SINGLE SPIES – Cast & Creatives

Nigel trained at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Theatre credits include: The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (@sohoplace); 2:22 A Ghost Story (Criterion Theatre); War Horse (New London Theatre); Out of the Deep Blue (Autin Dance Theatre) and Paul Ferguson’s Miller (Edinburgh Fringe Festival). 

Television credits include: House of the Dragon (HBO), Grantchester (ITV), Alex Rider (Eleven Hour Films), The Capture (BBC), Belgravia (ITV), New Blood (BBC), The Suspicions of Mr Whicher (ITV), Home Fires (ITV), Casualty (BBC) and Doctors (BBC). 

Film credits include: Golden Years (MoliFilms Entertainment), Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation and Mission Impossible: Fallout (Paramount). 

Single Spies marks Michael’s debut appearance for The English Theatre Frankfurt. Previous theatre credits: The Mousetrap (70th Anniversary Tour); Teechers ’22 (UK Tour); The Sun, The Mountain and Me (Union Theatre); Wrath of Achilles (UK tour); Market Boy (Union Theatre); The History Boys (Wilde Theatre, Bracknell); Big Man, Little Man (Development workshop). Pantomimes credits include: Dick Whittington, Aladdin, Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk and Sleeping Beauty (Wilde Theatre, Bracknell / Towngate Theatre). 

Screen credits include: Loving You from the Sidelines (Online Drama), Shoot My Heart (Online Drama), Breaking the Band: Black Sabbath (ITV), Raymond’s Five (Short), Grass Roots (Short) and The Pains of Youth (Short). 

Represented by Brewis Scott Associates, he is delighted to be joining the cast and would like to thank his family and friends for their continued love and support. 

Theo trained at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Theatre credits include: Churchill in Moscow (The English Theatre Frankfurt); Run Sister Run (Arcola Theatre); A Single Man (Park Theatre); Don Quixote (RSC); This Island’s Mine (Ardent Theatre); Jeeves & Wooster in Perfect Nonsense, Sense & Sensibility, Single Spies (Theatre by the Lake, Keswick); 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 That’s Why It’s Called The Present (Paines Plough); Skylight (National Theatre); A Week with Tony (Finborough Theatre); The Shallow End (Royal Court/Duke of York Theatre); Amphitryon (Gate Theatre); Tamburlaine The Great (RSC). 

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, Close and True, A Christmas Carol, Shockers: The Visitor (Channel 4), The Prince of Hearts (BBC), Casualty (BBC). 

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

Christopher Naylor trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA).  

Theatre credits include: The King’s Speech and The Suspicions Of Mr Whicher (Watermill Theatre); War Horse (UK/International tour, National Theatre); Private Lives (UK Tour); The Woman In Black (West End, London); The Middlemarch trilogy, The Man Who Pays The Piper, The Stepmother, Factors Unforeseen, Mary Goes First, Protest, Mountain Hotel, Leaving (all Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond);  Blue/Orange (New Vic Theatre, Stoke); Hay Fever (UK Tour); French Without Tears (Mill At Sonning); The Importance of Being Earnest (Theatre Royal, York); A Christmas Carol (Creation Theatre, Oxford); The Bacchae (Thiasos Theatre, Cyprus); Not About Heroes (UK Tour); Song Of The Western Men (Minerva, Chichester); Lady Windermere’s Fan (The English Theatre, Frankfurt); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Northcott Theatre, Exeter); Hard Times and Dangerous Corner (Watermill Theatre). 

Television credits include: The Crown (Netflix); The Alienist (TNT/Paramount); Plastic Man (ITV); Tales From The Old Bailey, He Knew He Was Right, The Four Minute Mile, In Love With Barbara, Sweet Revenge, Warriors, BUGS (all BBC). Film credit: Benediction (directed by Terence Davies).  

Audio credits: Lennox and Ben and Bats (BBC Radio 3), Good Old Uncle Joe (ABC Australia), From Fact To Fiction – Artefacts (BBC Radio 4). Christopher plays Harry Sullivan in Doctor Who for Big Finish Productions. 

Angus trained at the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts after completing a Russian and Italian degree at Bristol University, UK. Recent theatre includes: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Will&Co); A Taste Of Honey (The Play’s The Thing); Run in the Countryside (directed by Mark Ravenhill); Woke Up (The Turbine Theatre); One Snowy Night (Slot Machine Theatre) and The Seagull in Tomsk, Siberia.  

Angus voiced multiple roles on BBC Sounds podcast Believe in Magic (placed second by The Guardian’s podcasts of 2023) and won the Best Actor Award at the British Independent Film Festival for short film Patience in 2024, which he also co-wrote. The film went on to win several other awards across British and international festivals. 

Augustina trained at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Theatre credits include: The Dresser (Frinton Summer Theatre); Churchill in Moscow  and Strangers on a Train (The English Theatre Frankfurt); 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).   Television credits include: Charlotte Link: Einsame Nacht (ARD); Hijack (AppleTV); Brassic (Sky); Marvel: Secret Invasion (Disney+); Casualty (BBC) 

Rosie trained on the Theatre Directing MFA at Birkbeck, and was Resident Assistant Director at Orange Tree Theatre from 2024-25. Single Spies is her second production for The English Theatre Frankfurt after Churchill in Moscow which she co-directed with Tom Littler.  

Directing credits include: Write Me A Murder (Frinton Summer Theatre);  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: The Truth (Apollo Theatre); 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).

Peiyao Wang is a London-based set and costume designer working across theatre, opera, and screen internationally. In 2023, Peiyao was selected to be one of the 12 recipients of the National Theatres award; Linbury Prize for Stage Design. Her work was featured in Wallpaper* magazine 2024. 

Her opera credits include: Opera Prelude: Trouble In Tahiti & Seven Deadly Sins (Opera Holland Park); Iphigénie in Tauris (Blackheath Halls Opera); L’Infedeltà Delusa (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland); Toutes Les Femmes: Opera Double Bill (Pegasus Opera Company, Royal Academy of Music); Don Giovanni (Hurn Court Opera); Autumn Opera Scenes 2024 (Guildhall School of Music and Drama). Her theatre credits include: Fire Fire (Arcola Theatre; Studio Tour); In The Print; Four Play; The Sequel; Echo (King’s Head Theatre); Foreverland (Southwark Playhouse); Much Ado About Nothing (Guildhall School of Music and Drama); Purgatory In Ingolstadt; Richard III (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama); Intangible (Dante or Die) among others. 

Peiyao has also worked as an associate and assistant designer on The Maids (Donmar Warehouse, St.Ann’s Warehouse); Broken Glass (Young Vic); Reverberation (Bristol Old Vic); New Beginning (Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch); The UK Drill Project (Barbican). Film and screen credits include: PIKE (BFI/NI Screen); Detergent (Sandy Crow); Godard the Director (Sandy Crow); Rhythm Of Yourself (The Molotovs). 

David Howe is delighted to be returning to The English Theatre Frankfurt, where his previous lighting designs include Cabaret, The Full Monty and Spring Awakening. His other work in Germany includes several tours of The Rocky Horror Show, visiting Frankfurt on numerous occasions. Further European work includes Terrible Influence Dan and Phil’s World Tour, productions of Sister Act, Miss Saigon, Fiddler on the Roof and Oliver! in Copenhagen, alongside many other musicals throughout Europe. 

West End lighting credits include: A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong, Mind Mangler, Dolly Parton’s Smoky Mountain Christmas Carol, Magic Goes Wrong, Mischief Movie Night, Mischief Movie Night In, The Comedy About a Bank Robbery, McQueen, Quartermaine’s Terms, Bette and Joan, Birdsong, My Trip Down the Pink Carpet, Sweet Charity, Mrs Warren’s Profession, Private Lives, A Christmas Carol, The Norman Conquests, The Last Five Years, tick, tick… BOOM!, Maria Friedman: Re-Arranged, Rent, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Pageant, Forbidden Broadway and La Cage aux Folles. 

His Broadway and Off-Broadway credits include: Mind Mangler, Private Lives, The Norman Conquests trilogy and Primo. Opera credits include productions for the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing, Opera Philadelphia, British Youth Opera and the Royal Opera, alongside numerous companies throughout Europe. His ballet work includes The Scandal at Mayerling for Scottish Ballet. 

Recent theatre credits include: A Month in the Country (Donmar Warehouse); The Forsyte Saga Parts 1 & 2 (Royal Shakespeare Company/Park Theatre); A Life in Four Seasons, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Noughts and Crosses, Twelfth Night (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Christmas Day (Almeida Theare); A Raisin in the Sun (Headlong); The Night of the Iguana (Noel Coward Theatre); The School for Scandal, Crooked Dances (Royal Shakespeare Company); The Price (Marylebone Theatre); 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 Billionaire Inside Your Head, Personal Values, 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, Churchill in Moscow, Humble Boy, Blue/Heart, The Distance (Orange Tree Theatre); The Cardinal, Kiki’s Delivery Service, Teddy (Southwark Playhouse); Single White Female, The Talented Mr Ripley, Picture You Dead, Art, The Syndicate, Murder in the Dark, The Mirror Crack’d,  Wish You Were Dead, The Circle, Looking Good Dead (National Tours).  

Opera and Ballet credits include: The McRae / Vassiliev Project, The Limit (Royal Ballet); The Old Maid and the Thief (Spoleto Festival); Kirsten Flagstad (Bergen International Festival); 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 two Off West End Awards for Sound Design, for Old Bridge and Brixton Calling. 

Marc trained as an actor at Drama Centre London before moving into casting. For The English Theatre Frankfurt, Marc has cast Churchill in Moscow, 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.