David Burt

West End theatre credits include Gangster 1 in Kiss Me Kate, Zangler in Crazy for You (Whatsonstage nomination), Witherby in Plague Over England, Fenner in Bad Girls, Carlos in Days of Hope, Fosko in The Woman in White, Harkness in The Far Pavilions, Dallow in Brighton Rock, Hemingway in Beautiful and Damned, Petal in Taboo, Vic in Closer to Heaven, Talleyrand in Napoleon, Pilate in Jesus Christ Superstar, Kean in Edmund Kean Tragedian (Evening Standard Award nomination), Bellomy in The Fantasticks, Germont in La Dame aux Camellias ( Olivier nomination), Ratcatcher in Shadow moves, Mordred in The Island of the Mighty, Anatoly in Chess, Jasper in The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Enjolras in Les Misérables (original RSC Barbican Theatre production), Orin in Little Shop of Horrors, King John in Blondel, Pocket in Great Expectations, Munkustrap in Cats, Magaldi in Evita, The Pinball Champion in Tommy, Thomas Doughty in Traitors, Hitler in Happy as a Sandbag and Herbert Farjeon in The Farjeon Papers.

National Theatre credits include Peachum in The Villains’ Opera, The Duke in The Merchant of Venice, Governor of Buenos Aries in Candide, Menelaus in Troilus and Cressida, The Frog in Honk! William Blake in Tyger, Aufidius in The Berliner Ensemble’s production of Coriolanus and Jenkin in A Woman Killed with Kindness. RSC credits include Macheath in The Beggar’s Opera (Olivier nomination), Dolabella in Antony and Cleopatra, Duke Frederick in As You Like It, Sergievsky in Raising The Curtain, Antigonus in The Winters Tale.

Other theatre credits include Jeremiah Peachum in the premiere of The Buskers Opera (Park Theatre), Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol (Middle Temple Hall), Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris (Charing Cross Theatre), Merrick in The Merman's Apprentice, the title role in David Mamet’s Mr Happiness and Lawrence Oberman in The Water Engine (Old Vic Tunnels, Off West End Theatre nomination and Time Out nomination), Polonius in Hamlet (Northampton and Richmond), Hardcastle in The Kissing Dance , Achilles in Greeks at the Gate (The Gate Theatre), Kit in Life After, Harry in Hetty Feinstein’s Wedding Anniversary and Larry in In the Balance (Hampstead). Marvin in Porn (Off West End Theatre award for best musical) Prison Governor Mulrony in Slaves ( Time Out nomination for best new play, both productions at Theatre 503) and Robert Falcon Scott in The Last South Pursuit of the Pole (Theatre Royal Bath).

Repertory work includes productions at Windsor, York, Manchester, Newcastle and Bristol Old Vic, where roles include Leon Dupuis in Madam Bovary, Kit in No Way to Treat a Lady, Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet, Constantin in The Seagull, Cassio in Othello, Dennis in Loot, The Temple Guardian in Euripedes’ Seven Against Thebes, Steve in Anne Jellicoe’s The Sport of My Mad Mother, Rumour in Henry IV Part II, Chorus in Henry V, Lovborg in Hedda Gabler, Trevor in Bedroom Farce and Mephistopheles in Doctor Faustus.

Television includes The Trojan Horse, Flambards, Poldark, Trevor Nunn’s The Merchant of Venice, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, and Edgar Allen Poe-Tales of Mystery and Imagination.