The lead cast for the Australian tour The Shawshank Redemption: Live On Stage has been revealed. 

Acclaimed television, film and theatre actor David Berry (Outlander, A Place To Call Home, Home and Away) will play Andy Dufresne, the quiet, smart former banker wrongly sentenced to life for murdering his wife and her lover. 

Cast as ‘Red’ a long-term inmate known for smuggling contraband items into the prison who develops a friendship with Andy, is prolific stage and television actor Bert LaBonté (The Book of Mormon, Colin From Accounts, Cloudstreet). 

Returning to the stage after 20 years as The Warden, the deeply hypocritical, religious and cruel prison boss, will be one of Australia’s most recognised screen actors Rodger Corser(Doctor Doctor, Rush, Channel 9’s The Floor).

Additional cast members will be announced in the coming weeks.