Othello Cast
Rebecca Banatvala – Emilia
Theatre credits include: Summerfolk (National Theatre); Autumn (Park Theatre); Northanger Abbey
(Orange Tree, Bolton Octagon, SJT and TBTL); Sap (Roundabout, Soho Theatre, UK Tour); I F*cked
You In My Spaceship (VAULT Festival);Much AdoAbout Nothing (RSC);Mrs Puntila and her Man
Matti (Royal Lyceum Theatre); Rotterdam(UK Tour);The Three Musketeers (The Dukes); Trident Moon(Finborough Theatre).
Television credits include: Vigil (BBC); Grace (ITV); The Syndicate (BBC); Love, Death & Robots
(Netflix); Eastenders (BBC) and Emmerdale (ITV).
Film credits include: The Princess Switch 3 (Netflix); Prima Facie premiering at the London Film
Festival & Toronto International Film Festival 2026.
Radio: Snares (BBC Radio 4).
Chris Garner – Brabantio
Theatre credits include: Macbeth Alone (National Tour); Calendar Girls (Frinton); War Horse (National
Theatre); The School for Scandal (Bristol TF); The Country Girls, Antony and Cleopatra (Chichester); King Lear (Leeds Playhouse); 1984 (Northern Broadsides); Black Heart of Petty Malice (Soho, London); Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme (Hampstead Theatre); Henry VI Part 3 (RSC National and International tour).
Film and TV credits include: Coronation Street; In From The Side; The Children Act; The Hunt for Raoul Moat; Emmerdale; Mistresses; The Royal; Medics; Casualty; Rich Tea and Sympathy; Made in Heaven; Eastenders.
Radio credits: Home Front III; War of the Worlds; Windscale; Abel’s Law; The Radetsky March; If Not Now, When?; Hiawatha; Dear Little Burney; In a Summer Season; Going Clear; My Uncle Freddie.
Grace Hodgett Young – Bianca
Grace graduated from Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts in 2023.
Credits include: Punch (UK Tour); Sunset Boulevard (Savoy Theatre/St James Theatre NYC); Hadestown (Lyric Theatre) and What It Feels Like For A Girl (BBC/HERA PICTURES).
Grace is the winner of The Stage 2024 Debut Awards ‘Best Performer in a Musical’ for her role as Betty Schaefer in Sunset Boulevard.
Winner of the What’sOnStage 2024 Award for ‘BestProfessional Debut’ for her performance in Sunset
Boulevard.
2024 Olivier Award nominee for ‘Best Supporting Actress in a Musical’ for her performance in Sunset Boulevard.
Phoebe Smyth – Desdemona
Phoebe has recently graduated from LAMDA.
She is a founding member of Mycelium Theatre Company, with whom she co-devised and performed A Microscopic Odyssey at Theatre503 and the Golden Goose Theatre. Mycelium has since been invited to perform at Theatre Networking Talents Festival in Romania and Pleasance Courtyard at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
She has also starred in Frayed, a short film nominated at the Independent Shorts Awards.
Theatre whilst training includes: Romeo & Juliet; Liolà; 1972: The Future of Sex and New Labour.
Othello marks Phoebe’s professional stage debut.
Will Stanton – Cassio
Will trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA).
While his recent work has focused on screen, including an upcoming Disney+ production, returning to Shakespeare has been both a rewarding challenge and a reminder of why Will first
fell in love with acting.
Originally from London and now based in Newcastle, Will is passionate about storytelling in all its forms.
Television credits include: Untitled Star Wars Project (Disney+).
Film credits include: Stargazers; The Candy Witch; Don’t Speak; The Gardener.
Othello marks Will’s professional stage debut.
Matthieu Sys- Roderigo
Matthieu Sys is an actor working across theatre, film and television.
Theatre credits include: 300el x 50el x 30el (FC Bergman); Speak! (Stand Up Tall Productions); A History of Everything (Ontroerend Goed/ SidneyTheatre Company); Audience (Ontroerend Goed); ATM or This is [not] New York (Sponsored by Nobody); Rennen (Kopergietery).
Television credits include: Hidden Assets (RTÉ); Under Fire (Netflix); Professor T (ITV); Blackout (VRT); A Good Year (VTM); 13 Commandments (Channel 4); Amigo’s (VTM); In Flanders Fields (VRT).
Film credits include: The Pod Generation; Ventoux; Marry Me; Little Black Spiders; Ben X.
Maanuv Thiara – Iago
Maanuv trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
Theatre includes: Eclipse (Chichester Minerva Theatre); Boys on the Verge of Tears (Soho Theatre- winner of
Olivier Award – Achievement in Affiliate Theatre); Guards at the Taj (Orange Tree Theatre); The Cherry Orchard (Yard Theatre); The Father and the Assassin (National Theatre); Love N Stuff (Oldham Coliseum); Approaching Empty (KILN); The Funeral Director (Southwark Playhouse); Trojan Horse (Summerhall- Fringe First Winner); A Passage to India (Park Theatre), Hamlet (Harold Pinter Theatre); True Brits (UK tour); Twelfth
Night (Orange Tree Theatre).
Television includes: Trigger Point (ITV); Under Salt Marsh (Sky); Generation Z (Channel 4); Prime Target
(Apple); DI Ray (ITV- nominated for Best Actor RTS Awards); Landscapers (HBO); Ted Lasso (Apple);
Brassic S3 (Sky); Line of Duty (BBC); The Boy with the Topknot (BBC).
Film includes: The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry.
Audio includes: Peppa Pig; Mae Bee; Not the End of the World,; Our Friends in the North; The Mystery of Edwin
Drood.
Dwane Walcott – Othello
Theatre credits include: Hot Wing King ANNA, Damned by Despair (National Theatre); A Streetcar
Named Desire (Almeida/West End/BAM Theatre, NYC); Machinal (Almeida); Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare’s Globe); Moonlight/Night School (Harold Pinter); One Night in Miami, Coriolanus (Donmar Warehouse); Henry V (Regent’s Park); The Iphigenia Quartet (Gate Theatre); Hamlet (Barbican); The Twits (Royal Court); Titus Andronicus, A Mad World, My Masters & Candide (RSC); Romeo and Juliet (Stafford Shakespeare
Festival); Torque (Bush Theatre); The Fiddler & Life on the Stairs (Faith Drama Productions).
Television credits include: Saviour (ITV); Believe Me (ITV); A Town Called Malice (Sky Max); Enterprise (BBC); Into the Badlands (AMC); Our Girl (BBC); Doctors (BBC); and Tut (Spike).
Film credits include: The Thing with Feathers and Mindhorn (Scott Free/BBC Film).