Howard Crossley

Extensive work in theatre and television over the last 25 years, performing Shakespeare and the classics for many
British & American theatre companies throughout the UK and USA.

The Royal Shakespeare Company credits include: Coriolanus, Romeo and Juliet, The Virtuoso, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Gravedigger in Hamlet (Kenneth Branagh), A Woman Killed with Kindness, Columbus, Julius Caesar (UK and World Tour), Pentecost, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (USA Tour & Broadway), The Merry Wives of Windsor and Camino Real.

West End theatre credits include: six years playing Pumbaa in Disney’s musical, The Lion King (Lyceum Theatre), Pirandello’s Henry IV with Richard Harris (Wyndhams Theatre), Measure for Measure, Can’t Pay? Won’t Pay! (Young Vic & European Tour), Waiting for Godot, Enemy of the People, Comedians, The Enemies Within and one man show Dr Kheal.

USA theatre credits include: Bottom and Assistant Director in A Misdsummer Night’s Dream, The Director in Six Characters in Search of an Author, Duke Frederick in As You Like It, Aslakson in Enemy of the People.

Regional theatre credits include: Comedians & Habeas Corpus (Bolton Octagon), Prisoners (Nottingham Playhouse), Finger in the Pie (Derby Playhouse). Touring shows throughout the UK, Europe, Japan, North and South America.

Television and film credits include: Prisoners Wives, Kingdom, Messiah, Open All Hours, Emmerdale, Coronation Street, All Creatures Great and Small, The Bill, Grafters, Dalziel and Pascoe, A Touch of Frost, Heartbeat, Peak Practice, Dinnerladies, Casualty, Wetherby, Stranger Than Fiction, The Nature of the Beast, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Girls’ Night.

(Source Billy Elliot show website.)