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EDMUND KINGSLEY

Height: 6 Feet 2 Inches
Hair: Dark Brown
Eyes: Green/Brown

Nationality: British
Natural Accent: RP/Midlands



Theatre Whilst At RADA:

Character
Sorin
Hotspur/Thomas of Clarence
Stephen Dedalus
John Piper/Jogger/Nathan
Michael Perez/Carlo
Cesare/Lion/Devil/Helmsman
John Proctor
Professor Tabu
Antonio
Goldberg
Afanasy Ivanovich Bolshintsov,neighbouring landowner

Production 
The Seagull
Henry IV
Ulysses
John Piper in the House of Death
Rule a Wife and Have a Wife
The Devil in Drag
The Crucible
Hotel Paradiso
The Witch
The Birthday Party
A Month In the Country

Director
John Beschizza
Brigid Panet
William Gaskill
Brian Stirner
Gregory de Polnay
Carl Heap
Geoff Bullen
Ellis Jones
Robin Midgley
Richard Williams
Deborah Paige


Special Skills

Bass and lead guitar, trumpet, percussion, tenor voice, BASSC Certificate in Stage Combat, clean driving
licence.

Other Experience
Royal Shakespeare Company: Simon, Lord of the Flies, dir. Elijah Mojhinsky; Boy, The Winter’s Tale, dir.
Adrian Noble; Tiresias’ Guide, Oedipus Rex/Antigone, dir. Adrian Noble. English Shakespeare Company:
Young Macduff, Macbeth, dir. Michael Bogdanov. Playbox Theatre: Prince Hal, Henry IV parts I and II, dir.
Stewart McGill; Creon, Antigone; Tybalt/Apothecary, Romeo and Juliet (Tokyo); Brigella, The Servant of Two
Masters (Los Angeles); Florizel, The Winter’s Tale; directed a production of The Exception and the Rule by
Bertolt Brecht. Film /TV(as a child): Young Freddy the Frog (VO), Freddy as FR07; Young Stanley Spencer,
Stanley Spencer (ITV). Recording: Louis Leonowens, The King and I (with the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra and
Julie Andrews). Also compered RADA Bar events and run Playbox workshops.

Special Interests

Creative writing, reading, playing and composing music, photography, political and social history, philosophy
and ethics, travel, classical civilisations.

Since leaving RADA

Stage
Maecenas, Antony and Cleopatra, RSC, Gregory Doran
Cinna the Poet/Popilius/ Young Cato, Julius Caesar, RSC, Sean Holmes
Francisco, The Tempest, RSC, Rupert Goold
The Friar , 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, Nevertheless, Edward Dick
Daniel, Human Rites, Southwark Playhouse, Natalie Abrahami
Horatio, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, English Touring Theatre, Stephen Unwin
Mr Warner; Captain Morgan, Common Threads, Sadler's Wells, Ian Spiby
Julius Caesar, Julius Caesar, Cannon's Mouth at the Menier Theatre, Ben Naylor
Valentine; 1st officer, Twelfth Night, English Touring Theatre, Stephen Unwin
Lucentio, Taming Of The Shrew, Thelma Holt/Theatre Royal Plymouth, Mark Rosenblatt

Television,
Takis the Waiter, Sensitive Skin, Baby Cow Productions, Hugo Blick
The Soldier, Agatha Christie - A Life in Pictures, Wall to Wall , Richard Curson-Smith
Chemist, As If, Channel 4

Currently appearing in The Tempest, Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra as part of the RSC Complete Works Festival.