I have been a stage actor for many years. Early on, I was in musicals such as Godspell (which toured Germany) and the Arnold Bennett adaptation The Card, as well as Ernest in The Importance of Being Ernest. My first professional role was for 'the seminal physical theatre company' (Prof Mike Pearson, Uni. of Wales) RAT Theatre company in a show called Suit of Lights about bullfighting and in which I came off stage literally with bloodied limbs. I then played in a variety of more traditional plays by playwrights such as Shakespeare, Chekov, Brecht, Strindberg, Ayckbourn, Priestly and Howard Barker.
At Uni I worked with director and artist Shabnam Shabazi and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival acted in the children's play Princess and Gay Sweat Shop's This Island's Mine by Philip Osment. For Barebones Theatre Company I was the Marquis de Sade in a very physical rendition of Peter Weiss' Marat/Sade and acted in and co-wrote (with Caz Tricks) The Collector adapted from John Fowles' novel. I played Snout from a Midsummers Night's Dream as part of the RSC's Open Stages programme and Macbeth for the Open Theatre Group's production of Shakespeare's tragedy. For several years I toured and worked as both an actor and writer with Voices of the Holocaust. In June 2015 I completed a nationwide tour as the tour manager and CSM on Big Pants and Botox by Louise Roche, starring Mary Jo Randle (Wolf Hall, Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman, Another Year, The Bill). As both writer and actor with Carabosse Theatre Company I worked on the large cast adaptation of Mervyn Peake's Penguin Classic Gormenghast which was endorsed (and praised) by his son Fabian Peake. At present I continue working with Carabosse. |
PLAYLIST
Present to Oct 2023 - Working as writer, assistant director and actor, on a new adaptation of the classic horror novel Dracula for Carabosse Theatre Company. May/2019 Burretti: The Man Who Sewed the World, (BBC announcer, Detective Walker, TV Director, Chorus) Chrysalis Theatre, Milton Keynes. Jan/2019 Robin Hood in Stonyland, (the Dame) part of StonyWords, Stony Stratford Theatre June/2017 Vocal Pearls, (MC) for Junction 14 A Cappella group, with Cornerstone Children's choir, No Strings, Wednesday's Wolves, and Strickly Harmony, Stantonbury Theatre June/2017 – Stony Live Macbeth, speech Act 1 sc. 7, High Street. May/2017 – Macbeth Screen Norhants promo video, Northampton. Mar/Apr - 2017 An Inspector Calls - (Arthur Birling) J.B.Priestly, Shires Repertory Company, Northampton. June 2016 - Stony Live (Shakespeare Festival) x2 Shakespeare sonnets Stony Stratford Theatre Society to mark 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, Cock hotel and Bull hotel covered carpark May 2015 - Real Ale and Drama Shots 3 - (various playwrights) Mylo in 'Mylo M' by Eamonn Dolan for Carabosse Theatre, Buszy, Milton Keynes. March-June 2015 Big Pants and Botox by Louise Roche. Tour Manager/CSM: Tim Dalgleish, Starring: Mary Jo Randle (The Bill, The Lakes, Cutting It, Wolf Hall etc.) Tour: Grantham, Telford, Middlesbrough, Scarborough, Chesham, Potter's Bar, Derby, Dundee, Blyth, Basildon. March 2015 A Doll's House/All My Sons: Selected Scenes - (Torvald/Joe) Ibsen & Miller, Shires Repertory Company, Wellingborough. Nov 2014 An Inspector Calls - (Arthur Birling) J.B.Priestly, Shires Repertory Company, Northampton. Oct 2014 Gormenghast – (Dr Alfred Prunesquallor) First major stage adaptation officially authorized by the Mervyn Peake estate. Carabosse Theatre Company, Chrysalis Theatre, Milton Keynes. 12/13 – 4/14 Fragile Fire – (Adam Czerniakow) Voices of the Holocaust: Birmingham, Watford, Hove, Chesterfield, Milton Keynes etc. Feb 2014 An Relaxed Evening of Entertainment – (Special Guest) Arts One Hundred, Newport Pagnell Nov 2013 Real Ale and Drama Shots 2 – (Man Walks into a Bar, Healing Scars) various playwrights, Carabosse Theatre, Creed Street Sept 2013 William Shakespeare: A Selection - (Richard III) Carabosse Theatre, Westbury Arts Centre July 2013 Bench Marks – (Manager/Gangster) various playwrights, Carabosse Theatre, Creed Street May 2013 Real Ale and Drama Shots – (Portfolio Manager) various playwrights, Carabosse Theatre, Creed Street Jan-July 2013 Meaning – (older Frankl) adapted ‘Man’s Search for Meaning’ by (tour) Viktor Frankl, Voices of the Holocaust: Sheffield, . Oxford, Portsmouth, Bedford, London etc. Nov 2012 Macbeth – (Macbeth) William Shakespeare, The Open Theatre Group, Milton Keynes Mar 2012 Royal Shakespeare Company’s Open Stages – (Snout) William Shakespeare, RSC Stratford-upon-Avon April 2012 The Seagull – (Dorn) Anton Chekov, Pepper’s Ghost Theatre Company, Milton Keynes Dec 2011 Russian Winter: Chekov, poetry and music - (Various/MC) The Open Theatre Group, Milton Keynes ec June 2011 Your Loving Brother Albert – (Sergeant) Roy Nevitt, Madcap Theatre May 2011 A Midsummer Night’s Dream – (Snout/Wall) William Shakespeare, Pepper’s Ghost Theatre Company, Milton Keynes Dec 2010 Death and the Maiden – (Gerardo) Ariel Dorfman, The Open Theatre Group, Milton Keynes Other plays and parts include: Witches (05) – (Witch), Hand Me Downs (99) – (Victim), The Mandate (98) – (Visitor), The Collector (97) – (Frederick), Down to the Marrow (97) – (Man), Marat/Sade (96) – (Sade), The Sneeze (95) – (Opera Spectator),Done It! (95) – (Mr Ross), A Stab in the Dark (95) – (Aids Victim), An Evening of Sex and Violence (94) – (Hammer), After Liverpool (94) – (Man in bed), Tree (94) – (Various), Taken to the Cleaners (92) – (unnamed), This Island’s Mine (91) – (American) Edinburgh Fringe, Equus (91) – (Alan), Road (90) – (Scullery), A Fist Full of Fingers (89) – (Various), The Elephant Man (89) - (Pinhead Manager/Policeman/Lord John) Concrete Cowgirls (89) – (City boy), Confusions (88) – (Waiter), In the Beginning (88) – (Man), Miss Julie (88)– (Reveller), An Inspector Calls (88) – (Arthur), Fiddler on the Roof (87)– (Fyedka), The Love of a Good Man (87) – (Trod), The Good Person of Szechwan (86) – (Nephew/Yang Sun), Stride (86) – (Stone), Ode to Freedom (86) – (Herr Stein), The Genesis Roadshow (85)– (Godling), Princess (84) – (Prince) Edinburgh Fringe, Suit of Lights (84) (Jesus Christ/Bull),The Card (84)– (Duncalf), Day Trip to Troy (83) – (Tnan), The Importance of Being Earnest (83) – (Jack-Ernest), Godspell –(83) (Disciple), The Miracle Worker (82) - (Captain Keller), Agippa (81) - (Decius), Ernie’s Incredible Hallucinations (78) - (Doctor) |
REVIEWS Gormenghast (2014) World premiere and first major stage adaptation of Mervyn Peake's Penguin Classic. Officially endorsed by Fabian Peake and the Mervyn Peake estate. I was a co-writer and actor (Dr Alfred Prunesquallor) on this ambitious project for Carabosse Theatre. Peake's book is a cult classic with many extreme, odd and amusing characters: Steerpike, Swelter, Fuschia, Lord and Lady Groan and the Prunesquallors. 'The set was itself a tour de force... An excellent performance... from a company that needs no encouragement ... an inspired cast' MK Pulse Magazine '...a marvellous evening... a wonderful and impressive show' Fabian Peake Fragile Fire (2013) A true story from the Second World War based on the events of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising and the resistance leader Mordechai Anielewicz. I was co-writer and actor on this play for Voices of the Holocaust Theatre Company an international and UK touring company dedicated teaching the history of the holocaust. 'Sensitively acted and produced' playstosee.com ☆☆☆☆ A Midsummer Night's Dream (2011) 'I was delighted to see Tim Dalgleish show his range playing two characters that couldn’t be more different: the uptight, pompous Egeus and the childishly enthusiastic Snout The Tinker.' Matthew Taylor |