Jay Saighal

Height 5’10”
Eyes Brown 

Hair Brown

Parts played at Guildhall
Belarius in Cymbeline (dir. Max Key)
Dionysus in The Bacchae (dir. Patsy Rodenburg)
Billy Bigelow in Carousel (dir. Christian Burgess)
Mr Dungbeetle in The Insect Play (dir. Danny McGrath)
Medley in The Man of Mode (dir. Jonathan Munby)
Sergius in Arms and the Man (dirs. Paul Miller & Eliot Shrimpton)
Simon Bliss in Hayfever (dirs. Paul Miller & Eliot Shrimpton)


Lopakhin in The Cherry Orchard (dir. Wyn Jones)
Boy in The Eleventh Capital (dir. Vicky Jones)
Dombey in Dombey and Son (dir. Jane Morgan – radio play).

Professional Experience 

Director in Play Without a Title (dir. Jonathan Heron, Belgrade Theatre/ CAPITAL Centre, University of Warwick)
Zorro in Last Seen (dir. Lucy Hind for Slung Low, Almeida Theatre)
Fan in John Bishop’s Britain (dirs. Lucy Forbes and Andrew Chaplin, Objective Productions).

Other Experience

BA in English and Theatre Studies (University of Warwick)
Professional acting workshops with Mike Alfreds (Shared Experience), Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod (Cheek by Jowl), Peter Creegan, Nic Philips and Richard Kwietniowski.
Radio voiceover workshop with Nigel Anthony.
Macduff in Macbeth, Humphrey in The Lady’s Not For Burning, Rapunzel’s Prince in Into the Woods, Robbie in A Man of No Importance, Bergetto in ‘Tis Pity She’s A Whore, Bernardo in West Side Story (Warwick Arts Centre), 
Trainer in Elephant’s Graveyard (Warwick Arts Centre/NSDF/Winner of NSDF Best Ensemble Award 2008).

Skills

Strong singer (tenor), Stage Combat Certificate, horse riding, acrobatics, full clean driving license, football, rugby, guitar, physical theatre.

Dialects
RP, Heightened RP, American (general, southern), Indian, Spanish, MLE.