Cast and Creatives for The Wild by Mark Haddon and Simon Stephens
Thu 30 Apr 2026Creatives
Lily Dyble Director
Lily is the winner of the 2025 RTST Sir Peter Hall Director Award.
As director: My Pet Star (also book and lyrics) at the Marlowe Theatre; A Very Expensive Poison and Fun Home at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts; Sweeney Todd at the Egg, Theatre Royal Bath; Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes for Opera Holland Park and Waterperry Opera Festival and on UK tour; The Water Diviner’s Tale for Opera North; and Forbidden Touch (as co-director) for Welsh National Opera and the National Opera Studio.
As associate director: The Producers in the West End; Here We Are at the National Theatre; Richard II and Guys & Dolls at the Bridge Theatre; Abigail’s Party at Theatre Royal Stratford East; The Baker’s Wife at Menier Chocolate Factory; A Night at the Opera at the Royal Opera House and Nevill Holt Festival; and With All Our Hearts in the West End. Forthcoming work includes Death of a Salesman on Broadway.
Catherine Willis Casting Director
Catherine Willis’ career started in regional and then West End theatre which led on to 6 years in-house at the BBC working across ongoing multiple series including Waking the Dead and Casualty. Since setting up her own company in 2006 Catherine has specialised in casting new talent crossing both Drama, Comedy and the dark area in between.
Recent TV series include the award-winning Changing Ends for ITV, A Good Girls Guide to Murder with Emma Myers, C4’s ‘Somewhere Boy’ for Clerkenwell Films, for which Catherine won the 2023 Royal Television Award. Renegade Nell and The Full Monty for Disney+. Recent award winning comedies include Here We Go, The Change and Alma’s Not Normal amongst numerous others.
Previous work you might remember is Dead Set created by Charlie Brooker, Flowers for Kudos with Olivia Colman; BAFTA-winning Detectorists with Toby Jones and Mackenzie Crook; Fresh Meat with Zawe Ashton and Jack Whitehall;
Most recently you might have seen the award winning feature film Ballad of Wallis Island and coming soon is The Witness on Netflix.
Cast
Owain Arthur Gavin
Theatre: Guys and Dolls (The Bridge), One Man Two Guvnors (Theatre Royal Haymarket/international tour), The History Boys (The National Theatre/West End), Romeo and Juliet (RSC), The Comedy of Errors (Manchester Royal Exchange), Birdsong (West End).
Film: Coffee Wars, Higher Grounds, The One and Only Ivan, White Island, Willkommen Im Krieg, Eldra, Mr. Nice, The Patrol.
TV: The Lord of the Rings, London Kills, A Confession, Hard Sun, Casualty, 35 Diwrnod (35 Days), Death in Paradise, Hinterland, Babylon, Holby City, Rownd a Rownd, Doctors, The Palace, The Friday Night Club, New Tricks, Cei Bach, Ddoe Am Ddeg.
Mark Milligan David/Boy
TRAINING: Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
THEATRE: The Comedy of Errors & A Company of Rascals (Yvonne Arnaud, Guildford Shakespeare Company); My Pet Star (Marlowe Theatre); Hamlet (The Lord Chamberlain’s Men); Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes (Waterperry Opera Festival, Opera Holland Park and UK tour).
WRITING: Plant Daddy at the Pleasance; Royal Court Introduction to Playwriting Group; Mercury Playwrights Programme.
Hywel Morgan Robert/Tony/Man/Bailiff/Security Guard
Theatre includes: Gang of Three ( King’s Head Theatre), Player Kings (Noël Coward Theatre), Home I’m Darling, (NT) Imperium, Queen Anne, The Alchemist, Love For Love, (RSC) This May Hurt a Bit, (Out of Joint) A Walk on Part: The Fall of New Labour, (Live Theatre) War & Peace and Mill on the Floss, (Shared Experience) The Importance Of Being Earnest, To Reach the Clouds, Feelgood, Because it’s There and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, (Nottingham Playhouse).
Television includes: Black Doves, Brassic, Bariau (Seasons 1,2&3), The Gathering, Industry, 3 Body Problem, Somewhere Boy, Wolf, Gentleman Jack, Meet The Richardsons (Seasons 3,4,5), Slow Horses (Seasons 1&2), Pennyworth, Hinterland, Skins and The End of The F*cking World.
Film includes: Borderland, Page Eight, W.E. and Making a Killing.
Michael Simkins Martin/Terry
Michael trained at RADA and his first job was at the (old) Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury.
West End credits include Backstairs Billy, The Unfriend, Hay Fever, Yes Prime Minister, Donkeys’ Years, Mary Stuart, The Old Masters, Democracy, Mamma Mia!, Chicago, Richard III, Company, Burn This, Look Look, Henceforward, The Scarlet Pimpernel.
National Theatre work includes King Lear, ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore, A View from the Bridge (also West End), A Small Family Business.
Other theatre includes Richard II, Guys & Dolls, John Gabriel Borkman (Bridge Theatre), In Case Of Emergency (Purcell Rooms), The Unfriend, Fracked! (Minerva, Chichester), Candida, (Orange Tree), Eden, The Argument, (Hampstead); The Fantastic Follies of Mrs. Rich (RSC); Dessert (Southwark Playhouse); Good Canary (Rose Theatre).
Television includes Bookish (U+ Alibi), Ellis (Channel 5), Father Brown [BBC], This is Going to Hurt [BBC], Miss Scarlet and the Duke [PBS], Finding Alice [ITV], The Crown [Netflix], Silent Witness [BBC], Endeavour [ITV], Harlots [Hulu], Grantchester [BBC], Foyle’s War [Greenlit], Lewis [ITV], Midsomer Murders [ITV].
Films includes Greed, Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again!, The Iron Lady, V tor Vendetta, Topsy-Turvy.
Michael is also a best-selling author. Books include What’s My Motivation and the Costa shortlisted Fatty Batter.
Ruby Thompson The Stranger
Ruby trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and the Television Workshop Nottingham.
Theatre credits include: Till The Stars Come Down (Theatre Royal Haymarket); Three Sisters (The Globe); Shakespeare’s Women (A Call To Arms).
Film credits include: Aftersun (A24); short films Paired up.
Celia Nelson Madeleine/Veronique/Teller
Celia Nelson trained at The Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. Her work in theatre includes The Seagull at The Barbican; Oedipus at The Wyndhams, West End; Dear Octopus and The House of Bernarda Alba at the National Theatre; The Doctor at Richmond Theatre and the Duke of York’s, West End; Virtual Reality and Private Lives at the Stephen Joseph; Broken Glass at Theatre Royal Northampton; Saints Day at the Orange Tree; Lady Windermere’s Fan and Blithe Spirit at Salisbury Playhouse; The Animals and Big Fella at Dublin Festival; Tartuffe, Having a Ball and Blithe Spirit at Perth Rep; Loot on UK tour; The Rehearsal, A Flea in Her Ear, Joking Apart and La Vie de Boheme at Pitlochry Festival Theatre; Vanity Fair, Spokesong and A Streetcar Named Desire at the Sherman, Cardiff; The Playboy of the Western World, Hard Times, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Turn the Old Year Go at the Torch, Milford Haven; and Sticks and Stones at the Old Red Lion.
TV includes The Bill, Slap and Telephone Detectives.
Radio includes BBC Radio 4’s The Archers.