Graduate Updates July 2026

We love receiving all the many and wonderful notices of achievements and news about what our graduates are up to. We try our best to keep as informed as possible but we do occasionally miss a news update.

Whether you are in the industry, following a different career path or have personal or professional achievements you want to share, we want to hear from you! If you'd like to update us with anything you are doing, please contact us at graduates@rada.ac.uk.

Graduate Updates 7 July

2026 graduate Darcy Dixon joins the cast of First Encounters: Julius Caesar at the RSC with previously announced Harriet Walters

Corey Mylchreest to star in Jilly Cooper Audible original, A Pressing Engagement

Kit Young and Perry Williams to star in Present Laughter at Theatre Royal Bath

Skylar Turnbull Hurd is lighting designer for Girls Who Like Boys Who Dig Boys Who Like Girls at The Hope Theatre

Timothy Spall joins the cast of Netflix series The Lords Day

Gabriel Howell stars short film in Wild Bodies

Jai Morjaria is lighting designer for Bliss: The Musical, as well as lighting designer for August Wilson’s Fences at the Oxford Playhouse

Graduate updates 30 June - 13 July

Daniel Mays stars in Golden Boy at the Almedia with previously announced Josh O’Connor

Bola Akeju stars in Mothership with Talawa Firsts 2026

Jonathon Rubin stars in To Kill a Mockingbird with the touring company, now in the West End.

Phoebe Campbell stars in Teeth

Sophie Okonedo, Daniel Rigby, Thomas Arnold, Mark Hadfield, Jonathan Livingstone star in A Month in the Country at the Donmar Warehouse

Graduate updates 15 - 22 June

Anne Reid is awarded CBE for services to drama

Simisola Majekodunmi is lighting designer for Relics at the Lyric Hammersmith

Indira Varma returning for Christmas Special of BBC Production The Other Bennet Sister

Frank Dillane & Fiona Shaw join the cast of Sense and Sensibility in latest Jane Austen revival

Kathryn Hunter joins season 6 of Only Murders in the Building with Jane Horrocks also returning.

Gavi Singh Chera stars in A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Globe and Vengeance: Murder on the Heath on Channel 4

Jude Akuwudike stars in revival of The Swamp Dwellers

Benjamin Akintuyosi joins the case of Last Goal Wins as part of the Ryan Calais Cameron season with the Broadway Studio

2026 Graduate Friedli Walton joins the cast of touring production The Well of Loneliness

Zoe Templeman-Young is director on Big Dog for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2026

Harmony Rose-Bremner stars in short film Full Fat

Rachel O’Connell joins the cast of prequel series to Call the Midwife, Call the Midwife: Sisters in Arms

Beth Alsbury and Chloe Fenwick-Brown join the cast of Macbeth at the Frinton Summer Theatre

Graduate updates 25 May - 9 June

James McArdle narrates documentary exploring the life of Scottish King, King James VI

Amelia Jane Hankin is set and costume designer for Hit Machine at Soho Theatre

Wunmi Mosaku stars in sequel The Social Reckoning

2026 Graduate Kit Redding joins the cast of ITV drama The Heights

Ukweli Roach & Susan Wokoma join the cast of game Fable

Ronkẹ Adékọluẹ́jọ́, Irfan Shamji & Tiffany Gray star in ROBOTA for Headlong and Schwarzman Centre

Ross Carswell & Neil D’Souza joins the cast of Midsummer Night's Dream at Regent Park Open Air Theatre

Edward Davis joins cast of Clear Water directed by Zoe Templeman-Young

Phillip Arditti, Norah Lopez Holden, join Love Labours Lost at The Globe. The production is designed by Katie Lias.

Guy Henry joins the RSC’s production of The Cherry Orchard, joining the cast with previously announced Kenneth Branagh

Tia Bannon joins cast of audio drama Intimacy

Kyle Soller and Aiden McArdle star in legal drama Reputation

Andrea Riseborough stars in thriller First Woman

Jonathan Pryce to star in Mavis Eccleston drama for ITV

Maine Peake stars in thriller Last Seen

Matthew Blaney stars in Edinburgh Fringe production Together in the End

2026 Graduates Josh Singh and Mark Kilcawley star in radio drama Intimacy

Sky Frances joins feature film Bare with previously announced Colin Firth and Isla Fisher.

Grace Lyon stars in Eat You

Florrie Dobson and Agatha Elwes star in Stories for Boys

Peter Hannah joins the cast of Kimberley Akimbo

David Harewood joins the cast of series killer thriller Hyde