Daniel Evans is Co-Artistic Director of the RSC and is currently playing the titular role in Edward II.

Previously, Daniel was Artistic Director of Chichester Festival Theatre (2016-2023) and of Sheffield Theatres (2009-2016).

Theatre includes, as actor, for the Royal Court: Cleansed, 4.48 Psychosis, Other People, Where Do We Live?. As director, for the Royal Court: Black Superhero

As actor, other theatre includes: Cardiff East, Peter Pan, Candide, Troilus and Cressida, The Merchant of Venice (National Theatre), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Coriolanus, Henry V, Cymbeline, Measure For Measure (Royal Shakespeare Company), Ghosts (ETT), Merrily We Roll Along (Donmar), The Tempest (Sheffield/Old Vic), Sunday in the Park with George (Menier/West End/Studio 54)

As director, theatre includes: Our Generation (Chichester Festival Theatre & National), South Pacific (CFT & Sadler’s Wells), Quiz (CFT & Noel Coward), Fiddler on the Roof (CFT), American Buffalo (Wyndham’s), Othello, An Enemy of the People, The Effect, Show Boat (CFT & New London), Macbeth, Flowers for Mrs Harris, My Fair Lady, Racing Demon, This is My Family (Sheffield Theatres), The Light in the Piazza (RFH, LA Opera & Chicago Lyric Opera), Esther (Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru), Lovely Evening/In The Blue (Young Vic at Theatre 503)

Awards include: Olivier Awards for Best Actor in a Musical (Merrily We Roll Along and Sunday in the Park with George), UK Theatre Awards for Best Musical Production (Show Boat and Flowers for Mrs Harris)

Dr Toria Johnson is an Associate Professor of Early Modern English Literature at the University of Birmingham, and the author of Pity and Identity in the Age of Shakespeare (D.S. Brewer, 2021). She has published on a broad range of topics, including Ben Jonson’s creative engagement with Shakespeare, the intersection of law and emotion in early modern Europe, cultures of fear in Macbeth and Othello, and the impact of the Reformation on English understandings of compassion. She is currently leading the Birnam’s Oak // Scotland’s Shakespeare project, a community-driven project focusing on Scotland’s Shakespeare heritage locations (www.thebirnamoak.co.uk).

Currently touring:  Red Sky at Sunrise: Laurie Lee in Words & Music and A Beautiful Thread: Thomas Hardy in Words & Music (Hambletts - Oxford Playhouse, Wilton's Music Hall, Stonehenge)  

Daniel Raggett is currently directing Edward II.

Daniel’s work as a Director includes Accidental Death of an Anarchist by Dario Fo and Franca Rame, adapted by Tom Basden for Sheffield Theatres, which then transferred to the Lyric Hammersmith and the Theatre Royal Haymarket, Anna X by Joseph Charlton which opened in the West End and was later broadcast on Sky Arts, a new edited version of The Vortex by Noël Coward for Chichester Festival Theatre and Jean Cocteau’s The Human Voice (also adapted) for the Gate Theatre (Nominated for Best Director, Off West End Awards). 

Daniel has also worked extensively as an Associate Director on productions at the National Theatre, in the West End and on Broadway, including on West Side Story (Broadway) and Network (Broadway/National Theatre). 

Daniel was nominated for the Emerging Talent Award at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards in 2022.

Dr Nick Walton is Shakespeare Courses Development Manager at Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.  As Executive Secretary to the International Shakespeare Association he helped organise the Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth World Shakespeare Congresses in Brisbane (2006), Prague (2011), and Stratford/London (2016) respectively. Nick has written introductory material for the Penguin editions of Timon of Athens and Love’s Labour’s Lost, as well as contributing a chapter on Glen Byam Shaw to the book Director’s Shakespeare, an entry in the forthcoming Cambridge World Shakespeare Encyclopaedia on Shakespeare Societies, and multiple chapters in Dorling Kindersley’s The Shakespeare Book (published 2015).

Nick is co-author of The Shakespeare Wallbook published in 2014. He has worked with the Actors’ Shakespeare Project (Boston USA) on two of their Shakespearian productions, and has been a guest speaker at the British Museum, Central School of Speech and Drama, The Siegfried Sassoon Fellowship, and the National Theatre. Nick was one of the presenters for the RSC’s Hamlet web resource produced by the BBC, and for their Massive Open Online Course on Much Ado About Nothing and Othello.

In 2020 Nick received the 'Inspirational Educator Award in Teaching Shakespeare' from the Trust of the Worshipful Company of Educators.