Steve is one of Britain’s most versatile and prolific writers and performers working in all aspects of the media from film and television to radio and theatre.

Combining his skills as an actor, impressionist and writer, Steve has recently created three one-man theatre shows based on classic stories: Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland and Homer’s Odyssey. Steve Nallon’s Christmas Carol was produced by the Birmingham Repertory Theatre for the Christmas season 2003/4 to rave reviews and had a sell-out run. Steve Nallon’s Big Odyssey premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2002, followed by a major UK tour in 2003. Steve Nallon’s Adventures in Wonderland won Best Festival Comedy at the Buxton Festival Fringe in July 2004, and went on to have a successful and highly-acclaimed run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August 2004.

Steve Nallon began his career as an entertainer over twenty years ago on the northern working men’s club circuit when he was just sixteen. After gaining a degree in Drama and English at the University of Birmingham he became an original member of the Spitting Image team providing the voices of The Queen Mum, Roy Hattersley, Margaret Thatcher, David Attenborough and many more for the next ten years. In July 2000 he was involved in Sotheby’s highly successful internet auction of the Spitting Image puppets.

Steve has continued his work as an impressionist on television. Recently he was seen doing an extract from his new stand-up comedy act on The Dan and Dusty Show on ITV. In 2003 he was interviewed for the BBC One history of the comic impressionist in television, Who Did You Do? presented by Ricky Gervais. He featured on the BBC’s tribute to the art and craft of the impressionist, Night of a Thousand Faces (2001), and he guest starred on Alistair McGowan’s Big Impression series (2001) and The Impressionable Jon Culshaw series (2004). Steve has also appeared on two impressionist radio panel games, First Impressions and And This is Them, both for BBC Radio Comedy. His after-dinner speech demonstrating his skills as a comedy impressionist is in constant demand.

Throughout the eighties, Steve’s definitive impression of Margaret Thatcher was a regular part of television viewing on such shows as The New Statesman and Live at the Palladium. Three more recent appearances as “Lady T” were on The Weakest Link (BBC), Newsnight (BBC) and 70s Mania (LWT). In 2002 he appeared as Margaret Thatcher on the US Television special Bad Girls: Rebels with a cause.

Steve has developed classes, seminars and lectures on Story Structure and Screenwriting and now teaches these on a freelance basis. In 2003 he taught at the Birmingham and Screen Festival Summer Film School Project. He is also an approved script editor for Screen West Midlands. Steve was a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Drama and Theatre Arts at the University of Birmingham from 1995 to 2003. He created, taught and directed courses in: Stand-up Comedy; The Broadway Musical; Comedy of Manners; Screenplay Writing and Greek Theatre, and also lectured on film at the University. In 2001 Steve gave a talk at the University of the Third Age entitled “The Musical Theatre of Stephen Sondheim”.

Steve kept up his academic interest in drama after he graduated from the University of Birmingham and he now writes articles and reviews concentrating on these areas. He recently contributed the section on ‘Musicals’ in the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Music, published by Flame Tree Publishing in 2003. The chapter examined the style of the music of musical theatre by looking at the musical influences and history of its main practitioners within the social context of their times and the theatrical context of their writing. Steve also contributes articles and reviews for periodicals such as The New Statesman and New Theatre Quarterly, and has also written extensively for the musical theatre magazine, Musical Stages.

Since 1999 Steve has directed many stage plays, including The Assassination of Tony Blair and Dark of the Moon, as part of David Edgar’s Playwriting Masters Degree at the University of Birmingham. Also for the stage, Steve wrote the book of Like Love, a new musical commissioned by the Jermyn Street Theatre.

Steve’s comedy and dramatic writing is eclectic and covers various media. Recent satirical comic writing includes a sketch for Broadcasting House on BBC Radio Four and a comic monologue for BBC Two’s Newsnight. In 1999 Steve co-wrote with Turan Ali The Ghost of Number Ten and The Nallon Tapes, two major new comedy series for BBC Radio Four. In The Nallon Tapes Steve performed all the voices (a total of over fifty!), and in The Ghost of Number Ten he played the multi-voiced computer. He has also written Props with Mark Eden, a Saturday Playhouse broadcast in September 1997. In Props Mark and Steve starred as Chuck and Bobby, two prop men who worked at Shepperton Film Studios. Other writing for radio includes the play Prizegiving (written with the novelist Tom Holt) plus two documentaries Fame and Oh Yes, I’m The Great Pretender, both of which Steve also presented. In 1989 Steve wrote I, Margaret with Tom Holt, the spoof autobiography of Baroness Thatcher published by Macmillan.

Steve has always had a strong interest in broadcasting. Between 1994 and 1997 he was a regular columnist and feature maker for The Afternoon Shift, and in 2004, he presented a morning and afternoon magazine radio show in his home town of Leeds, on BBC Radio Leeds.

As an actor, Steve has performed in several musicals including a leading role in Carnival, part of the Lost Musicals Season at the Barbican, The Rocky Horror Show at the Leicester Haymarket, and The Cloggies for Theatr Clwyd. On film, Steve appeared as the family doctor in The Girl With Brains in Her Feet. BBC Screen Two acting credits include Frankie and Johnny and Dreaming. He also featured as Rupert, Caroline Quentin’s “hot date” in Jonathan Creek. In 1998 he worked with Bradley Walsh in the BBC Radio Two sit-com King of the Road and opposite Leslie Phillips in the BBC Radio Four series Maclean - The Memorex Years.

As a celebrity guest, Steve has made numerous television appearances on such shows as Call My Bluff, Noel’s Telly Years, Pull the Other One, Loose Lips and Don’t Drink the Water.

Steve is an accomplished and much sought after puppeteer in children’s television where he has over a hundred such shows to his credit. Voice and puppet work includes Cats’ Eyes, Spooks and Crazy Cottage. Recently he also became ‘Dusty’ in the late-night cult comedy series The Dan and Dusty Show on ITV1.

Steve is a member of BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts), the RTS (Royal Television Society), Equity and the Writers’ Guild.

Full Performance Biography

The following is a “Full Performance Biography” listing of all the films, television programmes, radio shows, stage and cabaret work that Steve has been involved in. Detailed descriptions of Steve’s work in specific areas can be found in the individual sections of the website.

Steve’s talent as an impressionist and voice artist, especially his experience on shows such as Spitting Image, The Nallon Tapes and First Impressions, is illustrated and listed in the section “Impressionist: Television Appearances”.

Puppeteering is catalogued in “Actor: Puppeteer and Puppet Consultant ”.

Conference work, after dinner speaking, advertising and promotions are all described with audio and visual clips in “Impresssionist: After Dinner Speaking”.

His work as a stage director is detailed in “Theatre Directing”.

2005

50 Years of ITV (Special Guest Interview), Central ITV; Greatest Almost Famous TV Moments (Special Guest Interview), Objective Productions for C5; Spitting Image: Must See TV (Special Guest Interview), ITV; The Twentieth Century Roadshow (Special Guest interview) BBC; ITV Lunchtime News, ITN; ITV News Channel, ITN; BBC Look North, BBC.

2004

The Dan and Dusty Show, ITV; The Impressionable Jon Culshaw, ITV

2003

Who Did You Do?, BBC; Weakest Link: Celebrity Special, BBC; Loose Lips, Living TV; TV's Naughtiest Blunders, ITV

2002

Bad Girls: Rebels with a Cause Oxygen Media (US); Stars and their Stories, Granada Plus; Seven Days, STV for ITV; Reporting Scotland, STV for ITV

2001

Night of a Thousand Faces, BBC; Alistair McGowan’s Big Impression, Vera for BBC One; Newsnight, BBC; 70s Mania, LWT; Hattie the Disenchanted, a television pilot for TAPS

2000

Good Morning Television, GMTV for ITV; Nightly News, ITV; Central News, Central; Newsroom South East, BBC

1999

Call My Bluff, BBC (Celebrity Guest); Open House With Gloria Hunniford, C5; Timekeepers of the Millennium, CITV

1998

The A-Z of Family Life, TV Pilot for Pepper’s Ghost

1997

Animal Madness, Action Time for C5 (Character voices); Noel’s Telly Years, BBC (Celebrity Guest); Jonathan Creek, BBC (as Rupert); Noel’s House Party, BBC: Crazy Cottage, Series III, Action Time for CITV (Co-host as ‘Vera’, voice, puppeteer and co-writer); Pull the Other One, Series, Action Time for ITV (Celebrity Guest); Don’t Drink the Water, Series, Action Time for ITV (Celebrity Guest); Taking Off With Yarwood, BBC TV Pilot (Celebrity Guest); Roger and the Rottentrolls, Series, CITV; Call My Bluff, BBC (Celebrity Guest)

1996

Spitting Image, Final Show, ITV; Crazy Cottage, Series II, Action Time for CITV (‘Vera’ co-host and co-writer); Call My Bluff, BBC (Celebrity Guest); Forty Years of ITV (Celebrity Guest), ITV

1995

Crazy Cottage, Series I, Action Time for CITV (as ‘Vera’, co-host); The Spooks of Bottle Bay, Series, CITV; Esther — The Mike Yarwood Interview, BBC, (Guest Interview); The Curious Case of Dr. Van Rental, CBBC; World Service Television News, BBC (Guest Interview)

1994

Good Morning With Richard and Judy, Granada for ITV (Celebrity Guest Interview); Newshound, BBC (Celebrity Guest); The House of Gristle, Series, BBC; King of the Road, BBC; Cats’ Eyes, A series of 40 programmes for BBC Education (As Jimmy, voice and puppet); Wise Guy, BBC TV Pilot, Good Morning, GMTV; Good Morning With Ann and Nick, BBC; Bad Government Awards, C4; Walpole’s Bottom, BBC; The Spooks of Bottle Bay, Series, CITV

1993

Rory Bremner… Who Else?, C4 (Performer and writer); The Morning After the Year Before, C4; Spitting Image, Series, ITV; The Big Breakfast, C4; The James Whale Show, ITV; Spitting Image Specials: Peter and the Wolf (BBC), Thatcherworld (ITV); Having It Off (Video Special); The Day She Went, BBC, (Guest Interview)

1992

That’s Life!, BBC; Motormouth, TVS for ITV; Public Enemy Number One, BBC; Pallas, Series, C4 (Voices); What’s Up Doc?, Series, CITV (As Cassie, voice, puppeteer and writer); Friday Night With Wogan, BBC; The Late Show, BBC; The Pig Attraction, CITV; Bugs (Series, Video Special); ITV Telethon '92

1991

The South Bank Show on Spitting Image, ITV (Guest Interview); The Rory Bremner Show, Series, BBC (Performer and writer); The Wild Bunch, Series, C4; Spitting Image, Series, ITV; Ring My Bell, C4; Motormouth, CITV; Thatcher Special, ZDF — German Television; Heroes, C4 (Guest Interview); The Happening, Sky TV; The James Whale Show, ITV; The Six O’Clock Show, LWT for ITV; Coast to Coast, TVS for ITV; Calendar, YTV for ITV; This Morning With Richard and Judy, ITV; Staggering Stories, BBC Promotions for BBC Television

1990

Ben Elton — The Man From Auntie, Series, BBC; The Rory Bremner Show, Series, BBC (Performer and writer); The Bobby Davro Show, ITV; Wogan, BBC; The Media Show; Motormouth, CITV: Spitting Image, Series, ITV; Kelly, Ulster; Elinor, HTV; Juke Box Jury, BBC; Central Weekend, Central Lobby, Central. Granada Up Front, Granada; Going Live, BBC; Gilbert’s Late, ITV; The Late Show, BBC, Arch Rivals, C4 (Guest Interview); Sky News Budget Special, Sky; Comic Relief, BBC; Scotching the Myth, STV of ITV; Better Late, HTV for ITV; That’s Life!, BBC; A Kind of Magic, ITV; TV Telethon '90, ITV; Nothing Like a Royal Show!, LWT for ITV

1989

The New Statesman, ITV; The Trouble With Joan Collins, LWT; Ten Glorious Years, BBC; Knowhow, BBC; Spitting Image, Series, ITV; Spitting Image Specials — The Sound of Maggie and Bumbledown, The Reagan Years; KYTV, BBC; Posh Frocks and New Trousers, C4; The End of the 80’s Show; Tyne Tees; The Rory Bremner Show, Series, BBC (Performer and writer); Europe Now, Central; World In Action, ITV, (Guest Interview); The Krypton Factor, Granada; Wogan, BBC; The Late Show, BBC; Jameson Tonight, Sky; The Show, BBC Northern Ireland; The James Whale Show, YTV for ITV; The Art Sutter Show, Grampian; Now Something Else, Series, BBC (Performer and writer); This Morning With Richard and Judy; Calendar, YTV for ITV; Countdown to Christmas, BBC; Midlands Today, BBC; The Frank Bough Interview, Sky TV; Decibels of the Decade, Sky TV; Newsnight, BBC; Catchphrase, TVS for ITV;Children In Need, BBC; Face to Face, NHK Japan; Mayhem with Margo, STV for ITV

1988

The Rory Bremner Show, Series, BBC (Performer and writer); The Hippodrome Show, ITV; Get Fresh, CITV; Two Dogs and Freedom; Tomorrow’s World, BBC; Comic Relief; The New Statesman, ITV; Motormouth, CITV; Arena, BBC; The Six O’Clock Show, LWT for ITV; Anglia Live at 10.35, Anglia; The Friday Show, TSW; The Paul Coia Show, Grampian; Central Weekend; Daytime Live, BBC; Spitting Image, Series, ITV. 7T3, CITV; Spitting Image NBC Special: The Ronnie and Nancy Show; ITV Telethon '88, ITV

1987

Now Something Else, Series II, BBC (Performer and writer); Spitting Image, Series, ITV; Live From the Palladium, LWT for ITV; Kellyvision; The Roland Rat Show, BBC; I’ve Got a Secret, BBC; The Little and Large Show, BBC; Saturday Live, LWT for C4; Bullseye, ITV; Central Weekend, Central; The Tom O’Connor Road Show, BBC; Spitting Image Specials: '87 Election Special for ITV and The Movie Awards for NBS Television, US

1986

Now Something Else, Series I, BBC (Performer and writer); Saturday Live, LWT for C4; Cinderella, ITV; Get Fresh, CITV; Roland Rat Show, BBC; Comic Relief, BBC; The Six O’Clock Show, LWT for ITV; Spitting Image, Series ITV; Top of the Pops, BBC

1985

The Mike Yarwood Show, Thames; The Lenny Henry Show, BBC; The Krankies, BBC; Harty Goes to Edinburgh, BBC; Top That, Pilot for Central; Omnibus — Luck and Flaw’s Illustrated Guide to Caricature, BBC; Did You See, BBC; The Jonathon King Show, BBC; Spitting Image, Series, ITV; Spitting Image Special: The Mike Nesmith Show, NBC. TV-AM; Entertainment Montreux

1984

Spitting Image, Series, ITV; The Tube, Tyne Tees for ITV; The Longest Running Show On Earth, ITV; The Fame Game, Series, ITV; Pet Hates, ITV

Feature Films and Films for Television

Asylum, (as Immigration officer) 2002
The Girl With Brains In Her Feet, (as the family doctor) 1997
Chimps, Blast! Films (Various voices) 1997
Crossing The Floor (Voice of Thatcher) BBC Screen One 1996
Number Thirteen, (as Mrs. McCrory) 1996
The Muppet Treasure Island, (Puppeteer) 1995
Dreaming (As Margaret Thatcher) 1990
Bullseye!, Directed by Michael Winner (Various voices) 1990
The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball, 1989
Hands of a Murderer (Various voices) CBS 1989
The Secret Policeman’s Third Ball 1987
Let Our Children Grow Tall, (Voice of Margaret Thatcher) 1986
Frankie and Johnnie (as Dave) Screen Two, 1985

2005

The Simon Mayo Show, R5; Masterpiece, BBC World Service; Pick of the World, BBC World Service; The Fred MacAulay Show, BBC Scotland; The Ted Robbins Show, BBC Lancashire; The Judith Spiers Show, BBC Devon: The Bernie Keith Show, BBC Northampton; The Jerry Scott Show, BBC York; The Tim Wedgewood Show, BBC Stoke; The John Rockely Show, BBC Gloucester; The Dianne Oxbury Show, BBC GMR; The Richard Cartridge Show, BBC Solent; The Danny Cox Show, BBC Oxford; Good Morning Wales, BBC Wales; Saturday Carry On, BBC Kent; The Evening Show, LBC; Breakfast, Drive,  The Asian News Network, BBC.

2004

The Afternoon Show and The Morning Show, as presenter, BBC Radio Leeds; Woman’s Hour, R4; Weekend Woman's Hour, R4; The Fred MacAulay Show , BBC Radio Scotland; Julian Worricker, R5; Rachel Stewart, BBC Radio Sheffield; Nicola Heywood Thames, BBC Radio Wales

2003

Loose Ends, R4; Front Row, R4; Fi Glover -- BBC Radio Five Live; The Fred MacAulay Show , BBC Radio Scotland; Jane Markham Show , Saga; Ed Doolan Show -- The Otherside of Steve Nallon , BBC WM; The Paul Franks Show , BBC WM; BBC Radio Wales; BBC Radio Leeds; BBC Radio Newcastle; BBC Radio Berkshire; BBC Radio Foyle; The Bernie Keith Show , BBC Radio Northampton; BBC Radio Shropshire; BBC Radio Merseyside; Three Counties Radio

2002

Nicky Campbell, Radio 5; Jon Gaunt, BBC London; The Richard Allinson Show, R2; The Fred MacAulay Show, BBC Radio Scotland; The Johnny Walker Show (with Stuart Maconie), R2; Clive Anderson Bites the Ballot, R2; Woman's Hour, R4; Weekend Woman's Hour, R4; Sadie Nine, BBC London; Broadcasting House, R4; Soul Music, R4

2001

Soul Music, R4; The Fred MacAulay Show, BBC Radio Scotland

2000

Good Morning Scotland, BBC Radio Scotland; The Fred MacAulay Show, BBC Radio Scotland; The Alan Tyler Show, BBC Radio Scotland.

1999

The Nallon Tapes, Series, R4 (All voices and co-writer); The Ghost of Number Ten, Series, R4 (Actor and co-writer), And This Is Them, R2, (Impressionist and writer); In Other Words, Open University R4, (Guest Interview).

1998

First Impressions, Series IV, R4 (Impressionist and writer); King of the Road, Series, R2 (As Barry); Maclean - The Memorex Years, Series, R4 (Actor).

1997

Props, Saturday Playhouse, R4 (Co-writer and actor, as Bobby); First Impressions, Series III, R4 (Team Captain impressionist and writer); Walsh’s Wall Street Journal, Pilot R2;

1996

Fame, Documentary Series, R4 (Writer and interviewer); First Impressions, Series II, R4 (Team Captain impressionist and writer); Afternoon Shift, R4, (Columnist and feature maker); Accents Speak Louder Than Words, Open University on R4, (Guest Interview).

1995

First Impressions, Series I, R4 (Team Captain impressionist and writer); Remember Live Aid, Saturday Playhouse, (Actor); Afternoon Shift, R4, (Columnist and feature maker); The Music Machine, Series, R3 (Actor); Middle Page Spread, Pilot R2; Oh Yes, I’m the Great Pretender, Documentary, R2 (Writer and interviewer); Pick of the Week, R4; Drivetime With John Inverdale, R5.

1994

Anderson Country, Series, R4 (Columnist); The Way It Is, Capital Radio; National Music Day, R2; First Impressions, Pilot R4.

1993

The Big Red Mug Show, Virgin Radio; The AM Alternative, R5; The Way Out; A Lovesong for Alfred J. Hitchcock, Playhouse, R3, (Actor); Everybody Loves Cinderella, R4, (Actor).

1992

Prizegiving, R5 (Saturday Playhouse, co-writer and actor); Word of Mouth, R4, (Guest Interview).

1991

Mike’s Secret Mike, Series, R5; Woman’s Hour, R4 (Guest Interview); The Breakfast Show, R1; Today, R4; The Morning Edition, R5; The Radio One DJs Christmas Dinner, R1; Take Five, R5; Calling The Falklands, BFBS; The Sunday Edition, R5.

1990

Mad Composers, BBC Radio. Philip Schofield Road Show, R1; Satire, LBC; The Pete Murray Show, LBC (Guest Interview).

1989

Nightcap, R4; Bedsprings, Playhouse, R3 (Actor); Outlook, World Service (Guest Interview); Pick of the Week, R4; The Way It Is, Capital; If, Invictor Radio; Newsbeat, R1; Pick of the Year, R4; Gloria Hunniford, R2 (Guest Interview).

1988

The Simon Mayo Show, R1; Gloria Hunniford, R2 (Guest Interview); The Politics of Laughter, BBC World service (Guest Interview).

1987

Loose Ends, R4; Desert Island Discs, R4 (Fluck and Law’s luxury item: Mrs Thatcher’s resignation speech - Performer and writer); Pick of the Week, R4.

1986

Cut Off At The Fringe, R2 (Performer and writer).

1985

Aspects of the Fringe, R4 (Performer and writer); Outlook, BBC World Service (Guest Interview).

Recordings

Spitting Image Records:
20 Great Golden Gobs and The Chicken Song Celebrity Megamix (1987), Spit In Your Ear (1986).

Other Spitting Image Recordings:
Various Telephone Messages: Christmas Message, Budget Message, Valentine Message.

Animatronic Puppets:
The Lickety-Lick Show, Covent Garden and Bath and numerous corporate events.

Spitting Image Telephone Answer Machine Message Tapes:
Celebrity Answerbacks, Political Answerbacks and Royal Answerback.

Other Records:

Boy George, No Clause 28

Other recordings:

Trivial Pursuit: CD TV Edition (1992)

The Margaret Thatcher Speaking Clock

Inflight:
Britannia Airways Just For Laughs 1997 and Caledonian Air Smiles 1993, 1994, 1995.

Theatre and Cabaret

Steve Nallon's Christmas Carol (Writer/Performer) 2003/4

Steve Nallon's Adventures in Wonderland (Writer/Performer) 2003

Steve Nallon's Big Odyssey (Writer/Performer) 2002/3

The Assassination of Tony Blair (Director) 2000

Dawn of the Moon (Director) 2000

Human Resources (Director) 1999

Spunk (Director) 1999

The Rocky Horror Show (As The Narrator), Leicester Haymarket 1994

Carnival (As Jacquot) Lost Musicals at the Barbican Centre, directed by Ian Marshall Fisher

A Cook’s Tour, Shaftesbury 1990

Carnival Weekend, Theatr Clwyd 1990

Cambridge Union, 1990

The Institute, Birmingham, 1990

Mrs Thatcher’s Star Spangled Cabinet, Hackney Empire and The Comedy Club, Leicester Square, Holsten Funny Business 1989

Comedy Night, Midland Arts Centre, Birmingham, 1989

Night of a Hundred Stars, Adelphi 1988

Tramshed 1988

Jasper Carrot’s Comical Mystery Tour, Birmingham Hippodrome 1988

The Tron Theatre, Glasgow, 1988

Malcolm Hardie’s The Tunnel Club, 1988

Town Hall, Hemel Hempstead 1988

Greenwich Festival 1987

The Hippodrome, Colchester, 1987

“Maggie” and the Wolf 1986 and The Carnival of the Animals 1987
Both concerts with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Carl Davis at the Winter Gardens, Bournemouth.

University Tour, Pola Jones (with Paul Merton, Rory Bremner and Jeremy Hardy) 1985

From a Miser to a Fool, directed by Jeff Teare (French prisoner), Triangle Theatre Birmingham 1984

The Cloggies, by Bill Tidy, directed by George Roman (Ted the Cloggie, TV commentator) Theatr Clwyd 1983, Edinburgh Fringe Festival

Two Englishmen and a Broad, with Jeremy Hardy and Kit Hollerbach 1986

Mouthing Off, with Harry Enfield, Bryan Elsley and Helen Lederer 1985

Messmedia, (Director and Performer) 1982

Motel, by Guy Hibbert (As Magician) 1981

Afore Ye Go, (Director and Performer) 1981

A Selection of Charity Performances:

Yorkshire Wildlife Trust, Gala Dinner, Harrogate 2001

Variety Club of Great Britain, Gala Banquet and Ball, Birmingham 1999

Promenaid, Leicester Haymarket, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997

Children With Aids, Criterion, 1995 and 1996

Sun, Sea and Stand-ups! Dome, Brighton 1991

Charity Gala, with The Scottish Chamber Orchestra conducted by Carl Davis, Usher Hall Edinburgh 1987

Greenpeace Gala, Royal Albert Hall, 1986

University Productions:

James Connolly in The Non-stop Connelly Show by Arden and D’Arcy

Praed in Mrs Warren’s Profession by Shaw

The Father in The Respectable Wedding by Brecht

Harold Gorringe in Black Comedy by Shaffer

The Man With the Flower in His Mouth by Pirandello (Director)

Working Men’s Clubs and Cabaret Venues 1977 - 1980

As a teenager between 1977 and before going to university in 1980 Steve had a stand-up impressionist act which he performed in a variety of cabaret venues and Working Men’s Clubs. These included Fanny’s Night Club, Great Yarmouth; The Talk of Yorkshire; Burmantoft’s Liberal Club; Bramley Band; Gipton Working Men’s Club; The Alexander; Swarcliffe Working Men’s Club; Newton Aycliffe Trades and Labour Club; Pudsey West End Working Men’s Club; Hermit Hill Conservative Club; The Railway Club, Coventry; Co-operative and Riffle Club, Leeds and many, many more.

Education

St. Augustine’s RC Primary School, Leeds
St. Michael’s College, a Jesuit Grammar School, Leeds

The University of Birmingham
B.A. Honours Degree in Drama and English, 1980 — 1983