Michael Simkins

For theatre, his West End credits include Guys and Dolls, The Unfriend, Hay Fever, Yes Prime Minister, Donkeys’ Years, Mary Stuart, The Old Masters, Democracy, Mamma Mia!, Chicago, Richard III, Company, Burn This, Look Look, Henceforward, andThe Scarlet Pimpernel. His other theatre credits include for the National Theatre, King Lear, ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore, A View from the Bridge (also West End), and A Small Family Business; John Gabriel Borkman (Bridge Theatre), The Unfriend, Fracked! (Minerva, Chichester), Candida, (Orange Tree Theatre), Eden, The Argument, Loyalty (Hampstead Theatre), The Fantastic Follies of Mrs Rich (RSC), Dessert (Southwark Playhouse), and Good Canary (Rose Theatre).

His television work includes Father Brown, This is Going to Hurt, Miss Scarlet and the Duke, Finding Alice, The Crown, Silent Witness, The Murders at White House Farm, Endeavour, Harlots, Grantchester, and Foyle’s War; and Greed, Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again!, The Iron Lady, V tor Vendetta, Topsy-Turvy.

Simkins is also a best-selling author, whose books include What’s My Motivation?, and the Costa shortlisted Fatty Batter.