about Kyoto

Kristin Atherton

Germany

RSC: Kyoto, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, Titus Andronicus (2017 Rome Season), Julius Caesar (First Encounters tour).

THEATRE INCLUDES: How to Survive an Apocalypse (Finborough Theatre); Katie Johnstone (Orange Tree); Barnbow Canaries (Leeds Playhouse); The Hard Problem, Three Winters (National Theatre); Glory Dazed (Soho Theatre); Mansfield Park (Theatre Bury St Edmunds/national tour); Mary Shelley (Shared Experience/national tour); Brontë (Shared Experience/Watermill Theatre/national tour); The Importance of Being Earnest (English Theatre of Vienna); Enemy of the People, Good Woman of Szechuan, Much Ado About Nothing, Iphigenia (Sheffield Crucible).

SCREEN INCLUDES: Outlander (STARZ Network); Ohne Schuld (Wiedemann & Berg); Shakespeare and Hathaway, Doctors, Waterloo Road (BBC); Rocket’s Island (CBBC); K-Shop (feature film).

VOICEWORK INCLUDES: Kristin is a multi-award-winning audio performer across both audiobooks and videogames with over 400 audiobook credits on Audible. Titles include narrations of Pat Barker’s Trojan War Trilogy: The Silence of the Girls, Women of Troy and The Voyage Home (Penguin Random House); Diana Wynne Jones’s Howl’s Moving Castle (Harper Collins); and Genevieve Cogmann’s The Invisible Library series (Pan Macmillan). Her computer game work includes: Metaphor: ReFantazio (Atlus/SEGA); Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden (Focus Entertainment); Lords of the Fallen (CI Games); SYNCHED: Off-Planet (NExT Studios); Warhammer: Battle Sister (Quest 2).

Jenna Augen 

Shirley

RSC DEBUT SEASON: Kyoto.

TRAINED: RADA.

THEATRE INCLUDES: Nachtland (Young Vic); Leopoldstadt (Longacre, Broadway/Wyndham’s); Bartholomew Fair (Shakespeare’s Globe); The Comedy About a Bank Robbery (Criterion); The Knowledge (Charing Cross); The Witches (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Bad Jews (UK Theatre Award, The Arts/St. James/ Theatre Royal Bath); The Way of the World (Chichester Festival Theatre); Rufus Norris’ Sleeping Beauty (Birmingham Rep); Chicken Soup with Barley (Royal Court); The Gondoliers (Sierra Madre Playhouse); A Christmas Carol (Grove Theatre Centre); A Murder is Announced (Lyceum/Arrow Rock); The Boys From Syracuse, The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company); The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Wilton Playshop).

TELEVISION INCLUDES: Episodes,The Night Watch.

FILM INCLUDES: Josephine and the Roach, Penelope in the Treehouse.

RADIO INCLUDES: Chicken Soup with Barley, A Year at the Races.

Karen Barredo

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Trained: New Earth Theatre’s Academy Plus and Gecko Theatre

Theatre Includes: All Other Passports (Embassy Theatre), Iphigenia (The Hope Theatre), Animals! (tour); and most recently Firewall (Derby Theatre and Philippine Educational Theater Association at FITEI, Porto Festival).

Screen includes: Ask Me A Question (Riservati Pictures); and The Mitchin Murders (Prime Video/Tubi).

Olivia Barrowclough 

Secretariat

RSC DEBUT SEASON: Kyoto.

THEATRE INCLUDES: Good Day (Vaults Festival); Chekhov’s Dildo (Hope); The Afflicted (Groupwork); The Dark Carnival, Interiors (Vanishing Point); One More Sleep till Christmas (Citizens); The Words of Others (On the Verge Festival/ Citizens); Balm in Gilead, Macbeth, All My Sons, The Cherry Orchard (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland). TELEVISION INCLUDES: Casualty, Novels That Shaped Our World (BBC); Bridgerton (Netflix); Theodosia (HBO); Shetland series 5 (ITV).

FILM INCLUDES: Giant (feature film), Big Night (short).

RADIO INCLUDES: North and South (BBC Radio); Another Time, Another Place (BBC/RSC); The Moon’s Dress.

Jorge Bosch 

Raúl Estrada-Oyuela

RSC DEBUT SEASON: Kyoto.

THEATRE INCLUDES: El método Grönholm, Espía a una mujer que se mata, Invencible, El nombre, Feelgood, Speaking in Tongues, Luces de Bohemia, Todos eran mis hijos, Glengarry Glen Ross, Donde pongo la cabeza, ¡Tú come bollos…!

TELEVISION INCLUDES: More than Friends, Médico de Familia, Todos los hombres son iguales, El Comisario or Periodistas, Las Abogadas, El Marqués, Todos Mienten, Los Farad, Amar es para siempre, Rappa, Caronte, No te puedes seconder, Criminal (España), La caza, Monteperdido, El accidente, Buscando el norte, Isabel, Bienvenidos al Lolita, Gran reserve, Doctor Mateo, 14 de Abril. La República, ¿Hay alguien ahí?, Cazadores de hombres, Soy El Solitario, Herederos, Círculo rojo, Cuenta atrás, Hospital Central, Al filo de la ley, El pantano.

FILM INCLUDES: Las Mantis, Hotel Bitcoin, Kepler, Sexto B, La estrategia del pequinés, Zipi y Zape y la isla del Capitán, Las ovejas no pierden el tren, Gente en sitios, Adivina quién viene a comer mañana, Cinco metros cuadrados, Planes para mañana, Cándida, La caja Kovak, Leo Mi

Casa Es Tu Casa.

Jeffrey Chekai

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RSC: Kyoto, Love’s Labour’s Lost.
TRAINED: Royal Academy of Music.
THEATRE INCLUDES: The King and I (UK tour/Dominion Theatre); Choir of Man (Norwegian Cruise Lines); Thursford Christmas Spectacular (Thursford). Workshop: Ruth (Iris Theatre).
TELEVISION: Horrible Histories (BBC).
FILM: 355 (Universal Pictures).

Nancy Crane

USA

RSC DEBUT SEASON: Kyoto.

THEATRE INCLUDES: Autumn (Park Theatre), A View from the Bridge (Headlong); Summer and Smoke, Chimerica (Almeida/West End); Dance Nation, Against (Almeida); Yellowfin, A Lie of the Mind, Next Fall (Southwark Playhouse); The Sewing Group, Now or Later, The Sweetest Swing in Baseball, Our Late Night, The Strip (Royal Court); Teddy Ferrara (Donmar Warehouse); Vieux Carre (King’s Head); The Children’s Hour (West End); Design for Living (The Old Vic); Love the Sinner, Angelsin America (National Theatre);Re-Orientations (Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre); Chains of Dew, Trifles (Orange Tree); The Girl in the Goldfish Bowl, Six Degrees of Separation (Sheffield Crucible);The Price (national tour).

TELEVISION INCLUDES: The Buccaneers, Inside Man, The Crown, Suspicion, The Girlfriend Experience, Call the Midwife, Avenue 5, Chimerica, Black Earth Rising, Melrose. FILMS INCLUDES: The Current War, Leavey, The Danish Girl, Woman in Gold, Batman: The Dark Knight, The Road to Guantanamo, The Machinist.

FILMS INCLUDES: Touchdown, The Current War, Leavey, The Danish Girl,Woman in Gold, Batman: The Dark Knight, The Road to Guantanamo, The Machinist.

Alvaro Flores

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RSC: Kyoto, Falkland Sound, Day of the Living, #We Are Arrested.
Alvaro is a British/Latino actor, singer and musician of Mexican origin.

THEATRE INCLUDES: Our Man in Havana (Watermill Theatre); The Time of Our Lies (Park Theatre); Wig Out (Royal Court); Neighbourhood Voices (Young Vic); ClubMex (Hope Mill); Love in the Time of Corona (Jermyn Street); The House of the Spirits (Cervantes Theatre); Diversifications (Old Red Lion); Qaddafi’s Cook (London/Mexico/US tour); Chess in Concert (Royal Albert Hall); Nine (Ye Olde Rose and Crown); Don Quixote in Algiers (White Bear Theatre); Madagascar Live (Latin America/Brazil tour); Fair Trade (Pleasance Theatre); La Expulsion (Mexico tour).

TELEVISION INCLUDES: Daedalus (Spain); Amor de Barrio (Mexico);

FILM INCLUDES: Rambo: Last Blood, The Last Bite, Las Reglas de la Ruina (Mexico). Shorts: Rage, The Fall, Rictus (Mexico).

GAMING: As Dusk Falls (XBox).

Andrea Gatchalian 

Kiribati

RSC DEBUT SEASON: Kyoto.

TRAINED: Mountview.

THEATRE INCLUDES: Ikaria (Park

Theatre); Borderlands: As Above, So Below (Royal Court); The Wolves (The Space); The Kindness of Strangers (Vaults).

TELEVISION INCLUDES: The Road Trip, Bad Education, Wednesday

FILM INCLUDES: A Cuban Girl’s Guide to Tea and Tomorrow.

Mark Hammersley

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RSC DEBUT SEASON: Kyoto.

THEATRE INCLUDES: Stranger Things: The First Shadow (Phoenix Theatre); A Little Life (Harold Pinter/Savoy Theatre); The Doctor (Duke of York’s Theatre); The Totalitarians (English Theatre Frankfurt); Kill Shakespeare (Shakespeare’s Globe); The Comedy About a Bank Robbery (Criterion Theatre); The Importance of Being Earnest (Vaudeville Theatre); The Last Confession (Los Angeles/Toronto/Australia); Backbeat (Duke of York’s Theatre/Toronto, LA); Pygmalion (Garrick Theatre); The Shawshank Redemption (Wyndham’s Theatre); Blood Brothers (UK tour).

Moe Idris

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RSC DEBUT SEASON: Kyoto.

TELEVISION INCLUDES: Moe appeared as Jamal in the latest season of Man Like Mobeen (2024) and as series regular Negasi in The Spanish Princess (2019). His earlier work includes playing Abu Masood in Peter Kosminsky’s The State (2017), a BAFTA and RTS-nominated Channel 4 series. Moe has also featured in shows such as DI Ray (2023), Trigger Point (2021), Giri/Haji (2019), and Doctors (2018).

Togo Igawa 

Japan

RSC: Kyoto, The Fair Maid of the West, The Rover, The Great White Hope, They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? Togo made his debut at the RSC in 1986 and was the first Japanese actor to do so.

THEATRE INCLUDES: After Life (National Theatre); The Cherry Orchard (Bristol Old Vic); The Good Person of Szechwan (Crucible); The King of Hell’s Palace (Hampstead); Who Do We Think We Are? (Southwark Playhouse); Pacific Overtures (Donmar Warehouse); The Great Highway (Gate).

TELEVISION INCLUDES: Moley, Thomas and Friends, Invasion, The Crown, Giri/Haji, The IT Crowd, Marco Polo, Street Fighter: Assassin’s Fist, Dr Who, Torchwood.

FILM INCLUDES: Eyes Wide Shut, Topsy-Turvy, The Last Samurai, Johnny English Reborn, Tetris: The Movie, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, Star Wars, Everly, A Matter of Size, Ninja, Thomas and Friends: Hero of the Rails, Memoirs of a Geisha, The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz, National Achievement Day.

RADIO INCLUDES: Fukushima (BBC World); The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Hell Screen, A Pale View of Hills, Silk, Hiroshima: The Movie (BBC Radio 4), Miss Happiness and Miss Flower (BBC 4).

OTHER: Togo started acting over 50 years ago and travelled to more than 120 cities in Japan with the Black Tent Theatre.

Aïcha Kossoko

Tanzania

RSC: Kyoto, The Taming of the Shrew.

THEATRE INCLUDES: The Vote (Donmar Warehouse); Antony and Cleopatra (Chichester Festival Theatre/Liverpool Playhouse); Welcome to Thebes, The Observer (National Theatre); La Dispute (Abbey Theatre, Dublin); Yours Abundantly (Gillian Plowman Productions); Richard III, The Old Curiosity Shop (Southwark Playhouse); Blithe Spirit (Watford Palace); The Evocation of Papa Mas (Told By An Idiot); The Magic Carpet (Lyric, Hammersmith); Celestina (Birmingham Rep/Edinburgh International Festival); Signes de vie (Igi Theatre Company); The Vagina Monologues (Arts Theatre); Monkey (Young Vic); Wedding Story (Soho Theatre); the title role in Andromache (Living Pictures); Macbeth, Yerma (BAC); The Cherry Orchard, Demons and Dybbuks, The Black Dahlia, Buried Alive (Method and Madness); The Two Gentleman of Verona(Shakespeare’s Globe); Antony and Cleopatra (Riverside Studios); Julius Caesar (Alley Theatre, Houston); Inheritance (Eastern Angles).

TELEVISION INCLUDES: Sick Note, Skins, In Deep, Coronation Street, Casualty, EastEnders, Doctors, Kingmakers.

FILM INCLUDES: Wasted, Radiator, The Fever and Claude Chabrol’s La comédie du pouvoir.

RADIO INCLUDES: Productions for BBC Radio/World Service including: The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency and Today.

OTHER: Aïcha is a Trustee of ACT the Actors’ Children’s Trust and is also Director of Drama for the Cub Academy (Lion King 2022-2024).

Stephen Kunken

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Stephen Kunken was most recently seen as James Jesus Angelton in the BAFTA nominated series A Spy Among Friends opposite Damian Lewis and Guy Pearce for ITVX and MGM+.  He is well known as Chief Compliance Officer Ari Spyros over the seven seasons of the Showtime series Billions and as Commander Warren Putnam over the five seasons of Hulu’s award-winning show, The Handmaid’s Tale.

On stage Kunken received a 2010 Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actor in a Play honouring his performance as “Andy Fastow” in Enron (Broadhurst Theater). He has also appeared on Broadway in The Columnist (Samuel J. Friedman Theatre), High (The Booth Theater), Rock ‘n’ Roll (Bernard Jacobs Theater), Frost/Nixon; Outer Critics Circle and Drama League Nominations (Bernard Jacobs Theater), Festen (Music Box Theater) and Proof (Walter Kerr Theatre). His recent off-broadway credits include: An American Daughter (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Apple Family Plays (The Public Theater), Nikolai and the Others (Lincoln Center Theater), and Our Town (Barrow St. Theatre).

His additional television credits include The Affair, The Goodwife, Unforgettable, Blue Bloods, The Sopranos and The Apple Family Plays and more. Amongst his film work Kunken can be seen Co-starring in Woody Allen’s Café Society, Hillbilly Elegy, directed by Ron Howard, Jason Bourne, directed by Paul Greengrass, Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street, Steven Spielberg’s Bridge of Spies, and Ang Lee’s Taking Woodstock. His directorial debut Before, During, After took home top prizes at four International Film Festivals and is distributed by Gravitas Ventures.

Kwong Loke 

China

RSC DEBUT SEASON: Kyoto.

TRAINED: Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

THEATRE INCLUDES: The Great Wave (National Theatre); Pah-la, You for Me for You (Royal Court); Labour of Love (Noel Coward/West End); The Apology (Arcola); What Remains of Us, Hiawatha (Bristol Old Vic); Summer Rolls (Park/Bristol Old Vic); Dear Elizabeth (Gate); The Lulu Plays (Almeida); The Changeling (Finborough); Rashomon (Riverside Studios); The Magic Paintbrush, Snow Lion (Polka).

TELEVISION INCLUDES: Gangs of London (Netflix); The Feed (ITV/ Amazon) and a Disney+ series. FILM: Minghun (Wonder films). RADIO INCLUDES: At Sea on Inya Lake, Another Land, Our Father the Mountain, The Joy Luck Club.

OTHER: Kwong is a founding member of New Earth Theatre, which champions East and South East Asian work and practitioners, and frequently runs acting workshops in East Asia.

Sibylla Meienberg

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RSC DEBUT SEASON: Kyoto.

This is Sibylla’s RSC and West End Debut.

THEATRE INCLUDES: Dad Material (Baron’s Court); Around the World in 80 Days (Dukes, Lancaster); The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (National Theatre/UK and Ireland tour); Medea, The Outcast (London/Eastern European Fringe tour); Red and White Frida Kahlo (Hen and Chickens).

TELEVISION INCLUDES: Grace (ITV); Mayflies (BBC); Die Suche/The Search (ARD/Degeto).

Dale Rapley 

Bolin / Santer / Gore

RSC: Kyoto, A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

THEATRE INCLUDES: As You Like It, The Merchant of Venice, Holding Fire (Shakespeare’s Globe); Singin’ in the Rain (Japan/UK tour); Gypsy (Manchester Royal Exchange); The Bridges of Madison County (Menier Chocolate Factory); Richard III, Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare’s Rose, York); Addams Family Musical, Wicked (UK tour); King John (Rose, Kingston); Richard III (Leeds Playhouse); Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Playhouse); Larisa and the Merchants, Professor Bernhardi (Arcola); Hello Dolly! (Leicester Curve); Heartbreak House (Palace, Watford); Mamma Mia! (Prince Edward); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, High Society (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Six Characters Looking for an Author (Young Vic); Lady into Fox, A Christmas Carol (Lyric Hammersmith); Flora the Red Menace (Orange Tree); The Tempest, Philoctetes (Cheek by Jowl).

TELEVISION INCLUDES: This England, Das Boot, Silent Witness, Poirot, Casualty, EastEnders, Aquila, Medics.

FILM INCLUDES: Mein Prinz Mein König (Germany); Paper Mask.

Raad Rawi 

Saudi Arabia

RSC: Kyoto, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Naked Robots, The Beaux’ Stratagem.

THEATRE INCLUDES: Sons of the Prophet (Hampstead); The Taxidermists’ Daughter, Fred’s Diner, King Lear, 5/11, Electra (Chichester Festival Theatre); Measure for Measure (Donmar Warehouse); Salome, Stuff Happens, The Waiting Room, Antony and Cleopatra (National Theatre); Breaking the Code, The Moonstone, The Man With a Flower in His Mouth, As You Like It (Manchester Royal Exchange); Chilcot (LUNG/The Lowry/Battersea Arts Centre); The Great Game: Afghanistan (Tricycle/US tour); Invasion (Soho); The Fever Chart (Theatre Royal York); Medea-Medea (Gate); The Romans in Britain, A View From the Bridge (Sheffield Crucible); Called to Account, Half the Picture (Tricycle); Bombay Dreams, The Red Devil Battery Sign (West End); Much Ado About Nothing (Cheek by Jowl); The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isle (Orange Tree); Arabian Nights, Science Fictions, Cymbeline (Shared Experience founding member); Measure for Measure (Lyceum Edinburgh).

TELEVISION INCLUDES: Faithless,Epic, The Bastard Son and the Devil Himself, Brassic, Sick of It, Unforgotten 2, Tyrant, The Honourable Woman, The Bible, The Tudors, Generation Kill, Death Becomes Him, House of Saddam, Wire in the Blood, Spooks, Murphy’s Law, Trial and Retribution VII, Judge John Deed, Dr Willoughby, Cadfael, Bodyguards.

FILM INCLUDES: Official Secrets, A Private War, Paradise War, Spy,A Hundred Streets, Wall, The Devil’s Double, Conan the Barbarian, Green Zone, Traitor, The Kingdom, Nina’s Heavenly Delights, Mona Lisa, Misunderstood, Midnight Express, One Crazy Thing.

Ferdy Roberts 

UK / Houghton

RSC: Kyoto, Silence, Twelfth Night (RSC/Filter).

THEATRE INCLUDES: The Fear of 13 (Donmar Warehouse), Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing, The Tempest (Shakespeare’s Globe); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Filter/HOME/Lyric Hammersmith); Girl From the North Country (The Old Vic/Runaway Productions); Fatherland (Frantic Assembly); Filter’s 12th Night, Macbeth, Faster (Filter); Plaques and Tangles, If You Don’t Let Us Dream,

We Won’t Let You Sleep (Royal Court); Lampedusa (High Tide/Soho); Shakespeare in Love (Noel Coward); Water (Filter/London/Sydney/New York); Pigeons, Talk Show, The President Has Come to See You (Open Court/Royal Court); Three Kingdoms, Three Sisters (Lyric Hammersmith); Wallenstein, A Christmas Carol, The Sea (Chichester Festival Theatre); On Religion (Theatre Poche Brussels); The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Filter Theatre/ National Theatre); The Birthday Party, The Dumb Waiter, Aladdin (Bristol Old Vic); The Fixer (Almeida); Girl in a Goldfish Bowl (Sheffield Crucible); Frankenstein (Derby Playhouse); Switchback (SweetScar/Glasgow Tron); Playing the Victim (Royal Court/ Told by an Idiot); The Contractor (Oxford Stage Company); Another Country (Arts/West End); The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, Beautiful Thing, The Changeling (Salisbury Playhouse).

TELEVISION INCLUDES: Dark Angel,

Foyles War, MI High, The Whistleblowers, The Bill, Goldplated, The Afternoon Play – Your Mother Should Know, Holby City, Doctors.

FILM INCLUDES: What You Will, Mr Nice, Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll, Honest, Ozma.

OTHER: Ferdy is a Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director of Filter Theatre.

Duncan Wisbey

Fred Singer

RSC: Kyoto, The Winter’s Tale, As You Like It.

THEATRE INCLUDES: London Road (National Theatre); Allelujah!, Young Marx (Bridge Theatre); Sleeping Beauty, The Changeling, Vernon God Little, Hergé’s Adventures of Tintin (Young Vic); The Special Relationship (Synergy at the Soho Theatre); The Comedy Of Errors (Shakespeare’s Globe US tour); The Spire, The Picture, On Golden Pond (Salisbury Playhouse).

TELEVISION INCLUDES: Eastenders, Alistair McGowan’s Big Impression, From the Cradle to the Grave, Close to the Enemy, Brushing Up On…, The Impressions Show With Jon Culshaw and Debra Stephenson, Doctors (BBC); Ultimate Brain, The Legend of Dick and Dom (CBBC); Hard Cell (Netflix).

FILM INCLUDES: A United Kingdom, London Road.

RADIO INCLUDES: Dead Ringers, The Secret World, Lewis MacLeod Is Not Himself, The Bedsitting Room, Pollyoakes, Births, Deaths and Marriages, The Blagger’s Guide to The Beatles, Brian Gulliver’s Travels, Laurence and Gus, Undone, Newsjack, 49 Cedar Street, Spike’s Lookalikes, We’re Backing Britain, Rita, Sue and Andrea Too (BBC).