About the show
Following its world premiere in 2017, Girl from the North Country returns to The Old Vic for a strictly limited run.
It’s 1934 and, with life on a knife edge, the community of Duluth are battling their way through the Great Depression. Amongst the dust and the hardship, a group of wayward travellers find each other — experiencing love, loss, life and everything in between, in a local guesthouse filled with music, hope and soul.
With a company of 23 actors and musicians, award-winning playwright Conor McPherson beautifully weaves the iconic songbook of Bob Dylan into this smash hit show.
Don’t miss your final chance to see this multi-Tony and Olivier Award winner as it returns to where it all began, for nine weeks only.
An Old Vic Production
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OFF-PEAK PERFORMANCES
Preview performances: 24 Jun–08 Jul 2025
Off-peak performances: Mon–Wed performances 14 Jul–20 Aug 2025
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Daniel Bailey
Daniel Bailey
Theatre includes: Girl from the North Country, Get Up, Stand Up! (West End); The Big Life (Stratford East); A Strange Loop, Jesus Christ Superstar (Barbican). Television includes: Mr Loverman.
Colin Bates
Colin Bates
Theatre includes: Girl from the North Country (West End/Broadway); Billy Elliot the Musical (West End); The Effect (Barrow Street Theatre, New York). Television includes: Task, Cœurs Noirs, S.W.A.T., Chicago P.D., American Rust, Mayans M.C., The Blacklist, FBI: Most Wanted, Sneaky Pete. Film includes: Carjackers, Queer, La Prière.
Katie Brayben
Katie Brayben
Theatre includes: Girl from the North Country (West End/Royal Alexandra Theatre, Toronto); Beautiful: The Carole King Musical — Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical, The Spoils (West End); King Charles III (West End/Almeida); Tammy Faye — Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical (Broadway/Almeida); American Psycho (Almeida); 13 (National Theatre); A Walk on the Moon (A.C.T., California). Television includes: The Hack, The Wheel of Time, Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story, Cell 8, Miss Scarlet and the Duke, War of the Worlds, Casualty, Grace, Luther, The Alienist, Doctor Who, King Charles III, Vera. Film includes: A Serial Killer’s Guide to Life.
Colin Connor
Colin Connor
Theatre includes: War Horse (International tour); Girl from the North Country (UK & Ireland tour); Our Country’s Good (UK tour); Waiting for Godot (Tobacco Factory Theatres, Bristol/The Dukes, Lancaster/SJT, Scarborough); The Jungle Book (Leeds Playhouse); Stone in His Pockets (New Vic, Newcastle); A Whistle in the Dark (Royal Exchange, Manchester); A View from the Bridge — Manchester Theatre Award for Best Actor (Octagon, Bolton). Television includes: Say Nothing, Hope Street, The Reckoning, Peaky Blinders, The Job Lot, Prisoners’ Wives, See No Evil, Moving On. Film includes: Dementiamania, The Girl at Death’s Door, Summer’s Gift.
David Ganly
David Ganly
Theatre includes: Girl from the North Country, Shakespeare in Love, Chicago, The Wizard of Oz, The Leenane Trilogy (West End); On Blueberry Hill (West End/ 59E59 Theaters, New York); The Lonesome West (Broadway); The Cherry Orchard (Donmar/Broadway); Aristocrats (Donmar); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Lyric Hammersmith); The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Young Vic); Translations (National Theatre); The Plough and the Stars (Abbey Theatre, Dublin/US tour); Uncle Vanya (Leeds Playhouse); The Threepenny Opera (Gate Theatre, Dublin). Television includes: Obituary, Say Nothing, Breathtaking, The Crown, Moon Knight, Ridley Road. Film includes: Signs of Life, A Prayer for the Dying, Gladiator II, Sunset Song.
Steffan Harri
Steffan Harri
Theatre includes: Girl from the North Country, Les Misérables, Spamalot (West End); Tylwyth (Sherman Theatre, Cardiff); Shrek the Musical (UK & Ireland tour). Television includes: Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes, Misho, Limbo.
Frankie Hart
Frankie Hart
Theatre includes: How I Learned to Swim (Brixton House/Summerhall, Edinburgh); Oliver! (Leeds Playhouse); Girl from the North Country (UK tour). Training includes: Guildhall School of Music & Drama.
Chris McHallem
Chris McHallem
Theatre includes: Making History (Everyman, Cork); The President (Gate Theatre, Dublin); Girl from the North Country (UK tour); Nora (Corn Exchange, Dublin) ; The Wild Duck, Translations, Making History, The Crucible, Iphigenia at Aulis (Abbey Theatre, Dublin); The Tempest (Salisbury Playhouse); A Clockwork Orange (RSC); King Lear (Sheffield Theatres). Television includes: Sherlock & Daughter, Video Nasty, The Hardacres, Modern Love, Normal People, Dublin Murders, Vikings, Penny Dreadful, The Tudors, My Boy Jack, Murphy’s Law, Black Velvet Band, Coogan’s Run, EastEnders. Film includes: Sweetness in the Belly, Becoming Jane, Breakfast on Pluto, Girl with a Pearl Earring, Edward II.
Ryan Heenan
Ryan Heenan
Theatre includes: Pippin — 50th Anniversary Concert, Back to the Future the Musical, The Sound of Music (West End); Cry-Baby, The Musical (Arcola); Jersey Boys, Grease (UK tour); The Boy in the Dress (RSC); Billionaire Boy (Nuffield Southampton Theatres/UK tour); Little Robin Redbreast, Moonfleet (Salisbury Playhouse); Peter Pan (Churchill Theatre, Bromley); Sweeney Todd (Derby Theatre/Mercury, Colchester); The Burnt Part Boys (Park Theatre); Lady, Be Good! (Teatro Massimo, Sicily); Titanic the Musical (International tour). Television includes: Voltaire High, Magic Grandad.
Justina Kehinde
Justina Kehinde
Theatre includes: How to Fight Loneliness (Park Theatre); The Mountaintop (Leicester Curve/Stratford East); Girl from the North Country (UK & Ireland tour); Best of Enemies (Young Vic); NHS the Musical (Theatre Royal Plymouth); Passengers (Union Cinema, Adelaide); Around the World in 80 Days (Blackpool Grand). Television includes: Father Brown, The Sandman, Holby City.
Teddy Kempner
Teddy Kempner
Theatre includes: Cabaret, Caroline, or Change, The Last Tango, Solid Gold Cadillac, Kiss Me, Kate, Snoopy! The Musical, City of Angels, Les Misérables (West End); Cymbeline, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Othello, Three Sisters, The Suicide (RSC/West End); Nicholas Nickleby (RSC/West End/Broadway); Company (Donmar/West End); Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, The Trial (National Theatre); Pacific Overtures (Donmar); The Kitchen (Royal Court); 42nd Street (Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris). Television as Writer includes: Foxy Fables, Tales of a Wise King, Insektors, Witch World, The Three Friends and Jerry, Something Else, Preston Pig. Film includes: Dear Wendy, It’s All About Love, Yentl, Truly, Madly, Deeply.
Graham Kent
Graham Kent
Theatre includes: Wicked, Kinky Boots, Miss Saigon (West End); Made in Dagenham (UK tour); Strindberg’s The Chamber Plays (Gate); As You Like It, Romeo & Juliet (Stafford Shakespeare Festival); Animal Farm (Theatr Clwyd, Mold); Spend Spend Spend (The Watermill Theatre); Something Wicked This Way Comes (National Theatre of Scotland); Man of La Mancha (Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh); Hergé’s Adventures of Tintin (Barbican); The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Library Theatre, Manchester); A Word from Our Sponsor (SJT, Scarborough). Television includes: Belgravia, Call the Midwife, Doctors, EastEnders, Trial & Retribution, Grange Hill, The Knock, Bramwell. Film includes: Muppets Most Wanted, From Hell, Lift.
Nichola MacEvilly
Nichola MacEvilly
Theatre includes: Long Day’s Journey into Night (West End); Girl from the North Country (UK, Ireland & US tour); The Valley of the Squinting Windows (Gaiety Theatre, Dublin); Fun Home (Gate Theatre, Dublin); Snapshot, Rhinoceros (Ireland tour); Philo (Viking Theatre, Dublin); The Wake (Abbey Theatre, Dublin); Constance (Hawk’s Well Theatre, Sligo); The Odd Couple (The Everyman, Cork); Besieged (Schapiro Studio, New York); The Way of Water (English Theatre Berlin); The Poor Mouth (Traverse, Edinburgh/Tron, Glasgow/Project Arts, Dublin). Television includes: Ripper Street, Seven Women, The Bill. Film includes: An Crann, Sojourn, Runner, The Lonely Tree The Invisible Atomic Monsters from Mars.
Sifiso Mazibuko
Sifiso Mazibuko
Theatre includes: Ain’t Too Proud, Hamilton, Motown: The Musical (West End); A Good House (Royal Court/Bristol Old Vic); Malindadzimu (Hampstead); A Land Without People (Courtyard Theatre); Dreamgirls (Teatro, South Africa); Shaka Zulu: The Gaping Wound (South African State Theatre). Television includes: The Winter King, Smilla’s Sense of Snow, Masters of the Air, Willow.
Eugene McCoy
Eugene McCoy
Theatre includes: A Christmas Carol, Groundhog Day, OLD VIC: IN CAMERA — A Christmas Carol (The Old Vic); The 39 Steps (West End/UK tour); The Man in the White Suit, Man of La Mancha, Jersey Boys, Mamma Mia! (West End); Guys and Dolls (Donmar/West End); The Pajama Game (Chichester/West End); Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 (Donmar); Legally Blonde (Regent’s Park Open Air); American Psycho (Almeida); Little Shop of Horrors (UK tour); They’re Playing Our Song (Menier Chocolate Factory); Oklahoma! (Chichester).
Maria Omakinwa
Maria Omakinwa
Theatre includes: A Christmas Carol, Sylvia (The Old Vic); Girl from the North Country (The Old Vic/UK tour); Tina: The Tina Turner Musical (West End/Theatre Royal Sydney); Show Boat, The Bodyguard, Avenue Q (West End); A Monster Calls, Soul Sister (UK tour); One Love: The Bob Marley Musical (Birmingham Rep); Grimm Tales for Young and Old (Bargehouse); Little Shop of Horrors (Kilworth House Theatre). Film includes: Matilda The Musical.
David Tarkenter
David Tarkenter
Theatre includes: The 47th, Endgame (The Old Vic); The Motive and the Cue, The Red Barn, The Best Man, Four Quartets (West End); The Knight of the Burning Pestle, The Inn at Lydda (Shakespeare’s Globe); Hamlet (Shakespeare’s Globe/International tour); Cyrano (Traverse, Edinburgh/Park Theatre); The Last Laugh (Theatre at the Tabard); The Lonesome West, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Twelfth Night, Coriolanus, Absent Friends, The Rivals, Two, King David, Man of Blood (Mercury, Colchester); Frozen, Kiss of the Spider Woman, The Birthday Party, Season’s Greetings (Theatre by the Lake, Keswick); Betrayal (Byre Theatre, Scotland); The 39 Steps (Vienna’s English Theatre).
Rebecca Thornhill
Rebecca Thornhill
Theatre includes: The Score, Opening Night, Rehab the Musical, From Here to Eternity, Mary Poppins, Chicago, Show Boat, Ragtime, The Full Monty, The Witches of Eastwick, Oklahoma!, Beauty and the Beast, Cats, Sophisticated Ladies, She Loves Me, Me and My Girl (West End); Matilda the Musical, Les Misérables (West End/UK & Ireland tour); Gypsy (The Mill at Sonning, Reading); Spend Spend Spend, Gypsy (Royal Exchange, Manchester); Hairspray, Girl from the North Country (UK & Ireland tour); Guys and Dolls (Leicester Haymarket Theatre); The Addams Family (The Theatre at Mediacorp, Singapore). Television includes: The Bill, EastEnders. Film includes: Oklahoma!.
Lydia White
Lydia White
Theatre includes: A Christmas Carol (The Old Vic); Matilda the Musical (West End); The Last Five Years (West End/Southwark Playhouse); In Other Words (Arcola/UK tour); Whistle Down the Wind (The Watermill Theatre); Little Women (Park Theatre); CinderELLA (Nuffield Southampton Theatres); Rags (Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester). Television includes: Clique, Falklands: Island of Secrets.
Conor McPherson
Conor McPherson
Most recently for The Old Vic, Conor wrote and directed The Brightening Air and the Tony and Olivier Award-winning premiere of the musical, Girl from the North Country (also West End and Broadway). Theatre includes: Uncle Vanya — South Bank Sky Arts Theatre Award (West End/BBC); Port Authority (Gate Theatre, Dublin/West End); The Weir — Olivier Award for Best New Play (Royal Court/West End/Broadway); The Seafarer (National Theatre/Broadway); Shining City (Royal Court/Broadway); The Night Alive — New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play (Donmar/Atlantic Theater, New York); Cold War (Almeida); The Nest (Lyric Belfast/Young Vic); Dance of Death (Donmar/BBC Radio).
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Rae Smith
Rae Smith
Theatre includes: The Brightening Air, Oedipus, Sweet Bird of Youth, Dublin Carol (The Old Vic); Girl from the North Country (The Old Vic/US tour); Waiting for Godot, Uncle Vanya — Sky Arts Award, Hello, Dolly!, Rosmersholm (West End); The Importance of Being Earnest, Paradise, Translations, Wonder.land (National Theatre); War Horse — Tony and Obie Awards (National Theatre/UK tour); Barber Shop Chronicles (National Theatre/Roundhouse/International tour); Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (Barbican/European tour); A Doll’s House, Part 2 (Donmar). Opera includes: Benvenuto Cellini (West End); Rigoletto — Sky Arts Award (Opera North, Leeds); Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci (Metropolitan Opera, New York).
Simon Hale
Simon Hale
Theatre includes: Girl from the North Country — Tony Award for Best Orchestrations (The Old Vic/Broadway); Strictly Ballroom, Clueless (West End); Spring Awakening, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Tootsie (Broadway); Finding Neverland (A.R.T., US/Broadway); Get Up, Stand Up! — Olivier Award for Best Original Score or New Orchestrations, A Knight’s Tale (Manchester Opera House); The Artist (Theatre Royal Plymouth); Newsies (Troubadour Wembley Park); Hex (National Theatre); Bedknobs and Broomsticks (UK tour); Guys and Dolls (Royal Exchange, Manchester); Romantics Anonymous (Shakespeare’s Globe); Company (Sheffield Theatres). Film includes: Spectre. Other work includes: L.A. Noire — BAFTA for Best Original Music.
Mark Henderson
Mark Henderson
Theatre includes: The Brightening Air (The Old Vic); Beneatha’s Place (Young Vic); Standing at the Sky’s Edge, Dancing at Lughnasa (National Theatre/Sheffield Theatres); Paradise (National Theatre); The Boy in the Dress (RSC); The Bodyguard, Girl from the North Country (UK & international tour); Oklahoma! (Chichester); Sweet Charity (Donmar); The Light in the Piazza (Southbank Centre); Into The Woods (Theatre Royal Bath); Newsies (Troubadour Theatre). Mark has designed for ENO, The Royal Opera, WNO, Opera North, Glyndebourne, English National Ballet, London Contemporary Dance Theatre, The Royal Ballet, Scottish Ballet, Northern Ballet, Birmingham Royal Ballet, Rambert. Other work for performance includes: Kate Bush Live: Before The Dawn.
Simon Baker
Simon Baker
Theatre includes: The Constituent, Present Laughter, The Caretaker, The Master Builder, Future Conditional, High Society, Electra, The Norman Conquests, Hedda Gabler, OLD VIC: IN CAMERA — A Christmas Carol, Faith Healer, Three Kings, Lungs (The Old Vic); Girl from the North Country (The Old Vic/West End/Broadway/Worldwide); Groundhog Day, A Christmas Carol — Tony Award for Best Sound Design for a Play (The Old Vic/Broadway); Wise Children (The Old Vic/UK tour); Matilda the Musical — Olivier Award for Best Sound (RSC/West End/Broadway/Worldwide); Hamnet, Shakespeare in Love (West End); The Artist (Theatre Royal Plymouth); Hex, The Light Princess, Amen Corner (National Theatre); Wuthering Heights (National Theatre/UK & International tour); Buddha of Suburbia (RSC); Blue Beard (UK tour); Malory Towers (York Theatre Royal/UK tour); Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare’s Globe).
Lucy Hind
Lucy Hind
Theatre as Movement Director includes: The Brightening Air, The Divide (The Old Vic); No’s Knife (The Old Vic/Abbey Theatre, Dublin); Girl from the North Country (The Old Vic/West End/Broadway/Australia/US tours); Waiting for Godot (West End); Hamlet (Young Vic); The Light in the Piazza (Southbank Centre/LA Music Center/Lyric Opera of Chicago); Miss Littlewood (RSC); Sleeping Beauty (Theatr Clwyd); Ugly Lies The Bone (National Theatre); The Effect (Sheffield Theatres). Theatre as Choreographer includes: Spend Spend Spend (Royal Exchange Manchester); 101 Dalmatians (UK tour); Oliver! (Leeds Playhouse); Billy Elliot the Musical (Leicester Curve); The Last Ship (Northern Stage). Theatre as Intimacy Director includes: Groundhog Day (The Old Vic); The Fear of 13 (Donmar).
Alan Berry
Alan Berry
Theatre as Musical Director/Musical Supervisor includes: A Christmas Carol, Aladdin (The Old Vic); Groundhog Day (The Old Vic/Princess Theatre, Australia); Girl from the North Country (The Old Vic/West End/Broadway); Hairspray, Come From Away, The Commitments, Matilda the Musical, Avenue Q (West End); A Knight’s Tale (Manchester Opera House); Redlands (Chichester); Kiss Me, Kate (UK tour); Ghost the Musical (Asia tour); A Little Princess (Southbank Centre); Big Fish (The Other Palace); Little Shop of Horrors (Menier Chocolate Factory). Theatre as Associate/Cover Conductor includes: Shrek the Musical, Hairspray, Spamalot (West End); A Christmas Carol (Comedy Theatre, Australia); Tammy Faye (Almeida); Local Hero (Chichester).
Jessica Ronane CDG
Jessica Ronane CDG
Theatre includes: The Real Thing, Pygmalion, The Dumb Waiter, Camp Siegfried, Faith Healer, Lungs, A Very Expensive Poison, Present Laughter, All My Sons (The Old Vic); Stranger Things: The First Shadow, Long Day’s Journey into Night, The Lehman Trilogy, The Glass Menagerie, People, Places and Things (West End); A Mirror (West End/Almeida); Grace Pervades (Theatre Royal Bath); The Little Foxes (Young Vic); The Spy Who Came In From the Cold, The Caretaker (Chichester); Ulster American (Riverside Studios). Television includes: True Detective, Night Country. Film includes: After the Hunt, The Woman in Cabin 10, Queer, Mickey 17.
Salvatore Sorce
Bret Yount
Corey McMahon
Corey McMahon
Theatre includes: 1984 (West End/International tour); The Almighty Sometimes, The Bleeding Tree (Space Theatre, Australia); The Children, The 39 Steps (Dunstan Playhouse, Australia); 2:22 A Ghost Story (Her Majesty’s Theatre, Australia); Girl from the North Country (New Zealand & Australian tour); Romeo & Juliet (Adelaide Town Hall); Eh Joe (Adelaide Festival). Corey was the artistic director of Theatre Republic 2017–25.
Poppy Hall
James Berkery
James Berkery
Theatre as Movement Director includes: A Christmas Carol, The Deep (Eastern Angles Centre, Ipswich); Penny (Pleasance); Armadillo (The Yard); Hamlet (Petersfield Shakespeare Festival); Shadow Kingdoms (Theatre503). Theatre as Associate Movement includes: Girl from the North Country (West End); Billy Elliot the Musical (Leicester Curve); Wendy & Peter Pan (Leeds Playhouse); The Last Ship (US & Canada tour). Television includes: toni_with_an_i. Film includes: The Wolf, the Fox and the Leopard, Censor, Hard to Reach.
Nikhil Vyas
Campbell Young Associates
David Gallagher
David Gallagher
Theatre includes: A Christmas Carol, Groundhog Day, The American Clock, Sylvia, Fanny & Alexander, The Divide, Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax, Future Conditional, The Bridge Project, Cinderella (The Old Vic); My Neighbour Totoro, Hadestown, Dr Semmelweis, Come From Away, Matilda the Musical, 42nd Street, Queen Anne, From Here to Eternity (West End); A Face In The Crowd, Oklahoma! (Young Vic); Wild Rose (Royal Lyceum Edinburgh); Local Hero (Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh/Chichester); Cold War, The Secret Life of Bees, Spring Awakening (Almeida); White Christmas, Miss Saigon, She Loves Me, Guys and Dolls (Sheffield Crucible); The Wizard of Oz (Leeds Playhouse); A Knight’s Tale (Manchester Opera House); Burlesque, The King and I, Bernadette Peters, Play Without Words (UK tour). Music Manager: National Theatre (2000–10), RSC (2010–11). Film includes: Robin Hood.