Cast & Creatives
Cast | Creatives
ANDREW WADSWORTH’S West End credits include Kiss Me Kate (Regents Park) for which he received the 1998 Olivier Award Nomination for Best Actor in a Musical for his portrayal of Fred / Petruchio. He appeared in Zipp, which won Most Popular Show at the Edinburgh Festival 2002 and subsequently transferred to the Duchess Theatre in London and then toured the UK. He was also Resident Director on this production.
Additional credits include Javert in Les Miserables (Palace), Judas in Godspell (Prince of Wales, Phoenix) Songbook (Globe), Anthony in Sweeney Todd (Drury Lane), Curley in Oklahoma (Palace), Nigel in Pass the Butler (Globe), the original Eddie in Blood Brothers (Lyric), Sky Masterson in Guys and Dolls (Prince of Wales) Lt Joe Cable in South Pacific (Prince of Wales), Spencer Wylie in Betrayal of Nora Blake (Jermyn St) Alderman Fitzwarren in Dick Whittington (Sadler’s Wells).
For the Royal National Theatre he played Andrew in Coming in to Land, Tony Lumpkin in She Stoops to Conquer, Julien in Martine, Adam Adam in Rough Crossing, Sky Masterson in Guys and Dolls and Dolabella in Anthony and Cleopatra.
For Music Theatre London in Britain, Holland, Belgium, Germany, and Austria he played The Don in Don Giovanni, Papageno in Magic Flute, The Count in Figaro, Germont Pere in La Traviata and Alidoro in La Cenerentola.
He played the title role in the national tour of Dick Barton Special Agent. Originally created for Croydon Warehouse in 1998, it was revived in 1999, 2000 and 2001 due to public demand. He was also Resident Director on this production. In 2004 he received critical acclaim for the one-man play Nymphs and Shepherds by David Hines at the Etcetera Theatre. In 2005 he appeared at the Edinburgh Festival in the highly successful Twelfth Night –the Musical as Orsino/Toby Belch.
Recently he appeared as Prince Charles in the controversial new play A Right Royal Farce at the Kings Head and the feature film Oh Happy Day for Firebrand Films.
Andrew’s TV work includes appearances in Victorian Scandals (Granada), Peak Practice (Carlton), Wings (BBC), and Marriage of Figaro (BBC). For BBC Radio he appeared as a Guest Soloist in Les Miserables and Polishing the Sun, as Cardinal Cibo in The Lorenzaccio Story and as Emile Daenaker in the award winning Killing Maestros. He appeared in Stranded for Hallmark Films.
Andrew was the director of A Comedy of Arias at both Jermyn Street Theatre and the Kings Head. In the last year he has appeared as Baron Hardup in Cinderella at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre Guildford and directed Sauce for the Goose, a Feydeau farce, the Brecht Weill Threepenny Opera and The Mystery of Edwin Drood for the Guildford Conservatoire.
He has just directed four short films Stories of 2016 for futurefocus and the highly successful new play BOO for the 2007 Camden Festival.