Four Journeys Into the Underworld: Announcing Our Senior Troupe Casts for Hadestown: Teen Edition

Our Senior Troupe students are preparing to descend into the world of Hadestown, and we are proud to officially announce the casts for all four productions of Hadestown: Teen Edition.

This is one of the most ambitious and artistically demanding projects ever undertaken within our training program. Across four completely separate productions, students will bring their own interpretations, emotional depth, and theatrical instincts to one of contemporary musical theatre’s most powerful works.

Unlike many youth productions, Hadestown: Teen Edition is a full-length musical requiring sustained performance stamina, advanced storytelling skills, and deep emotional commitment from every performer involved. This is a production that asks students to work at a pre-professional level across acting, movement, vocals, ensemble awareness, and emotional connection.

Inspired by ancient Greek mythology, the musical intertwines the stories of Orpheus and Eurydice with Hades and Persephone in a haunting and deeply human exploration of love, sacrifice, power, hope, fear, and survival. Through a rich folk and jazz-inspired score, the musical asks audiences what people are willing to risk for love, and whether hope can survive in difficult times.

About the Characters

At the centre of the story is Orpheus, an idealistic young musician whose belief in love and music drives the emotional core of the production. The role demands vulnerability, emotional honesty, and exceptional musical storytelling.

Eurydice is one of the most layered characters in the musical. Her journey explores survival, trust, independence, fear, and sacrifice, requiring performers to navigate significant emotional complexity throughout the show.

Hermes acts as narrator, guide, and storyteller, carrying much of the production’s narrative responsibility. The role requires confidence, charisma, timing, and the ability to anchor the audience through the shifting worlds of the production.

Hades and Persephone represent power, control, longing, and fractured love. These roles demand commanding stage presence and emotional maturity, balancing larger-than-life theatricality with grounded emotional truth.

The Fates function almost as a collective conscience throughout the musical. Their harmonies, movement, and constant presence create tension and psychological pressure across the story. These tracks are among the most technically difficult in the production, requiring precision, consistency, and strong ensemble awareness.

The Ensemble Is the Production

One of the defining features of Hadestown is the extraordinary importance of the ensemble.

This is not a show where the ensemble sits quietly in the background waiting for small moments to appear on stage. The ensemble is the world of Hadestown itself.

The Workers create the industrial machinery and relentless movement of the underworld. They shape the physical and emotional environment around the principal characters and remain deeply embedded within the storytelling for the majority of the show.

This production relies heavily on ensemble storytelling, meaning the energy, commitment, and focus of the ensemble directly determines the strength of the entire production.

The ensemble drives transitions, movement sequences, atmosphere, vocal layering, and stage dynamics. They create tension, momentum, and emotional weight in every scene.

In many ways, the ensemble carries the production.

The featured ensemble performers, including the flashback Hades and Persephone tracks and the puppeteers, are also central to the storytelling language of the show. Through movement, symbolism, imagery, and physical theatre, these performers help bring memory, mythology, and emotional subtext to life.

The puppetry work in particular requires trust, precision, collaboration, and mature theatrical instincts, reinforcing the layered visual storytelling style that makes Hadestown so unique.

We are exceptionally proud of the students who have embraced these ensemble responsibilities. Ensemble work at this level requires performers to think beyond themselves, support one another consistently, and function as a unified company.

These are the skills that build great theatre-makers.

Hadestown: Teen Edition – Troupe A

Orpheus: Lily Mc

Eurydice: Ella P

Hermes: Laura M

Hades: Chase C

Persephone: Molly S

Fates

Fate 1A: Mariella V

Fate 1B: Ruby T

Fate 2A: Milla B

Fate 2B: Abigail S

Fate 3A: Amirah Z

Fate 3B: Audrey H

Featured Ensemble

Flashback Hades and Persephone 1: Devi B & Amelia C

Flashback Hades and Persephone 2: Jason B & Ruby R

Flashback Hades and Persephone 3: Zanda D & Mahsa H

Puppeteers: Klover C, Ainsleigh G, Alistair F, Griffon H

Workers: Wynne J, Lucy T, Lucinda W

Hadestown: Teen Edition – Troupe B

Orpheus: Charlton K

Eurydice: Ella W

Hermes: Alyssa C

Hades: Archie G

Persephone: Grace D

Fates

Fate 1A: Allora C

Fate 1B: Maddie B

Fate 2A: Isabel W

Fate 2B: Lucinda J

Fate 3A: Xanthe

Fate 3B: Ruby P

Featured Ensemble

Flashback Hades and Persephone 1: Oscar P & April F

Flashback Hades and Persephone 2: Tilly D (Ash) & Brooke V

Flashback Hades and Persephone 3: Ella T & Sophie B

Puppeteers: Madison C (Phoenix), Jacob S, Oscar L, Kiera W

Workers: Matilda B, Isabella B, Mia P, Piper S

Hadestown: Teen Edition – Troupe C

Orpheus: Lilly GSEurydice: Addison FHermes: Willow AHades: Hector GPersephone: Lacey A

Fates

Fate 1A: Mia F

Fate 1B: Daisy B

Fate 2A: Harper A

Fate 2B: Jessica B

Fate 3A: Ella Mc

Fate 3B: Alex S

Featured Ensemble

Flashback Hades and Persephone 1: Saxon W & Isla BFlashback Hades and Persephone 2: Ethan V & Macy HFlashback Hades and Persephone 3: Amelia M & Lexie H

Puppeteers: Jensen C, Quin M, Rori M, Mila M

Workers: Zedd M, Van B, Alex M, Tom T, Alexandra W, Amelia W

Hadestown: Teen Edition – Troupe D

Orpheus: Caitlin C

Eurydice: Clara D

Hermes: Savannah W

Hades: Daniel L

Persephone: Sarah C

Fates

Fate 1A: Amelia S

Fate 1B: Madison S

Fate 2A: Alicia J

Fate 2B: Magdelena J

Fate 3A: Ashlyn P

Fate 3B: Lily R

Featured Ensemble

Flashback Hades and Persephone 1: Abbey P & Tahlia S

Flashback Hades and Persephone 2: Ryan T & Eliza M

Flashback Hades and Persephone 3: Angus G & Ellena S

Puppeteers: Summer J, Adam M, Nieve M, Harper P, Eva J

Workers: Sonia H

Across all four productions, students will be challenged artistically, emotionally, and collaboratively. This production asks performers to trust one another, support one another, and commit fully to ensemble storytelling at an advanced level.

We are incredibly proud of every student who auditioned, every student who embraced the process, and every student now preparing to step into rehearsal.

This is not simply about casting a show. It is about developing artists, collaborators, storytellers, and ensemble performers capable of creating theatre with depth, maturity, and purpose.

More information, including performance details and ticketing, will be released soon.