Neil Stewart

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Recent theatre work includes Girl From The North Country (UK tour), Oresteia, (West End), Jersey Boys (international tour), Spring Awakening (Hope Mill, Manchester), NHS, The Musical (Theatre Royal, Plymouth) and the world premier of Mrs Henderson Presents (Theatre Royal, Bath & West End).

After training at LAMDA Neil began his career in The Wind In The Willows atTheatr Clwyd. Work in rep at the Palace Theatre, Westcliff, the Mercury Theatre, Colchester and Perth Rep includes  Alan Ayckbourn’s Taking Steps and A Small Family Business, Agatha Christie’s Spider’s Web and Witness For The Prosecution, Ray Cooney’s Funny Money and Out Of OrderAmadeusNoises Off, and The Wizard Of Oz.  Neil played Henry Higgins in a European tour of My Fair Lady for Sir Frank Dunlop and has worked extensively in America where roles include Henry in The Real Thing, in Boston, Elyot Chase in Private Lives in Maine, Peter Finch in Iago in Florida, Franklin Gowen in The Molly Maguires in Philadelphia, King Magnus in Shaw’s The Apple Cart in New York and the title roles in Macbeth in New Jersey and Butley in Connecticut. Other theatre credits include The Comedy Of Errors (Hamburg), Azdak in the Peter Brook Award-nominated Caucasian Chalk Circle (New Rep), Chess and Love Story (Union Theatre) and Oh, What A Lovely War (Theatre Royal, Stratford and UK tour).

Film credits: uwantme2killhim? and the villain, Lawrence III, in the film Pokemon 2000.