ACTOR
Andrew has enjoyed a long and varied career spanning theatre, film and TV. He has worked in the West End, on Broadway, Manchester Royal Exchange, Chichester Festival Theatre, the Old Vic, in number one tours of the UK, as well as in many repertory and fringe venues.
He started out co-directing and playing Mephistopheles in a stand-out production of Marlowe’s Dr Faustus in the grounds of Worcester College Oxford, which featured a pioneering use of synthesised sound hidden in the vegetation.
He went on to playing small parts at the Bristol Old Vic in Peter O’Toole’s legendary ‘return’ season there.
He then performed in one of the first Sam Shepard plays to be seen in London Red Cross & Chicago, and soon after joined the RSC for two years, which included their ground-breaking production of Nicholas Nickleby, in which he played 13 parts and was the stand by for Roger Rees in the role of Nicholas, at the Aldwych and in New York.
In theatre he has worked across many genres, from the classical repertoire to contemporary and new writing, some favourites include A Wedding Story by Bryony Lavery (Birmingham, Soho Theatre & UK Tour) and Heldenplatz by Thomas Bernhard NT Studio and Arcola Theatre).
As a founder member of Visible Ensemble, he has twice co-devised and performed: Who Do We Think We Are and Five Characters in Search of a Good Night’s Sleep directed by Mike Alfreds.
His appetite for learning and experimentation has outlived his youth, and in the last decade Andrew has continued to explore the processes of acting with the Michael Chekhov Association in the US (MICHA) and The Chekhov Collective UK.
His short play Shakespeare and the Imaginary Other, which he performed with Gretchen Egolf, explores performing Shakespeare’s Sonnets with Chekhov techniques.
As a leading actor in Honour Thy Father in the Makeshifts and Realities bill at the Finborough Theatre, he was a winner of a Standing Ovation London Pub Theatres Award 2023.
Work on screen has included guest leads and appearances in Midsomer Murders, Foyles War, Tropical Heat, Heartbeat, and among his feature films,Tomorrow Never Dies, Chariots of Fire, The Object of Beauty, Top Secret, and Shadowlands, directed by Richard Attenborough.