Rory Francis

Height 5' 11"
Eyes Brown
Hair Dark Brown

Parts played at Guildhall 

Constable in Fiddler on the Roof (dir. Martin Connor)
Let Me Not Play a Woman (Shakespeare devised piece dir. Richard Goulding)
Lucas Pike in Paradise Lost (dir. Wyn Jones)
Blue in Inertia (Solo project - written/dir. Rory Francis)
Shaw in Post-Mortem (dir. Lucy Bailey)
Gaev in The Cherry Orchard (dir Christian Burgess)
Antony in Antony and Cleopatra (dir. Christopher Luscombe)
Oedipus in Oedipus Rex (dir. Patsy Rodenburg)
Franklin Shepard in Merrily We Roll Along (dir. Martin Connor)
Andrew Crocker-Harris in The Browning Version (dir. Wyn Jones and Annemette Verspeak)
Torvald in A Doll’s House (dir. Wyn Jones and Annemette Verspeak)
Heartfree in The Provoked Wife (dir. Jo McInnes)
Trigorin in The Seagull (dir. Christian Burgess)
Paul in Birdland (dir. Chris Kelham)

Professional Experience

The Stranger and other voices in Yto Barrada’s Agadir, Barbican Curve Gallery

Other Experience

Winner of The Josephine Hart Prize for Best Performance of a Poem by an Actor 2017
Noh theatre workshop with Akira Matsui and Richard Emmert
Singing workshop with Clive Rowe

Skills

Singing (baritone)
Native accent – RP
Good ear for accents
Guitar, bass guitar, ukulele
20th Century dance, period dance
Stage combat, acrobatics

Spotlight

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