RJ
Reuben Johnson
Actor, Director, Editor, Writer
Theatre
For the National Theatre: Bacchae and Macbeth on tour
Other theatre includes: The Government Inspector at Chichester; Twelfth Night for Shakespeare North; The Legend of Ned Ludd at Liverpool Everyman; There is a Light That Never Goes Out, Cosmic Scallies and A Streetcar Named Desire at the Royal Exchange, Manchester; As You Like It on tour for Northern Broadsides; The Hound of the Baskervilles at Bolton Octagon; A View from the Bridge for York Theatre Royal; The Iliad at Edinburgh Royal Lyceum; On Corporation Street and The Manchester Project at HOME Manchester, Katie Johnstone at the Orange Tree; The Darkest Corners for RashDash; Territory at Islington Pleasance; The Meeting at Pleasance Courtyard Edinburgh; Wrecked at Lowry; and Gary: A Love Story for 24/7 Theatre Festival
TV
The Teacher, Loaded, The Aliens, Doctor Who, Prisoners’ Wives, Ted’s Top Ten, Casualty, Doctors, Cobra and The City & The City
Film
Weekender, Postcards from London and short film Smoking Dolphins
Radio
Undercover, Brief Lives, Whipped, The Punjab, Stone and The Midwich Cuckoos
(Published September 2025. Photo: James Melia)
Source: National Theatre
For the National Theatre: Bacchae and Macbeth on tour
Other theatre includes: The Government Inspector at Chichester; Twelfth Night for Shakespeare North; The Legend of Ned Ludd at Liverpool Everyman; There is a Light That Never Goes Out, Cosmic Scallies and A Streetcar Named Desire at the Royal Exchange, Manchester; As You Like It on tour for Northern Broadsides; The Hound of the Baskervilles at Bolton Octagon; A View from the Bridge for York Theatre Royal; The Iliad at Edinburgh Royal Lyceum; On Corporation Street and The Manchester Project at HOME Manchester, Katie Johnstone at the Orange Tree; The Darkest Corners for RashDash; Territory at Islington Pleasance; The Meeting at Pleasance Courtyard Edinburgh; Wrecked at Lowry; and Gary: A Love Story for 24/7 Theatre Festival
TV
The Teacher, Loaded, The Aliens, Doctor Who, Prisoners’ Wives, Ted’s Top Ten, Casualty, Doctors, Cobra and The City & The City
Film
Weekender, Postcards from London and short film Smoking Dolphins
Radio
Undercover, Brief Lives, Whipped, The Punjab, Stone and The Midwich Cuckoos
(Published September 2025. Photo: James Melia)
Source: National Theatre
Filmography
| 2022 | The Teacher (2022) (TV Series) · as Sean |
| 2021 | Ted's Top Ten (TV Series) · as Axel |
| 2020 | COBRA (2020) (TV Series) · as Spook |
| 2018 | Postcards from London · as Photographer |
| 2018 | The City & The City (TV Series) · as Haço |
| 2017 | Loaded (2017) (TV Series) · as Morph |
| 2016 | The Aliens (TV Series) · as Marc |
| 2014 | Territory · as Ashley |
| 2014 | It's a Riot · as Keith |
| 2012 | Prisoners Wives (TV Series) · as Sean |
| 2011 | Weekender · as Wee Man |
| 2005 | Doctor Who (2005) (TV Series) · as Pikeman William Stout |
| 2000 | Doctors (TV Series) · as Dave Curtis |
| 1986 | Casualty (TV Series) · as Dave Mahoney |
Wrecked · as Wes |