Ghost Stories Written By Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman

Theatre includes: The Wipers Times (Arts Theatre); Trial by Laughter (UK tour); Bleak Expectations (Watermill Theatre); Live Ghost Hunt (Pleasance); Sins of the Grandfathers (Underbelly).

TV includes: Rivals (Disney+); The Cleaner, War & Peace, We Are History, Eastenders, Doctors, Miranda, Mongrels, Detectorists, Upstart Crow, Five Daughters (BBC); Three Little Birds, Why Didn’t They Ask Evans, Unforgotten (ITV); Hollyoaks, Generation Z, Peep Show, Utopia, Humans, Skins (C4); Red Dwarf (Dave) and The Nevers, Truth Seekers (Amazon).

Radio includes: The Museum of Everything; Paperback Hell; Ed Reardon’s Week; Thanks A Lot Milton Jones; Cabin Pressure; The Ape That Got Lucky; Chris Addison’s Civilization; The News at Bedtime; Armando Iannucci’s Charm Offensive; The Friday Play; Sins of the Grandfathers; Mastering the Universe.

Theatre includes: Charlie Clench in One Man Two Gunvors (Derby Theatre and UK Tour) Reverend Chasuble  in The Importance Of Being Earnest (The Albert Halls); OJ Berman/Dr Goldman in Breakfast At Tiffany’s (UK Tour); Thrysullus  in The Inn At Lydda (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse); Tipping The Velvet (Lyric Hammersmith); Monty in Made In Dagenham (Adelphi Theatre); Harry McMichael in Not Now Darling (The Mill at Sonning); Tony Matthews in Ghost Stories (Duke of York Theatre, Lyric Hammersmith, Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse), Captain Smollett in Treasure Island (Rose Theatre); Phil in Dreamboats And Petticoats; Kat in All Quiet On The Western Front (Nottingham Playhouse); Reggie in the UK Tour of Losing Louis; Ed in Playing God (Stephen Joseph Theatre); The Prison Orderly in Edward Bond’s Lear (Crucible); Billy Bulldog in Property (National Theatre Studio); The Fool in King Lear for E.T.T (Old Vic); Reg in Bones (Hampstead); Sgt Slater in a tour of Ray Cooney’s Funny Money.  Between 1993 and 1997 he played Sam Weller opposite Sir Harry Secombe in the musical Pickwick.

Television includes: Max in The Bill (returning character) and A Touch Of Frost (both ITV); Eastenders, Silent Witness, The Bulla, Absolutely Fabulous, Getting Hurt, Casualty (all BBC). He is probably best known on television as Chris Theodopolopodous in Birds Of A Feather.

Film includes: Brian Epstein in Stephen Frears’ Prick Up Your Ears; Michael Mann’s The Keep; Three Steps To Heaven (BFI Films) and Baby Juice Express (Enterprise Films).

Training: Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.

Theatre includes: FIJI (Pleasance Theatre, Omnibus Theatre, Riverside Studios); The Inheritance (Young Vic, Noel Coward Theatre); The Funeral Director (UK TOUR); Mothercare (Southwark Playhouse); Julius Caesar (Bristol Old Vic); All Quiet On The Western Front (Soho Theatre, New York) and Buoy (Bloomsbury Theatre). 

Film includes: Modi: Three Days on the Wing of Madness (directed by Johnny Depp).

Training: National Youth Theatre, RADA.

Theatre credits include: Cal McCrystal’s 2018 and 2023 productions of Iolanthe (E.N.O.); Tim Albery’s A Streetcar Named Desire; Stephen Daldry’s The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist; David Toguri’s Robin Hood; David Hayman’s Coming Clean (Bush Theatre); Deborah Warner’s Woyzeck; Howard Davies’s Troilus and Cressida (RSC); Alan Rickman’s Johnny Johnson RSC (The Almeida); Kenneth Branagh’s The Play What I Wrote and 6 productions of Of Mice and Men (Olivier Nomination for his role as Lennie); Educating Rita; Rattle of a Simple Man; The Ladykillers; The Verdict; The Children; and with his wife, Carla Mendonça, Jus’ Like That!

Television includes: Robin of Sherwood; The Vicar of Dibley; Casualty; Holby City; Game of Thrones; White Van Man; Mount Pleasant; Bloomin’ Marvellous; Minder; Smith and Jones; One Foot in the Grave; Bottom; Drop the Dead Donkey; A Bit of Fry and Laurie; Damned; Sherlock; Midsomer Murders; Doctors; and many more.

Films include: Party Party; Alien 3; Without a Clue; Churchill - Into the Storm; Morris - A Life With Bells On; The More You Ignore Me; Quicksand; and in White Hunter, Black Heart.

Written work includes: The Treasure at The Top Of The World, A Jewel In The Sands Of Time, In The City Of Fortune And Flames and At the Moment When Time Stood Still.

Training: Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.

Theatre includes: Mr Meininger in Brecht Fragments (Raven Row); Cyrano in Cyrano de Bergerac (Vienna's English Theatre); Freddy in Pygmalion (The Attic Theatre, Startford-Upon-Avon); Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream (SE Theatre Company); Romeo in Romeo and Juliet; Feste in Twelfth Night (Tread the Boards);

Credits while training include: Peter Kyle in Flare Path, King Charles II in Nell Gwyn, The Trial, The Clockmaker's Daughter and a 2023 Spotlight Prize Finalist.

Training: BA in Acting from Kogan Academy (affil. Kingston University) in 2017.

Theatre includes: Otto Hahn in Farm Hall (Theatre Royal Haymarket 2024 and 2023 tour); Mayor King in The Way to Dusty Death (Camden Fringe 2023); and Brad Williams in Someone of Significance (Vault Festival 2023). Simon is also a long-standing member of Directors Cut Theatre.

TV and Film includes: a reporter in the Bob Marley feature film One Love; Richard Weston in Mary & George (Sky Atlantic); Benjamin Holt in The Machines That Built America (Sky History/HBO); David Blackett in The Testing Point (2023); Moggin Ana Rocha de Sousa’s Listen (2020) and a drunk widower in the LGBTQ+ short Octopus (BFI Flare 2022).