OUR YEAR IN PICTURES

A N N U A L R E V I E W 2022 – 2023

Arthur Hughes as Richard III in directed by Gregory Doran, 2022. Photo by Ellie Kurttz © RSC.
 ‘Astonishing…
makes the entire
audience
clap with joy ’
THE NEW YORKER

The award-winning,
record-breaking, world
premiere of Studio Ghibli’s
My Neighbour Totoro burst
onto the Barbican stage,
presented with Joe Hisaishi

2 2. Photo by Manuel Harlan © RSC, with Nippon TV.

and in collaboration with
Improbable and Nippon TV.
This international
collaboration was enjoyed
by over 130 000 people,
won five What’s on Stage
Awards, and six Olivier
Awards, breaking the
Barbican’s box office record
for most tickets sold in a
single day. A return visit to
the Barbican begins on
21 November 2023.

My Neighbour Totoro was supported by Headline Sponsor LOEWE, Lead Production Supporter Miranda Curtis CMG, the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation and the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation. Ami Okumura Jones as Satsuki and Mei Mac as Mei, with Dai Tabuchi as Tatsuo inMy Neighbour Totoro, directed by Phelim McDermott, 0
 2 2. Photo by Ellie Kurttz © RSC.
Rebellion production photo fromHenry VI, directed by Owen Horsley, 0
Directed by Owen Horsley,
Henry VI: Rebellion played
alongside Wars of the Roses
and included 74 community
performers and 21 members
of our Next Generation
young company working
alongside our professional
company to tell the thrilling
tale of England at war.
Arthur Hughes made his
acclaimed title role debut in
Richard III, the first time in the
RSC’s history that the part
was performed by a
disabled actor.
Gregory Doran’s production
was also broadcast live to
UK schools for free, with
supporting materials to give
students a unique insight
into the creative process
and choices made. It was
also broadcast in cinemas in
September 2022.
See cover image of Arthur
Hughes as Richard III.
Henry VI: Rebellion and Wars of the Roses were supported by RSC Production Circle Members Peggy Czyzak-Dannenbaum, Susan Tomasky and Ronald J Ungvarsky, Ms Teresa Tsai, Marcia Whitaker and Kathleen J. Yoh
The Oakley Charitable Trust: Supporting the involvement of Next Generation Act and Shakespeare Nation in Henry VI: Rebellion
We celebrated the first full
year of TikTok £10 Tickets.
20,000 tickets were used by
schools and young people
aged 14–25 including 19%
of tickets being used by those
based in areas of structural
disadvantage.
Activity included TikTok
subsidising school trips to see
our productions and TikTok
Ticket takeovers connected
to A Christmas Carol and
My Neighbour Totoro.

Puppet workshop forMy Neighbour Totoro with members of the cast and creative team, Barbican 2022. Photo by Ellie Kurttz © RSC.
Our gardens were alive
with thousands of visitors
who enjoyed our many
free outdoor events
including the annual
Shakespeare Birthday
celebrations and The Dell,
where 328 performers
from around the country
thrilled audiences in our
open-air performance
space throughout the
summer months.

2 . Photo by Sara Beaumont © RSC.

2 3
At The Forest’s EdgeCelebrate event, Avonbank Gardens, June 0
Our local work included a
high street art installation,
onstage talks led by
community leads, co-created
exhibitions focused on
costume and sustainability
in community spaces and a
Warm Hub.
We also curated the
Everything to Everybody
exhibition at the Library of
Birmingham in partnership
with the University of
Birmingham, as part of the
Commonwealth Games
cultural programme.
 The company of All’s Well That Ends Well,directed by Blanche McIntyre, 2022. Photo by Ikin Yum © RSC.
Shakespeare’s dark comedy,
All’s Well That Ends Well,
explored themes of romantic
fantasy, toxic masculinity and
consent for the social media
generation. Directed by
Blanche McIntyre with Rosie
Sheehy playing Helena,
the production was also
broadcast on Sky Arts in
the Company’s most
ambitious stage-to-screen
adaptation to date.

The production was supported by Season Supporter Charles Holloway and sponsored by ICBC (London)
 2 . Photo © Aki Tanaka.
2 3
Sakura Kamura as Matilda in the tour ofMatilda The Musical, Orb Theatre, Tokyo, 0
Matilda The Musical
continued to play to
packed houses at London’s
Cambridge Theatre, with
audiences in Korea and Japan
getting the opportunity to
see the multi-award-winning
production on their stages.
Since opening in London in
2011, the production has won
101 international awards
including 24 for Best Musical
and has been seen by
11 million people across more
than 90 cities worldwide.
Edwardian Hotels London – Preferred Hotel Partner for Matilda London
 The Mischief Festival returned
to The Other Place with
two provocative new plays
exploring Britain today –
O, Island! by Nina Segal and
Ivy Tiller: Vicar’s Daughter,
Squirrel Killer by Bea Roberts.
Alex Bhat as Reece and Jenny Rainsford as Ivy inIvy Tiller: Vicar’s Daughter, Squirrel Killer,directed by Caitlin MacLeod, 2022. Photo by Richard Davenport © RSC.

New Work at the RSC is generously supported by The Drue and H.J. Heinz II Charitable Trust
 2 2. Photo by Manuel Harlan © RSC.
‘…the show
is superb ’

A Christmas Carol with Adrian Edmondson as Scrooge and Sunetra Sarker as The Ghost of Christmas Present, directed by Rachel Kavanaugh, 0
THE TELEGRAPH

Families packed the Royal

Shakespeare Theatre for the
sell-out run of David Edgar’s
acclaimed version of
A Christmas Carol with
Adrian Edmondson
as Scrooge.

A Christmas Carol was sponsored by long time RSC partner Pragnell

 Apprentices working in the RSC, January 2023 in Operations, Automation and Learning & National Partnerships deapartments. Photo by Sara Beaumont © RSC.
To celebrate National
Apprenticeship Week, we
showcased the wide-ranging
ways you can get into a
career in theatre. Our aim is
to develop a different talent
base and ensure fairer access
to and representation across
the theatre industry. We have
committed to hosting up to 28
apprentices by Spring 2024.
The Tempest was directed by
Elizabeth Freestone with Alex
Kingston as Prospero and
Offie award-winning actress
Jessica Rhodes making her
RSC debut playing Miranda.
This was the first in the
season of five productions
in the Royal Shakespeare
Theatre celebrating the 400th
anniversary of the publication
of Shakespeare’s First Folio.

2 . Photo by Ikin uY m © RSC.

Designer, Tom Piper and
the team used the industry’s
Theatre Green Book to make
the scenery and costumes
as eco-friendly as possible.
This was part of our ongoing

2 3
environmental focus to drive

Jessica Rhodes as Miranda and Alex Kingston as Prospero in The Tempest, directed by Elizabeth Freestone, 0
carbon reduction and engage
the whole Company in
environmental responsibility.

The Tempest was supported by Season Supporter Charles Holloway

 The hotly anticipated world
premiere of Hamnet
re-opened the Swan Theatre
in Stratford-upon-Avon.
Produced with Neal Street
Productions, in association
with Hera Pictures,
the stage production of
Maggie O’Farrell’s award-
winning novel was adapted
by Lolita Chakrabarti and
directed by Erica Whyman.
Following hugely successful
advance sales, we announced
a run at the Garrick Theatre,
London opening in
autumn 2023.

Hamnet is supported by RSC Production Circle Members Peggy Czyzak-Dannenbaum, Susan Tomasky and Ronald J Ungvarsky, and Marcia Whitaker, and is a recipient of the Edgerton Foundation New Play Award Madeleine Mantock as Agnes and Tom Varey as William inHamnet, directed by Erica Whyman, 2023. Photo by Manuel Harlan © RSC.
 Julius Caesar, directed by Atri Banerjee, 2023. Photo by Marc Brenner © RSC.
Annabel Baldwin as Soothsayer, Joshua Dunn as Cinna The Poet, and the company of Julius Caesar in
Atri Banerjee’s bold new take
on Julius Caesar performed in
Stratford-upon-Avon before
heading off on a UK tour
featuring a Community
Chorus of 72 performers
from across the country and
Stratford-upon-Avon.
The tour to nine of our
Partner Theatres marked the
beginning of an ambitious
three-year programme to
expand the reach of the
Company’s national touring
footprint with the support
of the Esmée Fairbairn
Foundation and Arts
Council England.
 As a theatre and learning
charity we reach 500,000
young people each year,
working alongside our
12 Partner Theatres and
Associate Schools’ network
in areas of structural
disadvantage. Our First
Encounters with Shakespeare
production of Twelfth Night
was one of our many projects.
Aimed at 7-13 year olds and
their families, the production
was co-created drawing on
young people’s concerns
about climate change. The
show toured to 20 locations
across England, including
13 schools. Overall, 8,228
people saw the production,
with 30% of them seeing
Shakespeare for the first time.
Alice Blundell as Feste inFirst Encounters: Twelfth Night,directed by Robin Bel–eld, 2022. Photo by Joe Bailey © RSC.

‘It was amazing…we just

walked in, and we’re like,
‘What? This isn’t the hall –
this is an island. ’
10 YEAR OLD PUPIL IN RESPONSE TO
THE PRODUCTION IN THEIR SCHOOL HALL
 Image third row, left is of Next Generation participants and RSC staff engaged in learning/training young people in backstage roles. Photo by Sara Beaumont © RSC.
Images top row and fourth row, right are from National Playmaking Festival, directed by Paul Ainsworth, 2022. Photo by Sara Beaumont © RSC.
directed by Robin Bel–eld, 2022. Photo by Joe Bailey © RSC.
rehearsals, directed by Owen Horsley, 2022. Photo by Sara Beaumont © RSC.
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young people’s performances
with regional Theatre Partners and
1,670 teachers from primary,
secondary and special educational
schools involving over 2000 people needs schools trained with us

Image, second row, left is from

Images second row, right and third row right are from
1,035 schools participated
in our work
420
young Shakespeare Ambassadors
supported to lead projects
in their communities

120
young people participated
in our Next Generation Talent
27
Youth Advisory Board members
worked on RSC
Development programme strategy development

81 2,000,000
almost

adult Shakespeare
Champions advocating for unique views to our Shakespeare Learning Zone,
the arts in their communities supporting young people aged 11 – 18 with their studies

Thanks to our generous supporters of Learning and National Partnerships work: Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, The Clore Duffield Foundation, The 29th May 1961 Charitable Trust, GRoW @ Annenberg, The Polonsky Foundation, Stratford Town Trust, LSEG Foundation,
The Goldsmiths’ Company Charity, HDH Wills 1965 Charitable Trust, Teale Charitable Trust, The Grimmitt Trust, The Oakley Charitable Trust, and Misses Barrie Charitable Trust
We opened submissions for
our nationwide playwriting
initiative, 37 Plays, inviting
anyone to submit a play to
capture the stories of today.
Created in collaboration with
our 12 Theatre Partners and
supported by award-winning
playwrights Juliet Gilkes-
Romero and Mark Ravenhill,
the search attracted over

Image from 37 Plays, 2023. Photo by Sara Beaumont © RSC.

2,000 submissions. Over a
six-week period, 24 readers
read 31 plays per week with
the final 37 plays coming
from writers all over the UK:
from Craigavon to Dawlish,
from Cardiff to Edinburgh and
Skipton to Wolverhampton,
and from writers ranging from
age 9 to 65. Nearly a third of
the selected 37 plays are by
first-time writers.

37 Plays is supported by Jon and NoraLee Sedmak

 Cunard and the RSC’s
partnership took the power
of Shakespeare to Cunard’s
flagship, Queen Mary 2.
We performed a brand-
new performance piece,
Boundless as the Sea,
blending Shakespeare’s
iconic love scenes, by Owen
Horsley. Guests also enjoyed
an abridged version of our
acclaimed 2018 production
of Miss Littlewood, written
and adapted by Sam Kenyon,
alongside workshops and
events to share an insight into
Shakespeare and the
craft of acting.

Rosalind Ford in Boundless as the Sea onboard Cunard cruises, directed by Owen Horsley, 2023. Photo © Cunard.
F IN A NC I A L ACT I V I T I E S
Our total income for 2022/23 was £68.0m, 78% of which was self-generated from Box Office sales, commercial trading,
fundraising, royalties and other income. After total expenditure of £68.1m and a £1.1m reduction in our investment values
there was a net expenditure of £1.2m as we continued to see recovery in our activities following the pandemic.

BOX OFFICE SUBSIDIARIES, DEVELOPMENT PRODUCTION

Income for the year JOINT VENTURES AND INCOME COSTS
OTHER TRADING ACTIVITIES Development income of £6.8m These were £44.0m or
was £34.0m or 50% of total income,
which relates to ticket sales Income from subsidiaries, includes funding raised, 65% of total expenditure
for productions in joint ventures and other trading activities including income from individuals and which includes costs of
Stratford-upon-Avon, provided £9.4m during the year. memberships, trusts, corporate donations Stratford-upon-Avon,
London and on tour. This income is mainly driven by and sponsorships, education partnerships, London and touring.
our trading subsidiary which includes and income generated from endowment
our catering and retail business. investments alongside some funding
Creative Industries Tax Relief allowances for specific projects.
for our productions totalled
£4.9m for the year.

INCOME EXPENDITURE

THEATRE
OPERATIONS
COSTS
Costs were £10.5m during
the year which is mainly the
cost of maintaining and running
our theatres and estates.

NOTE:
Income in total agrees to the consolidated statutory
accounts, however some items have been reclassified
above to aid visibility such as development income.
Learning and Participation expenditure costs include
Learning, Partnerships, Placemaking and Artists
Development activity/support. Production costs £44.0m (64.6%)
Theatre operations £10.5m (15.5%)
To read more detail about our year, our full report and
Box office £34.0m (49.9%) Trading expenditure of subsidiaries & joint ventures £4.0m (5.9%)
financial statements are available as a PDF download
Arts Council England NPO grant £15.3m (22.4%) Sales & marketing £3.5m (5.1%)
upon request to helen.griffiths@rsc.org.uk.
Trading income of subsidiaries & joint ventures £9.4m (13.8%) Fundraising costs £1.5m (2.2%)
Development income £6.8m (10.0%) Learning & Participation expenditure £3.3m (4.8%)
Royalties & other income £2.6m (3.8%) Other costs £1.3m (1.9%)
TH A NK YOU
PUBLIC FUNDERS
Arts Council England
Coventry & Warwickshire
Local Enterprise Partnership
Department for Digital, Culture,
Media & Sport
Innovate UK
National Lottery Heritage Fund
The National Lottery
through Arts Council England
MAJOR SUPPORTERS
Diane and Malcolm
Lydia and Manfred Gorvy*
Chris and Jane Loughran
Doug and Julie McPherson*
Anne and René Olivieri
Dame Susie Sainsbury DBE
Usha and Parag Saxena*
LEAD PRODUCTION SUPPORTER
(My Neighbour Totoro)
Miranda Curtis CMG
SEASON SUPPORTER
Charles Holloway
PRODUCTION CIRCLE
Peggy Czyzak-Dannenbaum
Susan Tomasky and Ronald J Ungvarsky*
Ms Teresa Tsai*
Marcia Whitaker*
Kathleen J. Yoh*
ARTISTS CIRCLE
Meenakshi Adams
Lady Alexander of Weedon
Neil and Ann Benson
Philip Bermingham*
Neil and Sarah Brener
David and Sandra Burbidge
Lord Carrington DL
Carolyn Carter Starr*
Michael and Susan Clasper
Sir Ronald Cohen and Ms Sharon Harel
Lynette and Robert Craig
Felicia and Michael Crystal
Brian and Susan Dickie*
Thérèse Esperdy and Robert Neborak*
Mark and Sandy Foster*
Ros and Alan Haigh
Tony and Linda Hales
William and Kate Hobhouse
Michael and Mercedes Hoffman*
Nigel and Christine Hugill
Jan and Henry Keeling
Ian and Caroline Laing
The Lehoczky Escobar Family*
Nick and Alyssa Lovegrove*
Dina and Stephen Lucas
Audrey Mandela and Sean Phelan
Andrew and Shaaron Morgan
Serrie and Ian Meakins
The Honourable and Mrs Frank Newman*
Anthony Nutt
Jeffery Onions KC and Sally Onions
Michael and Jilli Priest
Jo and Malcolm Rolfe
A Rosemary Saïd
Dame Susie Sainsbury DBE
Lord and Lady Sassoon
John and Jo Saville
Jon and NoraLee Sedmak*
Robert Senior and Sarah Hunter
Peter and Nancy Thompson
Shriti Vadera
Helen Webb and Adam Peters
Jane and Sarah Williams
Jo Windsor
GOLD PATRONS
Janet Bignell KC and Richard Bignell
Sarah and Tony de Bell
Peter and Alison Bennett-Jones
Edward and Isabel Braham
Brian and Kitty Dean
Michael and Frances Dobson
Ray and Eileen Dunn
Robyn Durie
John and Barbara Eden
Jane and Howard Epstein
Griselda and Nigel Hamway
Leonard Hoffmann
Jeanie and Philip Holland
John and Jan Hornby
Weslie and William Janeway
Joy and Geoff Kennard
Simon and Mary Lowth
Shibani and Ivan Menezes
Stephen Moss
Keith Norton
Jane Rigler and Ken Ollerton
Andrew Pitt
Dinah Rewell
Patricia Rigby
Linda and Paul Sivelle
Mark and Amanda Smith
Fiona Stockwell
Michael Thrussell
David and Marlies Weston
Tony and Maureen Wheeler
SILVER PATRONS
Jane and Richard Addis
Charles and Clare Alexander
Chris, Deirdre, Ronan and Roisin Allen
Sir Eric and Lady Anderson
Anson Charitable Trust
Jeffrey and Mary Archer
Liz and Mark Astaire
Beverley and David Banks
Gill and Bernard Barrett
Margaret Barretto and Alistair Clark
Martin and Jilli Bates
Sir Jack and Lady Beatson
Sir David and Lady Louise Bell
Robert and Pattie Beresford
Jazz and Sophia Bhamra
Mrs Sandra Billinge
Kim and Nigel Binks
Sir Winfried Bischoff
Martin Bowley KC
Fleur Bradley
H & J Brave
Penelope Braye
Walt and David Brecht
Donna and Gary Burton-Wilcock
Sir Dominic Cadbury
Roger and Lesley Cadbury
Professor Phil Cardew
Anne and Brian Carvell
Amy Chen and James Hazel
Simon and Liz Clemmow
Les, Sally and Lily Coates
Mr and Mrs Leigh Collins
Caroline and Christopher Compston
Eileen Cooper
Vivienne Cox CBE and Erik Vischer
Lin and Ken Craig
Tony Robinson and Liz Cratchley
Liz Crosoer
Celia and Andrew Curran
Donald Barb and Bruce Davidson
Gwyn and Peter Davies
Neil and Caitlin Davis
Jill P Davison
Gillian and Andrew Dawson
Nicholas Dee
Laura DeMarco and Neil Allen*
Dr Hugh Dingle
Peter Downing and Sarah-Jane Watts
Jane Drabble OBE
Virginia Dytham
Sir John and Lady Egan
Victoria Ellison
Colin and Susan Enticknap
Steve and Sheila Evans
Rupert and Hilary Evenett
David Farnan
Rev A Farrington
Jaynie and Duncan Ford
Paul J Fournel
Martin and Gillian Fowmes
Caroline Flower
Albert and Joyce Gallon
Ann Glaves-Smith
Dimitri and Christina Goulandris
Sophie Hague and Jonathan Hill
Cheryl and Patrick Harbour
Mike Harris
Mike Hawkins
John Hemingway and Robyn Oliver
Lady Heseltine
Alison R. Hirsch*
Pippa and Martyn Hurd
Molly Jackson
Dr Mark Jeffries
David Jenkins and Lesley Bell
John Jennings
Peter and Christine Job
Melanie Johnson
Philippa Seal and Philip Jones KC
Professor Vivien Jones
Professor Richard Kaplan
and Professor Laurie Kaplan
Philip Keber
Steve and Clare Kingshott TRUSTS AND FOUNDATIONS CORPORATE PARTNERS CORPORATE SUPPORTERS
Frances Kirkham
The 29th May 1961 Charitable Trust Bloomberg
David Lanch
Kerry and Jonathan Lane OBE Allan and Nesta Ferguson Charitable Trust
Christopher Saul Associates
Mark and Sophie Lewisohn Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation
The Limoges Trust Art Fund Crowne Plaza
David and Catherine Loudon The Austin and Hope Pilkington Trust Innotech Advisers Limited
Penny Malec Backstage Trust
Bernard Sunley Foundation Lansons
Selina and David Marks
Emma Marsh Big Win Philanthropy like minds
William and Felicity Mather Boshier Hinton Foundation
Pension Partners
Hilary McGowan Clore Duffield Foundation
Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation Soho House
Rosane McNamara
Chris and Julie Merry The D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust
Drue and H.J.Heinz II Charitable Lead Trust
Kerry and Patricia Milan CREATIVE LEARNING PARTNERS
Jennifer and Hassan Miremadi Edgerton Foundation New Play Award
Mark and Judy Moody-Stuart Esmée Fairbairn Foundation
Yoko Morimoto Fidelity UK Foundation
Foyle Foundation
Brian and Sheila Morris
Charlotte and Bill Garfield Weston Foundation
The Clarke Charitable Trust
Kate Mulcahey
Jack Murphy The Gatsby Charitable Foundation
The Goldsmiths’ Company Charity
William and Patricia Nichol
Gilbert Omenn and Martha Darling* The Golsoncott Foundation
The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation
Martin O’Reilly
Lynn and Derek Palethorpe The Grimmitt Trust
GRoW @ Annenberg
Jayne Parris
John Parrott Hitz Foundation
Japan Society
Tim and Victoria Pearce
Lionel and Lynn Persey John Armitage Charitable Trust
The John S Cohen Foundation
Andrew Michael Pettipher
Mary Phibbs Katie Bradford Arts Trust
The Kovner Foundation
Darrell Phillips
Bill and Jo Pidduck The Leche Trust
The Lennox Berkeley Society
Benedetta Polk
Jean Pratt The Leverhulme Trust Arts Scholarship
LSEG Foundation
Suzie Proctor and Andrew Leaper
Dr Simon and Mrs Debi Pudsey The Marchus Trust
Misses Barrie Charitable Trust
Mr Nigel Reynolds and Ms Lisa Pritchard
Roberta and Stephen Rosefield The Noël Coward Foundation
The Oakley Charitable Trust
Peter and Cherill Scott RSC AMERICA
Mo O’Hara and Guy Scurfield Oppenheimer Generations Foundation
The Patrick Trust Royal Shakespeare Company America is
Linda Selway-Russell proud to support the Royal Shakespeare
Andrew Seth Paul Hamlyn Foundation
The Polonsky Foundation Company. Contributions to RSC America by
Peter and Sheila Sharpe US taxpayers are tax-deductible to the extent
Ramona Silipo and Ian Freer Rothschild Foundation
RSC Friends permitted by law.
Catherine Small
Sir Martin and Lady Smith The Saintbury Trust
The Saints and Sinners Trust
CHAIR
Clive and Annie Snowdon
Sue Stapely Stratford Town Trust Shriti Vadera
The Teale Charitable Trust
Lord and Lady Stirrup
Kirsten Suenson-Taylor The Wolfson Foundation PRESIDENT
Worshipful Company of Gold SHOP E AT ENJOY
Derek and Ruth Taylor Susan Tomasky
Sue Tipping & Silver Wyre Drawers
Rodney and Jane Turner BOARD
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Sir David and Lady Varney Mark Foster
Karen and Peter Ventress Ken Hitz
Mike Watts Catherine Mallyon (ex officio)
Angie and Rob Webb KC Sandie Okoro
Ailsa White Parag Saxena
Lynn and Keith Williams Thomas J. Scherer
Dr John Wollaston Kathleen J. Yoh
Mrs C Wyse
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BRONZE PATRONS Elliot Fishman
We would like to thank all our
Bronze Patrons for their support.
THANK YOU
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a seat in the newly refurbished Swan Theatre.
You have played a vital role in the future of the
Swan Theatre, guaranteeing life changing theatre
for generations to come.
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have remembered us in their wills.
We would like to thank everyone who has
donated to the RSC including those who
wish to remain anonymous. For more
information on how to support our work
visit rsc.org.uk/support
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ASSOCIATE ARTISTS
Adjoa Andoh Dame Judi Dench Robert Jones Joanne Pearce
Maria Aberg Joe Dixon Jean Kalman Michael Pennington
Bill Alexander Penny Downie Dennis Kelly Tom Piper MBE
Roger Allam Darrell D’Silva Terry King Mike Poulton
Alun Armstrong Noma Dumezweni Sir Ben Kingsley Hugh Quarshie
Mike Ashcroft Chris Dyer Estelle Kohler Liz Ranken
Michael Attenborough CBE David Edgar Barry Kyle Siobhan Redmond MBE
Charlotte Arrowsmith Helen Edmundson Jane Lapotaire Sir Simon Russell Beale CBE
Desmond Barrit Paul Englishby Barbara Leigh-Hunt Ilona Sekacz
Jon Bausor Paapa Essiedu Anton Lesser Josette Simon OBE
Claire Benedict Ray Fearon Katrina Lindsay Jonathan Slinger
Edward Bennett Emma Fielding Christopher Luscombe Katy Stephens
Alison Bomber Polly Findlay John Mackay Toby Stephens
Laurence Boswell Peter Flannery Forbes Masson Juliet Stevenson
Stephen Boxer Oliver Ford Davies Aidan McArdle Sir Patrick Stewart OBE
David Bradley Geoffrey Freshwater Richard McCabe Jo Stone-Fewings
Phillip Breen Mariah Gale Tarell Alvin McCraney Malcolm Storry
Stephen Brimson Lewis Alexandra Gilbreath Peter McEnery Geoffrey Streatfeild
Jasper Britton Julian Glover CBE Aislin McGuckin David Suchet CBE
Antony Byrne Henry Goodman Nancy Meckler Dame Janet Suzman
John Caird David Greig Ben Miles Ayse Tashkiran
David Calder Mike Gwilym Hannah Miller David Tennant
Paul Chahidi Mark Hadfield Joseph Millson Michelle Terry
Jon Clark Amanda Harris Tim Minchin David Threlfall
Kandis Cook Alex Hassell Dame Helen Mirren David Troughton
Dominic Cooke CBE James Hayes Katie Mitchell Sam Troughton
Richard Cordery John Heffernan Tim Mitchell James Tucker
Adam Cork Greg Hicks Christopher Morley Niki Turner
Brian Cox Thelma Holt CBE Lucian Msamati Dame Harriet Walter
Derbhle Crotty Owen Horsley John Napier Matthew Warchus
Bob Crowley Rob Howell Richard Nelson Samuel West
Niamh Cusack Chukwudi Iwuji Adrian Noble Clive Wood
Sinead Cusack Angus Jackson Sir Trevor Nunn CBE John Woodvine
Ron Daniels Sir Derek Jacobi Timothy O’Brien John Woolf MBE
Peter De Jersey Alex Jennings Jonjo O’Neill Gary Yershon
Paul Jesson David Oyelowo OBE

directed by Owen Horsley, 2022. Photo by Ellie Kurttz © RSC.

BOARD MEMBERS RSC GOVERNORS RSC HONORARY EMERITUS
CHAIR Sir David Bell KBE GOVERNORS CHAIRMAN
Shriti Vadera Anita Bhalla OBE Neil Benson OBE Sir Geoffrey Cass
Elizabeth Boissevain Philip Bermingham
DEPUTY CHAIR
Bruce Kovner David Burbidge CBE HONORARY
Mark Thompson
Professor Ruru Li Michael Crystal KC EMERITUS
Daniel Evans Sandie Okoro Tony Hales CBE GOVERNORS
Alison Gagen (observer) Patsy Rodenburg OBE Sara Harrity MBE Lady Anderson
Tamara Harvey Sir Anthony Seldon Ian Laing CBE Sir Stanley Wells
Catherine Mallyon CBE Sue Stapely Dr Douglas McPherson
Andrew Miller CBE David Tennant Charlotte Heber Percy NOMINATIONS
Amanda Parker Dame Harriet Walter DBE Roger Pringle COMMITTEE
Winsome Pinnock Mike Wright Telfer Saywell CHAIR Andrew Miller
Clare Reddington Lord Willoughby de Broke Shriti Vadera
Mark Smith Stratford Town Mayor Mike Wright
Ian Squires Chairman, Clare Reddington
Ayanna Thompson Stratford-on-Avon Winsome Pinnock
Liz Vernon District Council

Arthur Hughes as Richard, Duke of Gloucester and Ashley D Gayle as Edward in

Mark Thompson
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Susan Tomasky, Dobson, Director of the RISK, AUDIT
President – RSC America Shakespeare Institute AND FINANCE
(observer) Tim Cooke, CEO COMMITTEE
Shakespeare Mark Smith
Birthplace Trust Andy Clayton
Andy Halls
Ian Squires
Shriti Vadera
Lucy Williams
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