American actor and singer Aaron Tveit has just completed his run as John Wilkes Booth, the stage actor who assassinated US President Abraham Lincoln in Stephen Sondheim’s contentious musical Assassins at the Menier Chocolate Factory in London.

This razor sharp revival of the Tony award-winning production is a revue style portrayal of the nine men and women who attempted, successfully or not, to assassinate Presidents of the United States, and is directly Jamie Lloyd.

In 2012 Aaron played Enjolras, leader of the student revolutionary group in the film adaption of Les Miserables. He performed with the cast at the 85th Academy Awards the following year. He also stars as undercover FBI Special Agent Mike Warren in the USA Network series Graceland which premiered in the summer of 2013.

I managed to catch up with Aaron as he whizzed past me after his penultimate performance at last Saturday’s matinee. Obviously when fleeing the theatre after killling the most powerful man in the world, one does not linger… but he did long enough to sign my sketch of him in character and engage in a brief chat about his future work.

The show without Aaron finishes on the 7 March 2015.