Steve Nallon – Career Profile and Recent Credits
Steve Nallon’s professional life as a performer began in 1978 on the Northern Working Men’s Club circuit in his home county of Yorkshire. He then went on to the University of Birmingham, gaining an honours degree in Drama and English. Following graduation in 1983, Steve became a founding member of the television series SPITTING IMAGE where he provided the voices of many of the programme’s most iconic characters for well over a decade. In the last forty years, Steve has gone on to have one of the most varied careers in the creative industry, working as an actor, voice artist, voice coach, author, puppeteer, broadcaster, academic, and now a successful fantasy novelist and writer of supernatural short stories.
Steve’s first writing contract for the BBC was in 1985, and since then he has built up a considerable body of credits ranging from radio plays and comedy series to articles and columns, as well as numerous contributions to books and periodicals. His recent collection of supernatural tales, STEVE NALLON’S GHOST STORIES (2024), received rave reviews (“Spooktastic” THE SUNDAY POST). His fantasy novels, THE TIME THAT NEVER WAS (2022) and THE TIME THEY SAVED TOMORROW (2024) – both part of THE SWIDGERS Young Adult Time Adventure book series – proved hugely popular with readers of all ages. In non-fiction, DESTINATION TIME TRAVEL (2023), an exploration of time travel tales in film and television written with Dick Fiddy of the British Film Institute, garnered much praise from fantasy and science fiction fans. Steve is also now a regular contributor to the award-winning magazine CLASSIC MONSTERS OF THE MOVIES.
Steve is one of the UK’s leading voice artists, with credits covering animation, film dubbing, audiobooks, commercials, and video games. He even recently featured as himself in a recording discussing his life and work in an extraordinary theatre presentation called SHOWMANISM (2025) at the Hampstead Theatre. In the show, Dickie Beau acted as a kind of avatar miming to a variety of interviews given by leading industry professionals such as Sir Ian McKellen and Fiona Shaw. In 2026, Steve provided over thirty character voices for the theatre play THE FINAL DAYS OF LIZ TRUSS, which had a successful run at The Other Palace in Victoria and at the Edinburgh Fringe. He was a key voice actor on ATOMFALL for Rebellion, which won the BAFTA for Best British Video Game in 2026.
Recent performance work as stage actor includes SCREAMING QUEENS! at the Cinema Museum in 2026, where Steve played Kenneth Williams, and BEYOND OUR KEN at the Normansfield Theatre in 2025, where Steve took on the many roles originally performed by Hugh Paddick in a staged revival of the popular 1950s radio comedy. Steve played Jacque in CARNIVAL (Barbican Theatre, London), John Bland in CHINESE WHISPERS (Greenwich Theatre), Field Marshall Lord Montgomery and Sir John Gielgud in the documentary comedy IN THE LIFE (St James Theatre, now The Other Palace), the Narrator in THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW (Leicester Haymarket), and Roy Barraclough/Cissie in CISSIE AND ADA (The Lowry and national tour). Film and television acting credits include THE REFUGE, 51 DEGREES NORTH, THE GIRL WITH BRAINS IN HER FEET, JONATHAN CREEK (BBC), and FRANKIE AND JOHNNY (BBC).
As a result of many years as an academic and researcher at the University of Birmingham, Steve is now able to offer insightful talks and lectures on various subjects, especially film genre, comic theory, performance, and theatre history. His collection of supernatural tales, STEVE NALLON’S GHOST STORIES, published in 2024, includes an in-depth essay on the ghost story tradition, and this has led to a whole series of Ghost Talks that are proving extremely popular with literary festivals and cultural societies. As well as these, Steve’s Story Craft lectures and workshops on the key pillars of storytelling continue to engage and inspire students in schools and colleges. Steve also offers individual lectures on ‘What Makes Audiences Laugh?’, ‘Satire’, ‘Young Adult Fiction’, and ‘Telling the Tales of Time’. This latter talk, which is his personal reflection on our continuing fascination with time travel stories, was given as the keynote address at the British Film Institute to launch their ‘Destination Time Travel’ season in 2023.
Steve’s work as a film and television puppeteer dates back to his days on SPITTING IMAGE. Following on from that, throughout the 1990s and into the 2000s, he performed as a puppeteer and voice actor on numerous series such as CATS’ EYES, CRAZY COTTAGE, THE SPOOKS OF BOTTLE BAY, THE HOUSE OF GRISTLE, WHAT’S UP DOC?, THE DAN AND DUSTY SHOW, and THE WILD BUNCH. He also worked for Jim Henson Productions as a puppeteer on the film MUPPET TREASURE ISLAND and as a remote control operator on the Netflix series THE DARK CRYSTAL: AGE OF RESISTANCE. In addition to his puppeteer work, Steve has experience as a motion capture performer on a variety of projects.
As a voice coach, Steve has worked with many well-known actors and actresses on productions where they have been asked to play real-life characters. Every performer is different, and so Steve adapts his coaching methods to suit the individual. Essentially it’s about helping the actor find the right rhythm, dynamic, and position of the voice in order to capture the vocal characteristics of the person being portrayed. Steve also gives general classes on voice characterisation for drama schools, colleges, and universities. In fact, he offers a variety of practical workshops on both performance and writing, notably in the areas of comedy, story craft, and creative thinking. Steve Nallon is a member of Actors’ Equity, The Royal Television Society (RTS), The British Academy of Film and Television (BAFTA), The Society of Authors (SOA), and The Writers’ Guild.