FULL CAST ANNOUNCED FOR
THE JAMIE LLOYD COMPANY’S
THE TEMPEST
AT THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE
The Jamie Lloyd Company today announces the full cast for William Shakespeare’s The Tempest at Theatre Royal Drury Lane. Directed by Jamie Lloyd, The Tempest opens on Thursday 19 December, with previews from7 December 2024, running until 1 February 2025.
Sigourney Weaver (Prospero) is joined by Jude Akuwudike (Alonso), Jason Barnett (Stephano), Selina Cadell (Gonzalo), Mathew Horne (Trinculo), Mara Huf (Miranda), Forbes Masson (Caliban), Mason Alexander Park (Ariel), James Phoon (Ferdinand), Oliver Ryan (Sebastian) and Tim Steed (Antonio).
The Tempest is the first production in The Jamie Lloyd Company’s season of Shakespeare at Theatre Royal Drury Lane; it is followed by Much Ado About Nothing starring Tom Hiddleston (Benedick) and Hayley Atwell (Beatrice). Also directed by Jamie Lloyd, Much Ado About Nothing opens on Wednesday 19 February, with previews from 10 February, and runs until 5 April 2025. On sale dates and full cast and creatives to be announced.
The Jamie Lloyd Company also continues its commitment to accessibility, offering 25,000 tickets at £25 across the season exclusively for under 30s, key workers and those receiving government benefits. These tickets will be available across the first three levels of the theatre, and go on sale at a later date. Further information to be announced.
Book for The Tempest, or sign up for priority booking for Much Ado About Nothing here: thejamielloydcompany.com or lwtheatres.co.uk.
The Jamie Lloyd Company presents
THE TEMPEST
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Jamie Lloyd
Set and Costume Design: Soutra Gilmour; Lighting Design: Jon Clark; Sound Design and Co-Composer: Ben and Max Ringham; Co-Composer: Michael ‘Mikey J’ Asante; Movement Director: Fabian Aloise; Associate Director and Text Edited by Jonathan Glew; Casting Director: Stuart Burt CDG; Musical Director: Giles Deacon; Intimacy Coordinator: Ingrid Mackinnon; Associate Costume Designer: Anna Josephs; Props Supervisor: Fahmida Bakht; Production Manager: Lloyd Thomas
Theatre Royal Drury Lane
Saturday 7 December 2024 – Saturday 1 February 2025
“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.
Produced by The Jamie Lloyd Company.
Jude Akuwudike plays Alonso.
Theatre credits include: Kyoto (Royal Shakespeare Company), A Mirror (Trafalgar Theatre), House of Ife (Bush Theatre), Three Sisters (National Theatre), The Convert (Young Vic), Henry V (Donmar Warehouse), The Faith Machine (Royal Court), Great Expectations (Watford Palace) and Moon On A Rainbow Shawl (National Theatre).
Film credits include: The Little Mermaid (Disney), Eyimofe (Berlin Film Festival), Beasts of No Nation (Red Crown Productions), The Tempest (Chartoff Productions), Touched By A Stranger (Trinamite Productions Ltd), Sahara (Paramount Pictures) and A World Apart (Working Title).
Television credits include: The Crown (Left Bank Pictures), Manhunt (ITV Studios), Culprits (Buried Treasure Productions Ltd), Gangs of London (Sky Atlantic), Chewing Gum (Retort & E4), Friday Night Dinner and Cucumber (Channel 4) and Law & Order: UK (Kudos Productions).
Training: Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
Jason Barnett plays Stephano.
For The Jamie Lloyd Company: The Seagull (Harold Pinter).
Theatre credits include: Hot Wing King (National Theatre), Hamlet (Bristol Old Vic), The Visit, Saint George, The Dragon, Emil & The Detectives and War Horse (National Theatre), Living Newspaper, Instructions for Correct Assembly, The Victorian in the Wall, Primetime, The Girlfriend Experience (Royal Court), Life of Galileo (Young Vic), About a Boy (Young Vic & UK Tour), Mogadishu (Royal Exchange), The Winter’s Tale, Pericles and Days of Significance (Royal Shakespeare Company) and The Fixer (Almeida).
Film credits include: Straight Shooter (Haggle Pictures), London Road (Cuba Pictures), Cinderella (Dark Forest Productions), Superbob (Fyzz Films).
Television credits include: The Count of Monte Cristo (Palomar), Seize Them (DJ Films), 3 Body Problem (Netflix), The Power of Parker (BBC), Black Ops (BBC), The Complete Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin (Big Talk Ltd), Murder They Hope (Shiny Button Productions & UKTV Gold), Bridgerton (Netflix), Agatha Raisin (Company Pictures), Hailmakers (BBC), Porridge (BBC), Jonathan Creek (BBC), Josh (BBC), Death in Paradise (BBC 1), The Javone Prince Show (BBC 2), PhoneShop (Freemantle), Bad Education (BBC), Extras (BBC), Dream Team (Sky).
Selina Cadell plays 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).
Film credits include: The Lady In The Van (BBC), Papadopoulos & Sons (Double M Films), Gambit (Shabandar Productions), Nativity! (BBC), Hereafter (Warner Bros), Confetti (BBC), Snow Cake (Revolution Films), Festival (Pathe), Match Point (BBC), Mrs Dalloway (First Look International) and The Madness of King George (MG).
Television credits include: Doc Martin (Buffalo Pictures), Litvinenko (ITV), Queens Of Mystery (Sly Fox), Love Nina (See Saw Films), Upstairs Downstairs (AXN), Spooks (Kudos), Lewis (ITV), Midsomer Murders (Bentley Productions), Sword of Honour and Bremner, Bird And Fortune (Channel 4), The Catherine Tate Show (Tiger Aspect), Sensitive Skin (Baby Cow), Foyle’s War (Greenlit Productions), The Amazing Mrs Pritchard, The Lady Vanishes, Father Brown, Toast, Great Expectations, As Time Goes By, Casanova and People Like Us (BBC).
Mathew Horne plays Trinculo.
For The Jamie Lloyd Company: The Pride (Trafalgar Studios and UK Tour)
Theatre credits include: The Lover / The Collection (Theatre Royal Bath), Noises Off (Theatre Royal Haymarket), The Homecoming (Theatre Royal Bath & UK Tour), Rain Man (UK Tour), The Miser (Garrick) and Charley’s Aunt (Menier Chocolate Factory & Theatre Royal Bath).
Film credits include: Bad Education (Cavebear Productions), Breaking the Bank (BTB Productions Ltd.), Horrid Henry (Vertigo Films) and Vanity Fair (VF Films).
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 (Baby Cow / Sky Arts), Catherine Tate’s Nan (Tiger Aspect) and Bad Education (BBC Three).
Mara Huf plays Miranda.
For The Jamie Lloyd Company: The Effect (National Theatre)
Theatre credits include: Childminder (Traverse Theatre), The True History of Bonnie and Clyde (Birmingham Repertory), Electra, Closer, Holy Day, La Ronde, Lord of the Flies, Pygmalion and Othello (Birmingham Conservatoire).
Film credits include: Death Do Us Part (Play Entertainment), The People We Hate at the Wedding (Amazon) and Tetris (Apple TV).
Television credits include: Toast of Tinseltown (Objective Media), Avenue 5 (HBO) and Storm (Treasure Hunt).
Training: Birmingham Conservatoire
Forbes Masson plays Caliban.
For The Jamie Lloyd Company: Macbeth, Richard III, The Ruling Class (Trafalgar Studios) and Dr Faustus (Duke of York’s).
Theatre credits include: Farm Hall (Theatre Royal Haymarket), Laughing Boy (Jermyn Street), Jekyll and Hyde (Lyceum), Boy in the Dress, Macbeth, Hamlet, Comedy of Errors, Twelfth Night, The Histories, As You Like It, Romeo & Juliet and Taming of the Shrew (Royal Shakespeare Company), Summer and Smoke (Almeida), Travesties (Menier Chocolate Factory), King Lear (Headlong).
Film credits include: The Road Dance (BBC).
Television credits include: The Crown (Netflix); As You Like It (CBeebies); Crime, EastEnders, Red Dwarf and The High Life (BBC), Catastrophe (Avalon Television), Young Person’s Guide to Becoming a Rock Star (Ch4).
Other credits include: Associate Artist at Royal Shakespeare Company and National Theatre Scotland, and co-writer of Victor and Barry’s Kelvinside Compendium (404ink).
Mason Alexander Park plays Ariel.
Theatre credits include: American Idiot (Deaf West, USA), Cabaret (Playhouse Theatre), I am Your Own Wife (Long Wharf) and Hedwig and the Angry Inch (US Tour).
Film credits include: National Anthem (LD Entertainment).
Television credits include: Quantum Leap (NBC), The Sandman (Netflix), Cowboy Bebop (Netflix) and iCarly (Nickelodeon).
James Phoon plays Ferdinand.
Theatre credits include: Harry Potter and The Cursed Child (Palace Theatre) and Underdog: The Other Other Bronte (National Theatre).
Television credits include: Bridgerton (Netflix) and Wreck (BBC Three).
Training: Guildford School of Acting
Oliver Ryan plays Sebastian.
Theatre credits include: Richard III (Liverpool Playhouse & The Rose Kingston), A Hero of the People (Sherman Theatre), 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 Theatre), The Winter’s Tale, Eyam (Shakespeare’s Globe), Oresteia (Trafalgar Studios), Red Velvet (Kiln & St Ann’s Warehouse NYC), Richard II and Coriolanus (Almeida, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Tokyo).
Film credits include: Mr Burton (BBC Wales), Dune (Warner Bros), The Last Vermeer (Tri-Star), All the Money in the World (Scott Free) and Killing Me Softly (Montecito Pictures).
Television credits include: Death Valley (BBC), Suspect (Disney), The Steeltown Murders (BBC), Halo (Paramount), Pennyworth (HBO), The Pembrokeshire Murders (ITV), The Accident (Channel 4) and Hinterland (BBC4).
Tim Steed plays Antonio.
Theatre credits include: Jack Absolute Flies Again (National Theatre), Ink (Almeida & Duke of York’s) The Pride (Royal Court) and Salome (Headlong).
Film credits include: One Life (See-Saw Films), The Phantom of the Open (Sony Pictures), Star Wars- The Last Jedi (Lucasfilm) Cruella (Disney Studios) and The Death of Stalin (Main Journey).
Television credits include: Breeders (Sky), The Nevers (HBO), The Crown (Left Blank Pictures & Sony Pictures), A Very British Scandal (BBC One & Amazon) and Brexit: The Uncivil War (Channel 4).
Sigourney Weaver plays Prospero.
Theatre credits include: The Constant Wife (Shubert Theater), Crazy Mary (Playwrights Horizons), Mrs. Farnsworth, The Guys (The Flea Theater), The Mercy Seat (New York), Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Lincoln Center and Broadway), Sex and Longing (Broadway), The Merchant of Venice (Classic Stage Company of New York), Hurlyburly (Broadway – Tony Award nomination), Das Lusitania Songspiel (cowritten by Weaver with Christopher Durang), Titanic, The Nature and Purpose of the Universe.
Film credits include: Alien, Aliens (Academy Award nomination), Aliens 3, Alien Resurrection, Gorillas In The Mist (Academy Award nomination), V (Golden Globe Award for Best Actress), 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 and The Gorge.
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).
LISTINGS
THE TEMPEST
Saturday 7 December 2024 – Saturday 1 February 2025
Box Office: lwtheatres.co.uk / 020 3925 2998
Access Performances:
BSL Interpreted: Saturday 11 January, 2.30pm
Audio Described: Saturday 18January, 2.30pm
Captioned: Saturday 25 January, 2.30pm
Please email [email protected] to discuss your booking requirements.
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
Monday 10 February – Saturday 5 April 2025
On sale dates for Much Ado About Nothing to be announced. Sign up for priority booking and more information here: thejamielloydcompany.com or lwtheatres.co.uk.
Access performances:
BSL Interpreted: Saturday 15 March, 2.30pm
Captioned: Saturday 22 March, 2.30pm
Audio Described: Saturday 29 March, 2.30pm
Please email [email protected] to discuss your booking requirements.