Josh Dylan and Phoebe Horn join Gillian Anderson and Billy Crudup in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

The full company has been announced for Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, with Josh Dylan and Phoebe Horn confirmed as Nick and Honey opposite the previously announced Gillian Anderson and Billy Crudup. Directed in-the-round by Marianne Elliott, the production plays a strictly limited season at @sohoplace from 21 September to 19 December 2026.

Set in the early hours of the morning on an American college campus, the play follows Martha and George as they invite young new professor Nick and his wife Honey back for after-party drinks, only for the couple to be drawn into their hosts’ toxic games as the night wears on towards a devastating reckoning.

Who are Josh Dylan and Phoebe Horn?

Playing Nick is Josh Dylan, a screen actor best known for playing the young Bill Anderson (opposite Stellan Skarsgård’s older incarnation) in Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again. His television credits include leading roles in The End of the F***ing World, Noughts + Crosses, Allied and Masters of the Air, alongside a role in Apple TV+’s The Buccaneers. He recently starred in the BAFTA-nominated film H Is for Hawk opposite Claire Foy and Brendan Gleeson, and will next appear in BritBox’s Tommy & Tuppence alongside Imelda Staunton, and in the feature film Scorn opposite Adria Arjona.

Phoebe Horn, playing Honey, brings notable stage pedigree to the role. Her theatre credits include Tom Stoppard’s Rock ‘n’ Roll, Sam Mendes’ production of The Motive and the Cue alongside Mark Gatiss and Johnny Flynn, and Simon Godwin’s Much Ado About Nothing at the National Theatre. On screen, she has appeared in the BAFTA-winning Call the Midwife and recently starred in Mark Gatiss’ BBC film A Ghost Story for Christmas: Woman of Stone.

They join Gillian Anderson, the two-time Emmy and Golden Globe winner known for The X-Files and The Crown, as Martha, and Tony winner Billy Crudup, currently starring in Apple TV+’s The Morning Show, as George, a role that follows his professional stage breakthrough as Septimus Hodge in the original Broadway production of Arcadia.

First look at rehearsals

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Rehearsal images have also been released showing the company at work as rehearsals begin this week, offering the first glimpse of Anderson, Crudup, Dylan and Horn together ahead of the production’s September opening.

The full company

The understudy company comprises Alex Cartuson as Understudy Nick, Jessica Kirton as Understudy Martha, Georgia Miles as Understudy Honey, marking her West End debut, and Simon Willmont as Understudy George.

Alongside the casting, producers have also released 5,500 front-row seats across the run, though with the production already sold out, availability remains extremely limited.

The creative team includes designer Miriam Buether, lighting designer James Farncombe, sound designer Ian Dickinson, movement and intimacy director Ingrid Mackinnon, and casting directors Jim Carnahan and Liz Fraser. The production is produced in the West End by Sonia Friedman Productions and Winkler & Smalberg, in association with Nica Burns.