Cast announced for The Real Ones at the Bush Theatre including Nathaniel Curtis

Nathaniel Curtis plays Zaid. He is best known for his breakout role of Ash Mukherjee in Russell T Davies’ powerful Channel 4 series, It’s A Sin. Nathaniel’s theatre credits Include 2:22: A Ghost Story (UK Tour) Disruption (Park Theatre), Romeo and Juliet (UK Tour), The Tempest (UK Tour) and Pride and Prejudice (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre). On television he has appeared as Brían in The Witcher: Blood Origin (Netflix), Dolph Laserhawk in Captain Laserhawk: A Blood Dragon Remix (Netflix) and Isaac Newton in Doctor Who (BBC). His audio credits include: Torchwood – Cuckoo (Big Finish) and Auris (Audible).

Mariam Haque plays Neelam. Her theatre credits include When Winston Went To War With The Wireless (Donmar Warehouse), Folk (Hampstead Theatre, downstairs), The Living Newspaper (Royal Court), When the Crown Visit (The Kiln), Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth (RSC), Hometruths (Cardboard Citizens), Diana Of Dobsons (The New Vic), Dara and Behind the Beautiful Forevers (National Theatre), Almost Near & Hurried Steps (The Finborough Theatre), Crossed Keys (Eastern Angles), Invasion? (Tooting Arts Club), The House of Bilquis Bibi (Hampstead Theatre) and Monster Under the Bed (Polka Theatre). Her film and television credits include Joy (Netflix), Such Brave Girls, (BBC), Henpocalypse (BBC), Live at the Moth Club (Dave), What’s Happening? (Baby Cow), Plebs, The Finale (ITV), Midsomer Murders (ITV), Ladhood (BBC), Worzel Gummidge (BBC), This is Going To Hurt (BBC), What’s Love Got To Do With It (Studio Canal & Working Title), Pls Like (BBC), Finding Alive (ITV), Down From London (Topic), Trying (Apple), Homeland (Showtime), Flowers (Channel 4), Black Mirror and Shut Up & Dance (Netflix), Doctors, Eastenders, Holby City and Hunted (BBC), Benjamin & Wasteland (Open Palm Films) and Smear (Shadowhouse).

Anthony Howell plays Jeremy. His theatre work includes King Lear (Chichester Theatre/ATG), The Best Man (Bill Kenwright Ltd), The Heresy of Love and Julius Caesar (Shakespeare’s Globe), The Seagull (Southwark Playhouse), Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII (Shakespeare’s Globe), Jingo (Primavera), A Doll’s House and Portrait of a Lady (Theatre Royal Bath), The French Lieutenant’s Woman (Nick Brooke Ltd), The Lifeblood (Lifeblood Theatre Company), And Then There Were None (Act Productions), Romeo & Juliet, The Comedy of Errors and As You Like It (RSC), The Geometry of Miracles (Ex Machina) and The Promise (Dalia Ibelhauptaite). On television he has appeared in A Thousand Blows (Disney+), Fool Me Once (Quay Street Pictures / Netflix), This Town (Kudos/BBC), Outlander (Sony/Starz/Leftbank), This England (Revolutions Films/Sky), Ransom (CBS), Luther (BBC), Medici – Kingdom of Gold (Lux Vide & Big Light Productions). Apocalypse Slough (Working Title/NBC for Sky), Crossing Lines (NBC), Dracula (Sky/NBC), Mr Selfridge and Shetland (ITV), Dirk Gently (ITV Productions for BBC4), Foyles War (ITV), Hawking (BBC Films), The Other Boleyn Girl (BBC Films), Frances Fyfield’s Helen West (ITV), Swallow (Channel 4), Ultimate Force (ITV) and Wives and Daughters (BBC). On film he has appeared in Diamond Sky (Fortunes Cap Productions), Widow’s Walk (In Your Face Films), Woman In Gold (Origin Productions) and Dungeons & Dragons 3: The Book Of Vile Darkness (Silver Pictures).