Romesh Ranganathan Makes His West End Debut in Woman in Mind with Sheridan 

FULL CASTING ANNOUNCED

ROMESH RANGANATHAN

TO MAKE HIS WEST END STAGE DEBUT

IN A NEW PRODUCTION OF

ALAN AYCKBOURN’S

WOMAN IN MIND

ALONGSIDE THE PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED

SHERIDAN SMITH

DIRECTED BY

MICHAEL LONGHURST

AT THE DUKE OF YORK’S THEATRE

9 DECEMBER 2025 – 28 FEBRUARY 2026

FOLLOWED BY RUNS AT

SUNDERLAND EMPIRE

4 – 7 MARCH 2026

AND

THEATRE ROYAL, GLASGOW

10 – 14 MARCH 2026

Wessex Grove and Gavin Kalin Productions are delighted to announce that Romesh Ranganathan will make his West End stage debut in a new production of Alan Ayckbourn’s psychological comedy WOMAN IN MIND, in a strictly limited West End run at the Duke of York’s Theatre from 9 December 2025 until Saturday 28 February 2026.

Romesh Ranganathan will play Bill alongside the previously announced Sheridan Smith as Susan.

Also announced today are Louise Brealey as Muriel, Tim McMullan as Gerald, Sule Rimi as Andy, Chris Jenks as Tony, Safia Oakley-Green as Lucy and Taylor Uttley as Rick, and Katie Buchholz and Michael Woolfitt, who complete the company.

Following its West End run, WOMAN IN MIND will then play at the Sunderland Empire from 4 March until 7 March 2026 and Theatre Royal, Glasgow from 10 March until 14 March 2026. Tickets on sale now. www.womaninmindplay.com 

Romesh Ranganathan said today “I’m honoured to be stepping onstage in a play for the first time (since primary school) alongside the incredible Sheridan Smith and company. It’s very much a mix of feeling excited about such an amazing experience as well as a real rich vein of extreme nerves. Alan Ayckbourn’s Woman in Mind is an amazing play and I look forward to helping to bring it to life. I’m also playing a doctor which means that my mum might finally feel something approaching pride.”

Multi award-winning comedian Romesh Ranganathan is known for fronting hugely popular series The Misadventures of Romesh Ranganathan, BAFTA-winning Rob & Romesh Vs, A League Of Their Own, Parent’s Evening, The Ranganation, Asian Provocateur, and BBC One’s Weakest Link. Romesh is the much-loved host of BBC Radio 2’s Saturday 10am – 1pm show. He also hosts several podcasts, including The Romesh Ranganathan Show and For The Love Of Hip Hop (BBC Sounds/Radio 2), which won him the prestigious Radio Academy ARIA Gold award for Best Specialist Music Show in 2023. He is also the co-host of Wolf & Owl with Tom Davis, which is touring as a live podcast to venues all over the UK in 2025. A Sunday Times Bestseller with his autobiography Straight Outta Crawley: The Memoirs Of A Distinctly Average Human Being, Romesh’s second book As Good as It Gets: Life Lessons from a Reluctant Adult was published worldwide in October 2020. 2023 saw Romesh turn his hand at writing for a middle-grade audience in his debut novel, Lil’ Muffin Drops the Mic, which he followed up in 2025 with Yasmin Bandara Levels Up! Romesh made his return to acting, both writing and starring in two sitcoms produced with his own production company, Ranga Bee. Avoidance returned to BBC One for a second series in 2024, and Romantic Getaway for Sky Max launched in January 2023. Romesh has also made his animation debut in Netflix’s Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget, produced by the legendary Aardman Studios. Romesh’s 2022 stand up tour, The Cynic’s Mixtape, was a sold-out success, culminating in a taping at his hometown venue The Hawth in Crawley, which was released as a special on Netflix in 2022. Romesh’s latest tour, Hustle, also sold out across the UK, and culminated in two nights at the O2 in London. After performing Hustle to audiences around the world, Romesh decided to fact-check his tour in the Sky travelogue series Can't Knock The Hustle, which premiered in 2025. Romesh made his first foray to America in 2018 with the launch of Showtime docu-series Just Another Immigrant, and he has also appeared twice on James Corden's Late Late Show as well as The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. In 2023 he returned stateside with a sold-out stand up show at the iconic New York Town Hall and will tour to sold-out audiences across the USA and Canada in the Autumn of 2025. There’s no stopping “the hardest working man in comedy” 

Sheridan Smith is an award-winning stage and screen actress, currently starring in ITV’s I Fought the Law. Her most recent West End credits include Myrtle in the world premiere of John Cassavetes’ Opening Night at the Gielgud Theatre and the title role in Shirley Valentine at the Duke of York’s Theatre. Her performance as Elle Woods in Legally Blonde at the Savoy Theatre, and as Doris in Flare Path at Theatre Royal Haymarket, both garnered her Olivier Awards, and the latter the Evening Standard Award for Best Actress. She received further Olivier nominations for her performance as Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors at the Menier Chocolate Factory and Duke of York’s Theatre, and Fanny Brice in Funny Girl at the Savoy Theatre. Other notable performances include Hedda Gabler at The Old Vic, Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Noel Coward Theatre, the Narrator in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at the London Palladium, and her stage debut as Little Red Riding Hood in Into the Woods at the Donmar Warehouse. Amongst her prolific screen roles, Sheridan was Emmy-nominated and won a BAFTA as Mrs Biggs, and further BAFTA-nominated for The C Word and her titular role in Cilla, for which she was also Emmy-nominated. Big screen credits include Dustin Hoffman’s Quartet and most recently The Railway Children Return.  She has released two albums, titled Sheridan and A Northern Soul, resulting in two Classic BRIT Award nominations 

LISTINGS

www.womaninmindplay.com

www.atgtickets.com/shows/woman-in-mind/

9 DECEMBER 2025 – 28 FEBRUARY 2026

The Duke of York’s Theatre, St Martin's Lane, London WC2N 4BG

https://www.atgtickets.com/shows/woman-in-mind/duke-of-yorks-theatre

4 – 7 MARCH 2026

Sunderland Empire, High Street West, Sunderland SR1 3EX

www.atgtickets.com/venues/sunderland-empire/

10 – 14 MARCH 2026

Theatre Royal, Glasgow, 282 Hope Street, Glasgow G2 3QA

www.atgtickets.com/venues/theatre-royal-glasgow/

FURTHER BIOGRAPHIES

Louise Brealey will soon play the role of Madame Hooch in HBO’s hotly anticipated Harry Potter TV series. Other television credits include her role as Deb in BAFTA-winning comedy Such Brave Girls and she is widely known for her role as Molly Hooper in four series of BBC’s Sherlock. Her stage credits include Husbands And Sons at the National Theatre, Constellations at the Trafalgar, The Herd at the Bush Theatre), Birthday at the Royal Court Theatre, and the titular role in Little Nell at the Theatre Royal Bath. Her other recent screen credits include the BAFTA-nominated Brian And Charles, Joe Cornish’s Lockwood & Co (Netflix), Back with David Mitchell and Robert Webb, A Discovery Of Witches (Sky), The Widow (ITV), Clique (BBC), and Ripper Street (BBC), comedy feature Madfabulous, and her starring role in Janis Pugh’s Chuck Chuck Baby (BBC Films / BFI).

Tim McMullan’s theatre credits include Antony and Cleopatra, Common, Twelfth Night, Man vs Superman, The Cherry Orchard, Burnt By The Sun, Present Laughter, Coram Boy, The Alchemist, Once in a Lifetime, His Dark Materials, The Three Sisters, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Murmuring Judges, The Miser, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Racing Demon, Wind in the Willows and Richard III all at the National Theatre. For Theatre De Complicite his credits include Drive Your Plough Over The Bones of The Dead, The Master and Margarita, Mnemonic, The Noise of Time, Light, and Three Lives of Lucie. His other theatre credits include Relatively Speaking at the Playhouse Theatre, The Tempest and As You Like It at The Globe Theatre, Father and Sons and The Front Page at the Donmar Warehouse, A Flea in Her Era at The Old Vic, Arabian Nights and The New Tenant at the Young Vic, The Misanthrope at the Harold Pinter, A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the RSC, The Tower at the Almeida Theatre and More Life at the Royal Court Theatre. His television credits include Magpie Murders, The Serpent, The Crown, The Witness for the Prosecution, Grantchester, The Go-Between, Endeavour, Foyle’s War, The Hollow Crown - Henry IV, Parade’s End, Silk, The Great Outdoors, Mutual Friends, Margaret, Sense and Sensibility, and Trial and Retribution. His film credits include Fackham Hall, Enola Homes 2, King Charles III, The Woman in Black, The Queen, Two Men Went To War, Eisenstein, Onegin, Shakespeare in Love, Plunkett and MacLean, Dangerous Beauty, The Fifth Element, and Robinson Crusoe.

Sule Rimi's theatre credits include Fat Ham at the RSC, The Purists at the Kiln Theatre, Blues For An Alabama Sky, Three Sisters, Barber Shop Chronicles and The Suicide at the National Theatre, Force Majeure, Sweat and Measure For Measure at the Donmar Warehouse, Jitney, The American Clock and All My Sons at the Old Vic, The Living Newspaper and Glass! Kill! Bluebeard! Imp! at the Royal Court, Love and Information and Desire Under the Elms in Sheffield, Mary Stuart and They Drink it in the Congo at the Almeida, The Rolling Stone at the Royal Exchange, Manchester/WYP/Orange Tree, The Odyssey: Missing Presumed Dead at ETT/Liverpool Everyman and Bordergame at the National Theatre of Wales. His television credits include Waiting For The Out, Doctor Who, Grace, The One That Got Away, The Day of The Jackal, Classified, The English, Andor, Black Earth Rising, Strikeback, Unforgotten. His film credits include Ear For Eye, Ashens & the Quest for the Game Child, The Adventurer: Curse of the Midas Box, The Machine, and Starter for Ten and Francis.

Chris Jenks’ theatre credits include Anna Karenina at Sheffield Crucible, Our Blood Is An Ocean and Julius Caesar at the Bristol Old Vic and Crave at The Wardrobe. His television credits include Sex Education, Robin Hood, Karen Pirie and Beyond Paradise and his film credits include Swim.

Safia Oakley-Green won the 2022 BIFA for Best Breakthrough Performance and the 2024 BAFTA Scotland Award for Actress in Film for her role in the independent feature Out Of Darkness, where she played the leading role of Beyah. Safia recently completed filming on Ronan Day-Lewis’ Anemone, Julia Jackman’s 100 Nights Of Hero, and Amazon’s feature The Bluff. Her other screen credits include Extraordinary for Disney+, BBC’s Sherwood, Paramount Plus’ The Burning Girls and The Lazarus Project S2 for Sky. She recently recorded Saint Joan Of The Anthropocene for BBC Studios Audio.

Taylor Uttley’s theatre credits include Leglock at the Edinburgh Fringe. His television credits include BBC’s Beyond Paradise and ITV’s Three Little Birds. His film credits include Studio Canal’s Pressure and BBC Film’s The Choral.

Katie Buchholz’s theatre credits include If We Were Older at the National, Mary Stuart at the Almeida, Inherit the Wind at The Old Vic, Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, Lemons and The Seagull at the Pinter Theatre, A Little Night Music at the Garrick Theatre, A School for Scandal at Lovrjenac Fortress, Witness for the Prosecution at London County Hall, Leaves of Glass at the Park Theatre, and Mary Poppins at the Prince Edward Theatre. Her television credits include EastEnders, Bibaa and Nicole: Murder in the Park, Deceit and Father Brown.

Michael Woolfitt will make his professional stage debut in Woman In Mind. He trained at Arts Ed and his film credits include Perkin in Amazon’s Catherine Called Birdy.