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  

• Sophia Papadopoulos starred in Hamlet at the Brooklyn Academy of Music from 26 April – 17 May. The show was also Sound Designed by Alexandra Faye Braithwaite. 
• Dame Harriet Walter will take part in the newest season of Who Do You Think You Are? which began on BBC One on 26 May.  
• Series two of A Good Girl's Guide to Murder was released on 27 May, with Anna Maxwell Martin returning. 
• The television series Star City starring Anna Maxwell Martin premiered on 29 May on Apple TV. 
• MIA: Out of Sync, directed by Belle Bao, played at Battersea Art Centre from 29 – 30 May as part of Battersea Art Centre’s Homegrown Festival.  
• Ziggy Heath stars in Driftwood at the Kiln Theatre from 3 June.   
• On 5 June, the LAMDA Alumni Company produced a workshop performance of Gamma Delta by Kieton Saunders-Browne. 
• Sam Reid stars in season three of The Vampire Lestat which premiered on 7 June. 
• MyAnna Buring and Patrick Kennedy star in Stage Kiss at Hampstead Theatre, playing until 13 June. 
• Meat Cute at The Other Palace from 16 – 20 June stars Laura Kirman and is directed by Nancy Zamit. The show is written and performed by an all-female team of Mischief Theatre alumni. 
• Matt Doyle stars in Hello, Dolly! from 18 June – 18 July at the Ogunquit Playhouse. 
• Atonement, showing at Chichester Festival Theatre until 20 June, features Composer and Sound Designer Alexandra Faye Braithwaite.   
• Natasha Chivers is Lighting Designer for Inter Alia which plays at Wyndham’s Theatre until 20 June. 
• Miraculous, showing at the King's Head Theatre from 16 – 20 June, features the work of Luke Stiles, Diego Zozaya, Brock Looser, Maia Thompson, Jon Aaron and Antony Lam. 
• Whodunnit [Unrehearsed] 4, playing at Park Theatre until 27 June, features Sir David Suchet, Jim Broadbent, Paterson Joseph, Katherine Parkinson, Iwan Rheon and Benedict Cumberbatch respectively as guest performers. 
• Persona, featuring Max Allen, Cameron Forrest, Elliott Diner and Leo Oliva, plays at The King’s Head Theatre on 29 and 30 June.  
• Toby Stephens stars in Equus at the Menier Chocolate Factory until 27 June before transferring to Theatre Royal Bath from 13 – 25 July. 
• Buonarotti, which plays at The Hope Theatre from 28 – 30 June, is written by Austin Daly. 
• Phoebe Kyriakopoulos stars in Redcliffe at Southwark Playhouse until 4 July. 
• Mischief Theatre’s first musical comedy Thespians tours the UK until 18 July. 
• Chiwetel Ejiofor is Executive Producer for the stage adaption of The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind. The show plays at Soho Place until 18 July and stars Alistair Nwachukwu.   
• 1536 starring Saroja-Lily Ratnavel plays at the Ambassadors Theatre until 1 August and features Tingying Dong as Sound Designer/Composer. 
• Mostyn Crawford stars in The Lord Chamberlain's Men UK tour of Othello until 12 September.

Things to look forward to      

• Learning to Breathe Under Water, starring Rory Kinnear, has its world premiere at Karlovy Vary Film Festival which takes place from 3 – 11 July. 
• Allegra, starring Maureen Lipman, plays at the Harold Pinter Theatre from 8 July – 8 August. 
• Anna Maxwell Martin has joined Netflix’s Heartstopper series which will be released on 17 July. 
• Pearls Recommended, written by Anna Johnston, premieres at the Drayton Arms Theatre on 21 and 22 July. The show also features Drew Cleveland and Violet Morris.
• Richard Armitage stars in Jesus Christ Superstar at the Palladium from 27 July – 1 August. 
• Nathaniel Parker to star in My Fair Lady which will play at the Sydney Opera House in September, followed by a season at the Arts Centre Melbourne in November. 

Latest news   

• John Lithgow won Outstanding Lead Performance in a Play for his role in Giant at the 2026 Drama Desk Awards.  
• John Lithgow also won Best Leading Actor in a Play at the 2026 Tony Awards for his performance in Giant. 
• Stuart Thompson was awarded second place at this year’s Ian Charleson Awards, with an honourable mention made to finalist Kyle Ndukuba.