Jo Stone-Fewings
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Jo Stone-Fewings will take over the role of Richard Hannay from Simon Paisley-Day in the West End’s The 39 Steps at the Criterion Theatre. He will begin performances in Maria Aitken’s Olivier Award-winning production on April 28.
Stone-Fewings most recently played the role of Sparkish in The Country Wife, the first production in Jonathan Kent’s Theatre Royal Haymarket season. His extensive theater credits include Nikolai Rostov in War and Peace, Barrildo in Fuente Ovejuna and Alex in Ghetto, all for the National Theatre, Lucentio in The Taming of the Shrew, Orsino in Twelfth Night, Richmond/Gray in Richard III and Clarence in the tour of Henry VI, Part III all for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Edgar in King Lear and Dimmesdale in The Scarlett Letter for the Chichester Festival Theatre and Clive in the West End transfer of See How They Run. His television credits include Talk To Me, Doctor Who, All the Kings Men, Waiting for God, Mine all Mine, Young Arthur and Peak Practice. His film includes American Friends, Wondrous Oblivion and Nine Lives.
He will join a cast comprising Josefina Gabrielle, Martyn Ellis and longstanding cast member Simon Gregor.