Previous RSC includes: Hamlet (UK Tour) 

Theatre includes: Punch (Apollo Theatre), Mrs Warren’s Profession (Garrick Theatre), A Mirror, Macbeth (Trafalgar Theatre), Brokeback Mountain (@sohoplace), Stranger Things (Phoenix Theatre), F**king Men (Waterloo East Theatre), The Caretaker, Love's Labour’s Lost, Racing Demon, Noises Off (Wolsey Theatre), Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Library Theatre), The Sunset Ship (Young Vic), Keeper Of The Flame (UK Tour)

Television includes: Suspect (ITV), The Bill (ITV), The Chief (Anglia TV)

Film includes: The Fifth Element, Deadweight, Burnt Flowers, Exit, Collision Course, Capture

Kenneth Branagh has been involved with 35 Shakespeare productions, including acclaimed screen adaptations of Henry V, Much Ado About Nothing and Hamlet

He has directed 21 feature films, including Thor, Cinderella and Murder on the Orient Express

Recent acting roles include such films as Dunkirk and Oppenheimer,The Devil Wears Prada 2 and Mayday

On TV he won both BAFTA and Emmy awards as Wallander

His film Belfast won him the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.

Recent theatre credits include: Ivanov, Macbeth, The Winter’s Tale and King Lear.

This is Chumisa’s RSC debut 

Theatre includes: Into the Woods (Bridge Theatre), Here We Are (National Theatre), Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 (Donmar Warehouse), The Phantom of the Opera (His Majesty’s Theatre), The Addams Family - Musical in Concert (London Palladium), Evita (Curve, Leicester), Aspects of Love (Lyric Theatre) 

Workshops include: Paris (RSC), Fado (ATG), Feral Monster (NT Studio), Martin Guerre (Old Vic) 

Trained at: Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts

This is Michael’s RSC debut 

Theatre includes: Under Milk Wood, Network, The Red Barn, Waste (National Theatre), The Country Wife (Chichester Festival Theatre), The Audience (Gielgud/Schoenfeld, New York), Mametz (National Theatre Wales), Much Ado About Nothing (Old Vic), Rope (Almeida), The Long Road (Soho Theatre and HM Prisons), Charley’s Aunt, Three Sisters, What Every Woman Knows, Cymbeline (Royal Exchange), The Woman Hater, The Seagull, A Penny For A Song, We The Undersigned, The Way To Keep Him, The Secret Life (Orange Tree), The Solid Gold Cadillac (Garrick), Revelations (Hampstead Theatre), Broken Glass (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Darwin in Malibu (Birmingham Rep), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, All’s Well That Ends Well, Troilus & Cressida (Regent’s Park Open Air), Jumpers (Norwich Playhouse), Love on the Plastic ( Half Moon), Nothing Sacred (Theatr Clwyd), WCPC, Macbeth (Liverpool Playhouse), Butley, The Philanthropist, Otherwise Engaged, Bodies (Watermill), Uncle Vanya (Century Theatre). 

Television includes: The Rapture, Talamasca, Out There, House of the Dragon, Foundation, Unprecedented, Quiz, Coronation Street, Stella, Will, Da Vinci’s Demons, The Tudors, Small Island, U Be Dead, Into the Storm, 10 Days to War, Robin Hood, Casualty, My Dinner with Hervé, Sharpe’s Challenge, The Queen’s Sister, Midsomer Murders, Heartbeat, Dirty Filthy Love, Byron, Daniel Deronda, Bertie & Elizabeth, Border Cafe, This Life, No Bananas, The Carnforth Practice

Film includes: Decline and Fall, A Touch of Class, The French Lieutenant’s Woman, The Iron Lady, Battle of Britain, Half Moon Street, Jinnah, Shadow Man, Rare Beasts

This is Amber’s RSC debut 

Film includes: Laundreams  

Trained at: Guildhall School of Music and Drama and Opendoor  

As a filmmaker: Amber’s debut short Laundreams premiered at the 2026 Raindance Film Festival. It stars BAFTA-nominated actor Paapa Essiedu, with BIFA and BAFTA-nominated actor Maxine Peake serving as executive producer. 

This is Helen’s RSC debut 

Theatre includes: Betrayal (Goodman Theatre, Chicago), Eureka Day (Old Vic)

Television incudes: Hacks (HBO), Blindspotting (Starz), Mad About You (Spectrum Originals – including 4 Emmy Awards, 4 Golden Globe Awards (three for Lead Actress and one as a Producer for Best Comedy, and a Screen Actors Guild Award for her work on Mad About You), Empire Falls (HBO)  

Film includes: Lucca Mortis, The Sessions (Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female). The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Audience Award and the Jury Prize for Best Ensemble), As Good As It Gets (Academy Award for Best Actress, as well as a Golden Globe and SAG Award).   

Her other widely recognized film credits include: Candy Jar, Ride (Netflix), Decoding Annie Parker, Soul Surfer, Every Day, Bobby, When She Found Me, As Good As It Gets, What Women Want, Castaway, A Good Woman, The Curse of the Jade Scorpion, Dr. T and The Women, Pay It Forward, Twister, How It Ends, The Night Clerk, I See You,  The Waterdance, Kiss of Death, Mr. Saturday Night, Peggy Sue Got Married, Next of Kin, Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, Project X, Miles From Home   

Recently, Hunt was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Taormina Film Festival in Italy, recognizing a career defined by versatility, intelligence, and creative courage.

This is Erin’s RSC debut

Theatre includes: Barrier(s) (National Theatre), The Promise (Lyric Hammersmith / Birmingham Rep), Treasure Island (Derby Theatre), The Winter’s Tale (Derby Theatre), The Process (Bunker Theatre), 4.48 Psychosis (New Diorama), Telethon (Shoreditch Town Hall), Macbeth: Toil and Trouble (Martin Harris Centre), A Christmas Carol (Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama), Peeling (Chapter Arts / National Tour), People of the Eye (Battersea Arts Centre / The Yard / National Tour), Jack, or the Submission/The Future is In Eggs (The Space)

Television includes: Eastenders (BBC), Deaf Funny (Lumo TV / Film 4), Offspring (Network 10 Australia) 

Film includes: The Ballad of Des and Mo, Signing Off For Christmas, Name Me Lawand, Break

Previous RSC includes: Cowbois (RSC / Royal Court) 

Theatre includes: The Pillowman (Gate Theatre Dublin), Conversations After Sex (Park Theatre), The Lieutenant of Inishmore (Liverpool Everyman), Underdog: The Other Other Bronte (National Theatre / Northern Stage), The False Servant, While the Sun Shines, The Rolling Stone (Orange Tree), Translations (National Theatre), The Lieutenant of Innishmore (Michael Grandage Company), Dublin Carol (Sherman Theatre), Mother Courage and Her Children (Southwark Playhouse), Three Sisters (Lyric Theatre Belfast), The Beggar's Opera (Regent's Park Open Air Theatre), Our American Cousin (The Finborough), Twelfth Night (Iris Theatre), ObamAmerica (Theatre 503)

Television includes: Blue Lights, Peaky Blinders, Holby City, Shakespeare and Hathaway, Casualty, Doctors (BBC), The Peripheral (Amazon), Derry Girls (Channel 4), Endeavour, Benidorm (ITV), Kate & Koji (Hat Trick Productions), 24, Live Another Day (FOX)

Film includes: You’ll Never Believe Who’s Dead, Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation and Ballywalter

This is Bill's RSC debut

Theatre includes: All My Sons (Old Vic), Mad House (West End); The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?, The Subject was Roses (Broadway); Sticks and Bones (Off Broadway); Peter and Jerry (Second Stage Theater). 

Television includes: The Sinner, Halston, The Murdaugh Murders: The Movie.

Film includes: Spaceballs, Independence Day, While You Were Sleeping, Sleepless in Seattle, The Battle of the Sexes, The Accidental Tourist

Upcoming projects include: The Boroughs, The Basics of Philosophy, Jody Hill’s Famous, Spaceballs: The New One, Everybody Digs Bill Evans.

Previous RSC includes: The Forsyte Saga Parts 1 and 2

Theatre includes: The Forsyte Saga (Park Theatre), Small Change (Clapham Omnibus), You Stupid Darkness! (Southwark Playhouse), The Here and This and Now (Southwark Playhouse / Theatre Royal Plymouth), Growth, Love, Lies and Taxidermy, I Got Superpowers For My Birthday, Jumpers For Goalposts (Paines Plough), Tipping The Velvet, Dick Whittington (Lyric Hammersmith), Unidentified Item In The Bagging Area (Old Red Lion), Twelfth Night (The Lamb Players), Hello/Goodbye (Hampstead Theatre), Anna Karenina (Arcola Theatre), The Kitchen Sink (Bush Theatre) 

Film includes: Carnage, ID2: Shadwell Army, Here and Now 

Television includes: Before We Die, Casualty, Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This, Waterloo Road, Doctors, Wizards Vs Aliens, Holby City, New Tricks 

Trained at: Royal Birmingham Conservatoire

This is Esther’s RSC debut

Theatre includes: Marys Seacole (Donmar Warehouse), Harry Potter & The Cursed Child (Sonia Friedman Productions), NSFW (Royal Court) 

Television Includes: Trying (Apple TV+), Defending The Guilty (Big Talk), Cuckoo, Uncle, Deadbeats (BBC 3), Zapped (Baby Cow/BBC), Ballot Monkeys, Flack (Channel 4), Black Mirror - White Christmas (Channel 4 / Netflix), Cockroaches (ITV2), The Midnight Beast, Skins Redux: Rise, Misfits (E4), The Smoke (Sky), Holby City, Material Girl (BBC)  

Writing includes: Elephant (BBC)

This is Sophie’s RSC debut 

Theatre includes: Macbeth (Lyric Hammersmith / ETT), Galatea (Brighton Festival), Othello (Watermill Theatre), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mother Courage and Her Children (National Theatre), As You Like It (Shakespeare’s Globe), Emilia (Shakespeare’s Globe / West End), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Watermill Theatre), Jubilee (Lyric Hammersmith / Manchester Royal Exchange), The Government Inspector (Birmingham Rep / UK Tour), Herons (Lyric Hammersmith), Mine (Shared Experience), Frozen (Birmingham Rep), Two (Southwark Playhouse), The Bloody Great Border Ballad Project (Northern Stage), In Water I’m Weightless (National Theatre of Wales), Pandora (Arcola), Woman Of Flowers (Forest Forge / UK Tour), Multiplex, Fen, You Make Me Happy (When Skies are Grey) (The Watermill) 

Television includes: Falling, Reunion, Generation Z, The Chelsea Detective, This Way Up, Two Doors Down, Moving On, Shakespeare & Hathaway, Shetland, The Crown, Doctor Who, Mapp and Lucia, Moonstone, Marchlands, Midsomer Murders, Small World, Holby City, Casualty and FM 

Film includes: Retreat, Name Me Lawand, Retreat, My Christmas Angel, Confessions and Coming Home 

Other: Sophie Stone is Co-Founder of Deaf & Hearing Ensemble Theatre Company