The Cast
Shane Attwooll - Butch Honeywell
Shane Attwooll’s theatre credits include Glengarry Glen Ross for the Apollo Theatre, Death of A Salesman for the Lyric Theatre, Franco’s Bastard and Past Away for Sgript Cymru, Happy Days and Stand By Your Man on UK tour, and Porgy and Bess for the Royal Opera House. His television work includes Foyle’s War, The Ghost Squad, Midsomer Murders, The Commander, Spooks, Nuts and Bolts and The Bill. His film credits span work including Kingdom of Heaven, This Filthy Earth, Clean Sheets, and Porgy and Bess.
Amanda Boxer
- Henrietta Iscariot
Amanda Boxer’s theatre credits include The Pain And The Itch and The Strip for the Royal Court, The Arab Israeli Cookbook for the Tricycle Theatre and Gate Theatre, The Merchant of Venice, Othello and The Importance of Being Earnest for the Young Vic, Macbeth for the Arcola Theatre, The Graduate for the Gielgud Theatre, and The Pixie-Led at the Judith Anderson Theater, New York, as well as extensive regional theatre work. Her television credits include Trial and Retribution (No's III and VII), Death in a White Tie, Casualty, Cider With Rosie, and Sense and Sensibility. Her film work includes Bad Behaviour, United ’93, and Saving Private Ryan.
Ron Cephas Jones
- Pontius Pilate/Uncle Pino
Ron Cephas Jones appeared in Stephen Adly Guirgis’ Jesus Hopped the A Train at the Donmar Warehouse, on the West End and in New York. He has worked extensively in US theatre productions including Two Trains Running for the Signature Theatre, Richard III for NYSF Public Theatre, and Our Lady of 121st Street for LAByrinth at the Union Square Theatre. His television credits include Raisin in the Sun, Lipstick Jungle, NYPD Blue and Law & Order. His film work includes Across The Universe, Half Nelson, Sweet & Lowdown, and He Got Game.
Josh Cohen
- Sigmund Freud/Saint Thomas
Josh Cohen has previously appeared on tour with the Almeida in A Chaste Maid In Cheapside in 2002. His other theatre credits include Into the Hoods for Sadler’s Wells, What We Did To Weinstein for the Menier Chocolate Factory, Phallacy for The King’s Head, and The Graduate and Rent in the West End. He has appeared in The Murder Rooms for the BBC, and several films including Fire, The Campaign, and The Lost Batallion.
Dona Croll
- Gloria/Mother Teresa
Dona Croll has previously appeared at the Almeida playing Mona in the 2004 production of Two Step. Her other theatre credits include Christ of Coldharbour Lane for Soho Theatre, Elmina’s Kitchen for the National Theatre, Back Pay for the Royal Court, Victor & The Ladies and Smile Orange, for the Tricycle Theatre and Talawa Theatre Company’s production of Anthony and Cleopatra (playing Cleopatra). Her television work includes Silent Witness, Doctor Who, Bremner, Bird and Fortune, and The Murder of Stephen Lawrence. Her film credits include Mammoth, Eastern Promise, Manderlay, I Could Never Be Your Woman and Tube Tales: Rosebud.
Gawn Grainger
- Caiaphas The Elder/Saint Matthew
Gawn Grainger has previously appeared at the Almeida in Party Time, Mountain Language and No Man’s Land. His other theatre credits include You Can’t Take It With You for Southwark Playhouse, Amy’s View for the Theatre Royal, Bath, The Crucible for the Comedy Theatre, Fool for Love at the Donmar Warehouse, and The Seagull, The Misanthrope, and The Passion for the National Theatre. His film credits include Christmas Carol, Little Drummer Girl and Blood Royal. His extensive television work includes Midsomer Murders, Foyle’s War and Dalziel and Pascoe.
Douglas Henshall
- Satan
Douglas Henshall can currently be seen as Professor Nick Cutter in ITV’s science-fiction series Primeval. His theatre credits include The Cryptogram for the Donmar Warehouse, Death of a Salesman at the Lyric Theatre, Darwin in Malibu for Hampstead Theatre, The Crucible for Sheffield Theatres, The Coast of Utopia for the National Theatre, American Buffalo for the Young Vic and The Relapse for the Royal Shakespeare Company. His film credits include the soon to be released The French Film, Flying Lessons, It’s All About Love and Ripley Underground. His other television credits include The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle, Dalziel and Pascoe and Frances Tuesday.
Edward Hogg - Jesus of Nazareth
Edward Hogg's theatre credits include The Dybbuk at the King's Head Theatre, Noises Off, Cressida, and Our Country’s Good for the Young Vic, Rock ‘n Roll for the Royal Court and in the West End, Measure For Measure, The Tempest, and The Storm for The Globe, The Pillowman for the National Theatre, and Woyzeck performed at The Gate and St Anne’s Warehouse, Brooklyn. On television he has appeared in Doctors, The Bermuda Triangle: Beneath The Waves, Celeb, and Heartbeat, whilst his film credits include White Lightnin’ , Alfie, and Nicholas Nickleby. He has recorded several dramas for Radio 4.
Corey Johnson
- Judge/Soldier
Corey Johnson has previously performed at the Almeida as Andy in Aunt Dan and Lemon in 1999. His other extensive theatre work includes The Prayer For My Daughter for the Young Vic, Frost/Nixon for the Donmar Warehouse and on Broadway, Clever Dick and Sunday Father for Hampstead Theatre, A View From The Bridge for Birmingham Rep & West Yorkshire Playhouse, and Death of a Salesman and Absolute Hell for the National Theatre. His film work includes The Bourne Ultimatum, United 93, End Game, The Contract, The All Together, Seven Seconds, and Second Coming. His television credits include Sex and the City, Spooks, Foyle’s War, Doctor Who, Auf Wiedersehen Pet, Band of Brothers, and Kavanagh QC.
Mark Lockyer
- Yusef El-Fayoumy
Mark Lockyer has previously performed with Headlong Theatre in Restoration; his other theatre credits include The Adventures of Tin Tin, and Outbreak of God in Area 9 for the Young Vic, Theatre of Blood, The Madness of George III, Ghetto, Bartholemew Fair, and The Changeling for the National Theatre, Othello, Romeo & Juliet, King Lear, The Cherry Orchard, The Taming of the Shrew, The Tempest, and The Merchant of Venice for the RSC, and Antipedes and Hamlet for the Globe. His television work includes The Fall of Rome, The Great Kandinsky, Joking Apart, The Bill and Out of Order.
Susan Lynch
- Fabiana Aziza Cunningham
Susan Lynch’s London theatre credits include The Night Season, Pericles and Le Cid for the National Theatre, O Go My Man and Ashes and Sand for the Royal Court, Mnemonic for Theatre de Complicite and The Clearing for the Bush Theatre. Last year she was seen on Broadway in Brian Friel’s Translations directed by Garry Hynes. Her film credits include Within, City Rats, The Golden Age, Enduring Love, Waking Ned and Beautiful Creatures. Her television credits include The Robber Bride, The Ten Commandments, Bodies, A Royal Scandal and Truth or Dare.
John Macmillan
- Bailiff/Simon the Zealot
John Macmillan has performed in The Member of the Wedding at the Young Vic, Cymbeline on a Cheek By Jowl world tour, Titus Andronicus at the National Drama Festival, Dream Weaver for Hull Truck, and Sympathy for a Psychopath at the Edinburgh Festival. He has also worked on a short film Don Juan.
Joseph Mawle
- Judas Iscariot
Joseph Mawle has previously appeared in Hamlet for Nuffield Theatre,Time for the Good Looking Boy at the Old Vic, Anthony and Cleopatra for the Royal Exchange Theatre, Love and Understanding at Battersea Arts Centre, and Troilus and Cressida for Shakespeare at The Tobacco Factory. His television credits include Jesus in The Passion for the BBC/HBO, Soundproof, Dunkirk, The History of Miss Polly, Silent Witness, The Secret Life of Mrs Beeton, Persuasion, Foyle’s War & Clapham Junction. His film credits include Lecture 21 and Merlin.
Poppy Miller
- Loretta/Mary Magdalene/Sister Glenna
Poppy Miller appeared in The Jew of Malta at the Almeida in 1999; her other theatre credits include Ophelia in Rupert Goold’s Hamlet for the Theatre Royal, Northampton, Switchback at the Tron Theatre, Glasgow, Amy’s View at the Salisbury Playhouse, Bartholomew Fair and Two Gentlemen of Verona for the RSC, Twelfth Night for Filter Theatre, and Villette and Blue Remembered Hills for The Crucible Theatre, Sheffield. Her television credits include Kingdom II, Torn, Gold-Plated, If I Had You, Red Cap II, The Commander I & II, Attachments, and In Deep. Her film work includes The Flood, and she has worked on numerous radio dramas for Radio 4.
Jessika Williams
- Saint Monica
Jessika Williams’ has recently appeared in The Bacchae for King’s Theatre Edinburgh and the Lyric Hammersmith. Her other theatre credits include Rebecca’s Midnight and Such is Nature for Cat in a Cup Theatre, Beowulf for The Arches Theatre Company and Therese Raquin for Citizens’ Theatre. Her television work includes Taggart and she has worked on films Immeasurable Joy and Contorted Hazel.