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David Birrell

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Theatre includes:Educating Rita, Talking Heads, 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),  Witness for the Prosecution (West End), 1984 (Bath Theatre Royal & National Tour), 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, The Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night (RSC), South Pacific (Chichester Festival Theatre & National Tour), Wendy and Peter Pan (Leeds Playhouse), Describe The Night (Hampstead Theatre), The Shadow Factory (MAST Southampton), Sweeney Todd - Best Actor Nominee - Manchester Theatre Awards, Best Performance in a Musical - Theatre Awards UK, Best Actor - Scottish Critics Awards (Leeds Playhouse/Royal Exchange/Welsh National Opera/Dundee Rep/National Theatre of Scotland), Peter Pan, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Ragtime (Regent's Park), The Last Days of Troy, The Death of King Arthur (Shakespeare's Globe), A Little Night Music (Guildford/West End), Company (Sheffield Crucible), Passion, Grand Hotel (Donmar), The Secret Garden, Hapgood, Peter Pan, The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (Birmingham Rep/Leeds Playhouse), Oh! What A Lovely War (National Theatre), Henry V (Propeller).

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

Numerous plays and readings for BBC Radio.
 

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