Bryan Cranston is an Academy Award nominee, and an Emmy, Screen Actors Guild, Tony, and Olivier Award winner. He made his Broadway debut as President Lyndon B. Johnson in All the Way, in which he won a Tony Award, and went onto star in Ivo Van Hove’s Network at the National Theatre and on Broadway – winning the Olivier and Tony Award. He is well known for his portrayal of Walter White on Breaking Bad, from Showtime’s hit drama series, Your Honor, which he also executive produced, and for his role in Trumbo, which garnered him an Academy Award and BAFTA nomination. He can currently be seen in Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s comedy, The Studio, on Apple TV+; and will be re-teaming with Wes Anderson in The Phoenician Scheme; and starring in Everything’s Going To Be Great opposite Allison Janney. He will soon begin production on the Malcolm in the Middle revival for Disney+, and the upcoming dark comedy feature Chili Finger opposite John Goodman and Judy Greer.Bryan Cranston is an Academy Award nominee, and an Emmy, Screen Actors Guild, Tony, and Olivier Award winner. He made his Broadway debut as President Lyndon B. Johnson in All the Way, in which he won a Tony Award, and went onto star in Ivo Van Hove’s Network at the National Theatre and on Broadway – winning the Olivier and Tony Award. He is well known for his portrayal of Walter White on Breaking Bad, from Showtime’s hit drama series, Your Honor, which he also executive produced, and for his role in Trumbo, which garnered him an Academy Award and BAFTA nomination. He can currently be seen in Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s comedy, The Studio, on Apple TV+; and will be re-teaming with Wes Anderson in The Phoenician Scheme; and starring in Everything’s Going To Be Great opposite Allison Janney. He will soon begin production on the Malcolm in the Middle revival for Disney+, and the upcoming dark comedy feature Chili Finger opposite John Goodman and Judy Greer.
Marianne Jean-Baptiste most recently starred as Pansy in Mike Leigh’s critically acclaimed film Hard Truths for which she was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role and swept the Best Actress trifecta at the New York Film Critics Circle, Los Angeles Film Critics Association and National Society of Film Critics. She received international acclaim for her role in Mike Leigh’s Secrets & Lies receiving nominations for Best Supporting Actress at the Academy Awards, the Golden Globes and the BAFTA Awards. She is also known for her role as Vivian Johnson in the TV series Without a Trace and has starred in multiple TV dramas including Blind Spot, Homecoming and The Following Events Are Based on a Pack of Lies. On stage she has appeared in The Amen Corner at the National Theatre.
Paapa Essiedu is an acclaimed British actor with a career spanning television, film, and theatre, garnering many nominations throughout his career including a Primetime Emmy nomination and BAFTA TV nomination for his breakout performance in Michaela Coel’s era defining show, I May Destroy You. Essiedu also earned a Best Actor BAFTA TV nomination for his work in Joe Barton’s time loop thriller series, The Lazarus Project in which he starred for two seasons. Essiedu’s upcoming work includes Babies, a six-part drama series for the BBC opposite Siobhán Cullen, written and directed by Stefan Golaszewski. Paapa is celebrated for his theatre work; his most recent performance in Death of England: Delroy, the second play in Clint Dyer and Roy Williams’ state-of-the-nation trilogy, earned him an Olivier nomination for Best Actor. Prior to this, Paapa starred in Jamie Lloyd’s critically acclaimed production of Lucy Prebble’s play, The Effect at the National Theatre in 2023, starring opposite Taylor Russell. The Effect transferred to The Shed, New York. Other theatre work includes, A Number directed by Lyndsey Turner, starring opposite Lennie James, and Simon Godwin’s lauded production of Hamlet at the RSC. Further screen credits include season 6 of the cult anthology series, Black Mirror, in Demon 79 (Netflix); The Capture (BBC1/NBC Universal); Alex Garland’s Men (A24); Gangs of London (Sky).
Tom Glynn-Carney stars as Aegon II Targaryen in HBO’s fantasy drama series House of the Dragon. His film credits include Peter Dawson in Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk and Henry ‘Hotspur’ Percy in The King. His theatre credits include starring as Shane Corcoran in Jez Butterworth’s The Ferryman at the Royal Court, the Gielgud Theatre in the West End and at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre on Broadway. For his portrayal of Shane, he won both the Emerging Talent Award at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play. His other TV credits include the BBC’s SAS: Rogue Heroes and Mayflies.
Hayley Squires starred as Katie in the Ken Loach film I, Daniel Blake, for which she was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role and the British Independent film Award for Best Actress and won Best Supporting Actress at the Evening Standard British Film Awards and Most Promising Newcomer at the British Independent Film Awards. For her portrayal of Jolene Dollar in the television series Adult Material she won the International Emmy Award for Best Actress and was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actreess. Hayley’s previous West End theatre credits include Mae in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at the Apollo Theatre and Sarah in The Lover and Stella in The Collection, both at the Harold Pinter Theatre. As a playwright, Hayley’s first play Vera, Vera, Vera was produced by the Royal Court in 2012.
Aliyah Odoffin’s first role after graduating was Amara in Working Title’s TV series, Everything I Know About Love, for which she received a nomination for Best Breakthrough Talent at the Edinburgh TV Awards. Her theatre debut was in Clybourne Park at the Park Theatre, followed by Sleepova at The Bush theatre, with the production winning an Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Affiliate Theatre. She most recently completed filming two series of A Thousand Blows for Disney+
Richard Hansell’s recent theatre credits include The 47th at the Old Vic theatre. His West End theatre credits include the Young Vic’s production of Cat On A Hot Tin Roof and The Madness of King George III, both at the Apollo Theatre, Macbeth at Trafalgar Studios, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, School For Scandal and Hamlet, all at the New Ambassadors Theatre and A View From the Bridge at both the Wyndham’s Theatre and on Broadway. His other theatre credits includes Lazarus at the King’s Cross Theatre, As You Like It and The Tempest for The Bridge Project at the Old Vic and the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Troilus and Cressida for Shakespeare’s Globe and A Patriot For Me and Two Gentlemen Of Verona for the RSC. His television credits include Anne, Traces, And Then There Were None, Downton Abbey, Spooks, The Royal, Miracle Landing On The Hudson, E=MC2, and on film his credits include Stella, The Secret Garden, Shine, The Wolfman, and Hamlet.
Zach Wyatt’s theatre credits include Pericles for the Royal Shakespeare Company, A Little Life in the West End, Bartholomew Fair and The Merry Wives of Windsor at The Globe, Wild East at the Young Vic and I And You at Hampstead Theatre. Film credits include Timestalker, and Blithe Spirit. His television credits includes Karen Pirie Series 1 and 2 for ITV, The Witcher : Blood Origin for Netflix and Urban Myths: Hendrix and Handel for Sky.
Arthur Miller (1915–2005) was born in New York City and studied at the University of Michigan. His plays include The Man Who Had All the Luck (1944), All My Sons (1947), Death of a Salesman (1949), The Crucible (1953), A View from the Bridge and A Memory of Two Mondays (1955), After the Fall (1964), Incident at Vichy (1964), The Price (1968), The Creation of the World and Other Business (1972), The Archbishop’s Ceiling (1977), The American Clock (1980) and Playing for Time (1980). Later plays include The Ride Down Mt. Morgan (1991), The Last Yankee (1993), Broken Glass (1994), Mr. Peters’ Connections (1998) and Resurrection Blues (2002). Among his other works are Situation Normal (1944), the novel Focus (1945), screenplay The Misfits (1960), and texts for In Russia (1969), In the Country (1977), and Chinese Encounters (1979), three books in collaboration with his wife, photographer Inge Morath. Memoirs include ‘Salesman’ in Beijing (1984), and Timebends, an autobiography (1987). Short fiction includes the collection I Don’t Need You Any More (1967), the novella Homely Girl, a Life (1995) and Presence: Stories (2007). Essay collections published in his lifetime include The Theater Essays of Arthur Miller (1978) and Echoes Down the Corridor: Collected Essays 1944–2000, as well as individually published volumes ‘The Crucible’ in History (2000) and On Politics and the Art of Acting (2001). He was awarded the Avery Hopwood Award for Playwriting at University of Michigan in 1936. He twice won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, received two Emmy Awards and three Tony Awards for his plays, as well as a Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement. He was named Jefferson Lecturer for the National Endowment for the Humanities in 2001. Among other honors, he received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the John F. Kennedy Lifetime Achievement Award.
Ivo Van Hove is an award-winning auteur director who has served as the General Director of the prestigious International Theatre Amsterdam (formerly Toneelgroep Amsterdam) from 2001 until 2023. From 2024 until 2026 he is Artistic Director of Ruhrtriennale festival. His acclaimed productions continue to tour around the world and have earned him many international accolades, including a Tony Award, an Olivier Award, two Obie Awards, and multiple others in France, Belgium, and the Netherlands. Van Hove is dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France, a Commander of the Order of the Crown in Belgium, and the recipient of the 2019 Johannes Vermeer Award, the Dutch state prize of the arts. Broadway & West End highlights include Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life, West Side Story, The Human Voice with Ruth Wilson; Network with Bryan Cranston; The Crucible with Saoirse Ronan, Ben Whishaw, and Ciarán Hinds; A View from the Bridge with Mark Strong; All About Eve with Gillian Anderson and Lily James; and Lazarus, which he created with David Bowie and Enda Walsh. Select International credits include Shakespeare’s Roman Tragedies and Kings of War, Ingmar Bergman’s Scenes from a Marriage, Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead, Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler with Ruth Wilson, Luchino Visconti’s Obsession with Jude Law, Anne Carson’s translation of Antigone with Juliette Binoche, and Tennessee Williams’ La menagerie de Verre with Isabelle Huppert. Opera directing highlights include Opera credits include Salome for Dutch National Opera; Boris Godunov and Don Giovanni for Paris Opéra; the world premiere Brokeback Mountain for Teatro Real Madrid; Macbeth for Opéra de Lyon; La clemenza di Tito and Idomeneo for La Monnaie De Munt; Lulu and Der Ring des Nibelungen at Opera Antwerp; Mazeppa for Komische Oper Berlin; Mahagonny in the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence.