Full Cast Confirmed For THE VOTE At Donmar

The Donmar Warehouse has confirmed the full cast for The Vote. Joining the previously announced cast, Eddie Arnold, MyAnna Buring, Stavros Demetraki, Tommy French, Joanna Griffin, Gerard Horan, Chukwudi Iwuji, Stephen Kennedy, Beverley Longhurst, Andrew McDonald, Bhasker Patel, Penny Ryder and Michael Shaeffer complete an ensemble of actors who will represent the team of polling station volunteers, polling officers, and the diverse array of characters that are the voting public.

Following their celebrated collaboration on Privacy, writer James Graham and Donmar Warehouse Artistic Director Josie Rourke reunite for The Vote, a drama and unique television event set in a fictional polling station, during the final ninety minutes of voting on election night.

The Vote looks at what happens in Britain on election night through the eyes of those at the polling station. Every five years we assert our right as citizens to uphold or replace our government - but, characteristically, we do it in the most unremarkable and understated of ways - at local parish churches, primary schools and community centres across the country. Set in a fictional polling station, James Graham's new play shines an affectionate light on the diverse, diligent and often hilarious individuals who turn these unglamorous settings into places where history is made.

Alongside The Vote, the Donmar also announces My Mark, a new documentary theatre project tracking a generation of the British electorate from childhood to their first vote.

The first-time voters of 2025 are currently in primary school. Working with our Associate Director Robert Hastie (My Night With Reg), writer Michelle Terry (as a writer The Café on Sky 1, and as actor Privacy at the Donmar) and documentary film makers, Tea Films, the Donmar has been to over 15 primary schools in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and recorded the voices and opinions of over a hundred children who will shape the course of our political future.

Based on conversations with these young people across the UK, an entirely new and unique piece of theatre will be created throughout the next decade, tracking the views of one generation over the course of at least three general elections.

On Tuesday 28 April, at 6pm, the Donmar is delighted to present a rehearsed reading of the culmination of the first phase of this exciting project on the stage of the Donmar Warehouse. Tickets for My Mark cost £10 and are available viawww.donmarwarehouse.com or the Donmar Box Office (0844 871 7624).

Kate Pakenham, Executive Producer at the Donmar Warehouse, today said: 'As The Vote examines our democracy in 2015, we also want to look to the future and ask the voters of tomorrow to have their say. Our Education work on programmes like The TomorrowProject shows us every week quite how informed, imaginative, and creative young people can be, and we want to reflect their ideas on our stage. We are thrilled to have embarked on the first stage of this hugely exciting project, which will span the next ten years and which is truly national in its scope and ambition. This feels like the start of an extraordinary journey, and it is wonderful to be working with our Associate Director Robert Hastie and Michelle Terry, who returns to the Donmar in her capacity as a writer after her brilliant performance in Privacy last year.'

In addition, the Donmar today launches 'Ballot Box Monologues', an online competition encouraging young people to share with us their thoughts about democracy, the election, and voting. Participants will be challenged to create a sixty second, one take video of themselves, responding to the stimulus 'Is there any point in voting?' Three of the most creative entrants will be invited to be in the audience for the live broadcast performance of The Vote on 7 May. For more information visit http://ballotboxmonologues.tumblr.com/

Full casting for The Vote is:

FISAYO AKINADE

Theatre includes: As You Like It (New Wolsey); Refugee Boy, Waiting for Godot (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Neighbors (Hightide).
Television includes: Ordinary Lies; Cucumber; Banana; Fresh Meat.

MADALENA ALBERTO

Theatre includes: Evita (Dominion/UK Tour); Piaf (Leicester Curve); Jekyll & Hyde, Godspell (Union); LES MISERABLES(Barbican/International Tour); Over The Threshold (George Square, Edinburgh Festival); Zorro (Garrick); Chicago (Kuala Lumpur);Fame (UK Tour); Threepenny Opera (Teatro Aberto); Aladdin (Old Vic).
Film includes: Senseless; The Mirror; Mulheres, Bah!.
Opera includes: The Nose (Teatro Nacional de Sao Carlos).

JADE ANOUKA

For the Donmar: Henry IV; Julius Caesar (also St Ann's Warehouse).
Theatre includes: Chef (Edinburgh Fringe); Omeros, Romeo and Juliet (also Bolton Octagon), Hamlet (Globe); Clean (Traverse / 59E59); Moon on a Rainbow Shawl (NT); Twelfth Night (York); The Penelopiad (RSC).
Film includes: The Dark Channel; A Running Jump.
Television includes: Doctor Who; Shakespeare Uncovered; Law & Order.

EDDIE ARNOLD
Theatre includes: Journey's End (Contexture); Scooby Doo & The Mystery of the Pyramids (UK Tour); Jumpy (Royal Court/Duke of York's); Arcadia (Camden People's).
Film includes: The List; The Factory.
Television includes: Britain's Secret Homes.

RITA BALOGUN
Theatre includes: How Nigeria Became (Unicorn)
Television includes: Some Girls; Doctors; EastEnders

MYANNA BURING

Theatre includes: The Wasp (Hampstead); Strangers On A Train (Gielgud); Twelfth Night (Northcott, Exeter).

Film includes: Hyena; Welcome to Karastan; Twilight: Breaking Dawn Parts I & II; Kill List.

Television includes: Banished; Ripper Street; Our Story; Downton Abbey; Crossing Lines.

NICHOLAS BURNS

For the Donmar: The Recruiting Officer.

Theatre includes: Breeders (St James'); Kafka's Dick (Theatre Royal Bath); The Magistrate (NT); 66 Books (Bush); The Village Bike(Royal Court); Ghost Stories (Lyric/Duke of York's).

Film includes: The Lady in the Van; War Book; The Worlds End.

Television includes: Coalition; Uncle; Crackanory; The Tractate Middoth; The Crimson Field.

PAUL CHAHIDI

For the Donmar: Privacy.
Theatre includes: Shakespeare in Love (Noel Coward); Twelfth Night (Globe/Apollo/NY); as well as numerous credits for the Royal Court, RSC, National, Young Vic and West End. Paul is an RSC Associate Artist
Film includes: The Voices; Venus; The Libertine; Notting Hill.
Television includes: Him & Her; The Tunnel; What Remains; The Hour; Holy Flying Circus.

JACKIE CLUNE

For the Donmar: Henry IV.

Theatre includes: Candide (Menier Chocolate Factory); 9 to 5 (UK tour); The Belle's Stratagem (Southwark Playhouse); Mogadishu(Lyric Hammersmith); Mamma Mia (International tour), Billy Elliot (Victoria Palace), Julie Burchill Is Away (Soho), A Wedding Story(Soho/Birmingham Repertory), Showstopper (Arts/Edinburgh Fringe), Bitchin' (Edinburgh Fringe/Arts).

Film includes: Breathtaking.

Television includes: The Bill; Eastenders; Waking the Dead.

PANDORA COLIN

Theatre includes: Cornelius (NY); The Dark Earth & The Light Sky, The House of Bernada Alba (Almeida); After The Dance, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (NT); If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet (Bush).
Film includes: The Lady in the Van; I Give It A Year; A Bunch of Amateurs; Run, Fat Boy, Run.
Television includes: The Hollow Crown; Mr Selfridge; Titanic; Life Begins; NY-Lon

ROSALIE CRAIG

For the Donmar: City of Angels.
Theatre includes: Miss Julie (Chichester Festival); NT 50th Gala, The Light Princess - Evening Standard Award, Table, London Road(NT); Macbeth (Manchester International Festival); Finding Neverland (Leicester Curve); Aspects of Love (Menier Chocolate Factory).
Film includes: London Road.
Television includes: Scrotal Recall; Spooks; Miranda; My Family and Other Animals; Casanova.

HEATHER CRANEY

For the Donmar: Passion Play.
Theatre includes: Made in Dagenham (Adelphi); Handbagged, Pink, You Me & Wii (Tricycle); Joe Guy (Soho); I Like Mine With A Kiss(Bush).
Film includes: Child 44; Vera Drake; Mark of Cain.
Television includes: Line of Duty; EastEnders; Holby City; Life of Riley; Torchwood.

STAVROS DEMETRAKI

Theatre includes: Antigone, Timon of Athens, She Stoops to Conquer, The Kitchen (NT); As You Like It (Curve, Leicester); Blood Wedding (Liverpool Playhouse); By The Way (Pleasance, Edinburgh Festival); Gilgamesh (Belgrade/UK tour); Birds Without Wings(Eastern Angles).

Television includes: White Van Man; Doctors.

Film includes: Clavius; Dracula Untold.

JUDI DENCH

For the Donmar: Madame de Sade (Wyndham's).
Theatre includes: Peter and Alice (Noël Coward); Amy's View (NT/Aldwych/NY); A Little Night Music, Absolute Hell, Anthony and Cleopatra (NT); Juno and the Paycock, Macbeth (RSC).
Film includes: Philomena; Shakespeare in Love; Mrs Brown; Iris; Notes on a Scandal; the role of M in seven James Bond films.
Television includes: Esio Trot; Cranford.
Accolades include six Olivier Awards, a Tony Award, an Academy Award and ten BAFTA Awards.

RACHEL DENNING

Theatre includes: See How They Run, Dick Whittington (UK Tour); Curious Curios (NT Watch This Space); Volpone (Gatehouse); Story Whores (Southwark Playhouse).
Television includes: Life's Too Short: Special.

TOMMY FRENCH
This is Tommy's professional stage debut.
Training: East 15 Acting School
Television includes: Luther; Josh; The Interceptor; Call The Midwife.

HADLEY FRASER

For the Donmar: City of Angels; Coriolanus; The Machine.
Theatre includes: The Pajama Game (Chichester Festival); LES MISERABLES (Queen's/Palace); The Pirate Queen (Hilton, NY); Pacific Overtures (Leicester Haymarket); Assassins (Sheffield Crucible); Longitude (Greenwich); The Shaughraun (Abbey Dublin).
Film includes: LES MISERABLES.
Television includes: Holby City; The Wrong Mans; Sons of Liberty; Doctor Who.

MARK GATISS

For the Donmar: Coriolanus; The Recruiting Officer.

Theatre includes: 55 Days (Hampstead); Season's Greetings (NT); All About My Mother (Old Vic).

Film includes: Our Kind of Traitor; Frankenstein; Match Point; The League Of Gentlemen's Apocalypse; The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; Shaun of the Dead.

Television includes: Mapp and Lucia; Wolf Hall; Sherlock; Game of Thrones.

LLEWELLA GIDEON
Theatre includes: Play Mas (Orange Tree); Birthday (Royal Court); Family Man (Stratford East); Sunshine Boys (Bath); Amen Corner(Bristol Old Vic).
Film includes: Paddington; Black Sea; Harry Enfield The Movie; Second Coming; Nativity.
Television includes: Birthday; Delivery Man; Absolutely Fabulous; Big School; Nighty Night.

JOANNA GRIFFIN

For the Donmar: Privacy; The Same Deep Water As Me.

Theatre includes: Clown Slut (BAC); I Killed Rasputin (Edinburgh Festival); Klowns (Unity); A Hundred Million Hits (Arcola); Earlsfield At The Centre of the World (Tara Arts); Why Is John Lennon Wearing A Skirt? (Tristan Bates); Irons, Dogging (Brighton Fringe Festival);Royal Court Gala, Genesis Foundation Gala (Royal Court).

Television includes: Well Funny People; Breaking News.

ALICE HEWKIN

Theatre includes: To Avoid Precipice Cling To Rock (Babolin); Three More Sleepless Nights (Robinson).
Television includes: Fish Bowl; Stella; Teacup Travels; Game of Thrones; Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars.

GERARD HORAN

Theatre includes: The Christmas Truce (RSC); Open Court, Jerusalem (also West End), A Miracle (Royal Court); All That Fall (Jermyn Street); One Man Two Guvnors (Haymarket).

Film includes: Cinderella; Gambit; The Bank Job; Breaking & Entering; As You Like It.

Television includes: From The Cradle To The Grave; The Detectorists; Walter; Da Vinci's Demons.

CHUKWUDI IWUJI

Theatre includes: Tamburlaine, King Lear (NY); Antony and Cleopatra (also NY), Henry VI - Olivier Award (RSC); Richard III (Old Vic/BAM/UK tour); Welcome to Thebes, The Observer (NT); The Misanthrope (Comedy).

Film includes: Fall To Rise; Exam.

Television includes: Crossing Lines; Murder In Manhattan; Doctor Who; The Garden; The Three Kings.

STEPHEN KENNEDY

For the Donmar: Juno and the Paycock.

Theatre includes: The Cherry Orchard, Elegy For Young Lovers (also ENO) (Young Vic); The Silver Tassie, Mother Courage and her Children, England People Very Nice (NT); To Kill A Mockingbird (Regents Park Open Air); School For Scandal (Barbican).

Film includes: Private Peaceful; The Agent; Notes on a Scandal.

Television includes: Lucky Man; The Vice; Father Ted.

Radio includes: The Archers.

KADIFF KIRWAN

For the Donmar: City of Angels.
Theatre includes: Dorfman Opening Gala, Home (NT); Jesus Christ Superstar (UK & AUS Tour); Sister Act (UK Tour); Black Snow(Moscow Arts); The Red Knot (RNCM).
Television includes: Crims; Call the Midwife.

AÏCHA KOSSOKO

Theatre includes: Antony & Cleopatra (Chichester Festival); The Taming of the Shrew (RSC); Welcome to Thebes, The Observer (NT);La Dispute (Abbey, Dublin).
Film includes: Wasted; Radiator; L'Ivresse Du Pouvoir; The Fever.
Television includes: Kingmakers; Casualty; Eastenders; Skins; In Deep.
Radio includes: The No 1 Ladies Detective Agency.

BEVERLEY LONGHURST
Theatre includes: Old Times (Stantonbury); Shutters (Park Theatre); Shadow Language (503); All My Sons (Liverpool Playhouse); The Illustrious Corpse (Soho/Leicester Haymarket); Way Upstream (Derby Playhouse); Remembrance of Things Past, All My Sons, Mourning Becomes Electra (NT).
Film includes: Shooting Clerks; Come Together.
Television includes: Little Miss Jocelyn; Jeffrey Archer - The Truth!; Man and Boy; Armadillo.

ANDREW MCDONALD

Theatre includes: Our American Cousin, Early Days (Finborough); The Scottsboro Boys (Garrick); Daytona (Haymarket); This House, The Alchemist, The Royal Hunt of the Sun, Tartuffe (NT); The Rise and Fall of Little Voice (Vaudeville); The Entertainer (Old Vic); The Alchemist, Julius Caesar, Columbus and the Discovery of Japan (RSC).

Film includes: Eden Lodge; Woodfalls.

WANDA OPALINSKA
Film includes: A Monster Calls; Black Book; The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.
Television includes: Parch; An Inspector Calls; Man Down; The Trials of Jimmy Rose; All At Sea; Peaky Blinders; Doctors; The Secret; The Mimic; Gameface; A Poet in New York; Cardinal Burns.

BHASKER PATEL

Theatre includes: Antony and Cleopatra (Liverpool Playhouse); Zameen (Soho); Royal Hunt of the Sun, Playing With Fire, Nation, Tartuffe (NT).

Film includes: Thunderbirds; The Man Inside; Twenty8K; Piercing Brightness; Junkhearts.

Television includes: Emmerdale; Spooks; Holby City; Moving On; Murder in Mind.

BILL PATERSON
Theatre includes: The Low Road, Death and the Maiden (also Duke of Yorks') (Royal Court); And No More Shall We Part (Hampstead);Earthquakes In London, Guys and Dolls (NT); Ivanov (Almeida).
Film includes: The Witches; Comfort and Joy; Truly Madly Deeply; The Killing Fields.
Television includes: Law and Order UK; Criminal Justice; The Crow Road; The Singing Detective; Auf Weidersein Pet.

PRASANNA PUWANARAJAH

Theatre includes: Dara, Emperor and Galilean, Hamlet, London Assurance (NT); Henry V (Noel Coward); The Letter (Bush); Twelfth Night (RSC); Thyestes (Arcola).
Film includes: The Gunman; Diana; Mobius.
Television includes: Critical; Apocalypse Slough; New Tricks.
Radio includes: The Raj Quartet.

PENNY RYDER
Theatre includes: The Man of Mode, Absolute Hell, The Devil's Disciple (NT); Moscow Gold, Othello (RSC); Romeo and Juliet (Young Vic).
Film includes: Skyfall; Friend Request Pending; Wimbledon; My House In Umbria; Mrs Henderson Presents.
Television includes: The Hollow Crown II; Casualty; Gigglebiz; Extras.

MICHAEL SHAEFFER

Theatre includes: How To Hold Your Breath (Royal Court); Little Revolution, Mr Burns (Almeida); Table, London Road (NT).
Film includes: London Road; Broken; Anna Karenina; Trance; Kingdom of Heaven.
Television includes: Foyle's War; Luther; Black Mirror; Mrs Biggs; Game of Thrones.

NINA SOSANYA

For the Donmar: Privacy; The Vortex.
Theatre includes: Apologia (Bush); Love's Labour's Lost, As You Like It (RSC); Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Novello); Fix Up (NT).
Film includes: Manderlay; Love Actually.
Television includes: W1A; Last Tango in Halifax; Silk; Shetland; Wizards vs Aliens; Treasure Island.

CATHERINE TATE

Theatre includes: Assassins (Menier Chocolate Factory); Much Ado About Nothing (Wyndham's); Season's Greetings (NT); Under the Blue Sky (Duke of York's); Some Girls (Gielgud).
Film includes: Nativity 3 - Dude, Where's My Donkey; Superbob; Gulliver's Travels; Monte Carlo.
Television includes: The Catherine Tate Show; The Office US; Big School; Nan - One Off Special and Nan's Christmas Carol; Doctor Who.

YUSRA WARSAMA

Theatre includes: Sonnet Sunday (Globe); Shared Memories (Kali/Curve); Crystal Kisses, Everybody Watches TV, Summer Love(Contact, Manchester); New Writing Festival (Curve); Bulletproof Soul, Bolt-Hole, Three-Way (Birmingham Rep).
Film includes: Last Days On Mars; My Brother the Devil; Stolen.
Television includes: Critical; Dracula; Savage.

TIMOTHY WEST

Theatre includes: Uncle Vanya (Chichester Festival); A Number (Menier Chocolate Factory/Fugard, South Africa); Quarter (UK Tour); Coriolanus (RSC/International Tour); King Lear (NT).
Film includes: Ever After; Joan Of Arc; Endgame; Iris; The Day of the Jackal.
Television includes: EastEnders; Last Tango in Halifax; Bleak House, Bedtime, Brass.

FINTY WILLIAMS

For the Donmar: Luise Miller.
Theatre includes: The Armour (Defibrillator); Dangerous Corner (Birmingham Rep / UK Tour); Macbeth, The Lightning Child, Bedlam(Globe); Twelfth Night (NT); Bedroom Farce (Rose / West End).
Film includes: The Importance of Being Earnest; Gosford Park; Ladies in Lavender.
Television includes: Cranford; Born & Bred.

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