Reuben Johnson
Biography
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
Known For & Full Filmography5 Titles
Drama Series - 2005, 16 episodes • as Pikeman William Stout
The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor saves planets for a living—more of a hobby actually, and the Doctor's very, very good at it.
Drama Series - 2022, 16 episodes • as Sean
A thriller anthology series detailing the separate stories of teachers.
Drama Series - 2016, 16 episodes • as Marc
Nearly 40 years ago aliens crash-landed in the UK. They look like us, but are forced to live in a ghetto. Border control officer Lewis falls in love with one.
Movie - 2011, 2h 15m • as Wee Man
The exploits of two friends who make the move from partying at illegal warehouse raves to becoming successful promoters at the peak of the Manchester, Amsterdam, and Ibiza rave scene in the early 90s.
Movie - 2025, 2h 15m • as Bubull
Fierce and unstoppable, they are a chorus of wild energy ready to shake Thebes to its core — and liberate its women. But their god Dionysos has his own reckoning. In a showdown with his cousin, King Pentheus, family loyalty, political power and human desire are pushed to breaking point.