Cast and Creatives for The Landlord by Penelope Skinner
Thu 30 Apr 2026Creatives
Abigail Graham Director
Forthcoming theatre includes Living (Sheffield Crucible).
Other theatre includes Macbeth and The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare’s Globe); Aladdin (Lyric Hammersmith); MUM (Plymouth Drum/Soho Theatre); The Tyler Sisters (Hampstead THeatre); 31 Hours (The Bunker); Death of a Salesman (Royal & Derngate and UK tour); And Now: The World! (OpenWorks and UK tour); Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made (Assembly Rooms); Debris (OpenWorks/Southwark Playhouse); and Molly Sweeney (Print Room/Lyric Belfast).
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
Fanta Barrie Jude
Fanta Barrie graduated from Rose Bruford in 2018 and went straight into Songlines for High Tide/Edinburgh Festival. She played ‘Vic’ in new period comedy Belly Up at the Turbine Theatre. On screen she plays Jade in Everybody and Kitty in My Lady Jane (Amazon).
Other Theatre credits include: Top G’s Like Me (Northampton Theatre), This Little Earth (Arcola Theatre), The Ministry of Lesbian Affairs (Kiln Theatre), The Loved Ones (Gate Theatre), The Ministry of Lesbian Affairs (Soho Theatre), The Lovely Bones (directed by Melly Still), The Amber Trap (Theatre 503 Damsel productions) and The Cereal Café (The Other Place).
Sean Delaney Jack
Sean recently finished a run starring in Welcome to Pemfort at the Soho Theatre. His other theatre credits include originating the leading role of Michael in the Tony/Olivier winning Jezz Butterworth play The Ferryman (Royal Court, West End and Broadway); The Vortex (dir. Daniel Raggett, Chichester); Brilliant Jerks (Southwark Playhouse); and Beth Steel’s Labyrinth at Hampstead Theatre.
On screen, he’s best known for his regular role in Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Killing Eve, opposite Jodie Comer & Sandra Oh, will next be seen starring in the highly anticipated A24 series It Gets Worse, created by & starring Leo Reich. He played the leading role of Teddy in the BBC/AMC series Life After Life, directed by John Crowley, based on the book by Kate Atkinson, and played a young Stephen Graham in Venom: Let There Be Carnage, directed by Andy Serkis.
He trained at RADA.
Jessica Raine Hazel
Jessica Raine has played a huge and varied array of leading roles of screen and stage to much acclaim. She is about to be seen playing the lead in the upcoming BBC drama series, Two Weeks in August. Prior to which she’s been wowing us on screen in the limited series The Devil’s Hour for Amazon TV, where she plays the lead opposite Peter Capaldi. The final of the trilogy is due for release on Amazon later this year.
Other screen credits include Becoming Elizabeth (Starz), Baptiste (BBC), Informer (BBC), Melrose (Sky), The Last Post (Amazon), Inside No.9 (BBC), Jericho (ITV), Partners in Crime (BBC), Fortitude (Sky), and An Adventure in Space and Time (BBC) for which she was nominated for the Best Supporting Actress in a Movie or Mini-series at the US Critics Choice Awards.
Her theatre credits include Bubble (Nottingham Playhouse), X (Royal Court), Roots (Donmar Warehouse), The Changeling (Young Vic), Rocket to the Moon, Earthquakes in London (National Theatre), Ghosts (Duchess Theatre, West End) for which she was nominated for the Ian Charleson Award, Punk Rock (Lyric Hammersmith/Royal Exchange, Manchester) for which she won the Best Actress in a Supporting Role at the Manchester Evening News Theatre Awards, Gethsemane and Harper Regan (National Theatre).
Jemima Rooper Ellen
Jemima Rooper is a leading actress who currently stars in hit Netflix series GEEK GIRL, recently wrapping on the second season.
A recognisable and versatile talent with a genre-spanning body of work, Jemima’s leading television roles include THE INHERITANCE (Netflix), FLOWERS IN THE ATTIC: THE ORIGIN, Steven Soderbergh’s THE GIRLFRIEND EXPERIENCE (Starz), BBC’s GOLD DIGGER, BOUQUET OF BARBED WIRE, LOST IN AUSTEN, ITV’s THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE with Olivia Colman, SINCHRONICITY (BBC), Sky’s hit series HEX with Michael Fassbender, and her breakout role in Channel 4’s AS IF.
In film, Jemima has starred in Robert Zemeckis’ HERE, Ben Taylor’s JOY (Pathé/Netflix) alongside James Norton, Thomasin Mackenzie and Bill Nighy, THE PEOPLE WE HATE AT THE WEDDING (Amazon), the lead in the Hulu horror MATRIARCH, David Frankels’ ONE CHANCE, WHAT IF opposite Daniel Radcliffe, Brian De Palmas’ THE BLACK DAHLIA opposite Scarlett Johansson and Josh Hartnett, and as Nicola in smash hit KINKY BOOTS.
Jemima has played numerous leading roles on stage, including Audrey in LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS, Elvira in BLITHE SPIRIT opposite Angela Lansbury, and originating the role of Rachel Crabbe in the National Theatre’s hit production of ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS opposite James Cordon.