Simon Coombs, Sharon Duncan-Brewster and More Join Ruth Wilson in THE EL.TRAIN - Full Cast Announced!

The full cast for The El. Train, joining the previously announced Ruth Wilson, is Simon Coombs, Sharon Duncan-Brewster, ChristIan Edwards, Nicola Hughes, Adam Sopp, Ony Uhiara and Zubin Varla.

The Web Cast: Adam Sopp (The Man), Zubin Varla (Steve), Ruth Wilson (Rose), Simon Coombs (Tim) and ChristIan Edwards (Policeman).

Before Breakfast Cast: Zubin Varla (Alfred) and Ruth Wilson (Mrs. Rowland).

The Dreamy Kid Cast: Ony Uhiara (Irene), Simon Coombs (Dreamy), Sharon Duncan-Brewster (Ceely Ann) and Nicola Hughes (Mammy Saunders).

The El. Train Band (performing between plays): Nicola Hughes (Lead Vocalist), Adam Sopp (Piano) and Zubin Varla.

The El. Train: three one-act plays by Eugene O'Neill (The Web, Before Breakfast and The Dreamy Kid) were written between 1913 and 1918 and are being presented together for the first time at Hoxton Hall. Ruth Wilson will act in The Web and Before Breakfast, directed by Sam Yates, and will make her directorial debut with The Dreamy Kid. Combining live music with immersive design, all housed in the intimate setting of Grade II listed Hoxton Hall (built 1863, seating an audience of 125), The El. Train will run for a limited four-week season from 6 December - 30 December, with press nights on the 12 & 13 December. Design is by Richard Kent, with lighting by Neil Austin and original composition and sound design by Alex Baranowski. The El. Train is being produced by Found Productions.

Set in impoverished New York at the turn of the 20th Century, the event begins with the three one-act plays linked by a live ragtime/jazz band performing musical vignettes to further evoke the distinctive feel of the period, while elevating O'Neill's epic themes of sin and redemption, and heaven and hell.

These intensely dramatic plays will be followed by a night of hard liquor and live music at O'Neill's very own New York watering hole, the Hell Hole Saloon.

Simon Coombs' stage credits include All My Sons and A Raisin In The Sun both at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, A Soldier In Every Son, King John and Richard III all for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Emperor And Galilean at the National Theatre, Enron at the Noel Coward Theatre/UK Tour and What Fatima Did at Hampstead Theatre. Simon's screen credits include The Doors, Cardinal Burns, Being Human, Mouth To Mouth and Holby City.

Sharon Duncan-Brewster's stage credits include A Season In The Congo at the Young Vic, A Few Man Fridays at Riverside Studios, Yerma at the Gate Theatre, The Swan and There Is A War both at the National Theatre, Let There Be Love, Fabulation, Playboy Of The West Indies and Blues For Mr Charlie all at the Tricycle Theatre, The Bacchae and The Magic Carpet both at the Lyric Hammersmith, Gaddafi for the English National Opera, Dirty Butterfly at Soho Theatre, Peepshow at the Lyric Hammersmith and UK Tour, Keepers at Hampstead Theatre, Crave at Paines Plough, Boo for Clean Break Productions, No Boy Cricket Club at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East and Ashes And Sand And Babies at the Royal Court Upstairs. Sharon's screen credits include Top Boy, Doctors, Holby City, Shoot The Messenger, Waking The Dead, Baby Father, Casualty, Maisie Raine, Backup, Hope I Die Before I Get Old, Between The Lines, The Bill, 2.4 Children, Bad Girls, Up The Garden Path, Starting Out, Blooded, Three And Out, Click, Body Story and Christmas.

ChristIan Edwards' stage credits include Radio Times on UK Tour, The Snow Queen at the Rose Theatre, Kingston, Oliver! at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, The Go-Between at Trafalgar Studios, Spend, Spend, Spend at the Watermill Theatre, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Macbeth and Fantastic Mr. Fox all for the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park, The Importance of Being Earnest and The Taming of The Shrew both for the Oxford Shakespeare Company, Oliver Twist at the Library Theatre, Manchester, Romeo & Juliet at Stafford Gatehouse, Billy Liar on UK Tour and Three Sisters at The Playhouse Theatre, London.

Nicola Hughes is best known for her leading performance in Sir Trevor Nunn's Porgy And Bess at The Savoy Theatre playing the role of Bess, for which she was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical. Nicola's other stage credits include The Color Purple at the Menier Chocolate Factory, Simply Heavenly at Trafalgar Studios, Fosse at the Prince of Wales Theatre, for which she was nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical, Chicago and Damn Yankees both at the Adelphi Theatre, The Goodbye Girl at the Albery Theatre, Tommy at the Shaftesbury Theatre, Crazy For You at the Prince Edward Theatre, Marilyn & Ella at Theatre Royal Stratford East, The Hot Mikado at the Watermill Theatre, Newbury, Ray Charles: I Can't Stop Loving You on UK Tour, South Pacific at the Grange Park Opera, Follow My Leader at Birmingham Rep and Hampstead Theatre, Simply Heavenly at the Young Vic, Blues In The Night at Birmingham Rep, Ain't Misbehaving at Derby Playhouse, Sweet Charity at the Churchill Theatre, Bromley and Notes Across A Small Pond at the Bridewell Theatre. Nicola's screen credits include The Royal Bodyguard, EastEnders, Parents Of The Band, Rock Rivals, Jonathan Creek and Trial & Retribution ll. Nicola's solo album entitled Nicola Hughes, produced by TCM Music, is on release under the independent label Pennant Productions and is available on iTunes.

Adam Sopp's stage credits include Backbeat at the Duke Of Yorks Theatre, West End, the Royal Alexandra Theatre, Toronto and Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles, This Place Means at High Hearted Theatre/Greenwich & Docklands International Festival, Naked Soldiers at The Warehouse Theatre, The Daughter-In-Law at the New Vic Theatre, Newcastle under Lyme, A Chorus Of Disapproval at the New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich and The Mercury Theatre, Colchester, All Quiet On The Western Front at Nottingham Playhouse, In Parenthesis at the Churchill Theatre, Bromley, LES MISERABLES at the Palace Theatre, West End and Oliver! at the London PalladiuM. Adam's screen credits include The Lost Honour, Fair Cop, Father Brown, WPC 56, Holby City, Doctors, Casualty 1907, Teenage Kicks and Abroad.

Ony Uhiara's stage credits include Much Ado About Nothing at Shakespeare's Globe, How To Be An Other Woman at the Gate Theatre, Eurydice at the Young Vic, Noughts And Crosses for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Pericles, Winter's Tale, Days Of Significance all for the RSC Stratford and Motor Town and Fallout both at the Royal Court. Ony's screen credits include Law And Order, Stolen, White Van Man, Criminal Justice, Barclay, Doctors, Holby City, The Crouches, Waking The Dead, Rosemary And Thyme, The Bill, Proof and Sixty 6.

Zubin Varla's stage credits include The Enchantment, Attempts On Her Life, The Life Of Galileo and Cyrano De Bergerac all at the National Theatre, Julius Caesar at the Lyric Hammersmith, Two Gentlemen Of Verona, Midnight's Children, The Tempest, Roberto Zucco, Bartholomew Fair, Faust, The Painter Of Dishonour and Romeo And Juliet all for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Twelfth Night at the Donmar, Paradise Regained at the Royal Court, Jesus Christ Superstar at the Lyceum Theatre, Beautiful Thing at the Duke Of York's and Antigone at the Old Vic. Zubin's screen credits include Strike Back, Garrow's Law, Hustle, Little Dorrit, Silent Witness, Spooks, Dalziel And Pascoe, Crocodile Shoes, Saddam's Tribe, Mad, Sad And Bad and Jacob.

Ruth Wilson won the 2012 Olivier Award for Best Actress for her role of Anna in Anna Christie, alongside Jude Law and the 2010 Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire, with Rachel Weisz, both at the Donmar Warehouse. Ruth's other stage credits include Philistines at the National Theatre and Through A Glass Darkly at The Almeida Theatre. Ruth's most recognised roles on television include playing Jane in Jane Eyre and Alice Morgan in the BBC's Luther. Her film credits include Anna Karenina, The Lone Ranger with Johnny Depp and the forthcoming Disney film Savi ng Mr Banks with Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson.

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