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Native Northern   Based North   Height 6' 1"   Hair Light Brown   Eyes Blue

Accents
Standard / Cockney / Lancashire / Yorkshire / Manchester / Liverpool
Irish / Scottish + Glasgow / American + New York.  Good ear

Skills
Drives / Sings - Tenor / Stage Movement / Stage Combat / Mask
Improvising + Contact Improvisation / Devising / Workshops + Leader
Alexander Technique / Specialist Theatre - Forum + Bio-Mechanical

Training
Manchester Metropolitan University

Television
Granada:  BLUE MURDER - Billy Mee
BBC Three:  SPOOKS: CODE 9 - Manager
Granada:  ANGELL'S HELL - PC 1
Granada:  CORONATION STREET - Tufty
BBC:  THE COPS - Bank Clerk
Granada:  A & E - Policeman

Theatre
Contact Theatre Manchester:  VERBALLY CHALLEGED  * Playwright Development
Bolton Octagon / 24:7 Theatre Festival Manchester:  VEGETABLE - Ed  * Nominated for 2006 M.E.N. Best Fringe Production
Yorkshire Women Theatre:  SAFE & SOUND - Jace
Talia Theatre Co:  THE LIFE OF MOLIERE - Moliere
Proper Job Theatre Co:  BRAVE NEW WORLD - Savage
Made Up Theatre:  MARGE - Leroy Snarkler
Chol Theatre Co:  THE GHOST LESSON - Sam  * Lead
Something Wicked Theatre Co:  TWO - Landlord / Various
more Contact Theatre:
LIVE AND DIRECT  * New Directors Development
STILL ALIVE - Will  * Script Development
EVERYONE'S PARANOID - James  * Rehearsed Reading
WORD UP!  * Young Writers Festival
FLIP THE SCRIPT  * New Writing

Theatre School Productions include
THE LIBERTINE - Charles II
CELEBRATION - Jack
THE PROPOSAL - Lomov
RICHARD III - Buckingham
THE GOOD PERSON OF SETZUAN - Yang Sung
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM - Demetrius
LANDSCAPE OF THE BODY - Donny
THE VISIT - Policeman
THE BEAU DEFEATED - Clerimont

Commercial
MINI COOPER - Sales Rep
ICELAND - Dad

Corporate
BRITANNIA

Roleplay
GROUP 4 / BPP LAW SCHOOL / MANCHESTER CITY COUNCIL / NOTTINGHAM POLICE

Comedy
"Mirth on Monday" Newcomers Competition 2006 - Stand Up Finalist

Script Development
SPOOKS: LIBERTY - Read-Ins

Directors include
Sol B. River / Susan Tully / Toby Haynes / Mike Adams / Chris Honer / Kenny Glenaan / Neil Adams / Metin Huseyin
Alan Rothwell / Sam Cadman / Gennadi Bogdanov / Dominic Rai / Amanda Huxtable / James Beale / Michael Daines