Alumni News: June Edition

Here are just a few highlights of where you can catch our alumni this month. 

We’d love to hear about any work LAMDA graduates are creating. Get in touch on [email protected] or send us a message on social media. 

Latest releases

• The series The Trial on Channel 5 was released on 8 May, and stars Claire Skinner.   
• Pillion, starring Harry Melling and Anthony Welsh, had its world premiere at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival on 18 May.  
• Hermione Norris stars in The Salt Path which had its UK release on 30 May.  
• Toby Gordon directs the tour of The Taming of the Shrew for Shakespeare in the Squares which plays from 4 June – 12 July. 
• Hermione Norris stars in George Eliot in Words and Music at the Salisbury Playhouse on 6 June.  
• Sarah Thorn stars in Othello until 8 June at Barrymore Theatre on Broadway. 
• Ciana Howlin and Kate Crisp star in The Watch at The Glitch until 9 June. 
• Naomi Sheldon stars in Anna Karenina at Chichester Festival Theatre from 7 – 28 June. 
• Victor Lirio directs REP’s production of ART which plays from 13 – 21 June at REP Eastwood Theater in Quezon City. 
• Radiant Boy, which plays at the Southwark Playhouse until 14 June, is directed by Júlia Levai and stars Stuart Thompson. 
• Anna Chancellor stars in the upcoming series Outrageous, which will be released in the UK on 19 June. 
• Stephan Boyce stars in the world premiere of The Boy With Wings. The show will run in Polka’s main theatre from 21 June – 16 August, before transferring to Birmingham Rep from 21 – 30 August. 
• Paterson Joseph will present Sancho & Me at the Richmond Arts and Ideas Festival 2025 on 25 June. 
• Alexandra Faye Braithwaite is the Sound Designer for Liberation, which will have its world premiere at the Manchester International Festival from 27 June – 26 July. 
• Tinuke Craig directs Noughts and Crosses at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre which runs from 28 June – 26 July. The show stars Yolanda Ovide and Elle Davies. 
• Lizzie Powell is the Lighting Designer for The Queen of Spades at Garsington Opera. The show runs until 4 July. 
• George Rainsford stars in the UK Tour of Picture You Dead, which plays until 26 July. 
• David Moorst and Hilson Agbagbe star in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Bridge Theatre until 23 August. 
• John Lithgow stars in Giant at the Royal Court until 2 August, with Sound Design by Alexandra Faye Braithwaite. 

Things to look forward to    

• Joseph Aldous stars in Get Happy at the Omnibus Theatre from 1 – 12 July. 
• Chiwetel Ejiofor stars in The Old Guard 2 which will be released on 2 July. 
• Arsema Thomas to star in Poor Clare at Orange Tree Theatre from 16 July – 9 August. 
• Matt Doyle will star in The Great Gatsby in the GS Arts Center in the Gangnam District of Seoul, South Korea, from 1 August – 9 November. 
• Jeremy Irvine stars in the series Outlander: Blood of My Blood, which premieres on 8 August. 
• Inspector Morse: House of Ghosts at the Birmingham Rep theatre from 28 August – 14 September features Lizzie Powell as Lighting Designer. 
• Harry Hadden-Paton and Arty Froushan star in Downtown Abbey: The Grand Finale, which will be released in cinemas on 12 September. 
• Sam Jenkins-Shaw stars in Bacchae at the National Theatre which plays from 13 September – 1 November. 
• Hamlet at the National Theatre stars Alistair Petrie and Hari McKinnon, with Sound Design by Alexandra Faye Braithwaite. The show runs from 25 September – 22 November. 
• Beauty and the Beast at the Northern Stage, which plays from 4 December 2025 – 3 January 2026, features Annie May Fletcher as Sound Designer. 
• Charlotte Riley stars in Masters of the Universe which will be released in cinemas on 5 June 2026.  
• Ben Daniels will star in the Man and Boy at the National Theatre in 2026.  
• Katherine Parkinson returns for series 2 of Rivals on Disney+. 
• The upcoming Prime Video series, Vanished, stars Sam Claflin. 
• Dame Harriet Walter stars in the upcoming Paramount+ television drama Playing Grace Darling.  
• Amit Shah stars in the upcoming Channel 5 series, Murder Before Evensong. 

Latest news 

• Mr Bates vs the Post Office, which stars Julie Hesmondhalgh, Amit Shah, Esh Alladi and Matilda Bailes, won best Limited Drama at the 2025 Bafta TV Awards.