Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
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TOM VAUGHAN-LAWLOR

Height: 5 Feet 11 Inches
Hair: Black
Eyes: Brown

Nationality: Irish
Natural Accent: Neutral Irish



Theatre Whilst At RADA:

Character
Dorn
Don John/Benedick
Atreus
Launcelot
Ludovico Sanazarro
Tom Wrench
Reverend Samuel Parris
Roberto Zucco
Schufterle/Hermann
McCann
Maurice

Production 
The Seagull
Much Ado About Nothing
Thyestes
Le Morte D’Arthur
The Great Duke of Florence
Trelawney of the Wells
The Crucible
Roberto Zucco
The Robbers
The Birthday Party
Good
Director
John Beschizza
John Beschizza
Helen Strange
Bardy Thomas
Gregory de Polnay
Brigid Panet
Geoff Bullen
William Galinsky
Gadi Roll
Richard Williams
David Sulkin


Special Skills

Winner of the Laurence Olivier Bursary Award 2002, the Patrick Crean Award for the Most Outstanding
Performance as Arcite, in the RADA Prize Fights, in The Two Noble Kinsmen; Boxing (represented Trinity
College Dublin at middleweight); BASSC Certificate in Stage Combat (distinction); Bass-baritone singer; RP
speaker; fluent Gaelic (Irish) speaker; Ceili (Irish) dancer; period dance; driver; horse riding; rugby (represented
Leinster at senior school level).

Other Experience
BA (Hons) Degree in Drama and Theatre Studies from Trinity College, Dublin; BA (Hons) Degree in Classics
from Trinity College, Dublin. The Boy in Waiting for Godot, dir. Walter Asmus, Gate Theatre Dublin; Peadar
Flannagan in The Field, dir. Ben Barnes, Abbey Theatre, Dublin; Nicholas in Pinter’s One for the Road, dir.
Rebecca Roper, Players Theatre, Dublin. Directed Romeo and Juliet, In the Shadow of the Glen by J.M. Synge
and Ohio Impromptu by Samuel Beckett, all at the Samuel Beckett Theatre, Dublin
.
Special Interests
The lives and works of Samuel Beckett, William Shakespeare and Anton Chekhov, music hall comics, actor-managers,
cinema history, sport, music, politics. Lecturing in Samuel Beckett Studies and Shakespeare in
Performance.

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