Tony Award winner and Game of Thrones star Owen Teale will play the role of Ebenezer Scrooge in the return season of A Christmas Carol staged at Melbourne’s Comedy Theatre.

Teale previously starred in the role of Scrooge in The Old Vic’s London production in 2022.

Owen Teale as Scrooge in A Christmas Carol. Image supplied

Best known for his recurring role of Alliser Thorne in HBO’s Game of Thrones, Teale currently appears in the BBC detective thriller Wolf, and has starred in comedy-drama series Stella and police drama Line of Duty.

A Christmas Carol will mark Teale’s first time on an Australian stage since the 2004 tour of the West End production Dance of Death. His more recent stage credits include A Doll’s House (West End/Broadway) for which he won a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play, No Man’s Land (West End) and King Lear (RSC).

Teale said: “I’ve never been happier to be getting on a plane brimful with humbug knowing that Melbourne is to knock it out of me every night in this great piece of theatre.”

A Christmas Carol premiered in 2017 and had its debut season...