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The Tempest

“We are such stuff as dreams are made on.”

The legendary Sigourney Weaver makes her West End debut as Prospero in this enchanting story of revenge and forgiveness.

Sigourney Weaver

Sigourney Weaver

Prospero

Winner of the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 81st Venice International Film Festival for her decades-long career and contribution to cinema, Sigourney Weaver makes her West End debut in The Tempest.

Theatre credits include: The Constant Wife (Shubert, Broadway); Crazy Mary (Playwrights Horizons, New York); Mrs. Farnsworth, The Guys (Flea, New York); The Mercy Seat (MCC, New York); Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Lincoln Center/ John Golden, Broadway; 5 Tony Award Nominations and Tony Award for Best Play, Drama Desk Award for Best Play); Sex and Longing (Cort, Broadway); The Merchant of Venice (Classic Stage Company of New York); Hurlyburly (Ethel Barrymore, Broadway; Three Tony Award Nominations including Best Play and Best Featured Actress in a Play); Das Lusitania Songspiel (Cowritten by Weaver with Christopher Durang; Drama Desk Nomination for Outstanding Actress in a Musical); Titanic, The Nature and Purpose of the Universe (Direct, New York).

Sigourney Weaver

Sigourney Weaver

Prospero

Winner of the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 81st Venice International Film Festival for her decades-long career and contribution to cinema, Sigourney Weaver makes her West End debut in The Tempest.

Theatre credits include: The Constant Wife (Shubert, Broadway); Crazy Mary (Playwrights Horizons, New York); Mrs. Farnsworth, The Guys (Flea, New York); The Mercy Seat (MCC, New York); Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Lincoln Center/ John Golden, Broadway; 5 Tony Award Nominations and Tony Award for Best Play, Drama Desk Award for Best Play); Sex and Longing (Cort, Broadway); The Merchant of Venice (Classic Stage Company of New York); Hurlyburly (Ethel Barrymore, Broadway; Three Tony Award Nominations including Best Play and Best Featured Actress in a Play); Das Lusitania Songspiel (Cowritten by Weaver with Christopher Durang; Drama Desk Nomination for Outstanding Actress in a Musical); Titanic, The Nature and Purpose of the Universe (Direct, New York).

Film credits include: Alien, Aliens (Academy Award Nomination); Aliens 3, Alien Resurrection, Gorillas in the Mist (Golden Globe Award for Best Actress and Academy Award Nomination); Working Girl (Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress and Academy Award Nomination); Ghostbusters; Ghostbusters II; The Year Of Living Dangerously; Eyewitness; Half Moon Street; One Woman Or Two; 1492: Conquest Of Paradise; Death And The Maiden; Snow White; Jeffrey; Copycat; The Ice Storm (BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress); A Map Of The World; Galaxy Quest; Heartbreakers; Imaginary Heroes; The Village; Holes; The Guys; Infamous; The TVSet; Snow Cake; Wall-E; The Tale Of Despereaux; Baby Mama; You Again; Avatar; Avatar: The Way Of Water; Master Gardener; Call Jane; The Good House; My Salinger Year; Reassignment; A Monster Calls; Chappie; The Cabin In The Woods; Vamps; Cedar Rapids; Paul.

Television credits include: The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart; Call My Agent; The Defenders; Political Animals; Prayers for Bobby; The Best of Families; Secrets of the Whales.

Forthcoming projects include: Dust Bunny, The Gorge, and Avatar: Fire and Ash.

Jude Akuwudike

Jude Akuwudike

Alonso

Jude Akuwudike

Jude Akuwudike

Alonso

Theatre credits include: Kyoto (Royal Shakespeare Company); A Mirror (Trafalgar); House of Ife (Bush); Three Sisters, Moon on a Rainbow Shawl (National); The Convert (Young Vic); Henry V (Donmar Warehouse); The Faith Machine (Royal Court); Great Expectations (Watford Palace).

Film credits include: The Little Mermaid (Disney+); Eyimofe (This is My Desire) (Berlin Film Festival); Beasts of No Nation, A World Apart (Netflix); The Tempest (Touchstone Pictures); Touched by a Stranger (Screen South); Sahara (Paramount Pictures); The War of the Rohirrim (Warner Bros).

Television credits include: The Crown, Gangs of London (Netflix); Manhunt, Fortitude, Law & Order: UK (ITV); Culprits (Disney+); Chewing Gum (E4); Friday Night Dinner, Cucumber (Channel 4).

Radio credits iclude: World Service African Service, Nyama, Fences, Of Mice and Men, The Lady of Kingsland Waste, The Black Bono, Point of Departure, Dolly, Scoop, The Thebans, The Mahabharata, The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, Tide Race, Jero, Humans and other Animals, A Thorn in the Flesh, Anthills of the Savannah, Out of Hours, Westway, Measure For Measure, The Other Side of Truth (BBC).

Training: Royal Academy of Dramatic Art

Jason Barnett

Jason Barnett

Stephano

Jason Barnett

Jason Barnett

Stephano

For The Jamie Lloyd Company: The Seagull (Harold Pinter).

Theatre credits include: The Hot Wing King (National); Hamlet (Bristol Old Vic); The Visit or the old lady comes to call, Saint George and the Dragon, The Drag, Emil & the Detectives, War Horse, Amato Saltone (National); The Winter’s Tale, Pericles, Days of Significance (Royal Shakespeare Company); The Key Workers Cycle, The Fixer (Almeida); Living Newspaper, Instructions for Correct Assembly, Primetimes, Friday Night Sex, The Girlfriend Experience, The Victorian in the Wall (Royal Court); Life of Galileo, About a Boy (Young Vic); Mogadishu (Lyric Hammersmith/ Royal Exchange); Cruisin’ (Bush); Party Time / One for the Road, The World Cup of 1966, Come Out Eli (Battersea Arts Centre).

Film credits include: Seize Them! (Company Pictures; National Film Award Best British Film Nomination); London Road (Cuba Pictures); Cinderella (Disney/ Dark Forest Productions); Superbob (Fyzz Films); Straight Shooter (Haggle Pictures).

Television credits include: The Count of Monte Cristo (Palomar); Bridgerton (Netflix; Screen Actors Guild Awards Nomination), 3 Body Problem (Netflix; National Film Award Best Drama Award Nomination); The Power of Parker, Black Ops, Hailmakers, Porridge, Jonathan Creek, Josh, Bad Education (BBC Three); Doctors, Extras (BBC); The Bill (ITV; BAFTA Nomination); The Complete Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin (Big Talk Ltd); Murder, They Hope (UKTV Gold); Agatha Raisin (Company Pictures); Death in Paradise (BBC One); The Javone Prince Show (BBC Two); PhoneShop (Freemantle; BAFTA Nomination); Dream Team (Sky); Waffle the Wonder Dog (CBeebies).

Radio credits include: The Trial, Somewhere in England (BBC Radio 4).

Associate Artist with Synergy Theatre and Playing ON Theatre.

Selina Cadell

Selina Cadell

Gonzalo

Selina Cadell

Selina Cadell

Gonzalo

Theatre credits include: A Monster Calls (The Old Vic & Bristol Old Vic), Humble Boy (Orange Tree Theatre), The Dresser (Duke of York’s), People, The Habit Of Art and Stanley (National Theatre), The Line (Arcola), The Cherry Orchard (Old Vic & Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York), The Clean House (Sheffield Crucible), The Government Inspector (Chichester Festival Theatre), The Rivals (Bristol Old Vic), Noises Off (Comedy Theatre), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Albery Theatre), Twelfth Night and Uncle Vanya (Donmar Warehouse).

Theatre credits include – as Director: Love for Love (Royal Shakespeare Company); Double Dealer (Orange Tree); Great Expectations (Garrick); Hamlet (Riverside Studios); The Rake’s Progress (Wilton’s Music Hall).

Film credits include: The Lady in the Van, Match Point, Confetti, Nativity! (BBC); Papadopoulos & Sons (Double M Films); Gambit (CBS Films); Hereafter (Warner Bros); Snow Cake (Revolution Films); Festival (Pathe); Mrs Dalloway (First Look International); The Madness of King George (MG).

Film credits include – as Director: The Turn of the Screw, La Traviata (OperaGlass Works).

Television credits include: Doc Martin (Buffalo Pictures); Queens Of Mystery (Sly Fox); Love Nina (See-Saw Films); Spooks (Kudos); Litvinenko, Lewis, Midsomer Murders, Poirot (ITV); Sword of Honour, Bremner, Bird and Fortune (Channel 4); The Catherine Tate Show (Tiger Aspect); Foyle’s War (Greenlit Productions); The Lady Vanishes, Toast, Great Expectations, As Time Goes By, Casanova, People Like Us (BBC).

Mathew Horne

Mathew Horne

Trinculo

Mathew Horne

Mathew Horne

Trinculo

Theatre credits include: The Lover / The Collection (Theatre Royal Bath); The Pride (Trafalgar/ UK Tour); Noises Off (Theatre Royal Haymarket); The Homecoming (Theatre Royal Bath/ UK Tour); Rain Man (UK Tour); The Miser (Garrick); Charley’s Aunt (Menier Chocolate Factory/ Theatre Royal Bath); Blue Remembered Hills (Courtyard); Entertaining Mr Sloane (Trafalgar).

Film credits include: Bad Education (Netflix); Breaking the Bank (Apple TV); Horrid Henry (Vertigo Films); Vanity Fair (VF Films); The Nan Movie (Warner Bros. Pictures).

Television credits include: Gavin and Stacey (BBC); Dad’s Army: The Lost Episodes (UKTV); Agatha Raisin (Sky); Worried About The Boy (BBC Two); Chekhov: Comedy Shorts (Sky Arts); The Catherine Tate Show (Tiger Aspect/ BBC); Bad Education (BBC Three).

Mara Huf

Mara Huf

Miranda

Mara Huf

Mara Huf

Miranda

For The Jamie Lloyd Company: The Effect (National).

Theatre credits include: Childminder (Kiln); The True History of Bonnie and Clyde (Birmingham Repertory); Electra, Closer, Holy Day, La Ronde, Lord of the Flies, Pygmalion, Othello (Birmingham Conservatoire).

Film credits include: Death Do Us Part (Play Entertainment); The People We Hate at the Wedding (Amazon); Tetris (Apple TV).

Television credits include: Toast of Tinseltown (Objective Media); Storm (Treasure Hunt).

Training: Birmingham Conservatoire.

Forbes Masson

Forbes Masson

Caliban

Forbes Masson

Forbes Masson

Caliban

For The Jamie Lloyd Company: Macbeth, Richard III, The Ruling Class (Trafalgar); Dr Faustus (Duke of York’s).

Theatre credits include: Farm Hall (Theatre Royal Haymarket); Laughing Boy (Jermyn Street); Jekyll and Hyde (Lyceum); Magician’s Elephant Boy in the Dress, Macbeth, Hamlet, Comedy of Errors, Twelfth Night, The Histories, As You Like It, Romeo & Juliet, Taming of the Shrew (Royal Shakespeare Company); Summer and Smoke (Almeida); Travesties (Menier Chocolate Factory); King Lear (Liverpool Everyman).

Film credits include: The Road Dance (BBC).

Television credits include: The Crown (Netflix); As You Like It (CBeebies); Only Child, Crime, EastEnders, Red Dwarf, The High Life (BBC); Catastrophe (Avalon Television); Young Person’s Guide to Becoming a Rock Star (Channel 4).

Associate Artist with Royal Shakespeare Company and National Theatre Scotland, and co-writer of Victor and Barry’s Kelvinside Compendium (404ink).

Mason Alexander Park

Mason Alexander Park

Ariel

Mason Alexander Park

Mason Alexander Park

Ariel

Theatre credits include: American Idiot (Deaf West, Los Angeles); Cabaret (Kit Cat Club/ Playhouse); I am My Own Wife (Long Wharf); Hedwig and the Angry Inch (US Tour); The Rocky Horror Show (Bucks County Playhouse, Pittsburgh).

Film credits include: National Anthem (LD Entertainment).

Television credits include: Quantum Leap (NBC); The Sandman, Cowboy Bebop (Netflix); iCarly (Nickelodeon).

James Phoon

James Phoon

Ferdinand

James Phoon

James Phoon

Ferdinand

Theatre credits include: Underdog: The Other Other Brontë (National); Harry Potter and The Cursed Child (Palace).

Television credits include: Bridgerton (Netflix), Wreck (BBC Three).

Animation credits include: JoJo & Gran Gran (BBC); Ninja Express (BBC); Warhammer 40K Pariah Nexus (Warhammer+); Warhammer 40K The Tithes (Warhammer+); Dodo (Sky).

Video Game credits include: Rise of the Ronin; Dragon’s Dogma 2; Black Myth: Wukong; Talos Principle 2; Evil West; Total War: Warhammer 3; Total War: Three Kingdoms; Desta: The Memories Between.

Training: Guildford School of Acting.

Oliver Ryan

Oliver Ryan

Sebastian

Oliver Ryan

Oliver Ryan

Sebastian

Theatre credits include: Richard III (Liverpool Playhouse/ Rose); A Hero of the People (Sherman); Dr Faustus, As You Like It, Hamlet, Romeo & Juliet, Julius Caesar and Mojo (Royal Shakespeare Company); Memory, Macbeth, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, The Crucible, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead, Arcadia, King Lear, Afore Night Come and Equus (Theatr Clwyd); Glengarry Glen Ross (Playhouse); The Winter’s Tale, Eyam (Shakespeare’s Globe); Oresteia (Trafalgar); Red Velvet (Kiln/ St Ann’s Warehouse, New York); Richard II, Coriolanus (Almeida/ Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York/ Akasaka ACT Theatre, Tokyo).

Film credits include: Mr Burton (BBC); Dune (Warner Bros); The Last Vermeer (Tri-Star); All the Money in the World (Scott Free); Killing Me Softly (Montecito Pictures).

Television credits include: Death Valley, The Steeltown Mudrders (BBC); Suspect (Disney+); Halo (Paramount Pictures); Pennyworth (HBO); The Pembrokeshire Murders (ITV); The Accident (Channel 4); Hinterland (BBC Four).

Tim Steed

Tim Steed

Antonio

Tim Steed

Tim Steed

Antonio

Theatre credits include: Jack Absolute Flies Again, Rocket to the Moon, (National); Ink (Almeida/ Duke of York’s); Merchant of Venice (Almeida); The Pride, Hero, Crossing Play (Royal Court); Salome (UK Tour); The Crucible (Royal Exchange); Duchess of Malfi, Volpone (Greenwich); Silverland (Arcola); Cigarettes & Chocolate (Kings Head); An Inspector Calls (Garrick).

Film credits include: One Life (See-Saw Films); The Phantom of the Open (Sony Pictures); Star Wars- The Last Jedi (Lucasfilm); Cruella (Disney+); Dead in a Week (Rather Good Films); The Death of Stalin (Main Journey); The Current War (TWF); The Imitation Game (Black Bear); Franklyn (Hanway).

Television credits include: Breeders (Sky); The Nevers (HBO); The Crown (Sony Pictures); A Very British Scandal, Wolf Hall, Twenty Twelve, Garrows Law (BBC One); Brexit: The Uncivil War, Fresh Meat, Peep Show, London Irish (Channel 4); A Thousand Blows (Disney+); Little Boy Blue, The Town, Great Fire, Poirot (ITV); Maigret, Miss Scarlet & The Duke (PBS); A Young Doctors Notebook (Sky).

Phillip Olagoke

Phillip Olagoke

Boatswain
Understudy
Stephano & Antonio

Phillip Olagoke

Phillip Olagoke

Boatswain
Understudy
Stephano & Antonio

For the Jamie Lloyd Company: Romeo & Juliet (Duke of York’s)

Theatre credits include: OKLAHOMA! (Wyndham’s); The Glass Menagerie (Duke of York’s); A Number (Old Vic); David Copperfield (Barn); Farewell Leicester Square (Townsend Productions); Hansel & Gretel (Shakespeare’s Globe).

Training: The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.

Robin Berry

Robin Berry

Understudy
Trinculo & Sebastian

Robin Berry

Robin Berry

Understudy
Trinculo & Sebastian

Theatre credits include: One Man, Two Guvnors (National); DarkNet (Southwark Playhouse); Scorched (Edinburgh Festival Fringe); From Newbury with Love (Redcape).

Film credits include: Wicked (Universal); Andor (Disney+); The Essex Serpent (Apple TV); Inside No. 9 (BBC); Mowgli (Netflix).

Training: Mountview and East 15.

Öncel Camcı

Öncel Camcı

Understudy
Ariel & Ferdinand

Öncel Camcı

Öncel Camcı

Understudy
Ariel & Ferdinand

Theatre credits include: Women Who Blow on Knots (Arcola); The House We Inherit (Bridge House; Off West End Theatre Award Nomination for Performance Ensemble); A Woman on Fire (Barons Court).

Training: East 15.

Claire Lacey

Claire Lacey

Understudy
Prospero & Gonzalo

Claire Lacey

Claire Lacey

Understudy
Prospero & Gonzalo

Theatre credits include: Harvey and Barefoot in The Park (Vienna’s English Theatre); The Importance of Being Earnest (Kenton); The Revenger’s Tragedy (Immersion); The Forecast (Edinburgh Festival Fringe/ UK Tour).

Film credits include: 5LBS of Pressure (Lionsgate); County Lines (BFI); The Hippopotamus (Lightyear Entertainment); Kavita and Teresa (Fathom Events).

Television credits include: The Bay, Brief Encounters (ITV); The Flatshare (Paramount +); Archie (ITV); The Diplomat, Treason, Pan Tau (Netflix).

Voiceover Credits Include: Baldur’s Gate 3 (Larian Studios); Fable 4 (Lionhead Studios).

Anna María

Anna María

Understudy
Miranda

Anna María

Anna María

Understudy
Miranda

Theatre credits include: Maso Schism (George Bernard Shaw/ Cockpit/ Cornett). Prometheus Bound (Ancient Theater of Messene); This is Highly Unusual (George Bernard Shaw); The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Stages, Houston); Cymbeline (Rosedale Shakespeare); Where Weeds Grow (Alley); Rigoletto (Houston Grand Opera).

Film credits include: The Garden of Adam (Gerardo M Velasquez).

Training: The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

Joe Rawlinson-Hunt

Joe Rawlinson-Hunt

Understudy
Alonso & Caliban

Joe Rawlinson-Hunt

Joe Rawlinson-Hunt

Understudy
Alonso & Caliban

Theatre credits include: The Ocean at the End of the Lane (Noël Coward/ UK Tour); The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (National); DogHair (The Pleasance).

Television credits include: Testament (Angel).

Education: W1 Workshop.

Director

Jamie Lloyd

Director

Jamie Lloyd

Jamie Lloyd directs. His credits for The Jamie Lloyd Company include Romeo & Juliet (Duke of York’s Theatre), Sunset Blvd. (Savoy Theatre – winner of seven Olivier Awards including Best Director and Best Musical Revival; Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Director), The Effect (National Theatre/The Shed,New York), A Doll’s House (Hudson Theatre, New York – nominated for six 2023 Tony Awards including Best Direction of a Play and Best Revival of a Play), The Seagull (Harold Pinter Theatre), Cyrano de Bergerac (Playhouse Theatre/Harold Pinter Theatre/Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York – Olivier Award for Best Revival; Critics’ Circle Theatre Award for Best Director),Betrayal (Harold Pinter Theatre/Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre – nominated for four 2021 Tony Awards including Best Direction of a Play and Best Revival of a Play; Critics’ Circle Theatre Award for Best Director), Pinter at the Pinter (Harold Pinter Theatre), The Maids, The Homecoming, The Ruling Class, Richard III, The Pride, The Hothouse and Macbeth (Trafalgar Studios).

Set and Costume Designer

Soutra Gilmour

Lighting Designer

Jon Clark

Sound Designers and Co-Composers

Ben and Max Ringham

Co-Composer

Michael ‘Mikey J’ Asante

Movement Director

Fabian Aloise

Associate Director and Text Editor

Jonathan Glew

Casting Director

Stuart Burt CDG

Wigs, Hair and Make Up Designer

Carole Hancock

Intimacy Coordinator

Ingrid Mackinnon

Associate Set Designer

Anna Josephs

Musical Director

Giles Deacon

PERFORMER FLYING & SFX DESIGN

John Maddox for Suspended Illusions

Assistant Director

Cory Hippolyte

ASSISTANT LIGHTING DESIGNER

Amelia Fenwick

Props Supervisor

Fahmida Bakht

Production Manager

Lloyd Thomas

Assistant to Ben Ringham

Deanna H. Choi

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