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Birmingham Rep in Centenary Square, Birmingham

David Birrell

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David Birrell playing The Professor, Father Christmas, Wise Owl, White Mouse and Percussion

Theatre includes: South Pacific (Chichester Festival Theatre); Wendy and Peter Pan (Leeds Playhouse); The Whip, A Museum In Baghdad, King John, The Venetian Twins, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Moby Dick, The Jewess of Toledo, The Tempest, Murder in the Cathedral, Hamlet, Columbus, Romeo and Juliet (RSC); Describe The Night (Hampstead Theatre); The Shadow Factory (NST City Southampton); An Enemy of the People – Best Supporting Actor Manchester Theatre Awards, The Threepenny Opera, The Family Way, Journey’s End – Best Supporting Actor Manchester Theatre Awards (Bolton Octagon); Peter Pan, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Ragtime (Regent’s Park); The Last Days of Troy, The Death of King Arthur (Shakespeare’s Globe); Sweeney Todd – Best Actor Nominee Manchester Theatre Awards, Best Performance in a Musical Nominee Theatre Awards UK (Leeds Playhouse/Royal Exchange/Welsh National Opera); A Little Night Music (Guildford/West End); Company (Sheffield Crucible); Passion, Grand Hotel (Donmar); Sweeney Todd  – Best Performance in a Musical Theatre Awards UK, Best Actor Scottish Critics Awards (Dundee Rep/National Theatre of Scotland); The Secret Garden, Hapgood, Peter Pan (Birmingham Rep/Leeds Playhouse); Oh! What A Lovely War (National Theatre).

Television includes: Bodies, Silent Witness, Vera, King John, Holy Flying Circus, Midsomer Murders, Buried.

Numerous plays and readings for BBC Radio.