Lead Sponsor:
Michael R. Klein and Joan I. Fabry
Ralph and Bobbi Terkowitz
Additional Support:
This project is supported in part by
Production Sponsors:
Jerrilyn Andrews and Donald Hesse
Nan Beckley
Michael Beriss and Jean Carlson
Monica and David Dixon
Alexander Leff
Abbe Lowell and Molly Meegan
Michael and Maureen McMurphy and the Patrick Michael McMurphy Memorial Foundation
REGIONAL: The Nutcracker; Live, Love C&C; The Great Gatsby; Heaven Hop; We Go Together. OTHER: Madam C.J. Walker (presentation). AWARDS: Revolution Talent—1st Place (Wash That Man). PERSONAL: she/her | Lexie is a protégé of Linda Townsend Management | She is a competitive dancer (multiple genres) | Training: C&C Dance Company.
INTERNATIONAL: UK: National Theatre: Tartuffe | Germany: Globe Theatre: Inigo, Twelfth Night. TV: The State (Channel 4), Tyrant (FX, Sky), The Attack: Terror in the U.K. (BBC), Glow & Darkness, The Girl Before (HBO), Silverpoint (BBC). PERSONAL: Fayez grew up in Reading, Berkshire to Yemeni parents. In addition to acting, he is a keen rapper, poet, martial artist, and illustrator. | Training: Drama Studio.
INTERNATIONAL: London: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. TV: Holby City, Joe Orton: Laid Bare. FILM: Undergods. PERSONAL: Training: London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
INTERNATIONAL: Indian Ballet performance, Fashion Walk, Traditional Ballet. TV: PBS Kids. OTHER: Sterling Ballet: The Nutcracker | Armstrong Elementary: Annual school performance. PERSONAL: Parinika is a gifted child; she loves art, music, and sports | Parinika speaks English, Hindi, Sindhi, Telugu, and Japanese | Represented by Linda Townsend Management | Training: TV acting, Indian music vocals, ballet, piano.
TOUR: International Tour: Yasser. INTERNATIONAL: UK: Royal Shakespeare Company: Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, Dido, Queen of Carthage | Sam Wanamaker Playhouse: Voices in the Dark. TV: Alexander the Great (Netflix), Tutankhamun (ITV), Tyrant (Fox). FILM: The 355 (Paramount), Mosul (AGBO), Hologram for the King (Playtone), Four Lions (Film4). PERSONAL: Waleed is a Sudanese British trained actor/writer, born in Khartoum and raised in the UK. He is 2020 Sundance Theatre Lab alumni as an artist-in-residence writer.
INTERNATIONAL: France: Declic. TV: Modern Family, Gloria, Un Si Grand Soleil. FILM: Mission: Impossible – Fallout, Disco Boy, Sparring. PERSONAL: Max Geller is a French actor and is delighted to be part of the cast of The Jungle for its US tour.
NEW YORK: Off-Broadway: The Public Theater: Borders & Crossings | St. Ann’s Warehouse: The Jungle. INTERNATIONAL: Pakistan: Backstage Productions: Hats. UAE: Dubai Theatre: Guys and Dolls. FILM: Sweetness in the Belly (alongside Dakota Fanning). PERSONAL: Mylène is an award-winning Eritrean actress and voiceover artist based in London. She is fluent in five languages.
TOUR: UK Tour: The Jungle, The Knight and the Crescent Hare. INTERNATIONAL: UK: Marylebone Theatre: Dmitry | Finborough Theatre: Returning to Haifa | National Theatre/Birmingham Repertory Theatre: LOVE | Royal Court Theatre: Goats, Told From the Inside | The Cockpit: Kan Yama | The Mosaic Rooms: Mawlana | Wildworks: The Great Survey of Hastings, Babel | Dash Arts: One Thousand and One Nights. Austria: Schauspielhaus: SHTF. TV (selected): Casualty, HOME, Agatha Raisin, Letters from Baghdad. FILM: London Tomorrow, ALEGNA, Wall, Round Trip, Wada’an, Monologue. PERSONAL: Training: Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts (Damascus, Syria).
TOUR: UK Tour: The Greatest Play in the History of the World. INTERNATIONAL: UK: Royal Exchange Theatre: Mouther Courage and Her Children, The Almighty Sometimes, Wit, Black Roses: The Killing of Sophie Lancaster, Blindsided | Royal Court Theatre: The Report, God Bless the Child | Leeds Playhouse: There Are No Beginnings. TV: You & Me, The Pact, The A Word, Doctor Who, Catastrophe, Broadchurch, Happy Valley, Black Roses: The Killing of Sophie Lancaster, Inside No 9, Cucumber, Coronation Street. PERSONAL: Julie is a Manchester-based actor, writer, and theatre-maker. She co-runs Take Back, a political theatre collective, and she is the author of A Working Diary and An Actor’s Alphabet.
INTERNATIONAL: UK: Royal Exchange Theatre: Glee & Me | Almeida Theatre: The Doctor | National Theatre: Top Girls. TV: Disclaimer (Apple TV), The Serpent Queen (Starz), Elizabeth is Missing (STV), The Great (MRC/Hulu), Snatches - Reclaim the Night, Three Girls (BBC). FILM: This is Winter (DMC Films), The Little Stranger (Potboiler Productions), The Fight (Unstoppable Entertainment), Jellyfish (Nik Holttum Productions).
TOURS: US Tour: Cirque Dreams: Holidaze, Jungle Fantasy. UK Tour: Tui Cruises, Cirque Mother Africa. PERSONAL: Salih is a professional, multi-talented Circus artist from Tigray in the northern part of Ethiopia. He has travelled with Circus tours and Cruise Ships around the world.
TOUR: UK tour: Barbershop Chronicles. INTERNATIONAL: UK: Royal Court Theatre: Is God Is | Young Vic: The Convert | The Bunker Theatre: No One Is Coming To Save You.
TOUR: UK Tour: The Jungle. International Tour: Borderline. INTERNATIONAL: UK: Good Chance: Encampment | Belarus Free Theatre, OTHER: Kung Fu: Tehran Kung Fu Show, National Kung Fu Festival of Iran. PERSONAL: Yasin is a Kung Fu Master from Iran and was part of the National Iranian Kung Fu team. | Teaching: Payame Noor University | Training: Business Management degree, London’s Mountview Academy of Acting.
TOUR: UK Tour: The Jungle. INTERNATIONAL: UK: National Theatre: Hotel | Belgrade Theatre: Promise | Tricycle Theatre: Love is Not Enough, Will Today Ever End?. Germany: The English Theatre of Hamburg: The Whipping Man. TV: Bodyguard, Doctors, My Left Nut, First Ladies, Treason, Desperate Measures, This Way Up, Motherland, Breeders, War of the Worlds. FILM: The Creeping, A Banquet, A Christmas No.1, The Ballad of Olive Morris.
INTERNATIONAL: Stirling Productions: The War | LNG Productions: Save the Date. TV: HMS Murder (Channel 5), Better (BBC), Lockwood & Co (Netflix), COBRA (Sky), Coronation Street (ITV). PERSONAL: Twana is a British citizen of Kurdish heritage who developed an interest in the performing arts as a teen. He resides in the North of England and is an experienced barber. Twana is delighted to be joining the cast of The Jungle
INTERNATIONAL: UK: National Theatre, Royal Court Theatre, Globe Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company. TV (selected): Detectorists (dir. Mackenzie Crook). FILM (selected): Peterloo (dir. Mike Leigh), The Gentlemen (dir. Guy Ritchie).
TOUR: UK Tour: The Jungle. International Tour: A Doll’s House. INTERNATIONAL: West End: A Woman of No Importance | Young Vic: The Cherry Orchard | National Theatre: Medea. TV: The Crown, Catastrophe (C4/Apple), Law & Order.
PERSONAL: Fedrat was born in Kabul, Afghanistan in 1997 and moved to the UK in 2004 where he embarked on his creative journey. He studied the dramatic arts from school through university while also performing in films, theatre, and producing plays for severely disabled youths.
TOUR: UK Tour: The Jungle, Rain Rain, Borderline. International Tour: Borderline. INTERNATIONAL: Theatre-Rites/Manchester International Festival: The Welcoming Party | Good Chance: Encampment, The Hope Show. PERSONAL: Mohamed is a Sudanese musician and actor based in the UK. As part of the Good Chance Ensemble, Mohamed co-wrote and recorded a world music album Sounds of Refuge with John Falsetto and Ammar Haj Ahmad.
TOUR: UK Tour: The Jungle.PERSONAL: Milan is a performer from Iran. He made his theatrical debut in The Jungle at the Young Vic, London which was followed by a West End run and a transfer to St. Ann’s Warehouse in New York and Curran Theatre San Francisco.
TOUR: UK Tour: The Kite Runner, As You Like It, Measure For Measure, Habeus Corpus. International Tour: RSC’s The Merchant of Venice. INTERNATIONAL: National Theatre: My Brilliant Friend | Young Vic: The Soldier’s Fortune | Wyndham’s Theatre: The Kite Runner, As You Like It | Royal Lyceum: The Illiad | Royal Court: Maiden Voices from the Uprising | Donmar Warehouse: Richard II, Caligula | Almeida Theatre: Awake and Sing. TV: The Ipcress File, Casualty, Doctor Who. FILM: Six Days, 300: Rise of an Empire, The Fifth Estate, Adulthood, Syriana.
INTERNATIONAL: Our War, The Creek, Coventry Moves. OTHER: He has performed at Dennis Severs’ House in Spitalfields, London, in a revival of their legendary theatrical tour. PERSONAL: Having worked in a legal clinic focused on the experiences of Nigerian asylum applicants in Italy, this play is close to his heart. | Training: National Youth Theatre, Belgrade Theatre, Vault Festival’s Young Company.
INTERNATIONAL: Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts: Boy, Gravel Heart (Measure for Measure), After The Fall, Pomona. PERSONAL: The Jungle marks Ruth's professional debut. | Training: Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts.
NEW YORK: Off-Broadway: St. Ann’s Warehouse:The Jungle. TOURS: UK Tour: The Jungle. REGIONAL: The Curran Theatre: The Jungle. INTERNATIONAL: UK: Young Vic/West End: The Jungle. OTHER: The Walk (an 8,000km moving festival of welcome across Europe with Little Amal, a puppet inspired by the character from The Jungle). AWARDS: South Bank Sky Arts Award for Theatre, Obie Award. PERSONAL: Their work with Good Chance platforms newly arrived people in the UK and around the world. Joe and Joe are currently working on new projects for theatre and film.
STC: An Inspector Calls. NEW YORK: Broadway: The Inheritance, Billy Elliot: The Musical, An Inspector Calls, The Audience, Skylight. Off-Broadway (selected): The Jungle, Berlin/Wall. TOURS: UK Tour: The Jungle, An Inspector Calls | National Tour: Billy Elliot: The Musical, An Inspector Calls. INTERNATIONAL: UK: London’s West End. FILM (selected): Together (BBC). TV (selected): The Crown (Netflix). AWARDS:Multiple Olivier Awards and Tony Awards, BAFTA Award.
NEW YORK: Broadway: The Inheritance, Skylight, The Audience, Billy Elliot: The Musical. TOURS: UK Tour: The Jungle, Low Level Panic. INTERNATIONAL: UK: National Theatre:Prima Facie (starring Jodie Comer) | Young Vic/West End:The Jungle| Galway Festival:Low Level Panic| Young Vic: Last Chance. FILM (selected): Together, The Lovers. TV: The Crown. AWARDS: BAFTA Award.
NEW YORK: Broadway: To Kill a Mockingbird. INTERNATIONAL: UK: West End: Prima Facie, The Jungle, To Kill a Mockingbird | Almeida Theatre: Patriots, Spring Awakening | Bristol Old Vic: The 47th | Royal Court Theatre: Akram Khan’s The Jungle Book, What If If Only, Sucker Punch | National Theatre: Earthquakes. AWARDS: Linbury Prize for Stage Design (1999), Evening Standard Best Design Award (2010 and 2018).
NEW YORK: Broadway: A View From the Bridge, Yerma. INTERNATIONAL: UK: Young Vic: The Jumper Factory, Parallel Macbeth, Life of Galileo, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night, A View From the Bridge, Yerma, Once in a Lifetime, The Scottsboro Boys, The Changeling, Measure for Measure, A Season in the Congo, Blackta. FILM (selected): I Came By. TV:The Witcher, A Spy Among Friends.PERSONAL: Catherine was Head of Costume at the Young Vic Theatre, London for 13 years.
NEW YORK: Broadway: The Lehman Trilogy, Betrayal, The Inheritance, King Charles III. Off-Broadway: Brooklyn Academy of Music: Cyrano de Bergerac. INTERNATIONAL: National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company | West End: The Lehman Trilogy, Betrayal, The Inheritance, King Charles III, Cyrano de Bergerac | Bristol Old Vic: Eureka Day. OPERA: Metropolitan Opera: Hamlet, The Exterminating Angel | Covent Garden (UK): Lucia di Lammermoor, Written on Skin. AWARDS: Tony Award,Olivier Award.
NEW YORK: Broadway: The Inheritance; Billy Elliot: The Musical; One Man, Two Guvnors. Off-Broadway: Caroline, or Change. INTERNATIONAL: UK: West End: The Inheritance, Billy Elliot: The Musical | ChichesterFestival Theatre: Local Hero | National Theatre: The Crucible, Jack Absolute Flies Again, Our Generation | The Bridge Theatre: Guys and Dolls. AWARDS: Tony Award (Billy Elliot: The Musical), Olivier Award (Billy Elliot: The Musical), Tony Award nominations (One Man, Two Guvnors; The Inheritance). PERSONAL: Paul Arditti is an Associate at the National Theatre.
INTERNATIONAL: UK: West End: The Jungle | National Theatre of Scotland: Enough of Him | Tangle Theatre Company: Richard II. AWARDS: OBIE Special Citation (The Jungle). PERSONAL: John is a Zimbabwean actor, director and composer published by Warner Chappell Music and a Visiting Fellow at Oxford University. | John is an original cast member of The Jungle (Okot).
INTERNATIONAL (selected): The Walk, End of the Night, The Invisible Hand, Apollo 13, Birdsong, The Jungle, Why It’s Kicking Off Everywhere, Matilda the Musical, Motown: The Musical, Once, Misty. FILM (selected): Robin, Viral, The Outside In, Among Sweet Flower and Shades. PERSONAL: Tristan is an award-winning filmmaker, who works in digital theatre and narrative fiction film. He co-founded the film collective, Take Cover Films in 2012.
NEW YORK: Broadway: Let It Be, The Norman Conquests. Off-Broadway: Manhattan Theatre Club: The Collaboration | New York City Center: Matthew Bourne’s The Red Shoes, Swan Lake | The Public Theater: Privacy | St. Ann’s Warehouse: The Tempest, The Jungle.INTERNATIONAL: UK: Donmar Warehouse: City of Angels | Theatre Royal Drury Lane: Shrek The Musical.Germany: Starlight Express. Japan: Chess. Austria: An American in Paris. Worldwide: Evita, The Bodyguard The Musical. PERSONAL: Duncan is a Young Vic Associate Artist. With all theatres closed in 2020, Duncan started Green Room Distillery, producing multi-award-winning gin.
NEW YORK: Broadway:The Inheritance, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, A View from the Bridge.Off-Broadway: Park Avenue Armory: Hamlet/Oresteia, Yerma | St. Ann’s Warehouse: The Jungle, Red Velvet | Brooklyn Academy of Music: A Doll’s House.UPCOMING: Brooklyn Academy of Music:The Wife of Willesden by Zadie Smith | Part Avenue Armory: The Doctor by Robert Icke.
STC: The Jungle, King Lear, Much Ado About Nothing, Red Velvet, Our Town. NEW YORK: Off-Broadway: The Public Theater: Cullud Wattah (World Premiere), Romeo y Julieta, Soft Power, for colored girls…, Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare in the Park), Mojada, Ain’t No Mo’ (World Premiere). REGIONAL: Long Wharf Theatre: Passing Strange | JAG Productions: Next to Normal | The Civilians: El Condor Magico, and others. FILM: Braid of Time, Whole, Six Feet Apart. OTHER: Founding Trainer, Broadway for Racial Justice Casting Directive. AWARDS: Theatre Communications Group 2021 Rising Leader of Color. PERSONAL: she/her/hers | Training: Dartmouth College: BA in Film & Media Studies | Instagram: @danicarodriguezcasting | DanicaRodriguez.com.
TOURS: International: Mickey Hart, Zakir Hussain & Planet Drum, Peter Gabriel, Arooj Aftab, Ali Sethi, Junoon. AWARDS: 2021 MAP Fund recipient. PERSONAL: Sunny is a composer, drummer, dhol player, and community engager. | In 2008 he founded the pioneering band Red Baraat (“the best party band in years” –NPR). | Sunny is a Smithsonian Folkways Recordings artist, and he is developing his first musical storytelling show. |He’s served as music director to The Jungle since 2018.
NEW YORK: Off-Broadway: St. Ann’s Warehouse: The Jungle. INTERNATIONAL: UK: Oxford Playhouse: Do You Love Me Yet?| Bristol Old Vic: Total Body Conditioning | Donmar Warehouse: Take the Stage, [BLANK] | The Bunker Theatre: All Songs Are Love Songs | Royal Exchange Theatre: Star Jelly| Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre: Jesus Christ Superstar | Playhouse Theatre: The Jungle, 1984 | Almeida Theatre: Uncle Vanya.France: Good Chance:Home to Home by La Troupe.TV: How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (NBC). PERSONAL: As a charity storytelling specialist, Jocelyn creates TV and radio adverts. Jocelyn was a Resident Artist with Good Chance in Paris.
TOURS: UK Tour: Billy Elliot: The Musical, Black. International Tour: Billy Elliot: The Musical.National Tour: Persuasion, Far FromThe MaddingCrowd. INTERNATIONAL: UK: Matilda the Musical, Black, Le Gateau Chocolat, TheThreepenny Opera, The Circle Game. Australia: Le Gateau Chocolat. TV: The Crown (Netflix), Matilda at Home (SKY VIP). AWARDS: Total Theatre Award Nomination (Black).
Pemberley Productions is a tour booking, general management, and producing company based in New York. We collaborate with overseas companies and US-based productions to book tours across North America and internationally. This season, as well as The Jungle, we are proud to tour Wuthering Heights, and we are currently general managing The Secret Garden for Center Theater Group in L.A.
Stage Management: Cats, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Bombay Dreams, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Evita, Mary Poppins, Batman Live, The Bodyguard, Made In Dagenham, Monty Python Live, Bend It Like Beckham, Dynamo Live. Production Management: Blue Man Group World Tour, Wicked International and UK Tour, Grease In Dubai, Walking With Dinosaurs, Strictly Ballroom, The Wild Party, Scrooge, MUSE, Grease UK Tour, Matilda International Tour, Apollo 11, Mamma Mia! The Party, Taboo 20th Anniversary Concert, Riyadh Season Opening Ceremony 2022, The Jungle, MUSE 2023 World Tour.
INTERNATIONAL: UK: West End: To Kill a Mockingbird, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, The Commitments, Nick Payne’s Constellations, Zach Braff’s All New People, Jez Butterworth’s The Ferryman, The Inheritance. PERSONAL: Wyn is thrilled to be working for the first time on The Jungle. | Training: University of Roehampton: MA in Creative Writing.
NEW YORK: Off-Broadway: St. Ann’s Warehouse: The Jungle. INTERNATIONAL: UK: West End: Prima Facie, The Jungle, The Mirror and the Light, No Man’s Land, Skylight, The Glass Menagerie| Young Vic: The Jungle, The Inheritance | Royal Shakespeare Company: The Mirror and the Light. PERSONAL: Georgia is an international stage manager, working both in the West End and on Broadway.
NEW YORK: Broadway: Wolf Hall Parts 1 and 2. INTERNATIONAL: UK: West End: Prima Facie, The Mirror and the Light, Wolf Hall Parts 1 and 2 | Royal Shakespeare Company: Wolf Hall Parts 1 and 2 | Curve Theatre: The Color Purple | Young Vic: A Season in the Congo | Donmar Warehouse: The Recruiting Officer | English National Ballet: Swan Lake, Cinderella | English Touring Opera: Cosi Fan Tutte.PERSONAL: Maddie is the co-Founder of Doorstep Puppet Theatre.
TOURS: UK Tour: Richard Alston Dance Company, Le Grand Cirque, Rotterdam.INTERNATIONAL: UK: West End: Prima Facie, Magic Goes Wrong, Cookies | Mischief Theatre: Mind Mangler, Mischief Movie Night | Rose Theatre: The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Leopards | Soho Theatre: Fleabag, Drip Feed, The One | Cardboard Citizens: Bystanders, Rising, Home Truths, Cathy | Mahogany Opera Group: Mozart vs Machine, Billiards, Brundibar, The Rattler | Camden People’s Theatre: Calculating Kindness.
NEW YORK: Broadway: King Lear. Off-Broadway: St. Ann’s Warehouse: The Jungle | Lincoln Center Theatre: Becky Nurse of Salem | Park Avenue Armory: Hamlet & Oresteia | The Public Theater: The Vagrant Trilogy, Julius Caesar, The Outer Space, The Civilians’ The Great Immensity, The Apple Family Plays | Vineyard Theatre/WP Theater: sandblasted | New York Theatre Workshop:runboyrun, In Old Age | Transport Group: Renascence, Summer and Smoke | Atlantic Theater Company: Describe the Night | Waterwell: The Courtroom, Hamlet | Bedlam: Sense & Sensibility | Various productions for NYU Tisch Graduate Acting. PERSONAL: Training: BA: Barnard College: BA, e2.
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