REGENT’S PARK OPEN AIR THEATRE ANNOUNCES FULL CAST FOR
THE BRAND-NEW PRODUCTION OF ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER’S
CATS
Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre,with Michael Harrison for Lloyd Webber Harrison Musicals, today announce the full cast for the brand-new production of CATS, with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot, directed and choreographed by Drew McOnie. The production runs from Saturday 25 July – Saturday 12 September 2026
The cast are Fin Adams (Alonzo), Carla Bertran (Electra / Co-Dance Captain), Elliot Broadfoot (Bustopher Jones), Grace Burrows (Offstage Swing), Matthew Caputo (Skimbleshanks), Josie Chambers-Sims (Syllabub (Jemima)), Briana Craig (Rumpleteazer), Katie Dunsden (Bombalurina), Joshua-Samuel Freeman (Tumblebrutus (Bill Bailey)), Regan Garcia (Pouncival (Carbuckety)), Aaron Jenkins (Offstage Swing), Hannah Joseph (Victoria), Taziva-Faye Katsande (Tantomile), Melanie La Barrie (Old Deuteronomy), Diante Lodge (Macavity / Admetus), Owen McHugh (George ), Danny Nattrass (Mungojerrie), Millie O’Connell (Demeter), Andrew Parfitt (Coricopat), Charlotte Riby (Jennyanydots (Gumbie Cat)), Nathan Rigg ( Offstage Swing), Lucie-Mae Sumner (Jellylorum (Griddlebone)), Jaydon Vijn (Rum Tum Tugger), Jack Wilcox (Munkustrap), Gary Wilmot (Gus), Rachael Wooding (Grizabella), Jet Yau (Mr. Mistoffelees / Quaxo), Taela Yeomans-Brown (Offstage Swing / Co-Dance Captain) and Patricia Zhou (Cassandra).
Drew McOnie said: ‘I’m so excited to welcome this astonishing group of performers to Regent’s Park. CATS has always celebrated the unique talents of its performers, and I can’t wait for our audiences to experience this company’s brilliance in this brand-new production. Each of these cast members will play their own special part in creating animalistic harmony under the Jellicle Moon. It’s going to be quite an adventure and we look forward to welcoming you to join us.’
Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre
with Michael Harrison for Lloyd Webber Harrison Musicals presents
CATS
Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber
Based on Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot
Creatives include Lucy Adams (Associate Lighting Designer); Josh Baker (Resident Director & Choreographer); Tim Blazdell (Associate Set Designer); Will Burton (Casting Director); Guy Common (Makeup Designer & Supervisor); Ollie Durrant (Associate Sound Designer); Sami Fendall (Set, Costume and Wigs Designer); Adam Fisher (Sound Designer); Jessica Hung Han Yun (Lighting Designer); Ingrid Mackinnon (Intimacy Director); Kev McCurdy (Fight Director); Fiona McDougal (Voice Coach); Drew McOnie (Director & Choreographer); Ebony Molina (Associate Choreographer); Georgia Nosal (Associate Wigs and Hair Designer and Supervisor); Geraint Owen (Musical Director); Alex Parker (Musical Supervisor).
Saturday 25 July – Saturday 12 September 2026
‘Another day is dawning.’
From Euston station to Victoria Grove, the strays and rebels of London gather under the Jellicle moon in the hope they’ll be the chosen one. And each of them asks, because each of them dares, who will it be?
With a legendary score featuring Old Deuteronomy, Macavity: The Mystery Cat, The Jellicle Ball and the chart-topping hit Memory, this brand-new production of CATS, directed and choreographed by Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre Artistic Director Drew McOnie (Brigadoon, Jesus Christ Superstar), is sure to be one of the theatrical events of 2026.
By arrangement with LW Entertainment.
Andrew Lloyd Webber | Music
Andrew Lloyd Webber has composed the scores of some of the world’s most famous musicals. His shows have run continuously in London’s West End for 50 years and ran for 43 uninterrupted years on Broadway.
When the original Sunset Boulevard joined School of Rock, CATS, and The Phantom of the Opera he equalled Rodgers & Hammerstein’s record of four shows running simultaneously on Broadway. He is one of the select group of artists with EGOT status, having received Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Awards.
Lloyd Webber owns six London theatres including the iconic London Palladium and Theatre Royal Drury Lane. Reopened in July 2021, the latter was completely restored and renovated at a cost of over £60 million. This was one of the biggest projects ever undertaken by a private theatre owner in recent times. His mantra is that every penny of profit made from his theatres is ploughed back into the buildings for their conservation and development.
Lloyd Webber is passionate about the importance of musical education and diversity in the arts. Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation provides 30 performing arts scholarships every year for talented students with financial need, and supports a range of projects such as the Music In Secondary Schools Trust (MiSST).
In academic year September 2025 – 2026, 14,885 children are being given free musical tuition and instruments as part of MiSST’s Andrew Lloyd Webber Programme. The Foundation also commissions research into diversity in theatre.
Andrew Lloyd Webber has composed music for globally significant moments. Most recently, he was asked to compose “Make a Joyful Noise”, the anthem for the Coronation of King Charles III.
Andrew Lloyd Webber was knighted in 1992, created an honorary life peer in 1997, and made a Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter by King Charles III in 2024. He is the only person in the arts ever granted this personal honour by a monarch.
Drew McOnie | Director & Choreographer
For Regent’s Park as Director/Choreographer: Brigadoon, On The Town (Director & Choreographer); Jesus Christ Superstar, Carousel (Choreographer).
For McOnie Company: The Artist (Theatre Royal Plymouth – UK Theatre Award Winner for Best Direction); Nutcracker (Southbank Centre – National Dance Award Winner for Best Independent Company); Jekyll and Hyde (Old Vic Theatre – Broadway World Award Winner for Outstanding Achievement in Dance); DRUNK (Bridewell Theatre); Making Midnight (Jermyn Street Theatre/Latitude Festival).
As Director/Choreographer: King Kong (Broadway Theatre – Broadway); Strictly Ballroom (Piccadilly Theatre – West End – What’s On Stage Award Nominee, Best Theatre Choreography); The Wild Party (The Other Palace); Torch Song Trilogy (Turbine Theatre).
As Choreographer: In the Heights (Southwark Playhouse/Kings Cross Theatre – Olivier Award and Offie Award Winner for Best Theatre Choreography); Hairspray (Broadway World Award Winner for Best Theatre Choreography); Oklahoma (UK National Tour); Bugsy Malone (Lyric Hammersmith/UK National Tour); The Lorax (Old Vic Theatre); Sound of Music, Chicago (Curve Leicester).
Film includes: Greatest Days – The Official Take That Movie (Choreographer).
Ballet includes: Merlin (Northern Ballet – National Tour); XYZ (Classical Creative Project); Little Red (NYB, Hackney Empire); Old Man of Lochnagar (NYB, Sadler’s Wells).
Drew McOnie became the Artistic Director and Joint Chief Executive of Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre in January 2024. He is also the Artistic Director of The McOnie Company and a proud Associate Artist of The Old Vic Theatre.
Fin Adams | Alonzo
Training: Tring Park and Laine Theatre Arts.
Theatre includes: Cats (European Tour); A Chorus Line (Curve, Leicester/Sadler’s Wells/National Tour); Pinocchio (Theatre Royal, Newcastle); Goldilocks (Mayflower Theatre, Southampton); Kipps (Laine Theatre Arts).
Carla Bertran | Electra / Co-Dance Captain
Training: UrdangAcademy
Theatre includes: Bat Out Of Hell (UK Tour); Jesus Christ Superstar (UK Tour); The Cher Show (UK Tour).
Elliot Broadfoot | Bustopher Jones
Training: Leeds Conservatoire.
Theatre includes: Kathy & Stella Solve a Murder! (Original West End Cast, Ambassadors Theatre); Romeo & Juliet (Liverpool Everyman); The Parent Agency (Storyhouse Chester); I Should Be So Lucky (National Tour); Annie Get Your Gun (Lavender Fields); Of Mice and Men (Leeds Playhouse).
Concerts includes: Once on This Island (Theatre Royal Drury Lane); Acorn Antiques: The Musical! (Shaftesbury Theatre, West End/Manchester Opera House).
Elliot is Co-Director of Theatre North, an initiative supporting accessible and sustainable theatre careers for young people across the North of England.
Grace Burrows | Offstage Swing
Training: Laine Theatre Arts
Theatre includes: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat (Kilworth House Theatre); Jack and the Beanstalk (Mayflower Theatre); Life in the Golden Laine (Epsom Playhouse); Pinocchio (Grand Opera House Belfast); Witches of Eastwick (Laine Theatre Arts).
TV includes: Silence is Golden (U&Dave)
Matthew Caputo | Skimbleshanks
Training: Bird College
For Regent’s Park: On The Town (2017).
Theatre includes: The Book Thief: Concert Production (Prince of Wales Theatre), Alfred Hitchcock Presents – The Musical (Theatre Royal, Bath); The Artist (Theatre Royal, Plymouth); The Book Thief (Belgrade Theatre, Coventry/Curve Theatre, Leicester); Hamilton (Victoria Palace Theatre); City of Angels (Garrick Theatre); White Christmas (Dominion Theatre); Matilda (UK Tour); 21 Chump Street (Courtyard Theatre); Scrooge, Gypsy, 42nd Street (Curve Theatre, Leicester); The Life (Southwark Playhouse); Mary Poppins (UK Tour); Top Hat (UK Tour); CATS (UK Tour); White Christmas (The Lowry, Manchester); West Side Story (The Sage, Gateshead).
Workshops include:One Day The Musical, Feet Keep Me Flyin’, Midnight, Miss Saigon, The Artist, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, King Kong.
Other credits include: You Shall Go To The Ball (Bridgerton/Netflix); D-Day 80: The Allies Prepare (BBC), My Favorite Things – Rodgers and Hammerstein Celebration, Anton Du Beke and Giovanni Pernice’s Him&Me (Drury Lane); The National Lottery’s Big Night of Musicals (BBC); All Star Musicals (ITV).
Josie Chambers-Sims | Syllabub (Jemima)
Training: Bird College (BA Hons Dance and Musical Theatre), Emil Dale Academy.
Credits whilst training: 42nd Street, Divinity.
CATS marks Josie’s professional debut
Briana Craig | Rumpleteazer
Training: The Dance School of Scotland, Laine Theatre Arts.
Theatre includes: Snow White (New Victoria Theatre, Woking); A Chorus Line (Japan Tour); The Artist (Theatre Royal, Plymouth); Snow White (Theatre Royal, Plymouth); 42nd Street (National Tour/Sadler’s Wells/Toronto); Singin’ in the Rain (Sadler’s Wells/Japan/National Tour/Toronto); Jack and the Beanstalk (London Palladium); Dick Whittington (New Wimbledon Theatre).
Workshops include: Ballet Shoes (National Theatre); The Artist (Playful Productions/The McOnie Company).
Other credits include: Festival of Remembrance (BBC/Royal Albert Hall).
Katie Dunsden | Bombalurina
Training: Performers College.
Theatre includes: Diamonds & Dust (Emerald Theatre); Grease (Dominion Theatre); Moulin Rouge! (Piccadilly Theatre); On Your Feet! (London Coliseum); Pretty Woman! (Theatre11, Zurich); Peter Pan, Robin Hood, Sleeping Beauty (London Palladium); Anton Du Beke & Giovanni Pernice’s – Him & Me, Let Me Entertain You, Tango Passions, Anton Du Beke & Giovanni Pernice’s – Together (Strictly Theatre Co); Mamma Mia! (UK/International Tour).
TV includes: Britain’s Got Talent, Good Morning Britain, The Royal Variety Show, The Oliver Awards, The Late Late Show.
Katie is also a co-producer and choreographer of Sinematic Show.
Joshua-Samuel Freeman | Tumblebrutus (Bill Bailey)
Training: The Urdang Academy Trinity College London (Undergraduate), Rambert School RCM (Postgraduate).
Theatre includes: Sleeping Beauty, Little Wolf (Royal Tunbridge Wells); Where Eagles Fly (Workshop); World of Musicals in
Concert (Australia, Ireland, New Zealand Tour).
TV includes: Mama Mia! I Have A Dream – Live Final Episode, Britain’s Got Talent – Here & Now Musical with STEPS (ITV)
Britain’s Got Talent – Audition & Semi Final with Dane Bates Collective
Other credits include: Ferrari Grand Prix Fan-zone, World Winterfest (Abu Dhabi); Popup Global & Evolution
Events; Kids Again Music Video (Sam Smith); Capitol Records; Pop Magazine No.45; Beetlejuice 2 (Warner Bros).
Regan Garcia | Pouncival (Carbuckety)
Training: Laine Theatre Arts, Sylvia Young Theatre School.
Theatre includes: Robin Hood (New Wimbledon Theatre); Jack and the Beanstalk (Mayflower Theatre); Sandi Toksvig – One Night Only (Theatre Royal Drury Lane); The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾ The Musical (Ambassadors Theatre); A Very, Very, Very Dark Matter (Bridge Theatre); Matilda The Musical (Cambridge Theatre); Mary Poppins (UK Tour); West End Live.
TV includes: Endeavour (ITV); The Crown (Netflix); Blue Peter (BBC); Silence is Golden (U&Dave); LEGO Friends (Final Pixel).
Film includes: Snow White (Marc Platt Productions); Big Boys Don’t Cry (6 From 8 Productions)
Other credits include: Google (Social Media Commercial).
Aaron Jenkins | Offstage Swing
Training: Laine Theatre Arts.
Theatre includes: Cats (European & International Tours); Matilda the Musical (Cambridge Theatre, London); Chicago (UK & Ireland Tour); Cats (Kilworth House Theatre); Mary Poppins (Hamburg, Germany); Wicked (Apollo Victoria Theatre, London).
Film & TV includes: Cats (Universal Pictures/Working Title Films); Big Night of Musicals by the National Lottery (BBC); Miranda: My Such Fun Celebration (BBC).
Workshops include: Matilda the Musical (Netflix).
Hannah Joseph | Victoria
Training: Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance.
For Regent’s Park: Dream Ballets: A Triple Bill (2025).
Companies include: Company Wayne McGregor, Dickson Mbi Company.
Choreographers worked with include: Botis Seva, Russell Maliphant, Alesandra Seutin, Alexander Whitley, Matthew Bourne, Julia Cheng, Holly Blakey.
Performances includes: TELLUS (Dickson Mbi Company); UniVerse: A Dark Crystal Odyssey, AutoBiography, Deepstaria (Company Wayne McGregor); Matthew Bourne’s Romeo+Juliet (New Adventures, Sadler’s Wells); Moschino SS24 Milan Fashion Week; London Fashion Week 2024; Hermès Brides de Gala; Robyn Talk to Me music video.
As Choreographer and Performer: BBC Young Dancer 2022 (The Roundhouse); AX2 for Legacy (Royal Ballet, Linbury Theatre).
As Choreographer:Kaleidoscope of Time (Royal Ballet); Gridlock (Royal Ballet School); Nothing But This (Ballet D’Jèrri); still, here (English National Ballet); SUN (Nowness); Ax.One for Festival of New Choreography (Royal Ballet)
Hannah was a finalist on BBC Young Dancer 2022.
Taziva-Faye Katsande | Tantomile
Training: Sylvia Young Theatre School, Bird College
Theatre includes: Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Crossroads (Darlington Hippodrome); Jack and the Beanstalk (The Capitol, Horsham); Bugsy Malone (UK Tour); Annie (UK Tour); Matilda the Musical (Cambridge Theatre); Luisa Miller (Opera).
Dance includes: Homage to Happiness (Wilton’s Musical Hall); Royal Variety Performance, Adventures of Peter Pan (Anthony Vanlaast).
Advertisements include: Virgin Atlantic – Seize the Holiday LIVE ITV Commercial, Apple Education Tech photoshoot, Pearson ELT, RBA’s ELT songs.
Film and TV includes: Beetlejuice; The Big Audition – Episode 6 (ITV); The Proms (BBC).
Other credits include: Matilda the Musical reading
Melanie La Barrie | Old Deuteronomy
Theatre includes: Mary Page Marlowe, The Lorax (Old Vic); Hadestown (Lyric Theatre); Once On This Island (Theatre Royal Drury Lane); The Book Thief (Prince of Wales Theatre); Roam (Shaftesbury Theatre); We Aren’t Kids Anymore (Savoy Theatre); &Juliet (West End/Broadway); Wicked (Apollo Victoria); Dick Whittington (National Theatre); The Everyman Season (Everyman Playhouse); Matilda The Musical (RSC/Cambridge Theatre); Mary Poppins (Prince Edward Theatre); Les Misérables (London’s Sondheim Theatre); Play Mas (Orange Tree Theatre); The Bakkhai (Almeida Theatre)
TV includes: EastEnders, Casualty, Riot Women.
Film includes: London Road.
Diante Lodge | Macavity / Admetus
Training: Laine Theatre Arts
Theatre includes:Les Liaisons Dangereuses (National Theatre); Evita, Peter Pan, Sleeping Beauty (London Palladium); Original London Cast of MJ The Musical (Prince Edward Theatre); Matilda (Cambridge Theatre); Carousel (Kilworth House Theatre); Best Of West End (Royal Albert Hall); Coppelia (Cockpit Theatre).
Film and TV include: Snow White (Disney); Drag Race UK (BBC); Royal Variety Performance (ITV).
Music videos include: You 4 Me (Tiwa Savage); Hip Neck Spine (Daphne Guinness); Twisted & Black British (V V Brown).
Workshops include: Midnight, Burlesque, Play On!, Sinbad, KIN.
As Movement Director/Choreographer: Remembrance Monday (Seven Dials Playhouse); Falling In Love With Mr Dellamort (Edinburgh Fringe); Charity (BFI Short Film).
Owen McHugh | George
Training: Laine Theatre Arts, The Dance School of Scotland.
For Regent’s Park: Brigadoon (2025).
Theatre includes: Why Am I So Single? (Garrick Theatre); Clueless the Musical (Churchill Theatre, Bromley); Symphony of Sorrowful Songs (English National Opera, London Coliseum); White Christmas (UK Tour); But I’m a Cheerleader (The Turbine Theatre); Beauty and the Beast (Civic Theatre); Memories of the Musicals, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat (Kilworth House); The Snowman (UK Tour/Peacock Theatre, London); Me And My Girl (Frinton Summer Theatre); Doctor Dolittle The Musical (UK Tour); Peter Pan (Hull New Theatre); Cinderella (Wyvern Theatre).
Workshops include: Why Am I So Single?.
TV includes: BBC Children in Need (BBC).
Music videos include: Girl Crush (Self Esteem).
Danny Nattrass | Mungojerrie
Training: The Arts Educational School.
For Regent’s Park: Brigadoon (2025).
Theatre includes: Elf (Aldwych Theatre); Grease (European Tour); Close Up – The Twiggy Musical (Menier Chocolate Factory); We Will Rock You (London Coliseum); Pump Up The Volume (Turbine Theatre); The Osmonds: A New Musical (National Tour); Pantoland at the Palladium, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (London Palladium); Mamma Mia! (Novello Theatre).
TV includes: The National Lottery’s Big Night of Musicals (BBC); All Star Musicals (ITV).
Millie O’Connell | Demeter
Training: Laine Theatre Arts.
Theatre includes: Come Fall In Love (Opera House Manchester); Cake (The Other Palace); The Cher Show (UK Tour); Rent (Hope Mill Theatre); Hair (Turbine Theatre); Be More ChiIl (Shaftesbury Theatre/The Other Palace); Soho Cinders (Charing Cross Theatre); SIX: The Musical (UK Tour/Arts Theatre, London); Thoroughly Modern Millie (UK Tour); 42nd Street (Theatre Royal Drury Lane); 42nd Street (Theatre Du Chatelet).
Workshops include: Why Am I So Single?, On The Team, Sunshine.
Film and TV include: SIX The Musical Live (Universal Pictures); Doctor Who (BBC); Wonka (Warner Bros); The Entire Universe (BBC); Endeavour (ITV); The People’s Strictly (BBC).
Andrew Parfitt | Coricopat
Training: London Studio Centre, Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts, MEPA Academy, Kreative Dance Academy.
Theatre includes: Disney’s The Lion King (Lyceum Theatre, West End)
Dance includes: Wicked, Wicked: For Good (Universal); Britain’s Got Talent (Dane Bates Collective); London Fashion Week (Richard Quinn/Dane Bates Collective); Ballet Under The Stars (Covent Garden Dance/The Project Dance Company).
Charlotte Riby | Jennyanydots (Gumbie Cat)
Training: Laine Theatre Arts.
For Regent’s Park: Jesus Christ Superstar (2016-17); Carousel (2021).
Theatre includes: Midnight (Sadler’s Wells East); Me & My Girl (UK Tour); Hairspray (Shaftesbury Theatre); Priscilla Queen of the Desert (The Place); Billy Elliot (Victoria Palace Theatre); Waitress (Adelphi Theatre); Annie Get Your Gun (Palladium); Midnight (London and New York Workshop/Showcase).
Film includes: Wonka (Warner Bros); Snow White (Disney); The Blitz (Apple TV).
Adverts and voiceovers include: The Sun, Hotels4U, Vauxhall, Better, Morrisons, Thomas Cook, TUI.
Nathan Rigg | Offstage Swing
Theatre includes: A Chorus Line (Curve/Japan Tour); Guys and Dolls (Bridge Theatre); Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat (London Palladium/UK Tour); What’s New Pussycat (Birmingham Rep Theatre); Mother Goose (Mercury Theatre); Sleeping Beauty (Norwich Theatre Royal).
Film includes: London Road (BBC).
Workshops include: Bliss The Musical (ATG Productions).
Lucie-Mae Sumner | Jellylorum (Griddlebone)
Training: Royal Academy of Music, National Youth Theatre of Great Britain.
Theatre includes: Mary Poppins (UK Tour); Singin’ In The Rain (Kilworth House); I Should Be So Lucky (UK Tour); Titanic (UK & International Tour); Mary Poppins (West End, Prince Edward Theatre); Chicago, Quality Street, Travesties (Pitlochry Festival Theatre); Barnum (Menier Chocolate Factory); Guys and Dolls (UK Tour/Savoy Theatre); A Damsel in Distress (Chichester Festival Theatre); Avenue Q (UK Tour); Barnum (Chichester Festival Theatre); Sister Act (UK Tour).
Concerts include: Love Never Dies (Theatre Royal Drury Lane); Trump The Opera (Cadogan Hall); Kerry Ellis’ Anthems, Danny Elfman’s Music From the Films of Tim Burton, BBC Prom Sondheim at 80 (Royal Albert Hall); West End Prom (Lytham Festival).
Workshops include: The Odyssey (National Theatre); Bedknobs and Broomsticks (Michael Harrison/Disney); Mort (Royal Academy of Music); Goodbye Barcelona.
TV includes: Humans – Series 3 (Kudos/Channel 4)
Jaydon Vijn | Rum Tum Tugger
Training: Wilkes Academy of Performing Arts
For Regent’s Park: The Sound Of Music (2013).
Theatre includes: Starlight Express (Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre); Wicked (Apollo Victoria Theatre); MAMMA MIA! (International Tour/UK Tour); Starlight Express Das Musical (Bochum, Germany); Pippin (Charing Cross Theatre); Jack & The Beanstalk (London Palladium); Aladdin, Cinderella (Regent Theatre, Stoke); Oliver! (UK Tour); The Sound of Music (Doha, Qatar); Matilda the Musical (Cambridge Theatre), Oliver! (Theatre Royal Drury Lane).
TV includes: I Like The Way U Move – Series 1 (BBC); Royal Variety Performance 2024 (ITV); I Can Do it, You Can Too (CBeebies); Children In Need Performance 2025 (BBC).
Advertisements include: Three’s a Crowd – Warburton, OPPO Reno 8 Series.
Film includes: Wonka (Warner Bros); Snow White (Disney); Larissa (Short Film).
Other credits include: The Roller Boys, Noise Boys Trailer, Starlight Express 2024 Cast Recording.
Jaydon was nominated for Best Supporting Performer in a Musical at the WhatsOnStage Awards for the role of Hydra which he originated in Starlight Express.
Jack Wilcox | Munkustrap
Training: Tring Park School for the Performing Arts.
Theatre includes: Little Dancer (Theatre Royal Drury Lane); Singin’ in the Rain (Kilworth House Theatre); Crazy For You (Gillian Lynne Theatre, London); Saturday Night Fever (UK Tour); Anything Goes (The Barbican/UK Tour); White Christmas, An American in Paris 0 Original London Cast (Dominion Theatre); Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (London Palladium); Kiss Me Kate (London Coliseum/Leeds Grand Theatre); Cinderella (Cambridge Arts Theatre); Sweeney Todd (Mercury/Derby Theatre); Cinderella (QDOS Manchester Opera House); Travels With my Aunt, Singin’ in the Rain (Chichester Festival Theatre); Titanic (Princess of Wales, Toronto); The Sound of Music, 42nd Street (Leicester Curve); West Side Story (UK Tour); Singin’ in the Rain (Palace Theatre); Kiss Me Kate (Theatre Du Chatelet); A Chorus Line (Tel Aviv Opera House); Shoes (Peacock Theatre); Wicked (Victoria Apollo); High School Musical 2 (UK Tour); Cinderella (Bournemouth Pavillion); Apollo Victoria 80th Gala (Apollo Victoria); Kerry Ellis Sings the Great British Songbook (Shaw Theatre); Night of 1000 Voices, Handel’s Messiah (Royal Albert Hall).
Workshops include: Women On the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (ATG); Send for Mr Plim (Soho Theatre); Night of the Prom (Hackney Empire Theatre).
TV includes: All Star Musicals, Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway, Surprise Surprise (ITV); Anything Goes (BBC); An American in Paris (Sky Arts).
Soundtrack includes: Singin’ in the Rain (London Cast Recording 2012).
Gary Wilmot | Gus
For Regent’s Park: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Pirates of Penzance (2001), HMS Pinafore (2005).
Theatre includes: A Man For All Seasons (National Tour/West End), Something Rotten (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane); The Artist (Plymouth Theatre Royal); The Wizard of Oz (Palladium/National Tour); Old Friends (The Gielgud); Peter Pan, Jack & The Beanstalk, Pantoland at the Palladium, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs, Dick Whittington, Wind in the Willows, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Palladium);
Wicked (Apollo Theatre); Anything Goes (Barbican); Prince of Egypt (Dominion); Mr Gumand the Dancing Bear (National Theatre); Little Miss Sunshine (Arcola); Flowers for Mrs Harris (Chichester Festival Theatre); Big – the Musical (Theatre Royal Plymouth/Bord Gais, Dublin); End of the Rainbow (National Tour); Oklahoma (National Tour);Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Savoy Theatre/National Tour); The Pajama Game (Shaftesbury Theatre); Radio Times (The Watermill/National Tour); A Bowl Of Cherries (Charing Cross Theatre); The Invisible Man (Menier Chocolate Factory); Arthur Saville’s Crime (National Tour); Chicago (National Tour); The Wizard of Oz (Royal Festival Hall); Half A Sixpence (National Tour); Santa Claus The Musical, The Wizard of Oz (Mayflower); Oliver (National Tour); The Pirates of Penzance (National Tour); Confusions (National Tour); Travels With My Aunt (National Tour); The Goodbye Girl (The Albery); Copacabana (National Tour/Prince of Wales Theatre); One for the Road (Bristol Old Vic); Carmen Jones (Old Vic); Me and My Girl (Adelphi Theatre).
TV and Film includes: Death in Paradise, Would I Lie To You, Midsomer Murders, House of Games, The Grinch, Showstoppers, Cue Gary, The 6’ O’Clock Show, The Saturday Gang, Copycats, So You Wanna Be Top, Never Mind The Buzzcocks, The Tony Ferrino Phenomenon, The Bob Monkhouse Show, Don Black – Diamonds Are Forever, One Drop (Short Film).
Rachael Wooding | Grizabella
Training: Doreen Bird College of Performing Arts.
Theatre includes: Military Wives (York Theatre Royal); Standing at the Sky’s Edge (Gillian Lynne Theatre/National Theatre/Sheffield Crucible); Well Behaved Women (Cadogan Hall); Pretty Woman (Savoy Theatre); Fat Friends the Musical (UK Tour); Wonderland (UK Tour); Another Night Before Christmas (Bridge House Theatre); We Will Rock You (Dominion Theatre); Street of Dreams (Manchester Evening News Arena); Jersey Boys (Prince Edward Theatre); Bright Lights, Big City (Hoxton Hall); Evita (UK Tour); Hairspray (Shaftesbury Theatre); Loveshack (UK Tour); Saturday Night Fever (Apollo Victoria Theatre); Footloose (UK Tour); Return to the Forbidden Planet (Lincoln Theatre Royal); A Chorus Line (Sheffield Crucible); Fame (Aldwych Theatre); Starlight Express (Bochum, Germany); Cats (Operettenhaus, Hamburg); Spirit of the Dance (US Tour); My Father’s Son (Sheffield Theatre).
TV includes: Girlfriends (ITV); Britain’s Got Talent (ITV); Al Murray’s Happy Hour (ITV); Doctors (BBC); Coronation Street (ITV); The Royal Variety Performance (ITV).
Radio includes: Friday Night is Music Night (BBC Radio 3).
Other performance includes: Christmas in New York (Broadway); Momentous Musicals (Wimbledon Theatre); Music of ABBA, Music of Queen, Musicals Rock (Liverpool Philharmonic Hall); Queen Symphonic (UK/International Tour).
Jet Yau | Mr. Mistoffelees / Quaxo
Training: Base Performing Arts College, I Got Soul Performing Arts.
Theatre includes: Gerry and Sewell (Aldwych Theatre).
Film includes: Matilda the Musical (2022).
Other credits include: Love me again (again) Music Video (John Newman); Saint Etienne Music Video (Alasdair McLellan); L’Oréal Color Trophy Award Show; JD Sports Christmas Advertisement; JD Sports Retail Conference; Homme Magazine.
Taela Yeomans-Brown | Offstage Swing / Co-Dance Captain
Training: Bird College Conservatoire for Dance and Musical Theatre.
Theatre includes: Robin Hood (Birmingham Hippodrome); Quadrophenia: A Mod Ballet (UK Tour/Sadler’s Wells/New York City Centre); Wicked (Apollo Victoria Theatre); Mary Poppins (The Prince Edward Theatre); Lion King (Lyceum Theatre); Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Richmond Theatre).
TV includes: Royal Variety Performance (ITV)
Other credits include: Resilience (Short Film directed and choreographed by Stuart Winters); Starlight Express London (R&D).
Patricia Zhou | Cassandra
Training: Kirov Academy of Ballet, Washington D.C.
Theatre includes: The Nutcracker (McOnie Company, Southbank Centre); Dr. Semmelweis (Harold Pinter Theatre).
Dance includes: Romeo and Juliet (Benjamin Millipied, Walt Disney Concert Hall); Herrumbre, Multiplicity: Forms of Silence and Emptiness, Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker, White Darkness (Nacho Duato); Jewels, Ballet Imperial (George Balanchine); Yag, Secus (Ohad Naharin); Closer (Benjamin Millepied); GLASS/HANDEL (Justin Peck, Printworks); Petite Mort (Jiri Kylian); The Nutcracker (Yuri Burlaka/Vasily Medvedev); Giselle, Swan Lake (Patrice Bart); Onegin (John Cranko); Namouna (Alexei Ratmansky); Nights—nach 1001 nights (Anjelin Preljocaj); Altro Canto (Jean-Christophe Maillot); Romeo und Juliet (John Cranko); La Bayadere (Vladimir Malakhov); The Sleeping Beauty (Monica Mason, Royal Opera House); The Nutcracker (Sir Peter Wright, Royal Opera House).
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Saturday 2 May – Saturday 6 June 2026
Access Performances:
BSL Interpreted: Thurs 4 June, 7.45pm
Captioned: Fri 5 June, 7.45pm
Audio Described: Sat 6 June, 2pm
Age Recommendation: 12+
Tickets from: £15
OPEN AIR THEATRE SUNDAY EVENT: FAMILY DAY
Sunday 24 May 2026
Age recommendation: All ages welcome
Day Entry Tickets: Adults £18, Children £15
OPEN AIR THEATRE SUNDAY EVENT: JAMES ACASTER
Sunday 31 May 2026
Age recommendation: 14+
Tickets: £30
A Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre production
A LIFE IN FOUR SEASONS
Thursday 11 – Sunday 14 June 2026
Age Recommendation: 8+
Tickets from: £15
A Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre production
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM
Saturday 20 June – Saturday 18 July 2026
Access Performances:
BSL Interpreted: Sat 11 July, 12.30pm & Thurs 16 July, 7.45pm
Captioned: Fri 17 July, 7.45pm
Audio Described: Sat 18 July, 12.30pm
Age Recommendation: 10+
Tickets from: £15
Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre
with Michael Harrison for Lloyd Webber Harrison Musicals presents
CATS
Saturday 25 July – Saturday 12 September 2026
Access Performances:
Relaxed: Thurs 27 August, 2pm
BSL Interpreted: Tue 1 September, 7.45pm
Captioned: Fri 4 September, 7.45pm
Audio Described: Sat 5 September, 2pm
Age Recommendation: 5+
Tickets from: £15
A Unicorn Theatre and Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre production
ANANSI THE SPIDER
Saturday 15 August – Sunday 6 September 2026
Press Performance: Tuesday 18 August, 2pm
Age recommendation: 4+
Tickets from: £15
OPEN AIR THEATRE SUNDAY EVENT: TIM KEY: LOGANBERRY
Sunday 6 September 2026
Age recommendation: 14+
Tickets: £30
BEYOND THE PARK
Roald Dahl Story Company present
The family musical based on Roald Dahl’s
THE ENORMOUS CROCODILE
The Studebaker, Chicago 29 January – 21 February 2026
UK Tour 27 March – 26 July 2026
Lyric Hammersmith, London 28 July – 22 August 2026
Originally produced by Roald Dahl Story Company, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre and Leeds Playhouse
David Ian for Crossroads Live and Work Light Productions present
The Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre production of
JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR
Solaire Theatre, Manila 2 – 24 May 2026
National Theatre, Taipei 18 – 21 June 2026
Marina Bay Sands, Singapore 17 August – 13 September 2026
The Civic, Aukland 21 October – 15 November 2026
St James Theatre, Wellington 18 – 28 November 2026
Isaac Theatre Royal, Christchurch 2 – 6 December 2026
Further tour dates to be added.
Michael Harrison for Lloyd Webber Harrison Musicals presents
The Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre production of
JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR
London Palladium 20 June – 5 September 2026
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Michael Harrison for Lloyd Webber Harrison Musicals presents
The Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre production of
CATS
Theatre Royal Plymouth 6 – 17 October 2026
Hull New Theatre 20 – 24 October 2026
Birmingham Hippodrome 27 October – 7 November 2026
Palace Theatre Manchester 10 – 21 November 2026
Bristol Hippodrome 24 – 28 November 2026
Venue Cymru Llandudno 1 – 5 December 2026
Theatre Royal Glasgow 8 – 27 December 2026
Nottingham, Royal Concert Hall 6 – 16 January 2027
Canterbury, Marlowe Theatre 19 – 23 January
Sunderland, Empire Theatre 26 – 30 January 2027
Aberdeen, His Majesty‘s Theatre 9 – 13 February 2027
Theatre Royal Norwich 16 – 27 February 2027
Grand Opera House Belfast 2 – 13 March 2027
Oxford, New Theatre 23 – 27 March 2027
Mayflower Southampton 30 March – 10 April 2027
Edinburgh, Playhouse Theatre 20 – 24 April 2027
Bradford, Alhambra Theatre 27 April – 1 May 2027
Liverpool, Empire Theatre 5 – 15 May 2027
Woking, New Victoria Theatre 18 – 22 May 2027
Wales Millennium Centre Cardiff 25 – 29 May 2027
Milton Keynes, Milton Keynes Theatre1 – 5 June 2027
Newcastle, Theatre Royal 8 – 19 June 2027
ABOUT REGENT’S PARK OPEN AIR THEATRE
Established in 1932, the multi-award-winning Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre is one of the largest theatres in London (at a capacity of 1,304). Passionate about producing popular, enriching and unexpected theatre that provides a lens into the here and now, the scale and ambition of our productions together with our magical outdoor setting, makes us unique in the capital’s cultural landscape. In 2025 we welcomed just under 177,000 people to our 20-week summer season.
Drew McOnie assumed the role of Artistic Director in January 2024, and James Pidgeon was appointed Executive Director in 2021.
Over the last fifteen years, our productions have won ten Olivier Awards, ten WhatsOnStage Awards, and four Evening Standard Awards. We were named London Theatre of the Year in 2017 by The Stage, and received the Highly Commended Award for London Theatre of the Year in 2021. Our productions have toured the UK, and have transferred to both the West End and the United States. Our 2016 revival of Jesus Christ Superstar has just finished tours of the UK, North America and Australia. Our Olivier Award-winning revival of Fiddler on the Roof transferred to the Barbican Centre in May 2025 ahead of a major tour of the UK & Ireland which ended earlier this year.
As a registered charity that receives no regular public subsidy, we rely entirely on earned income and charitable contributions. Nevertheless, we have over 46,000 tickets at £25 or under available across the whole of 2026’s summer season, and we regularly work with a range of local charities. Each year, on average, we subsidise tickets for 6,000 school pupils.
Food and drink plays a significant role in the Open Air Theatre experience, with our in-house bars and restaurants including Covered Dining (certified as a Sustainably Run Restaurant), The Grill and The Pizza Oven. We also have our own picnic lawn and the West End’s longest bar!
Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre has become one of the most independently sustainable and financially successful producing theatres in the country, and we’re proud to embark on the next stage of our vision with ever-increasing artistic ambition and entrepreneurial spirit.
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ABOUT MICHAEL HARRISON
West End musicals include: Titaníque (Criterion); Hello, Dolly! (The London Palladium); The Little Big Things (@sohoplace); Crazy For You (Gillian Lynne); The Wizard of Oz (The LondonPalladium and Gillian Lynne); Oklahoma! (Wyndham’s); The Drifters Girl (Garrick); twoseasons of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (The London Palladium); MelBrooks’ Young Frankenstein (Garrick); Annie (Piccadilly); Gypsy (Savoy); The Bodyguard (Adelphi and Dominion).
Over 1 million people have seen Michael’s London Palladium pantomimes.
In 2022, with Andrew Lloyd Webber, Michael formed Lloyd Webber Harrison Musicals to produce both new musicals and revivals of Andrew’s existing work. Lloyd Webber Harrison Musicals productions include: Starlight Express (Troubadour); Sunset Blvd.(Savoy and St James, Broadway) and Evita (The London Palladium) starring Rachel Zegler.
With Cameron Mackintosh, he produced the Chichester Festival Theatre production of Barnum and this year, the major revival of the legendary musical Miss Saigon.
Michael produced Disney’s Bedknobs and Broomsticks on tour in the UK.
He is the Chief Executive of Crossroads Pantomimes, responsible for many of the major number one pantomimes across the UK.
Michael was awarded a companionship to the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts by Sir Paul McCartney and the Freedom of the City of Newcastle upon Tyne in recognition of his services to theatre in the region.