London Cabaret Awards for Best Ongoing Production for Bedella & Friends, the 2004 Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical for Jerry Springer The Opera and the Joseph Jefferson Award for Best Actor in a Musical for A Chorus Line.
His theatre credits include Little Piece Of You (Theatre Royal Drury Lane); Lance Dubois in & Juliet (Broadway, Stephen Sondheim Theatre and West End, Shaftesbury Theatre); Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Show (50th Anniversary Production Australian Tour, National tour, West End and 2015 Live Broadcast from the Playhouse Theatre); Kevin in In The Heights (Kings Cross Theatre & Southwark Play-house); Satan/Warm-up Man in Jerry Springer The Opera (Edinburgh Festival; Royal National Theatre & West End); Roger De Bris in The Producers (National Tour); Sweeney in Sweeney Todd (Twickenham Theatre); Putting It Together (St James Theatre); Arnold in Torch Song Trilogy; Wilson Misner in Road Show (Menier Chocolate Factory); Billy Flynn in CHICAGO (West End); Molokov in Chess In Concert (Royal Albert Hall); and Hedwig in Hedwig And The Angry Inch London.
Luke Fetherston (Mitchell) recently starred in the new British romantic comedy feature Picture This alongside Simone Ashley and Hero Fiennes Tiffin, directed by Prarthana Mohan. He can also be seen in the new series of The Wheel of Time for Amazon Prime – now in its third season.
Some of Luke’s other credits include the role of Adam in the Apple TV+ series Still Up alongside Craig Roberts and Antonia Thomas, the lead role of Joel Foxworth in Flowers in the Attic: The Origin for Paramount plus and the role of Ryan in the hit Channel 4 series Big Mood alongside Lydia West and Nicola Coughlan, the second series of which is currently being filmed.
Raiko Gohara (Trip) is best known for starring as Zach in A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder for Netflix and played the starring role in George Takei’s Allegiance at Charing Cross Theatre. He recently shot features titles Switch (from the producers of cult film Triangle of Sadness), Easy (based on the bestselling novel by Tammara Webber), and the Heartstopper film for Netflix.
Joel Harper-Jackson (Daniel) is best known for starring as Harry in Standing at the Sky’s Edge (Gillian Lynne Theatre, West End); M in Marianne Elliott’s production of Cock (Ambassadors Theatre, West End); Freddie in Chess in concert (Theatre Royal Drury Lane) and Charlie Price in Kinky Boots (UK Tour). His other theatre credits include Harvey Milk in I Am Harvey Milk (Cadogan Hall), Pieces Of String (Mercury Theatre); Myth: The Rise and Fall of Orpheus (The Other Palace); The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (UK Tour); Jesus Christ Superstar (Regents Park Open Air Theatre); Beautiful – The Carole King Musical (The Aldwych Theatre); Evita (Ljubljana Festival, Slovenia); Little Women (Hope Mill Theatre) and Rent (20th Anniversary UK Tour).
Liza Savdovy (Lydia) just wrapped filming The Rumour for Channel 5 and can currently be seen opposite Jesse Eisenberg & Keiran Culkin in the Oscar-nominated film A Real Pain. She is a regular in Patience on Channel 4 and has a recurring role in Season 5 of Strike for BBC/HBO. 2022 saw Liza win an Olivier Award for her performance opposite Eddie Redmayne & Jessie Buckley in the hugely successful revival of Cabaret at the KitKat Club, West End and she earned a second nomination for her performance in the Young Vic’s revival of Broadway’s smash-hit Oklahoma! in 2023.
Liza’s other theatre credits include: Hamnet (Garrick Theatre); Living Newspaper (2nd edition), A Separate Reality (Royal Court), Present Laughter (The Old Vic), I’m Not Running, Absolute Hell, Tales from the Vienna Woods, The Heiress (all at the National Theatre), Fiddler on the Roof (Chichester Festival Theatre), Pygmalion (Headlong), Wicked (Victoria Apollo), Oliver! (Sheffield Crucible), Sunday in the Park with George (Wyndham’s Theatre and Menier Chocolate Factory), Mrs Klein (Theatre, Royal Northampton), Secret Rapture (Bristol Old Vic) – TMA Award for best supporting actress, Richard II (Berkoff Productions), The Dresser (Duke of York’s Theatre), the UK premiere of Into The Woods and Peg (The Phoenix Theatre), Alice (RSC), The Slow Drag (Whitehall Theatre), two seasons working with Alan Ayckbourn in Scarborough, Company (Donmar Warehouse and West End), Sugar Hill Blues (Hampstead Theatre), and the first ever National Tour of Jesus Christ, Superstar.
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