Cast and Creatives Edward II Close Lightborn Jacob James Beswick This is Jacob’s RSC debut Theatre includes: The Crucible (The Yard Theatre), Brighton Rock (Pilot Theatre, Tour), People, Places and Things (Headlong/National Theatre/St Ann’s Warehouse), Only A Day (Belgrade Theatre), Peter Pan (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), Kes (Cast in Doncaster), The Jungle Book (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Whole (20 Stories High), Bluebeard: A Fairytale for Adults (Milk Presents), Inside (The Roundhouse/Playing On), Hotel World (Greenwich Theatre/Edinburgh Fringe) Television includes: Andor, Strike: Troubled Blood, A Spy Among Friends, Giri/Haji, Strikeback, The Alienist, Doctors, Prime Suspect 1973, Casualty Film includes: The Critic, The Boys In The Boat, 1917, Intrigo: Dear Agnes, The Ritual, A Street Cat Named Bob Mortimer Enzo Cilenti This is Enzo’s RSC debut Theatre includes: Present Laughter (The Old Vic), Berberian Sound Studio (Donmar Warehouse) Television includes: Maigret, I Fought The Law, Black Mirror, The Crown, The Serpent Queen, Luther, Game of Thrones, The Girlfriend Experience, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, Domina, Breeders, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Wolf Hall, Jekyll & Hyde, Les Miserables (2019), The Last Tycoon Film includes: Heart of Stone, Across The River And Into The Trees, The Beekeeper, Outside The Wire, Greed, The Martian, High-Rise, Free Fire, Bridget Jones’ Baby Ensemble Michael Cusick This is Michael’s RSC debut Theatre includes: Bedroom Farce (Queen's Theatre Hornchurch), A View From The Bridge (Theatre Royal Bath/Theatre Royal Haymarket), Noises Off (Theatre Royal Haymarket), Sleepless (Analogue Theatre/Staatstheater Mainz), Against Captain’s Orders (Punchdrunk Enrichment), The Good Neighbour (Battersea Arts Centre) Television includes: The Sixth Commandment (BBC) Trained at: Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama Spencer Stavros Demetraki This is Stavros’s RSC debut Theatre includes: A Face In The Crowd (Young Vic), Oklahoma (Young Vic and West End), The Vote (Donmar Warehouse), Timon of Athens, Antigone, She Stoops To Conquer, The Kitchen (National Theatre), Blood Wedding (Liverpool Playhouse), As You Like It (The Curve), Adventures in Wonderland, Supermarket Shakespeare (Teatro Vivo), Gilgamesh (National Tour), Birds Without Wings (Eastern Angles) Television includes: Miss Scarlett & The Duke (PBS), Doctor Who, White Van Man, Doctors (BBC), Tyrant (Fox) Film includes: Hampstead, Risen, Dracula Untold Video Game/Full Motion Capture includes: Assassin’s Creed Origins, Assassin’s Creed Odyssey (Ubisoft) Pembroke Emilio Doorgasingh This is Emilio’s RSC debut Theatre includes: All's Well That Ends Well, Much Ado About Nothing (The Globe), A Little Life (West End), Best Of Enemies (Young Vic), Persuasion (Rose Theatre, Kingston/Alexandra Palace/Oxford Playhouse), Shadowlands, Present Laughter (Chichester Festival Theatre), The Kite Runner (Wyndham’s/Playhouse Theatres and UK Tour), Boy (The Almeida), Dara, The Ramayana (National Theatre - Olivier/Lyttleton), Robin Hood, Arabian Nights (Manchester Lowry), Baghdad Wedding (Soho Theatre), How Many Miles To Basra (Leeds Playhouse), Angels Among The Trees (Nottingham Playhouse), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Rose Rage, Twelfth Night, The Comedy of Errors, Henry V (Propellor - West End/BAM, Brooklyn/National and International Tours), The Merry Wives Of Windsor, Romeo & Juliet, Wind In The Willows (Chester - GPOAT), Venice Preserved (site specific), Dial M For Murder (Frankfurt) Television includes: Game of Thrones, Casualty, Hollyoaks, You and Me, The Good Karma Hospital, Ted Lasso, Suspicion, Trigger Point, The Sister Boniface Mysteries, Eastenders, The Tuckers, Four Weddings And A Funeral, Departure, Midsomer Murders, Unforgotten, Case Histories, 90210, Spooks (MI-5), Silent Witness, Rebus, Jo St Clair, The Royals, Doctors, 10 Days To War, Hannibal, The Path To 9/11, Agatha Christie’s Marple, The Bill, Uncle Jack and Cleopatra’s Mummy Film includes: And Mrs, Rupture, Princess Switch3, Soof3, Red2, Kingdom Of Heaven, Pimp, Extraordinary Rendition, Dangerous Game, The Bible - David Ensemble Amy Dunn This is Amy’s RSC debut Theatre includes: Hushabye Mountain (Hope Mill Theatre), Turn of the Screw (UK Tour), Rupert Street Lonely Hearts Club (Above the Stag), Clickbait (Theatre 503), Chatroom (Arcola) Television includes: Stonehouse (ITV), Dickensian, Tracey Ullman’s Show, Doctors, Holby City (BBC) Radio includes: His Dark Materials (BBC) Trained at: The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama Edward II Daniel Evans Daniel is the RSC's Co-Artistic Director. Daniel grew up in South Wales and was educated in Welsh before training at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He left college early in 1994 to join the Royal Shakespeare Company and returned to the company a decade later. His work as an actor has spanned Shakespeare, Sondheim and Sarah Kane, at the RSC, National Theatre, Royal Court, Donmar Warehouse, Menier, Sheffield and on Broadway. He’s the recipient of two Olivier Awards for his Sondheim performances. In 2009, he was appointed Artistic Director of Sheffield Theatres where he directed, among others, Shakespeare, Ibsen, Hare and Lerner and Lowe, as well as acting in Sondheim. In 2016, he was appointed Artistic Director of Chichester Festival Theatre. During his tenure, CFT produced 17 world premieres, while 5 shows transferred to London or Broadway. Alongside Executive Director, Kathy Bourne, CFT navigated the challenges of the pandemic, advancing the meaningful work with and for the community in West Sussex. Queen Isabella Ruta Gedmintas This is Ruta’s RSC debut Theatre includes: Unfaithful (Found111), Backbeat (Duke of York’s Theatre), What Every Woman Knows (Manchester Royal Exchange) Television includes: Sandman, His Dark Materials, The Strain, The Tudors, The Borgias, Lip Service, Stag, The Guilty, Do No Harm, Ripper Street, Personal Affairs, Spooks Code 9, Goldplated, The Innocence Project, Waking The Dead Film includes: The Gorge, A Streetcat Named Bob, The Incident, Prowl, Exteriors, You Instead, Miss Conception, The Athlete, The Lost Samaritan, Zerosome, Exit Log, Help Point Trained at: Drama Centre London Archbishop of Canterbury James Hayes RSC includes: As You Like It, The Tempest, The Venetian Twins, A New Way To Please You, Measure For Measure, Richard III, Sejanus, Julius Caesar, Written On The Heart Theatre Includes: As You Like It, Macbeth, The Rules Of The Game, The Front Page, The Misanthrope, The Fawn, The Life Of Galileo, The Romans In Britain, Amadeus, A View From The Bridge, The Oresteia, The Relapse, Othello, St Joan, The Captain Of Kopenick and Liola (National Theatre, Old Vic and Southbank); The Man Who Had All The Luck and Philadelphia Here I Come (Donmar Warehouse), An Ideal Husband, Hinterland and The Plough And The Stars (Abbey Theatre, Dublin), Hamlet, The Antipodes and Anthony And Cleopatra (Shakespeare’s Globe), A Horde Of Unemployed Ventriloquists and Russell Of The Times, Coriolanus (National Theatre). Krapp’s Last Tape and All That Fall (Jermyn St Theatre, in the West End and the 59E59 Theatre in New York), Kiss Me, Kate (Opera North and Coliseum), Lenny (Queen’s Theatre) He has appeared in numerous TV, radio productions and in a very small number of films Trained at: Guildhall School of Music and Drama Gaveston Eloka Ivo This is Eloka’s RSC debut Theatre includes: Backstairs Billy (Duke of York’s), Black Superhero (Royal Court), The Glass Menagerie (Royal Exchange), The Gods Are Not to Blame (Almeida), The End of Eddy (BAM New York), The Son (Kiln), To Kill a Mockingbird (The Lyric), Victoria’s Knickers (Soho Theatre) Television includes: Avenue 5 (HBO), The Read (BBC) Film includes: Four Mothers Warwick Geoffrey Lumb Previous RSC includes: The Mirror and the Light (West End), Troilus and Cressida, Coriolanus, Vice Versa, King John, Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing, The Comedy of Errors, The American Pilot, The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night’s Dream Theatre includes: King Lear (Almeida), Henry V (Shakespeare’s Globe/Headlong), The Homecoming (Theatre Royal Bath/UK Tour), Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory/Wilton’s Music Hall), Tartuffe (National Theatre), This House (Headlong/National Theatre), King Charles III (Almeida/UK Tour/Sydney Theatre Company), Macbeth (Filter Theatre/UK Tour), Twelfth Night (Filter Theatre/UK Tour), Prophesy (Baz at Blackall Studios), Macbeth (Baz at The Crypt, St Andrews Church), Chekhov in Hell (Soho Theatre/Theatre Royal Plymouth), Romeo and Juliet (US Tour), His Dark Materials (Birmingham Rep/West Yorkshire Playhouse), Rendition Monologues (Bridewell Theatre/Southbank Centre), The Changeling, Twelfth Night (ETT), Hansel and Gretel (Royal & Derngate, Northampton) Film includes: The Great Escaper, Paddington 2 Television includes: Father Brown, Midsomer Murders, Vera, Holby City, 24: Live Another Day, Doctors, Hollyoaks, Luther Baldock Kwaku Mills This is Kwaku’s RSC debut Theatre includes: Underdog: The Other Other Brontë (National Theatre and Northern Stage), The Art of Illusion (Hampstead Theatre), King Lear (Shakespeare’s Globe), Queer Upstairs (Royal Court), Perspective (National Theatre), Hay Fever (Salisbury Playhouse), Candida (Orange Tree Theatre), Dark Sublime (Trafalgar Studios), Good Dog (Watford Palace Theatre and UK Tour), The End of Eddy (Unicorn Theatre and UK Tour) Television includes: Extraordinary (Disney+), Urban Myths: The Trial of Joan Collins (Sky Arts), The Other One (Tiger Aspect/BBC1), I Hate You (Big Talk/Channel 4) Film includes: The Trouble with Jessica Lancaster Evan Milton This is Evan’s RSC debut Theatre includes: The Vortex (Chichester Festival Theatre), Network, The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night Time (National Theatre), Secret Life of Humans (The English Theatre, Frankfurt), Dracula (Touring Consortium Theatre Company), 24 Hour Plays, Every Bit of My Love (Old Vic New Voices), A Marked Man (HighTide Festival) Television includes: The Choice, Tell Me Who I Am, The Lost Pirate Kingdom (Netflix), This City Is Ours, Father Brown, Casualty, Eastenders (BBC), The Power (Amazon Studios), The Little Drummer Girl (Ink Factory/BBC), Rise of the Tudors, Royal Mob (Sky), Jesus Crown of Thorns (Fox), Doctors (BBC), Engineering That Built America (History), D-Day: Do Or Die (National Geographic) Film includes: The Amateur (20th Century Studios), Magic Mike’s Last Dance (Warner Bros), Trickle (Ravanburn Films), Every Bit of my Love (Time Warner IGNITE) Bishop of Coventry Christopher Patrick Nolan This is Christopher’s RSC debut Theatre includes: Beautiful Thing (Theatre Royal, Stratford East), The Plough and the Stars, War Horse (National Theatre/West End), 1984 (Headlong/Almeida/West End/US/Melbourne), Blair’s Children (Cockpit Theatre), Faith and Cold Reading (Live Theatre, Newcastle), Scorched (Old Vic Tunnels), The Seagull (Royal Court/Broadway), Macbeth (Chichester/West End/BAM/Broadway), Twelfth Night (Chichester Festival Theatre), AC/DC, Alice Trilogy (Royal Court), Stones In His Pockets (West End), Molly Sweeney (Theatre Clwyd/National Tour), The Changeling, Of Mice and Men (Southwark Playhouse), Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me (Perth Theatre/National Tour), Into The West/Tir na n’Og (Harbour Front Centre/Toronto/US Tour), Antigone (Sheffield Crucible/National Tour), The Romans in Britain (Man In The Moon Theatre), Othello, Macbeth (Riverside Studios), Cardenio (Shakespeare’s Globe), Cloud Nine (Lyric Hammersmith), King Lear (West Yorkshire Playhouse) Television includes: Trigger Point (HTM/ITV Studios), Worzel Gummidge, White Gold, Macbeth (BBC), Lucky Man (Carnival/SKY), Humans (Kudos/Channel 4), Titanic: Birth of a Legend (Granada/ITV Studios) and Bass Odyssey (Channel 4) Film includes: This Land, The Ballad of Billy McCrae, Lynn + Lucy, The King, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, That Deadwood Feeling, Bullethead and Lone Clouds. Kent Henry Pettigrew Previous RSC includes: Troilus & Cressida (Edinburgh International Festival/RSC) Theatre includes: Midsummer (Edinburgh International Festival), Quiz (Chichester Festival Theatre/West End), The Effect (Sheffield Crucible), Pitcairn (Chichester/The Globe), Of Mice and Men (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Straight (Sheffield Crucible/Bush Theatre), The Master & Margarita (Complicité), Anna Christie (Donmar Warehouse), Beautiful Burnout (Frantic Assembly), Hamlet (Wyndhams Theatre), Black Watch (National Theatre of Scotland), The Bevellers (Citizens Theatre) Television includes: Payback, The Confessions of Frannie Langton, Midsommer Murders (ITV), La Templanza (Amazon Prime), The Winter Palace, The Crown (Netflix), Guilt, Death in Paradise, Taboo, New Blood, Shetland, Silent Witness, Line of Duty (BBC), The Relief of Belsen (Channel 4) Film includes: The Danish Girl (Working Title Films), The Aftermath (Fox Searchlight), Bagman (Lionsgate), The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde (Selkie Productions/Sky Arts) Ensemble Joseph Rowe This is Joseph’s RSC debut Theatre includes: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Tempest (Guildford Shakespeare Company), My One True Friend (Tristan Bates Theatre), Murder Trial (National Tour), Circa (Old Red Lion), Double Act (Polka Theatre), Counting Stars (Albany), Light Shining in Buckinghamshire (National Theatre), The Low Road (Royal Court), Pieces of Vincent (Arcola), Macbeth (Broadway Theatre) Television includes: We Go Again Trained at: The Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Ensemble Neil Sheffield This is Neil’s RSC debut Theatre includes: The Commotion Time (Exeter Northcott Theatre), Nachtland (Young Vic), Dr Semmelweis, Uncle Vanya (Harold Pinter), Kerry Jackson (National Theatre), Jerusalem (Apollo Theatre), Mother of Him (Park Theatre), Tracing Grace (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Bud (Arts Theatre), Antigone (Unicorn Theatre), Less Than Kind (Yvonne Arnaud Theatre and No1 Tour), Anna Christie (Riverside Studios), Macbeth (Union), The City Club (Pleasance), Dracula (Hackney Empire), Marriage (Lyric Belfast), Golden Boy (West Yorkshire Playhouse and No1 Tour), A Christmas Tale (Bristol Old Vic), The Seagull (Gitis Theatre, Moscow), Wind in the Willows (Bloomsbury Theatre and No1 Tour) Television includes: Insomnia, Doctors, Catch Me If You Can and Reality Check Film includes: Alive, The Projectionist, Cash in Hand and Witchcraft X Neil has also taught acting extensively. He is currently Senior Lecturer/Practitioner at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Previous Next Cast Lightborn Jacob James Beswick Mortimer Enzo Cilenti Ensemble Michael Cusick Spencer Stavros Demetraki Pembroke Emilio Doorgasingh Ensemble Amy Dunn Edward II Daniel Evans Queen Isabella Ruta Gedmintas Archbishop of Canterbury James Hayes Gaveston Eloka Ivo Warwick Geoffrey Lumb Baldock Kwaku Mills Lancaster Evan Milton Bishop of Coventry Christopher Patrick Nolan Kent Henry Pettigrew Ensemble Joseph Rowe Ensemble Neil Sheffield Creatives Director Daniel Raggett Set & Costume Designer Leslie Travers Lighting Designer Tim Lutkin Composers Roddy Hart & Tommy Reilly Sound Designer Tingying Dong Movement Directors Anthony Matsena & Kel Matsena Fight Director Kev McCurdy Casting Director Julia Horan CDG Dramaturg Rebecca Latham Music Director Alice Brown Voice & Text Charmian Hoare Assistant Director George Jibson Swan Theatre Stratford-upon-Avon 21 Feb - 5 Apr 2025 Book Tickets Running time: To be confirmed About the play Cast and Creatives Assisted Performances More Less About the play Cast and Creatives Assisted Performances Content Advisory Next performance: 21 February, 7:30PM Swan TheatreStratford-upon-Avon In This Section About the play When the new King Edward II insists on ruling with the man he loves by his side, conspiracy and civil war threaten the very existence of the monarchy. 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