Aaron Sorkin’s stage adaptation of TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD arrives at Wales Millennium Centre for the first time this month. Starring in the production is former employee, DYLAN MALYN, who makes his professional stage debut.Â
Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, is the seminal American novel about racial injustice and childhood innocence that became a Broadway and West End sensation with sell-out seasons on both sides of the Atlantic.
Acclaimed stage and screen actor RICHARD COYLE (The Player Kings, Macbeth, Fantastic Beasts: Secrets of Dumbledore) returns to this iconic production as Atticus Finch, reprising the role he played to great critical acclaim in the 2022 West End Production.Â
Dylan Malyn comes from South Wales and is a former employee of Wales Millennium Centre. Professionally trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, his career has taken him to TV, where he has starred in Lost Boys and Fairies, Death Valley (BBC), Mammoth S2 (BBC). To Kill a Mockingbird marks his first professional stage debut, where he’ll be back at Wales Millennium Centre performing under the bright lights on his home turf.
We spoke to Dylan ahead of his return ‘home’ about this production and his obvious excitement to return to the theatre where he once dreamed of performing professionally on stage.
The rest of the cast includes – Anna Munden as Scout Finch, Gabriel Scott as Jem Finch, Dylan Malyn as Dill Harris, Andrea Davy as Calpurnia, Stephen Boxer as Judge Taylor, Aaron Shosanya as Tom Robinson, Oscar Pearce as Bob Ewell, Evie Hargreaves as Mayella Ewell, Richard Dempsey as Horace Gilmer, Sarah Finigan as Mrs. Dubose, Phillipa Flynn as Miss Stephanie / Dill’s Mother, Harry Attwell as Mr. Cunningham / Boo (Arthur) Radley, Colin R Campbell as Sheriff Heck Tate and Simon Hepworth as Link Deas, with Paul Albertson, James Mitchell, Jonathan Rubin, Cheryl Burniston, Charlotte Luxford, Oyin Orija, Tiwai Muza, Tom Brace-Jenkins, and John J. O’Hagan.
Set in 1934 Alabama, To Kill a Mockingbird was inspired by novelist Harper Lee’s own childhood and has sold more than 45 million copies worldwide. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature and was long at the top of the banned book lists.
Oscar winning writer Aaron Sorkin’s stage adaptation of To Kill A Mockingbird is paired with Bartlett Sher’s visionary direction. Aaron Sorkin has had many years of great success on stage and screen. He is perhaps best known as the creator and screenwriter of hit TV series The West Wing, and as the screenwriter for The Social Network, for which he received an Academy Award, Golden Globe, BAFTA and Writer’s Guild Award. He is also the writer-creator of The Newsroom and the author of the Academy Award-winning film A Few Good Men.
Bartlett Sher spent over ten years as Director of New York’s Lincoln Center Theater and has also headed acclaimed productions such as My Fair Lady, The King and I and South Pacific.
The UK & Ireland tour of To Kill a Mockingbird is presented by Jonathan Church Theatre Productions in association with Karl Sydow and Tulchin Bartner. Originally Produced on Broadway.
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD gets to the Wales Millennium Centre from Tuesday 25th through to Saturday 29th November. Performances are at 7:30pm each evening with a 2:30pm matinee on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. For more details and tickets go HERE.
The company also have a full Educational Resources pack which you can download and print HERE.
