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Website | | Facebook CAST ANNOUNCED FOR THE UK AND IRISH PREMIERES OF THE TONY AWARD-WINNING NEW MUSICAL

THE REMARKABLE TRUE STORY OF THE SMALL TOWN THAT WELCOMED THE WORLD , : 6 DECEMBER 2018 TO 19 JANUARY 2019 PHOENIX THEATRE, : FROM 30 JANUARY 2019 Casting has been announced for the Tony Award-winning musical which will land in London for its long-awaited UK premiere at the Phoenix Theatre next year with performances from 30 January 2019, and a pre-West End engagement at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin from 6 December 2018 to 19 January 2019. Telling the remarkable true story of 7,000 stranded air passengers during the wake of 9/11, and the small town in Newfoundland that welcomed them, will be Jenna Boyd (Beulah and others), Nathanael Campbell (Bob and others), Clive Carter (Claude and others), Mary Doherty (Bonnie and others), (Nick, Doug and others), Helen Hobson (Diane and others), Jonathan Andrew Hume (Kevin J, Ali and others), Harry Morrison (Oz and others), Emma Salvo (Janice and others), David Shannon (Kevin T, Garth and others), Cat Simmons (Hannah and others) and (Beverley, Annette and others) with Mark Dugdale, Bob Harms, Kiara Jay, Kirsty Malpass, Tania Mathurin, Alexander McMorran, Brandon Lee Sears and Jennifer Tierney. This joyous new musical recounts the incredible true story of how the residents of Gander, Newfoundland welcomed the passengers of planes from around the world. Cultures clashed, and nerves ran high, but as uneasiness turned into trust, music soared into the night and gratitude grew into enduring friendships. On 11 September 2001 the world stopped. On 12 September, their stories moved us all. Earning widespread critical and audience acclaim, the multi award-winning musical continues sold-out, record-breaking engagements on Broadway, and in Canada, with a 60- city North American Tour recently launched in Seattle, an Australian production confirmed for summer 2019, and a feature film adaptation in the works. Jenna Boyd’s previous theatre credits include Love on the Links (Salisbury Playhouse), The Wind in the Willows (UK Tour/ ), Oliver! and Simply Cinderella (Leicester Curve), How To Suceed In Business Without Really Trying (), I Can’t Sing! (London Palladium), (Chichester Festival Theatre), Les Misérables (Queen’s Theatre) and Acorn Antiques (). Nathanael Campbell most recently appeared in Guys & Dolls (Manchester Royal Exchange). His previous theatre credits include Sunny Afternoon (UK Tour), All That Lives (), Back to the Future (Secret Cinema) and Macbeth (S4K National & International Tour). Clive Carter’s stage credits include King The Musical: In Concert (), Oklahoma! (/ BBC Proms), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Theatre Royal Drury Lane), (Apollo Victoria), Priscilla Queen of the Desert (Palace Theatre), My Fair Lady (International Tour/ Larnaca Festival and Sheffield Crucible), Take Flight (), () and The Rat Pack (UK Tour). Mary Doherty’s stage credits include Henry VI, All’s Well That Ends Well and Henry VIII (Shakespeare’s Globe), Anne Boleyn (English Touring Theatre/ Shakespeare’s Globe), Two Cities (Salisbury Playhouse), Inherit The Wind (), Our House (), (UK Tour), Les Misérables (Queen’s Theatre), The Merry Wives of Windsor (Royal Shakespeare Company) and Avenue Q (Noël Coward Theatre). Robert Hands’ stage credits include the original West End cast of (Palace Theatre), (), The Importance of Being Earnest (The Old Vic), The Woman in Black (), Troilus and Cressida (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), Mamma Mia! () and The Schumann Plan ( Theatre). Robert was also a member of the all-male Shakespeare company, Propeller. Screen credits include , The House of Eliott, Anna and the King and Shine. Helen Hobson’s credits include Mamma Mia! (, Prince of Wales Theatre and UK Tour), Only The Brave (Wales Millenium Centre), Sunny Afternoon (), (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), The Human Comedy () and Blood Brothers (Phoenix Theatre). Jonathan Andrew Hume’s stage credits include Disney’s (Lyceum Theatre), (UK Tour) and Alice in Winterland (). Screen credits include Eastenders, Hope and Glory and the forthcoming movie Returns. Harry Morrison’s stage credits include Half a Sixpence (Chichester Festival Theatre and Nöel Coward Theatre), Assassins (Menier Chocolate Factory), and Kiss Me, Kate (Chichester Festival Theatre) and (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre/ Novello Theatre) and The Sound of Music (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre). Emma Salvo’s stage credits include The Toxic Avenger (), Sincerely, Mister Toad (UK Tour), Grease (Royal Caribbean) and Sleeping Beauty (Mercury Theatre). David Shannon’s stage credits include Les Misérables (Queen’s Theatre), The Phantom of the Opera (Her Majesty’s Theatre) and Matilda (Cambridge Theatre). He was Olivier- nominated for originating the role of John in The Beautiful Game (Cambridge Theatre). In Dublin, his stage credits include Romeo & Juliet and () as well as By The Bog of (Abbey Theatre). Screen credits include Vikings, Noah and 5 to 7. Cat Simmons is known to television audiences as DC Kezia Walker in longrunning ITV series The Bill. Stage credits include Nancy in Oliver! (UK Tour), Jesus Christ Superstar (UK Tour), Simply Heavenly (Young Vic) and Ché Walker and Arthur Darvill’s musical premiere of Been So Long (Young Vic). Further screen credits include Life & Lyrics, No Angels and Casualty. Rachel Tucker’s stage credits include Communicating Doors (Menier Chocolate Factory), ( Theatre, New York), (), Wicked (Apollo Victoria, London and , New York), We Will Rock You (Dominion Theatre) and The Wizard of Oz ( Lyric Theatre). She has toured venues in the UK and US with her own live performances and has released two solo albums. Television credits include the BBC series I’d Do Anything. Come From Away features a book, music and lyrics by Irene Sankoff and David Hein and is directed by Christopher Ashley, with musical staging by Kelly Devine, music supervision and arrangements by Ian Eisendrath, scenic design by Beowulf Boritt, costume design by Toni-Leslie James, lighting design by Howell Binkley, sound design by Gareth Owen, orchestrations by August Eriksmoen, and casting by CDG and Natalie Gallacher CDG. A “Best Musical” winner all across North America, Come From Away has won the Tony Award for “Best Direction of a Musical” (Christopher Ashley), 5 Outer Critics Circle Awards (NYC) including “Outstanding New Broadway Musical,” 3 Drama Desk Awards (NYC) including “Outstanding Musical,” 4 Helen Hayes Awards (Washington DC) including “Outstanding Production of a Musical,” 4 Rose Lee Awards (Seattle) including “Excellence in Production of a Musical,” 6 San Diego Critics Circle Awards including “Outstanding New Musical,” 3 Toronto Theatre Critics Awards including “Best New Musical,” 3 Dora Awards (Toronto) including “Outstanding New Musical/Opera” and “Outstanding Production,” and the 2017 Jon Kaplan Audience Choice Award (Toronto). Come From Away was originally co-produced in 2015 by La Jolla Playhouse and Seattle Repertory Theatre, and presented in 2016 by Ford’s Theatre in Washington DC and Mirvish Productions at the Royal Alexandra Theatre in Toronto, Canada, all in partnership with Junkyard Dog Productions. Come From Away (NAMT Festival 2013) was originally developed at the Canadian Music Theatre Project, Michael Rubinoff Producer, Sheridan College in Oakville, Ontario, Canada and was further developed at Goodspeed Musicals’ Festival of New Artists, in East Haddam CT. The Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the in Seattle WA also provided development support. Come From Away is produced in the UK and Ireland by Junkyard Dog Productions and Smith & Brant Theatricals. The European premiere of Come From Away will be coproduced with the Abbey Theatre, Ireland’s National Theatre. -ENDS-

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Phoenix Theatre Charing Cross Rd, London WC2H 0JP

First performance: 30 January 2019 Opening Night: 18 February 2019

Performance schedule

Monday to Saturday at 7.30pm Wednesday and Saturday matinee performances at 2.30pm

Box office details

Website www.ComeFromAwayLondon.co.uk Telephone 0844 871 7615 Prices from £19.50 (from £10 during preview performances: 30 January to 16 February 2019)

Abbey Theatre 26-27 Lower Abbey Street, North City, Dublin 1, D01 K0F1, Ireland

First performance: 6 December 2018 Final performance: 19 January 2019 Opening Night: 11 December 2018

Performance schedule

Monday to Saturday at 7.30pm Wednesday and Saturday matinee performances at 2.00pm

Box office details

Website www.abbeytheatre.ie Telephone 00353 1 87 87 222 Prices from €13

NOTES TO EDITORS

Irene Sankoff and David Hein (Book, Music, Lyrics) are a Canadian married writing team. Their first show, My Mother’s Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding (based on David’s mother’s true story) was the hit of the Toronto Fringe Festival, and was then picked up for a commercial run by Mirvish Productions. It has now played and won best musical awards in the New York Festival and across North America, with Sankoff and Hein performing in most productions. Come From Away was developed at the Canadian Music Theatre Project and Goodspeed Musicals’ Festival of New Artists, showcased at the NAMT Festival of New Works and enjoyed a record setting world premiere at the La Jolla Playhouse and Seattle Repertory Theatre, followed by Ford’s Theatre in Washington DC, the Royal Alexandra Theatre in Toronto and the Gander Community Centre Hockey Rink. Come From Away won three 2017 Dora Mavor Moore Awards, four Helen Hayes Awards, five Outer Critics Circle Awards and three Drama Desk Awards including Best Musical. David and Irene were nominated for Tony® Awards for Best Book and Score and won the 2017 Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk awards for Best Book. Irene and David are proud members of the Dramatists Guild and ASCAP. Immeasurable thanks to all of Molly’s People, to everyone who helped us on this journey and to our extraordinary friends from Away and in Newfoundland for inspiring and trusting us to tell your story. @SankoffAndHein

Christopher Ashley (Director). Artistic Director, La Jolla Playhouse. Come From Away at La Jolla Playhouse, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Ford’s Theatre in Washington DC. Broadway: (Tony Award® nomination), Xanadu, Leap of Faith, All Shook Up, Rocky Horror Show (Tony Award® nomination). West End: Memphis. New York: Blown Sideways Through Life, Jeffrey, The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told, Valhalla, Regrets Only, Wonder of the World, Communicating Doors, Bunny Bunny, The Night Hank Williams Died, Fires in the Mirror (Lucille Lortel Award). Kennedy Center: Sweeney Todd, Merrily We Roll Along, Lisbon Traviata. La Jolla Playhouse selected credits: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Darrell Hammond Project, Hollywood, His Girl Friday, Glengarry Glen Ross, Restoration. TV/Film: Lucky Stiff, Jeffrey, PBS’s American Playhouse: Blown Sideways Through Life.

Kelly Devine (Musical Staging). Choreographer: Broadway: Doctor Zhivago, Rocky (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics nominations), Rock of Ages; International: Rocky (Germany), Rock of Ages (West End, UK tour, Toronto, Australia - Helpmann and Green Room Awards); Opera: Faust (The Met and ENO), Wozzeck (San Diego Opera); Off-Broadway: Rock of Ages, Fat Camp, Frankenstein, Anne Wrecksick; Regional: Come From Away (La Jolla Playhouse, Seattle Repertory Theatre), The Toxic Avenger, A Christmas Story, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Peter and the Starcatcher, Doctor Zhivago, Private Fittings (La Jolla Playhouse); Stratford Shakespeare Festival: , Romeo & Juliet; Film and Television: Mozart in the Jungle, Wormwood, Dear Dumb Diary, Naomi and Ely’s No Kiss List.

Ian Eisendrath (Music Supervisor, Musical Arrangements). Broadway/National Tour: A Christmas Story. Music Supervisor and Director of New Work at Seattle's 5th Avenue Theatre. 5th Avenue: Paint Your Wagon, Carousel, A Room With a View, Secondhand Lions, Aladdin, Vanities, Oklahoma!, , Sunday in the Park with George, Cabaret, , , Company, Sweeney Todd and Miss Saigon. Other regional: La Jolla Playhouse, Seattle Repertory Theatre, ACT, TUTS, Ordway, Casa Mañana, Banff Centre for the Arts. University of Michigan graduate. www.eisendrathmusic.com.