About Me

I started a career in acting, teaching drama and theatre in education. As arts funding became scarcer and my family more immanent I changed tack. My latter theatre projects had environmental themes and as one thing lead to another, I worked with Avon Friends of the Earth running recycling collections in Bristol and Bath and have more recently worked as a Senior Consultant with Resource Futures.

I have enjoyed working in the environmental field and have presented work and chaired conference sessions and debates with leading figures in the field including government ministers.

During this time I have been involved with our local amateur theatre group, acting and directing. I have enjoyed playing a number of leading roles in a variety of genres spanning: modern, melodrama, Shakespeare and pantomime.

I want to get back into professional acting, and do what I love doing well. I have attended various short courses with Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and Engage at Theatre Royal Bath and am currently attending a one year part time course at The Bristol Actors Academy based at the BOV Theatre School

I live with my wife, Jane in the village of Paulton near Bath. I have two sons Patrick and Peter now 23 and 20 graduated, fledged and making their own way in life and I am now better able to manage the financial uncertainties of the actor's life.

Acting

Experience

Accents

Presenting

Experience

Specialist Areas

Music

Extras Work, Partipant, Contestant

Experience

Experience & Qualifications

General Experience

Theatre:
Traveling Light Theatre: Professional Actor - Various shows and workshops with schools throughout England
The Puppet Tree: Professional Actor/puppeteer - Various shows and workshops throughout England and Wales
Theatre in Education projects with Avon Friends of the Earth - writing, performing and running workshops

TV and Film Extra
Robin of Sherwood
Jenny's War
Displaced Persons

Amateur/unpaid

Saltaire Youth Theatre - Actor - Various plays including lead as Sir Titus Salt. (Amateur)

Bradford Play House - Actor - Various roles in Shakespeare, Lorca and Spewack

Paulton Amateur Dramatic Society - Actor/Director - Played various roles including lead in Sweeney The Barber, Oberon in A Midsummer Nights Dream, Dame in Snow White, Ratty in Wind in the Willows

Qualifications & Training

Trained teacher Cert Ed
Taught Drama in Secondary School
Attended Voice training sessions with Chloe Goodchild and Maggy Nichols (no formal certification)
Classical Acting Bristol Old Vic Theatre School Short Course Summer School 2012
Modern Acting BOV Theatre School Short Course Summer School 2012
Improvisation Engage Bath Theatre Royal 2012
Bristol Actors Academy Current 2012/13

Other Information

Relevant Skills

Acting
Puppetry (worked with puppet theatre group, making and performing)
Teaching
Running workshops
Presenting and chairing (seminars and conferences)
Play guitar and sing
Play a bit of mandolin and ukulele

Interests & Hobbies

Painting and drawing - Trained to teach art and have exhibited work
Gardening (I have an allotment)
Walking - have done some major walks in the Andes in Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Chile. Carpathian mountains in Romania and all sorts in the British Isles (Did a mountain Leadership course in my school teaching days)
Natural world - not expert but love to find and observe the flora and fauna around me be it peregrines nesting in the city, alpine meadow flowers or brown bears in the forest.

Miscellaneous Information

I am professional and courteous

I have a car and clean driving license, can drive up to 7.5 tonne vehicles

I am an Equity member