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Theatre Credits, a selection of work. |
Wrestling The Walrus Royal Exchange Theatre Manchester & touring. June-July 2019
MOG: Nik Wood-Jones
DIRECTOR: Dan Mallaghan
PRODUCER: Royal Exchange Theatre/154 Collective
"Bold & Inventive". (The Guardian)
Bold & inventive play, collaboratively devised, utilising live music &
film/animations to tell the story of two people, harnessing the power
of storytelling to deal with the emotive issue of dementia.
DIRECTOR: Dan Mallaghan
PRODUCER: Royal Exchange Theatre/154 Collective
"Bold & Inventive". (The Guardian)
Bold & inventive play, collaboratively devised, utilising live music &
film/animations to tell the story of two people, harnessing the power
of storytelling to deal with the emotive issue of dementia.
Mr Brown's Directions Burton Constable Hall, March 2017
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WILLIAM CONSTABLE: Nik Wood-Jones DIRECTOR: Rachel Feldberg PRODUCER: Lit Up Playing real life eccentric, owner of Burton Constable Hall in East Yorkshire, whose, unique, minute archive of directions to legendary landscape gardener Capability Brown this specially commissioned play was based on. |
Peter Pan Forum Theatre, Barrow in Furness. 13th-30th December 2016
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CAPTAIN HOOK: Nik Wood-Jones DIRECTOR: Adam Kelly PRODUCER: SHONE PRODUCTIONS Had great fun playing Captain Hook in this handsomely mounted production in Barrow, with a wonderful cast, dancers & spectacular flying sequences |
Twelfth Night touring London, Surrey & Hampshire 2nd August-18th September 2016
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SIR TOBY BELCH: Nik Wood-Jones DIRECTOR: Nicky Diss PRODUCER: OPEN BAR THEATRE COMPANY Playing Countess Olivia's drunken, hell raiser uncle, Sir Toby Belch in this energetic, outdoor show performed in the gardens of Fullers pubs across London & the south. |
Beauty & the Beast Guildhall Arts Centre, Grantham & Stamford Arts Centre: 10th Dec 2015-10th Jan 2016
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MAURICE: Nik Wood-Jones
DIRECTOR: Michael Cross PRODUCER: Polka Dot Pantomimes I played Maurice, the heroine Belle's, mad inventor father, who basically gets her into a whole pile of trouble when he gets lost in the woods on the way to Dragon's den & asks directions at the nearby castle! |
Jack and the Beanstalk Princes Theatre, Clacton-on-sea, Christmas 2014
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KING BUMBLE: Nik Wood-Jones
DIRECTOR: Neil Couperthwaite PRODUCER: Polka Dot Pantomimes Traditional pantomime, headed by Coronation Street star Charlie Condou as Simple Simon. I was the bumbling King, father of the princess, who Jack will get to marry if he can defeat Giant Blunderbore & his sidekick, bad fairy Poison Ivy! |
Beatle MAL 11-week Tour England & Ireland, Autumn 2013
MAL EVANS: Nik Wood-Jones
DIRECTOR: John Dunne & Nik Wood-Jones
PRODUCER: Mermaid Tavern
A revised version of the solo play about Beatles roadie & best friend Mal Evans, originally performed in 2012.
Beatle MAL cuts the musical element out of the earlier version, in favour of a more detailed look at Mal.
"A convincing & often spine tingling glimpse of what it was like to have been at the epicentre of the maelstrom that was Beatlemania" (Jackie Heydon: HOT PRESS/WEXFORD ECHO)
DIRECTOR: John Dunne & Nik Wood-Jones
PRODUCER: Mermaid Tavern
A revised version of the solo play about Beatles roadie & best friend Mal Evans, originally performed in 2012.
Beatle MAL cuts the musical element out of the earlier version, in favour of a more detailed look at Mal.
"A convincing & often spine tingling glimpse of what it was like to have been at the epicentre of the maelstrom that was Beatlemania" (Jackie Heydon: HOT PRESS/WEXFORD ECHO)
The Visteon/Ford Occupation The Emerald Roadhouse, Belfast 20-24th November 2012
STEPHEN MASON; Nik Wood-Jones
DIRECTOR: John Dunne
PRODUCER: Irish Theatre
Documenting the actual events surrounding workers occupying The Visteon car plants in 2009 after parent company Ford had threatened redundancy without pensions being honoured. Nik took the role of villainous managing director, the fictional: Stephen Mason
DIRECTOR: John Dunne
PRODUCER: Irish Theatre
Documenting the actual events surrounding workers occupying The Visteon car plants in 2009 after parent company Ford had threatened redundancy without pensions being honoured. Nik took the role of villainous managing director, the fictional: Stephen Mason
Beatle Mal's Legendary Band The Cavern, Liverpool July 2012 & Edinburgh Fringe 5-27th Aug 2012
MAL EVANS: Nik Wood-Jones
DIRECTOR: Lara Celenza
PRODUCER: BeatleMAL Productions
Solo play with music, putting Beatles roadie & best friend Mal Evans centre stage. An entertainment with original songs, based around the premise that Mal helped Paul McCartney write the song Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band.
"As Mal, Nik Wood-Jones makes such a convincing, loyal & loveable rogue, that it's not hard to see why the fab 4 wanted him by their side at all times." (Lauren Paxman, The Stage)
DIRECTOR: Lara Celenza
PRODUCER: BeatleMAL Productions
Solo play with music, putting Beatles roadie & best friend Mal Evans centre stage. An entertainment with original songs, based around the premise that Mal helped Paul McCartney write the song Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band.
"As Mal, Nik Wood-Jones makes such a convincing, loyal & loveable rogue, that it's not hard to see why the fab 4 wanted him by their side at all times." (Lauren Paxman, The Stage)
When Henri fed Oscar Toulouse Lautrec Brasserie & London Irish Theatre 2010
OSCAR WILDE: Nik Wood-Jones
DIRECTOR: Robin Dunn
PRODUCER: Red Mick Theatre
Two imagined meetings between Henri Toulouse Lautrec & Oscar Wilde at pivotal moments in their lives, both in Paris, where they discuss life, death & cooking!
The piece was devised to be an entertainment for diners at London's Toulouse Lautrec Brasserie.
DIRECTOR: Robin Dunn
PRODUCER: Red Mick Theatre
Two imagined meetings between Henri Toulouse Lautrec & Oscar Wilde at pivotal moments in their lives, both in Paris, where they discuss life, death & cooking!
The piece was devised to be an entertainment for diners at London's Toulouse Lautrec Brasserie.
Kavanagh / On Raglan Road The Old Red Lion Theatre, Islington 2007 & tour of Ireland 2008 & 2009
PATRICK KAVANAGH: Nik Wood-Jones
DIRECTORS: John Dunne & Russell Kennedy
PRODUCER: London Irish Theatre Company
"Nik Wood-Jones has a powerful presence as Kavanagh" ( Time out***)
The following year the play toured Ireland, both north & south that Autumn. A revised 2-hander 'Kavanagh' toured Ireland again in 2009 to much acclaim.
DIRECTORS: John Dunne & Russell Kennedy
PRODUCER: London Irish Theatre Company
"Nik Wood-Jones has a powerful presence as Kavanagh" ( Time out***)
The following year the play toured Ireland, both north & south that Autumn. A revised 2-hander 'Kavanagh' toured Ireland again in 2009 to much acclaim.
Treasure Island Touring Italy 2008
LONG JOHN SILVER, BILLY BONES: Nik Wood-Jones
DIRECTOR/PRODUCER: Pietro Clementi
SYNOPSIS: New musical & physical theatre version of Treasure Island touring Italy, Rome, Milan, Genova.
Nik took the role of both the troubled, fugitive Captain Billy Bones, as well as the terrifying, rip-roaring, yet charming Silver.
DIRECTOR/PRODUCER: Pietro Clementi
SYNOPSIS: New musical & physical theatre version of Treasure Island touring Italy, Rome, Milan, Genova.
Nik took the role of both the troubled, fugitive Captain Billy Bones, as well as the terrifying, rip-roaring, yet charming Silver.
Henry V National tour of England Winter 2007
PISTOL/ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY: Nik Wood-Jones
DIRECTOR: Catriona Craig
PRODUCER: Love & Madness
SYNOPSIS: In this modern dress version of Shakespeare's play, taking 2 roles, Nik played Pistol as a hellraising Glaswegian thug & also the wily, but wise Archbishop, as a tough, Yorkshireman, a former miner, who has risen from the darkest pit to the highest pulpit!
DIRECTOR: Catriona Craig
PRODUCER: Love & Madness
SYNOPSIS: In this modern dress version of Shakespeare's play, taking 2 roles, Nik played Pistol as a hellraising Glaswegian thug & also the wily, but wise Archbishop, as a tough, Yorkshireman, a former miner, who has risen from the darkest pit to the highest pulpit!
The Playboy of the Western World National tour of England & tour of Ireland 2007
MICHAEL JAMES: Nik Wood-Jones
DIRECTOR: Neil Sheppeck
PRODUCER: Love & Madness
Nik played Michael James, Pegeen's hard drinking & forceful father & local despot, in this 1950's set adaptation of JM Synge's lyrical play. Coinciding with the play's centenary, it toured Ireland in 2007.
DIRECTOR: Neil Sheppeck
PRODUCER: Love & Madness
Nik played Michael James, Pegeen's hard drinking & forceful father & local despot, in this 1950's set adaptation of JM Synge's lyrical play. Coinciding with the play's centenary, it toured Ireland in 2007.
Hostage Theatre 503 at The Latchmere, Battersea & New Place, St Albans 2006
HARRY: Nik Wood-Jones
DIRECTOR: Gareth Corke
PRODUCER: Practicum Theatre
Solo show. an Englishman held hostage by terrorists in Iraq contrasts the family tragedy back home that brought him here with his fate now.
DIRECTOR: Gareth Corke
PRODUCER: Practicum Theatre
Solo show. an Englishman held hostage by terrorists in Iraq contrasts the family tragedy back home that brought him here with his fate now.
