Note: Apart from a school production in about 1975, I made my amateur stage debut in 1976 playing a servant in an open air production The Merry Wives of Windsor at Gawsworth Hall in Cheshire with the Wilmslow Green Room, and have appeared in a variety of productions ever since. After a break for my MBA course, I returned to acting by joining the Hoddesdon Players, since when the volume of productions in which I’ve added my twopenneth has expanded vastly. Here is the list, up to date for planned acting and directing roles:
2004 – Hoddesdon Players
- Alex in Outside Edge by Richard Harris
- Jan in The Unexpected Guest by Agatha Christie
2005 – Hoddesdon Players
- Ronnie Worthington in Out of Order by Ray Cooney
2006 – Hoddesdon Players
- (Directing) – A Kind of Alaska by Harold Pinter
- (Directing & acting) – Dan Lanzetta in Scuba Lessons by Joseph Zeccola
- Smith in Murder on the Nile by Agatha Christie
2007
- Southgate – Gerald Croft in An Inspector Calls by J B Priestley
- Hoddesdon Players – Howard in Moon over Buffalo by Ken Ludwig
2008 – Hoddesdon Players
- Jeff Seago in A Touch of Danger by Francis Durbridge
2009 – Phoenix Theatre Company
- Phil in Caught on the Hop by Derek Benfield
2010 – Phoenix Theatre Company
- Hamlet in The 15 Minute Hamlet by William Shakespeare, adapted by Tom Stoppard
- Hirin in The Celebration by Anton Chekhov
- (Directing) – Harvey by Mary Chase
- Writtle Cards – Actoid Doctor, Actoid Farmer, Man in Boutique & Turkey the pimp in Comic Potential by Alan Ayckbourn
- Writtle Cards – Archibald Carlyle in East Lynne adapted by Lisa Evans from the novel by Ellen Wood (aka Mrs Henry Wood)
- Phoenix Theatre Company – Selwyn Piper in Murder by the Book by Duncan Greenwood & Robert King
2012
- Phoenix Theatre Company & Writtle Cards – Theseus & Oberon in A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
- Phoenix Theatre Company – Joe Dinmore in They Came to a City by J B Priestley
- Howard Booth in Heatstroke by Eric Chappell
2014 – year off for good behaviour!
2015 – Kelvedon Players
- Man in The Virtuous Burglar by Dario Fo
- Roland in Jumpy by April de Angelis
2016
- TBWMIR Company – Mr Simon Goldsmith in The Boy Who Made it Rain (professional production) – cancelled
- Kelvedon Players – Shakespeare, Claudius and Polonius in the 15 Minute Hamlet by Tom Stoppard
- CWT – Inspector Thomas in The Unexpected Guest by Agatha Christie
2017
- (Directing) – The Rivals by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Plus:
- About 4 revues with the Hoddesdon Players – lots of songs, sketches etc.
- Various Murder Mystery fundraisers held by the Phoenix Theatre Company