Anthony Mason
Stats

Playing Age: 30 - 40     Height: 5’10’’     Hair: Brown     Eyes: Hazel     Voice: Baritone

E-mail:         anthony.mason@anthonymason.co.uk

Website:       www.anthonymason.co.uk

Equity ID:      M00246087



Skills

Singing:     Good range, strong belt

Skills:        Experienced comedy and dramatic actor, full clean driving licence

Musician:   Instruments include piano, ukulele, guitar & banjo

Accents:     RP, Yorkshire, Manchester, Birmingham, London, cockney, good ear



Acting roles

FILM  
 PRODUCTION / CharacterDIRECTOR
   
Iron Pictures LtdDEAD MONEY / Johnathan Hesketh-BellTim Wyatt
 Crooked solicitor (baddy!) - Lead role 
   
THEATRE  
 PRODUCTION / CharacterDIRECTOR
   
Nostalgia Productions (2006)FLANAGAN AND ALLEN / Jimmy NervoJohhny Barrs
 Docu-musical-drama (Cameo as George Formby) 
   
Nostalgia Productions (2005)FLANAGAN AND ALLEN / Charlie NortonJohhny Barrs
 Docu-musical-drama (Cameo as George Formby) 
   
Harlequin Theatre, SurreyWIZARD OF OZ / Tin ManBarry Stacy
   
Mercury Theatre, ColchesterGHOST TRAIN / TeddyAnthony Mason
 1920s melodrama 
   
Story Tellers Theatre Co. tourADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER / Tom SawyerTim Lince
 National Theatre Tour 
   
Story Tellers Theatre Co. tourALICE IN WONDERLAND / Mad HatterTim Lince
 Energetic rock musical adaptation 
   
Pendle ProductionsJACK & THE BEANSTALK / FleshcreepTim Lince
 Involved stilt walking 
   
The Production CrewJACK AND THE BEANSTALK / Dame Tilly TrotDominic White
 Midlands tour 
   
Wartime ExtravaganzaALL OUR YESTERDAYS / George FormbyBrian Mottram
 Noel Coward. Involved playing ukulele (wartime play)  
   
Danbury TheatreTHE TOPPING OUT SHOW / Jimmy (a soldier)Sue Bailey
 A show to celebrate the last century 
   
   


Musical

GEORGE FORMBY TRIBUTE: Performed all over England and Europe, with an affectionate tribute to the great George Formby. Also three seasons on Llandudno Pier.

GED HONE'S DIXIE BOYS: Depped with this band, which led to the formation of the Retrotechs.

CAFÉ SOCIETY: Front a 1920s hot jazz band. Singing, playing banjo, ukulele and rhythm guitar. Perform at major venues, and three summer seasons in succession on Blackpool’s North Pier. Learn more

CABARET: One man show for 10 years. Venues include: Empress Ballroom, Winter Gardens & Tower Ballroom, Blackpool. London Palladium, Empire Theatre and Artists Club, Liverpool. Two summer seasons on Llandudno Pier, three seasons on Blackpool North Pier, a month’s tour of Japan and the Wageningen Jazz Festival in Holland. The cabaret act comprised of a musical journey through the ages from the 1920s to the 1960s.



Radio & Television

RADIO WYTHENSHAW FM / ALL FM / RADIO LANCS / BBC GMR: General daytime presenting and a specialist show on Sunday evenings ‘Anthony Mason’s 20s, 30s 40s Show’

COASTING: BBC DRAMA set in Blackpool. Played member of the George Formby Society.



Training

- Brunel University: BA Hons in Modern Drama & Film and TV Studies
- Theatretrain in connection with the Bloomsbury Theatre, London
- San Marie Stage School - acting, singing, dance

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