Macbeth

Ben trained at Central School for Speech and Drama.

This is his professional theatre debut.

Television: C.S Lewis and the Spirit of Narnia.

Film: Song of Songs, The Open Window

Theatre: Sergeant Musgrave’s Dance, Comedians (Oxford Stage Company), Aristocrats (Chichester), Much Ado About Nothing (Private Drama), Macbeth (West End), Dealers Choice (West Yorkshire Playhouse), My Boy Jack (Hampstead Theatre), Bruises (Royal Court), Soldier’s Boy (Stratford East), Kes (York), Eastward Ho, The Roman Actor, The Island Princess, The Malcontent (Royal Shakespeare Company).

Television: Holby City, M.I.T, I Fought the Law, The Gist, Up Late with Sean Hughes, The Fitz, Holding the Baby, Soldier Soldier, Common As Muck.

Film: Up on the Roof, Jesus Christ Superstar, Festival.

Theatre: Cymbeline, Measure for Measure (Royal Shakespeare Company), Private Lives (Albery Theatre & Broadway), Spinning into Butter (Royal Court), Look Back in Anger (National Theatre), The School for Scandal (Royal Shakespeare Company), Heartbreak House, 1953 (Almeida Theatre), Midsummer Night’s Dream, Broken Heart, Twelfth Night (Royal Shakespeare Company), School for Wives (Almeida Theatre), Arcadia (National Theatre), Jane Eyre (Crucible, Sheffield).

Television: David Kelly Project, Beneath the Skin, Waking the Dead, My Uncle Silas, Green Eyed Monster, Other People’s Children, Big Bad World, Wings of Angels, Mrs Bradley Mysteries, A Respectable Trade, Dance to the Music of Time, Drovers Gold, Kavanagh Q.C., The Maitlands, Tell Tale Hearts, Dread Poets Society, Poirot, Birthday Girl, The Gist.

Film: Discovery of Heaven, Shooters, Pandaemonium.

Radio includes: Variety Fair, Rebecca

Theatre: The Vieux Carré (Nottingham Playhouse), Katerina (Lyric Studio, Hammersmith), The Body Politic - Grin and Bear It (Soho Theatre), The Government Inspector (Tour).

Television: Dirty Filthy Love, In Two Minds, My Parents are Aliens. Dickens, The Last Detective, Born Sloppy - Rock Bitch, Jonathan Creek, Oliver Twist, Last of the Summer Wine, The Bill, Cadfael, The Darling Buds of May, London's Burning, Enid Blyton - Sunny Stories, Jeeves and Wooster, A Box of Swan - Debut on Two, Poirot - Mystery of Marsden Manor, The Dark Angel, The Woman in White, The Dybuk, Dr.Who.

Film: One in Four, Esther Khan, The Promise, The Girl with Brains in her Feet, Sam Dog Whitewashed, Murder by Decree, Jabberwocky, The Black Windmill.

Theatre includes: Becoming Strangers (Jackson’s Lane), Cruel Love (King’s Head), Fen (Tristan Bates Theatre), Cross Purpose (Union Theatre), The House of Bernarda Alba (The Starting Gate), Sleeping Dogs (Re:Actors), The Changeling (Winchester), Person Unknown (Tour).

Television includes: The Iceman Murder, Spartacus, Daddy’s Girl, Coming to England, Murder in Vicarage, Sense and Sensibility, Comedy Playhouse Tenko, Emergency Ward Ten, Doctor Who.

Film includes: Farming, Exit, Smokescreen, The Singing Fool, Tamed Wolves, Vivienne Gibson-Forbes.

Radio includes: When We Were Young, Londoners, Poetry Readings, Ruth and Naomi, Fight War Not Wars

Theatre includes: Back to Methusaleh, A Month in the Country, Richard II, Macbeth, La Lupa, The White Devil, Troilus and Cressida, As You Like It, Twelfth Night (Royal Shakespeare Company), Ivanov, Tales from Hollywood, Neaptide, The Shaughraun, Entertaining Strangers, Coriolanus, Cymbeline, The Winter’s Tale, Macbeth, Antigone, A Portrait of Sylvia Plath (National Theatre), A Lady of Letters - Talking Heads (Northampton).

Opera: The Magic Flute (Opera North/National Tour).

Television: Hearts and Bones, The Final Passage, The Raging Moon, Marya, Spoof of Mastermind, Doctors, Casualty.

Film: Pride and Prejudice

Theatre includes: Buried Child (National Theatre), Jumpers (National Theatre, West End & Broadway), Things You Shouldn’t Say Past Midnight (Soho Theatre), Plasticine (Royal Court), The Playboy of the Western World, Peer Gynt (National Theatre), Volpone, Don Carlos, The School for Scandal (Royal Shakespeare Company), The Iceman Cometh (Almeida & Young Vic), The Cripple of Inishmaan (National Theatre), The Loves of Cass Maguire (Druid Theatre Company), Charley's Aunt (Palace Theatre, Watford), The Marriage Wreckers, Richard II (National Theatre), Loot, Entertaining Mr Sloane (Birmingham Rep), On Borrowed Time (Southwark Playhouse), The Matchmaker (Chichester Festival & Tour), As You Like It (Greenwich Theatre), La Bête (Lyric Hammersmith), Our Town (Shaftesbury Theatre), The Plough and the Stars (Young Vic), Into the Woods (Phoenix Theatre).

Television includes: Holby City, Servants, Christopher Wren: Master of the Universe, Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde, Weirdsister College, Father Ted, The Bi8ll, Broken Glass, Demob, Woodcock, The Buddha of Serburbia, Making Out, Poirot, Boon, Small World, Porterhouse Blue, Squaring the Circle, Caleb Williams, Dangerous Davies.

Film: Intermission, Doctor Sleep, Richard II, Drowning by Numbers, The old Jest, Foreign Body, Caravaggio, Scum.

Radio includes: Hippomania, Teaching Robots, Swan Song for the Nightingale, Plasticine, RTE Radio Programmes, My Sky Blue Trades, Crime and Punishment, Still Time, Raising Patrick Doherty, Silver's city, Best Words.

Theatre: Measure for Measure (Royal Shakespeare Company), The Golden Ass, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (The Globe Theatre), Night Songs (Royal Court), Buried Alive (Hampstead Theatre), Conversations after a Burial (Almeida Theatre), The Way of the World (Royal Exchange), An Enemy of the People (National Theatre), Macbeth (E.T.T & Lyric Hammersmith), The Maidenstone (Hampstead Theatre), Slab Boys Trilogy (Young Vic), The Lady from the Sea (Lyric Hammersmith & West York Playhouse), The Hare Trilogy (National Theatre), The Odd Women, Romeo and Juliet, A View from the Bridge (Royal Exchange), A Wholly Healthy Glasgow (Royal Exchange & Royal Court), American Bagpipes, Conquest of the South Pole (Royal Court), The Birthday Party (Shared Experience).

Television: Murder, Beating Jesus, Birthda Girl, Staying Alive, Dangerfield, Dr Finlay, Tumbledown, A Very Peculiar Practice, A Wholly Healthy Glasgow, The Negotiator.

Film: Goal, Complicity, Bedrooms and Hallways

Theatre: Becket (Theatre Royal, Haymarket), The Shookey(Birmingham Rep), The Rivals(Compass Theatre Company), Fair Maid of the West(Pleasance Theatre), The Lemon Princess (WYP), Under the Whaleback(Royal Court Theatre), Robin Hood (National Theatre), Macbeth / A Midsummer Night's Dream, (Creation Theatre), Twelfth Night(Liverpool Playhouse), Love and War (New End Theatre, Hampstead), As You Like It(Manchester Royal Exchange), The Tempest, Antigone(Old Vic).

Television: Keen Eddie, Peak Practice, The Groovy Granny Show.

Film: King of the Castle, Evil Elvis

Theatre: Stuff Happens (National Theatre), World Music (Sheffield Crucible Donmar), Racing Demon, Absence of War, Murmuring Judges (Birmingham Rep), Mapping the Edge (Sheffield Crucible), The Duchess of Malfi (Royal Shakespeare Company), The Villains Opera, Honk, Darker Face of the Earth, Troilus and Cressida (National Theatre), The Bassett Table (Bristol Old Vic, Tricycle), Golden Girls (Mercury, Colchester), Our Country's Good (Theatr Clwyd), The House of Bernada Alba (Brix Theatre).

Television: Judge John Deed, Dinotopia, Silent Witness, Holby City, Doctors, Eastenders, Vanity Fair, Casualty, Murder Most Horrid, The Bill, Desmonds, Rumble, Tales from a Darkened Room - The Confessions of Arthur Crewinman, Between the Lines, London's Burning.

Film: The Golden Years.

Theatre: Homebody/Kabul Cheek by Jowl/Yong Vic), A View from the Bridge (Sheffield Crucible), Shakuntala (Gate Theatre), A Doll’s House (Young Vic Theatre), Dracula (Battersea Art’s Centre), Romeo and Juliet (Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith), Sleeping Beauty (Palace Theatre, Watford), Crossfire (Paines Plough Tour), Heer Ranjha (Tara Arts Tour), Unidentified Human Remains (Traverse & Hampstead Theatre), Taming of the Shrew (Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh), The Lover (Traverse Theatre), Romeo and Juliet (Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh), Twelfth Night (Playhouse Theatre, London), Wuthering Heights (Theatre Royal, York), Noel Coward in Two Keys (Thorndike Theatre, Leatherhead).

Television: Absolute Power, William and Mary, The Grid, Lie With Me, Waking the Dead III, The Project, A & E, Metrosexuality, Innocents, An Unsuitable Job for a Woman, The Bill, Cold Lazarus, Supply and Demand, The Golden Years.

Film: Chromaphobia, Hidalgo, Star Wars Trilogy, Josephine, Jeremiah, Feverpitch, Horse Opera, Charmed, The Boy in the Shower, Saving Grace

Theatre includes: Jumpers (National Theatre, West End & Broadway), Uncle Vanya, Twelfth Night (Donmar), Humble Boy (Gielgud Theatre), Hamlet, Battle Royal, Candide, Summerfolk, Money, Othello, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Volpone (National Theatre), The Duchess of Malfi (Greenwich & Wyndhams Theatre). Other credits include for the Royal Shakespeare Company: The Tempest, King Lear, Ghosts, Richard III, The Seagull, Edward II, Troilus and Cressida, The Man of Mode, Restoration.

Television includes: John Adams, Dunkirk, The Young Visitors, Great Historians: Gibbon, A Dance to the Music of Time, Persuasion, The Mushroom Picker.

Film: The Gathering, Alice in Wonderland, An Ideal Husband, The Temptation of Franz Schubert, Hamlet.

Radio includes:On Horseback, War & Peace, The Trials of Oscar Wilde, Dombey & Son, Full Score, Berlioz, The Sea, The Sisterhood, Barchester Towers, The True Servants of Genius, Devout Sceptics, Friday Child, Diary of Samuel Pepys, Waiting for Godot, Measure for Measure, A Map of British Poetry

Theatre: Arab Israeli Cookbook (Caird Company/ Gate Theatre), Romeo and Juliet (Theatre Royal, Bath & Tour), Simplicity (Orange Tree), Henry V (National Theatre), Elizabeth Rex (Birmingham Rep), Mother Clap’s Molly House (National Theatre & West End), Macbeth, Lord of the Flies (Royal Shakespeare Company), Edmund Ironside (RSC Fringe Festival), One for the Road (Pinter Evening presented by Michael Billington), Romeo and Juliet (Playbox Theatre Tour, Tokyo), Kissing Angels (National Youth Theatre).

Film: Click, Chromophobia.

Theatre includes: 84 Charing Cross Road (Tour), Gates of Gold (Finborough Theatre), When did you Last See your Trousers (Garrick Theatre), Having a Ball (Comedy Theatre), Run for your Wife (Whitehall Theatre), Murder by Misadventure (Theatr Clwyd, tour & West End), Travels with my Aunt (Wyndhams Theatre, Whitehall Theatre & Australia Tour), The Miracle Worker (Tour & Wet End), California Suite, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Tour), An Inspector Calls (West End), Look Back in Anger, Albert Speer, The Cherry Orchard, Henry V (National Theatre), Humble Boy (National Theatre & Gielgud Theatre).

Television includes: York Minster, Midsomer Murders, 40, Heartbeat, The Vice, Next of Kin, Sargent Cork, No Place Like Home, The Champions.

Film: La Femme Musketeer, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

John is an Honorary Associate Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Theatre includes: Bernstein’s Candide (directed own new version; National Theatre & Worldwide), Money, Hamlet (with Simon Russell Beale; National Theatre), Humble Boy (National Theatre, West End & Broadway), Jane Eyre (Toronto, La Jolea & Broadway), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night (Royal Dramatic Theatre, Stockholm), Stanley (National Theatre & Broadway), The Seagull, Trelawney of the Wells (National Theatre), The Beggar’s Opera, Anthony and Cleopatra (Royal Shakespeare Company), Children of Eden (co – written with Stephen Schwartz; West End, US & Worldwide), As You Like It, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The New Inn, A Question of Geography, Misalliance, Philistines (Royal Shakespeare Company), Les Miserables (co – directed with Trevor Nunn; Royal Shakespeare Company, West End & World wide), The Merchant of Venice (with Ian McDiarmid), Red Star (Royal Shakespeare Company), As You Like It (Stockholm), Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet (Royal Shakespeare Company), Song and Dance (West End), Our Friends in the North, Twin Rivals (Royal Shakespeare Company), The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (Royal Shakespeare Company, West End, New York & Los Angeles), The Dance of Death, Savage Amusement (Royal Shakespeare Company).

Opera: Mozart’s unfinished Opera Zaide for the Batignano Opera Festival in Tuscany (1991).

Television: Nicholas Nickleby, As You Like It, Henry IV - Parts I & II.

Theatre: As Director: The Censor (Birmingham & Union Theatre, Southwark), 4:48 Psychosis (Crescent Theatre, Birmingham), Dahling, You Were Marvellous (Edinburgh Festival Fringe).

As Assistant Director: Henry V, Much Ado About Nothing (Tour de Force), Descent (Birmingham Rep).

Theatre: Grand Hotel (Donmar Warehouse), Stuff Happens (National Theatre), Suddenly Last Summer (Crucible, Sheffield & West End), Henry IV (Donmar Warehouse), Oleanna (West End), Loyal Women (Royal Court), World Music (Donmar Warehouse), The Caretaker (Bristol Old Vic), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Crucible Sheffield), Power (National Theatre), Caligula (Donmar Warehouse), The Tempest (Old Vic & Crucible Sheffield), The Embalmer (Almeida Theatre), Twelfth Night (National Theatre of Stockholm), Richard III (Crucible Sheffield), Privates on Parade (Donmar Warehouse), Don Juan (Crucible Sheffield), The Marriage Play, Finding the Sun (National Theatre), Edward II (Crucible Sheffield), Merrily We Roll Along (Donmar Warehouse), As You Like It (Crucible Sheffield), Passion Play (Donmar Warehouse), Summerfolk (National Theatre), The Jew of Malta (Almeida Theatre), Good (Donmar Warehouse), Twelfth Night (Crucible, Sheffield), The Doctor’s Dilemma (Almeida Theatre), The Bullet (Donmar Warehouse), All My Sons (Bristol Old Vic), What the Butler Saw (Crucible Sheffield).

Theatre: recent credits include: The Odd Couple (Liverpool Playhouse), Becket (West End), How to Act Around Cops (Soho Theatre), Brighton Rock (Almeida Theatre), The Anniversary (Liverpool Playhouse), Misconceptions (Royal Theatre, Northampton), Final Judgement (Theatre Royal, Windsor), Mercy (Soho Theatre), The Old Masters (Birmingham Rep & West End), Twelfth Night/Cymbeline (2004 Ludlow Festival), Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Liverpool Playhouse), Guantanamo (Tricycle Theatre), Whistling Psyche (Almeida Theatre), Rattle of a Simple Man (Malvern & West End), Flush (Soho Theatre), Jumpers (Royal National Theatre, West End & Broadway), The Astonished Heart/Still Life (Liverpool Playhouse), The Dumb Waiter (Oxford Playhouse), The Entertainer (Liverpool Playhouse), Five Gold Rings (Almeida Theatre), Les Liaisons Dangereuses (West End), Sweet Panic (West End), The Mercy Seat (Almeida Theatre), Under Milk Wood (Wales Theatre Company), Wrong Place (Soho Theatre), Squint (Chelsea Theatre), I.D (Almeida Theatre), Sunday Father (Hampstead Theatre).

John Leonard is Sound Consultant for the Almeida Theatre and a Director of Aura Sound Design Ltd.

Theatre includes: Fix Up, The Night Season, A Prayer for Owen Meany, The Walls, Further than the Furthest Thing (National Theatre), Julius Caesar, Two Gentlemen of Verona (Royal Shakespeare Company), Henry IV, World Music, After Miss Julie, Caligula (Donmar Warehouse), Flesh Wound, Trust (Royal Court), A Life in the Theatre (Apollo, West End), Cuckoos (BITE 03, Barbican), Cloud Nine, The Modernists, World Music (Crucible, Sheffield), Twelfth Night, True West, Great Expectations (Bristol Old Vic), American Buffalo (Royal Exchange, Manchester), The Wind in the Willows, Pretending to be Me, The Lady in the Van (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Paradise Lost, Othello (Theatre Royal, Northampton), Still Life / The Astonished Heart, Romeo & Juliet, Twelfth Night (Liverpool Playhouse), People Next Door, Dark Earth, Mr. Placebo (Traverse, Edinburgh), King Hedley II (Tricycle Theatre), Monkey! (Young Vic).

Dance includes: The Soldier’s Tale (ROH2, Linbury Theatre).

Opera includes: Man And Boy: Dada, The Embalmer (Almeida Opera), Chorus! (Welsh National Opera), L’Orfeo (Opera City, Tokyo), Pulse Shadows (Queen Elizabeth Hall).