CAST & CREATIVES – Churchill in Moscow

Clive is delighted to be performing at The English Theatre for the first time. Recent credits include Hastings in Adjoa Andoh’s production of Richard III (Liverpool Playhouse, Rose Theatre); Rod in Calendar Girls and Arvide in Guys and Dolls (directed by Janie Dee) and Arthur Winslow in The Winslow Boy – all at Frinton Summer Theatre. 

He is also an award winning Radio producer and recently directed Macbeth for BBC Radio 4 starring David Tennant and King Lear starring Richard Wilson and Toby Jones. His Arkangel Complete Shakespeare won best Radio Drama Production at the US Audies. He is Producer and Artistic Director of the UK’s oldest Summer Rep – Frinton Summer Theatre.

Theatre credits inlude: Murder On The Orient Express  (Fiery Angel, International Tour and Fiery Angel, UK Tour); Murder on The Orient Express (by Fiery Angel, UK Tour); Black Sheep (curious directive); The Wolves (RADA); The Faith Machine (RADA); Time and the Conways (RADA). Film credit: God’s Eye (RADA).

Theatre credits include: Run Sister Run (Arcola Theatre); A Single Man (Park Theatre); This Island’s Mine (King’s Head Theatre);  Jeeves & Wooster in Perfect Nonsense, Single Spies, Sense & Sensibility (TBLKeswick/York Theatre Royal);  Doctor Faustus, Don Quixote, The Alchemist (RSC); Woman in Mind (Salisbury Playhouse); Bloody Sunday, Guantanamo: Honour Bound To Defend Freedom (Kiln Theatre); The Drowned World (Paines Plough); The Importance of Being Earnest (Australia/Savoy Theatre); Outside Now, The Moment Is a Gift (Paines Plough); Skylight (National Theatre);  A Week with Tony (Finborough Theatre); The Shallow End (Royal Court Theatre). Television credits include: Believe Me (ITV), Toxic Town (Netflix), The Crown (Netflix), Grantchester (ITV), Genie in the House (Nickelodeon), My Family (BBC), The Thick of It (BBC), Hex (Sony Pictures), Keen Eddie (Paramount/Fox) Close and True (ITV), Shockers: The Visitor (Channel 4), The Prince of Hearts (BBC). 

Film credits include: Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, The Golden Compass, A Christmas Carol, Before You Go, Mad About Mambo, Mrs Brown. 

Radio Credits Include: Quartered Safe Out Here, Christmas Pudding, The Venice Conundrum, The King Must Die, Kingmaker, Winter Pilgrims (Allegra Productions) The Corrupted, The Beach at Falesa, A Small Town Murder, The Prince, Lady Susan, Number 10, Two Minutes Hate (Brill Productions) All for BBC Radio 4 .

Anthony trained at The Drama Centre, London. He has toured extensively as an actor and musician around Britain and the world performing in many productions from Shakespeare and modern classics through to pantomime villians and dames. Highlights of his theatre work are: Macbeth  (Queens Theatre, Hornchurch); As you Like It (Cheek by Jowl); The Showman (Almeida Theatre); Cabaret (Donmar Warehouse) and a tour of  Sondheim’s Company – where he met his long suffering wife! His TV work includes Coronation Street, Eastenders, Holby City, a run in The Bill which culminated in a live episode airing and Doctors in which he was nominated for villain of the year for the British Soap Awards. He has his own gardening company, is a second degree black belt in Ju Jitsu and enjoys pottery and woodcarving. 

Theatre credits include: Romeo and Juliet (Almeida); Our Country’s Good (Ramps on the Moon); The Beat of Our Hearts (Northcott Exeter); Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; To Kill a Mockingbird (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester); Awake and Sing (Almeida Theatre); The Odd Couple (Liverpool Playhouse); Mary Broome, And Then the Snow Came, Clara, Alison’s House (Orange Tree); The Iron Man; The Evidence (New Perspectives); The Merry Wives of Windsor; Coriolanus (RSC); Death of a Salesman (English Theatre Frankfurt); Get Carter (Red Shift); Taking Sides, Death of a Salesman, All My Sons, Game Plan (Library Theatre Manchester); Dial M for Murder; Who’s Life is it Anyway; Strangers on a Train; Fiddler on the Roof (Frinton Summer Theatre); Bingo (Young Vic/ Chichester Festival Theatre); Hamlet, Stones in His Pockets (Globe Theatre, Poland); The Front Page (Chichester Festival Theatre); Romeo and Juliet (Nottingham Playhouse); And Nothing but the Truth (V-TOL); 900 Oneonta (The Old Vic); A Midsummer Night’s Dream; All’s Well That Ends Well (Stratford Festival, Canada).

Television credits include: Silo; The Gold; House of  the Dragon; Washington; EastEnders; Coronation Street; Doctors; Out of the Blue; Gracie!; Poirot; The Bill ; Hollyoaks; In Suspicious Circumstances; Brass Eye; Space Precinct. Film credits include: Full Metal Jacket; Empire of the Sun; Bonhoeffer; Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit; Coriolanus; BEAT; Papillon, Surge. Radio credits include: The Putney Debates; The Corrupted (3 series); Luther; Don’t go Gently (BBC Radio 4).

Anna-Jane is a 2025 graduate of Italia Conti, following earlier training at ArtsEd. Her credits while training include Alex in Maladies, Emily Ostergaard in Women Playing Hamlet, Alice Little in Alice, and Rachel in 13. Since graduating, she has founded her own theatre company and has been producing and performing new writing across London’s fringe theatres. Churchill in Moscow marks her professional debut at The English Theatre Frankfurt. She is grateful to Lou and Jack at Origin Talent for their continued support.

Augustina trained at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Theatre credits include: Strangers on a Train (The English Theatre Frankfurt, 2014); Much Ado About Nothing and Othello (Watermill Theatre); Pictures of Dorian Gray (Jermyn Street Theatre, Stephen Joseph Theatre and Creation); Twelfth Night (Chichester Festival Theatre and Flute); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Orange Tree Theatre and Flute); Machinal (Almeida); The Crucible (Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch and Selladoor); Look Back in Anger (Derby Theatre and Bolton Octagon); Playing for Time (Sheffield Crucible); Finding Mr Hart (Being Human Festival); It’s a Wonderful Life (Seabright Productions); The Nutcracker (Nuffield); Hitchcock Blonde (Hull Truck); A Doll’s House, Colder Than Here, Roma & The Flannelettes (Theatre by the Lake); Richard III and Hamlet (Guildford Shakespeare Company); Shore/Littoral (Riverside Studios); Crown Matrimonial (Act Productions); Saraband (Jermyn Street Theatre); Romeo & Juliet, A Christmas Carol and King Lear (ADGE and TNT).  

TV credits include: Charlotte Link: Einsame Nacht (ARD); Hijack (AppleTV); Brassic (Sky); Marvel: Secret Invasion (Disney+); Casualty (BBC).

Tom has been Artistic Director of the Orange Tree Theatre in London since 2022. Under his leadership, the OT has won the Stage Award for Theatre of the Year and the Critics’ Circle Peter Brook Empty Space Award, and been nominated for two Olivier Awards. Tom’s own productions at the OT include The Rivals, She Stoops to Conquer, Twelfth Night, Suite in Three Keys, Creditors and The Circle. Before this, Tom was Artistic Director and Executive Producer of Jermyn Street Theatre from 2017 to 2022, during which he won the OffWestEnd Award for Best Artistic Director, and the theatre won the Critics’ Circle Award for Exceptional Theatremaking in Lockdown and the Stage Award for Best Fringe Theatre. Previous to this, Tom was Artistic Director of Primavera, Associate Director of Theatre503, and Associate Director of the Peter Hall Company. He won the OffWestEnd Best Director Award for Twelfth Night in 2025, and special OffWestEnd Awards for 15 Heroines and The Odyssey.

Tom has directed seven productions for the English Theatre Frankfurt: Strangers on a Train, Other Desert Cities, The Glass Menagerie, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Jekyll and Hyde, Cabaret, and most recently Switzerland made under lockdown conditions in 2020. Tom has directed several premieres of Howard Brenton’s work including Churchill in Moscow (Orange Tree), Cancelling Socrates and The Blinding Light (Jermyn Street Theatre), and new versions of Strindberg’s Creditors and Miss Julie (Jermyn Street Theatre / Theatre by the Lake) and Dances of Death (Gate).

Tom has directed over eighty productions over the past twenty years, collaborating with playwrights including Lorna French, Natalie Haynes, Charlotte Jones, Hannah Khalil, Bryony Lavery, Isley Lynn, Joanna Murray-Smith, Lucy Shaw, Timberlake Wertenbaker and Alexandra Wood. He has revived plays by writers including Somerset Maugham, Noel Coward, Graham Greene, Dorothy L. Sayers, Terence Rattigan, and especially by William Shakespeare, many of whose plays Tom has directed to critical acclaim. He has directed many of the UK’s best-loved actors including Roger Allam, Jane Asher, Charles Dance, Oliver Ford Davies, Patsy Ferran, Freddie Fox, Patricia Hodge, Penelope Keith, Tuppence Middleton, Michael Pennington, and Olivia Williams. 

Tom trained as an assistant and associate to directors including Peter Gill, Peter Hall, and Trevor Nunn. He read English at the University of Oxford and has postgraduate degrees from the Open University and the University of Cambridge, where he subsequently taught eighteenth-century literature.

Rosie trained on the Theatre Directing MFA at Birkbeck and was Resident Assistant Director at Orange Tree Theatre from 2024-2025. Her directing credits include Mad Hatter’s Tea Party (Orange Tree Theatre); August Strindberg’s The First Warning / Sarah Sigal’s Kirkenes, and Three Short Plays by Tennessee Williams (Orange Tree Lunchtime Plays); Along Came a Magpie (Scarlet Oak Theatre); Gus Runs Away and An Observation on Flirting (Circle Theatre)

As Assistant Director: Titus Andronicus (Hampstead Theatre); In Praise of Love, Churchill in Moscow, Twelfth Night (Orange Tree Theatre); Animal Farm and Anatomy of a Suicide (Rose Bruford). 

Cat is a Set and Costume Designer working in Theatre and Performance. She graduated with an MA in Performance Design from Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, and was named a winner of The 2021 Linbury Prize. 

Recent Design Credits includes: The Constant Wife (Co-Costume Design) (RSC/UK Tour); This Little Earth (Arcola Theatre); Testmatch (The Orange Tree); Red Speedo (Costume Design & Associate Set) (The Orange Tree); The Maids, Owners (Jermyn Street Theatre); Scarlet Sunday (Omnibus Theatre); Flies (Boundless Theatre & Shoreditch Town Hall); The Sweet Science of Bruising (The Egg, Theatre Royal Bath); Romeo and Juliet (Bristol Old Vic); The Three Seagulls (Bristol Old Vic); Falling in Love Again (Set Design) (Kings Head Theatre).  

Associate Design credits include: Lily Allen West End Girl concert tour; 13 Going on 30 (Manchester Opera House); The Time Traveller’s Wife: The Musical (West End/Chester Storyhouse), A Christmas Carol (Finnish National Opera and Ballet), Much Ado About Nothing (National Theatre); Home I’m Darling (UK tour); If You Fall (Theatre Ad Infinitum). Awards include: The Linbury Prize for Stage Design – 2021, The John Elvery Prize for Excellence in Stage Design – 2021, Offies nomination for Set Design of Owners at Jermyn Street Theatre.

Johanna Town is one of the UK’s leading Lighting Designers, having lit across theatre, opera and events, in the West End, on Broadway and internationally. Johanna is the Chair of the Association for Lighting Production and Design, and a Fellow of Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

Theatre credits include: Easy Virtue (The Arts Theatre Cambridge); The Secret Garden – The Musical (York Theatre Royal); Comedy About Spies (Noel Coward Theatre); The Last Laugh (West End/UK Tour); Vardy V Rooney: The Wagatha Christie Trial (West End/UK Tour); Two Ladies (Bridge Theatre); The Tempest, Don Quixote (RSC); The Sound of Music, The Famous Five, The Butterfly Lion, The Watsons, The Norman Conquests, Fracked (Chichester Festival Theatre); Brainstorming, Moon on a Rainbow Shawl, The Permanent Way (National Theatre);  Play On the Musical (Talawa Theatre/UK Tour); Fisherman’s Friends The Musical (UK Tour& Canada); Identical (Kenny Wax/Nottingham Playhouse); Some Like It Hip Hop (ZooNation UK Tour); The Score (Theatre Royal Bath & West End); Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Homecoming (Theatre Royal Bath & UK Tour); The Lightest Element, Peggy For You, The Memory of Water, The Death of a Black Man (Hampstead Theatre); The Importance of Being Earnest, Guys and Dolls, Queen Margaret, Frankenstein, The House of Bernarda Alba (Royal Exchange, Manchester); Churchill In Moscow, Uncle Vanya (Orange Tree Theatre); The Habit of Art, Being Mr Wickham (Original Theatre Tour & New York); Breaking the Code, Moby Dick (Royal & Derngate Northampton/ Tour); The Hypochondriac, Paper, Rutherford and Son, Love and Information, Julius Caesar (Sheffield Crucible). 

For The English Theatre Frankfurt: Untitled Love Story, Switzerland, The Glass Menagerie, Strangers on a Train. Recent theatre includes: Christmas Day (Almeida Theare); Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Oxford Playhouse); The Forsyte Saga (Royal Shakespeare Company/Park Theatre); Noughts and Crosses, Twelfth Night (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); A Raisin in the Sun (Headlong); The Night of the Iguana (Noel Coward Theatre); The School for Scandal, Crooked Dances (Royal Shakespeare Company); Cruise (Apollo Theatre/Duchess Theatre); Coram Boy, Macbeth (Chichester Festival Theatre); Shed: Exploded View (Royal Exchange); A Doll’s House Part 2, The Way of the World (Donmar Warehouse); Welcome to Pemfort (Soho Theatre); The Habits, The Invention of Love, King James, Blackout Songs, Linck and Mülhahn, Labyrinth (Hampstead Theatre); The Children (Broadway/Royal Court); Village Idiot, One Night in Miami (Nottingham Playhouse); Henry V (Shakespeare’s Globe/Headlong); Hamlet (Bristol Old Vic); Ophelias Zimmer (Schaubühne/Royal Court); Not Your Superwoman, Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible Is Going To Happen, Old Bridge (Bush Theatre); Small Hotel, The Homecoming, My Cousin Rachel (Theatre Royal Bath); Creditors, Playhouse Creatures, Blue/Heart, The Distance (Orange Tree Theatre); The Cardinal, Kiki’s Delivery Service, Johnny Got His Gun, Teddy (Southwark Playhouse); Single White Female, The Talented Mr Ripley, Art, The Syndicate, The Mirror Crack’d, The Circle (National Tours). 

Opera and Ballet includes: Kirsten Flagstad (Bergen International Festival); The Limit (Royal Ballet); The Marriage of Figaro (Salzburg Festival); Miranda (Opéra Comique, Paris); Hansel and Gretel (BYO/Opera Holland Park); Scraww (Trebah Gardens).  Online includes: The System, Barnes’ People, The Haunting of Alice Bowles (Original Theatre); 15 Heroines (Digital Theatre). Associate Artist of Orange Tree Theatre, The Faction and Silent Opera. Awards include Off West End Awards for Sound Design for Old Bridge and for Brixton Calling. 

Marc trained as an actor at Drama Centre London before moving into casting. For The English Theatre Frankfurt, Marc has cast Something Rotten! (2026), Rapture, Nunsense, The Wasp, The Two Popes, Sylvia, Something Rotten!, Now and Then, Suddenly Last Summer, Sister Act, Secret Life of Humans, The Totalitarians, Young Frankenstein, The Girl on the Train, Switzerland, The Effect, Sweeney Todd, One flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, The Children, Apologia, Cabaret, The Lion in Winter, Jekyll & Hyde – the Musical, Hand to God, Pygmalion, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Handbagged, Spamalot, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Glass Menagerie, Disgraced, Death and the Maiden, Other Desert Cities, Ghost – the Musical and Strangers on a Train.

Marc has also recently cast I’m Sorry Prime Minister (West End London); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Birmingham Rep Theatre); And then came the Nightjars (Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds); Double Double, Men Behaving Badly (Barn Theatre Cirencester); Friends the Musical Parody (UK Tour); The Constant Wife (UK Tour); The Talented Mr Ripley (UK Tour); Military Wives (York Theatre Royal) and many more.