Henry Goodman

Henry Goodman was last seen at the Almeida as Argan in Lindsay Posner’s production of The Hypochondriac. His other recent theatre credits include Teyve in Fiddler on the Roof for Sheffield Theatres and the Savoy Theatre, Performances for Wilton’s Music Hall, The Exonerated for Riverside Studios, The Birthday Party at the Duchess and the title role in Richard III for the Royal Shakespeare Company. For the National Theatre he played Shylock in Trevor Nunn’s production of The Merchant of Venice, Nathan Detroit in Guys and Dolls, Roy Cohn in Angels in America and Philip Gellburg in Broken Glass. For the Royal Shakespeare Company his work includes Volpone, The Comedy of Errors and They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? In the West End his roles include Billy Flynn in Chicago, Freud in Hysteria and Eddie in Feelgood and on Broadway his work includes The Producers and Art. His television and film work includes Damned United, Churchill, Colour Me Kubrick, Notting Hill, Mary Reilly, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Foyle’s War and Cold Lazarus.

Juliet Stevenson
 
Multi award-winning actor Juliet Stevenson will make her Almeida debut as Stephanie Abrahams. Stevenson was last on stage at the National Theatre as Arkadina in The Seagull. Previously her theatre credits include Alice Trilogy and The Country for the Royal Court, We Happy Few at the Gielgud, Private Lives for the National Theatre and Beckett Shorts for the Royal Shakespeare Company. Stevenson played Paulina in Ariel Dorfman’s Death and the Maiden for which she won the Laurence Olivier Best Actress Award and Anna in the UK premiere of Langford Wilson’s Burn This opposite John Malkovich. On film she played opposite Alan Rickman, directed by Anthony Minghella, in Truly, Madly, Deeply for which she won the Evening Standard Film Award for Best Actress. Her other film credits include Breaking and Entering, Being Julia, Mona LisaSmile, Bend it Like Beckham and Drowning by Numbers. On television her credits include The Politician’s Wife, Hear the Silence, Stanley, and most recently A Place of Execution.