Full cast confirmed for Our Town with Michael Sheen

The cast joining Michael Sheen in Welsh National Theatre’s inaugural production, a revival of Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Our Town, has been revealed.

The production opens at Swansea Grand Theatre in January 2026 before touring Wales and transferring to the Rose Theatre in Kingston upon Thames.

It will be staged by an all-Welsh cast and creative team for the first time in its 87-year history. Sheen takes on the role of the omniscient Stage Manager, with Swansea-born Francesca Goodridge directing and Russell T Davies serving as creative associate.

The full cast includes Rithvik Andugula as milkman Howie Newsome, Peter Devlin as George Gibbs, Aisha-May Hunte as Wally Webb, Rebecca Killick as Rebecca Gibbs, Alfie Llewellyn as Joe and Si Crowell, Rhodri Meilir as Mr Webb, Christina Modestou as Mrs Soames, Yasemin Özdemir as Emily Webb, Glyn Pritchard as Constable Warren, Sian Reese-Williams as Mrs Gibbs, Nia Roberts as Mrs Webb, Kingdom Sibanda in featured roles, Gareth Snook as Professor Willard and Joe Stoddard, Matthew Trevannion as Dr Gibbs, and Rhys Warrington as Simon Stimson.

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The creative team includes designer Hayley Grindle, movement director Jess Williams, lighting designer Ryan Joseph Stafford, composer, sound designer and musical director Dyfan Jones, casting director Sam Jones, and assistant director Dena Davies.

The production will run at Swansea Grand Theatre from 16 to 31 January, before visiting Venue Cymru in Llandudno from 3 to 7 February, Theatr Clwyd in Mold from 11 to 21 February, and the Rose Theatre from 26 February to 28 March. The national press night takes place in Swansea on 21 January.

Goodridge said the production aims to capture the spirit of hiraeth, the uniquely Welsh sense of longing, while Sheen, also artistic director of Welsh National Theatre, described it as a chance to “present a Welsh interpretation of a classic which tours our nation and takes our voice to London.”