Jeffrey Kissoon
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Jeffery Kissoon is a Trinidadian actor with credits in British theatre, film and radio. He has performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company
at venues such as the Royal National Theatre
, under directors including Peter Brook
, Peter Hall, Robert Lapage, Janet Suzman
, Calixto Bieito
and Nicholas Hytner
. His work spans genres from Shakespearean
and modern theatre to television drama and science fiction
, playing a range of leading and supporting roles, from Mark Antony
in Antony and Cleopatra
, and Prospero
and Caliban
in The Tempest
, to Malcolm X
in The Meeting
and Mr Kennedy in the British children's TV series Grange Hill
.
Kissoon has regularly directed for theatre and is a member of the board of directors of the Shared Experience
company and the Warehouse Theatre
in Croydon. He has tutored younger actors, writers and directors and values the rehearsal process. In 2010, he was due to play the lead role in the Mark Norfolk
film Ham and the Piper and direct Norfolk's theatre production Naked Soldiers, which was to be staged in May 2010 at the Warehouse Theatre (starring Ewart James Walters, Adam Sopp
and Elisabeth Dahl). He was also due to reprise his role of Antony in Suzman's production of Antony and Cleopatra, appearing opposite Kim Cattrall
as Cleopatra, at the Liverpool Playhouse
in October 2010.
and migrated with his parents to London at an early age. At the Christopher Wren
School in Shepherd's Bush, Kissoon joined the school drama group and in 1970, under Robert Tanitch
and Eric Rickman got his first screen experience in the film, Like You, Like Me, an interracial love story.
Although he trained as a drama teacher, Kissoon has worked since the early 1970s as an actor. In 1972 he joined the Glasgow Citizens' Theatre
Company and over the next two years, played leading roles in a number of productions including Phillip Marlowe's, Tamburlaine The Great and Bertol Brecht's, Threepenny Opera. During this period he worked with the director, Keith Hack who cast him as Tamburlaine at the 1972 Edinburgh Festival
and as Caliban
in the Royal Shakespeare Company
1974 production of The Tempest
at The Other Place
in Stratford on Avon.
Meanwhile, he got his first prominent TV role as Sam in Kevin Laffan
's Beryl's Lot
for Yorkshire Television
in 1975 and after playing PC Robbins in an episode of Z-Cars
and Sonny in a "Play for Today
" entitled Rocky Marciano is Dead, both in 1976, Kissoon played Dr Ben Vincent in seven episodes of Gerry Anderson
's science fiction TV series, Space 1999 in 1976/7.
In 1985, Kissoon played Karna in Peter Brook
's nine-hour stage adaptation of The Mahabharata. This epic three-year project started at the Festival d'Avignon
, went on world tour and culminated in a six hour movie. This led to a long and on-going professional association with Peter Brook which included playing two roles in Brook's audacious adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet
. He has for many years been a regular member of the cast in Royal Shakespeare Company
productions and at the Royal National Theatre, often with director, Sir Peter Hall.
In 2003, Kissoon took part in a rehearse reading of the play, Wrong Place at the Soho Theatre. This marked the start of an on-going film and theatre collaboration with the playwright Mark Norfolk
.
Jeffery Kissoon's recent screen and stage credits include, Dirty Pretty Things
(Stephen Frears
2002), Crossing Bridges (Mark Norfolk
2004), Holby City
(BBC 2006), Casualty
(ITV 2008), War and Peace
(Hampstead Theatre
2008), Amazonia (Old Vic
2009) and The Meeting (Warehouse Theatre
2009). He is currently in production, playing the lead role in Mark Norfolk
's new film, Ham and the Piper and preparing to direct Mark Norfolk
's, Naked Soldiers which will be staged in May 2010 at the Warehouse Theatre
, featuring Ewart James Walters, Adam Sopp
and Elisabeth Dahl. Jeffrey is currently appearing in Radio 4
's comedy Rudy's Rare Records (2008-current) as Rudy's friend Clifton.
It has been announced that he will reprise his Anthony in a production of Anthony & Cleopatra, directed by Janet Suzman, and opposite Kim Cattrall as Cleopatra in Liverpool at the Playhouse http://www.everymanplayhouse.com/ in October 2010.
Kiss of Death (2008) (TV) .... Commissioner
The Nativity Story (2006) .... Herod's Architect
"Holby City" .... Douglas Payne / ... (2 episodes, 2002–2006)
Agatha Christie Marple: The Sittaford Mystery (2006) (TV) .... Ahmed Ghali
Crossing Bridges, (as Buster), Prussia Lane Productions, Dir Mark Norfolk
, 2004
Grease Monkeys .... Bertrand Baptiste (1 episode, 2004)
Doctors .... Lewis Parnell (1 episode, 2003)
EastEnders" (1985) TV series .... Milton Hibbert (unknown episodes, 2002)
Dirty Pretty Things (2002) .... Cab Controller
The Tragedy of Hamlet (2002) (TV) .... King (Claudius)/Ghost
Dalziel and Pascoe .... Mr. Graham (1 episode, 1999)
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Tales of Innocence (1999) (V) .... El Hadji
Only Love (1998) (TV) .... Rashid
Brothers and Sisters (1998) TV series .... Russel Leonard
Hamlet (1996) Kenneth Brannagh, .... Fortinbras's Captain
The Bill .... De Silva (2 episodes, 1995)
The Mahabharata, Peter Brook, (1989) TV movie .... Karna
Grange Hill .... Mr. Kennedy (33 episodes, 1986–1987)
Cosmic Princess (1982) (TV) .... Dr. Ben Vincent
Very Like a Whale (1981) (TV) .... Customs officer
Destination Moonbase-Alpha (1978) (TV) .... Dr. Ben Vincent
Space: 1999 .... Dr. Ben Vincent (7 episodes, 1976–1977)
Play for Today .... Sonny (1 episode, 1976)
Z Cars .... PC Robbins (1 episode, 1976)
Beryl's Lot .... Sam (4 episodes, 1975)
Like You, Like Me, Robert Tanitch
and Eric Rickman, 1970.
Royal Shakespeare Company
The Royal Shakespeare Company is a major British theatre company, based in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England. The company employs 700 staff and produces around 20 productions a year from its home in Stratford-upon-Avon and plays regularly in London, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and on tour across...
at venues such as the Royal National Theatre
Royal National Theatre
The Royal National Theatre in London is one of the United Kingdom's two most prominent publicly funded theatre companies, alongside the Royal Shakespeare Company...
, under directors including Peter Brook
Peter Brook
Peter Stephen Paul Brook CH, CBE is an English theatre and film director and innovator, who has been based in France since the early 1970s.-Life:...
, Peter Hall, Robert Lapage, Janet Suzman
Janet Suzman
Dame Janet Suzman, DBE is a South African-born-British actress and director.-Early life:Janet Suzman was born in Johannesburg to a Jewish family, the daughter of Betty and Saul Suzman, a wealthy importer of tobacco....
, Calixto Bieito
Calixto Bieito
Calixto Bieito is a Spanish theater director known for his "radical" interpretations of classic operas.-Biography:...
and Nicholas Hytner
Nicholas Hytner
Sir Nicholas Robert Hytner is an English film and theatre producer and director. He has been the artistic director of London's National Theatre since 2003.-Biography:...
. His work spans genres from Shakespearean
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"...
and modern theatre to television drama and science fiction
Science fiction
Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...
, playing a range of leading and supporting roles, from Mark Antony
Mark Antony
Marcus Antonius , known in English as Mark Antony, was a Roman politician and general. As a military commander and administrator, he was an important supporter and loyal friend of his mother's cousin Julius Caesar...
in Antony and Cleopatra
Antony and Cleopatra
Antony and Cleopatra is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written sometime between 1603 and 1607. It was first printed in the First Folio of 1623. The plot is based on Thomas North's translation of Plutarch's Lives and follows the relationship between Cleopatra and Mark Antony...
, and Prospero
Prospero
Prospero is the protagonist in The Tempest, a play by William Shakespeare.- The Tempest :Prospero is the rightful Duke of Milan, who was put to sea on "a rotten carcass of a butt [boat]" to die by his usurping brother, Antonio, twelve years before the play begins. Prospero and Miranda survived,...
and Caliban
Caliban
Caliban is a character in William Shakespeare's play The Tempest.Caliban may also refer to:* Caliban , a moon of Uranus* Caliban , a metalcore band from Germany* Caliban , an acoustic Celtic folk duo...
in The Tempest
The Tempest
The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1610–11, and thought by many critics to be the last play that Shakespeare wrote alone. It is set on a remote island, where Prospero, the exiled Duke of Milan, plots to restore his daughter Miranda to her rightful place,...
, to Malcolm X
Malcolm X
Malcolm X , born Malcolm Little and also known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz , was an African American Muslim minister and human rights activist. To his admirers he was a courageous advocate for the rights of African Americans, a man who indicted white America in the harshest terms for its...
in The Meeting
The Meeting
The Meeting is the tenth album of R&B singer Patrice Rushen, released in 1990. This album contains a collaboration of Rushen and many other artists. Featuring saxophonist Ernie Watts, bassist Alphonso Johnson and drummer Leon "Ndugu" Chancler, the album alternates between soulful jazz, inventive...
and Mr Kennedy in the British children's TV series Grange Hill
Grange Hill
Grange Hill is a British television drama series originally made by the BBC. The show began in 1978 on BBC1 and was one of the longest running programmes on British television...
.
Kissoon has regularly directed for theatre and is a member of the board of directors of the Shared Experience
Shared Experience
Shared Experience is a British theatre company. Its current joint artistic directors are Nancy Meckler and Polly Teale. Kate Saxon is an Associate Director.-Productions:*A Passage to India *Madame Bovary...
company and the Warehouse Theatre
Warehouse Theatre
The Warehouse Theatre is a professional producing theatre with one hundred seats in the centre of the London Borough of Croydon, south London, England based in an oak-beamed former cement Victorian warehouse...
in Croydon. He has tutored younger actors, writers and directors and values the rehearsal process. In 2010, he was due to play the lead role in the Mark Norfolk
Mark Norfolk
Mark Norfolk is a prolific author and independent filmmaker. He has made documentaries, short films and feature films and authored plays for stage and radio and well as publishing several books.-Early life and career:Birthdate unknown...
film Ham and the Piper and direct Norfolk's theatre production Naked Soldiers, which was to be staged in May 2010 at the Warehouse Theatre (starring Ewart James Walters, Adam Sopp
Adam Sopp
Adam Michael Richard Sopp is a British actor, best known for his role as teenager Darren Clarke in the long-running BBC school drama, Grange Hill, from 1999 to 2002. He has also appeared in daytime soap Doctors...
and Elisabeth Dahl). He was also due to reprise his role of Antony in Suzman's production of Antony and Cleopatra, appearing opposite Kim Cattrall
Kim Cattrall
Kim Victoria Cattrall is an English actress. She is known for her role as Samantha Jones in the HBO comedy/romance series Sex and the City, and for her leading roles in the 1980s films Police Academy, Big Trouble in Little China, Mannequin, and Porky's...
as Cleopatra, at the Liverpool Playhouse
Liverpool Playhouse
The Liverpool Playhouse is a theatre in Williamson Square in the city of Liverpool, Merseyside, England. It originated in 1866 as a music hall, and in 1911 developed into a repertory theatre. As such it nurtured the early careers of many actors and actresses, some of which went on to achieve...
in October 2010.
Early life and career
Jeffery Kissoon was born in TrinidadTrinidad
Trinidad is the larger and more populous of the two major islands and numerous landforms which make up the island nation of Trinidad and Tobago. It is the southernmost island in the Caribbean and lies just off the northeastern coast of Venezuela. With an area of it is also the fifth largest in...
and migrated with his parents to London at an early age. At the Christopher Wren
Christopher Wren
Sir Christopher Wren FRS is one of the most highly acclaimed English architects in history.He used to be accorded responsibility for rebuilding 51 churches in the City of London after the Great Fire in 1666, including his masterpiece, St. Paul's Cathedral, on Ludgate Hill, completed in 1710...
School in Shepherd's Bush, Kissoon joined the school drama group and in 1970, under Robert Tanitch
Robert Tanitch
Robert Tanitch, who lives in London, is a playwright, author, biographer, lecturer, theatre and film critic.He had the first professional production of one of his plays while he was still up at Oxford University....
and Eric Rickman got his first screen experience in the film, Like You, Like Me, an interracial love story.
Although he trained as a drama teacher, Kissoon has worked since the early 1970s as an actor. In 1972 he joined the Glasgow Citizens' Theatre
Citizens' Theatre
The Citizens Theatre is based in Glasgow, Scotland and is the principal producing theatre in the west of Scotland. The theatre includes a 500-seat Main Auditorium, and two studio theatres, the Circle Studio and the Stalls Studio .The Citizen's Theatre repertory group, originally called the Citizen's...
Company and over the next two years, played leading roles in a number of productions including Phillip Marlowe's, Tamburlaine The Great and Bertol Brecht's, Threepenny Opera. During this period he worked with the director, Keith Hack who cast him as Tamburlaine at the 1972 Edinburgh Festival
Edinburgh Festival
The Edinburgh Festival is a collective term for many arts and cultural festivals that take place in Edinburgh, Scotland each summer, mostly in August...
and as Caliban
Caliban
Caliban is a character in William Shakespeare's play The Tempest.Caliban may also refer to:* Caliban , a moon of Uranus* Caliban , a metalcore band from Germany* Caliban , an acoustic Celtic folk duo...
in the Royal Shakespeare Company
Royal Shakespeare Company
The Royal Shakespeare Company is a major British theatre company, based in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England. The company employs 700 staff and produces around 20 productions a year from its home in Stratford-upon-Avon and plays regularly in London, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and on tour across...
1974 production of The Tempest
The Tempest
The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1610–11, and thought by many critics to be the last play that Shakespeare wrote alone. It is set on a remote island, where Prospero, the exiled Duke of Milan, plots to restore his daughter Miranda to her rightful place,...
at The Other Place
The Other Place (theatre)
The Other Place was a black box theatre on Southern Lane, near to the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. It was owned and operated by the Royal Shakespeare Company....
in Stratford on Avon.
Meanwhile, he got his first prominent TV role as Sam in Kevin Laffan
Kevin Laffan
Kevin Barry Laffan was an English playwright and screenwriter, best known for creating ITV soap opera Emmerdale Farm. Laffan had undergone heart surgery but two weeks later, he died after suffering a bout of pneumonia....
's Beryl's Lot
Beryl's Lot
Beryl's Lot was a British sitcom about a woman approaching middle-age and embarking on a programme of personal development. It was written by Kevin Laffan, produced by David Cunliffe and Peter Willes, and directed by Derek Bennett and David Reynolds for Yorkshire Television and broadcast on ITV...
for Yorkshire Television
Yorkshire Television
Yorkshire Television, now officially known as ITV Yorkshire and sometimes unofficially abbreviated to YTV, is a British television broadcaster and the contractor for the Yorkshire franchise area on the ITV network...
in 1975 and after playing PC Robbins in an episode of Z-Cars
Z-Cars
Z-Cars is a British television drama series centred on the work of mobile uniformed police in the fictional town of Newtown, based on Kirkby in the outskirts of Liverpool in Merseyside. Produced by the BBC, it debuted in January 1962 and ran until September 1978.-Origins:The series was developed by...
and Sonny in a "Play for Today
Play for Today
Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted...
" entitled Rocky Marciano is Dead, both in 1976, Kissoon played Dr Ben Vincent in seven episodes of Gerry Anderson
Gerry Anderson
Gerry Anderson MBE is a British publisher, producer, director and writer, famous for his futuristic television programmes, particularly those involving specially modified marionettes, a process called "Supermarionation"....
's science fiction TV series, Space 1999 in 1976/7.
In 1985, Kissoon played Karna in Peter Brook
Peter Brook
Peter Stephen Paul Brook CH, CBE is an English theatre and film director and innovator, who has been based in France since the early 1970s.-Life:...
's nine-hour stage adaptation of The Mahabharata. This epic three-year project started at the Festival d'Avignon
Festival d'Avignon
The Festival d'Avignon, or Avignon Festival, is an annual arts festival held in the French city of Avignon. Founded in 1947 by Jean Vilar, it is the oldest extant festival in France and one of the world's greatest...
, went on world tour and culminated in a six hour movie. This led to a long and on-going professional association with Peter Brook which included playing two roles in Brook's audacious adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet
Hamlet
The Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, or more simply Hamlet, is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601...
. He has for many years been a regular member of the cast in Royal Shakespeare Company
Royal Shakespeare Company
The Royal Shakespeare Company is a major British theatre company, based in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England. The company employs 700 staff and produces around 20 productions a year from its home in Stratford-upon-Avon and plays regularly in London, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and on tour across...
productions and at the Royal National Theatre, often with director, Sir Peter Hall.
In 2003, Kissoon took part in a rehearse reading of the play, Wrong Place at the Soho Theatre. This marked the start of an on-going film and theatre collaboration with the playwright Mark Norfolk
Mark Norfolk
Mark Norfolk is a prolific author and independent filmmaker. He has made documentaries, short films and feature films and authored plays for stage and radio and well as publishing several books.-Early life and career:Birthdate unknown...
.
Jeffery Kissoon's recent screen and stage credits include, Dirty Pretty Things
Dirty Pretty Things (film)
Dirty Pretty Things is a 2002 film directed by Stephen Frears and written by Steven Knight, a drama about two illegal immigrants in London...
(Stephen Frears
Stephen Frears
Stephen Arthur Frears is an English film director.-Early life:Frears was born in Leicester, England to Ruth M., a social worker, and Dr Russell E. Frears, a general practitioner and accountant. He did not find out that his mother was Jewish until he was in his late 20s...
2002), Crossing Bridges (Mark Norfolk
Mark Norfolk
Mark Norfolk is a prolific author and independent filmmaker. He has made documentaries, short films and feature films and authored plays for stage and radio and well as publishing several books.-Early life and career:Birthdate unknown...
2004), Holby City
Holby City
Holby City, stylised as Holby Ci+y, is a British medical drama television series that airs weekly on BBC One.The series was created by Tony McHale and Mal Young as a spin-off from the established BBC medical drama Casualty, and premiered on 12 January 1999...
(BBC 2006), Casualty
Casualty (TV series)
Casualty, stylised as Casual+y, is a British weekly television show broadcast on BBC One, and the longest-running emergency medical drama television series in the world. Created by Jeremy Brock and Paul Unwin, it was first broadcast on 6 September 1986, and transmitted in the UK on BBC One. The...
(ITV 2008), War and Peace
War and Peace
War and Peace is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, first published in 1869. The work is epic in scale and is regarded as one of the most important works of world literature...
(Hampstead Theatre
Hampstead Theatre
Hampstead Theatre is a theatre in the vicinity of Swiss Cottage and Belsize Park, in the London Borough of Camden. It specialises in commissioning and producing new writing, supporting and developing the work of new writers. In 2009 it celebrates its 50 year anniversary.The original theatre was...
2008), Amazonia (Old Vic
Old Vic
The Old Vic is a theatre located just south-east of Waterloo Station in London on the corner of The Cut and Waterloo Road. Established in 1818 as the Royal Coburg Theatre, it was taken over by Emma Cons in 1880 when it was known formally as the Royal Victoria Hall. In 1898, a niece of Cons, Lilian...
2009) and The Meeting (Warehouse Theatre
Warehouse Theatre
The Warehouse Theatre is a professional producing theatre with one hundred seats in the centre of the London Borough of Croydon, south London, England based in an oak-beamed former cement Victorian warehouse...
2009). He is currently in production, playing the lead role in Mark Norfolk
Mark Norfolk
Mark Norfolk is a prolific author and independent filmmaker. He has made documentaries, short films and feature films and authored plays for stage and radio and well as publishing several books.-Early life and career:Birthdate unknown...
's new film, Ham and the Piper and preparing to direct Mark Norfolk
Mark Norfolk
Mark Norfolk is a prolific author and independent filmmaker. He has made documentaries, short films and feature films and authored plays for stage and radio and well as publishing several books.-Early life and career:Birthdate unknown...
's, Naked Soldiers which will be staged in May 2010 at the Warehouse Theatre
Warehouse Theatre
The Warehouse Theatre is a professional producing theatre with one hundred seats in the centre of the London Borough of Croydon, south London, England based in an oak-beamed former cement Victorian warehouse...
, featuring Ewart James Walters, Adam Sopp
Adam Sopp
Adam Michael Richard Sopp is a British actor, best known for his role as teenager Darren Clarke in the long-running BBC school drama, Grange Hill, from 1999 to 2002. He has also appeared in daytime soap Doctors...
and Elisabeth Dahl. Jeffrey is currently appearing in Radio 4
BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station, operated and owned by the BBC, that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history. It replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. The station controller is currently Gwyneth Williams, and the...
's comedy Rudy's Rare Records (2008-current) as Rudy's friend Clifton.
It has been announced that he will reprise his Anthony in a production of Anthony & Cleopatra, directed by Janet Suzman, and opposite Kim Cattrall as Cleopatra in Liverpool at the Playhouse http://www.everymanplayhouse.com/ in October 2010.
Theatre
- The Meeting, (as [Malcolm X]) Croydon Warehouse TheatreWarehouse TheatreThe Warehouse Theatre is a professional producing theatre with one hundred seats in the centre of the London Borough of Croydon, south London, England based in an oak-beamed former cement Victorian warehouse...
Dir. Jeffrey Kissoon 2009 - Amazonia (as Don Antonio), Young Vic Dir. Paul Heritage/Joe Hill-Gibbons, 2009
- War and Peace, (as Prince Bolkonsky) Hampstead TheatreHampstead TheatreHampstead Theatre is a theatre in the vicinity of Swiss Cottage and Belsize Park, in the London Borough of Camden. It specialises in commissioning and producing new writing, supporting and developing the work of new writers. In 2009 it celebrates its 50 year anniversary.The original theatre was...
and tour, Dir. Nancy MecklerNancy MecklerNancy Meckler is an American theatre director and film director, best known for her work in the United Kingdom, especially with Shared Experience, where she is joint artistic director alongside Polly Teale....
, 2008 - An African Cargo, Nitro (formerly Black Theatre Co-operative) Dir. Felix Cross, 2007
- OrestesOrestes (play)Orestes is an Ancient Greek play by Euripides that follows the events of Orestes after he had murdered his mother.-Background:...
(as Tyndareos), Tricycle TheatreTricycle TheatreThe Tricycle Theatre is located on Kilburn High Road in Kilburn in the London Borough of Brent, England. During the last 30 years, the Tricycle has been presenting plays reflecting the cultural diversity of its community; in particular Black, Irish, Jewish, Asian and South African works, as well as...
and Tour, Nancy Meckler, 2007 - Tamburlaine the GreatTamburlaine (play)Tamburlaine the Great is the name of a play in two parts by Christopher Marlowe. It is loosely based on the life of the Central Asian emperor, Timur 'the lame'...
(as Bajazeth), Bristol Old VicBristol Old VicThe Bristol Old Vic is a theatre company based at the Theatre Royal, King Street, in Bristol, England. The theatre complex includes the 1766 Theatre Royal, which claims to be the oldest continually-operating theatre in England, along with a 1970s studio theatre , offices and backstage facilities...
& Barbican CentreBarbican CentreThe Barbican Centre is the largest performing arts centre in Europe. Located in the City of London, England, the Centre hosts classical and contemporary music concerts, theatre performances, film screenings and art exhibitions. It also houses a library, three restaurants, and a conservatory...
, Dir. David Farr, 2005 - Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2Henry IV, Part 1Henry IV, Part 1 is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written no later than 1597. It is the second play in Shakespeare's tetralogy dealing with the successive reigns of Richard II, Henry IV , and Henry V...
(as Northumberland), Royal National TheatreRoyal National TheatreThe Royal National Theatre in London is one of the United Kingdom's two most prominent publicly funded theatre companies, alongside the Royal Shakespeare Company...
Dir. Nicholas HytnerNicholas HytnerSir Nicholas Robert Hytner is an English film and theatre producer and director. He has been the artistic director of London's National Theatre since 2003.-Biography:...
, 2005 - Fix Up (as Brother Kiyi), Royal National TheatreRoyal National TheatreThe Royal National Theatre in London is one of the United Kingdom's two most prominent publicly funded theatre companies, alongside the Royal Shakespeare Company...
, Dir. Angus Jackson 2004, - A Midsummer Night’s Dream (as Theseus/Oberon), Chichester Festival TheatreChichester Festival TheatreChichester Festival Theatre, located in Chichester, England, was designed by Philip Powell and Hidalgo Moya, and opened by its founder Leslie Evershed-Martin in 1962. Subsequently the smaller and more intimate Minerva Theatre was built nearby in 1989....
, Dir. Gail EdwardsGail EdwardsGail June Edwards is a retired American actress best known for her roles as Dot Higgins in ABC's It's a Living, Sharon Lemure in NBC's Blossom, and Vicky Larson in ABC's Full House.-Early life and career:...
/Steven PimlottSteven PimlottSteven Charles Pimlott OBE was an English opera and theatre director and actor. An obituary in The Times hailed him as "one of the most versatile and inventive theatre directors of his generation"...
1992 - Resurrection' Lichfield Garrick Theatre, Dir. Annie Castledine 2003,
- Nathan the Wise, Chichester Festival Theatre, Steven Pimlott, 2003
- The Meeting (as Malcolm X), Croydon Warehouse Theatre, Malcolm Fredericks, 2002.
- The Tragedy of HamletHamletThe Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, or more simply Hamlet, is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601...
, (as the Ghost and Claudius) World Tour, Dir. Dir. Peter BrookPeter BrookPeter Stephen Paul Brook CH, CBE is an English theatre and film director and innovator, who has been based in France since the early 1970s.-Life:...
, 2001/2 - The Free State (as Alexander), Tour, Dir Janet SuzmanJanet SuzmanDame Janet Suzman, DBE is a South African-born-British actress and director.-Early life:Janet Suzman was born in Johannesburg to a Jewish family, the daughter of Betty and Saul Suzman, a wealthy importer of tobacco....
, 2000. - The Dove, Croydon Warehouse Theatre, Jeanette Smith, 1999.
- Life is a Dream (as Basilio), Edinburgh, London, Dir. Calixto BieitoCalixto BieitoCalixto Bieito is a Spanish theater director known for his "radical" interpretations of classic operas.-Biography:...
, 1999. - Caucasian Chalk Circle, Royal National Theatre, Simon McBurneySimon McBurneySimon Montagu McBurney, OBE is an English actor, writer and director. He is the founder and artistic director of Théâtre de Complicité in England, now called Complicite.-Early life:...
, 1997. - Oedipus the KingOedipus the KingOedipus the King , also known by the Latin title Oedipus Rex, is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles that was first performed c. 429 BCE. It was the second of Sophocles's three Theban plays to be produced, but it comes first in the internal chronology, followed by Oedipus at Colonus and then Antigone...
, Royal National Theatre Peter Hall, 1996. - The TempestThe TempestThe Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1610–11, and thought by many critics to be the last play that Shakespeare wrote alone. It is set on a remote island, where Prospero, the exiled Duke of Milan, plots to restore his daughter Miranda to her rightful place,...
(as Prospero), Birmingham Repertory TheatreBirmingham Repertory TheatreBirmingham Repertory Theatre is a theatre and theatre company based on Centenary Square in Birmingham, England...
, Bill AlexanderBill Alexander (director)William "Bill" Alexander Paterson is an award-winning British theatre director.Bill Alexander is an awarding winning British theatre director who has worked extensively with The Royal Shakespeare Company. He was artistic director of Birmingham Repertory Theatre between 1992 and 2002...
, 1994. - Julius CaesarJulius Caesar (play)The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, also known simply as Julius Caesar, is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1599. It portrays the 44 BC conspiracy against...
(as Brutus), RSC The Other Place, video and tour, Dir. David Thacker, 1993. - OthelloOthelloThe Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in approximately 1603, and based on the Italian short story "Un Capitano Moro" by Cinthio, a disciple of Boccaccio, first published in 1565...
(as Othello), Birmingham Rep, Bill Alexander, 1993. - A Midsummer Night’s Dream, (as Oberon) Royal National Theatre, Robert LepageRobert LepageRobert Lepage, is a playwright, actor, film director, and stage director from Québec City, Québec, and is one of Canada's most honoured theatre artists.- Life and work :...
, 1992. - The Coup, Royal National Theatre, Dir. Mustapha Matura, 1991
- A Taste of Honey
- Antony & Cleopatra (as Antony), Merseyside Theatre & Bloomsbury, Dir. Yvonne brewster, 1991.
- In The Solitude of Cotton Fields, Almeida TheatreAlmeida TheatreThe Almeida Theatre, opened in 1980, is a 325 seat studio theatre with an international reputation which takes its name from the street in which it is located, off Upper Street, in the London Borough of Islington. The theatre produces a diverse range of drama and holds an annual summer festival of...
, 1991. - As You Like ItAs You Like ItAs You Like It is a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 or early 1600 and first published in the folio of 1623. The play's first performance is uncertain, though a performance at Wilton House in 1603 has been suggested as a possibility...
, Royal Shakespeare Company, Trevor NunnTrevor NunnSir Trevor Robert Nunn, CBE is an English theatre, film and television director. Nunn has been the Artistic Director for the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal National Theatre, and, currently, the Theatre Royal, Haymarket. He has directed musicals and dramas for the stage, as well as opera... - The Merchant of VeniceThe Merchant of VeniceThe Merchant of Venice is a tragic comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1596 and 1598. Though classified as a comedy in the First Folio and sharing certain aspects with Shakespeare's other romantic comedies, the play is perhaps most remembered for its dramatic...
(as the Prince of Morocco, alongside Dustin HoffmanDustin HoffmanDustin Lee Hoffman is an American actor with a career in film, television, and theatre since 1960. He has been known for his versatile portrayals of antiheroes and vulnerable characters....
as Shylock), Phoenix TheatrePhoenix Theatre (London)The Phoenix Theatre is a West End theatre in the London Borough of Camden, located on Charing Cross Road . The entrance is in Phoenix Street....
, Dir Peter Hall, 1989. - The Gods Are Not to Blame, Riverside StudiosRiverside StudiosRiverside Studios is a production studio, theatre and independent cinema on the banks of the River Thames in Hammersmith, London, England. It plays host to contemporary and international dramatic and dance performance, film, visual art exhibitions and television production.-History:In 1933, the...
, Dir. Yvonne Brewster 1989. - The Mahabharata (as Karna), Avignon Theater Festival in France, tour and film, Dir. Peter BrookPeter BrookPeter Stephen Paul Brook CH, CBE is an English theatre and film director and innovator, who has been based in France since the early 1970s.-Life:...
, 1985–1989 - Troilus and Cressida (as Diomedes), Barbican CentreBarbican CentreThe Barbican Centre is the largest performing arts centre in Europe. Located in the City of London, England, the Centre hosts classical and contemporary music concerts, theatre performances, film screenings and art exhibitions. It also houses a library, three restaurants, and a conservatory...
Dir. Howard Davies, 1986. - Cheapside, Croydon Warehouse Theatre, Dir Ted Craig, 1985.
- Oroonoko, Glasgow Citizen's Theatre, Phillip Rowse, 1983.
- Marino FalieroMarino FalieroMarino Faliero was the fifty-fifth Doge of Venice, appointed on 11 September 1354. He was sometimes referred to simply as Marin Falier or Falieri.-Biography:...
, Dir Keith Hack, The Young Vic, 1982. - Dr Faustus, Royal Exchange, Manchester, Dir. Adrian NobleAdrian NobleAdrian Keith Noble is a theatre director, and was also the artistic director and chief executive of the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1990 to 2003.-Education and career:...
, 1981. - Albie Sach's Jail Diary, The Warehouse, Royal Shakespeare Company, 1978.
- Barbarians: A Trilogy: Killing Time, Abide with Me, In the City, Greenwich Theatre, Keith Hack, 1977.
- City Sugar, Bush Theatre, Dir. Stephen PoliakoffStephen PoliakoffStephen Poliakoff, CBE, FRSL is an acclaimed British playwright, director and scriptwriter, widely judged amongst Britain's foremost television dramatists.-Early life and career:...
, 1976 - Measure for MeasureMeasure for MeasureMeasure for Measure is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1603 or 1604. It was classified as comedy, but its mood defies those expectations. As a result and for a variety of reasons, some critics have labelled it as one of Shakespeare's problem plays...
(as Provost), Keith Hack, 1974. - Glorious Things
- Great and Small
- King LearKing LearKing Lear is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. The title character descends into madness after foolishly disposing of his estate between two of his three daughters based on their flattery, bringing tragic consequences for all. The play is based on the legend of Leir of Britain, a mythological...
- Kingdom of Barth
- Last Missionary
- The Tempest (as Caliban), RSC The Other Place, Stratford on Avon, Dir. Kieth Hack, 1974.
- Love’s Labours Lost
- Macbeth - Young Vic
- Macbeth - Birmingham Rep
- Oedipus The King/ Oedipus - Royal National Theatre -Peter Hall
- Colonus
- Othello - Bristol Old Vic - Paul Unwin
- Othello - Birmingham Rep. Theatre - Bill Alexander
- Reflections
- Streamers
- The Island
- The Sign in Sidney
- Brutstein’s Widow
- The Tempest - Birmingham Rep. Theatre - Bill Alexander
- The Way of The World
- MacbethMacbethThe Tragedy of Macbeth is a play by William Shakespeare about a regicide and its aftermath. It is Shakespeare's shortest tragedy and is believed to have been written sometime between 1603 and 1607...
(as Meru), The RoundhouseThe RoundhouseThe Roundhouse is a Grade II* listed former railway engine shed in Chalk Farm, London, England, which has been converted into a performing arts and concert venue. It was originally built in 1847 as a roundhouse , a circular building containing a railway turntable, but was only used for railway...
, Dir. Peter Coe. - Marat/SadeMarat/SadeThe Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade , almost invariably shortened to Marat/Sade, is a 1963 play by Peter Weiss...
(as Safter), The Citizen's Company, Dir. Rick Stroud, 1972. - The Threepenny OperaThe Threepenny OperaThe Threepenny Opera is a musical by German dramatist Bertolt Brecht and composer Kurt Weill, in collaboration with translator Elisabeth Hauptmann and set designer Caspar Neher. It was adapted from an 18th-century English ballad opera, John Gay's The Beggar's Opera, and offers a Marxist critique...
(as Tiger Brown), The Citizen's Company, Dir. Rick Stroud, 1972. - Tamburlaine The Great (as Tamburlaine), The Citizen's Company, Dir, Keith Hack. 1972.
- Vision of Youth
Television
- Doctors .... Denny (1 Episode,Friday 30 April 2010)
- Casualty .... Lyndon Marshall (1 episode, 2008)
- Bad Blood (2006) TV episode .... Trevor Heron
- Last Chances (2002) TV episode .... Douglas Payne
Mark Norfolk
Mark Norfolk is a prolific author and independent filmmaker. He has made documentaries, short films and feature films and authored plays for stage and radio and well as publishing several books.-Early life and career:Birthdate unknown...
, 2004
- Time to Go (1999) TV episode .... Mr. Graham
- Street Life (1995) TV episode .... De Silva
- Uncle Bob (1995) TV episode .... De Silva
- Episode #10.24 (1987) TV episode .... Mr. Kennedy
- Episode #10.14 (1987) TV episode .... Mr. Kennedy
- Episode #10.13 (1987) TV episode .... Mr. Kennedy
- Episode #10.5 (1987) TV episode .... Mr. Kennedy
- Episode #10.1 (1987) TV episode .... Mr. Kennedy
- (28 more)
- The Bringers of Wonder: Part 2 (1977) TV episode .... Dr. Ben Vincent
- The Bringers of Wonder: Part 1 (1977) TV episode .... Dr. Ben Vincent
- Space Warp (1976) TV episode .... Dr. Ben Vincent
- Catacombs of the Moon (1976) TV episode .... Dr. Ben Vincent
- Seed of Destruction (1976) TV episode .... Dr. Ben Vincent
- (2 more)
- Rocky Marciano Is Dead (1976) TV episode .... Sonny
- Manslaughter (1976) TV episode .... PC Robbins
- A Day at the Races (1975) TV episode .... Sam
- Home Again (1975) TV episode .... Sam
- Safety First (1975) TV episode .... Sam
- Devil to Pay (1975) TV episode .... Sam
Robert Tanitch
Robert Tanitch, who lives in London, is a playwright, author, biographer, lecturer, theatre and film critic.He had the first professional production of one of his plays while he was still up at Oxford University....
and Eric Rickman, 1970.
Radio
- Gone, BBC Radio 3, Debbie Tucker Green, 2010.
- Broken Chain (lead), Mark Norfolk, 2008.
- Tamburlaine: The Shadow of God, BBC, Marc Beeby, 2008.
- Rudy’s Rare Records (Series I,II and III), BBC, Lucy Armitage, 2008.
- The City Speaks: Broken Chain, BBC Radio 4, Toby SwiftToby SwiftToby Swift is a radio drama director and producer for BBC Radio. His numerous credits include the crime dramas The Recall Man and Trueman and Riley. He also directs contemporary and period radio dramas....
, 19 March 2008. - Dionysos (alongside Diana Rigg and Paul Schofield), BBC3, 2003.
- The Ministry of Performing Arts, BBC Sound, Mustapha MaturaMustapha MaturaMustapha Matura is a Trinidadian playwright living in London.In 1971 his play As Time Goes By was first performed at the Traverse Theatre Club in Edinburgh and the Theatre Upstairs at the Royal Court Theatre, with a cast of noted Caribbean actors including Stefan Kalipha, Alfred Fagon, Mona...