Shakespeare’s Globe announces casting for Chadwick Boseman’s Deep Azure

Shakespeare’s Globe has confirmed the full company for Deep Azure, which runs in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse from 7 February to 11 April 2026.

Written by the late Chadwick Boseman and directed by Tristan Fynn-Aiduenu in his Globe debut, the production features Elijah Cook (Against) as Tone, Jayden Elijah (Saint X) as Deep, Aminita Francis (Family Tree) as SK Good, Selina Jones (Kaos) as Azure, Justice Ritchie (Dungeons and Dragons) as Roshad and Imani Yahshua (Sex Education) as SK Evil, with Ryn Alleyne and Maxwell Chartey as ensemble/covers.

Fynn-Aiduenu said: “I am incredibly excited for the brilliant team we have assembled to bring this production together – featuring a cast and crew of both Black British and Black American voices in a play that speaks to both continents in a variety of ways. We have all connected in our love for Chadwick’s vision, his words and the theatrical elements of hip-hop and Shakespeare that brim within Deep Azure. I believe, with this cast, we have sampled the future of theatre and Hollywood talent in time to come.”

The creative team includes associate director Marley-Rose Liburd, associate movement director Hanna Dimtsu, candlelight designer Azusa Ono, co-composers and rehearsal musical directors Conrad Murray and John Pfumojena, designer Paul Wills, dialect coach Aundrea Fudge, dramaturg and cultural consultant Somebody Jones, fight director Sam Lyon-Behan, intimacy director Raniah Al-Sayed and movement director Tanaka Bingwa, with voice work by Pfumojena. Casting was overseen by Becky Paris.