Keith Myers. Actor and Theatre Director. A brief biography.

Since graduating from The Rose Bruford College Keith has played a wide range of roles from Pantomime Dame to Shakespearean villain and directed over 100 dramas, comedies, musicals and comedy sketch shows. He also teaches in Drama Schools and coaches actors for auditions and college entry.

Actor;

In 2007 he toured the UK playing Sir George Crofts in Bernard Shaw’s Mrs Warren’s Profession and in the summer he played Charles Condomine in Noel Coward’s Blithe Spirit and Leon in Game Plan by Alan Aykbourn at the Theatre Royal, Margate. Before that he was in a season of plays opposite Eastenders star Leslie Grantham at the Lyceum Theatre in Crewe; Inside Job by Brian Clemens, John Godber’s Gym & Tonic, and Opposite Sex by David Tristram. Through 2005 and most of 2006 he was touring the UK as Dr John Weeden in Jeffrey Archer’s Beyond Reasonable Doubt with Leslie Grantham and Simon Ward.

Earlier this year he was at Vienna’s English Theatre where he played the outrageous Reverend Dicky Sainsbury in Michael Frayn’s comedy Donkey’s Years and since then did two plays in London; playing Chubukov in Chekhov’s The Proposal at the Lion and Unicorn Theatre and Luke (Lucy) in Alan Aykbourn’s Mother Figure at the New End Theatre.

Other favourite leading roles include Harry Roat in Wait Until Dark; Captain Lesgate in Dial M For Murder opposite Cheryl Baker; Harold in Murder By Misadventure opposite Stefan Dennis from Neighbours and when not being horribly assassinated or trying to bump off someone else he has found time to play characters as diverse as; Angelo in Shakespeare’s Measure For Measure, Mr Shanks in Habeas Corpus by Alan Bennett, the Widow Twanky in Aladdin, Dennis in Outside Edge, Levi in Joseph and His Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and the Reverend Humphries in See How They Run.

His TV appearances include roles in various shows including Eastenders, Dempsey and Makepeace and The Chuckle Brothers.

In July 2008 he was in Berlin playing a lead in the film Prison Food and in August he was at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham where he played the Prime Minister, Lord Salisbury in Holmes and the Ripper and The Memorial Theatre, Broadstairs where he played Graham in one of Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads – A Chip In The Sugar.

This Christmas you can catch him playing Pantomime Dame in Beauty and the Beast in Welwyn Garden City.

Director;

Keith has been directing plays for more than 25 years and during that time he has been Artistic Director of the Lyceum Theatre in Crewe, Ellie Jay Productions, Corpus Productions, Motion Young People’s Theatre Co., Stage Further Productions and is in his 15th year of writing and directing for Time of Our Lives Theatre Company.

He has directed over 120 plays, musicals, pantomimes, sketch shows and revues. Most recently he directed the thriller Deadly Nightcap by Francis Durbridge at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham. Before that he directed a season of plays at the Lyceum Theatre in Crewe; Cooking With Elvis by Lee Hall, Gym and Tonic by John Godber, The Opposite Sex by David Tristram and Inside Job by Brian Clemens, these starred Leslie Grantham and Carol Harrison.

Favourite shows directed include the Italian classic The Venetian Twins by Carlo Goldoni at London’s Southwark Playhouse; Habeas Corpus by Alan Bennett; Abigail’s Party by Mike Leigh; Sheridan’s The Rivals; J. B. Priestley’s Time And The Conways; Bent by Martin Sherman; Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor in Luxembourg, and Spiders Web by Agatha Christie which toured Israel.

National tours include; Murder By Misadventure by Edward Taylor, starring Peter Dean (Eastenders) and Stefan Dennis (Neighbours); The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen’s Guild Dramatic Society Production of a Murder Mystery by David McGillivray, starring TV comedienne Faith Brown and Anna Karen (On The Busses); Anyone for Breakfast? by Derek Benfield, Starring Shane Connor from Neighbours and Ross Davidson(Eastenders) and David Whalley’s Dead of Night starring Chris Ellison from the Bill and Carol Harrison (Eastenders).