Gate Theatre announces cast for Eureka Day by Jonathan Spector

The Gate Theatre is delighted to unveil the exceptional cast of EUREKA DAY, Jonathan Spector’s sharp, compassionate, and bitingly funny play exploring community, conflict, and the surprising places where ideology and identity collide. This Irish premiere, directed by the award-winning Roy Alexander Weise, brings together a richly talented ensemble poised to illuminate the play’s wit, warmth, and emotional spark.

The production will open at the Gate Theatre on Wednesday 4th February, with previews from Friday 30th January and will run until Sunday 8th March.

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Meiko: Kae Alexander

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Kae Alexander trained at Guildhall where she was awarded the Lord Mayoress Award for Acting, and has since been recognised as an Evening Standard Rising Star and selected for BAFTA Elevate.

This is Kae’s Gate Theatre debut.

Other theatre credits include White Pearl (Royal Court); The Great Wave (National Theatre); and Marina (RSC).

Film and TV credits include The Wheel of Time; Black Bag; Primate; Meduse Deluxe; Infinite; Maleficent LP; Mistress of Evil; Game of Thrones; Bodies; Deep State; Fleabag and Collateral.

Carina: Ayesha Antoine

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This is Ayesha’s Gate Theatre debut.

Other theatre credits include Between Riverside And Crazy (Hampstead); Out West: Go, Girl (Lyric Hammersmith); Blank (Donmar Warehouse); White Teeth (Kiln Theatre); Napoleon Disrobed (Told By An Idiot, Theatre Royal Plymouth/Arcola/Birmingham Rep, Stephen Joseph, Scarborough); Hamlet (Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company at RADA); Life of Galileo (Young Vic); Dirty Great Love Story (Arts Theatre); Trade (Young Vic); The Suicide (National Theatre); Red Velvet (Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company / Garrick); The Ghost Train (Told By An Idiot, Manchester Royal Exchange); The Wolf in Snakeskin Shoes, The House That Will Not Stand (Tricycle); Venice Preserv’d (The Spectator’s Guild); We Are Proud to Present… (Bush Theatre); Tartuffe (Birmingham Rep); Absurd Person Singular (Stephen Joseph Theatre); Cinderella (Theatre Royal, Stratford East); One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show (Eclipse Theatre); The Mountaintop (Guildhall theatre, Derby); My Wonderful Day (Stephen Joseph theatre, Scarborough/59e59 Theaters Off Broadway/UK tour); Big White Fog (Almeida Theatre).

Film and TV credits include Girl; Artemis Fowl; This Time; Win; Bergerac; Queenie; Grace; Endeavour; Both Sides Now; In the Long Run; Cursed; Malory Towers; The Long Song; Chewing Gum; Pompidou; Bellamy’s People; Skins; Mouth to Mouth; Holby City; Doctor Who; Bigger Better Brighter and Grange Hill.

Don: Stephen Brennan

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Stephen began his career in musicals such as Jesus Christ Superstar, and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, before becoming a member of the Abbey Theatre company in 1975, where he remained for eight years playing a wide variety of roles. He spent a year at the Royal National Theatre in London in 1984.

Previous Gate Theatre credits include Pride and Prejudice, Port Authority, The Threepenny Opera, Bedroom Farce, My Cousin Rachel, A Woman of No Importance, Hay Fever, Jane Eyre, Tartuffe, Death of a Salesman, and Cyrano de Bergerac.

Other theatre credits include She Stoops To Conquer, Philadelphia Here I Come!, A Life, Da, Hamlet (Abbey Theatre); Present Laughter, The Real Thing, Private Lives, Waiting for Godot (National Tour and worldwide); Old Times, The Pinter Landscape (Lincoln Centre, New York); Plaza Suite, Phaedra (Rough Magic); Blackbird (Landmark Productions); The Shaughraun (Albery Theatre, London); The Life of Galileo (Project Arts Centre), The Rocky Horror Show, The Taming of the Shrew, Oedipus (Gaiety Theatre); Juno and the Paycock (Guthrie Theatre); The Seagull (Dublin Theatre Festival).

Film and TV includes The Tudors; Eat the Peach; The General; The Boys from Clare; A Piece of Monologue and Waiting for Godot for Beckett on Film; Twice Shy; El Cid; Ballykissangel; Father Ted; Bachelor’s Walk.

Suzanne: Philippa Dunne

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Philippa is from Castlebar, Co. Mayo.

This is Philippa’s Gate Theatre debut.

Film and TV credits include Motherland; Amandaland; Tall Tales & Murder; The Cleaner; The Woman in the Wall; Bodies; Derry Girls; Inside No.9; This Is Going to Hurt; The Nevers; Completely Made Up Adventures of Dick Turpin; Listen; In Between; and Wife of the Future.

Eli: Rowan Finken

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Rowan is originally from west Cork and is a graduate of The Lir, National Academy of Dramatic Art in association with RADA and Trinity College Dublin.

This is Rowan’s Gate Theatre debut.

Other theatre credits include Children of the Sun (Abbey Theatre); The Making of Mollie (The Ark); Eastland (Samuel Beckett Theatre); The Tempest (Kilkenny Arts Festival); Staging the Treaty (Anú Productions).

Film and TV credits include Tis the Season to be Irish.

CREATIVE TEAM:
Director: Roy Alexander Weise
Set Designer: Loren Elstein
Costume Designer: Joan O’Clery
Lighting Designer: Sinead McKenna
Sound Designer and Composer: Kevin Gleeson
AV Designer and Programmer: Michael Dunne
Movement and Intimacy Director: Eddie Kay
Voice Director: Cathal Quinn
Casting Director: Helena Parker
Assistant Director: Emma Finegan

PRODUCTION:
Production Manager: Leo McKenna
Mark Jackson: Deputy Stage Manager
Sibéal NÍ Mhaoileoin: Assistant Stage Manager

‘The perfect play for our age of disagreement.’ New York Times