CAST
Creative
Bryan Cranston
Joe Keller
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
Kate Keller
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
Chris Keller
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
George Deever
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
Ann Deever
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
Lydia Lubey
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+
Cath Whitefield
Sue Bayliss
Theatre includes: The Grapes of Wrath (National Theatre); The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (Birmingham Rep); The Tempest, Othello (RSC); Into The Woods (Theatre Royal Bath); The Wolf The Duck and The Mouse, Mr Holgado, The Legend of Captain Crow’s Teeth (Unicorn Theatre); Don Juan (Perth Theatre); Adler & Gibb (In Company Collective/Royal Court/International Tour); Measure for Measure, Elektra (Young Vic); Cyrano De Bergerac (Royal and Derngate/Northern Stage); Bondagers, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Royal Lyceum Edinburgh); Medea (National Theatre); A Life of Galileo (Birmingham Rep/Bath Theatre Royal/Tour); The Jungle Book (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Barrow Hill (Finborough Theatre); Bitch Boxer (Soho Theatre); Beyond the Gate, Electra, How To Be An Other Woman, Hedda, The Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents (The Gate); Between Dog and Wolf (Oran Mor/Paines Plough); Hansel and Gretel (Catherine Wheels); The Caucasian Chalk Circle (National Theatre/Filter); Gobbo, Home East Lothian, Mancub (National Theatre of Scotland); State of Grace (King’s Head); Charlotte’s Webb (Citizen’s Theatre); Lost Ones (Vanishing Point); Platform (ICA); Fierce (Grid Iron).
TV & Film includes: Obsession, His Dark Materials, Don’t Forget the Driver, Black Earth Rising, Holby City, Next of Kin, Above Suspicion: Red Dahlia, Hell’s Pavement.
Richard Hansell
Dr Jim Bayliss
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
Frank Lubey
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.
Charles Dark
Bert
Charles is mentored by acting coach Ben Cogan and continues his training at Stagecoach. He made his professional debut this year at the National Theatre.
Credits: Young Harry in Inter Alia at the National Theatre
Charles is represented by Ardent Talent
Sammy Jones
Bert
Training: Performing Herts, St Albans
Credits: Sammy recently appeared in Oliver! At the Gielgud Theatre playing Sidney Chattoway, previous to this he appeared in Jack at the Beanstalk at The London Palladium playing Nicholas. Sammy appeared on Britain’s Got Talent live finals as a guest performer alongside the Oliver company
Sammy is thrilled to be joining All My Sons.
Zayne Tayabali
Bert
Training: The Boury Academy
Zayne is a natural entertainer who loves to act, sing, rap and dance. He recently made his West End Debut as Little Michael in MJ The Musical which he thoroughly enjoyed. He is excited to be part of this production and happy for this opportunity to continue sharing his love of acting on stage, working alongside such renowned actors.
Claire Curtis-Ward
U/S Ann & Lydia
Claire is a British-American actor who trained at the London Academy of Dramatic Arts.
Theatre: Life x 3, Fable, The Enchantment and Vigil.
Screen: Harlem (Amazon Prime), The Crowded Room (Appletv+) and independent films Homing Instinct and Lost Nation.
Claire is delighted to be part of the exceptional company of All My Sons at the Wyndham’s Theatre. This marks her West End Theatre Debut.
Lorna Lowe
U/S Kate & Sue
Training: Shakespeare & Company; London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art (LAMDA)
Theatre Includes: The Other Place, A Little Life, Boris the Third, Witness for the Prosecution, Hamlet, All My Sons
Television Includes: Say Nothing, Black Doves, FBI International, The Man Who Fell to Earth
Films Include: Cleaner
Oliver McLellan
U/S George & Frank
Theatre credits include: Bonfire (Sheffield Crucible), Pericles (Riverside Studios), The Tempest (Craiova International Shakespeare Festival). Oliver trained at Drama Centre London.
John Vernon
U/S Joe & Dr Jim
John Vernon trained at Coventry School of Drama and studied Creative arts at Crewe and Alsager College.
Theatre: For the National Theatre: The Importance of Being Earnest, Coriolanus, London Tide, Dear Octopus and The Red Lion
In London’s West End: Giant, Noises Off, Mad House, COCK, Uncle Vanya, Bitter Wheat, The Price, King Lear and The Birthday Party
Other theatre includes: Measure for Measure at RSC; The Seagull at Barbican Centre; Eureka Day at the Old Vic; North by Northwest and Pressure at the Royal Alexandra, Toronto; A Room with a View (also on tour) and Hobson’s Choice (also West End) at Theatre Royal Bath; Pygmalion at Vienna’s English Theatre; In Broad Daylight at the Tricycle; Ben & Joe’s at the King’s Head; Macbeth at Pentameters, Hampstead; Hamlet at the Rose, Chelsea; Tess of the d’Urbervilles at the Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh; and Orion and the Great Bear at the Traverse, Edinburgh and the Warehouse, Croydon; QRs and AIs Clearly State, King’s Head; Translations at George Wood Theatre.
TV: DI Ray Season 2, Call the Midwife, Doctors, Longford, The Knock, EastEnders, The Bill, Heartbeat, Medics, Harry Enfield Show, Poirot, Brief Encounter and The New Adventures of Robin Hood
Film: Russian Whispers, Ma part du Gâteau, Princess in Love and Warrior Angels.
Arthur Miller
Writer
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
Director
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.
Jan Versweyveld
Scenic & Lighting Designer
An D’Huys
Costume Designer
Tom Gibbons
Sound Designer
Julia Horan CDG
Casting
Alice Wordsworth
Associate Director
Al Turner
Associate Designer
Hector Murray
Associate Lighting Designer
Alex Twiselton
Associate Sound Designer
Becca Chadder
Assistant Director
Christophe Eynde
Assistant Set Designer
Poppy Hall
Costume Supervisor
Fahmida Bakht
Props Supervisor
Hazel Holder
Voice & Dialect Coach
Kev McKurdy
Fight Director