CHRISTOPHER STAINES

London Theatre Program

Christopher is an actor, teacher and director. He has performed at the National Theatre – playing Marlow in She Stoops to Conquer, and creating the role of Toby Cole alongside Judi Dench in David Hare’s Amy’s View. Further theatre performances include appearances at the Almeida in David Cromer’s production of Our Town first seen in New York, in the West End with Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, directed by Moisés Kaufmann, and in productions at the RSC, the Abbey in Dublin, on tour around the world, and at theatres across the UK. Recent roles include: Laurence in Abigail’s Party; Dr Paramore in Shaw’s The Philanderer; Tony Blair in a re-imagining of the run-up to the Iraq war; Dr Faustus in a one-man version on the site of the original Rose theatre. He has extensive experience of performing Shakespeare, including both Caliban and Ariel in a production of The Tempest, Cassius in Julius Caesar, Edgar in King Lear, Antipholus of Syracuse in The Comedy of Errors, Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. He has toured America with a National Theatre production of Hamlet including performances at Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Shubert in Boston, and at the Guthrie in Minneapolis. Christopher has also performed A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Merchant of Venice, and taught classes on performance and classical texts, for Actors from the London Stage at American universities including Notre Dame, UT Austin and San Antonio and UC Santa Barbara and Duke, and has been an associate of the company. Christopher studied English Language and Literature at Oxford University. He has led a range of classes and workshops linked to productions he has performed in and has taught acting students at Rose Bruford College, Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and University of the Arts London. He has also appeared on TV and film, notably in period dramas such as Wolf Hall, Pride and Prejudice and Mrs Dalloway, and works regularly as a voiceover artist.