Cast and Creatives First Encounters: The Tempest Close Ferdinand Garon Akbar Clark This is Garon’s RSC debut Theatre includes: The Voysey Inheritance, Breathing Corpses, Macbeth (ArtsEd) Trained at: ArtsEd Ariel Carla Garratt This is Carla’s RSC debut Theatre includes: Belongings (Polka Theatre, Gulbenkian and Brixton House), Playfight (Seven Dials Theatre), Bridgerton (Secret Cinema), Devolution Evolution (Tangled Feet), Bible John (Vaults Festival), A Womb of One's Own (Pleasance Theatre & Greenwich Theatre), FFS! - A Feminine Fable Series (Wonderbox), Big Deal, Baby Dolls and Tales of Terror (The Space Theatre), Love Hotel and 18 Forever (Petersham Road) Film includes: Blitz; Bohemian Rhapsody and House of Bricks Trained at: Ecole Philippe Gaulier in France and National Youth Theatre Caliban/Gonzalo Shakeel Haakim This is Shakeel’s RSC debut Theatre includes: A Profoundly Affectionate, Passionate Devotion To Someone (-Noun), Metamorphoses, Light Falls, Romeo & Juliet, The Double Dealer, Anticone, Twelfth Night (Royal Academy of Dramatic Art), Abandon (Lyric Hammersmith), For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When The Hue Gets Too Heavy (Garrick Theatre) Trained at: the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art Sebastian/Stephano Kiren Kebaili-Dwyer This is Kiren's RSC debut Theatre includes: Drive Your Plow Over The Bones of The Dead (UK and European tour), Much Ado About Nothing (National Theatre), Hamlet (National Theatre Learning school tour) Screen work includes: Doctors (BBC); Lewis S9 (ITV); Unteachables (Channel 4) Voice work includes: Abolition of the Slave Trade (BBC Bitesize course); Assassin’s Creed: Mirage (Ubisoft), That Hideous Strength (BBC Radio 4), The Carpenters Flames (Complicité) and Thieves! (Complicité) Trained at: RCSSD Alonso/Trinculo Isabella Marshall RSC includes: Ben and Imo Theatre includes: Mydidae (the Other Room); Woyzeck (The Old Vic); Cyril’s Success, Caste (The Finborough); Hamlet, All’s Well That Ends Well (Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory); Cinderella: A Fairytale (Tobacco Factory/Travelling Light); Peter Pan, Dancing at Lughnasa, She Stoops to Conquer, An Inspector Calls, Vincent in Brixton (Theatre by the Lake); Flowers of the Field (White Bear Theatre) Television and Film includes: Holby City, Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators (BBC); Grantchester (ITV); Handover, La Entrevista (NFTS); Amygdala Radio includes: The Real George Orwell (BBC Wales) Trained at: Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama Prospero Peter Moreton RSC includes: Rebellion & War of the Roses, The Prince of Homburg Other theatre includes: The Tempest & Henry V (Shakespeare’s Rose Theatre, York), Witness for the Prosecution (County Hall), A Winter’s Tale (Cheek by Jowl, Barbican, international tour), Shakespeare in Love (West End), The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Chichester and West End), ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore (Cheek by Jowl, Barbican, international tour), i am Mark (Leicester Square Theatre, Arena Theatre Wolverhampton), In the Land of Uz – Sixty Six Books (Bush Theatre), The Three Musketeers (Rose Theatre), Love From a Stranger (The Mill at Sonning), The Pros, the Cons and a Screw (Derby Live), Berlin Hanover Express (Hampstead Theatre), Hound of the Baskervilles (National Tour), My Night with Reg and Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle and Dick (New Vic Theatre Newcastle), Tales From the Vienna Woods (National Theatre), All My Sons (Theatre Royal York), As You Like It (Sheffield Crucible and Lyric Theatre Hammersmith), Good (Donmar Warehouse), The Comedy of Errors (Propeller, International tour), Peter Pan, Rogues to Riches (Watermill Theatre Newbury), Measure for Measure (Barbican, Nottingham Playhouse, Edinburgh Festival), The Duchess of Malfi, Hamlet (Cheek by Jowl, international tours), Temptations and Betrayals (New End Theatre & Edinburgh Festival), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Aldeburgh Festival) Screen includes: Testament, Doctors, Vexed, Rosemary and Thyme, The Glass, Big Bad World, Grafters, Under the Moon, EastEnders, As Time Goes By, Van Der Valk, Dead Romantic, Lovejoy, The Secret Garden, Bodywork, Fellowship, Brides of Desire Radio and voice work: Cat of Bubastes, the Dragon and the Raven, A Patriot for Me, Sir Knight of the Splendid Way, Silas Marner, Basket of Flowers, In Company with Sondheim, The Chronicles of Narnia and Ben Hur Music director/composer credits: ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore (Music Associate, Barbican & International Tour), The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui (Music Director, Chichester & West End), i am Mark (Composer & Music Director, Leicester Square Theatre, Arena Theatre Wolverhampton), The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Composer, Barbican & Kallang Theatre, Singapore), The Sisterhood (Composer, ICA London), My Night With Reg, Carry on Cleo, Camping, Emanuel & Dick (Composer, New Victoria Theatre Stoke), Strange Fruit Concert Series (Composer and Soloist, St Paul’s Cathedral) Antonio Rachel Winters RSC includes: As You Like It, A Christmas Carol Theatre includes: Much Ado About Nothing, Macbeth (Shakespeare's Globe); Gin Craze! (Royal & Derngate Northampton); The Woman in the Moon (Sam Wanamaker Theatre); Babette's Feast (The Print Room); Sleeping Beauty (The Watermill); Dracula (UK tour); As You Like It, The Comedy of Errors (Guildford Shakespeare Company), Private Lives, Wuthering Heights (Oxford Shakespeare Company) Television and film credits include: Borgia Season 2 (Epic Films/ Canal Plus); Doctors (BBC) and Vicious (award winning short horror film) Trained at: The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Miranda Scout Worsley Previous RSC includes: Sapho and Phao, First Encounters: Merchant of Venice, All Mirth No Matter, Henry VI Rebellion Theatre (whilst training) includes: The Long Goodbye and Other Shorts, Darknet, This Restless House, Blood Wedding, Those Who Trespass This is Scout’s first professional appearance with the RSC. She was a member of Next Generation: ACT from 2017 until 2022 where she then went on to train at Bristol School of Acting Previous Next Cast Ferdinand Garon Akbar Clark Ariel Carla Garratt Caliban/Gonzalo Shakeel Haakim Sebastian/Stephano Kiren Kebaili-Dwyer Alonso/Trinculo Isabella Marshall Prospero Peter Moreton Antonio Rachel Winters Miranda Scout Worsley Creatives Director & Movement Director Aaron Parsons Set and Costume Designer Aldo Vázquez Composer and Sound Designer Jack Drewry Fight Director Tom Jordan Casting Director Matthew Dewsbury CDG Dramaturg Olivia Poglio-Nwabali Voice & Text Paula Stephens Associate Director Layla Madanat On Tour 6 Feb - 10 May 2025 Book Tickets The Other Place Stratford-upon-Avon 25 - 29 Mar 2025 Book Tickets Running time: To be confirmed About the Play Tour Venues Cast and creatives More Less About the Play Tour Venues Cast and creatives In This Section About the Play We announce First Encounters: The Tempest, the perfect touring introduction to Shakespeare for young people aged 7-13 and their families. 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