Full cast and creative team announced for OUR TOWN starring Michael Sheen
Photo credit: Seamus Ryan
For the first time in its storied 87-year history, Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Our Town, an American classic with universal themes of love, life, and death, will be staged by a full company of Welsh actors and creative team, with details announced today.
Starring Michael Sheen as the Stage Manager and directed by Swansea-born Francesca Goodridge with Russell T Davies contributing as creative associate, this production marks the inaugural outing of Welsh National Theatre and is being produced with Rose Theatre in Kingston upon Thames.
Joining Sheen, the all-Welsh cast includes Rithvik Andugla (Death Valley) as Howie Newsome, Peter Devlin (Mission Impossible: Final Reckoning) as George Gibbs, Aisha-May Hunte (Mudtown; Death Valley) as Wally Webb, Rebecca Killick (Nye; The Life of Pi) as Rebecca Gibbs, Alfie Llewellyn (Mr. Burton) as Joe and Si Crowell, Rhodri Meilir (Nye; Odyssey ‘84) as Mr. Webb, Christina Modestou (Tick, tick … Boom!; Brief Encounter) as Mrs. Soames, Yasemin Özdemir (The Merry Wives of Windsor) as Emily Webb, Glyn Pritchard (The Crucible; Rhinoseros) as Constable Warren, Sian Reese-Williams (Dreams) as Mrs. Gibbs, Nia Roberts (Hedda Gabler; Still Waters) as Mrs. Webb, Kingdom Sibanda (Stranger Things: The First Shadow), Gareth Snook (Ragtime; The Crucible) as Professor Willard and Joe Stoddard, Matthew Trevannion (A Streetcar Named Desire) as Dr. Gibbs, and Rhys Warrington (The Mousetrap; Great Expectations) as Simon Stimpson.
The creative team also includes designer Hayley Grindle, movement director Jess Williams, lighting designer Ryan Joseph Stafford, composer, sound designer and musical director Dyfan Jones, and casting director Sam Jones CDG.
The production will play at Swansea Grand from 16-31 January 2026 before visiting Venue Cymru in Llandudno, Theatr Clwyd in Mold, and Rose Theatre Kingston.
Director Francesca Goodridge said: “Bringing Our Town to life with a fully Welsh cast and creative team is a gift. The talent at the heart of this production is perfectly matched with the journeys through life, love, and death the play celebrates within the close-knit community. ‘Hiraeth’ is a Welsh word without a perfect English translation, but it describes a kind of longing for a place, person or time that you can’t get back to. A feeling we all know but can’t put into words. Our Town shows us, even in the most uneventful days, how precious life is and forces us to live in the present.”
Welsh National Theatre Artistic Director, Michael Sheen, said: “This is an incredible opportunity to present a Welsh interpretation of a classic which tours our nation and takes our voice to London, giving Welsh talent a platform to perform. We can’t wait to meet audiences and welcome them to our world.”
For more info on Our Town, please visit the individual venue websites.