2012 Company Profiles
Paul Nicholson
actor
For SATTF: Nine seasons. Roles have included Lear’s Fool, Menenius in Coriolanus, The Old Shepherd in The Winter’s Tale, Corin in As You Like It, Ferapont in Three Sisters, Brabantio in Othello, Antonio in Much Ado About Nothing and Gremio in The Taming of the Shrew and The Roman Season
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Roland Oliver
Roland Oliver has been an actor for over forty years and part of SATTF since the start as both founder and actor
Trained: National Youth Theatre and Oxford University
For SATTF: Lear in King Lear, Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2000), Toby Belch in Twelfth Night, Porter in Macbeth, Vermandero in The Changeling, Gower in Pericles, Chebutykin in Three Sisters, Marcus Andronicus in Titus Andronicus, Holofernes in Love’s Labour’s Lost, Baptista in The Taming of the Shrew, Polonius in Hamlet, York in Richard II, Pishchik in The Cherry Orchard.
Also in Bristol: For BOV – Queen Christina and Coming Apart. For Show of Strength – ‘1953’ and The Substance of Fire. For Sinai – Five Sides of a Circle.
Other Theatre: Professional début 1966, West End début 1968 – Les in Zigger-Zagger (Strand/Novello). Seasons at Lincoln, Sunderland, Worcester, Brighton, Belfast, Bromley, Newcastle, Bradford, Westcliff, Unicorn, the Traverse and the Royal Lyceum, including Doolittle in Pygmalion and his first Bottom. Also Just Between Ourselves and Rosmersholm (Newbury), Home and Beauty and The Duchess of Malfi (Oxford), An Incident at Tulse Hill, Fall and Grafters (Hampstead), Gillfins (Old Red Lion), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (his second Bottom), Much Ado About Nothing, Charley’s Aunt, Waiting For Godot and Relatively Speaking (Hever Lakeside), Channel 4 Sitcom Festival (Riverside), The Hothouse (Chichester & Comedy Theatre), Beethoven’s Tenth (Chichester). More recently Candida (New End), A Quiet Night In (Finborough), Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner (Middle Ground), Hobson’s Choice (Royal Exchange), Andrew Mackinlay MP in Justifying War and Michael Mates MP in Called To Account (both Tricycle).
Film: The Swordsman, Monsignor Quixote, Business As Usual, Keep The Aspidistra Flying and Have No Fear – the life of Pope John Paul II.
TV: Innumerable appearances including North and South, The Bill, Dr Who, Rumpole of the Bailey, Inspector Morse, Brookside, Juliet Bravo, The Collectors, To Have and to Hold, Anything More Would Be Greedy, The Young Charlie Chaplin, Lytton’s Diary, Comrade Dad, Dangerous Lady, Dodgem, Peak Practice, No Further Cause For Concern, The Detectives, Birds of a Feather, Thatcher – the Final Days (as Kenneth Clarke), Party Time, London’s Burning and Respect (Best Actor Gold Medal New York 1989). More recently: EastEnders, Bad Girls (three series), All The King’s Men, Holby City, Doctors, Chernobyl, Inspector Lynley, Skins and Casualty.
Radio: The Big Smoke, Starved For Love, Playing For Time, Chess Wars, Dixon of Dock Green and Babel’s Tower.
