Lead casting has been announced for the 10th anniversary tour of hit musical Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, starring newcomer Ashcon Rahmani and Olivier Award-winning actress Rebecca Trehearn.
Ashcon Rahmani and star of stage and screen Rebecca Trehearn will play the much-loved roles of Jamie and Margaret New in the UK tour, starting in January 2027.
Following a record-breaking three-year West End residency, two sold-out UK and Ireland Tours and Amazon Studios’ award-winning film, the critically acclaimed musical Everybody’s Talking About Jamie will feature a new song from Dan Gillespie Sells (lead singer of The Feeling) and writer Tom MacRae (Doctor Who).
The tour will open in Leeds, 10 years after the original opening at the Sheffield Crucible prior to the West End, national tours and playing across the world.
The 10th Anniversary tour of Everybody’s Talking About Jamie opens at Leeds Grand Theatre on 15 January 2027 before visiting Chester, Shrewsbury, Sunderland, Edinburgh, Wolverhampton, Wycombe, Sheffield, Manchester, Wimbledon, Liverpool, Truro, Eastbourne, Glasgow, Southampton, Cheltenham, Birmingham, Aylesbury, Cardiff, Nottingham, Oxford, Woking, Bradford and Newcastle.
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Ashcon Rahmani will star in the title role Everybody’s Talking About Jamie
Ashcon Rahmani and Rebecca Trehearn star in Everybody’s Talking About Jamie
Ashcon Rahmani, originally from Rotherham, is a recent graduate of The Urdang Academy. After training extensively in musical theatre for the past six years, he is making his professional debut as Jamie New in the 10th anniversary production of Everybody’s Talking About Jamie.
Rebecca Trehearn won the 2017 Laurence Olivier Award for ‘Best Supporting Actress in a Musical’ for her performance as Julie in Showboat. Her other extensive theatre credits include Ghost the Musical, Dogfight and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cinderella. Rebecca Trehearn also has extensive television credits, including the role of Cheryl in Pobol Y Cwm (BBC Wales).
Rebecca Trehearn said: “I’m thrilled to be joining the UK tour cast of Everybody’s Talking About Jamie to play Margaret, and to be reuniting with a creative team I adore. The relationship between Margaret and Jamie is truly special and I’m so looking forward to performing alongside Ashcon and the rest of the company. The musical’s celebration of courage, acceptance and being unapologetically yourself feels as relevant now as it did 10 years ago and I can’t wait to be part of this beautiful and uplifting show.”
The creative team
- Music by Dan Gillespie Sells
- Book and Lyrics by Tom MacRae
- From an idea by Jonathan Butterell
- Directed by Jonathan Butterell
- Tour directed by Matt Ryan
- Design by Anna Fleischle
- Choreography by Kate Prince
- Lighting design by Lucy Carter
- Sound design by Paul Groothuis
- Musical Supervision by Theo Jamieson
- Casting by Will Burton
The Sheffield Theatres Production of Everybody’s Talking About Jamie is produced on tour by Nica Burns.
About the Show
Jamie New (Ashcon Rahmani) is sixteen and lives on a council estate in Sheffield – he doesn’t quite fit in and is terrified about the future, but he is going to be a sensation. Supported by his brilliant loving mum (Rebecca Trehearn) and surrounded by his friends, Jamie overcomes prejudice, beats the bullies and steps out of the darkness, into the spotlight.
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie is inspired by the Firecracker documentary film ‘Jamie: Drag Queen at 16’ – the true story of Jamie Campbell and his mother, Margaret. The musical is a dramatised portrayal of a period in Jamie’s life and certain events and characters have been fictionalised.
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Theatre: Various venues
Booking Dates: From 15 January 2027
Age range: 12+
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