Explore the full West End cast and creative team of Hadestown UK. Meet the talented performers bringing Anaïs Mitchell’s Tony Award-winning Greek myth musical to life.
Explore the full West End cast and creative team of Hadestown UK. Meet the talented performers bringing Anaïs Mitchell’s Tony Award-winning Greek myth musical to life.
Hermes
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Eurydice
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Hades
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Persephone
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Joy Wielkens is from Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She trained at the Amsterdam University of the Arts and at the Chubbuck Studio in Los Angeles.
Her work in theatre includes Macbeth (as Lady Macbeth) at TG Suburbia; Hadestown (as Persephone in the original Dutch cast) at Royal Theatre Carré; Beneatha’s Place on Netherlands tour; A Raisin in the Sun for Well Made Productions; The Mountaintop on Netherlands tour; The Story of Travis at Rotterdam Theatre; A Play for the Living in a Time of Extinction at Holland Festival; Billie! on Netherlands tour; Random for Double Agent Productions; Dear Winnie at Royal Flemish Theatre; The Buddy Holly Story (Dutch Musical Award nomination) for Albert Verlinde Entertainment; Falsettos at De La Mar Theatre; and The Lion King in Hamburg, Germany. TV includes Anne +, Dertigers, Sphinx, Flikken Maastricht, Van Speijk, Modern Love Amsterdam, Rampvlucht, CMC and Zwarte Tulp.
Films include Sonny Boy, Toscaanse bruiloft, Dertigers: de Kerstfilm, Onder de blote hemel and De Marathon. Joy Wielkens won the Willem Wilmink Award 2025.
Orpheus
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Fate
Fate
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Fate
Worker
Worker
Worker
Worker
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Worker
Swing / Dance Captain
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Swing
Swing
Swing
Swing
Persephone
Eurydice
Orpheus
Hades
Hermes
Fate
Fate
Fate
Worker
Worker
Worker
Worker
Worker
Swing
Swing
Swing
Swing
Swing
MUSIC, LYRICS & BOOK
DEVELOPED WITH AND DIRECTED BY
CHOREOGRAPHER
| David Neumann is an award-winning choreographer and movement director. His recent work includes Hadestown on Broadway, the US tour, at the National Theatre, and at New York Theatre Workshop; Swept Away on Broadway, at Berkeley Rep, and Arena Stage; Grounded at The Kennedy Center and the NY Metropolitan Opera; Die Schweigsame Frau at Bard Summerscape; Stew’s The Total Bent at The Public Theater; Annie Baker’s The Antipodes at Signature Theatre; Brandon Jacob Jenkins’ An Octoroon at Soho Rep and Theater for a New Audience; and Geoff Sobelle’s The Object Lesson (which he also directed) at BAM and New York Theatre Workshop. In film and television, Neumann was choreographer and movement director for I Am Legend, Kindred, and Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story and White Noise. As Artistic Director of Advanced Beginner Group, his Bessie and Obie Award-winning original work has been presented at Performance Space New York, New York Live Arts, and the Whitney Museum. For Hadestown, Neumann received the 2019 Chita Rivera Award for Outstanding Choreography of a Broadway Musical, a 2019 Tony Award nomination, and the 2022 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Choreography. He is currently working on Galileo, which premiered at Berkeley Rep in 2024, and The Recipe, a new play by Claudia Shear. |
SCENIC DESIGNER
COSTUME DESIGNER
LIGHTING DESIGNER
CO-SOUND DESIGNER
| Nevin Steinberg is a Tony and Olivier Award-winning sound designer for Broadway, off-Broadway, touring and international live productions. His recent Broadway projects include The Notebook, the 2023 revival of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Tony Award), Tina: The Tina Turner Musical (Tony nomination), Hadestown (Tony Award), Hamilton, Dear Evan Hansen, Freestyle Love Supreme, The Cher Show, Bandstand, Bright Star and Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella (Tony nomination). He designed over 30 Broadway productions with Acme Sound Partners and received five additional Tony nominations for The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, Fences, Hair and In the Heights. |
CO-SOUND DESIGNER
MUSICAL SUPERVISOR AND VOCAL ARRANGEMENTS
| Liam Robinson is a performer, composer, songwriter and producer living in NYC. He joined the Hadestown team in 2016 at New York Theatre Workshop and continued on its epic journey to stages across the globe. His songwriting duo Robinson & Rohe, with writer Jean Rohe, released their sophomore album Into the Night in 2023 on Ani Difranco’s Righteous Babe Records. As an instrumentalist and singer, Liam has performed in bands with Anaïs Mitchell, Becca Stevens Mick Flannery, and André De Shields among others, and was in the original Broadway cast of the Tony Award-winning War Horse. His work as record producer is highlighted on Jean Rohe’s “Sisterly”, awarded Best Adult Contemporary Album at the Independent Music Awards. LiamRobinson.com |
ARRANGMENTS & ORCHESTRATIONS
ARRANGMENTS & ORCHESTRATIONS
| Todd Sickafoose is a composer, producer, arranger, orchestrator, bandleader and double bassist. Having collaborated on Hadestown since the early Vermont days in 2006, he produced each of the four current recordings – from the original studio album in 2010 to the most recent Live From London. He also produced Anaïs Mitchell’s album Young Man in America. For over 20 years, Sickafoose has recorded and performed internationally with songwriter/activist Ani DiFranco. Writing for his band Tiny Resistors, he recently released Bear Proof, a chamber jazz hybrid commissioned by the Doris Duke Foundation. Awards include a 2019 Tony and a 2020 Grammy. toddsickafoose.com |
DRAMATURG
Wigs & Hair Design
UK CASTING
| Jacob Sparrow worked in the National Theatre’s Casting Department from 2015 to 2019, before becoming a freelance Casting Director. His work in theatre includes The Hot Wing King, The Confessions, Pericles, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2021 tour), Hadestown (also West End), Faith, Hope and Charity (also tour), Rutherford and Son, Mr Gum and the Dancing Bear – The Musical!, Downstate, Follies, Amadeus and LOVE (also tours and film) at the National Theatre; Oklahoma! at the Young Vic and Wyndham’s; Girl in the Machine at the Young Vic; Once on this Island, Carousel and Our Town at Regent’s Park; The Good Person of Szechwan for ETT; Village Idiot at Nottingham Playhouse; Hungry at Soho Theatre; Black Love at the Kiln; Little Shop of Horrors, The Crucible, Anna Karenina and Much Ado About Nothing at Sheffield Crucible; Jitney for the Old Vic, Headlong and Leeds Playhouse; The Big Life and Burn It Down at Theatre Royal Stratford East; Wuthering Heights for Wise Children; You Bury Me at Bristol Old Vic; Hedwig and the Angry Inch at Leeds Playhouse and HOME Manchester; The Book Thief at Bolton Octagon; As You Like It at @sohoplace; Backstairs Billy at the Duke of York’s; and Orlando and City of Angels at the Garrick. |
Principal Casting
UK Associate Director
Co-Musical Director & Associate Music Supervisor
Co-Musical Director
Resident Director
| Victoria (director/writer/dramaturg) trained at RADA (MA) and Mountview (BA), specialising in the development of new musical theatre. She spent the last four years as the international associate director on Sister Act and as the postgraduate development lead at Leeds Conservatoire, creating several theatre-making MA’s (Dramaturgy & Musical Theatre Creatives). Current projects include Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (book writer and co-lyricist), My So-Called Haunting (co-book writer), Dead Funny (playwright) and short films Forty and Stages (writer/director). As associate director, work includes Sister Act in the West End, on UK tours, in Germany and The Netherlands; Rock of Ages on a UK/European tour; Myth: The Rise and Fall of Orpheus at The Other Palace; 27 the Musical at the Cockpit; Zanna, Don’t! at The Landor; and The Mikado at Leicester Square Theatre. As director, work includes Jack and the Beanstalk at Sunderland Empire; A Good Panto Die Hard at Gilded Balloon; Beauty and the Beast at Bournemouth Pavilion; The Cereal Cafe at The Other Palace; Three Little Pigs on UK tour; Peter Pan at Chelmsford Theatre; Grimm Tales at Reading Rep; A Midsummer Night’s Dream at St Leonards-on-Sea Festival; and News Revue. As writer, work includes The Grand Expedition at Gingerline; By Virtue Fall (winner LOST Theatre Festival); and A Little Bit of Dickens on UK tour. |
Resident Choreographer
| Theatre includes: A Face in the Crowd at Young Vic; The Time Traveller’s Wife in the West End; Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat in West End and on UK tour; Mimma at Cadogan Hall; Rock of Ages on UK tour; Guys and Dolls at Kilworth House Theatre; Our House on UK tour; Cats at Cyprus; Thoroughly Modern Millie on UK tour; West Side Story and Singin’ in the Rain at Kilworth House Theatre; Carmen at O2 Arena and Royal Albert Hall; Hairspray and Chicago at Aberystwyth Arts Centre; Macbeth on UK tour; Romeo and Juliet on UK tour; and Oliver! in theWest End. TV includes American Monster for Discovery; The Railway Children and Randall and Hopkirk for ITV; and 999 and The Mystery of Men for BBC. Film includes Wicked for Universal; and Snow White and The Little Mermaid for Disney. |
Associate Music Director
| As musical director, work includes Cold War at Almeida Theatre; Assassins at Chichester Festival Theatre; Spring Awakening at Almeida Theatre; The Producers at Royal Exchange Theatre; Cinderella at Lyric Hammersmith; A Little Princess for National Youth Music Theatre; Titanic at Charing Cross Theatre; Spring Awakening at LAMDA; and Side Show at Southwark Playhouse. As associate musical director/conductor, work includes Matilda the Musical (Cambridge Theatre); and This Is My Family and Oklahoma! (Chichester Festival Theatre). As assistant musical director, work includes & Juliet (Shaftesbury Theatre); Fun Home (Young Vic); and Oliver! (Curve Theatre, Leicester). As keyboard, work includes An American in Paris (Dominion Theatre). |
Orchestral Manager
| Theatre credits include: Titanique (Criterion Theatre); Why Am I So Single? (Garrick Theatre); SIX (Vaudeville Theatre and tour); A Chorus Line (Sadler’s Wells and tour); Mean Girls (Savoy Theatre); Starlight Express (Troubadour Theatre); The Little Big Things (@sohoplace); Strange Loop (Barbican Theatre); The Wizard of Oz (London Palladium, Gillian Lynne Theatre and tour); Old Friends (Gielgud Theatre); We Will Rock You (Dominion as well as Coliseum and tour); Mary Poppins (Prince Edward Theatre and tour); Guys and Dolls (Bridge Theatre); Mrs Doubtfire (Shaftesbury Theatre); Charlie and the Chocolate Factory the Musical (tour); My Fair Lady (tour); Strictly Ballroom (tour); The Phantom of the Opera (His Majesty’s Theatre); The Drifters Girl (Garrick Theatre and tour); ALW’s Cinderella (Gillian Lynne Theatre); Les Misérables (Sondheim Theatre and international tour as well as Les Misérables staged concerts); Back to the Future: The Musical (Adelphi Theatre); Lion King (London Lyceum Theatre and tour); Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (London Palladium and tour); Beautiful – The Carole King Musical (Aldwych Theatre and tour); Blues in the Night, Fiddler on the Roof (Savoy Theatre); Only Fools and Horses the Musical (Haymarket Theatre and tour); Fun Home (Young Vic); Five Guys Named Moe, Dreamgirls (Savoy Theatre and tour); School of Rock (Gillian Lynne Theatre); Bend It Like Beckham (Phoenix Theatre); Miss Saigon, Stephen Ward, Scottsboro Boys (Young Vic); Top Hat (Aldwych Theatre and tour); The Phantom of the Opera 25th anniversary concert (Royal Albert Hall); Ghost the Musical (Piccadilly Theatre); Love Never Dies (Adelphi Theatre); Legally Blonde the Musical (Savoy Theatre); Sweet Charity, Oliver! (London Palladium); Carousel (Savoy Theatre); and The Lord of the Rings (Theatre Royal Drury Lane). |
UK Associate Scenic Designer
US Associate Lighting Designer
UK Associate Lighting Designer
UK Associate Sound Designer
Costume Supervisor
Casting is subject to change without notice. Producers cannot guarantee the appearance of any particular cast member.
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