Cast & Creative
Find out more about the cast and creative team for Stranger Things: The First Shadow.
FURTHER CASTING TO BE ANNOUNCED IN JANUARY 2025
Kate Trefry
Writer & Original Story
Kate Trefry
Writer & Original Story
The Duffer Brothers
Original Story & Creative Producers
The Duffer Brothers
Original Story & Creative Producers
Jack Thorne
Original Story
Jack Thorne
Original Story
Stephen Daldry
Director
Stephen Daldry
Director
Justin Martin
Co-Director
Justin Martin
Co-Director
Miriam Buether
Set Designer
Miriam Buether
Set Designer
Brigitte Reiffenstuel
Costume Designer
Brigitte Reiffenstuel
Costume Designer
Jon Clark
Lighting Designer
Jon Clark
Lighting Designer
Paul Arditti
Sound Designer
Paul Arditti
Sound Designer
D.J. Walde
Original Music & Arrangements
D.J. Walde
Original Music & Arrangements
Danilo J. Walde is a composer, musician, consultant and performer, and is a Music (BA) graduate of Brunel University.
Theatre credits include: SYLVIA (Co-Composer, Music Production & Arrangements) for Old Vic; All’s Well That Ends Well (Composer) for RSC; Good Person Of Szechwan (Composer & Arrangements) for Sheffield Theatres & Lyric Hammersmith; Our Generation (Musical Director, composer and music production) for National Theatre; HYMN (MusicalDirector) at Almeida Theatre; Dick Whittington (composer, arranger and music production) for National Theatre; Living Newspaper 5(Composer) for Royal Court; The Suicide (composer and music production) for National Theatre; The Little Mermaid (co-composer/ co-musical director) at Bristol Old Vic; The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party (composer, musical director and performer) for the Royal Ballet,ZooNation: The Kate Prince Company and the Roundhouse; Some Like It Hip Hop (composer, musical director and performer) for ZooNation: The Kate Prince Company at Sadler’s Wells and on UK tour; Into the Hoods (arranger and remixer) for ZooNation: The Kate Prince Company and Phil McIntyre at the Novello; Blaze: The Streetdance Sensation (music supervisor and editor) world tour for Anthony Van Laast; Against Time (music director and arranger) on UK tour for Flawless and English National Ballet; Pericles (composer and arranger) at the RSC.
Other work includes: Message in a Bottle (Music associate and additional arrangements) for Sadler’s Wells and Universal Music UK; Nora – She Persisted (soundscape composition) for English National Ballet; POP Circus (composer) at Circus Fest 2016, the Roundhouse; The Happiness Project (music director) at the Roundhouse; Black Victorians (Composer & Music Production) for JJC/GDIF; Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Pageant 2022 (Composer & Music Production) for PJP; Peaky Blinders – The Redemption Of Thomas Shelby (Music supervisor) for Rambert; Stadium DJ for Paralympic Opening Ceremony London 2012 Olympics.
Also as performer: Downhill: Hitchcock 9 and Moscow for the British Council Russia; Vocal Orchestra 2013 Canada for Just for Laughs Festival, Montreal; Shlomo and The Vocal Orchestra for Reading, Leeds, & Wilderness Festivals.
As the leader of the Roundhouse Experimental Choir (REC) he has collaborated with the London Contemporary Orchestra, The OAE, Wildbirds & Peacedrums, Ghostpoet, & Ana Silvera. Danilo also leads and performs with Some Voices, a London wide choir.
Film includes: The Holloway Laundrette: Fall into You (co-composer) for C4, BAFTA, Big Dance; Big Commonwealth Dance 2014
Radio includes: Founding member of Royal Treatment Plant (RTP).
Albums include Hope Is Not Enough and Halfway To The Sun.
Awards include: SYLVIA – Olivier Award nomination for Best New Musical 2023, HYMN – Broadway World nomination for Best Musical Direction in a Play or Musical 2021, Some Like It Hip Hop – Olivier nomination for Best New Dance Production 2012 and nominated for Best Dance Production at the Black British Theatre Awards 2020, Royal Treatment Plant (RTP) – nomination for Debut Album of the Year 2008 on XFM.
Jamie Harrison & Chris Fisher
Illusions & Visual Effects Designers
Jamie Harrison & Chris Fisher
Illusions & Visual Effects Designers
Chris Fisher is a member of The Magic Circle.
Credits include; Back to The Future: The Musical (Broadway & West End), The Witches (National Theatre), Company (Broadway, West End, US Tour), The Time Traveller’s Wife (Apollo Theatre), Charlie & the Chocolate Factory (Leeds Playhouse & UK tour), The Prince of Egypt (Dominion Theatre), The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (UK tour/West End), 2.22 A Ghost Story (West End, Melbourne & LA), Big the Musical (Dominion Theatre), Peter Gynt, Here We Go, Treasure Island, Julie and Angels in America (National Theatre & Broadway), Wicked Das Musical at Neue Flora Theater, Hamburg, Merlin for Northern Ballet, Bedknobs & Broomsticks (UK tour), Superhero (Broadway), Macbeth and Titus Andronicus (RSC at the Swan and the Barbican), Barnum(Menier Chocolate Factory), The Hypocrite (RSC at the Swan and Hull Truck), No Man’s Land (Wyndham’s Theatre), Into the Woods (Royal Exchange Theatre).
Chris is the worldwide International Illusions and Magic Associate for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.
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Video & Visual Effects Designer
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Video & Visual Effects Designer
Coral Messam
Choreographer
Coral Messam
Choreographer
Lynne Page
Movement Director
Lynne Page
Movement Director
Campbell Young Associates
Wigs, Hair & Make-Up Designer
Campbell Young Associates
Wigs, Hair & Make-Up Designer
Jim Carnahan, CSA
Alexandre Bleau, CSA
Casting Director
Jim Carnahan, CSA
Alexandre Bleau, CSA
Casting Director
Jim has cast over 150 Broadway shows. His work on Broadway this season includes; The Hills of California, Our Town, Sunset Boulevard, Swept Away, Cult of Love, Just in Time, The Pirates of Penzance, Doubt, Patriots, Appropriate, Merrily We Roll Along, A Doll’s House, A Beautiful Noise, Leopoldstadt, Funny Girl, Take Me Out, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Moulin Rouge, New York, New York, Almost Famous, Caroline, or Change, The Lehman Trilogy, Soldier’s Play, Christmas Carol, Betrayal, Burn This, Kiss Me Kate, The Ferryman, Angels in America, 1984, Groundhog Day, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, She Loves Me, Noises Off.
Off-Broadway includes: Little Shop of Horrors, Medea, Hamlet/Oresteia, The Doctor.
London includes: The Seagull (Barbican), Stranger Things: The First Shadow (Phoenix), Enemy of the People (Duke of York), Plaza Suite (Savoy). Groundhog Day (Old Vic), Lemons (Harold Pinter), Best of Enemies (Noel Coward), Eureka Day (Old Vic), Mad House (Ambassadors), The 47th (Old Vic), Betrayal (Harold Pinter), Glengarry Glen Ross (Playhouse), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Apollo), Angels in America (Lyttleton).
Film/Television: Ari Aster’s Beau is Afraid, John Mulaney & The Sack Lunch Bunch (Netflix), The Seagull, A Home At The End Of The World, Flicka, Glee (Emmy nom).