Dean Bartholomew
Overview
- Ethnicity
- White / European Descent
- Age Range
- 32 - 42
- Height
- 5' 9" (1m 75cm)
- Weight
- 10st. 1lb. (64kg)
- Hair Colour
- Brown
- Eye Colour
- Green
- Build
- Medium
Video
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video fileToxic - Acoustic Cover
Credits
Year | Job Title Project Type |
Project Name Director / Company |
Location |
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2023 |
Clown 1
Theatre |
The 39 Steps Loughton Amateur Dramatic Society |
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2022 |
Saul Watson
Theatre |
Play On! Harlow Amateur Theatre Society |
Harlow Playhouse |
2022 |
Lee Bond
Theatre |
Hushabye Mountain WP Drama |
Redbridge Drama Centre |
2022 |
Jack Manningham
Theatre |
Gaslight Loughton Amateur Dramatic Society |
Lopping Hall, Loughton |
2021 |
Brian
Theatre |
Avenue Q East Herts Operatic Society |
The Victoria Hall Theatre, Harlow |
2019 |
James Stagg
Theatre |
Pressure Loughton Amateur Dramatic Society |
Lopping Hall, Loughton |
2019 |
Actor 2
Theatre |
Handbagged Loughton Amateur Dramatic Society |
Lopping Hall, Loughton |
2018 |
Robert
Theatre |
Boeing Boeing Loughton Amateur Dramatic Society |
Lopping Hall, Loughton |
2017 |
Alan Turing
Theatre |
Breaking The Code Loughton Amateur Dramatic Society |
Lopping Hall, Loughton |
Education
Year | Qualification | Where |
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2002 | Performance Studies - A-Level | Sir George Monoux Sixth Form College |
License & Passport
Passport: | Yes |
Driver's License: | Yes |
Skills
Additional Skills | Acting |
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Highlights
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NODA London Region Award Winner - Best Male in a Play and Best Play. ‘Alan Turing’ in Breaking the Code
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Hushabye Mountain NODA Review:
Once again Dean Bartholomew gave a performance of real class and skill. Lee was edgy, believable, loving and trying to make sense of this mixed-up world. Dean’s story telling of the pebble and the kidney were wonderfully delivered (excuse the pun).
We saw Lee’s love and protection of the younger Lana, almost in a chivalrous way. Lee’s reaction to finally hearing that Danny was HIV positive was exceptional and built that scene to the climax of Act 1.
This was a fine portrayal by a highly competent actor. -
Gaslight NODA Review:
As a “man of some power” Dean Bartholomew gave us a horrid Mr Manningham in the best possible way. This was a character with nothing to like about him. An abusive bully, able to manipulate and flip to aggression with disturbing ease.
Dean is undoubtedly a very talented actor and this part gave him a wonderful opportunity to display his ability to the full. Indeed, as Sydney Power, Mr Manningham thought he could have been an actor and “take a part and lose [himself] entirely in the character of someone else”. His manipulation of Bella to doubt herself so much was masterfully undertaken. In the first scene Mr M could have been Mrs M’s carer with his choice of language but by “Someone else!” we saw how he could intimidate.
I liked the whistling of ‘Rock-A- Bye Baby’ at the Act II entrance. The murderer whistling the children’s nursey rhyme was very creepy. Then ‘Ride of the Valkyries’ in Act III made me wonder if he had returned from the Opera? Lovely choices.
The final scenes gave Dean a chance to shift the character into the weak bully. He had great expressions during Rough’s explanation and during Mrs Manningham’s delight in revenge.
Above all I thought the way Dean achieved an air of distance between him and all the other characters was impressive. Always manipulating and manoeuvring for his own benefit. A horrific character who appeared quite normal, calm almost caring. -
Breaking The Code NODA Review:
There is absolutely no doubt that this whole play hinged on the character and portrayal of Alan Turing. Other people came in and out of his life, but they seemed to be there to highlight various aspects of Turing’s personality and thinking. His reaction to them reinforced the fact that he was a highly intelligent individual, a radical thinker, somewhat of an eccentric and an unashamed and unapologetic homosexual. This was all combined in a superb, well observed and totally believable performance by Dean Bartholomew. From his first appearance it was very obvious that here was no ordinary man – he may have looked conventional in his (rather crumpled) suit, but his mannerisms of nail biting and fiddling with the cuticles on his nails, his inability to look directly at people the ‘tick-like’ movements of his head and his inability to connect properly with his mother, seemed to indicate some form of autism or asperger’s syndrome. Hi[s] speech to Sherborne School at the start of Act ll was beautifully delivered, well modulated and showed an understanding of the young boys at the school. And not once, during his whole performance, did this falter – he had become, albeit temporarily, Alan Turing. Even when he came down for his curtain call his movements were clipped. -
Pressure NODA Review:
As ‘Dr James Stagg’, Dean Bartholomew achieved a real stand-out performance with a very believable character enhanced by moments of superb emotional depth. From the start Dean gave us a thorough and always interesting portrayal, capturing the brisk, urgent mood of ‘Stagg’ very effectively with really good pace of dialogue. His brusqueness was often very funny, which contrasted well with his anxiety for his pregnant wife – his panic attack, with shaking hands sloshing tea from its cup, was poignantly believable. What really impressed me, though, was the rapport that he built with the audience – when ‘Stagg’ took a phone call with news of his wife and tearfully said ‘thank you for letting me know’, a genuine ripple of concerned sympathy could be heard running through the audience, and when he later revealed that it had been good news and he had a son, one man cheered. The audience was evidently utterly absorbed in ‘Stagg’s’ story, something that I haven’t seen before in any play that I’ve been to for NODA – congratulations. -
NODA District 6 Winner - The Pat Redhead Award for Best Drama - Pressure