About Me
After being told that acting was not a "stable job" by my school's Careers Advisor, I left school at sixteen and became a production engineer making diesel injection units for ships. I very quickly realised that a life spent talking about valve trains and cylinder blocks would be an incredibly unhappy one, so I went against all advice and auditioned for drama school.
I earnt a Bachelor of Arts from the highly-esteemed Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in 1996 and since then I have been working continuously as an actor, comedian, writer, director, teacher and collaborator.
The factory where I did my 'stable job' moved to Taiwan in 2001 and my school's Careers Advisor has since been replaced by a government website.
Teaching
I qualified as a teacher with a PGCE from the University of Greenwich in 2012.
I was mentored by the extraordinary educator Doug Quinn at Hurtwood House school, where I taught GCSE and A Level Theatre Studies.
From there, I worked on the Foundation Course at GSA before becoming Head of the Foundation's Acting Pathway. This lead to a stint as Head of the Acting and Head of the Two Year Course at Fourth Monkey.
I have taught at several other drama schools including Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, East 15 and Italia Conti.
Acting
Since drama school, I have worked with some of the industry's most respected companies, including the Royal Shakespeare Company, BBC, Apple TV, Netflix, Channel 4, SKY, and Shakespeare’s Globe.
Career highlights include the lead role in the highly-praised Sky1 sitcom Parents, starring alongside Tom Conti and Sally Phillips. Other television highlights include being a series regular in The Armando Iannucci Shows, Things You Should Have Done, Ted Lasso, Sandylands and Crackanory, I have also appeared in The Downton Abbey Movie, Number 10, Man vs Baby and the new Ghosts movie.
Most recently, I can be seen working with Colin Firth in the Sky factual mini-series Lockerbie : The Search for Truth and in BBC's Ludwig
Other Stuff
I have written sketches and additional material for Bruiser (BBC) and The Armstrong and Miller Show (Channel 4) and was part of the writing team that created the Netflix animation Bad Dinosaurs - I also supplied a few of the voices!
I am an associate actor of Menagerie Theatre Company and one of team behind the award-winning In The Gloaming podcast
I am a veteran of over fifty commercials.
As a facilitator, I have supplied workplace training across the world to companies such as Mercedes Benz, Jaguar, Land Rover, Porsche, Zurich Insurance, NHS, Nationwide among others
