David Burt

Count Fosco

Trained: Royal Academy of Dramatic Art

Theatre: West End Theatre credits include: Petal in Taboo (The Venue); Vic Christian in Closer to Heaven ( The Arts Theatre); Tallyrand in Napoleon (Shaftesbury Theatre); Pontius Pilate in Jesus Christ Superstar (Lyceum); Edmund Kean in the Evening Standard nominated Edmund Kean (King’s Head, Islington); Georgio Germont in the Olivier award nominated production of La Traviata (Donmar Warehouse); Ratcatcher in Helen Sharmer’s Shadowmoves (ICA); Anatoly Sergievsky in Chess (Prince Edward Theatre); John Jasper in the New York Shakespeare festival production of T he Mystery of Edwin Drood (Savoy Theatre); Enjolras in the original RSC production of Les Miserables (Barbican Theatre) and then the role of Javert in Les Miserables (Palace Theatre); Orin Scrivello D.D.S in Little Shop of Horrors (Comedy Theatre);Captain Harkness in The Far Pavilions (Shaftesbury Theatre); Hemmingway in The Beautiful and the Damned (Lyric Theatre); King John in Blondel (Old Vic); Herbert Pocket in Great Expectations (Duke of York’s Theatre); Munkustrap in Cats (New London Theatre); Magaldi in Evita (Prince Edward Theatre); Pinball Champion in Tommy (Queen’s Theatre); Thomas Doughty in Traitors (Shaftesbury Theatre); Hitler in Happy as a Sandbag (Ambassadors Theatre); Herbert Farjeon in The Farjeon Papers (Mermaid Theatre).

Other theatre credits include the following roles with The Royal National Theatre: Peachum in The Villians Opera; Duke of Venice in Merchant of Venice; Governor of Buenos Aries in Candide; Menelaus in Troilus and Cressida; William Blake in Tyger Tyger; Jenkin in A Woman Killed with Kindness (NT).For the Royal Shakespeare Company roles include an Olivier nominated performance as Captain Macheath in The Beggars Opera; Proculeius in Anthony & Cleopatra; Le Beau in As You Like It, and the Narrator in Raising the Curtain (RSC).

In repertory his credits include: Leon Dupuis in Emma Bovary, Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet and Mephistopheles in Dr Faustus (Bristol Old Vic); Constantin in the Seagull and Dennis in Loot (Manchester Library Theatre); Cassio in Othello(York Theatre Royal).

Television: Agamemnon in The Trojan Horse (BBC); Jeremy Cambers in Flambards (BBC) Seth Curran in Poldark (BBC) The Merchant of Venice (BBC).

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