Into The Woods
Overview of the production
Why would you go into the woods?
To sell the cow
To visit mother
To see the king
To lift the spell
In Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s dazzling musical, the Baker, the Baker’s Wife, the Witch, Jack, Little Red Ridinghood, Cinderella and Rapunzel take us beyond happy ever after to discover what really matters.
General Information
Sensory advice to be confirmed
Performance schedule
Monday – Saturday: 7.30pm
Thursday & Saturday: 2.30pm
Length
TBC
Access Performances
Captioned: Friday 30 January at 7.30pm
Audio Described & Touch Tour: Saturday 21 February at 2.30pm
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Young Bridge tickets
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Schools Rate
Mon–Thu matinees performances, best available at £25 each, with 1 free teacher for every 10 pupils. Excludes 22 December – 4 January performances. Minimum of 10 tickets
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Groups of 10+
£89.50 & £69.50 seats reduced to £50. Valid Mon–Thu. Excludes 22 December – 4 January performances. Minimum of 10 tickets
Contact groups@bridgetheatre.co.uk or fill out our group booking form for more details
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Additional content
Cast

Valda Aviks
She/Her
THEATRE includes Titanic The Musical on UK tour; The Addams Family Musical original UK tour (as Grandma Addams); Ella in Cinderella the Musical at the Nuffield, Southampton; Funny Girl at the Menier Chocolate Factory and in the West End; Once in Dublin and in the West End; Sweeney Todd at Chichester Festival Theatre and in the West End; On the Twentieth Century at the Union; Into the Woods at Regent’s Park Open Air; The Full Monty at the English Theatre, Frankfurt; Mary Poppins on UK tour; Madame Arcati in Blithe Spirit at the English Theatre, Vienna; Caroline or Change and Jerry Springer – The Opera (also West End and UK tour) at the National Theatre; Sink or Swim on UK tour; Florence Foster Jenkins in When Florence Met Isadora and La Goulue in La Goulue of the Moulin Rouge at the Rosemary Branch, Islington; The Witches of Eastwick at Drury Lane; Tanz der Vampire at Raimund Theatre, Vienna; Beauty and the Beast in the West End; Sweeney Todd at Leicester Haymarket; and Oliver!, The Phantom of the Opera, Les Misérables, and Cats in the West End.
SEPTEMEBER 2025
TELEVISION & FILM include You Had To Be There, The Trip, Doctor Who, Bad Penny, Little Britain, Words of Love, and Nightbreed.

Geoffrey Aymer
THEATRE includes Hamlet and The Taxidermist’s Daughter at Chichester Festival Theatre; The Crucible at Sheffield Crucible; Romeo and Juliet at the Royal Exchange, Manchester; The Wizard of Oz at Curve, Leicester and the London Palladium; Clutch at the Bush; Jitney at the Old Vic, for Headlong and at Leeds Playhouse; Sunset Boulevard at the Royal Albert Hall; GHBoy at Charing Cross; Apollo 13: The Dark Side Of The Moon for Original Theatre Online Production; Two Trains Running for ETT on UK tour; The Color Purple at Leicester Curve and Birmingham Hippodrome; Robin Hood and the Arrow of Destiny at Theatre Peckham; The Plague at the Arcola; Driving Miss Daisy at Frinton Summer and Canal Cafe; The Importance of Being Earnest for Original Theatre UK tour; A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Young Vic; To Kill a Mockingbird at Regent’s Park Open Air, on UK tour and at the Barbican; MacBeth and The Lightning Child at Shakespeare’s Globe; Neighbors at the Nuffield, Southampton; Angel House for Eclipse UK tour; and The Big Life in the West End;
STAGE WRITING includes Alice In Wonderland, Pan!, Rapunzel, Scroogelicious, Men-TALL, and The Wonderful all for Theatre Peckham; Anansi and the Magic Mirror for Talawa; The Oddest Couple for Theatre Royal Stratford East, and What A Wonderful World for Blue Elephant.
TELEVISION includes Casualty, Mr Winner, Guerrilla, EastEnders, The A Force, and The Real McCoy.
FILM includes Wicked, Sket and RagTag.
SEPTEMBER 2025

Katie Brayben
THEATRE includes Tammy Faye (also on Broadway; Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical) and Nine Lessons and Carols: Stories for a Long Winter at the Almeida; Girl from the North Country at the Old Vic, in the West End and Toronto; A Walk on the Moon at the American Conservatory Theatre, San Francisco; Honour at The Park; My Mother Said I Never Should at the St James’s; The Spoils at Trafalgar Studio; Beautiful: The Carole King Musical in the West End (Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical); King Charles III (also West End) and American Psycho at the Almeida; A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Ragtime at Regent’s Park Open Air; Joking Apart at Nottingham and Salisbury; 13 at the National Theatre; Company at Southwark Playhouse; The Great British Country Fete at the Bush; and Mamma Mia! in the West End.
FILM A Serial Killer’s Guide to Life.
TELEVISION includes The Hack, The Wheel of Time, Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story, Cell 98, Miss Scarlet and the Duke, War of the Worlds, Casualty, Grace, Luther, The Alienist, Doctor Who: Oxygen, King Charles III, and Vera.
September 2025

Chumisa Dornford-May
She/Her
TRAINING Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, graduating in 2023. Awarded Elaine Paige Scholarship for Excellence in Musical Theatre.
THEATRE includes Here We Are at the National Theatre (as Fritz); Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 at the Donmar Warehouse (as Natasha; Olivier Award nomination for Best Actress in a Musical); The Phantom of the Opera (as Alternate Christine); The Addams Family Musical in Concert (as Wednesday) and Aspects of Love in the West End; and Evita at Curve, Leicester (as Mistress and understudied and played Eva Perón, winning UK Theatre Award for Best Supporting Performance).
September 2025

Taite-Elliot Drew
He/Him
TRAINING Guildford School of Acting.
THEATRE includes Cabaret at the Playhouse; Into the Woods at Theatre Royal Bath; Henry V for Antic Disposition; The Beggar’s Opera on international tour; Ordinary Days at Drayton Arms; The Braille Legacy at Charing Cross Theatre; and My Land’s Shore at Ye Old Rose’n’Crown.
SEPTEMBER 2025

Kate Fleetwood
THEATRE includes My Master Builder and A View from the Bridge in the West End; 101 Dalmatians at Regent’s Park Open Air; Absolute Hell, Ugly Lies the Bone, Kind Lear, London Road (Olivier Award nomination for Best Actress in a Musical), and Love’s Labour’s Lost at the National Theatre; Bug for Found 111; Medea at the Almeida; High Society at the Old Vic; Life is a Dream and Hecuba at the Donmar Warehouse; Macbeth at Chichester Festival Theatre, West End and Broadway (Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a Leading Role); The Winter’s Tale and Pericles for the Royal Shakespeare Company; Othello at Northampton Theatre Royal; and A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Bristol Old Vic.
TELEVISION includes Frauds, Such Brave Girls, Big Mood, Mary and George, Rain Dogs, The Wheel of Time, Fate, The Winx Club Saga, Brave New World, Victoria, Harlots, War and Peace, The People Next Door, The Widower, Way to Go, Touch of Cloth, The Sarah Jane Adventures, Hustle, and After Thomas.
FILM includes Scoop, Choose or Die, Beirut, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, London Road, Philomena, Les Miserables, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, Macbeth, The Golden Age, 77 Beds, Vanity Fair, A Changed Man, and Beautiful People.
September 2025

Jo Foster
They/Them
THEATRE includes Four Play at the King’s Head; The Frogs at Southwark Playhouse; Why Am I So Single (also Sadler’s Wells) and & Juliet in the West End; Just for One Day at the Old Vic; Legally Blonde at Regent’s Park Open Air; Hex at the National Theatre; and Rent at Hope Mill.
September 2025

Michael Gould
He/Him
THEATRE includes Oedipus in the West End; The Cherry Orchard at the Donmar Warehouse and St Ann’s Warehouse, New York; Kerry Jackson, All of Us, Anna, Our Class, Women of Troy, Waves, Attempts on Her Life, Pillars of the Community, The Seagull, Earthquakes in London, The Oresteia, and Greenland at the National Theatre; King Lear, The Writer and Vassa at the Almeida; Pygmalion at the Old Vic; The Audience in the West End; A View from the Bridge (also in the West End and on Broadway), Hamlet, The Jungle, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Cruel and Tender at the Young Vic; Other Hands at the Soho; Othello for English Touring Theatre; The Merchant of Venice, Swive, King Lear, ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore, The Winter’s Tale, and The Maid’s Tragedy at Shakespeare’s Globe; The Ugly One at the Royal Court; Dealing with Clair at the Orange Tree; The Sea and The King of Prussia at Chichester Festival Theatre; Pericles at the Lyric; Pressure Drop for On Theatre at The Wellcome Collection; and Othello, Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2, Hamlet, The Phoenician Women, and The Theban Trilogy for the Royal Shakespeare Company.
TELEVISION includes Trigger Point, Manhunt, Lucan, I Am Maria, The Trial: A Murder in the Family, Mr Sloane, Getting On, Wallander, Bletchley Circle, The Thick of It, There She Goes, Showtrial, You Don’t Know Me, Black Earth Rising, Silk, Silent Witness, The Conversation, Sister Boniface, Casualty, EastEnders and Call the Midwife.
FILM includes One Life, Jitterbug, Darkest Hour, Rogue One, Undergods, The Duke, Our Kind of Traitor, Room 8 (BAFTA for Best Short Film), Private Peaceful and Crocodile.
September 2025

Jacob Fowler
He/Him
TRAINING Trinity Laban.
THEATRE includes The Addams Family on UK tour (as Lucas Beineke); Heathers the Musical on UK tour and at The Other Palace (as J.D.); [title of show] and Before After at Southwark Playhouse; Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella at Hope Mill Theatre; Dreamboats and Petticoats: Bringing on Back the Good Times on UK tour; Vanara at Hackney Empire; and In Pieces at the Turbine.
CONCERTS include his debut solo show Jacob Fowler: Direct from London at The Green Room 42, New York; Cool Rider at the London Palladium; Jacob Fowler: Intimate and Live at the Crazy Coqs; Stiles + Drewe Best New Song Prize at Hackney Empire; and Kings of Broadway at the Palace.
TELEVISION includes Little Mix: The Search, which he won with his band ‘Since September’, who subsequently supported Little Mix on their 2022 UK arena tour, Confetti.
RECORDINGS include three singles as part of Since September: Let You Go, 11:11 and All the Broken Hearts.
SEPTEMBER 2025

Jennifer Hepburn
She/Her
THEATRE includes Opening Night and Mamma Mia! in the West End; Corbin: The Musical at Waterloo East; Van Winkle: A Folk Musical at The Other Palace; Taboo at Brixton Club House; Les Misérables 25th Anniversary Concert at the O2; A Tale of Two Cities at Charing Cross and Upstairs at the Gatehouse; Anything Goes in New York; Les Misérables in the West End; Cats on 25th Anniversary tour; Jekyll and Hyde UK tour; The Buccaneer at the Finborough; and workshops for Moonshadow and Waterbabies.
RECORDINGS include her debut album Nylon.
September 2025

Hana Ichijo
TRAINING Arts Educational School.
THEATRE includes The Producers and The Baker’s Wife at Menier Chocolate Factory; A Christmas Carol at the Old Vic; The Sound of Music at Chichester Festival Theatre; George Takei’s Allegiance at the Charing Cross; Anyone Can Whistle at Southwark Playhouse; and Little Women at The Park.
September 2025

Julie Jupp
THEATRE includes A Christmas Carol, American Clock, and Groundhog Day at the Old Vic; La Cage aux Folles, The Card, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Regent’s Park Open Air; Man of La Mancha at the Coliseum; Richard III at Trafalgar Studios; Urinetown, Merrily We Roll Along and Wonderful Town in the West End; Road Show at the Menier Chocolate Factory; The Secret Garden, The Wind in the Willows and The Red Balloon at Birmingham Rep; A Boston Marriage, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Mikado at the Stephen Joseph, Scarborough; The Good Soul of Szechuan, Company, Assassins, The Ghosts of Scrooge and Goodnight Mr Tom at the Library, Manchester; Sunshine on Leith at Dundee Rep; Turandot at Hampstead; Bad Girls in the West End and West Yorkshire Playhouse; The Pirates of Penzance at the Orange Tree; Abigail’s Party and Company at the Northcott, Exeter; Jamaica Inn, Sweeney Todd, The Snow Queen, The Mikado, HMS Pinafore, and The Pirates of Penzance at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme; Alice in Wonderland at West Yorkshire Playhouse; Bat Boy! in the West End and West Yorkshire Playhouse; Is There Life After High School at the Bridewell; Sweeney Todd at the New Wolsey, Ipswich; A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Kes! at Bolton Octagon; Blithe Spirit and Gypsy at Cheltenham Everyman; Honk! at the Watermill, Newbury; A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine for Borderline Theatre; and Girlfriends at the Playhouse.
TELEVISION includes Call the Midwife, Silent Witness, Unforgotten, Friday Night Dinner, Casualty, Doctors, EastEnders, and The Bill.
FILM includes Disenchanted, Topsy Turvy and Tree of Hands.
September 2025

Gabrielle Lewis-Dodson
She/Her
TRAINING Arts Educational Schools.
THEATRE includes Identical at Nottingham Playhouse and The Lowry; Pippin at Charing Cross; The Boyfriend at Menier Chocolate Factory; 42nd Street at Theatre Royal Drury Lane; Dorian at Southwark Playhouse; and Heathers workshop at The Other Palace.
FILM includes Cats.
September 2025

Sophie Linder-Lee
TRAINING Performers College, Essex.
THEATRE includes Magic Mike in London; Muriel’s Wedding at Curve Leicester; Wicked and Mamma Mia! in the West End; The Rocky Horror Show at Oxford Playhouse and on Italian tour; The Biograph Girl (as Mary Pickford) at the Finborough, and Big Fish the Musical at The Other Palace.
TELEVISION includes The Royal Variety Performance, Slammer, and Top of the Pops.
FILM includes Rocky Horror Live!.
SEPTEMBER 2025

Gracie McGonigal
She/Her
TRAINING The Brit School.
THEATRE includes Fan Girls and Aladdin at the Lyric Hammersmith; The Little Big Things at Soho Place; The Crucible at the National Theatre and in the West End; Cinderella at Theatre Royal Stratford East; The Young Foxes at the Young Vic.
FILM & TELEVISION includes Bridgerton, Father Brown and The Power.
September 2025

Hughie O'Donnell
He/Him
TRAINING Royal Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
THEATRE includes King Lear at The Shed and in the West End; and Into the Woods at The Cockpit.
FILM Fight or Flight and The Last Disturbance of Madeleine Hyde.
TELEVISION The Seven Dials Mystery.
RADIO includes Exit Game, In Moderation, War of Words, Medici: Bankers, Gangsters and Popes, 50 Berkeley Square, Microserfs, and Sibelius the Storyteller (as Presenter).
SEPTEMBER 2025

Jamie Parker

Chloe Saracco
She/Her
TRAINING Royal Academy of Music and Harvard University.
THEATRE includes Natasha, Pierre and The Great Comet of 1812 at the Donmar Warehouse.
FILM includes Moment by Moment.
TELEVISION includes the 2025 Laurence Olivier Awards.
CONCERTS include Throwback Lounge at The Other Palace and RepresentAsian at Phoenix Arts Club.
SEPTEMBER 2025

Oliver Savile
He/ Him
TRAINING Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, 2010.
THEATRE includes playing Edward Lewis in Pretty Woman on UK tour; Frank Butler in Annie Get Your Gun at the London Palladium; Emojiland, The Pirates of Penzance (as Pirate King), Knights of the Rose, The Navigator, Phantom of the Opera, The Rum Tum Tugger in Cats, and Les Misérables in the West End; Frank’n’furter in The Rocky Horror Show on European tour; The Last Ship in Los Angeles, on US tour, and in Canada; Whizzer in Falsettos at The Other Palace; Robert in Company for AAC; Fiyero in Wicked at the Apollo Victoria; Monkee Business on UK tour; Mamma Mia! on world tour; and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat on UK tour.
TELEVISION & FILM include Luca in season 2 of Ted Lasso; and The Tomorrow Morning Movie.
September 2025

Rhys Whitfield
He/Him
TRAINING Rhys trained at the Guildford School of Acting.
STAGE The Devil Wears Prada (Dominion Theatre – Original Cast), The Phantom of The Opera (His Majesty’s Theatre), My Fair Lady (Teatro Massimo), Summer and Smoke (Duke of York’s Theatre), An Officer and a Gentlemen (UK Tour), Million Dollar Quartet (UK Tour), Jesus Christ Superstar (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), The Commitments (UK Tour) and Close To You (Criterion Theatre).
FILM New George
SEPTEMBER 2025