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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ON MONDAY, AUGUST 4, PLEASE

COMPLETE CASTING & DESIGN TEAM ANNOUNCED FOR
KEANU REEVES & ALEX WINTER
IN
DIRECTOR/PRODUCER JAMIE LLOYD’S
NEW PRODUCTION OF SAMUEL BECKETT’S MASTERPIECE
“WAITING FOR GODOT”

PRODUCTION TO FEATURE
OBIE AWARD WINNER BRANDON J. DIRDEN
AS ‘POZZO’ 

HEADSHOT OF DIRDEN CAN BE DOWNLOADED HERE

TICKETS FOR STRICTLY LIMITED ENGAGEMENT
ON SALE NOW AT WWW.GODOTBROADWAY.COM

New York, NY (August 4, 2025) – Complete casting and design team have been announced for Tony Award^® and multiple Olivier Award^®-winning director/producer Jamie Lloyd’s new production of Samuel Beckett’s masterpiece Waiting for Godot starring Keanu Reeves as ‘Estragon’ and Alex Winter as ‘Vladimir.’

Joining the cast is OBIE and Theater World Award winner Brandon J. Dirden as ‘Pozzo.’ Dirden has starred in Tony Award-winning productions of Take Me Out, Skeleton Crew, All The Way, and August Wilson’s Jitney. He first captured New York theater audience’s attention with his acclaimed turn as ‘Boy Willie’ in the Off-Broadway revival of Wilson’s The Piano Lesson. On television he is known for his portrayal of ‘Agent Dennis Aderholt’ in “The Americans” and he will soon appear in the upcoming season of Katori Hall’s “P-Valley.”

Dirden, and the previously announced Michael Patrick Thornton as ‘Lucky,’ will be joined by Zaynn Arora and Eric Williams who will share the role of ‘A Boy.’ The cast is completed by understudies Jesse Aaronson and Franklin Bongjio.

The design team for Waiting for Godot features frequent Jamie Lloyd collaborators: Evening Standard Award winner and Tony Award nominee Soutra Gilmour (set and costume design), two-time Tony Award winner Jon Clark (lighting design), multiple Olivier and Tony Award nominees Ben and Max Ringham (sound design), Cheryl Thomas (hair and makeup design), Jim Carnahan CSA & Liz Fraser CSA (casting director), and Johnny Milani (production stage manager). The creative team also includes Conner Wilson (associate director); Grace Laubacher, Lily Tomasic, & Wilson Chin (associate scenic design); Ricky Lurie & Jess Gersz (co-associate costume design), Jessica Creager (associate lighting design), Christopher Cronin (associate sound design), and Veronica Lee (stage manager).

Waiting For Godot will play Broadway’s Hudson Theatre (141 West 44^th Street) with preview performances beginning Saturday, September 13 for a Sunday, September 28 opening night. This strictly limited engagement will play through Sunday, January 4, 2026 only. Tickets are now on sale to the general public at www.godotbroadway.com.

Beckett’s masterpiece, Waiting For Godot, is acknowledged as one of the greatest plays of the 20^th century. Originally premiering in 1953 in French with a subsequent English-language production premiering in 1955 in London, it has become a cultural touchstone having been translated into dozens of languages and has inspired artists in the worlds of film, television, dance, opera, visual arts, fashion, and even video games. London’s National Theatre surveyed over 800 leaders of the theater world and Waiting For Godot topped the list as the most significant play of the last 100 years. In 2009, Ben Brantley, writing for the New York Times, said of Godot, “this greatest of 20^th century plays, is also entertainment of a high order.”

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Waiting for Godot is produced by The Jamie Lloyd Company, ATG Productions, Bad Robot Live, and Gavin Kalin Productions. 101 Productions, Ltd. will serve as general manager.

BIOGRAPHIES

Brandon J. Dirden (Pozzo) previously appeared on Broadway in the Tony Award-winning productions of Take Me Out; Skeleton Crew for which he received Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards nominations; as ‘Martin Luther King, Jr.’ opposite Bryan Cranston in the Tony Award-winning production of All the Way; and as ‘Booster’ in the Tony Award-winning revival of August Wilson’s Jitney. Other Broadway credits include Clybourne Park, Enron, and Prelude to a Kiss. Off-Broadway, he appeared as ‘Boy Willie’ in The Piano Lesson, for which he won OBIE, Theatre World, and AUDELCO Awards, The First Breeze of Summer and Day of Absence all at Signature Theatre; the world premiere of Detroit ’67 at the Public and Classical Theatre of Harlem; Peter and the Starcatcher at New York Theatre Workshop; and as ‘Brutus’ in TFANA’s production of Julius Caesar. On screen he has appeared in “The Good Wife,” “For Life,” “Evil,” “The Big C,” “Public Morals,” “Manifest,” “The Get Down,” “The Accidental Wolf,” “Blue Bloods,” “The Quad,” the miniseries “Mrs. America” and four seasons of “The Americans” as ‘Agent Dennis Aderholt’. He will soon be seen in Katori Hall’s series, “P-Valley.” Dirden has directed numerous plays including the revival of Steve Carter’s Eden at Yale Rep and most recently Arthur Miller’s The Price at Two River Theater.  He is an Associate Arts Professor at Tisch Grad Acting at NYU, a volunteer at the 52^nd Street Project, and a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association, SAG-AFTRA and Stage Directors and Choreographers Society. B.A. in Mathematics from Morehouse College. M.F.A. in Acting from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Zaynn Arora (A Boy at certain performances) is thrilled to make his Broadway debut in Waiting For Godot! National Tour: Peter Pan (Michael Darling). Voiceover: “Wonder Pets” (Nickelodeon). Commercials: CVS, Crest, Doordash, Dr. Praeger’s. Instagram: @zaynnarora.

Eric Williams (A Boy at certain performances) made his Broadway debut as ‘Little Michael’ in MJ The Musical. Other Broadway: Gypsy. Other credits: Stepp Stuart’s talent Camp Spotlight and A Soulful Christmas. Instagram: @eric_theentertainer.

Jesse Aaronson (Understudy for Vladimir/Lucky) Broadway: Leopoldstadt. Off-Broadway: The Play That Goes Wrong (New World Stages), Cellino v. Barnes (Asylum). Television: “Law & Order: SVU”. Other Theater: Yen (Raven Theatre, Chicago), A Christmas Carol (Drury Lane Theatre). Proud graduate of the University of Michigan. @iced__americano.

Franklin Bongjio (Understudy for Estragon/Pozzo). Broadway credits include Krogstad understudy in Jamie Lloyd’s A Doll’s House, A Soldier’s Play understudy, and The Pirates Of Penzance (Reading). He is a graduate of Marymount Manhattan. Many thanks to all involved, please enjoy the show.

Soutra Gilmour (Set and Costume Design). For The Jamie Lloyd Company: Evita (London Palladium); Much Ado About Nothing, The Tempest (Theatre Royal Drury Lane); Sunset Blvd. (Savoy/ St. James, Broadway); Romeo & Juliet (Duke of York’s); The Effect (National/ The Shed, New York); A Doll’s House (Hudson, Broadway); Cyrano De Bergerac (Playhouse/ Harold Pinter/ Glasgow Theatre Royal/ Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York); Betrayal (Harold Pinter/ Bernard B. Jacobs, Broadway); The Seagull, Pinter at the Pinter Season (Harold Pinter); Apologia, Richard III, The Maids, The Homecoming, Macbeth (Trafalgar). Other theater credits include: Crime and Punishment (American Ballet); Merrily We Roll Along (Hudson, Broadway/ Aichi Prefectural Art, Tokyo/ Harold Pinter, Menier Chocolate Factor); &Juliet (Shaftesbury/ Stephen Sondheim, New York/ Opperetenhaus, Hamburg/ US Tour/ UK Tour); Two Strangers Carry a Cake Across New York (Criterion); Just for One Day, The Crucible, Duchess of Malfi (Old Vic); Burlesque The Musical (Manchester Opera House); The Secret Life of Bees, Macbeth, Reasons to be Pretty (Almeida); Romeo and Juliet (National Theatre on Film); Evita, Into the Woods (Regent’s Park Open Air); The Band’s Visit, Knives in Hens, Inadmissible Evidence (Donmar Warehouse); Piaf (Donmar Warehouse/ Teatro Liceo, Spain); My Brilliant Friend, Les Blancs, Morning to Midnight, Moon on a Rainbow Shawl, Twelfth Night, Strange Interlude, Antigone, Transformations, Double Feature in the Paint Frame (National); Ben and Imo, Timon of Athens, Candide (Royal Shakespeare Company); The Pride (Royal Court); Urinetown (St James, Broadway/ Apollo); The Commitments (Palace); From Here To Eternity (Shaftesbury); Strictly Ballroom the Musical (Piccadilly); The Lover / The Collection (Harold Pinter); Angels in America (Lyric Hammersmith); Salome (UK Tour); Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare’s Globe); Assassins (Menier Chocolate Factory); Ruination (Royal Opera House); Hamlet (Theatre Cocooon, Tokyo); Every Good Boy Deserves Favor (Akasaka Act, Tokyo/ Osaka Festival Hall); Lady Macbeth (Yomiuri Otemachi Hall, Tokyo/ Kyoto);  Hair, Tear from a Glass Eye, The Flu Season, Box of Bananas (Gate); Through The Leaves (Southwark Playhouse/ Duchess).

Jon Clark (Lighting Design) is a two-time Tony Award-winning lighting designer. He has designed extensively in the West End, on Broadway, and with many companies in the UK and internationally. Recent theater includes: Stranger Things: The First Shadow (Tony, Drama Desk, & Outer Critics Circle Awards; Broadway & West End). Evita; Much Ado About Nothing; The Tempest; Mrs. Warren’s Profession; Hello, Dolly! ; Romeo & Juliet (West End). A Doll’s House (Broadway). The Lehman Trilogy (Tony Award; National Theatre, Broadway, West End, LA, San Francisco, & Sydney). The Inheritance (Olivier Award; West End, Broadway & Young Vic). Betrayal, The Shark Is Broken (West End & Broadway). Cyrano de Bergerac (BAM & West End). The Effect (National, The Shed). The Importance of Being Earnest (National & West End). Dear England (National, West End, & UK Tour). The Motive & The Cue (National & West End). The Maids, The Fear of 13, (Donmar). The Jungle (Young Vic, West End, St Ann’s Warehouse). A Streetcar Named Desire (Young Vic & St Ann’s Warehouse). King Charles III (West End & Broadway). Opera includes: Hamlet (The Met Opera, Glyndebourne); The Exterminating Angel (The Met Opera, Royal Opera Covent Garden, Saltzburg Festival); Pique Dame (Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich); Krol Roger (Royal Opera Covent Garden, Opera Australia); Written on Skin (Festival Aix-en- Provence, Royal Opera Covent Garden & internationally); Lucia di Lammermoor, Krol Roger, L’Etoile (Royal Opera Covent Garden); Macbeth (Royal Danish Opera & Palau de les Arts, Valencia); La Boheme (Dutch National Opera & ENO); Orpheus & Eurydice (ENO); Footfalls/Neither (StaatsOper, Berlin). Dance includes: LORE for Wayne McGregor (La Scala, Milan); The Cellist for Cathy Marston (Royal Ballet).

Ben and Max Ringham (Sound Design) are multi-award-winning composers, sound designers, and writers. In a career spanning more than two decades, they have created sound designs and scores for in excess of 200 productions in the UK, West End, and Broadway. Notable productions include: Inter Alia (National Theatre), A Complicated Woman (Duke of Yorks), Elektra (Duke of Yorks), The Tempest/Much Ado About Nothing (Drury Lane – West End), Prima Facie (West End/Broadway), A Doll’s House (Broadway), Cyrano (West End), and Blindness (Donmar and International). The Ringhams have created a number of original works for, amongst others, the National Theatre – (ANNA, 2019, created in collaboration with Ella Hickson)and the BBC (EXEMPLAR, 2022-25, cowritten with Dan Rebellato). They are the recipients of five Olivier and two Tony nominations, two Drama Desk Awards, a Critics Circle nomination, a BBC Radio Drama Award, two Off-West End Awards, and the H100 Award for Innovation in Theatre.

Cheryl Thomas (Hair and Makeup Design) is an award-winning makeup artist from Atlanta, GA. She is a member of New York HMU Union 798 and LA HMU Union 706. With a commitment to excellence, Thomas has achieved numerous accolades in the industry. Broadway credits include: Hair/Skin Consultant: Some Like It Hot. Hair/Makeup Designer: Sunset Blvd. Assistant Hair/Makeup Designer: The Lion King (worldwide). Associate Hair/Makeup Supervisor: Aladdin (worldwide). Additional credits include: Hair/Skin Consultant: Some Like It Hot US Tour, Hair/Makeup Supervisor: The Lion King, Aladdin, The Nance, A Trip to Bountiful. Hair: A Leap of Faith, The Nance.– Makeup Supervisor: Mary Poppins US Tour.

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