Macbeth full cast announced for London’s Lyric Hammersmith Theatre

Gabriel Akuwudike plays Banquo. His theatre credits include Hamnet (RSC), King Lear (Shakespeare’s Globe), Blackmail (Mercury Theatre Colchester), Either (Hampstead Theatre), Time is Love (Finborough Theatre), Dealing with Clair (Orange Tree Theatre) and A Gym Thing (Small Things Theatre). His television credits include Screw, The Doll Factory, Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Hana, Ridley Road, War of the Worlds, Cursed, Game of Thrones, Berlin Station, Brexit: The Uncivil War, The Bisexual and The Informer; and for film, his credits include The Beautiful Game and 1917.

Bella Aubin plays Malcolm. This marks her professional stage debut.

Alex Austin plays Macbeth. His theatre credits include As You Like It (Shakespeare’s Globe), Blackout Songs (Hampstead Theatre), LOVE (Park Avenue Armoury Theatre), Wuthering Heights, The Skriker (Royal Exchange Theatre), Ivan and the Dogs (Young Vic), The End of Eddy, Henry The Fifth, The Nutcracker, The Man With The Disturbingly Smelly Foot, How to Think the Unthinkable (Unicorn Theatre), A New and Better You (Yard Theatre), Gundog, Grimly Handsome, Primetime, Yen, Pigeons (Royal Court Theatre), Thebes Land (Arcola Theatre), Fury (Soho Theatre), Barbarians (Young Vic Theatre), Idomeneus (Gate Theatre), Hope, Light and Nowhere (Edinburgh Festival Fringe) and My City (Almeida Theatre). His television credits include Andor, The Mallorca Files, The Interceptor, New Tricks; and for film, The Bike Thief, Blood Out of a Stone, Legacy, The Christmas Candle, The Hooligan Factory, The World’s End and The Swarm.

Lois Chimimba plays Lady Macbeth. Her theatre credits include wonder.land, Common (National Theatre), Three Sisters (Almeida Theatre), Parliament Square (Royal Exchange Theatre, Bush Theatre) and Noises Off (Lyric Hammersmith Theatre). Her television credits include Cold Water, Still Up, Nightsleeper, The One (as series regular Hannah Bailey), Vigil, Avenue 5, The Outlaws, The Thief, His Wife and The Canoe, Doctor Who, Top Boy, Trust Me and A Discovery of Witches.

David Colvin plays Lennox. His theatre credits include Thunderstruck (Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Scottish tour and Australian tour – winner of Herald Angel Award and Scottish Arts Club Award), Macbeth (Stafford Gatehouse Theatre), We’re Only Here Today (Pulse Festival, New Wolsey Theatre), Tam O’ Shanter (Edinburgh Festival Fringe), We Love You City (Belgrade Theatre Coventry), Hamlet (New Vic Theatre) and Black Watch (Edinburgh Festival Fringe, UK tour and International tour).

Ammar Haj Ahmad plays Macduff. His theatre credits include Returning to Haifa (Finborough Theatre), The Jungle (Young Vic Theatre, Playhouse Theatre, St Ann’s Warehouse), Love (National Theatre, Birmingham Rep), The Great Survey of Hastings (Ladie’s Parlour), Kan Yama (Cockpit Theatre), Mawlana (Mosaic Rooms), The Knight and the Crescent Hare (UK tour), Dmitry (Marylebone Theatre), Babel (Caledonian Park) and One Thousand and One Nights (The Joey and Toby Tanenbaum Opera Centre, Toronto / Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh). His television credits include Agatha Raisin and Letters from Baghdad; and for film, London Tomorrow, Wall, Round Trip, Maqha Almawt, Wada’an and Monologue.

Daniel Hawksford plays Duncan. His theatre credits include Nye (National Theatre and Wales Millennium Centre), Richard III (Rose Theatre Kingston and Liverpool Playhouse), Dmitry (Marylebone Theatre), A Pretty Sh*tty Love, Romeo and Juliet, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Arms and the Man (Theatre Clwyd), Troilus and Cressida, Cymbeline, The School of Night (RSC), Swansea’s Three Day Blitz (Grand Theatre Swansea), Crouch Touch Pause Engage, Illiad, Praxis Makes Perfect, The Dark Philosophers (National Theatre Wales), The Distance (Sheffield Crucible, Orange Tree Theatre), Macbeth (Pontardawe Arts Centre), Macbeth, The Bible (Shakespeare’s Globe), The Dark Philosophers (National Theatre of Wales), Dancing at Lughnasa (Birmingham Rep), Judgement Day (Almeida Theatre), King Lear (South Bank), Memory (Clwyd Theatre and Pleasance Theatre), The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other (National Theatre), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (The City of London Sinfonia), Jackets (Young Vic Theatre), The Pull of Negative Gravity (Colchester Mercury, 59E59 Theatre New York), The Taming of the Shrew (Colchester Mercury Theatre), Romeo and Juliet (Exeter Northcott Theatre) and Lunch (King’s Head Theatre). His television credits include Hard Cell, Halo, Father Brown, Hetty Feather, Waking the Dead and Colditz; and for film, Pelican Blood and Little White Lies.

Bianca Stephens plays Lady Macduff. Her theatre credits include Shut Up I’m Dreaming (UK tour), 2:22 A Ghost Story (Noël Coward Theatre), Either (Hampstead Theatre), Soft Animals (Soho Theatre), The Burning Tower (Bush Theatre), Julius Ceasar, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Storyhouse Theatre), Always Orange). Her television credits include PISTOL.

Sophie Stone plays Ross. Her theatre credits include The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mother Courage and Her Children (National Theatre), As You Like It (Shakespeare’s Globe), Emilia (Shakespeare’s Globe, Vaudeville Theatre), Othello, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Multiplex, Fen and You Make Me Happy (When Skies are Grey) (The Watermill Theatre), Jubilee (Lyric Hammersmith Theatre and Royal Exchange Theatre), The Government Inspector (Birmingham Rep and UK tour), Herons (Lyric Hammersmith Theatre), Mine (Shared Experience), Frozen (Birmingham Rep), Two (Southwark Playhouse), The Bloody Great Border Ballad Project (Northern Stage), In Water I’m Weightless (National Theatre of Wales), Pandora (Arcola Theatre) and Woman of Flowers (UK tour). Her television credits include Shetland, The Chelsea Detective Reunion, Generation Z, This Way Up, Two Doors Down, Moonstone, Marchlands and Small World.