(Donmar Warehouse) Cush Jumbo (2011), for Rosalind in As You Like It (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester) Ashley Zhangazha (2012), for Ross in Macbeth (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield) Jack Lowden (2013), for Oswald in Ghosts (Almeida Theatre) Susannah Fielding (2014), for Portia in The Merchant of Venice (Almeida Theatre) James McArdle (2015), for Platonov in Platonov (Chichester Festival Theatre) Paapa Essiedu (2016), for in Hamlet in Hamlet and Edmund in King Lear (Royal Shakespeare Company) Natalie Simpson (2017), for Duchess Rosaura in The Cardinal (Southwark Playhouse) Bally Gill (2018), for Romeo in Romeo and Juliet (Royal Shakespeare Company) Heledd Gwynn (2019), for Hedda in Hedda Gabler (Sherman Theatre, Cardiff) and Hastings and Ratcliffe in Richard III (Headlong) 2020s Gloria Obianyo (2020), for Neoptolemus in Kae Tempest's Paradise (National Theatre) References List Charleson Charleson Awards for classical theatre