About Me

At just 70. I offer wide and varied life experience from Teaching to Illegal Traveller Encampments so fear nothing!! Good sense of humour. Hard working. Good with people. Good team player. Great Actor!!

Acting

Experience

Accents

Employment History & Experience

Including: Herbert Soppitt, When We Were Married, Hardy, Beqeust to the Nation, Various - Under Milk Wood, Supporting Role - Turn of the Screw (Professional), Lead, Wait Until Dark, Various Support - Northern Ballet - Otello, Swan Lake, Romeo and Juliet, Nutcracker (Professional) etc., Lead Roles Panto's, Lead Roles comedies including Say Goodnight to Grandma, Gosforth's Fete (Gosforth), Musicals including Annie and Camelot. Role Play: Most recently involved in Role Play Scenario's as part of Waitrose Manager Training.

Non-Acting: Head Teacher, Traveller/Gypsy Liaison Worker, Family Group Conference Co-ordinator,1-1 Tutor to Excluded Pupils, Examination Invigilator.

Presenting

Experience

Specialist Areas

Employment History & Experience

A consummate professional, I bring reliability, commitment, huge enthusiasm and good humour to all projects. I offer a wide spectrum of voices and accents for all voice scenarios having taken lead roles in plays, musicals and pantomimes. These include, ‘Wait Until Dark’, ‘An Inspector Calls’, ‘Camelot’, ‘When we were Married’, ‘Toad of Toad Hall’, ‘Under Milk Wood’, ‘Winfrith’, ‘Say Goodnight to Grandma, ‘Cinderella’, ‘Annie’ etc. Alan has worked in non-dancing character roles with Northern Ballet and Stage Managed with 2nd Stage Theatre and with New Perspectives Theatre. With a background in Education and as a
Co-ordinator, I honed his skills in a variety of settings to numerous and prestigious audiences. I have been a presenter with Radio Nene Valley where my wide and in depth knowledge of all music across the decades proved invaluable. I have attended numerous Courses including ‘Acting for the Camera’, ‘Audition Skills’, ‘Script Reading for the Radio’

I am hugely motivated, adaptable and one who relishes challenge

Music

Vocal Skills

Instruments Played

Employment History & Experience

Roles in Camelot, Annie, Original Musicals with Liberet Theatre Company and Pantomimes.

Entertainment

Experience

Employment History & Experience

M/C to Local Entertainment.

Extras Work, Partipant, Contestant

Experience & Qualifications

General Experience

As an Actor, I have played a wide and varied range of Character and Comedy parts from Dylan Thomas to Pantomime. I have shared the stage in minor roles with Professional Touring Companies. I have Compere Experience and presenting on Local Hospital Radio. Strong on Ad-Lib, Off the Cuff and dealing with unexpected, I offer a good range of accents, can sing and play the guitar. A consummate professional, I bring reliability, commitment, huge enthusiasm and good humour to all projects. I offer a wide spectrum of voices and accents for all voice scenarios having taken lead roles in plays, musicals and pantomimes. These include, ‘Wait Until Dark’ (Roat), ‘An Inspector Calls’ (Inspector Goole), ‘Camelot’ (Sir Clarius), ‘When we were Married’ (Henry Soppitt), ‘Toad of Toad Hall’ (Chief Weasel), ‘Under Milk Wood’ (Various), ‘Winfrith’ (Saxulf/Wulgar), 'Fishy Business' (Richard Verdin), ‘Say Goodnight to Grandma' (Ray), 'Murdered to Death' (Colonel Charles Craddock), 'Babes in th Wood' (Scrib), ‘Cinderella’, ‘Annie’ etc. etc. I have worked in non-dancing character roles with Northern Ballet, with Theatreworks in 'Turn of the Screw' on both Northampton Professional Theatres and Stage Managed with 2nd Stage Theatre (Disabled) and New Perspectives Theatre. With a background in Education also as a Traveller/Gypsy Co-ordinator and Family Group Conference Co-ordinator, I have honed skills in a variety of settings to numerous and prestigious audiences. I have been a presenter with Radio Nene Valley where my wide and in depth knowledge of all music across the decades proved invaluable. I have attended numerous Courses including ‘Acting for the Camera’, ‘Audition Skills’, ‘Script Reading for the Radio’. I am presently working on a book of adaptations of Myths and Stories for Children and Parents

I am hugely motivated, adaptable and one who relishes challenge.

Qualifications & Training

Courses on Auditioning, Acting for Camera and Radio. Career in Public speaking and presentations. Teaching Qualification.

Other Information

Relevant Skills

As above.

Interests & Hobbies

Drama, Music, the Arts, the Environment (Gardening - whispered), Creative writing and Poetry (my own) - Entertaining!!

Miscellaneous Information

Also interested in VoiceOver. Was accepted by new VoiceOver Company. Huge enthusiasm for new ventures. Pretty widely travelled
assimilating 'people' one meets. Storing for later use!!