Birmingham Rep have revealed the full cast for their upcoming production of Shakespeare’s ever popular A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Since taking the helm as Artistic Director in 2025, part of Joe’s mission has been to provide more opportunities for local actors, creatives and communities – and in this production, half of its cast are from Birmingham and the West Midlands, with three actors selected from the open casting call the venue launched last year.

Local Birmingham and West Midlands actors in the cast include Adam Carver (national tours of Send in the Clowns – as drag artist Fatt Butcher, Christmas Carole, Southend Palace Theatre) as Puck; Keiren Hamilton-Amos (Champion, BBC, Grime Boy, Birmingham Rep) as Snug and Moth; Qasim Mahmood (Romeo & Juliet, Royal Shakespeare Company, Tartuffe, Birmingham Rep) as Demetrius; and Haydn Oakley (Mamma Mia!, Novello Theatre, Sunset Boulevard, London Coliseum) as Theseus and Oberon.

The three cast members successful in the open casting call are Lottie Beck-Johnson in her professional stage debut as Starveling and Cobweb; James Tanton (Macbeth and Romeo & Juliet, National Production Company, Horrible Histories, Birmingham Stage Company) as Snout and Mustardseed; and Charlotte Wallis in her professional stage debut as Helena.

They will be joined by Isabel Adomakoh-Young (As You Like It, Shakespeare’s Globe, Hamlet, Bristol Old Vic) as Hermia; Omar Malik (Marriage Material, Birmingham Rep and Lyric Hammersmith, Abigail’s Party, Theatre Royal Stratford East) as Bottom; Hannah McPake (Hamnet, Royal Shakespeare Company and West End, Romeo & Juliet, Shakespeare’s Globe) as Quince; Ellena Vincent (Romeo & Juliet, Belgrade Theatre, Hackney Empire and Bristol Old Vic, One Love: The Bob Marley Musical, Birmingham Rep) as Titania and Hippolyta; Evie Ward-Drummond (G’Wed, ITV and Disney+, Doctors, BBC) as Lysandra; Andy Watkins (To The Streets, Birmingham Hippodrome, Kinky Boots, UK tour) as Egeus; and Lisa Zahra (Macbeth, National Theatre, A Thousand Splendid Suns, Birmingham Rep and Northern Stage) as Flute.

When a love-struck teenager is forced to marry a man, rather than the women she loves, she has a few options: certain death, live a lie, move to a nunnery… or flee to a messy, neon rave in an enchanted forest!

Beyond the city walls boundaries blur, music pulsates, and love is celebrated. Inhibitions are unleashed and love potions spill into more re-couplings than an episode of Love Island.

But with the feisty fairies locked in their own conflict; the seasons are pulled into climate chaos and the young lovers’ moonlit escape from reality loses its shine.

As relationships sour and temperatures soar, Shakespeare’s romantic comedy might leave you thinking… what the Puck?!

A Midsummer Night’s Dream comes to The Rep from Saturday 25 April – Sunday 24 May and tickets are on-sale now. To book, visit: birmingham-rep.co.uk