Cast and Creative

Allan Corduner’s work in theatre includes The Motive and the Cue (also in the West End), Two Thousand Years and The Beaux’ Stratagem at the National Theatre; My Fair Lady at Lincoln Center, NY; Murder on the Orient Express at the McCarter, Princeton; Show Boat at Sheffield Crucible; Passion at the Donmar Warehouse; Hello, Dolly! at Regent’s Park; The Birthday Party at the Berlind, Princeton; Comedians at the Acorn, New York; F***ing Games at the Royal Court; Serious Money at the Royal Court, in the West End and on Broadway; Titanic on Broadway; and A View from the Bridge and Taken at Midnight in the West End. TV includes Dinner with the Parents, Ridley Road, Fearless, The Collection, Homeland, Musketeers, Da Vinci’s Demons, Utopia, Spies of Warsaw, Dancing on the Edge, Midsomer Murders, We’ll Take Manhattan, Exile, Zen: Cabal, Lennon Naked, Grandma’s House, Schama’s Power of Art, Heartbeat, Friends and Crocodiles, The Last Detective, La Femme Musketeer, Trust, Daniel Deronda, Foyle’s War, The Way We Live Now, Fat Friends, Liverpool 1, Drop the Dead Donkey and Paris. Film includes Tár, The Offering, Operation Finale, Miss Dali, Disobedience, Woman in Gold, Florence Foster Jenkins, The Sweeney, Mr Nobody, Defiance, Fred Claus, The Waiting Room, The White Countess, Bigger Than the Sky, The Merchant of Venice, Vera Drake, De-Lovely, Food of Love, Moonlight Mile, Me Without You, The Grey Zone, Kiss Kiss (Bang Bang), Joe Gould’s Secret, Gladiator, Topsy Turvy, The Impostors, Talk Radio and Yentl. Radio includes Von Ribbentrop’s Watch, Insignificance, Dr Freud Will See You Now, Inspector Stein and The New World of Charles Fort.

Elena Delia trained at the Giles Foreman Centre for Acting in London. Her work in theatre includes The Motive and the Cue at the National Theatre (also in the West End); The Heresy of Love, Spring Awakening and The Cherry Orchard for Studio Soho; and Women of Troy for Theatre Technis. TV includes The Alienist and Soulmates. Film includes The Gates, Sober and A Motion Selfie.

Ryan Ellsworth trained at LAMDA. His work in theatre includes The Motive and the Cue at the National Theatre (also in the West End); Romeo and Juliet and Henry V at Regent’s Park; The Wizard of Oz at Sheffield Crucible; The Taming of the Shrew and The Custom of the Country at Shakespeare’s Globe; Labyrinth at Hampstead Theatre; ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore for Cheek by Jowl; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at Theatr Clwyd; Where There’s a Will for English Touring Theatre; Cymbeline for Cheek by Jowl, the Barbican and on international tour; The Complete Works of William Shakespeare for the Reduced Shakespeare Company; The Round Dance for Camden Round House; Man and Superman for Shaw’s Corner; Antigone at the Old Vic; and To Kill a Mockingbird in the West End. TV includes Wednesday, Angel of Darkness, EastEnders, Manhunt and Island at War. Film includes A Royal Winter and Bel Ami. Radio includes Rare Earth.

Mark Extance’s work in theatre includes The Motive and the Cue (also in the West End), Downstate, Three Days in the Country, Scenes from an Execution, Travelling Light and London Assurance at the National Theatre; The Mirror and the Light for the RSC; Copenhagen at Theatre Royal Bath; The Mullah of Downing Street at The Theatre Chipping Norton; The Box of Delights at Wilton’s Music Hall; Correspondence at the Old Red Lion; A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Squerreys Court; Play of Thrones at the Union; Marriage at the Belgrade; School for Scandal and Dr Faustus at Greenwich Theatre; Pygmalion at the Old Vic; And Then There Were None for Agatha Christie Theatre Co; Uncle Vanya for English Touring Theatre; Old Times at Theatre Royal Bath; Waiting for Godot and You Never Can Tell for Peter Hall Company at Theatre Royal Bath and West End; Venice Preserv’d at the Arcola; and Don Juan in Soho and Yes, Prime Minister in the West End.

Johnny Flynn is a musician and actor. His work in theatre includes: The Motive and the Cue at the National Theatre; Jerusalem, True West, Richard III and Twelfth Night (also at Shakespeare’s Globe) and Hangmen (also at the Royal Court and the Atlantic, NY) in the West End; The Low Road and The Heretic at the Royal Court; Twelfth Night and The Taming of the Shrew at the Old Vic, on international tour and at Brooklyn Academy of Music, NY. Work in TV includes The Lovers, Ripley, Les Misérables, Genius: Picasso, Vanity Fair, Lovesick, Inside No. 9, Genius: Einstein, Brotherhood, The Nightmare World of HG Wells, Detectorists and Kingdom. Film includes One Life, The Outfit, Operation Mincemeat, The Dig, Stardust, The Score, Cordelia, Emma, Beast, Love is Thicker Than Water, Clouds of Sils Maria, Song One, Apres Mai, Lotus Eaters and Crusade in Jeans. Composition includes As You Like It for Shakespeare’s Globe; The Heretic for the Royal Court; Zog on UK tour; True West in the West End; The Score, Emma, A Bag of Hammers and Detectorists. His radio musical Magnitsky, co-written with Robert Hudson, won Best Original Single Drama at the BBC Audio Awards 2021. Johnny Flynn recently composed music for Simon McBurney/Robert Macfarlane’s radio adaptation of Susan Cooper’s The Dark is Rising.Albums include A Larum, Been Listening, Country Mile, Sillion, Lost in the Cedar Wood with Robert Macfarlane and various live albums and EPs. Johnny received Theatre World Award, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Drama League nominations for Hangmen; Olivier Award nomination for Jerusalem; Critics Choice Award nomination for Genius; and the Ian Charleson Award for Twelfth Night. He was nominated for the London Newcomer of the Year at the 2012 WhatsOnStage awards.

Mark Gatiss’s work in theatre includes The Motive and the Cue, Three Days in the Country and Season’s Greetings for the National Theatre; The League of Gentlemen Live and The Boys in the Band (also at Park Theatre) in the West End; A Christmas Carol and The Madness of George III at Nottingham Playhouse and Alexandra Palace; The Vote, Coriolanus and The Recruiting Officer at Donmar Warehouse; 55 Days at Hampstead; All About My Mother at the Old Vic; and Art at the Whitehall. Work in TV includes Nolly, Time Bandits, Dracula, Inside No. 9, London Spy, Coalition, Gunpowder, Wolf Hall, Doctor Who, Mapp and Lucia, Game of Thrones, The First Men in the Moon, Crooked House, Fear of Fanny and The League of Gentlemen. Film includes Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning (parts one and two), Operation Mincemeat, The Father, The Favourite, The Mercy, The Road Dance, Christopher Robin and Our Kind of Traitor. Radio includes The Hound of the Baskervilles (BBC Symphony Orchestra), The Haunting of M.R. James, The School for Scandal, The Man in Black, Nebulous and The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Mark received an Olivier Award nomination for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in Three Days in the Country.

Daniel Krikler trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama and Laine Theatre Arts. His work in theatre includes The Normal Heart at the National Theatre; the original cast of The Book Thief (as Max Vandenberg ) at the Octagon, Bolton and Leicester Curve; The Secret Life of Bees at the Almeida; Fighting Irish at the Belgrade; The Tempest, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Macbeth for Guildford Shakespeare Company; Pippin at Charing Cross Theatre; 4000 Miles and Present Laughter at the Old Vic; Unicorns, Almost and Pink Mist at Bristol Old Vic; Homos or Everyone in America at the Finborough; Jersey Boys on UK and Ireland tour; Bare at The Union; and Mamma Mia! and Loserville in the West End.

Shaun Yusaf McKee’s work in theatre includes War Horse at the National Theatre, in the West End and on UK & International tours; Robin Hood: The Legend. Re-written at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre; Twelfth Night and The Tempest for the Lord Chamberlain’s Men; The Magic Flute for Complicité/ENO; Ariodante at Festival D’Aix, Dutch National Opera; and Heartbreak Hotel for Zebedee Productions. Film includes The King’s Man, Dolittle, NZU, and This is Not a Love Song. Tv includes The Witcher, Secret Invasion, Britannia, Eastenders and I, Blondey.

Tuppence Middleton’s work in theatre includes The Motive and the Cue for the National Theatre; The One at Soho Theatre; and The Living Room at Jermyn Street. Her work in TV includes Our House, Shadowplay, The Novel, Diana and I, Electric Dreams, The Great War, Dickensian, Sense 8, War and Peace, Black Mirror, Spies of Warshaw, and The Lady Vanishes. Film includes Lord of Misrule, Downton Abbey, Mank, Possessor, Clifton Hill, The Imitation Game, Fisherman’s Friends, The Current War, MI-5, Jupiter Ascending, Cleanskin, Trap for Cinderella, Trance, Chatroom, A Long Way Down and Skeletons. Short films include Stine, Connect, Ever Here I Be, Subculture and In the Meadow.

Luke Norris trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama. His work in theatre includes The Motive and the Cue (also in the West End), The Normal Heart, Antigone, The Kitchen, The Habit of Art and War Horse (also in the West End) for the National Theatre; Hamlet, As You Like It, The Gods Weep and Days of Significance for the RSC; Nora: A Doll’s House, Blue/Orange and A View from the Bridge (also in the West End) at the Young Vic; Orpheus Descending at the Royal Exchange, Manchester; Filumena at the Almeida; Remembrance Day at the Royal Court; Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat for Paines Plough; and White Boy at Soho Theatre. TV includes Grace, The Girl Before, Poldark, Our World War, Titanic, Skins and The Inbetweeners. Film includes Black Cab, The Weekend Away, The Colour Room, Been So Long and First Born. Radio includes Bacon in Moscow, Nuremberg, Interrogation, As You Like It, The Hot Kid and Choice of Straws. As a playwright, work includes Hearts for National Theatre Connections; Goodbye to All That at the Royal Court; So Here We Are at the Royal Exchange, Manchester and HighTide; Growth for the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and Paines Plough; and the radio play The Coming Tide.

Huw Parmenter trained at the Oxford School of Drama and Rose Bruford College. His work in theatre includes The Motive and the Cue (also in the West End) and Jekyll and Hyde for National Theatre; Anything is Possible if You Think About it Hard Enough at Southwark Playhouse; The Lovely Bones for Birmingham Rep; The Mirror Crack’d at Wales Millennium Centre and Salisbury Playhouse; Jam Jars at Tristan Bates; After Orlando at the Vaults and Theatre Royal Stratford East; Desert Rats, Slow Falling Bird, The Late Wedding and The Ballad of the Lost Dogs for Chaskis Theatre; Home Theatre UK at Theatre Royal Stratford East; Dark Tourism at Park Theatre; Rebel Rebel at Theatre503; Living in the City With or Without Sex at the Old Red Lion; Pride and Prejudice at Kenton; Basket Case on UK tour; Hearing the Song for Orange Tree; and Women Beware Women at the Sam Wanamaker Festival. TV includes Vikings, Killing Eve and EastEnders. Film includes Charlie and Close. Audio includes Heartstopper, All That Man Is, Elden Ring and Assassin’s Creed.

Stephanie Siadatan trained at Arts Educational Schools London and Margie Haber studios in LA. Her work in theatre includes Horseplay at Riverside Studios; A Memory, a Monologue, a Rant and a Prayer at the Lyric; Abdul for Old Vic New Voices; Murder in the Cathedral at Antwerp; Simply Cinderella at Leicester Curve; Simply Sondheim at Cadogan Hall; Foiled at Edinburgh Festival; High School Musical at Hammersmith Apollo; and Studio 66 at the Roundhouse. Immersive theatre includes The Golden Needle, Detroit Become Human and The Sound Affect for Les Enfants Terribles. TV includes Emmerdale, Silent Witness, Holby City, Doctors and Casualty. Film includes A Paris Christmas Waltz, London Appetite, Here, The School For Good and Evil, Fistful of Karma, Last Man Down and The Hike. Radio includes award-winning comedy A Musical Life Of and Foiled.

Adam Sina trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. His work in theatre includes War Horse (West End) for the National Theatre; Filleting App for the RSC and Northern Stage; Sinners at the Playground; The Shawshank Redemption on tour for Bill Kenwright; Rutherford and Sons for Northern Stage; A Moon for the Misbegotten at the Old Vic; Filleting Machine at Live; Titus Andronicus and Romeo and Juliet for Hireath; ‘When my Mama Was a Hittite’ at Park Theatre; Kafka v Kafka and The Playboy of the Western World for Intake; Billy Liar for Middle Ground; and Hans Christian Andersen’s Magical Tales for Creation. TV includes The Boys: Varsity, Casualty, Theodosia, Bloods, Jesus: His Life, Doctors, Silent Witness: Moment of Surrender, Hollyoaks, Tyrant, Raiders of the Lost Art: Vanishing Vermeers, Dumping Ground 2, The Bill, Cranford and Byker Grove. Film includes 400 Bullets, Snow in Paradise, School for Seduction, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea and Ticket to Ride. Video games include Final Fantasy XVI: Salvation.

David Tarkenter’s work in theatre includes The Motive and the Cue (also in the West End) and The Red Barn at the National Theatre; The 47th and Endgame at the Old Vic; The Four Quartets at Theatre Royal Bath and the Royal & Derngate; The Call of the Wild at Greenwich and Lewisham Young People’s Theatre; Canterbury Tales for Creation; Jeeves and Wooster, Wife Begins at Forty, Absurd Person Singular and Funny Money at Sherringham Little Theatre; The Inn at Lydda, Hamlet (international tour) and The Knight of the Burning Pestle for Shakespeare’s Globe; The 39 Steps at Vienna’s English Theatre; Hare and Tortoise, Arsenic and Old Lace, Absent Friends, The Winter’s Tale, The Rivals, Grapes of Wrath, King David, Man of Blood, Under Milk Wood, Depot, The Lonesome West, David Copperfield, Two, She Stoops to Conquer, Death of a Salesman, Coriolanus, Of Mice and Men, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Three Heads in the Well, Twelfth Night and To Kill a Mockingbird at the Mercury, Colchester; The Collection, Betrayal, Hamlet, All My Sons and The Last Yankee for Rapture; Oh Starry Starry Night and Pantomime by Derek Walcott at Lakeside Theatre; Treasure Island for Northern Broadsides; Our Country’s Good, The Recruiting Officer, Frozen, The Birthday Party, The Deep Blue Sea, Kiss of the Spiderwoman, Season’s Greetings and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall at Theatre by the Lake, Keswick; and The Best Man and Admissions on UK tour and in the West End. TV includes Everything I Know About Love, 55 Degrees North, Falling, Lawless, Byker Grove, Micawber and Heartbeat. Film includes County Lines, King of the Road and London Road.

Kate Tydman’s work in theatre includes The Motive and the Cue (also in the West End) and Top Girls at the National Theatre; Macbeth at Park Avenue Armory, NY; The Entertainer for the Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company; Busman’s Honeymoon, Towards Zero and The Unexpected Guest at the Mill at Sonning; The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe at the Rose, Kingston; Love Me Tender on UK tour; Proof and Look Back in Anger at Reading Repertory Theatre; Kiss Me Kate at the Old Vic and Chichester; Finding Neverland at Leicester Curve; Much Ado About Nothing and Gigi at Regent’s Park; Me and My Girl at Sheffield Crucible; Pippin at the Menier Chocolate Factory; and The Mousetrap, Candide, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Evita, Mary Poppins, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Cats in the West End. TV includes Great Expectations and Doctor Who. Film includes Death on the Nile, All is True, Murder on the Orient Express and Cinderella.

Laurence Ubong Williams’ work in theatre includes The Welkin at the National Theatre; A Place for We for Talawa; The Deep Blue Sea and The Watsons (also at the Menier Chocolate Factory) at Chichester; The Glass Piano for The Print Room at The Coronet; Stop and Search and Top Trumps at Theatre503; Jumpy at Theatr Clwyd; The Winter’s Tale at the Orange Tree; and How to Find Us and Swordy Well at Soho Theatre. TV includes The Chelsea Detective, Flatshare, The Capture, Back, Humans and Doctors. Film includes Gate Way, My Dinner with Hervé and The Lord of the Rings: War of the Rohirrim. 

Sarah Woodward trained at RADA. Her work in theatre includes The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Nell Gwynn, The Sea, Wild Oats, Present Laughter, The Cherry Orchard, This House and Quiz in the West End. She has played leading roles at the National Theatre, the RSC, Shakespeare’s Globe, the Royal Court, the Donmar, the Almeida and Hampstead theatres, among others. Film includes Supernova, Bright Young Things and I Captured the Castle. TV includes Quiz, The Pale Horse, The Politician’s Wife, Loving Miss Hato, Hear the Silence, Endeavour, Outnumbered and, most recently, Queens of Mystery and Professor T. Awards include Best Supporting Actress nomination at the Tony Awards 2000 for The Real Thing; Best Supporting Actress at the Olivier Awards 1998 for Tom & Clem; Shakespeare’s Globe Classic Award 1993 for The Tempest and Best Supporting Actress at the Clarence Derwent Awards 1989 for Artist Descending a Staircase.