BAFTA Winner Khalil Madovi Joins Hit Machine World Premiere Cast at Soho Theatre

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Madovi joins the previously announced US actors Josh Radnor and Noah Galvin.

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Award-winning music artist, composer, writer, actor and filmmaker, Khalil Madovi completes the cast of the world premiere of the play Hit Machine by Jonathan Caren . CJ Harper has also joined the team writing original music alongside three-time Grammy Award winner Ben Harper . Performances will run Wednesday 8 July - Saturday 15 August.

Madovi joins the previously announced US actors Josh Radnor (‘Ted Mosby' on the Emmy-nominated TV series How I Met Your Mother) and Noah Galvin (Evan in Dear Evan Hansen) - both making their London stage debut - in the production at Soho Theatre directed by Daniel Bailey .

Hit Machine is a sharply comedic and emotionally charged collision between two estranged brothers, a genre-bending artist and a song that becomes the battleground for everything they have never been able to say. Madovi plays Defy, a fast-rising, once-in-a-generation hip-hop talent who is trying to straddle commercial success with the sound that launched him. Featuring original music by Ben Harper and CJ Harper, Hit Machine is an intimate, biting and explosive play about how pain becomes art, how art becomes commerce, and what gets lost when the machine starts feeding on the people who made it.

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is an award-winning music artist, composer, writer, actor and filmmaker. After emerging in 2012 as Josh Carter in the hit TV series 4 O'Clock Club, for which he received the BAFTA award for Best Children's Performer, he has gone on to embark on a diversified career in arts and entertainment, working across music, TV, film and theatre. After composing for and featuring in Can I Live?, for Complicité and The Barbican in 2021, he went on to design for Bush Theatre 's critically acclaimed Red Pitch, for which he received a Best Sound Design Offie nomination. Other credits include Nouveau Riche and New Diorama Theatre's Brenda's Got A Baby, The Old Vic's This Is What The Journey Does and Bola Agbaje's Gone Too Far! with the National Youth Theatre. In 2024 Khalil was nominated for a Black British Theatre Award for his sound design and composition work. Khalil most recently performed in Chadwick Boseman 's Deep Azure at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre.

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_Originally reported by [BroadwayWorld](https://www.broadwayworld.com/westend/article/Khalil-Madovi-Completes-the-Cast-of-HIT-MACHINE-World-Premiere-at-Soho-Theatre-20260610)._