Full casting announced for the RSC's Henry V

Full casting has been announced for the RSC’s forthcoming production of Henry V, Shakespeare’s great history play, directed by RSC Co-Artistic Director, Tamara Harvey. The production runs in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon between Saturday 14 March and Saturday 25 April 2026.

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Henry V will be the first play Tamara has directed in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre since becoming Co-Artistic Director and follows her critically acclaimed productions of Pericles and The Constant Wife, which ran in the RSC’s Swan Theatre.  This will be the first time that a female director has directed Henry V at the RSC in the history of the Company.

As previously announced Alfred Enoch plays the title role, reuniting him with Tamara after also playing the title role in her production of Pericles. Alfred’s theatre credits include What A Carve Up!, The Picture of Dorian Gray, As You Like It (@sohoplace - West End), Romeo and Juliet (Globe), Crave (Chichester Festival Theatre), Tree (Young Vic / Manchester International Festival), Red (Wyndham’s Theatre, West End), King Lear (Talawa and Manchester Royal Exchange), Coriolanus (Donmar Warehouse) and Timon of Athens and Antigone (National Theatre).

Alfred has recently appeared on Netflix as Isaac Fagbenle in the Harlan Coban thriller, Run Away. Other screen credits include: Miss Austen (BBC), The Couple Next Door (Channel 4), Foundation (Apple TV), Trust Me (BBC), How To Get Away With Murder (ABC), Troy: Fall of a City (BBC), Sherlock (BBC), Mount Pleasant (Sky), Broadchurch (BBC), and the films, The Critic, This Is Christmas, Executive Order, Tigers and The Harry Potter series.

The full cast comprises: Catrin Aaron (Hostess/Queen Isabel/Governor of Harfleur); Micah Balfour (Exeter); Jamie Ballard (Canterbury/King of France/Williams); Diany Bandza (Scroop/Alice/Rambures); Michael Elcock (The Dauphin); Alfred Enoch (Henry V); Owain Gwynn (Cambridge/Orleans); Valentine Hanson (Henry IV/Grey/Erpingham); Paul Hunter (Pistol); Hanora Kamen (Ely/Gower); Natalie Kimmerling (Katharine); Sophie McIntosh (Gloucester); Emmanuel Olusanya (Bardolph/Court); Sam Parks (Westmoreland/Bates); Sion Pritchard (Fluellen); Sarah Slimani (Montjoy); Tanvi Virmani (The Girl); Ewan Wardrop (Nym/Constable); and Imogen Wilde (Swing).

Alfred Enoch. Photo courtesy of the artist.

Tamara Harvey, director of Henry V and RSC Co-Artistic Director said: “I’m delighted to be directing in our larger theatre for the first time.  Henry V has urgent questions to ask about the nature of leadership and the impact of decisions made in the corridors of power, and I can’t wait to explore the play with the exceptional cast we have assembled. Henry V was one of the first Shakespeare plays that our Henry, Alfred Enoch, ever saw. It’s a playwe both love so after working together on Pericles in 2024, it felt natural that we should tackle it in a space where so many great actors have played it, albeit never before at the RSC (astonishingly) with a woman director. I feel honoured to be the first.”

Joining Tamara on the Creative Team are Lucy Osborne (Set and Costume Designer), Ryan Day (Lighting Designer), Jamie Salisbury (Composer), Claire Windsor (Sound Designer), Annie-Lunnette Deakin-Foster (Movement Director), Kate Waters (Fight Director) and Christopher Worrall CDG (Casting Director).

For tickets please go to: www.rsc.org.uk, or call the box office on  01789 331111