Oedipus

Television includes: Mr. Robot — Emmy Award, Critics Choice Award, The Pacific. Film includes: Bohemian Rhapsody — Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Golden Globe Award, SAG Award, Oppenheimer, Amsterdam, No Time to Die, Papillon, The Master, Short Term 12. Oedipus will be Rami’s UK stage debut and his first return to theatre since he began his career acting in Off Broadway plays in New York.

Theatre includes: Present Laughter – Olivier Award, OLD VIC: IN CAMERA – Faith Healer (The Old Vic); The Seagull (West End); Celebration (Broadway); Macbeth (UK and Washington DC tour); Exit The King, Man and Superman, Ivanov, Othello (National Theatre); Titus Andronicus (Shakespeare’s Globe); Dance of Death, Twelfth Night, The Vortex, Privates on Parade (Donmar); Ingredient X, The Vertical Hour, The Country (Royal Court); Hysteria (Theatre Royal Bath); The Skin of Our Teeth (Young Vic). Film includes: Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, Crisis, Official Secrets, Exodus Gods and Kings, Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love, Bride and Prejudice. Television includes: The Night Manager, Cold Water, Obsession, Extrapolations, Obi-Wan Kenobi, The Capture, Game of Thrones, Spitting Image, Luther, Silk, Rome, Human Target, Paranoid, Patrick Melrose, This Way Up, For Life.

Theatre includes: Tartuffe (National Theatre); The Ministry of Lesbian Affairs (Soho); Glitch (RABBLE, Reading); Inigo (Pleasance); Twelfth Night (Itika Shakespeare Festival, Serbia/ Neuss Globe Theatre, Germany); The Jungle (St. Ann’s Warehouse, New York). Television includes: The State, Tyrant, This World: The Attack, The Girl Before, Silverpoint, Hapless. Film includes: Six Feet of Separation — Out of Bounds Award for Best Actor, A Night of Gharam, Turf, Blue Rooster, Hestia! — Hollywood Blood Horror Festival Award for Best Acting Duo and Best Comedy.  

Theatre includes: The Boy Friend (The Old Vic/West End/Mirvish, Toronto); Long Day’s Journey Into Night, The Girls, Beyond the Rainbow, Evita, Budgie, The Screenwriter’s Daughter (West End); Hamlet, Time and Tide (Park Theatre); The Producers, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Gypsy, Death of a Salesman (Sheffield Crucible); The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, The Seagull, Chicken Dust (Leicester Curve); The Canterbury Tales, Dracula, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, A Tale of Two Cities (UK & US tour); Manfred (The Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C.). Television includes: BBC2 Playhouse, Kids, The Cleopatras, Quatermass, Attila.  

Theatre includes: Life of Pi, The Kite Runner (West End); Nye, The Father and the Assassin, The Beaux’ Stratagem, Dara (National Theatre); The Lovely Bones (Birmingham Rep/UK tour); A Tale of Two Cities (Regent’s Park Open Air); The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Winter’s Tale, Romeo and Juliet, The Comedy of Errors, Henry V (RSC); Arabian Nights (Young Vic). Television includes: Until I Kill You, The Burning Girls, You Don’t Know Me, Grace, Britannia, Responsible Child, Outnumbered. Film includes: Transformers: The Last Knight, Exodus: Gods and Kings, Man Up, The Blue Tower, Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace.

Theatre includes: Player Kings, Death of a Salesman, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Breakfast with Mugabe (West End); The Visit, Evening at the Talk House, Angels in America – Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actor (National Theatre); A Season in the Congo, Elektra (Young Vic); The Tragedy of King Richard the Second, Richard III (Almeida); Hamlet, Macbeth (RSC). Television includes: Prime Target, Dinner with the Parents, Jack Ryan, The Castaways, The Reckoning, Brassic, Alex Rider, Mrs Wilson, Homeland, The Missing, Space Precinct. Film includes: The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, The Son, The Eternal Daughter, Woman in Gold.

Theatre includes: To Kill a Mockingbird (West End); The Amen Corner, Faith, Hope and Charity, Downstate (National Theatre). Television includes: Anansi Boys, Killing Eve, Small Axe, Black Mirror, The Teacher. Film includes: The Lady in the Van, The Coral.  

Theatre includes: The Doctor (West End); House of Ife (Bush). Television includes: Wolf Hall, Disclaimer, Sherwood, John Carpenter’s Suburban Screams, Vera. Film includes: The Bayou, Six Years Gone.  

Theatre includes: The Mirror and the Light, The Room, The Audience (West End); Mary Stuart, Jumpers, An Inspector Calls (Broadway); The Price (Gate); The Tempest (Theatre Royal Bath); The Visit, Rocket to the Moon (National Theatre); The Two Popes (UK tour/Rose Theatre, Kingston); Death of a Salesman (Royal & Derngate, Northampton); The Homecoming (RSC); Moonlight and Magnolias (Kiln); The Birthday Party (Lyric Hammersmith). Television includes: The Rings of Power, Beyond Paradise, Father Brown, Holby City, Silent Witness, Quiz, Taboo, Will, Rome. Film includes: Polite Society, Firebird, A Paris Proposal, The Hustle, Disobedience, Beirut, The Death of Stalin.

Hofesh Shechter Company dance includes: Double Murder (International tour); Contemporary Dance 2.0 (UK & International tour).

Hofesh Shechter Company dance includes: Double Murder (International tour); POLITICAL MOTHER UNPLUGGED (UK & International tour). Film includes: En Corps, POLITICAL MOTHER: The Final Cut. Training includes: Conservatoire de Paris and Ecole de Danse de Genève.

Hofesh Shechter Company dance includes: DeGeneration (UK & International tour); barbarians, Grand Finale (International tour); Orphée et Eurydice (RBO). Other dance includes: London 2012 Olympics. Dance as Choreographer includes: Flowers of Ruin (Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Culture and Arts Festival, China). Training includes: London Contemporary Dance School. Kenny has also worked with Protein Dance and Gecko Theatre.  

Hofesh Shechter Company dance includes: Double Murder (UK & International tour); LIGHT: Bach dances (The Royal Danish Opera, Denmark/Philharmonie de Paris); Show (UK & International tour). Training includes: Amsterdam University of the Arts. Adam has also worked with Club Guy & Roni, Out InnerSpace, Punchdrunk and Yoann Bourgeois.

Hofesh Shechter Company dance includes: Grand Finale, barbarians, Sun, The Art of Not Looking Back (UK & International tour); Political Mother: The Choreographer’s Cut (O2 Academy Brixton/UK & International tour); Orphée et Eurydice (RBO); Political Mother (Sadler’s Wells/International tour). Hofesh Shechter Company dance as Assistant Choreographer includes: Wild Poetry (GöteborgsOperan, Sweden); CAVE (New York City Center); Uprising, In your rooms (Palais Garnier, France). Film includes: Clowns. Kim has also worked with Dansgroep Amsterdam, Noord Nederlands Dans and Jasmine Ellis Projects. 

Hofesh Shechter Company dance includes: Grand Finale, Double Murder (International tour); POLITICAL MOTHER UNPLUGGED, Contemporary Dance 2.0 (UK & International tour). Oscar has also worked with BULLYACHE, FKA twigs and Magnus Westwell.

Hofesh Shechter Company dance includes: The Art of Not Looking Back, In your rooms, Cult (UK & International tour). Yen-Ching has also worked with Bern Ballet, Clod Ensemble, Akram Khan Company, balletLORENT, Theo Adams Company, Punchdrunk and BULLYACHE.

Hofesh Shechter dance includes: Violet Kid (International tour), Disappearing Act (Staatstheater Nürnberg, Germany); Grande Finale (Theater Basel, Switzerland). Dance as Choreographer includes: works for Steps Festival (Theater St. Gallen/Theater Bern, Switzerland). Training includes: The Juilliard School. Rachelle has also worked with Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet and Nürnberg Ballett Staatstheater. 

Hofesh Shechter Company dance includes: From England with Love (UK & International tour). Hofesh Shechter dance includes: In your rooms, Uprising (Lucent Dans Theater, Netherlands); Vladimir, From England with Love (Zuiderstrandtheater, Netherlands). Jian-Hui has also worked with Guangdong Modern Dance Company 2007–08, Netherlands Dans Theater 2010–23 and Batsheva Dance Company 2023. 

Hofesh Shechter Company dance includes: Double Murder, SHOW (UK & International tour); Grand Finale (International tour); East Wall (Tower of London); Shechter Underground (Somerset House). Zee has also worked with Marrugeku, T.H.E (Second) Dance Company, Mitch Harvey Company, STRUT Dance, Co3 Contemporary Dance Australia, and Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts.

Theatre includes: Peter Pan (Kenneth More Theatre, Ilford). Róisín has achieved LAMDA Grade 4 in Acting and Musical Theatre and is working towards Grade 5. She loves to play the cello and sing. In school, her favourite subjects are history and drama.

Oedipus is Annika’s stage debut. Annika also attends Stage West Musical Theatre School every week.

Oedipus is Rosa’s stage debut. Rosa attends Encore dance company and is represented by Moonbeam Management. She would like to thank her mum, dad and sister for their support. She is incredibly grateful to perform in such a renowned theatre.

Oedipus is Amandeep’s stage debut. She enjoys bhangra dance, gymnastics, piano and spending time with her family.

Television includes: The Marlow Murder Club. Film includes: September Says. Oedipus is Amelia’s stage debut. Amelia trains with Theatretrain, The Dan Tien and Pip Music School in Watford. She undertakes a range of classes, including musical theatre, dance, acrobatics and singing.

Oedipus is Asha’s stage debut. She is a creative and curious young girl who loves drama, film and music. She also enjoys horse riding, karate, swimming, reading and science. Asha loves spending time with her two sisters, dog and friends. At home, she enjoys playing board games, doing the crossword with her dad and walking the dog on the heath. Training includes: Achieve Arts Speech and Drama School. 

Theatre includes: Adult Children (Donmar); Swive (Shakespeare’s Globe); Anna (National Theatre); The Writer, Oil (Almeida); Wendy and Peter Pan (RSC). Ella Hickson is an award-winning playwright whose work has been performed throughout the UK and abroad. She is an Old Vic Associate Artist, a member of the Royal Society of Literature, a Thornton Wilder Fellow, and has twice been a MacDowell Colony Fellow, as well as a recipient of The Catherine Johnson Award.

Theatre as Choreographer includes: Fiddler on the Roof (Broadway); Motortown, The Arsonists (Royal Court); Saint Joan (National Theatre). Dance as Artistic Director of Hofesh Shechter Company includes: Uprising, In your rooms, The Art of Not Looking Back, Political Mother, Political Mother: The Choreographer’s Cut, Sun, barbarians, Grand Finale, Double Murder; and SHOW, POLITICAL MOTHER UNPLUGGED, Contemporary Dance 2.0 performed by Shechter II. Opera and multi-disciplinary productions include: Two Boys (Met Opera, New York); Orphée et Eurydice (Royal Opera House/La Scala, Milan); LIGHT: Bach Dances (Royal Danish Opera, Copenhagen/ Philharmonie de Paris). Film includes: Clowns, POLITICAL MOTHER: The Final Cut, Return, En corps. Choreographer, filmmaker and composer Hofesh Shechter OBE is Artistic Director of Hofesh Shechter Company, Associate Artist of Sadler’s Wells and Artist-in-Residence of Gauthier Dance (2021-2024). Among his many awards are the British Theatre Institute’s Award for Excellence in International Dance (2011) and an honorary OBE for Services to Dance (2018).

Theatre includes: Lungs, Present Laughter, ‘Art’, The Caretaker, The Master Builder, Future Conditional, Speed-the-Plow, OLD VIC: IN CAMERA – A Christmas Carol, Faith Healer, Three Kings, Lungs (The Old Vic); A Christmas Carol, Groundhog Day, The Norman Conquests (The Old Vic/Broadway); Matilda the Musical (RSC/West End/Broadway/International tour); Ghost the Musical (West End/Broadway/South Korea); La Bête (West End/Broadway); God of Carnage (West End/Broadway/LA); Deathtrap, Endgame (West End); Our House, Much Ado About Nothing (West End/UK tour); Boeing-Boeing (West End/Broadway/UK tour); The Lord of the Rings (West End/Toronto); Buried Child, Volpone (National Theatre); Follies (Broadway); Life x 3 (National Theatre/The Old Vic/Broadway); True West (Donmar/Broadway); The Unexpected Man (RSC/West End/Broadway); ‘Art’ (Broadway/West End/Los Angeles); Hamlet, Henry V (RSC); Betrayal, Death of a Salesman, The Plough and the Stars, Fiddler on the Roof, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, True West, Peter Pan (Leeds Playhouse).

Opera includes: Falstaff, Così Fan Tutte (ENO); The Rake’s Progress (ROH/WNO).

Film includes: Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical, Pride — BIFA Best British Independent Film, Simpatico. Matthew was an Associate Director at Leeds Playhouse and Artistic Associate at The Old Vic before being appointed Artistic Director of the theatre in 2014.

Theatre includes: The Brightening Air, Sweet Bird of Youth, Dublin Carol (The Old Vic); Girl from the North Country (The Old Vic/US tour); Waiting for Godot, Uncle Vanya — Sky Arts Award, Hello Dolly!, Rosmersholm (West End); The Importance of Being Earnest, Paradise, Translations, Wonder.land (National Theatre); War Horse – Tony and Obie Awards (National Theatre/UK tour); Barber Shop Chronicles (National Theatre/Roundhouse/International tour); Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (Barbican/European tour); Hansel and Gretel (Shakespeare’s Globe); A Doll’s House, Part 2 (Donmar). Opera includes: Benvenuto Cellini (West End); Rigoletto – Sky Arts Award (Opera North, Leeds); Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci (Metropolitan Opera, New York).

Theatre & dance includes: Europe (Donmar); Carmen (English National Ballet); Theatre of Dreams, The Fix (Sadler’s Wells); Flight Pattern, Light Passage, The Statement, Solo Echo (RBO); Figures in Extinction (Nederlands Dans Theater); Tyll, Cacti, Melancholia (Kungliga Operan, Sweden). Tom has also worked with The Royal Ballet, Paris Opera Ballet, The Australian Ballet, The National Ballet of Canada and Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo. Tom won the 2024 Profile Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dance.

Theatre includes: All About My Mother, The Playboy of the Western World, A Moon for the Misbegotten, The Soldier’s Tale (The Old Vic); The Father, The Twilight Zone, The Crucible, Brokeback Mountain, Frozen, The Entertainer (West End); Four Quartets (West End/Theatre Royal Bath); All My Sons, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, War Horse — Tony Award, Not About Nightingales — Drama Desk Award (Broadway); London Tide, Paradise, Here We Go, Mnemonic — Drama Desk Award (National Theatre); Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (Barbican); Love and Information, Escaped Alone (Royal Court); Macbeth (Dock X/Washington, D.C.). Film includes: Romeo & Juliet.

Theatre includes: Groundhog Day, Eureka Day, The 47th, Speed-the-Plow (The Old Vic); An Enemy of the People, Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons, Mad House, Betrayal, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Glass Menagerie (West End); Stranger Things: The First Shadow, Plaza Suite (West End/Broadway); The Hills of California, Our Town, SUNSET BLVD., Swept Away, Cult of Love, Pirates! The Penzance Musical, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Moulin Rouge! The Musical, Appropriate, Merrily We Roll Along, A Beautiful Noise, A Doll’s House, Take Me Out, Leopoldstadt, Funny Girl (Broadway); The Seagull (Barbican). Television includes: Glee. Film includes: Beau Is Afraid. 

Theatre as Casting Associate/Coordinator: A Christmas Carol, The Constituent, Groundhog Day, Just For One Day, Machinal, Pygmalion, The Real Thing, Sylvia (The Old Vic). Film as Casting Director includes: Scene House. Film as Casting Associate includes: After the Hunt.

Theatre includes: The Brightening Air, The Real Thing, The Constituent, Machinal, Just For One Day, Pygmalion, Groundhog Day, Sylvia, Eureka Day, Camp Siegfried, Lungs, A Very Expensive Poison, Present Laughter, The American Clock, A Monster Calls, Girl from the North Country, The Divide, A Christmas Carol, Woyzeck, ‘Art’, The Caretaker, The Master Builder, Future Conditional (The Old Vic); When Winston Went to War with the Wireless (Donmar); What’s New Pussycat? (Birmingham Rep); Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World (UK tour); The Gods Weep, The Tempest, Much Ado About Nothing (RSC). Charlie is Consultant Voice Coach for Matilda The Musical (Resident 2010–14) and Resident Voice Coach for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 2013–17.

Theatre includes: The Constituent (The Old Vic); Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, As You Like It, Henry VI Parts 1, 2 and 3, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, Hamlet, Pericles, Dunsinane, Cymbeline, Richard II, Richard III (RSC); His Dark Materials, The Murderers, Fool for Love, Edmond, The Duchess of Malfi, King Lear, Elmina’s Kitchen, Scenes from the Big Picture, The White Guard, 3 Winters, Henry V (National Theatre); Otello (WNO); Carmen (ENO). Television includes: The Bill, EastEnders, Casualty, Fell Tiger, A Sort of Innocence, Fatal Attraction, Broken Glass, The Scold’s Bridle, Blue Dove, The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd. 

Theatre includes: The Real Thing (The Old Vic); Kaleidoscopes (West End); Scenes from RENT, Billy Elliot the Musical, The Wizard of Oz, 10 Nights (Leicester Curve); Chariots of Fire (Sheffield Crucible); Alice in Wonderland, Robin Hood and the Major Oak (Derby Theatre); The House of Bernarda Alba (National Theatre); Oh What A Lovely War (Leicester Curve/De Montfort University); I Want to Live (Theatre Royal Stratford East); Heroes (Vault Festival); The Glass Will Shatter (Omnibus Theatre/UK tour); Home Sweet Home (Stratford Circus Arts Centre/Jacksons Lane/ARC, Stockton); One Last Thing (For Now) (Old Red Lion Theatre); Odd and the Frost Giants (Unicorn).

Hofesh Shechter Company dance includes: Grand Finale, barbarians, Sun, The Art of Not Looking Back (UK & International tour); Political Mother: The Choreographer’s Cut (O2 Academy Brixton/UK & International tour); Orphée et Eurydice (RBO); Political Mother (Sadler’s Wells/International tour). Hofesh Shechter Company dance as Assistant Choreographer includes: Wild Poetry (GöteborgsOperan, Sweden); CAVE (New York City Center); Uprising, In your rooms (Palais Garnier, France). Film includes: Clowns. Kim has also worked with Dansgroep Amsterdam, Noord Nederlands Dans and Jasmine Ellis Projects. 

Theatre includes: The Brightening Air (The Old Vic); Waiting for Godot (West End); The Tragedy of Richard III (Lyric Theatre, Belfast); Eugene Onegin, Tosca, La Traviata, Into the Woods — Irish Times Irish Theatre Award for Best Production (N.I. Opera, Belfast); Under the Kundè Tree (Southwark Playhouse); Translations (National Theatre); Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act — JMK Award, Yellowman (Orange Tree); This Beautiful Future (Jermyn Street Theatre); Peter Pan (Gate Theatre, Dublin); Into the Woods (His Majesty’s Theatre, Perth). Television includes: Game of Thrones. Film includes: In the Earth, Dungarees, Love. Niall was awarded the Max Rayne Design Bursary at the National Theatre in 2018.

Theatre includes: Sweet Bird of Youth (The Old Vic); The Night of the Iguana, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Player Kings (West End); The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Out of a House Walked a Man, The Street of Crocodiles, Treasure Island, The Beaux’ Stratagem, Rutherford and Son, Ugly Lies the Bone, Translations, Paradise, The Witches (National Theatre); War Horse (National Theatre/International tour); The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Donmar); A Number (The Bridge); Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (Barbican); Assassins (Chichester). Television as Assistant Costume Designer includes: The Sound of Music Live!, Harlots.  

Dance as Lighting Designer includes: Skydiver (UK tour); Aunusthan, Reverie (The Place/The Lowry, Manchester); This is My Body (The Swiss Church in London); Serse (Opera Holland Park); Colin & Katya (The North Wall, Oxford). Dance as Relighter includes: BLKDOG, Until We Sleep (International tour).

Dance as Rehearsal Director for Hofesh Shechter Company includes: Uprising (The Place/Nederlands Dans Theater/International tour); In your rooms, Political Mother, Theatre of Dreams, barbarians, Grand Finale (Sadler’s Wells/International tour); Sun, Double Murder (Sadler’s Wells/UK & International tour). Dance as Music Composer includes: East Wall (Tower of London); SAMA (Sadler’s Wells); YEAR (Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Illinois).

Theatre includes: The 47th, A Number, Bagdad Cafe, Wise Children, Woyzeck (The Old Vic); The Devil Wears Prada, Macbeth, Sister Act, Grease, Aladdin, Pretty Woman, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Oklahoma!, 2:22 A Ghost Story, Derren Brown’s Showman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane (West End); The River, The Testament of Mary (Broadway); Fiddler on the Roof (Regent’s Park Open Air); Evita (Leicester Curve); Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (UK tour); Aida (Circustheater, Netherlands); West Side Story (International tour); Singin’ in the Rain (Tokyu Theatre Orb, Tokyo/Rossiya Theater, Moscow); Jesus Christ Superstar (US tour). Television includes: BRIT Awards 2018–22.

Theatre includes: Eureka Day, Present Laughter, The American Clock, Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax, The Master Builder, High Society, Electra, Sweet Bird of Youth (The Old Vic); A Christmas Carol, Groundhog Day (The Old Vic/Broadway); Waiting For Godot, The Hills of California, Stranger Things: The First Shadow, 42nd Street, Aspects of Love, Back To The Future, Crazy For You, Get Up Stand Up!, Anything Goes, Cinderella, Rosmersholm, All About Eve, Gypsy (West End); Leopoldstadt, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Ferryman, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, Matilda the Musical, Hello Dolly! (West End/Broadway); A Beautiful Noise, Funny Girl, The Music Man, Company, King Lear, Carousel (Broadway); Starlight Express (Troubadour Theatre); The Sound of Music, Rock Follies (Chichester); Guys & Dolls (The Bridge).