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Lead cast announced for Shucked’s UK premiere

The Broadway hit is making its way to the UK!

| London |

30 January 2025

shucketh — The cast of Shucked, © Feast Creative

Casting has been announced for the newly revealed UK premiere of Shucked.

With a book by 2023 Tony Award nominee and Tony Award winner Robert Horn, music and lyrics by 2023 Tony Award nominees and Drama Desk Award winners Brandy Clark and Shane McAnally, and direction by 2023 Tony Award nominee and three-time Tony Award winner Jack O’Brien, the piece opened on Broadway in March 2023 to audience acclaim. The show has received rave reviews in New York, being described by our sibling site as “a shucking good time.”

Set in a rural community isolated from the world by a wall of economy-driving corn stalks, Shucked follows what happens when the crop begins to fail, and a young woman leaves behind Cob County to try and find someone who can save her town.

It will now open as part of Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s 2025 season – the first for new artistic director Drew McOnie. Dates for the show have been revealed.

Set to star will be Monique Ashe-Palmer (Storyteller 1), Ben Joyce (Beau), Sophie McShera (Maizy), Georgina Onuorah (Lulu), Keith Ramsay (Peanut), Matthew Seadon-Young (Gordy) and Steven Webb (Storyteller 2). Further casting is to be announced.

Creatives include Lucy Adams (associate lighting designer), Myles Brown (associate choreographer), Nathanael Campbell (associate director), Ben Davies (associate set designer), Aundrea Fudge (voice and dialect coach), Jill Green (casting director), Tilly Grimes (costume designer), Carol Hancock (UK wigs, hair and makeup designer and supervisor), Jason Howland (music supervisor, orchestrations and arrangements), Olivia Laydon (casting associate), Ingrid Mackinnon (intimacy support), Caity Mulkearn (associate costume designer), Mia M Neal (original US hair and wig designer), Jack O’Brien (director), Sarah O’Gleby (choreographer), Scott Pask (set designer), Michael J Passaro (US production supervisor), Greg Pink (associate sound designer), Katy Richardson (musical director), Tom Shiels (casting associate), John Shivers (sound designer), and Japhy Weideman (lighting designer).