LEO WRINGER

Greek Theatre, London Theatre Program, Midsummer in Oxford Program

Leo went to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where he was awarded the Shakespeare Prize.

His most recent classical role was as the Gravedigger in Hamlet at the Young Vic, starring Cush Jumbo. Other classical work includes Egeus in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Noel Coward Theatre; Fool in King Lear with the late Corin Redgrave as Lear, Prince of Verona in Romeo and Juliet, Duke of Ephesus doubled with Doctor Pinch in Comedy of Errors, and the country squire in The Fantastic Follies of Mrs Rich – all at RSC. For Shakespeare

at the Tobacco Factory, Bristol, he played Brutus in Julius Caesar, Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew, Aaron in Titus Andronicus and the title role in Othello; Camillo in The Winter’s Tale for Complicité; Cinna The Poet in Julius Caesar at the Barbican, King of Athens in Medea starring Fiona Shaw at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin and London West End.

Modern work includes: at Theatre Royal Stratford East Stool Pigeon in King Hedley II, and the Bishop in Our Lady of Kibeho. Blackta for Young Vic; Perseverance Drive, Sixty-Six Books and Two Horsemen at Bush Theatre [Time Out Award]; And The Oldest Old Man in Suzan-Lori Park’s Father Comes Home from the Wars at Royal Court.

Television & film credits include: Anthony, Sitting in Limbo, Urban Myths – The Trial of Joan Collins, Heirs of the Night, Black Earth Rising, The Moonstone, Gangsta Granny, Silent Witness, Nighthawks, Death in Paradise, The Kitchen Toto, Thomas Peters in Simon Schama’s Rough Crossing.