Headshot by Luke Varley
REPRESENTATION
The Soho Agency London
WME New York
EDUCATION
University of Oxford MA (Oxon), Classics & English Lit.
Trinity College London Advanced Performance Certificate, Piano
CREDITS:
STAGE
As writer-performer:
Frisky & Mannish:
PopCorn (2021-)
Lawrence Batley Theatre Huddersfield (digital streaming)
PopLab (2019-)
Battersea Arts Centre, Tabard Theatre Chiswick, Seymour Centre Sydney, Assembly Edinburgh, UK tour, Coventry UK City of Culture 2021, Spiegeltent Cavendish Square
CabaRIOT! (2015-)
Udderbelly South Bank, West Australian Spiegeltent Perth, Underbelly Edinburgh, Auckland Town Hall
Just Too Much (2014-)
Udderbelly South Bank, Latitude Festival, Somersault Festival, Milton Keynes International Festival, Underbelly Edinburgh, The Forum Kentish Town, UK tour, Circustheater Perth, Adelaide Festival Centre, Canterbury Festival
☆ Entertainmentwise Award for Best Comedy
Extra-Curricular Activities (2012-)
Udderbelly South Bank, Beat-Herder Festival, Cornbury Festival, T in the Park Festival, Kinsale Arts Festival, Latitude Festival, Assembly Edinburgh, KOKO Camden, UK tour, Circustheater Perth, Factory Theatre Sydney, Deluxe Adelaide, Norfolk & Norwich Festival
☆ Adelaide Fringe Weekly Award for Best Comedy
27 Club (2012)
Tabard Theatre Chiswick, Assembly Edinburgh
Pop Centre Plus, known as Pop Centrelink in Australia (2011-)
Udderbelly South Bank, Latitude Festival, Underbelly Edinburgh, Dublin Fringe, Shepherd’s Bush Empire, UK tour, Theatre Royal Dumfries/Big Burns Supper, De Parel Spiegeltent Perth, London Wonderground
The College Years (2010-)
Latitude Festival, Riverside Studios Hammersmith, Underbelly Edinburgh, Samuel Beckett Theatre Dublin, Bestival, Bloomsbury Theatre, UK tour, De Parel Spiegeltent Perth, London Wonderground
☆ DarkChat Award for Best Song
School of Pop (2009-)
Leicester Square Theatre, Battersea Arts Centre, Underbelly Edinburgh, Pavilion Theatre Brighton, Samuel Beckett Theatre Dublin, UK tour, Soho Theatre, Sydney Opera House/Mardi Gras, Melbourne Comedy Festival, New Zealand Arts Festival, Howl at the Moon Singapore, Adelaide Festival Centre, London Wonderground
☆ The Guardian Bring Me Sunshine Award, FringeGuru Editor’s Choice Award
A Frisky & Mannish Christmas, presented under various titles (2008-)
Leicester Square Theatre, Lyric Theatre London, The Barn Wadhurst, Edinburgh’s Christmas & Hogmanay, Christmas in Leicester Square, digital streaming
Other:
Richard Carpenter is Close to You (2017-)
Otherplace Brighton, Old Fire Station Oxford, Underground Buxton, Wardrobe Theatre Bristol, Underbelly Edinburgh, BBC Presents… Cabaret, Adelaide Festival Centre, Butterfly Club Melbourne, Bloomsbury Theatre, UK tour
☆ Buxton Fringe Award for Best New Writing
Psychodermabrasion, or Marksman (2015-)
Jacksons Lane Theatre Highgate, Platform Southwark, The HUB Leeds
Ruth Less (2013-)
Performances include: Albany Deptford, Barbican Centre, Belgrave Music Hall & Canteen Leeds, Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, Black Cap Camden, Gatehouse Theatre Stafford, Glastonbury Festival, Glory Dalston, Good Ship Kilburn, Lockside Lounge Camden, LOST Theatre Wandsworth, Madame Jojo’s Soho, Le Monde Edinburgh, Others Stoke Newington, Pleasance Islington, Royal Vauxhall Tavern, Shoreditch Town Hall, Soho Theatre, Southbank Centre (London Wonderground & Udderbelly Festival), Spiegeltent Sheffield/Hidden Perspectives, Theatre Delicatessen Farrington, Voodoo Rooms Edinburgh
☆ Double R Club’s Miss Twin Peaks 2013
2012: An Olympic Vaudeville (2012)
Greenwich Theatre/Emerging Artists Season
As composer/lyricist/writer:
The Elmer Adventure (2024-)
Tall Stories
Lowry Salford, Southbank Centre, UK tour
Nanny (2024)
Folio Theatre
Swindon Arts Centre, Bristol Old Vic, Theatre Royal Plymouth
Kathy & Stella Solve a Murder! (2022-)
Francesca Moody Productions, Kater Gordon, Fiery Angel & Wessex Grove
Paines Plough Roundabout at Summerhall Edinburgh, Underbelly Edinburgh, Bristol Old Vic, HOME Manchester, Ambassadors Theatre
☆ Musical Theatre Review Award for Best Musical, Theatre Weekly Award for Best Musical
Beans (2017)
Canal Café Theatre Little Venice
A Super Happy Story (About Feeling Super Sad) (2016-)
Silent Uproar Productions
FRÜIT Hull, New Diorama Theatre, Greenwich Theatre, Hull Truck Theatre, The HUB Leeds, Pleasance Edinburgh, HighTide Festival, UK tour, VAULT Festival, Wilton’s Music Hall (digital streaming)
☆ The Scotsman Fringe First Award, Musical Theatre Review Award for Best Musical, KSF Artists of Choice Award for UK Musical Theatre
Madame Gingerline (2016), Chambers of Flavour (2015) and Planet Gingerline (2013)
Gingerline East London
As actor:
George Nowodny in Miss Nightingale (2018)
London Hippodrome
Witch Queen in Charming Dick (2016)
Cockpit Theatre Marylebone
Kenny Everett in Royal Vauxhall (2016)
Something for the Weekend; Latitude Festival, Underbelly Edinburgh, Royal Vauxhall Tavern
Honey in Heels of Glory (2016)
Chelsea Theatre
Hannah and others in Failed States (2015)
Dysphoria Arts; Latitude Festival
Paul in Wif and Wer (2015)
National Theatre Temporary Theatre/Women Centre Stage Festival
Fig.3 in Camera Lucida (2014)
Barbican Centre/Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award
Hog-eye (voice) in Elaine Paige: I’m Still Here (2014)
Royal Albert Hall, ScreenLive Entertainment
Tristan/Constable in Dirty Laundry (2013)
Theatre503 Battersea, Latitude Festival, Underbelly Edinburgh
Adam and others in Real Horror Show (2012-)
Leicester Square Theatre, Hen & Chickens Theatre Islington, Assembly Edinburgh
John in Punch (2012)
Little Dog Productions; Canal Café Theatre Little Venice, Underbelly Edinburgh
Ensemble in Oklahoma! (2002-)
National Youth Music Theatre; Waterfront Hall Belfast, Sherman Theatre Cardiff, Peacock Theatre
Dickon in The Secret Garden (2002)
King’s Head Theatre Islington
As musical director/arranger:
Cabaret Consultations (2018)
Dr. Ahmed Kazmi; Fringe World Perth (Cabaret Award nominee), Adelaide Fringe
Beauty and the Beast (2017)
CAST Doncaster
The Dame Dolly Donut Show (2017)
C Venues Edinburgh
Szgrabble (2016)
Nick Hall; Museum of Comedy London, Bar Tank Edinburgh, The Bell Inn Ticehurst
Stay Another Song (2016)
Young Vic/Taking Part
The Reunion (2013-)
Max & Iván; Soho Theatre, Pleasance Edinburgh (Comedy Award nominee), Melbourne Comedy Festival (Barry Award nominee)
The Iron Eyelashes (2008)
Dublin Gay Theatre Festival, New Wolsey Theatre Ipswich/PULSE Festival
Merman at the Jermyn (2008)
Jermyn Street Theatre, Aldeburgh Music Festival
As director:
Tall, Dark and Anxious (2022-)
Richard David-Caine; Underbelly Edinburgh (Amused Moose Comedy Award), Soho Theatre
The Big Screw-Up (2014)
Four Screws Loose; Assembly Edinburgh (filmed for broadcast by Hibrow via BBC Arts and Odeon), Brighton Dome
Screwtopia! (2013-)
Four Screws Loose; Assembly Edinburgh, St. James’ Theatre Victoria, Adelaide Fringe, Udderbelly South Bank
Other performances include:
CABARET/VARIETY: Aeronaut Circus Acton, Albany Deptford, ArtsDepot North Finchley, Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, Blackpool Grand, Bloc Bar Camden, Café de Paris Piccadilly, Café Royal Hotel & Crazy Coqs Brasserie Zedel, Carriageworks Leeds, Cumbernauld Theatre, The Glory Dalston, The Grand Clapham, Jacksons Lane Highgate, London Hippodrome (La Clique), Madame Jojo’s Soho, Rah Rah Room Electric Carousel, Richmond Theatre (Evening of Burlesque), Riverside Studios Hammersmith (Enter Mickey Jeronimo), Royal Vauxhall Tavern (Duckie), Russet Hackney Downs (EastEnd Cabaret Club), Shadow Lounge Soho, Soho Theatre (Nina Conti Cabaret), Southbank Centre (The Horne Section, Jazzamatazz, Tuff Nut Jazz Club), Underground Rebel Bingo Club, Volupté Lounge, The Voodoo Rooms, Wild Cabaret Glasgow
COMEDY: The Arts Club, Bloomsbury Theatre (Dave Comedy Night, Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless People), Bush Hall Shepherd’s Bush, Camden Crawl, Kelvingrove Bandstand Glasgow (Best of the Fest in the West), Noël Coward Theatre (Frank Skinner & Friends), Phoenix Cavendish Square (Distraction Club), Wilton’s Music Hall (Times+ Live Comedy), 606 Club Chelsea
FESTIVAL: Camp Bestival, Chelsea Theatre/Sacred Festival, Edinburgh Fringe (BBC at the Edinburgh Festivals, BBC Comedy Presents, The Wrestling), Glasgow Cabaret Festival, Glastonbury Festival, Greenwich Comedy Festival, Henley Festival, Hull Freedom Festival, Innocent Un-Plugged Festival, Lechlade Festival, Lovebox, Manchester Pride, Nonsuch on Trent Festival, Selfridge’s/Big Yellow Festival, Wales Millennium Centre Cardiff/Blysh Festival
INTERNATIONAL: Basement Theatre Auckland, Hi-Fi Melbourne, Hong Kong (Edinburgh Festival Allstars), Jazzclub-Kunstfabrik Berlin, John Mackintosh Hall Gibraltar, Scheinbar Varieté Berlin, The Slipper Room New York, Sydney Opera House, UfaFabrik Berlin
RADIO
Jo Whiley (2019) — BBC Radio 2
Sarah Brett (2019) — BBC Radio 5 Live
Matt Edmondson (2014) — BBC Radio 1
Sketchorama (2012-5) — BBC Radio 4
The Verb (2014) — BBC Radio 3
Scott Mills (2011-3) — BBC Radio 1
The Arts Show with Claudia Winkleman (2012) — BBC Radio 2
The Perfect Christmas Single (2012) — BBC Radio 1 Stories
BBC New Comedy Awards Final 2012 (2012) — BBC Radio 2
BBC Radio 4 Extra Comedy Club with Andi Osho (2012) — BBC Radio 4
Fun and Filth Cabaret (2011-2)— BBC Radio 1
Gemma Cairney (2011) — BBC Radio 1 Xtra
Shaun Keaveny (2011) — BBC 6 Music
BBC Radio 7 Comedy Club (2011) — BBC Radio 7
The World Today (2011) — BBC World Service
Lauren Laverne (2009) — BBC 6 Music
Other performances/interviews include: ABC Perth & Sydney; BBC Radio Bristol, Devon, Leeds, London, Norfolk, Scotland, Somerset & Wiltshire; Capital FM Scotland; Forth 1; FUBAR Radio; LBC; TalkRadio; XFM
TV
The Edinburgh Show (2019) — BBC Scotland
Sky News (2019) — Sky
The Café (2016) — Three NZ
Evening Show (2014) — London Live
Text Santa (2014) — ITV
Love Shaft (2012) — E4
The Culture Show (2011) — BBC2
Live at the Fringe (2011) — BBC3
Dick & Dom’s Funny Business (2011) — BBC2/CBBC
The Hour (2009) — STV
Songs of Praise (2004) — BBC1
SHORT FILM & VIDEO
That’s Hot (2022) — Composer/Lyricist (National Film & Television School)
999 (2015) as Emergency call handler
Ruth Less: 9 Things (2015) — Writer/Performer/Producer
Mary Berry’s Little Lamb (2015) — Director (Funny Women Comedy Shorts Award nominee)
A Stranger Kind (2015) as Musician — Orofena Films (New York Horror Film Festival Audience Award)
In an Elevator (2014) — Writer/Performer
The Artist-Critic Conflict (2014) — Writer/Performer/Producer (British Comedy Award nominee)
Cabarevolution (2013) — Writer
Session Squared (2013) — Writer ☆ 48 Hour Film Project London Audience Award
Too Cabaret: A Message for Gary Barlow (2012) — Writer/Performer/Producer
AUDIO & PODCAST
MusicalTalk (2022)
The Friday Film Club (2021)
The Frisky & Mannish Podcast (2019-) ☆ ITunes Comedy Chart, no. 1
StageFaves (2018)
The Edinburgh Fringe Show (2017)
Enter Mickey Jeronimo (2014)
Amnesty’s Secret Comedy Podcast (2012)
The Stage Edinburgh Fringe Podcast (2012)
The Dave Weekly Podcast (2011)
EVENT
Charity events include: Amnesty’s Stand Up for Freedom, The Big C at Edinburgh International Conference Centre, EQUALS Live at Southbank Centre, A Garden Party to Make a Difference at Clarence House, Stand Up for Shelter at McEwan Hall, War on Want Comedy Gala at Shepherd’s Bush Empire
Media/showcase events include: Adelaide Cabaret Festival, Brighton Fringe, Edinburgh International Television Festival, Offbeat Festival Oxford, Theatre Reserve
Private events include: Aegon, Badoo, British Heart Foundation, CISAC World Congress, Class Bar Awards, Clinique, Digi Awards, Flannels Group, The Groucho Club, High Road House and Shoreditch House, Hotel Cipriani Venice, John Noel, Lundbeck, MindShareWorld, PRS for Music, Red Class, Richard House Children’s Hospice, Royal Caribbean International, Sapient Nitro, TalkTalk, Verbier CK, Wired Magazine, Yotel
EDUCATION & MASTERCLASS
MFA Musical Theatre New Writing Project: The Road to Gunpowder Hill (2025) — Guildford School of Acting
Singing Workshop (2025) — Trinity Laban Conservatoire
How to Approach Writing Text, Music and Lyrics (2024) — See You Next Murder Ltd.
Cabaret Masterclass (2011-) — Royal Academy of Music
WORKSHOP & DEVELOPMENT
Lourdes! The Musical! (2024) — Xnthony Ltd.
Becktacular Becktacular (2023) — Silent Uproar Productions
Dashing (2023) — Soho Theatre/Soho Six
Thank You for Doing Nothing (2020) — Silent Uproar Productions
The Library of Lost Memories (2019) — Shoebox Theatre
Secrets of the Bluestockings (2018) — Tara Theatre Earlsfield/Women’s Arts Festival
An Evening Without Kate Bush (2016) — Sarah-Louise Young & Russell Lucas
A History of Drag (2015) as Mama/Teddy — Tim Foley
Less Women (2015) — Shoreditch Town Hall
Joanna (2014) — Sapling & Colt
Christopher Himself (2014) as Christopher Isherwood — Philip Glassborow/The Point Eastleigh
Catwife (2013) — Jones & Klein
Love is a Greater Crime Than Hate (2013) — Riverside Studios Hammersmith
The Guinea Pig Club (2010) as Tony — Trafalgar Studios
Ordinary Decent Criminals, or Blow in the Bag (2009) — Pimlico Opera
OTHER
Harmony of the Seas, Mariner of the Seas, Independence of the Seas, Navigator of the Seas, Oasis of the Seas, Odyssey of the Seas, Symphony of the Seas (2017-23) — Stowaway Pianist (Royal Caribbean International)