Cast & Creative
Find out more about the cast and creative team for Stranger Things: The First Shadow.

Rosie Benton
Virginia Creel

Rosie Benton
Virginia Creel

Alex Breaux
Dr Brenner

Alex Breaux
Dr Brenner

JANIE BROOKSHIRE
Ensemble

JANIE BROOKSHIRE
Ensemble

KELSEY ANNE BROWN
Ensemble

KELSEY ANNE BROWN
Ensemble

MALCOLM CALLENDER
Ensemble

MALCOLM CALLENDER
Ensemble

TA’REA CAMPBELL
Patty’s Mom

TA’REA CAMPBELL
Patty’s Mom

Juan Carlos
Bob Newby

Juan Carlos
Bob Newby

ANTOINETTE COMER
Ensemble

ANTOINETTE COMER
Ensemble

ROBERT T. CUNNINGHAM
Charles Sinclair

ROBERT T. CUNNINGHAM
Charles Sinclair

AYANA CYMONE
Sue Anderson

AYANA CYMONE
Sue Anderson

TOM D’AGUSTINO
Ensemble

TOM D’AGUSTINO
Ensemble

VICTOR DE PAULA ROCHA
Ensemble

VICTOR DE PAULA ROCHA
Ensemble

Ian Dolley
Walter Henderson

Ian Dolley
Walter Henderson

DORA DOLPHIN
Karen Childress

DORA DOLPHIN
Karen Childress

NYA GARNER
Ensemble

NYA GARNER
Ensemble

LOGAN GOULD
Lonnie Byers

LOGAN GOULD
Lonnie Byers

SHEA GRANT
Claudia Yount

SHEA GRANT
Claudia Yount

Andrew Hovelson
Principal Newby

Andrew Hovelson
Principal Newby

REBECCA HURD
Ensemble

REBECCA HURD
Ensemble

Alison Jaye
Joyce Maldonado

Alison Jaye
Joyce Maldonado

T.R. Knight
Victor Creel

T.R. Knight
Victor Creel

TED KOCH
Chief Hopper / Captain Brenner

TED KOCH
Chief Hopper / Captain Brenner

Poppy Lovell
Alice Creel

Poppy Lovell
Alice Creel

JAMIE MARTIN MANN
Ted Wheeler

JAMIE MARTIN MANN
Ted Wheeler

Louis McCartney
Henry Creel

Louis McCartney
Henry Creel

PATRICK SCOTT MCDERMOTT
Ensemble

PATRICK SCOTT MCDERMOTT
Ensemble

Sean Mikesh
Ensemble

Sean Mikesh
Ensemble

Gabrielle Nevaeh
Patty Newby

Gabrielle Nevaeh
Patty Newby

Burke Swanson
James Hopper, Jr.

Burke Swanson
James Hopper, Jr.

STEPHEN WATTRUS
Ensemble

STEPHEN WATTRUS
Ensemble

MAYA WEST
Ensemble

MAYA WEST
Ensemble

ERIC WIEGAND
Alan Munson

ERIC WIEGAND
Alan Munson

GRAHAM WINTON
Ensemble

GRAHAM WINTON
Ensemble

Azalea Wolfe
Alice Creel

Azalea Wolfe
Alice Creel
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 Musical Composition, Orchestration, Arrangements & Supervision
D.J. Walde
Original Musical Composition, Orchestration, Arrangements & Supervision
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.
59 Studio
Video & Visual Effects Designer
59 Studio
Video & Visual Effects Designer
Lynne Page
MOVEMENT DIRECTOR & CHOREOGRAPHER
Lynne Page
MOVEMENT DIRECTOR & CHOREOGRAPHER
Coral Messam
ADDITIONAL CHOREOGRAPHY
Coral Messam
ADDITIONAL CHOREOGRAPHY
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).
Gary Beestone
Technical Director
Gary Beestone
Technical Director
Netflix
Producer
Netflix
Producer
Sonia Friedman Productions
Producer
Sonia Friedman Productions
Producer
Shawn Levy & Dan Cohen for 21 Laps
Associate Producer
Shawn Levy & Dan Cohen for 21 Laps
Associate Producer



