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The Jamie Lloyd Company has announced full casting for Jamie Lloyd’s new production of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing at the West End’s Theatre Royal Drury Lane in London.

Much Ado About Nothing is playing at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane from 10 February to 5 April 2025.

Already announced are the stars of the show, Tom Hiddleston as Benedick and Hayley Atwell as Beatrice.

They will be joined by Mara Huf as Hero, Forbes Masson as Leonato, Phillip Olagoke as Friar Francis, Mason Alexander Park as Margaret, James Phoon as Claudio, Tim Steed as Don John, Mika Onyx Johnson as Borachio, and Gerald Kyd as Don Pedro.

Joining Jamie Lloyd in the creative team are: Set and Costume Designer Soutra Gilmour; Lighting Designer Jon Clark; Sound Designers and Composers Ben and Max Ringham; Movement Director Fabian Aloise; Associate Director and Text Edited by Jonathan Glew; Casting Director Stuart Burt CDG; Wigs, Hair and Make Up Designer Carole Hancock; Intimacy Coordinator Ingrid Mackinnon; Props Supervisor Fahmida Bakht; and Assistant Director Cory Hippolyte.

Currently playing at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane is Jamie Lloyd’s production of The Tempest starring Sigourney Weaver, which plays until 1 February 2025.

Much Ado About Nothing is running at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane from 10 February to 5 April 2025.

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Tom Hiddleston as Benedick

For The Jamie Lloyd Company: Betrayal (Harold Pinter Theatre/ Broadway/Bernard B. Jacobs Theater – Tony Award nominee for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play, Evening Standard Theatre Award nominee for Best Actor).

Other theatre credits include: Hamlet (Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company), Coriolanus (Donmar Warehouse – Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actor), Ivanov and Othello (Donmar Warehouse), Cymbeline (Cheek by Jowl – Olivier Award for Best Newcomer) and The Changeling (Cheek by Jowl).

Television credits include: Loki (Critics Choice’ Award Nomination, People’s Choice Award), The Essex Serpent, The Night Manager (Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Limited Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television, Emmy Leading Actor Nomination), Henry IV Parts 1&2 and Henry V (South Bank Sky Arts Award for Breakthrough performance), Return to Cranford, Wallander, Miss Austen Regrets, The Gathering Storm, Conspiracy and Nicholas Nickleby.

Film credits include: Loki in Marvel’s Thor, The Avengers (MTV Movie Awards for Best Villain and Best Fight), Thor: The Dark World, Thor: Ragnorak, Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame, Early Man, Kong: Skull Island, I Saw the Light, High-Rise, Crimson Peak, Tinker Bell and The Pirate Fairy, Muppets Most Wanted, Only Lovers Left Alive, Exhibition, The Deep Blue Sea, War Horse, Midnight In Paris, Archipelago and Unrelated.

Forthcoming projects include: The Life of Chuck and The Night Manager 2.

Hayley Atwell as Beatrice

In 2018 Hayley was awarded the Guildhall Fellowship in recognition of her contribution to the arts.

For The Jamie Lloyd Company: The Pride (Trafalgar Studios – Olivier Award nomination for Best Actress, WhatsOnStage Award nomination for Best Actress in a Play).

Other theatre credits include: Rosmersholm (Duke of York’s Theatre – Olivier Award nomination for Best Actress), Measure for Measure (Donmar Warehouse), Dry Powder (Hampstead Theatre), The Faith Machine (Royal Court Theatre – Directed by Jamie Lloyd), A View from the Bridge (Duke of York’s Theatre – Olivier Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress), The Man of Mode (National Theatre), Major Barbara (National Theatre – Ian Charleson Commendation), Women Beware Women (RSC) and Prometheus Bound (Sound Theatre).

Television credits include: Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft (voice), Heartstopper, Criminal, The Long Song, Howards End, Conviction, Agent Carter Series 1 & 2, Life of Crime, Black Mirror: Be Right Back series 2, Restless, Falcon: The Blindman of Seville, The Silent and the Dammed, Any Human Heart, Pillars of the Earth, The Prisoner, Mansfield Park, Ruby in the Smoke, Fear of Fanny and The Line of Beauty.

Film credits include: Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning – Part One, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Blinded by the Light, Christopher Robin, The Complete Walk: Cymbeline, Ant Man, Cinderella, Testament of Youth, The Avengers: Age of Ultron, Captain America -The Winter Soldier, Jimi: All Is by My Side, The Man, The Sweeney, I, Anna, Captain America-The First Avenger, The Duchess, Brideshead Revisited, How About You and Cassandra’s Dream.

Forthcoming projects include: Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning – Part Two and Rogue Trooper.

Mara Huf as Hero

For The Jamie Lloyd Company: The Tempest (Theatre Royal Drury Lane), The Effect (National Theatre)
Theatre credits include: Childminder (Traverse Theatre), The True History of Bonnie and Clyde (Birmingham Repertory), Electra, Closer, Holy Day, La Ronde, Lord of the Flies, Pygmalion and Othello (Birmingham Conservatoire).
Film credits include: Death Do Us Part (Play Entertainment), The People We Hate at the Wedding (Amazon) and Tetris (Apple TV).
Television credits include: Toast of Tinseltown (Objective Media), Avenue 5 (HBO) and Storm (Treasure Hunt).
Training: Birmingham Conservatoire

Mika Onyx Johnson as Borachio

For The Jamie Lloyd Company: The Seagull (Harold Pinter); Cyrano de Bergerac (Playhouse/ Harold Pinter/ Glasgow Theatre Royal/ BAM, NYC).
Theatre credits include: Pink Lemonade (Gate/ Edinburgh Fringe Festival/ Bush Theatre); As You Like It (Shakespeare’s Globe); Dear Elizabeth (Gate); Michael X (Almeida).Film credits include: Dismantle Me (Spinster Films).
Television credits include: What It Feels Like For A Girl (BBC Three); Newark, Newark (Balloon Entertainment); Screw (Channel 4); The Girlfriend Experience (Transactional Pictures).
Writing credits include: What It Feels Like For A Girl (BBC); My White Best Friend (Bunker); Pink Lemonade (Bush); Queer Upstairs (Royal Court); I’m Here (Pentabus).

Gerald Kyd as Don Pedro

For The Jamie Lloyd Company: The Seagull (Harold Pinter).
Theatre credits include: Further than The Furthest Thing (Young Vic); The Deep Blue Sea and The Meeting (Chichester Festival); Cherry Orchard, Children of The Sun, Three Winter, Blood and Gifts (National).
Film credits include: And Mrs (Netflix); Tyger (Stave Hill Films); Muse (Fancy A Jam Pictures).
Television credits include: The Assassin (Amazon); The Choice (Netflix); Love Rat (Channel 5); Malory Towers, The Split, The Swarm, Ridley, Dr Who, Cold Feet, Harlots, Britannia, Unforgotten, Deep Water (BBC).
Video game credits: Necromunda: Hired Gun; Call of Cthulhu; Battlefleet Gothic 2; Assassin’s Creed, Ryse: Son of Rome; Grey Goo.
Training: LAMDA

Forbes Masson as Leonato

For The Jamie Lloyd Company: The Tempest (Theatre Royal Drury Lane), Macbeth, Richard III, The Ruling Class (Trafalgar Studios) and Dr Faustus (Duke of York’s).
Theatre credits include: Farm Hall (Theatre Royal Haymarket), Laughing Boy (Jermyn Street), Jekyll and Hyde (Lyceum), Boy in the Dress, Macbeth, Hamlet, Comedy of Errors, Twelfth Night, The Histories, As You Like It, Romeo & Juliet and Taming of the Shrew (Royal Shakespeare Company), Summer and Smoke (Almeida), Travesties (Menier Chocolate Factory), King Lear (Headlong).
Film credits include: The Road Dance (BBC).
Television credits include: The Crown (Netflix); As You Like It (CBeebies); Crime, EastEnders, Red Dwarf and The High Life (BBC), Catastrophe (Avalon Television), Young Person’s Guide to Becoming a Rock Star (Ch4).
Other credits include: Associate Artist at Royal Shakespeare Company and National Theatre Scotland, and co-writer of Victor and Barry’s Kelvinside Compendium (404ink).

Phillip Olagoke as Friar Francis

For The Jamie Lloyd Company: The Tempest (Theatre Royal Drury Lane) and Romeo & Juliet (Duke of York’s)
Theatre credits include: OKLAHOMA! (Wyndham’s); The Glass Menagerie (Duke of York’s); A Number (Old Vic); David Copperfield (Barn); Farewell Leicester Square (Townsend Productions); Hansel & Gretel (Shakespeare’s Globe).
Training: The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.

Mason Alexander Park as Margaret

For The Jamie Lloyd Company: The Tempest (Theatre Royal Drury Lane).
Theatre credits include: American Idiot (Deaf West, USA), Cabaret (Playhouse Theatre), I am Your Own Wife (Long Wharf) and Hedwig and the Angry Inch (US Tour).
Film credits include: National Anthem (LD Entertainment).
Television credits include: Quantum Leap (NBC), The Sandman (Netflix), Cowboy Bebop (Netflix) and iCarly (Nickelodeon).

James Phoon as Claudio

For The Jamie Lloyd Company: The Tempest (Theatre Royal Drury Lane).
Theatre credits include: Harry Potter and The Cursed Child (Palace Theatre) and Underdog: The Other Other Bronte (National Theatre).
Television credits include: Bridgerton (Netflix) and Wreck (BBC Three).
Training: Guildford School of Acting

Tim Steed as Don John

For The Jamie Lloyd Company: The Tempest (Theatre Royal Drury Lane).
Theatre credits include: Jack Absolute Flies Again (National Theatre), Ink (Almeida & Duke of York’s) The Pride (Royal Court) and Salome (Headlong).
Film credits include: One Life (See-Saw Films), The Phantom of the Open (Sony Pictures), Star Wars- The Last Jedi (Lucasfilm) Cruella (Disney Studios) and The Death of Stalin (Main Journey).
Television credits include: Breeders (Sky), The Nevers (HBO), The Crown (Left Blank Pictures & Sony Pictures), A Very British Scandal (BBC One & Amazon) and Brexit: The Uncivil War (Channel 4).

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