Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo

BY Rajiv Joseph
Directed by Omar Elerian

Young Vic Theatre

October 2025 – January 2026

Credits

Director – Omar Elerian
Set & Costume Designer – Rajha Shakiry
Lighting Designer – Jackie Shemesh
Sound Designer – Elena Peña  
Movement Director – Annie-Lunnette Deakin-Foster  
Casting Director – Heather Basten CDG
Fight and Intimacy Director – Ruth Cooper-Brown of RC-Annie
Dialect Coach – Khaled Abunaama
Voice & Dialect Coach – Hazel Holder 
Costume Supervisor – Male Arcucci 
Hair & Make Up Supervisor – Sarah-Jane Pucci
Prop Supervisor – Kate Margretts
Jerwood Assistant Director – Layla Madanat
Associate Designer – Yimei Zhao
Additional Original Composition – Elena Peña
Additional Recorded Music by Abed Kobeissy and Ali Hout
Production Therapist – Rukiya Jemmott
Company Stage Managers – Anna-Maria Casson and Lauren Patman
Deputy Stage Manager – Nikita Bala
Assistant Stage Manager – Jamal Ollier

With Sayyid Aki, Peter Forbes, Patrick Gibson, Ammar Haj AhmadArinzé Kene, Sara Masry, and Hala Omran.

With Thanks to David Threlfall, Kathryn Hunter and Sofia Asir

Production Photography by Helen Murray