Synopsis:

The Book of Acts explosively reimagined in an alternate-modern era. A resurrection sparks a movement that turns the world upside down, spreading hope amid chaos. As the followers risk everything to preach the good news, the Temple races to silence them before the oppressive Imperium regime retaliates. But public miracles, unburied secrets, and fractured loyalties force both sides to confront the true cost of their choices.

Release Date:

June 8th

About the Cast and Filmmakers

Eben Figueiredo

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Eben Figueiredo

Saul

Eben recently starred in Nikita Lalwani’s Five Blind Dates for Amazon, alongside Simone Ashley and Hero Fiennes Tiffin, and appeared in BBC's Dope Girls. He also featured in The Serial Killer’s Wife on Paramount+ with Annabel Scholey, Jack Farthing, and Luke Treadaway. On stage, Eben has been seen in A Doll’s House at the Sheffield Crucible and reprised his role as ‘Christian’ in Cyrano de Bergerac opposite James McAvoy. He received Ian Charleson Award nominations for both Cyrano and Much Ado About Nothing at the National Theatre. His screen credits include Solo: A Star Wars Story and Daphne.

Charlie Beaven

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Charlie Beaven

Stephen

Charlie Beaven is a London-based actor, trained at the BRIT School and the Guildford School of Acting. He appears in Testament as Stephen, a role that has offered both artistic challenge and growth. His previous credits include The Crown (Netflix), Bad Jews (West End), and Casualty (BBC).

Mogali Masuku

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Mogali Masuku

Mary of Magdala

Mogali is an accomplished actress with extensive theatre, television, radio, and film credits. Her theatre work includes productions with the RSC such as As You Like It, The Winter's Tale, and Troy Story, as well as performances at Shakespeare's Globe in Pericles, The Comedy of Errors, and Twelfth Night. TV credits include The Marlowe Murder Club (ITV) and The Gold (BBC).

Film appearances include Dashcam (Blumhouse Productions) and Generation of Vipers (Partizan). Mogali’s writing and directing debut, The Orphan Stain, was produced with Blacktress. She also works across stage and screen as a writer and director.

Tom Simper

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Tom Simper

Paul

Tom’s TV and film credits include Testament, Where The Light Gets In, EastEnders, and Hooked Up. Radio work includes Beethoven's 9th Symphony, A Soldier's Tale, Believe It!, and The Corrupted for the BBC. His theatre credits span Animal Farm (Theatre Royal Stratford East), Antony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare's Globe), Macbeth (Leeds Playhouse), Measure for Measure and As You Like It (RSC), among others. Animal Farm was nominated for Best New Production at this year's Olivier Awards.

Stewart Scudamore

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Stewart Scudamore

Gamaliel

Stewart is a London-born actor of mixed heritage, trained at Drama Studio London. His recent television credits include The Gavin and Stacey Finale (BBC), House of David (Amazon/MGM), The Sandman (Netflix), and Carnival Row (Amazon). Film work includes Persuasion (Netflix), The Electrical Life of Louis Wain (Amazon Studios/Film4), and The Voyage of Doctor Dolittle. His stage credits include seasons at the National Theatre and London’s West End, including The Phantom of the Opera. Stewart has also voiced characters in the Assassin’s Creed series and is in demand for Biblical epics, most recently Testament.

Yasmin Paige

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Yasmin Paige

Mara

Yasmin Paige’s stage work includes Once Upon a Time in Nazi Occupied Tunisia (Almeida), Leopoldstadt (Wyndham’s Theatre), Actually (Trafalgar Studios), Circle Mirror Transformation (HOME Manchester), and Ah! Wilderness (Young Vic). Her recent film credits include The Souvenir II directed by Joanna Hogg. Yasmin was nominated for Young British Performer of the Year at the Critics’ Circle Awards for her role in Richard Ayoade’s Submarine, and later appeared in his film The Double. TV credits include Glue (E4), The Sarah Jane Adventures, Pramface (BBC), The Good Karma Hospital (ITV), and Secret Life (Channel 4).

Kenneth Omole

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Kenneth Omole

John Zebedee

Kenneth Omole is a highly trained and versatile performer with a broad background in both stage and screen. He trained at the highly acclaimed Rose Bruford Drama School and was nominated for Best Actor at the Stage Debut Awards for his performance as Fanuco in Assata Taught Me at London's Gate Theatre.

His television and film work includes a series regular role in Netflix’s Top Boy, a guest role in Disney+’s Extraordinary, and stars in Vindication Swim, Parables Retold, and A Radical Duet.

Kenneth also plays a major role behind the camera as a writer on the series Testament.

John Omole

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John Omole

James Zebedee

John Omole is an accomplished stage and screen actor. His theatre credits include King Lear and Hamlet with the Royal Shakespeare Company, To Kill a Mockingbird at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, and The Last King of Scotland at the Sheffield Crucible. On screen, he has appeared in Chewing Gum (Channel 4), Ghosts (BBC), The Feed (Amazon Studios), and Miss Wright (Sky Atlantic).

Paul Syrstad

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Paul Syrstad

Director

Paul Syrstad is the creator, director, and executive producer of Testament, a bold reimagining of the Book of Acts set in a modern world still ruled by the Roman Empire. He wrote the series alongside Faith Syrstad and Kenneth Omole.

Born in Spain to a Norwegian father and English mother, Paul moved to the UK in his teens and later trained as an actor at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London. It was during this time that he discovered a calling for storytelling behind the camera, leading him to found the production company Roarlight.

Paul made his feature directorial debut with Testament: The Parables Retold, an award-winning independent film viewed over 2 million times globally. Testament: Season One marks the launch of an ambitious multi-season series, produced with Angel Studios for distribution and premiering Pentecost 2025.

He is also attached to direct the upcoming feature film Fellowship, based on the lives of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, slated for release in 2026.