Oedipus Tickets

Multi-award-winning actor Mark Strong returns to the stage. He previously appeared in A View from the Bridge directed by Ivo Van Hove (Young Vic, West End and Broadway - Olivier and Critics Circle Awards for Best Actor and Tony Award nomination); The Red Barn, Patrick Marber’s Closer, Death of a Salesman, Murmuring Judges, Fuente Ovejuna, Napoli Milionaria, King Lear and Richard III (National Theatre); Twelfth Night and Uncle Vanya (Donmar Warehouse – Olivier Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor); Speed the Plow (New Ambassadors Theatre); The Iceman Cometh (Almeida Theatre); The Thickness of Skin and The Treatment (Royal Court Theatre); Hess is Dead, The Plantagenets and The Man Who Came To Dinner (RSC). His television credits include Temple (also series Executive Producer); Deep State; Low Winter Sun; The Long Firm (Broadcast Guild Award for Best Actor and BAFTA nomination); Prime Suspect; The Jury; Anna Karenina; Our Friends in the North and the forthcoming Dune: Prophecy and The Penguin with Colin Farrell (HBO) as well as 9 Perfect Strangers (Hulu/Amazon). An acclaimed film actor, he recently appeared in The Critic with Ian McKellen; Dead Shot with Felicity Jones; Nocebo with Eva Green; Murder Mystery 2 with Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston (Netflix) and in The End We Start From with Jodie Comer; Shadow Force opposite Omar Sy and Kerry Washington and Atlas opposite Jennifer Lopez. His other film credits include Todd Field’s Tar with Cate Blanchett; Sam Mendes’ 1917; Miss Sloane with Jessica Chastain; Cruella alongside Emma Stone; The Imitation Game with Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley; The Kingsman films with Taron Egerton and Colin Firth; Before I Go To Sleep with Nicole Kidman; Thomas Alfredson’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy with Gary Oldman; Peter Weir’s The Way Back; John Michael McDonagh’s The Guard; Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood with Russell Crowe; Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes with Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law; Martin Campbell’s Green Lantern; The Young Victoria opposite Emily Blunt; Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty; Danny Boyle’s Sunshine; Stephen Gaghan’s Syriana with George Clooney; Roman Polanski’s Oliver Twist and Thomas Vinterberg’s It’s All About Love.

is a multi awarding winning stage, film and television actress. Her recent theatre has included Ghosts (Almeida, West End and BAM New York) for which she won a Best Actress Olivier Award and Critics Circle Award. She also received Best Actress Olivier nominations for Long Day's Journey Into Night (Bristol Old Vic, Wyndhams, BAM New York and LA) and Grief (National Theatre). Other recent theatre includes The Visit at the National Theatre and Talking Heads at The Bridge. Her early career was dominated by work at the Royal Court Theatre working on new plays including Top Girls, Serious Money, Rita, Sue and Bob Too and Borderline as well as classics such as Three Sisters, The Popes Wedding and Saved. For the RSC, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, As You Like It, The Philistines and The Wives Excuse. For the National Theatre, His Dark Materials, Pillars of the Community, Her Naked Skin and The Alchemist. For The Old Vic, All About My Mother and Six Degrees of Seperation. In the West End, The Cherry Orchard and Some Girls. Lesley received an Academy Award Best Supporting Actress and BAFTA nomination for her role in Paul Thomas Anderson’s film Phantom Thread. She played the title role in Mrs Harris Goes to Paris for which she received a Golden Globe nomination. She has worked extensively with director Mike Leigh. Most notably on Another Year for which she won the prestigious NBR Best Actress Award, The Critics Circle Award and also received BAFTA and BIFA nominations. Other films with Mike Leigh are All Or Nothing (Critics Circle Best Actress Award), Topsy-Turvy, Mr Turner, High Hopes, Secrets and Lies, Vera Drake and Grown Ups. Other films include, Back to Black, The Critic, Oridnary Love, Let Him Go, Misbehaviour and Malificent 1&2. Lesley’s extensive television career has seen her work on many highly acclaimed and awarding winning shows. For her role as Princess Margaret in the final 2 seasons of The Crown, Lesley has received a Primetime Emmy and BAFTA nomination. Sherwood won her a BAFTA Supporting Actress nomination as did River. She did 3 series of the BBC’s Mum which won her an RTS Comedy Performance Award and 2 BAFTA nominations. Other TV includes, Citadel, Magpie Murders I Am Maria, Harlots, Save Me Too, Talking Heads, World on Fire, North and South, Cranford and Other People's Children and Bodily Harm, receiving RTS Best Actress nominations for both. TV to come includes Alfonso Cuarón’s Disclaimer, Moonflower Murders, Citadel 2 and Ryan Murphy’s Grotesquerie. Lesley was appointed an OBE in 2015 and promoted to CBE in 2021.

Samuel Brewer was recently nominated for Best West End Debut by The Stage for his role in the West End run of Oedipus. He is Co-Artistic Director of international touring theatre company FlawBored. Their debut show, It’s a Motherf**king Pleasure (which he co-wrote and starred in), won the Untapped Award and went on to be selected as one of the Edinburgh Fringe Five 2023, before touring nationally and internationally (U.S. tour: SoHo Playhouse, Woolly Mammoth and ArtsEmerson). FlawBored’s second show, What’s the F**king Point?, is currently in development and was commissioned by Unlimited. He is currently developing a TV series with The Story Collective. Theatre credits include: It’s a Motherf**king Pleasure (Southbank Centre, various); Frankenstein (Parkwood Theatres); Fahrenheit 451 (Complicité). Development credits include: Odd and the Frost Giants (Unicorn Theatre); Otto Weidt’s Brush and Broom Workshop (Leeds Playhouse); The Sleeping Sword (Development, Watermill Theatre). Other credits: Skulduggery Pleasant: A Small Matter of Impending Catastrophe (Voice Over).

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Jordan Scowen is a graduate of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and will be making his Broadway debut reprising his role of Eteocles in Robert Icke’s Olivier awarding winning production of Oedipus. Television credits: Belgravia: The Next Chapter (MGM+/Carnival), Masters of the Air (Apple TV+), Casualty (BBC), Home (Channel 4), Urban Myths (SKY), Doctors (BBC). Film Credits: Horrible Histories: The Movie (BBC FILMS). Theatre credits: Oedipus (Wyndham’s Theatre), The History Boys (Wolverhampton Grand). 

James Wilbraham is a Welsh actor and graduate of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. Television credits include: Tom Jones (ITV/PBS), SAS: Rogue Heroes (BBC), In My Skin (BBC), Ordinary Lies (BBC), Pobol y Cwm (BBC Wales), Gwaith/Cartref (Fiction Factory). Theatre credits include Ikaria (UK tour). Roles at RWCMD include Den (The Electric), Sebastian (All That I Am), Feste/Student (Twelfth Night Remembered), Angelo (Measure for Measure), and Captain Brice (Arcadia). 

Broadway: The Tempest (Caliban) with Patrick Stewart, A Raisin In The Sun (Asagai) with Phylicia Rashad, and The Crucible directed by Ivo van Hove. London, West End: “Debate, Baldwin vs Buckley” (James Baldwin). Selected television and film: Queen America (series regular) with Catherine Zeta-Jones, Law & Order SVU (Phillip Baptiste/recurring), The Blacklist, Bull, The Mist, The Path, Cosby, The Big C, The Job, A Gifted Man, Conviction, What The Deaf Man Heard, eight episodes for the various Law & Order franchises. Film: Night At The Museum, The Pelican Brief, Two Weeks Notice, and The Imposters. Selected Off-Broadway includes The New Englanders, Manhattan Theater Club (AUDELCO Award - Lead Actor in a Play); The Beast In the Jungle, Vineyard Theater, directed by Susan Stroman; Is God Is, Soho Rep; A Last Dance For Sybil by Ossie Davis, starring Ruby Dee; and Coriolanus at the New York Shakespeare Festival. Coriolanus was Mr. Bougere’s 13th appearance with the New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater. Past turns at the festival include Plato in Socrates; Casca in Julius Caesar; and Eros in Antony and Cleopatra, directed by and starring Vanessa Redgrave. Regionally Teagle created the title role in the world premiere stage adaptation of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man. The production played at Court Theatre in Chicago, Studio Theatre in Washington, D.C., and Boston’s Huntington Theatre. At the Pittsburgh Public Theater, he played The Poet in the one-man show An Iliad. For five seasons (1990-95), he was a member of the resident acting company at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. For Jay.

Off-Broadway: Shit. Meet. Fan., Coriolanus. Northwestern: Schiller’s Mary Stuart, Julius Caesar, Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Betties, Fefu and Her Friends. TV: FBI: Most Wanted, Only Murders in the Building. Olivia is a graduate of Northwestern University.

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