Cast and Creatives Othello Close Emilia Anastasia Hille RSC includes: The Winter’s Tale Theatre includes: The Oresteia (Park Avenue Armoury), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Jewish Wife, The Maids (Young Vic), Hamlet (Barbican), The Effect, Dido Queen of Carthage, Waves, Women of Troy, A Dream Play, The Oresteia (National Theatre), Macbeth (European tour / New York), The Master Builder (Almeida), Forty Winks (Royal Court Theatre), The Dark, Morphic Resonance (Donmar Warehouse), Ashes To Ashes (Royal Court/Lincoln Center New York), Television includes: The Couple Next Door, A Gentleman in Moscow, I Hate Suzie S2, A Spy Among Friends, Dalgliesh, The Ipcress File, Baptiste, The Pembrokeshire Murders, Silent Witness, Keeping Faith, The Last Kingdom, West of Liberty, Requiem, Wanderlust, Class, Him, Humans, Not Safe For Work, You, Me and The Apocalypse, Prey, The Missing, The Tunnel, Getting On, The Bletchley Circle, The Fear, Bert & Dickie, Foyle’s War, Lewis, Poirot, Spooks, Tripping Order, Silent Witness ‘Nowhere Fast’, Cutting It, Outside The Rules, The Cazalet Chronicle, RKO 281, Storm Damage, Big Women Film includes: Love Gets A Room, Martyrs Lane, Mamma Mia 2, A United Kingdom, Trespass Against Us, Tulip Fever, The Riot Club, Snow White and The Huntsman, Awakening, Desert Flower, Good, Bloodline, The Hole, Five Seconds To Spare, The Wisdom of Crocodiles, New Year’s Day, The Escort Radio includes: Silos, Rare Earth, Cut To The Heart, Hippomania, The Air Loom Gang, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Mansfield Park Short film includes: Monster Heart Iago Will Keen RSC includes: Prince of Homburg Theatre includes: Patriots, Quartermaine’s Terms (West End); Ghosts, Waste, Tom and Viv (Almeida); The Changeling, Macbeth (Cheek by Jowl); The Arsonists (Royal Court); The Coast of Utopia, The Duchess of Malfi (National Theatre) Screen/TV includes: The Gold, Ridley Road, The Pursuit of Love, His Dark Materials, Wolf Hall, The Musketeers (BBC); My Lady Jane, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (Amazon); The Crown (Netflix) Desdemona Juliet Rylance RSC debut season Theatre includes: As You Like It, (BAM/Old Vic/The Bridge Project), The Tempest (BAM/The Old Vic/ The Bridge Project), Ivanov (Classic Stage Company), The Cherry Orchard (Classic Stage Company), Three Sisters (Classic Stage Company), Othello (Theatre for a New Audience), The Winter’s Tale (Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre), Troilus and Cressida (Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre), I Am Shakespeare (Chichester Festival Theatre/UK Tour), Romeo and Juliet (Middle Temple Hall, London), Bash-Latterday Plays (Trafalgar Studios, West End). Television includes: Perry Mason (HBO), McMafia (BBC), The Knick (HBO), The Bends (FX), American Gothic (Amblin Television/CBS). Film includes: Arthur The King (Lionsgate), A Dog’s Purpose (DreamWorks/Amblin Entertainment), Frances Ha (IFC Films/Pine District Pictures), Love After Love (IFC Films/Secret Engine/Weedon Media),Sinister (Alliance Films), Days and Nights (IFC Films/ Artcine), The Artist’s Wife (Greyshack Films), Jill (Hugofilm Features). Juliet won the OBIE Award for Best Off-Broadway Performance 2010 for Rosalind in As You Like It (BAM/ The Old Vic/The Bridge Project). Juliet is an Ambassador for The Old Vic, the Founding Producer of Globe Stage, and a Peace Ambassador for Peace One Day. Othello John Douglas Thompson RSC debut season. Theatre includes, Broadway: King Lear, Carousel, Jitney, A Time to Kill, Cyrano de Bergerac, Julius Caesar. Off Broadway: Endgame, Hamlet, King Lear, Troilus and Cressida, Julius Caesar, The Merchant of Venice, The Emperor Jones, The Forest, Hedda Gabler, The Father, A Doll’s House, Macbeth. Regional: The Tempest, Man In The Ring, Hamlet, Jesus Hopped The ‘A’ Train, Inherit the Wind, Joe Turner’s Come And Gone, Antony And Cleopatra, Henry IV, King Lear, Red Velvet, Richard III, The Dreamer Examines His Pillow, Ohio State Murders, Richard II, The Idiots Karamazov, Henry V, Mother Courage, The Winter’s Tale, Measure For Measure, Christmas Carol. TV includes: The Gilded Age, Mare of Easttown, For Life, and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and Law & Order. Film includes: Till, 21 Bridges, The 355, Let Them All Talk, Wolves, The Bourne Legacy, Glass Chin, Midway and Malcolm X. Awards: 3 Obie Awards, 2 Drama Desk Awards, Lucille Lortel Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, Barrymore Award, NAACP Image Award, Elliot Norton Award, Eugene O’Neill Medallion, Robert Brustein Award. Previous Next Cast Emilia Anastasia Hille Iago Will Keen Desdemona Juliet Rylance Othello John Douglas Thompson Creatives Director Tim Carroll Set & Costume Designer Judith Bowden Lighting Designer Paule Constable Composer and Company Voice Work James Oxley Sound Designer Donato Wharton Movement Director Alexis Milligan Fight Director Kev McCurdy Casting Directors Matthew Dewsbury CDG and Martin Poile CDG Assistant Director Nyasha Gudo About the play Cast and creatives Assisted Performances Related events Learning More Less About the play Cast and creatives Assisted Performances Related events Learning In This Section About the play Othello is at the peak of his powers, but in passing over his servant Iago, he has created a deadly enemy. Read More Assisted Performances Find out about our assisted performances for Othello. Find out more Related events Find out more about our production of Othello and how it was created, with our series of events. 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