2022 PRESS RELEASES
December 2022
Shakespeare’s Globe Announces Casting for The Winter’s Tale
Shakespeare’s Globe is delighted to announce the cast of The Winter’s Tale, directed by Sean Holmes (Globe Associate Artistic Director). For the very first time, the production will traverse between both iconic theatres – the open-air Globe Theatre and candlelit Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. The production will begin in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, for the aristocratic luxury of Sicilia, before transferring during the interval to the Globe Theatre, as the pastoral playground of Bohemia. The Winter’s Tale’s opening also marks the start of the Globe’s Folio 400th Anniversary celebrations, which will take place throughout 2023.
December 2022
Shakespeare’s Globe USA Celebrates 40th Anniversary and Appoints New Chair
The Globe’s US Patrons’ organization, Shakespeare’s Globe USA, celebrates its 40th anniversary this year, and has elected new Chair of the Board Alan Jones (AJ).
The Globe’s US Patrons’ organization, Shakespeare’s Globe USA, enables American supporters to participate in and contribute to the Globe’s work, on stage and off, on both sides of the Atlantic. The charity was inaugurated at a gala dinner held in Los Angeles on 23 September 1982, in the presence of the late Patrons HRH The Duke of Edinburgh and Princess Grace of Monaco. The not-for-profit supports theater, educational, and research projects, and expands the reach of the Globe through educational, outreach and developmental projects in the United States and around the world. The Board comprises Neil Constable, Amy Griggs, Michael Hoffman, Joseph Marcell, Mia Monae. Alan Jones (Chair), Michael Lebovitz, Raphael Roesler, Emma Stenning, Chris Uzelac, and Ed Winters.
December 2022
Shakespeare’s Globe Announces Casting for Titus Andronicus
Shakespeare’s Globe is delighted to announce the cast of Titus Andronicus, directed by Jude Christian (Dark Night of the Soul, Nanjing, Shakespeare’s Globe). Performed for the first time in the Sam Wanamaker the deadly revenge tragedy stars Katy Stephens as Titus (Much Ado About Nothing, The Tempest, Shakespeare’s Globe, 2022), Kibong Tanji as Aaron, and Lucy McCormick (Wuthering Heights, National Theatre) as Saturninus. Titus Andronicus. Music is composed by Jasmin Kent Rodgman, with original songs written by award-winning ‘modern day music hall stars’ (Guardian) Bourgeois & Maurice.
NOVEMBER 2022
Shakespeare’s Globe Announces Casting for The Fir Tree
Shakespeare’s Globe is delighted to announce the return of its climate conscious festive production, The Fir Tree, running 15 – 31 December. Written by Globe writer-in-residence Hannah Khalil and directed by Michelle Terry (Artistic Director), this enchanting retelling of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale opens in the Globe Theatre. Paul Ready (Motherland, BBC; Macbeth, Globe) and Anna Crichlow (Julius Caesar, Globe on Tour 2022) return to the cast, alongside new cast members Tony Jayawardena (Christmas at the Snow Globe, Globe), Molly Logan (Macbeth, Globe), and Jos Vantyler (The Two Noble Kinsmen, Globe).
NOVEMBER 2022
Shakespeare’s Globe Announces New Winter Season Events and Activities for All Ages
Shakespeare’s Globe is delighted to announce a new season of events and activities for the upcoming winter season. Our flagship project for secondary schools, Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank, returns with a production of The Tempest created especially for young people, directed by Diane Page (Julius Caesar, Globe on Tour 2022). February Half Term and the Easter holidays are jam-packed with events for families and young people, including live storytellings and family workshops for children aged 5-12 and their grown-ups, interactive workshops for young people aged 12+ and 15, and Young Actors Short Courses for 8-10 and 11-13 year olds. The free live Anti-Racist Shakespeare webinars series continues in the new year, covering Henry V, Titus Andronicus and The Winter’s Tale. On 24 and 25 February, the Education department will present Rutgers Conservatory Acting Students in a workshop performance of The Comedy of Errors, and later that month, the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse welcomes Mawa Theatre Company for a Shakespeare Monologue Slam Night. In April, The Fourth Choir returns to the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse with ‘The Only Planet’, a concert of choral masterpieces that celebrates Mother Earth.
October 2022
Shakespeare’s Globe and Tamasha Announce Casting for Hakawatis: Women of the Arabian Nights
Shakespeare’s Globe and Tamasha are delighted to announce the cast and company for the premiere of their coproduction Hakawatis: Women of the Arabian Nights by Globe writer-in-residence Hannah Khalil (The Fir Tree, Henry VIII, Globe). Tamasha Artistic Director Pooja Ghai returns to the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse to direct Hakawatis following her acclaimed production of Lions and Tigers in 2017. Hakawatis opens on 1 December and runs until 14 January.
October 2022
Shakespeare’s Globe and Headlong Announce Casting for Henry V
Launching Shakespeare’s Globe’s Winter Season, Henry V opens in the candlelit Sam Wanamaker Playhouse on 10 November, running until 4 February. In a Shakespeare’s Globe and Headlong production with Leeds Playhouse and Royal & Derngate, Northampton, Henry V will be performed in the intimate, indoor Sam Wanamaker Playhouse for the first time, exploring the single-minded pursuit of Henry V, and what it means to be ‘English’.
October 2022
Shakespeare’s Globe Announces Eight New Trustees
Shakespeare’s Globe is announcing eight new Trustees joining the Board this year. Several of the organisation’s Trustees are retiring this year, with a combined thirty-nine years of service supporting the Globe most recently through successive lockdowns, through to reopening the theatre, and planning for the future.
The Globe’s wide ranging open recruitment, supported by Philip Nelson of the Hiring Department, started last February, and attracted an impressively large number of high-calibre applicants from all walks of life. It has secured individuals bringing diverse skills, thinking and experience, ready to plan for a strong and successful future for the organisation. The Trustees are Dipo Baruwa-Etti, Sandeep Dwesar, Ramia M. El Agamy, Rick Gildea, Reinhard Gorenflos, Ruth Rowan, Indy Saha, and Despina Tsatsas. They will be joining current Trustees John Baker (Treasurer), David Butter (Deputy Chair), Margaret Casely-Hayford CBE (Chair), Erica Crump, Matt Jones OBE, Robert Laurence, Nell Leyshon (Deputy Chair), and Professor Julie Sanders. During the recruitment process further individuals were identified to join the Globe’s Board next year, these will be confirmed and announced in due course.
August 2022
Shakespeare’s Globe Announces 2022 Shakespeare and Race Festival with King’s College London
Formalising 20 years of collaboration between two world-renowned institutions, Shakespeare’s Globe and King’s College London have established a new research centre, dubbed Shakespeare Centre London. The Centre will be a place of excellence for Shakespeare studies, dedicated to exploring Shakespeare and early modern literary works.
The first joint activity from the new centre will be co-curating and co-hosting the fourth annual Shakespeare and Race Festival 2022. First held in 2018, the festival is an event series originally conceived and curated by Professor Farah Karim-Cooper, Professor of English at King’s and Co-Director of Education at Shakespeare’s Globe. This builds upon years of collaboration, including the joint MA in Shakespeare Studies.
JULY 2022
Shakespeare’s Globe Announces Casting for New Play I, Joan
Shakespeare’s Globe is delighted to announce the company for the premiere of a powerful new play, I, Joan running 25 August – 22 October in the Globe Theatre. Written by Charlie Josephine (Bitch Boxer) and directed by Ilinca Radulian (Co-Director, Richard III, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse 2019), Charlie returns to the Globe following being part of the acting ensemble for the critically acclaimed Metamorphoses in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse (2021).
Joan will be played by Isobel Thom (graduating Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama 2022) and Jolyon Coy (previous work at the Globe includes The Merchant of Venice 2013, Holy Warriors 2014, and Antony & Cleopatra 2014) will play Charles.
June 2022
Shakespeare’s Globe Announces Winter Season in the candlelit Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
The Winter Season in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse will open on 10 November with Henry V directed by Headlong Artistic Director Holly Race Roughan and co-produced by the Globe and Headlong with Leeds Playhouse and Royal & Derngate, Northampton. The season also includes Shakespeare’s deadly revenge tragedy, Titus Andronicus (directed by Jude Christian), and The Winter’s Tale (directed by Sean Holmes) in a production taking place both in the Playhouse and Globe Theatre. Globe writer-in-residence Hannah Khalil will premiere a new play, Hakawatis: Women of the Arabian Nights. The co-production with Tamasha will be directed by Pooja Ghai. The Fir Tree returns over Christmas for open-air festive family fun, directed by Michelle Terry.
JUNE 2022
Shakespeare’s Globe Announces Full Cast of Midsummer Mechanicals
Shakespeare’s Globe is delighted to announce the cast and company for Midsummer Mechanicals opening in Sam
Wanamaker Playhouse 28 July – 21 August.
This is the first time the Globe is premiering a full-scale production for families and young people. Midsummer Mechanicals is a co-production with Splendid Productions, directed by Lucy Cuthbertson and Kerry Frampton and written by Kerry Frampton and Ben Hales.
Midsummer Mechanicals is an hilarious new follow-up to the play-within-a-play from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, following Peter Quince’s troupe’s attempt to recapture the success of their first hit show, Pyramus and Thisbe.
MAY 2022
Shakespeare’s Globe Announces Full Cast of Henry VIII Featuring Adam Gillen
Shakespeare’s Globe is delighted to announce the cast and company for Henry VIII running 19 May – 21 October, directed by Amy Hodge.
Adam Gillen will play King Henry VIII, returning to the Globe stage following his acclaimed performance of Mercutio in Romeo & Juliet in 2021. Adam’s other theatre credits include Killer Joe (starring Orlando Bloom) in 2018 for which he was Olivier nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and the National Theatre’s acclaimed production of Amadeus, opposite Lucian Msamati. His screen credits include his role in ITV sitcom Benidorm from 2011 – 2018, Vita & Virginia (2018), and Fresh Meat (2011). Bea Segura will play Queen Katharine and Janet Etuk will play Anne Bullen.
April 2022
Shakespeare’s Globe Announces Full Cast of King Lear, Featuring Kathryn Hunter and Michelle Terry
Shakespeare’s Globe is delighted to announce the cast and company for King Lear opening 10 June – 24 July.
Twenty-five years after their original, ground-breaking production of King Lear, members of the original company will reunite bringing the production to a new generation, including internationally lauded director Helena Kaut-Howson, Marcello Magni, Pawel Dobrzycki, and ‘one of the greatest stage actors alive’ (Vanity Fair) Kathryn Hunter.
April 2022
Shakespeare’s Globe Announce BBC Broadcasts to Celebrate 25th Anniversary
The BBC and Shakespeare’s Globe have teamed up to celebrate the Globe’s 25th Anniversary, broadcasting three films on BBC Four and BBC iPlayer. The productions span across the years with Michelle Terry in Twelfth Night (2021), Emma Rice’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2016) and Gemma Arterton in The Duchess of Malfi (2014). These broadcasts form part of BBC Four’s new Sunday Night Performances showcasing some of the best of the UK’s dance, theatre, music and spoken word in specially made films for television every week of the year.
March 2022
Shakespeare’s Globe Announce Cast of the 2022 Globe on Tour Production of Julius Caesar.
Shakespeare’s Globe is delighted to announce the cast and company for Julius Caesar. Directed by Diane Page, Globe on Tour will be bringing this production to The Globe Theatre and venues across the UK from 29 April – 10 September.
March 2022
Shakespeare’s Globe Announce Cast of Summer 2022 Season Opening Production: Much Ado About Nothing
Shakespeare’s Globe is delighted to announce the cast and company for Much Ado About Nothing, directed by Lucy Bailey. This will be performed by the Globe Ensemble who will be returning for The Tempest on 22 July.
January 2022
Shakespeare’s Globe announces Summer Season 2022
Good company, good wine, good welcome, can make good people. – Henry VIII
Shakespeare’s Globe is thrilled to announce the Summer Season 2022 full of pomp, pageantry, politics, and power. The season runs April – October 2022. Productions include…
January 2022
Full cast of The Merchant of Venice in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
Shakespeare’s Globe is delighted to announce the full cast of The Merchant of Venice, performed in the candlelit Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, directed by Abigail Graham and designed by Sarah Beaton.
January 2022
Shakespeare’s Globe announces full cast of this year’s Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank production of Macbeth
Shakespeare’s Globe is delighted to announce the full cast for the 2022 Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank production of Macbeth, directed by Sarah Frankcom. This marks Sarah’s directorial return following her tenure as Artistic Director of LAMDA. Macbeth is a full-scale, gripping, 90-minute production in the Globe Theatre created specifically for young people, but is also a perfect introduction to Shakespeare for all ages and stages