Two

Well tonight sees the opening night of Two, this has been one of the hardest productions to learn that I have ever been involved in, and one of the most enjoyable.

Victoria Rowcroft who I am starring alongside is superb and has brought such a powerful range of emotions to the table that I have had to up my game to match the intensity of the final scene.

I suppose I should be focusing on the show rather than writing a post, but in all honesty this is really calming my nerves. I suffer with nerves really bad before a show and have had to create a system to which I try and stick to as much as I can in order to get myself on stage.

1 - Arrive at the theatre at least an hour before the show (trad an actors call time for a show is the half (35 minutes before curtain up)

2 - Get into costume as early as possible

3 - Find a quiet place to be and just focus for at east 20 minutes, sometimes listening to a playlist of songs that I have created with which I think the character I am playing would listen to.

Its crazy that I have to do these things, but once the 1st line is out of the mouth, then everything gets sorted and I can enjoy myself! Well I am going now but will post tomorrow and let you know how it goes.

Damn TV!

I suppose my title of this entry may seem a little strange, especially coming from an actor as TV work is very well paid and gives great exposure, but I am not talking about the Industry, I am in fact talking about the TV you can see me wielding towards Gary Lucy's head in the above photo.

Last week for two days I was involved quite heavily in a shoot for the new idents for The Bill, which after over 25 years is relaunching itself as a weekly drama in a new post watershed slot.

The Idents will look amazing, especially if the technology used on set is anything to go by, new HD cameras, green screens and Matrix Style Time-slices (frozen action - not far removed from bullet time effects) I play a Thug who threatens Bill actors Gary Lucy & Dominic Power during a riot scene - which will hit the airwaves from the 16th July on all ITV channels for 3 weeks. Don't worry this wont be a blink and you will miss me shot, as I am featured quite heavily in the Idents.

The photo above which was published in the centre pages of the Sun Newspaper on Monday is my first experience of being 'Papped' long may the tradition continue, similar photos also appeared in The Mirror and The Times.

Welcome

Well here we are!

My first official Blog post, things have been hectic over the last few months and are starting to pick up momentum.

Over the last three years I have been working as Actor in Residence at Christ's Hospital School in West Sussex, but as my contract started to reach its final legs, I managed to land a new agent, and within the 1st few weeks of being on their books already secured some high profile work so thanks Amanda.

I am also in the process of moving back up north to Manchester which I am really looking forward to...I will blog again later tonight about a couple of projects that I am involved with, but as always I am off to line learn before rehearsals later tonight!

Take Care!