Are you ready to meet the full cast and creative team for our fresh new staging of A Raisin in the Sun?

Our co-production with pioneering theatre company Headlong is directed by Tinuke Craig (Trouble in Butetown, Jitney, Crave, The Color Purple).

Gilbert Kyem Jnr will play George (The Milkmans Purpose, Love Speech), Kenneth Omole (Top Boy, Macbeth, Barbershop Chronicles) will play Joseph/Bobo and Doreene Blackstock (Sex Education, Unknown Rivers) will play Lena. The role of Travis will be performed by Jayden Dias, Josh Ndlovu and Adiel Magaji in Leeds and Oxford, and by Jeriah Kibusi and Oliver Dunkley in London and Nottingham.

They join the previously announced Joséphine-Fransilja Brookman (High Times and Dirty Monsters, A Pigment of Your Imagination, Macbeth) as Beneatha, Cash Holland (A Streetcar Named Desire, Odyssey, Julius Caesar) as Ruth, Solomon Israel (Jitney, The Barber Shop Chronicles, Miss Littlewood) as Walter Lee and Jonah Russell (Arms and the Man, I, Joan, The Brilliant Friend) as Karl.

The full creative team are Tinuke Craig (Director), Cécile Trémolières (Set Designer) Maybelle Laye (Costume Designer), Dominique Hamilton (Wigs, Hair & Make up Designer) Max Pappenheim (Composer & Sound Designer), Joshua Pharo (Lighting Designer), Sarita Piotrowski (Movement Director), Haruka Kuroda (Fight & Intimacy Director), Aundrea Fudge (Voice & Dialect Coach), Phillipe Cato (Associate Director), Ruta Irbite (Design Associate), Luke Haywood (Lighting Associate), Lotte Hines (Casting Director) and Joi Gresham (Literary Trustee).

A Raisin in the Sun is a Headlong, Leeds Playhouse, Lyric Hammersmith Theatre and Nottingham Playhouse co-production.