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Steve
trained at R.A.D.A. and began his professional career at
the Exeter Northcott twenty eight years ago playing Philip
Welsh in Terrance Rattigan’s The Deep Blue Sea. Other
memorable Exeter Northcott roles have included Gabriel Oak
in Far From the Madding Crowd, Toby Belch in Twelfth
Night, Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Magwich
in Great
Expectations,
Gordon
in Neville’s Island, Toad in Toad of Toad
Hall, Lucky Eric in Bouncers and Harry in Harry
in the Moonlight.
Steve's
work has taken him to most major theatres in the country
and highlights include a fifteen month tour and three
month West End run of Funny Peculiar with Peter
Duncan and Linda Lusardi, and two highly successful tours
of Kipling's The Man Who Would Be King,
a show Steve co-devised with David Sterne.
For the past fifteen years Steve has been the resident
pantomime dame in Exeter, fourteen of them at the Exeter
Northcott and one at the Exeter Corn Exchange.
His television work includes playing Lenny Williams in Casualty
and Geoff in The Passion,
both for the BBC. Other T.V. work includes
Eastenders, Down to Earth,
a previous Casualty,
and Crimewatch for the B.B.C.; Two
episodes of The Bill for I.T.V.; Mile High for
Sky, Poirot for Carnival Films and most recently
two episodes of Doc
Martin for ITV.
On radio Steve has been heard as Knocker in The
Lodsall Cod on Radio Four.
As
a director, Steve's work includes the Northcott Community
Company production of Cider With Rosie and
the Northcott Young Company and Community
Company production of Through
The Wardrobe, both
in Exeter's Rougemont Gardens; Denity
Crisis, The Actors Nightmare and Rattle of a Simple
Man for Cygnet Training Theatre and The Last
Country House for the Cygnet Theatre Company.
Steve’s
writing credits include co-scripting the 1997 Northcott
Theatre adaptation of Far
From the Madding Crowd ;writing additional material
for the Exeter Northcott productions of Dick
Whittington, Cinderella, Aladdin and Sleeping
Beauty; Co-writing the Exeter Northcott’s 2009
production of Mother
Goose with Michael Kirk; and writing his own one-man
show based on the life of the actor Charles Laughton,
Neither Man Nor Beast.
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