Meet the Cast of GIANT, Now Playing on Broadway

John Lithgow - Roald Dahl

JOHN LITHGOW has long been regarded as one of America's most distinguished performers. He has made an indelible impression on audiences with his work in film, television and the theater, receiving two Tonys, six Emmys, two Golden Globes, four SAG Awards and two Oscar nominations. Lithgow has appeared in a long list of critically acclaimed films, as far back as The World According to Garp and as recent as Conclave. He most recently starred in The Rule of Jenny Pen with Geoffrey Rush, and in the title role of JIMPA with Olivia Colman, which debuted at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. Lithgow has starred in the hit TV shows “3rd Rock from the Sun,” “Dexter,” “The Crown,” and the recent “The Old Man” on FX. On stage, he has appeared on Broadway twenty-five times, including award-winning appearances in “The Changing Room,” “M. Butterfly,” “Requiem for a Heavyweight,” and the musicals “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels” and “The Sweet Smell of Success.” Upcoming, Lithgow will be seen as ‘Dumbledore’ in the “Harry Potter” series for HBO. In November, Lithgow concluded a sold-out run of “Giant” at London’s Royal Court Theatre, where he starred as Roald Dahl. The production then transferred to the Harold Pinter Theatre on the West End for a limited run in Spring 2025. Lithgow won an Olivier Award for Best Actor for his performance, with “Giant” also earning the award for Best New Play. For children, Lithgow has written several best-selling children’s picture books for Simon & Schuster. His recordings for kids have landed him four Grammy nominations , and he has appeared with a dozen major American orchestras in children’s concerts that feature many of his own songs. He wrote the narration for the New York City Ballet’s “Carnival of the Animals” in 2003 and danced the role of The Elephant. In 2011, a warm reception greeted Lithgow’s memoir “Drama: An Actor’s Education,” published by Harper Collins. Since 2019, he has written and illustrated the “Dumpty Trilogy,” three books of political satire from Chronicle Prism which achieved the remarkable feat of landing Lithgow on the New York Times non-fiction bestseller list for three consecutive years. Mr. Lithgow recently completed his term as co-chair of the Commission on the Arts of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, producing authoritative reports on America’s creative workforce and arts in education. The Commission’s deliberations also spawned Art Happens Here, a PBS documentary which highlights the importance of all the arts in the lives of young people.

Aya Cash - Jessie Stone

Aya Cash is currently starring in and executive producing the much anticipated “The Boys” prequel series, “Vought Rising”, opposite Jensen Ackles for Amazon Prime. She can most recently be seen starring in Armando Iannucci and Sam Mendes’ HBO comedy series, “The Franchise”. Aya’s major television credits include Amazon’s Emmy-nominated, hit series “The Boys” for which she won a Critics Choice Super Award; FX’s Emmy nominated mini-series “Fosse/Verdon” alongside Sam Rockwell and Michelle Williams, and FXX’s critical hit comedy, “You’re The Worst” created by Stephen Falk, which earned her 2016 TCA and Critics Choice Award nominations. She also appeared opposite Elle Fanning in the Hulu limited series “The Girl From Plainville” alongside Michelle Pfeiffer, in the Showtime limited series “The First Lady”, and in the Fox comedy “Welcome To Flatch.” Aya’s upcoming film credits include Reykjavik with Jeff Daniels and Jared Harris, Kill Me opposite Charlie Day and Allison Williams, and Bruton with Theo Rossi and Tony Hale. Other notable film credits include starring alongside William Jackson Harper in We Broke Up, Tayarisha Poe’s The Young Wife which premiered at SXSW, the Shudder film Scare Me, which premiered at Sundance, Mary Goes Round, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and earned her the ‘Excellence in Acting’ award at the Vail Film Festival and the Netflix comedy Game Over, Man! On stage, Aya played the role of ‘Jessie Stone’ in the West End production of Giant this past summer. Cash got her start in NY theatre and has originated roles in many new plays Off-Broadway at Manhattan Theatre Club, Playwrights Horizons, The Atlantic Theatre and The Rattlestick. Giant will mark her Broadway debut!

Elliot Levey - Tom Maschler

Double Olivier Award-winning actor Elliot is a veteran of the British stage. Most recently starring alongside John Lithgow in the multi award-winning Giant in the role of Tom Maschler. He is currently filming the role of Thomas Buckley in Prima Facie opposite Cynthia Erivo. Recent theatre credits include HAMLET (Dir: Rupert Goold for the RSC), Maurice in GOOD (Dir: Dominic Cooke in the West End) which earned Elliot an Olivier best actor nomination, CABARET (Dir: Rebecca Frecknall) as Herr Schultz (For which he won an Olivier award), Mike Bartlett’s SNOWFLAKE, MARY STUART (Dir. Robert Icke), several productions at The Almeida including THREE SISTERS and NINE LESSONS & CAROLS (Dir: Rebecca Frecknall), and Cold War (Dir. Rupert Goold), ST JOAN and CORIOLANUS (Dir: Josie Rourke) at the Donmar Warehouse, and many productions at the National Theatre (including Robespierre in DANTON’S DEATH, Neil in Alan Bennet’s HABIT OF ART, Brother Jasper in HIS DARK MATERIALS), and several Shakespeare plays. Recent Screen credits include Inspector Bliss in Mark Gatiss’ “Bookish” (U&Alibi), Peter Schuster in Hugo Blick’s “California Avenue,” Judge George Jeffries in Mark Gatiss’ Martin’s Close (BBC), Colonel Levin in “Parade’s End” (BBC), “We were the Lucky Ones” (Disney), Florence Foster Jenkins, “State of the Union,” The Queen, David Briggs in James Graham’s “Quiz” and Philomena (all directed by Stephen Frears), “Peaky Blinders,” “Black Earth Rising,” The Child in Time, “Life,” “Man Down,” “Anne,” “Press,” “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” The Chamber, Denial, “Grantchester,” Lady in the Van, “Ripper Street,” “Spooks,” Fallen, “Jamaica Inn,” Francessco Pazzi in “Da Vinci’s Demons” (Starz).

Rachael Stirling - Felicity Crosland

RACHAEL STIRLING has been nominated for two Olivier Awards, one for her performance as Rebecca in The Priory at the Royal Court Theatre and the other for playing Lady Chiltern in An Ideal Husband at the Vaudeville. Other theatre includes: Giant (Harold Pinter), Giant (Royal Court), The Divine Mrs. S, Anna in the Tropics (Hampstead); Private Lives, The Recruiting Officer, Helpless (Donmar); Scandaltown, Love Love Love (Lyric Hammersmith); Labour of Love, An Ideal Husband, A Woman of No Importance (West End); The Winter’s Tales (Sam Wanamaker); An Intervention (Paines Plough/Watford); Variation on a Theme (Finborough); Medea (Headlong); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Rose); Pygmalion (International Tour); Taming of the Shrew, Uncle Vanya (Wilton’s); Look Back in Anger (Theatre Royal Bath); Tamburlaine (Bristol Old Vic); Theatre of Blood (N.T. Improbable Theatre Company). Television includes: “Believe Me,” “Heartstopper,” “The Chelsea Detective,” “Hollington Drive,” “Grantchester,” “Life,” “Wild Bill,” “The Bletchley Circle,” “Detectorists,” “Capital,” “Churchill’s Secret,” “The Game,” “Dr. Who,” “Women in Love,” “Minder,” “Boy Meets Girl,” “Lewis,” “Beyond,” “The Haunted Airman,” “Riot at the Rite,” “Murder at the Vicarage,” “The Final Quest,” “Poirot,” “Tipping the Velvet,” “Bait,” “Othello,” “In the Beginning.” Film includes: Their Finest, Sixteen, Snow White and the Huntsman, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, Centurian, The Young Victoria, Dangerous Parking, The Truth, Freeze Frame, Triumph of Love, Another Life, Complicity, Maybe Baby, Still Crazy.

Stella Everett - Hallie

Broadway debut. Theatre: Five Models In Ruins, 1981 (Lincoln Center Theater). TV: "Running Point" (Netflix), "Not Suitable For Work" (Hulu), "Evil" (Paramount+), "East New York" (CBS). Film: Ride Or Die (Tribeca Film Festival 2025). Fendi Vanguard Award recipient. The Juilliard School.

David Manis - Wally

Broadway: 14 shows, including To Kill a Mockingbird, The Curious Incident of the Dog…, and Arcadia. Regional credits include the Guthrie, The Old Globe, The Acting Company, etc etc. On-screen, he is best known as a telekinetic weatherman on “The X-Files.” Other TV: “FBI: Most Wanted,” “The Gilded Age,” “The Blacklist,” “Bull,” “Dickinson,” and “Frasier.”

Geoffrey Cantor - Understudy

Geoffrey's stage work includes Broadway's Side Man, Creditors, The Lehman Trilogy, Dinner With Friends, Death of a Salesman (with Judd Hirsch), Julie Taymor's Titus Andronicus, and Talley's Folly. Best known as Ellison in Marvel's Daredevil, he has over 100 TV and film credits, including Hail, Caesar!, Creep Box, Hot Air, Man on a Ledge, Fair Game, Public Enemies, Zero Day, Foundation, Maniac, “FBI,” “Madam Secretary,” “House of Cards,” “Blacklist,” “The Tick,” “The Americans,” “Damages,” “Sopranos,” and every “Law & Order” iteration. He's also a director and audiobook narrator (Motherless Brooklyn, The Family, and Eli Sharabi's Hostage) and can be heard in multiple video games and commercials. Geoffrey trained at London's Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.

Annie Hägg - Understudy

Broadway debut. Stage: Dmitry Krymov’s Big Trip (La MaMa), The Marriage (La MaMa), Dancing at Lughnasa (Irish Rep), The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Yale Rep), Marilyn Monroe in Cursed (HERE). TV: “Hunters,” "Daredevil: Born Again," "Pose," "The Blacklist," "Blue Bloods," “Law & Order: SVU.” New York-based jazz singer and bandleader. Training: MFA Yale School of Drama; Karl Bury Studio.

Eleanor Handley - Understudy

Off-Broadway: Corruption and The Hard Problem (Lincoln Center). Select regional: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Much Ado About Nothing (PA Shakespeare), Lost in Yonkers (Bristol Riverside/Barrymore nomination); Television: Unforgettable. For Michael, Loretta and Gus. Always.

Paul O'Brien - Understudy