Henry V

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Hostess / Queen Isabel / Governor of Harfleur Catrin Aaron

This is Catrin’s RSC debut

Theatre includes: Alls Well That Ends Well, Richard III, As You Like It, Hamlet (Globe), Our Countrys Good (Lyric Hammersmith), Romeo and Julie (National Theatre), Isla (Theatr Clwyd / Royal Court), The Lovely Bones (Birmingham Rep / Tour), Orpheus Descending (Theatr Clwyd / Menier Chocolate Factory), Macbeth (Globe at Sam Wanamaker Playhouse), The Wizard of Oz (Sheffield Crucible), The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, Missing Julie, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, All My Sons, Aristocrats, The Light of Heart, Humbug, God of Carnage, A Doll's House, Roots (Theatr Clwyd), Henry V (Regent's Park Open Air Theatre), The Forsythe Sisters (Gaggle Babble), Sex and the Three Day Week (Liverpool Playhouse), The Fever (Three Streets at The Old Fire Station, Oxford), Contractions (Iain Goosey / Chapter Arts), Salt, Root and Roe (Theatr Clwyd), XX (Festopia) (Theatre 503), What People Do; London Lets Get Visceral (Viscera Theatre Co @ Old Vic Tunnels)

Television includes: Dope Girls, The Indian Doctor, Casualty, Isla (BBC), Truelove (Channel 4), Coronation Street (ITV), Carnival Row: S2 (Amazon), The Bastard Executioner (FX) 

Film includes: Apostle (Netflix) 

Radio includes: Medici (BBC Radio 4) 

Trained at: Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.

 

 

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Exeter Micah Balfour

RSC includes: Much Ado About Nothing, Richard III, All's Well That Ends Well 

Theatre includes: The Barber Shop Chronicles (London Roundhouse and UK Tour), Plenty (Chichester), Still Alice (UK tour), Mr Foote’s Other Leg (Hampstead and Theatre Royal Haymarket), The Royal Hunt of the Sun, Market Boy (National Theatre), Absolute Beginners (Lyric Hammersmith) 

Television includes: Adultery, EastEnders, Phoenix Rise, Nightsleeper, Casualty, Death in Paradise, The Gold, White House Farm, Lovely Little Farm, Trust, The Trial of Christine Keeler, The Feed, The Bill, Silent Witness, Dr Who, The Musketeers, Holby City, Doctors, Young Dracula, The Time of Your Life, Emmerdale 

Film includes: The Car: Road to Revenge, Holy Flying Circus, Diana, Powder Room, Bump, World War Z 

Trained at: The Poor School  

 

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Canterbury / King of France / Williams Jamie Ballard

RSC includes: The Tempest, Henry VI Part 1, The Merchant of Venice, Measure For Measure, Written On The Heart, Much Ado About Nothing, Romeo and Juliet, King John, As You Like It, A Midsummer Night's Dream 

Theatre includes: Macbeth (Nimbus Arts Centre, New York), An Interrogation (Ellie Keel Productions), Romeo & Juliet (The Almeida), Duchess of Malfi, Henry VIII, The White Devil, Troilus and Cressida (Globe), Harry Potter and The Cursed Child (West End), Mother Christmas, In The Vale Of Health (Hampstead Theatre), Uncle Vanya (Theatr Clwyd/ Sheffield Theatres), Ghosts (HOME), King John (Rose Theatre, Kingston), Macbeth (Trafalgar Studios), Scenes From An Execution, Antigone, Emperor and Galilean, Some Trace of Her, War Horse, Saint Joan (National Theatre), The English Samurai (Thelma Holt Productions), The Devil Inside Him (National Theatre Wales), Thyestes, Light Shining In Buckinghamshire (Arcola Theatre), Hamlet, The Changeling, Macbeth, Troilus and Cressida, As You Like It (Tobacco Factory Theatres), The Duchess of Malfi (Salisbury Playhouse) 

Film includes: Suffragette, X+Y, A Poet In New York, Black Death 

Television includes: Industry, Showtrial, Vera, Three Girls, Penny Dreadful, Ripper Street, The Hollow Crown II, Sons Of Liberty, Father Brown, The Crimson Field, The Great Fire, Amnesia 

Radio includes: The Archers, Nightwaves, The Jewish War, Martha's Metamorphosis, Not Me But Us, Richard II, Julius Caesar, The Tempest 

 

 

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Scroop / Alice / Rambures Diany Bandza

This is Diany’s RSC debut 

Theatre includes: War Horse UK Tour (National Theatre), Henry V (Donmar Warehouse), A Christmas Carol (The Bridge Theatre), Possession (Arcola), Never Look Back (English Touring Theatre) 

Screen credits include: The Witcher, The Diplomat (Netflix), Intergalactic (Sky), Anansi Boys (Amazon), Jack Ryan (Amazon) 

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The Dauphin Michael Elcock

RSC includes: Cowbois 

Theatre includes: Pinocchio, Romeo and Juliet, The Comedy of Errors (Globe), The Little Mermaid, The Meaning of Zong (Bristol Old Vic), Julius Caesar (Southwark Playhouse), Hex, The Visit (National Theatre), Arthur/Merlin (Iris Theatre), 846 Live, Heartfelt (Theatre Royal Stratford East), In A Word (Young Vic), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), Groove on Down The Road (Queen Elizabeth Hall) 

Television includes: Queens of Mystery 

Film includes: Kitchen Sink 

Trained at: Central School of Speech and Drama

 
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Henry V Alfred Enoch

Previous RSC includes: Pericles

Theatre includes: What A Carve Up!, The Picture of Dorian Gray, As You Like It (@sohoplace - West End), Romeo and Juliet (Globe), Crave (Chichester Festival Theatre), Tree (Young Vic / Manchester International Festival), Red (Wyndham’s Theatre, West End), King Lear (Talawa and Manchester Royal Exchange), Coriolanus (Donmar Warehouse), Timon of Athens, Antigone (National Theatre)

Television includes: Miss Austen (BBC), The Couple Next Door (Channel 4), Foundation (Apple TV), Trust Me (BBC), How To Get Away With Murder (ABC), Troy: Fall of a City (BBC), Sherlock (BBC), Mount Pleasant (Sky), Broadchurch (BBC)

Film includes: The Critic, This Is Christmas, Executive Order, Tigers, The Harry Potter series

Radio includes: Darkness, Anna Karenina, The Duino Elegies, The Kiss of the Spider Woman

He is an Artistic Associate of the Young Vic

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Cambridge / Orleans Owain Gwynn

This is Owain’s RSC debut 

Theatre includes:  Romeo a Juliet, Yr Hogyn Pren, Macbeth, and Deffro'r Gwanwyn (Theatr Cymru), Ocean at the End of the Lane, War Horse, The Light Princess (National Theatre), Olion (Fran Wen), Life of Pi (Sheffield Theatres/West End), The Lorax (The Old Vic), Peter Pan, Porgy & Bess (Regent's Park Open Air Theatre), Hamlet, Not About Heroes, Ghosts, Portrait of the Artist (Theatr Clwyd) 

Television includes:  Hidden / Craith, Bregus, Yr Amgueddfa, 35 Diwrnod, Bang, Gangs of London, Britannia, The Bastard Executioner

Film includes: Apostle, Morfydd 

Radio includes: Spores, Curious Under the Stars (BBC) 

Trained at:  RADA, and East 15 (Acting and Stage Combat) 

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King Henry IV / Grey / Erpingham Valentine Hanson

RSC includes: Measure for Measure 

Theatre includes: The Seagull (Barbican), The Lehman Trilogy, The Grapes of Wrath (National Theatre), The Effect (National Theatre Lyttelton Stage), The Importance of Being Earnest (English Touring Theatre at Rose Theatre Kingston/Leeds Playhouse/ National Tour), Orpheus Descending (Theatr Clwyd/Menier Chocolate Factory), Still Lives (The Old Waiting Room, Peckham Station), We Anchor in Hope (Bunker Theatre), Handfast (Summerhall, Edinburgh Festival), The Sisterhood (Belgrade Theatre), Hector (Eden Court/Ambassadors Theatre), Cuming and Going (Bush Theatre), StopSearch (Catford Broadway Studio), Footprints in the Sand/Letting Go/For One Night Only (Pursued by a Bear), Word Peace: A Celebration (Globe), Festen, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Lyric Theatre), The Tempest (Orange Tree Theatre), G.I. Blues (Forest Forge Theatre Company), After the End of the World (Red Ladder, National Tour), Positive Mental Attitude (Theatre Centre/National Tour), The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn (Classic Theatre/National Tour) 

Film includes: Scartown (Short), Crucifixion Island (Infinity Films), London Voodoo (Zen Films) 

Television includes:  Murder City (Granada Television),  Casualty (BBC) 

 

 

 

 

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Pistol Paul Hunter

RSC includes: Cowbois, Les Enfants Du Paradis 

Theatre includes: Rhinoceros (Almeida), Robin Hood: The Legend. Re-written (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), La Cage aux Folles (Park Theatre), Wise Children (Old Vic/UK Tour), Life of Galileo (Young Vic), The Little Match Girl, The Mystery Plays, Much Ado About Nothing, Troilus and Cressida, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Under the Black Flag (Globe), Gaslight (Northampton), Tartuffe (Birmingham Rep), The Fantasticks (Duchess Theatre, West End), Napoleon Disrobed, The Farenheit Twins, Don’t Laugh – It’s My Life, You Haven’t Embraced Me Yet, I’m So Big, On The Verge of Exploding (Told By An Idiot International/UK Tour), Nocturnal (The Gate Theatre), Rapunzel (Kneehigh/UK Tour/New York), The Red Shoes (Kneehigh/UK Tour/BAC), Beauty and the Beast (Belgrade Theatre Coventry), The Water Engine (Young Vic/Theatre 503), Oliver Twist, Aladdin, Pinocchio (Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith), Playing the Victim (Traverse/Royal Court), The Play What I Wrote (West End), The Firework Maker’s Daughter (Sheffield Crucible), I Can’t Wake Up, Happy Birthday, Mister Deka D (Told By An Idiot/Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith/Tour), Richard III (English Shakespeare Company), Twelfth Night, Animal Farm (Northern Stage), The Servant of Two Masters (Sheffield Crucible), Baldy Hopkins (The Right Size), The Wasp Factory (Glasgow Citizens Theatre), Popeye (West End) 

Film and television includes: Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, My Mother’s Wedding, The Continental, Masters of the Air, The Great, Princess and Peppernose, Cyrano, Bridgerton, Quiz, The Birth of Valerie Venue, Midsomer Murders, Still Open All Hours, Denial, This Beautiful Fantastic, Pan, Marvellous, Cinderella, Maleficent, Wizards vs. Aliens, Snow White and the Huntsman, Pirates of the Caribbean, One Day, Trinity, After You’ve Gone, Absolute Power, The Only Boy For Me, Tunnel of Love, Mitchell and Kenyon, Black Books, Hardware, Everything I Know About Men, Music at the Close, Absurd, Vertical Hold, Hanging Around, My Family 

Paul is co-founder and Artistic Director of Told By An Idiot. 

 

 

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Ely / Gower Hanora Kamen

This is Hanora’s RSC debut 

Theatre includes: Macbeth (Globe), A Gig For Ghosts (Soho Theatre), Tess (Ockham's Razor), Education, Education, Education (Trafalgar Studios), Macbeth (English Touring Theatre), The Ballad of Maria Marten (Wilton’s Music Hall), Brief Encounter (The New Wolsey, Salisbury Playhouse), The Importance of Being Earnest, The Gangs of New York (Storyhouse), 1972: The Future of Sex, C-Word Club House, Riot (Bristol Old Vic), Four Seasons (Little Bulb, Bristol Old Vic), Chloe and The Colour Catcher (Theatre Ad Infinitum, Bristol Old Vic), The Money (Kaleider), Nel (Battersea Arts Centre), Mog: The Forgetful Cat (Royal & Derngate, The Old Vic), Winners (The Wardrobe Ensemble), Five Children & It (The Egg, Theatre Royal Bath), Eloise and The Curse of The Golden Whisk, Great Train Robbery (Greenwich Theatre), Pippi Longstocking (The Royal & Derngate), Edgar and The Land of The Lost (The Wardrobe Ensemble), Rebellion Playground (The Exeter Phoenix), The Snowbeast, A Fool’s Proof (UK tour), Blok/EKO (Exeter Northcott) 

Screen credits include: Hijack (Apple TV+), The Undeclared War (Channel 4), Breadline (BBC Four), Mimi’s World (Channel 5) 

Film includes: The Crossing (Broadside), Borderline (Future Proof Films/Jeff Rice Films) 

Radio includes: The Flock (A Ton of Feathers) 

 

 

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Katharine Natalie Kimmerling

RSC includes: The Tempest 

Theatre includes: The Glass Menagerie (Rose Theatre Productions, Alexandra Palace, Belgrade Theatre), Henry V (schools tour - Donmar Warehouse), War Horse UK and International Tour (National Theatre) 

Television includes: War (HBO & Sky), Amandaland (BBC), The Bastard Son & The Devil Himself (Netflix) 

Trained at: Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts 

 

 

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Gloucester Sophie McIntosh

RSC includes: Hamlet 

Film includes: No Way Up (Altitude Films), Into The Rainbow (TW Films), Satisfaction (Rebels & Robots) 

Television includes: Bad Sisters (ABC / Apple TV), Brave New World (Dreamworks), Last Tango In Halifax (Red Productions), The Cul De Sac (Greenstone TV), Shortland Street (South Pacific Features) 

Trained at:  Philippa Campbell School of Ballet (New Zealand) and Joffrey Ballet School, Manhattan, New York, University of Auckland 

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Bardolph / Court Emmanuel Olusanya

RSC includes: Pericles 

Theatre includes: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Holland Park Theatre), Phaedra (National Theatre), Lark Rise to Candleford, The Snow Queen (Everyman Theatre), Flashbang (Lion & Unicorn Theatre), The Trumpet and the King for Terra Nova, Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens (The King’s Head) 

Television includes: Eastenders 

Film includes: MOLE (Yonic Productions), Bolt From The Blue (Off Grid Films) 

Audio includes: Iron Anthology: The Door, The Lock and Morgan: Metal Detective 

Trained at: LAMDA 

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Westmoreland / Bates Sam Parks
RSC includes: Pericles

 

Theatre includes:  A Man For All Seasons (Theatre Royal Bath and West End), I Am Shakespeare (Old Vic), An Ideal Husband (Classic Spring/ Vaudeville Theatre), Oliver Twist (Regent's Park Open Air Theatre), Here Lie The Remains of Mercy (Theatre Delicatessen), We Just Keep Going (VanKnoll Unlimited), Pride and Prejudice (Sheffield Crucible), The Last Confession (Triumph Entertainment), Snow Gorilla (Rose Theatre), Café Chaos (The Kosh), Johnny Come Lately (Coal Theatre), You Can’t Take It With You (Royal Exchange Manchester), Smash! (Menier Chocolate Factory), Burn My Heart (Trestle Arts), Epic (Theatre 503), The Critic (Chichester Festival Theatre) 

Television includes:  Ted Lasso (Apple TV) I, Jack Wright, The Ballad of Renegade Nell, The Sister Boniface Mysteries, Taboo (BBC),  Black Doves, Sex Education S4, The Crown S3  (Netflix), The Lord of The Rings: Rings of Power (Amazon), The Bill (ITV), The Chase (Yorkshire Television) 

Film includes:   Christmas Karma (Bend It Films), A Christmas Story Christmas (Legendary Features Productions US), Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (Warner Bros), Last Night in Soho (Big Smoke Productions), Ammonite (See-Saw Films and BFI), Les Miserables (Barricade Productions), Kevin and Perry - The Movie (Tiger Aspect) 

 

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Fluellen Sion Pritchard

RSC includes: Measure for Measure 

Theatre includes: Odyssey '84, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Sherman Theatre), Petula (NTW/Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru/August012), Curtain Up (Theatr Clwyd), Draenen Ddu, Lleu Llaw Gyffes (Theatr Bara Caws), A Night in the Clink (Papertrail), Tracking (Sherman Theatre / Theatre 503), Belonging (Re:Live), Last Christmas (Dirty Protest at Edinburgh Fringe, Soho Theatre, The Other Room), Crazy Gary’s Mobile Disco (Waking Exploits), Silly Kings (National Theatre Wales), Hollti, Y Storm/The Tempest, BobI A Sami (Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru), Muscle (Hull Truck Theatre/Bristol Old Vic), Blink (FAB Theatre/Brits Off-Broadway Festival/59E59 Theatres, New York), Porth Y Byddar (Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru/Clwyd Theatr Cymru), Fuddy Meers (Scamp/Arts Theatre), Y Byd A’I Brawd, Indian Country (Sgript Cymru) 

As an Associate Actor at Theatr Clwyd, Sion appeared in Copenhagen, Hamlet, Rape of The Fair Country, Glengarry Glen Ross, Bruised, As You Like It, Taking Steps, Roots, Taming of The Shrew, A Small Family Business, A History of Falling Things, Write To Rock, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Way It Was, The Druid’s Rest, Hobson’s Choice  

Television includes:  Mudtown (Alibi), Doctor Who, Mammoth, Hidden, Tourist Trap, The Indian Doctor, Doctors, Casualty (BBC), Phoneshop (Channel 4) 

Welsh language Television credits include: Anni Ben Dod, Ar Y Ffin, Rybish, Craith, Bang, Mabinogi-Ogi: Gwenhwyfar!, Pili Pala, Byw Celwydd, Tir, Dim Ond Y Gwir, Pen Talar, Caerdydd, Ar Y Tracs, Cowbois Ac Injans, Talcen Caled, Treflan, Pen Tennyn  

Radio includes:  Bravo Two Charlies (BBC Radio Wales), Dog in a Manger, Bad Ark, Losing Paradise, Curious Under The Stars, Tracks: Indigo, Ten Days That Shook The World, Perimeter, The Coming Tide, Everyone’s Got A Story, Richard II, Borderland, Now, Where Were We? (BBC Radio 4), Collo Awen,  Croesi Bob Dim, Perthyn (BBC Radio Cymru), Arden of Faversham, August 2014, Mabinogi, Chekhov’s Three Sisters (BBC Radio 3) 

Sion was awarded the Spotlight Prize in 2004 and the James Westaway Award in 2003.  

 

 

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Montjoy Sarah Slimani

Theatre includes: Cherry Orchard (Donmar for St Ann's Warehouse), Mnemonic, Grenfell: In The Words of Survivors (National Theatre), Ghosts, The Winter’s Tale (Globe)

Television includes: Lockerbie (Sky) 

Trained at: Guildhall School of Music & Drama 

 

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The Girl Tanvi Virmani

This is Tanvi's RSC debut

Theatre includes: Period Party (Soho Theatre), Gigi and Dar (Arcola), Cyrano (Park Theatre/Traverse Theatre), Minority Report (Lyric Hammersmith & Tour), The Crown Jewels (Garrick Theatre West End), Two Billion Beats (Orange Tree), Life of Pi (Wyndham’s Theatre West End), The Tempest (Theatre Royal Bath) 

Television includes: Not Going Out (BBC1), Trying (Apple TV)  

Trained at: Bristol Old Vic Theatre School  

 

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Nym / Constable Ewan Wardrop

RSC includes: The Buddha of Suburbia, Beauty and the Beast 

Theatre includes: North By Northwest (Wise Children/UK Tour), Bagdad Café (The Old Vic/Wise Children), The American Clock (The Old Vic), A Monster Calls (The Old Vic/UK tour), Formby, Barbershopera (UK tour), Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Globe), The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips, Rebecca (Kneehigh), The Wind in the Willows (Royal Opera House/West End), The Deep Blue Sea, Rattigan's Nijinsky (Chichester), Enron (West End), Pinocchio (Royal Opera House), West Side Story (Sage Gateshead), Up from the Waste (Soho Theatre), Johnno (Derby Playhouse), The Noise of Time (Complicite), Promises, Promises (Sheffield Crucible), On Your Toes (Southbank Centre), Play Without Words (National Theatre), Nutcracker (New Adventures), The Carman, Cinderella, Swan Lake (Adventures in Motion Pictures) 

Television includes: Matthew Bourne’s Christmas, The Nutcracker 

 
Imogen Wilde
Swing Imogen Wilde

This is Imogen’s RSC debut 

Theatre includes: The Knowing (Jack Studio), Shooting Pains R&D (The Other Palace), A Thousand Doors (Trafalgar Theatre), Happy Even After (Human Story Theatre), The Birthday Party (London Classic Theatre/UK Tour)  

Screen credits include: Animol (Film4/BFI), Austin S2 (ABC/ITV studios), Black Cake (Hulu), Doctors (BBC).  

Imogen has narrated over 100 audio books. 

The RSC Acting Companies are generously supported by The Gatsby Charitable Foundation