ACTOR
I took up touring theatre in the mid-1980s when I co-founded the Animus Theatre Company with several other youthful and intrepid actors from Bolton. I put the pen down on my last exam paper and stepped into the theatre bus outside the school gates to head out to Austria and Germany on the festival circuit. My passion to create work that inspires, provokes, educates and entertains has in no way diminished, and I am delighted to continue to work on stage and screen thirty years on.
I have worked across a wide range of genres, from clowning and panto to horror films, new writing and Shakespeare. I love devising and collaborative work and am always ready for a new challenge.
My television credits include Coronation Street, Emmerdale, Peak Practice, Strange, Blackpool, Eastenders, From Here to Paternity, Cathedral – Fire at York, Doctors and The Somme.
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MY CREDITS
Television
| Production | Role | Network | Director | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saved | Ian Molyneux | ITV | Jonathan Rudd | |
| Doctors | James Myles | BBC | Niall Fraser | |
| Backroom Heroes | Ralph Hooper | Raw TV / History Channel / C5 | Tim Holland | |
| Coronation Street | Dave Edwards | Granada | Neil Alderton | |
| The Somme: From Defeat to Victory | Captain Tweed | BBC | Detlef Siebert | |
| Cathedral – Fire at York | Jonathan Martin | BBC | Isabel Tang | |
| Blackpool | Desk Sergeant | BBC | Julie-Ann Robinson | |
| From Here to Paternity | Dave | BBC | ||
| Eastenders | Bernard Clark | BBC | Mark Sendell | |
| Strange | Barry Sturgess | BBC | Joe Ahearne | |
| Peak Practice | Dr Blane | Carlton | Moira Armstrong | |
| Emmerdale | Darren Rose | YTV | Oliver Horsborough | |
Theatre
| Production | Role | Venue | Director | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tale of Two Cities | Defarge / Stryver | Hong Kong & Edinburgh Pleasance | Jonathon Holloway | |
| A Voyage Round My Bedroom | Guide | Henley Festival | Eric MacLennan | |
| Dick Whittington | King Rat | Hertford Theatre | Rhys Thomas | |
| Aladdin | Abanazar | Hertford Theatre | Rhys Thomas | |
| Stones in His Pockets | Jake | Trixter Theatre, Gothenburg English Speaking Theatre | Malachi Bogdanov | |
| Macbeth: Kill BillShakespeare | Duncan/Macduff | UK Tour | Malachi Bogdanov | |
| The Last Pirate | Hack & White< | Spectacle, Wales Tour | Steve Davis | |
| Edward II | Lancaster/Lightborn | Neuss Shakespeare Festival, Germany | Malachi Bogdanov | |
| Macbeth: Kill BillShakespeare | Duncan/Macduff | Neuss Shakespeare Festival, Germany | Malachi Bogdanov | |
| Anyone for Pudding | Dad | Royal Court at The Pleasance | Tom Cornford | |
| Bill Shakespeare’s Italian Job | Fool | Gilded Balloon, Edinburgh | Malachi Bogdanov | |
| Romeo & Juliet | Romeo | British Touring Shakespeare – The Shaw Theatre, London | Miles Gregory | |
| Henry V | Chorus | British Touring Shakespeare – Shaw Theatre & Palace, Westcliffe | Miles Gregory | |
| Macbeth | Macduff | American Drama Group and TNT, World Tour | Paul Stebbings | |
| Hamlet | Hamlet | English Shakespeare Co, UK Tour | Malachi Bogdanov | |
| Titus Andronicus> | Titus Andronicus | English Shakespeare Co, UK Tour | Malachi Bogdanov | |
| Romeo & Juliet | Friar Lawrence/Mercutio | English Shakespeare Co Education, UK Tour | Robert Smith | |
| Macbeth | Macbeth | English Shakespeare Co Education, UK Tour | Chris Geelan | |
| A Midsummer Night’s Dream | Bottom/Demetrius | English Shakespeare Co Education, UK Tour | Robert Smith | |
| A Midsummer Night’s Dream | Bottom | Shakespeare in the Park, London | Allan Patterson | |
| September in the Rain | Jack | The Brockley Jack, London | Rhys Thomas | |
| The Canterbury Tales | The Pardoner | Alive & Kicking, European Tour | Martin Riley | |
| 100 Years of Enchantment | Franco | The Union Chapel & The Oval House, London | Dave Bridel & Rhys Thomas | |
| Antony & Cleopatra | Enobarbus | Barons Court Theatre, London | Mark Normandy | |
| Desire Caught by the Tail | Roundpiece | Hong Kong Festival & Theatre Museum, London | Jasper Britton | |
| The Rime of the Ancient Mariner | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Mainbrace Theatre UK Tour | David Bridel | |
| To | Landlord | Mainbrace Theatre | Rhys Thomas | |
| Romeo & Juliet | Benvolio | English Shakespeare Company Education, UK Tour | Chris Geelan | |
| Metamorphosis | Gregor Samasa | Codpiece Theatre, Chester Festival | Chris Spring | |
Film
| Production | Role | Company | Director | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saving Grace | Neil | Blind Crow | Matt Rozier | |
| The Mandrake Root | Ligurio | European Drama Network | Malchi Bogdanov< | |
| In the Spiders Web | Brian | Maneaters – Thailand | Terry Winsor | |
| Solo Shuttle | Policeman | Independent | David Cohen | |
| Weekend Bird | Prisoner | Independent (Short) | Nick Cohen |
Teaching
The National Youth Theatre of Wales – ran devising workshops for 2014 residential audition recalls
Guildford School of Acting – shows include Robert & Elizabeth, Miss Julie, Dangerous Corner, 25th Anniversary Putnam Spelling Bee, The Permanent Way, The Winters Tale
Guildford School of Acting – Improvisation / Shakespeare / Naturalism / Clowning & Physical Theatre 2008 – 2014 ongoing
Guildford School of Acting Audition panel – 2011 – 2014 ongoing
Guildford School of Acting – Storytelling – Foundation Year Acting and MT students 2008
Arts Educational School Foundation Courses on Shakespearean Verse 2004/2005/2006/2007
Stage Fighting Workshop – Bucks New University 2007
Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts – “Actor & Text” – 2nd Yr MT Students 2006
Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts –Twelfth Night & The Winters Tale 2nd Yr Acting Students 2006
St Mary’s College – Actor/Director support for MA in Theatre Direction, 2006
Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts – Still-Waking Sleep – Post-Grad Muscial Theatre Students 2006
Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts – An Ideal Husband 2006
Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts – Narrative Project: O Ye Gods 2005
Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts – Abandonment 2005
Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts – Tainted Love 2005
Arts Educational School – Foundation Courses on Audition Techniques, 2004 & 2005
Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts – Narrative Project: The House 2004
National Association of Youth Theatre Directors – The Dark Art of the Bard – Workshop for SE Regional Directors, 2004
Henley Theatre Festival – Finding the Focus – Guest Director Workshop, 2004
Royal National Theatre Education – Director’s Workshop on The Tempest and how to run workshops for students, 2003
Shakespeare in Schools – Workshops on Shakespeare in UK Schools since 2000 (Over 200 workshops)
Goldsmiths University – Actor/Director support for MA in Theatre Direction, 2003
Gwent Theatre – Playing with the Invisible – Training Workshop for South Wales Drama Teachers, 2003
Bi-Jingo/Legal Services Commission – Corporate Training and Assessment programme, 2003
Middlesex University – Shakespeare in Performance, Actor/Director support – for MA in Theatre Direction, 2002
Dynamic Solutions Europe, Ltd – Visions, Values and Behaviours – Corporate Management Training Workshops for South West Trains, 2002
Gwent Theatre – Devised & led workshops exploring the subject of Refugees alongside Mirad, A Boy from Bosnia, 2001 & 2002
Billboard Personal Management– Recruitment workshops 2001
Carshalton College – Melodrama Workshops 2000
Corporate workshops on Stage-fighting, Character & Physical Theatre for UK & Spain, 2000 & 2001
Mainbrace Theatre – Storytelling workshops supporting One Hundred Years of Enchantment, 1999
West Cheshire College of Further Education – Taught A-Level and Btech Theatre Studies as well as running evening community drama workshops 1990-1991
Commercials
| Production | Role | Company | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paultons Park | Dad | Geocast TV | ||
| New Forest Promotion | Dad | Geocast TV | ||
| Renew | Simon Charles | Spirit Media | ||
| Wallace & Gromit film promotion | Dad | News International | ||
| The Cow | Vet | The History Channel | ||
| Kippen | Lead presenter | Achmea (Netherlands) | ||
| Internet Commercial | Main artist/driver | CheekyMonkey.com | ||
Director
| Company | Play | Author | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Guildford School of Acting | The Winters Tale | Shakespeare | ||
| Guildford School of Acting | The Permanent Way | David Hare | ||
| Guildford School of Acting | The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee | Feldman, Finn et al. | ||
| Guildford School of Acting | Dangerous Corner | J B Priestly | ||
| Guildford School of Acting | Miss Julie | Strindberg | ||
| Guildford School of Acting | Robert & Elizabeth | Ron Grainer | ||
| Mountview Academy of Theatre | The Storm | Peter Oswald | ||
| Mountview Academy of Theatre | Twelfth Night & The Winters Tale | Shakespeare | ||
| Mountview Academy of Theatre | Still-Waking Sleep (Shakespeare Medley) | Shakespeare | ||
| Mountview Academy of Theatre | O Ye Gods | Devised | ||
| Mountview Academy of Theatre | An Ideal Husband | Oscar Wilde | ||
| Mountview Academy of Theatre | Tainted Love (Shakespeare Medley) | Shakespeare | ||
| Mountview Academy of Theatre | Abandonment | Kate Atkinson | ||
| Mountview Academy of Theatre | The House | Devised | ||
| Gwent Theatre | The Canterbury Tales | Wales Tour | Martin Riley/Chaucer | |
| Arts Educational School | Tales From Ovid | Ovid/Hughes | ||
| Gwent Theatre | Mirad, A Boy from Bosnia | Ad de Bont | ||
| English Shakespeare Co. Education | Macbeth | Uk Tour | Shakespeare | |
| English Shakespeare Co. Education | Romeo & Juliet | Uk Tour | Shakespeare | |
| Codpiece Theatre | Fish | Chester Festival | Devised | |
| Animus Theatre | Among Ashcans | European Tour | Devised | |
| Animus Theatre | The Soldier Song | European Tour | Devised | |