Full Cast of Inspector Morse: House of Ghosts Revealed
In conjunction with our co-producers, Melting Pot, we are delighted to announce full casting of our chilling new murder-mystery, Inspector Morse: House of Ghosts, which opens here at The Rep on Thu 28 Aug – Sun 14 Sep ahead of a major UK tour.
The previously announced Tom Chambers (winner of Strictly Come Dancing’s series six and Inspector Edgar Sullivan in Father Brown), who will play the beloved detective Inspector Morse will be joined by actor and rapper Tachia Newall (who played fan favourite, Bolton Smilie in Waterloo Road in addition to roles in Coronation Street and Doctor Who) as loyal Detective Sergeant Lewis, bringing a fresh dynamic to the beloved detective duo.
The cast is completed by Teresa Banham (A View From The Bridge, Touring Consortium; Netflix’s The Crown) as Ellen; James Gladdon (The Score, Theatre Royal Haymarket & Theatre Royal Bath; A View From the Bridge) as Freddy; Spin Glancy (Forty Years On, Chichester Festival Theatre) as Justin; Josh Katembela who’ll be making his touring theatre debut following his graduation from RADA, as part of the ensemble; Robert Mountford (Much Ado About Nothing, Globe Theatre; The Merchant of Venice, RSC), who plays the dual roles of Lawrence Baxter and Paul Kincaid; Olivia Onyehara (All’s Well That Ends Well / Richard III, RSC; The 39 Steps, SJT Scarborough) in the multi-roles of Rebecca / Harriet / Ellen; Charlotte Randle (Vardy V Rooney: The Wagatha Christie Trial, Wyndham’s Theatre; Medea, Almeida) as Verity; and Eliza Teale (Swansea Boy, Volcano Theatre; Filumena, Theatre Royal Windsor / BKL Tour) completes the ensemble
Investigators, meet your suspects
Tom Chambers
Theatre credits include: Murder in the Dark (UK tour), Dial M For Murder (UK tour), Crazy For You (Watermill Theatre & UK tour), Private Lives (UK tour), White Christmas (West End), Top Hat (West End), White Christmas (Sunderland Empire), The Rover (Young Vic Studio), Journey’s End (Courtyard Theatre), Blue Remembered Hills (Chichester Festival Theatre), Bloody Poetry (Brockley Jack Theatre), Pendragon (City Theatre NTY/Sadler’s Wells), October’s Children (NYMT/Hammersmith Lyric), Cyrano De Bergerac, Macbeth (both Derby Rep Theatre), Damn Yankeeds (Yvonne Arnaud Theatre), The Innocents (Derby Playhouse), Stepping Out (Electric Theatre).
Film credits include: Fakers (Faking it Productions), Meet Pursuit Delange: The Movie.
Television credits include: Midsomer Murders (ITV), Emmerdale (ITV), Casualty (BBC), Father Brown (BBC), The Great Train Robbery (World Productions), Waterloo Road (BBC), Holby City (BBC), The Last Will and Testament of Billy (BBC) and Elizabeth The Virgin Queen (BBC).
Tom also appears on Mellow Magic as a DJ Presenter every Saturday 10am – 1pm.
Tachia Newall
Theatre credits include: Liberation (Manchester Royal Exchange); Animal Farm (Theatre Royal Stratford East); Macbeth (Leeds Playhouse); Light Falls (Manchester Royal Exchange); Mother Courage and Her Children (Royal Exchange); Sylvia (Old Vic); Love of the Fireflies (Home); Scuttlers (Royal Exchange Theatre); Hamlet (Royal Exchange Manchester); Hoax: My Lonely Heart (Royal Exchange Manchester); Some Like It Hip Hop (Sadler’s Wells); Arabian Nights (The Lowry); The Manchester Lines (The Library Theatre Company); Aladdin (Preston Charter Theatre); Crystal Kisses (Contact Theatre); Aladdin (Imagine Theatre); Ghost Boy (UK Tour).
TV credits include: Doctor Who; Pennyworth; Dodger; Life After Life; Silent Witness; From Darkness; Vera; Scott and Bailey; Casualty; Waterloo Road; Coronation Street; Waterloo Road Series III-V; Young Dracula; Doctors; Coronation Street; Moving On.
Film credits includes: Dune; Dirty God.
Teresa Banham
Training: Central School of Speech and Drama
RSC / West End credits include: The Herbal Bed; The Heresy Of Love; Measure For Measure; Speaking Like Magpies; Believe What You Will; Thomas More; The Blue Angel; The White Devil.
Other theatre credits include: Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (ETT); A View From The Bridge (Touring Consortium); Here (Donmar Warehouse); Acceptance
(Hampstead); True Love Lies; (Royal Exchange); Open House (Theatre Royal Bath) The Glass Menagerie (Theatr Clwyd); The Father (Chichester); Blood Wedding (Salisbury).
Received awards for playing Anna Karenina (Shared Experience)
TV and film credits include: The Gold; Malpractice; Roadkill; The Crown; The Project; Good Karma Hospital; Dark Heart; Call The Midwife; Vera; Poirot; Silent witness; Dr Who; Gentlemen’s Relish; Robin Hood. Utopia. Coogan’s Run; Monsignor Renard; Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare; Military Wives; No One Gets Out Alive.
James Gladdon
Training: Arts Educational Schools
Theatre credits include: The Score (Theatre Royal Haymarket, Theatre Royal Bath); A View From the Bridge (Theatre Royal Haymarket, Theatre Royal Bath); The Offing (Live Theatre); Skeletons in Cullercoats (Live Theatre); The Hound of the Baskervilles (Northern Stage); Hamlet (Petersfield Shakespeare Festival); Wormtown (The Customs House).
Spin Glancy
Training: RADA Foundation Course, 2024 BA (Hons) Professional Acting at LAMDA.
Theatre credits include: Forty Years On (Chichester Festival Theatre), Toy Soldier (Waterloo East Theatre), Much Ado About Nothing (Petersfield Shakespeare Festival), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Petersfield Shakespeare Festival), Twelfth Night (Petersfield Shakespeare Festival).
Josh Katembela
Training: Josh has just finished training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (RADA) this summer.
Theatre credits whilst training include: Wild Honey, Gundog and Come From Away.
Robert Mountford
Theatre credits include: Twelfth Night (Orange Tree Theatre); Much Ado About Nothing (Globe Theatre); She Stoops To Conquer (Orange Tree) The Merchant of Venice (RSC) The Habit of Art (New York), Into The Night, The Haunting of Alice Bowles (all Original Theatre Company tours) All’s Well That Ends Well, The Wind in the Willows, The Odyssey (Jermyn Street Theatre); The Winter’s Tale, Romeo & Juliet (GSC); The Omission of the Family Coleman (Royal Theatre Bath); Anita & Me (Birmingham Rep); Betrayal (Salisbury Playhouse); Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, Merlin, Hercules (Chester Open Air); Macbeth, The Tempest, Enemy of The People and The Merchant of Venice (Tara Arts); The Black Album (National Theatre); Tagore’s Women, Gandhi & Coconuts, Bitched (Kali Theatre); Hamlet, As You Like It, Winter’s Tale (USA tours); East is East (Leicester Haymarket).
TV credits includes: North Square (Ch4); Holby City, Eastenders, Silent Witness, Torn, One Night, Casualty, Michael Wood’s History of India, Reverse Psychology (all BBC); London’s Burning (LWT); A&E (Granada)
Olivia Onyehara
Theatre credits include: All’s Well that Ends Well/ Richard III (RSC), A Song For Ella Grey (Pilot Theatre/Northern Stage), The 39 Steps (SJT Scarborough/Theatre by the Lake), Nothing in a Butterfly (Synergy Theatre), Shuck n Jive (Soho Theatre), Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, & Macbeth (Shakespeare’s Rose Theatre York), Jack Lear (Hull Truck), Pride & Prejudice, Our American Cousin (Finborough Theatre), The Watchers & Tanzi Libre (Southwark Playhouse), Time and the Conways (Nottingham Playhouse), All Our Daughters (New Vic Theatre).
TV credits include: Casualty (BBC)
Film credits include: Locked Down (Paramount) and In the Dark (short)
Radio credits include: Braids, Consider the Lilies, The White North Has Thy Bones, Beyond the Grey Towers, Something Understood Made By Hand all for BBC Radio 4.
Charlotte Randle
Theatre credits include: Vardy V Rooney: The Wagatha Christie Trial (Wyndham’s Theatre); King John (RSC); COUGAR (Orange Tree); Yerma (Young Vic & Park Avenue Armory); Plastic (Theatre Royal Bath); Medea (Almeida); Birdland (Royal Court); Decade (Headlong); The Lyons (Menier Chocolate Factory); Public Enemy; King Lear (Young Vic); Mother Courage; Romeo And Juliet; Marat/Sade (National Theatre); All About My Mother (Old Vic); Don Carlos; Ighigenia; Sexual Perversity In Chicago; The Man Who Had All The Luck (Sheffield Crucible); Lobby Hero (Donmar Warehouse); Rabbit; Lingua Franca (59 E 59) Taming Of The Shrew; The Dispute (RSC)
Television credits include: The Kollective (Hulu); Call The Midwife; Shakespeare & Hathaway; The Coroner; Father Brown; Silent Witness; Holby City; Casualty; Doctors (BBC); Pistol (FX); The Trials of Jimmy Rose (ITV)
Film credits include: Dark Skin Bruises Differently (Blank Page Pictures); Rare Beasts (Western Edge Pictures) Dangerous Beauty
Radio credits include: The Other Man; Don Carlos (BBC)
Eliza Teale
Training: Eliza graduated from Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama last year, and also holds a Bachelor’s Degree from The University of Manchester.
Eliza most recently played a lead in Sean Mathias’s critically acclaimed production Swansea Boy at The Volcano Theatre, Swansea. Prior to that she appeared in Filumena, starring Felicity Kendall and Matthew Kelly at Theatre Royal Windsor.
Further theatre credits include: Elizabeth in The Welkin (Sherman Theatre, Cardiff), Grace in Mad Margot (Richard Burton Company) and Gale in Pomona (UMDS, Edinburgh Fringe Festival).
Director, Anthony Banks says:
I’m very excited to start working with this fantastic cast who will bring these much-loved characters to life and make them their own. Alma Cullen’s original Morse story contains a play-within-a-play – an inspired concept for a murder mystery which reveals the similarities between playing a part when acting and covering-up a crime!”
Inspector Morse: House of Ghosts marks the start of our electrifying season of Murder Mysteries and Thrillers here at The Rep, followed shortly after by Original Theatre‘s latest comedy crime caper Murder at Midnight (Tue 16 – Sat 20 Sep); The Faction‘s stage adaptation of psychological thriller The Talented Mr. Ripley (Mon 22 – Sat 27 Sep); Thunder Road Theatre‘s haunting love letter to classic theatre ghost stories and cinema’s greatest frights, Shock Horror (Fri 31 Oct – Sat 1 Nov); and culminating with our World Premiere of our laugh-out-loud festive murder mystery Sherlock Holmes and The 12 Days of Christmas (Fri 14 Nov – Sun 11 Jan) made in association with Heartaches Ltd.
A chilling mystery unfolds…
When a young actress suddenly dies on stage during a performance, and Detective Chief Inspector Morse embarks on a gripping investigation. What begins as a suspicious death inquiry takes a darker turn when the legendary inspector, together with DS Lewis, uncovers a connection to sinister events in his own past, twenty-five years earlier.
Inspector Morse: House of Ghosts marks the first-ever major stage adaptation of the iconic detective. ITV’s long-running Inspector Morse, hailed by Radio Times as ‘The greatest British crime series of all time’, has inspired equally beloved spin-offs, Lewis and Endeavour.