James Cotter

Education

About me

Recently worked with Hot Rock Productions and have regularly toured with various theatre companies. Regular work with The National Trust in various roles, experienced film and TV actor based in the South West.

Additional skills:
Good improvisational skills
Quick at learning lines
Good ear for accents
Impressionist
Experience on BBC Radio
Compare/Host
Clowning workshop experience
Improvisation workshop experience
Movement choreography
Stage Combat
Writing
Comic Performer
Directing productions
Tours
Outdoor Performing
Shakespearian Text
Experience in sound, lighting and ASM
Enhanced DBS checked

Experience of working on small-scale productions including knowledge of directing, writing, stage management, lighting and prop and set building.

DBS checked drama teacher and now college lecturer in Creative Media and Journalism (QTLS) with experience of working with adults, children and SEN. Over 8 year's experience working with primary, secondary and 6th form students with Devon County Council and an independent special school.

Industry awards:
United Film Festival (2014) Audience Award for Best Short - The Days Inbetween

Two Short Nights (2019) Audience Choice Award - Shuttlecock

Cornwall Film Festival (2020) Best South West Regional Short - Shuttlecock

English Riviera Film Festival (2020) English Riviera Film Festival Award, Best Film and Best Cinematography - Shuttlecock

London Film Festival (2020) Audience Award - Shuttlecock

Additional information:
I am a highly accomplished stage and screen actor with a number of leading parts to my name as well as supporting roles in films such as Borley Rectory (2015), Scareycrows (2015), Torn (2014), All in the Valley (2014), World War Z (2013), The Wedding Video (2012), The Sweeney (2012) and The Days Inbetween (2012). Theatre work with Bill Kenwright Productions. Tours and shows at The Princess Theatre, The Northcott and Bristol Hippodrome. TV includes E4's Skins (2012), ITV's Wakey! Wakey! (2012), The Discovery Channel's Mermaids (2013) and the BBC's Kennedy’s Suicide Bomber (2013). TV commercials for Lumens and Haven Holidays. Radio includes The BBC's A Comic Review of the Year (2012). Toured as Reg in Alan Ayckbourn's Round and Round The Garden (2012), Mr Toad in the musical The Adventures of Mr Toad (2013), Sebastian in Twelfth Night (2014), Detective Sergeant Porterhouse in Run For Your Wife (2015), Young Reg Varney in Before the Buses (2016), Squire Creamyclot in Treasure Island (2017) and Sir Francis Walsingham in From Exe to Axe (2018).

Skills

Languages Spoken	English
Accents/Dialects	American - General, Australian, English - Cockney, English - England North West (Liverpool, Manchester, Lancashire, Cheshire), English - Essex, English - General, English - London, English - Northern England, English - Received Pronunciation, English - Southwest England, English - West Midlands (Shropshire, Birmingham, Brummie), English - Yorkshire & Humber, French (Standard International), German, Indian, Irish, Irish Eastern (Leinster, Dublin), Italian (Standard International), Midwest American, New York, Northern Irish, Russian, Scottish, Scottish (Highland, Inverness), US West Coast (California, Portland), Welsh
Dance Styles	Ballroom, Contemporary, Tap
Vocal Types	Baritone, Bass
Additional Skills	Acting, Hosting/Presenting, Impressions, Public Speaking, Standup
Athletics	Football