Chris Garner
I'm an actor and director with over 30 years professional experience. I have taught and directed at many well known drama schools and Universities. I can offer a very detailed 1 to 1 to help you. I am versatile, good at detail and have a great sense of fun.
At the moment I should be on a National tour of "The Birthday Party" playing Petey for Mark Goucher Productions Ltd.
Theatre includes:
Select Combined CV Credits.:
Actor: (Spotlight Link: www.spotlight.com/6216-8945-7705)
Latest Theatre includes: War Horse (National Theatre and Tour);The School for Scandal (Tobacco Factory Bristol); The Country Girls, Antony & Cleopatra (Festival Theatre, Chichester); Diary of a Nobody (Everyman, Cheltenham); King Lear (West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds) Same Time, Next Year ( Everyman, Cheltenham) 1984(STC/Northern Broadsides, national tour ) Black Heart of Petty Malice (Soho Theatre, London); Lazarus (Everyman, Cheltenham); Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme (Hampstead, London).
Television/Film includes: In From The Side; The Children Act; Emily; Emmerdale; Casualty; Mistresses; The Bill; The Royal; Coronation Street; Medics; How we used to live; Rich Tea and Sympathy; Made in Heaven; He-Play; Eastenders.
Radio includes: Home Front III; War of the Worlds; Windscale; Abel’s Law; The Radetsky March; If Not Now, When?; Hiawatha; Dear Little Burney.
Director: www.stroudtheatrecompany.co.uk
Punk Rock (Crescent Theatre, Birmingham); Elderly People Crossing (Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham); Pig Town Kids (Sixth Sense Theatre Company); Hay Fever (The Old Rep, Birmingham); Lady Johanna's Miracle Garden ( Sixth Sense Theatre Company Site specific in Swindon); Dracula (The Old Rep, Birmingham); Hedda Gabler (Crescent Theatre, Birmingham); After Mrs Rochester (The Old Rep, Birmingham); 1984 ( Stroud Theatre Company/Northern Broadsides/Dukes Theatre Lancaster Co-pro ), National Tour; The Amazing and Preposterous Constance Smedley for Stroud Theatre Company at the Everyman Studio, Cheltenham; White Lights for Theatre West at the Alma, Bristol; Antigone at the Crescent Theatre, Birmingham; Martha, Josie and the Chinese Elvis for Salisbury Playhouse; The Graduate, What The Dickens! (devised and directed) and Oliver Twist for the New Vic Theatre, Stoke
Selected further credits/Experience
• Founder of Stroud Theatre Company in 2000 with Sue Condie. Micro new writing company: www.stroudtheatrecompany.co.uk
• Over 30 years experience in devising, working on new writing and adaptations, as well as the classics both large and small scale. Vast experience creating, running and participating in educational workshops and working with people of all ages and abilities. Experience includes working to budgets and deadlines; script development; researching; assembling creative teams; commissioning and developing new work; assessing and monitoring; grant applications; scheduling and planning.
• New Writing Course, Paines Plough 2002.
• Script Reader for the BBC.
Participant in Cock-A-Hoop: Contemporary Shakespeare in Practice
Symposium at Bath Spa University 2013.
• Visiting lecturer/Director at Staffs University, BSA, BOVTS, Oxford School of Drama and Drama Studio, London.
• Visiting Director/lecturer on Birmingham MFA Course: The British Tradition, Birmingham School of Acting, BA (Hons) and MA courses. (over 10 years)
• Associate Director of Gatecrash Theatre Swindon.
Trained at:
Manchester Polytechnic School of Theatre and Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
Chris Garner Biog.
At the moment I should be on a National tour of "The Birthday Party" playing Petey for Mark Goucher Productions Ltd.
Theatre includes:
Allan/Manfred in War Horse (National Theatre and Tour); Mr Brennan and Gustav in The Country Girls and Scarus in Antony and Cleopatra (Festival Theatre, Chichester); Sir Oliver Surface in School For Scandal (Shakespeare at the Tobacco factory, Bristol); Macbeth in MacbethAlone! (STC National Tour); Charles Pooter in Diary of a Nobody (Everyman, Cheltenham); Cornwall in King Lear (WYP, Leeds); George in Same Time, Next Year ( Everyman, Cheltenham); O'Brien in 1984(STC/Northern Broadsides, National Tour );Davy in Black Heart of Petty Malice (Soho Theatre, London); Judas in Lazarus (Everyman, Cheltenham); John Millen in Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme (Hampstead, London); Heathcote/Barnwell in The Knotty; Antonio in The Duchess of Malfi; Bertie Wooster in By Jeeves; Cassio in Othello; Yolland in Translations; Charles Dickens in Oliver Twist; Seymour in Little Shop of Horrors (New Vic, Stoke); Willy in Blue Remembered Hills (Belgrade, Coventry); Uncle Djuka in Mirad, A Boy from Bosnia (Oxford Stage Company Tour); Exeter/Henry VI in Henry VI Part III (Royal Shakespeare Company, World Tour); Squire Bassett in Jamaica Inn (Playhouse, Salisbury and Tour ); Frank Rice in The Entertainer (Birmingham Rep); Craig in Sab (Royal Court, London); Jud in Kes (Octagon, Bolton); Georgie Fame in Be-Bop-A-Lula (Playhouse Liverpool and tour); Cuddy Banks in The Witch of Edmonton (Playhouse Theatre, Southwalk); Woman in Mind; A Midsummer Night’s Dream, What the Butler Saw and Enjoy (Library Theatre, Manchester)
Television includes:
The 'A' Word: Series 3; Dial M for Middlesborough; Dr. Molly; Emmerdale; Casualty; Mistresses; The Bill; The Royal VI; Coronation Street; Medics; How we used to live; Rich Tea and Sympathy; Made in Heaven; He-Play; Eastenders.
Radio/Voice work includes:
Butterbean; Paw Patrol; Sunny Day; Rusty Rivets; Home Front III; War of the Worlds; Windscale; Abel’s Law; The Radetzky March; If Not Now, When?; Hiawatha; Dear Little Burney; In a Summer Season; Going Clear; My Uncle Freddie.
Films include:
In From The Side; The Children Act; Emily; Resurrected.
Trained at:
Manchester Polytechnic School of Theatre and Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
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