Dominic Marsh is an English theatre, television, and film actor.

Career

Marsh has performed at venues throughout the UK including the

Oxford Playhouse Oxford Playhouse is a theatre designed by Edward Maufe and F.G.M. Chancellor. It is situated in Beaumont Street, Oxford, opposite the Ashmolean Museum. History The Playhouse was founded as ''The Red Barn'' at 12 Woodstock Road, North Oxfo ...

and

Regent's Park Open Air Theatre Regent's Park Open Air Theatre is an open-air theatre in Regent's Park in central London. The theatre Established in 1932, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre is one of the largest theatres in London (1,256 seats) and is situated in Queen Mary� ...

. In 2011 he appeared in Kneehigh Theatre's adaptation of ''

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg ''The Umbrellas of Cherbourg'' (french: Les Parapluies de Cherbourg) is a 1964 musical romantic drama film written and directed by Jacques Demy, with music and lyrics by Michel Legrand. Catherine Deneuve and Nino Castelnuovo star as two young ...

'' as Roland Cassard. Marsh played Harry Witherspoon in the 2013 feature film ''

Lucky Stiff ''Lucky Stiff'' is a musical farce. It was the first collaboration for the team of Lynn Ahrens (book and lyrics) and Stephen Flaherty (music). The show is based on the 1983 novel ''The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo'' by Michael Butt ...

'' which screened at the 2014 Raindance Film Festival. In 2016, he appeared in the

National Theatre of Scotland The National Theatre of Scotland, established in 2006, is the national theatre company of Scotland. The company has no theatre building of its own; instead it tours work to theatres, village halls, schools and site-specific locations, both at h ...

's production ''

I Am Thomas ''I Am Thomas: A Brutal Comedy with Songs'' is a play based around the death of Thomas Aikenhead, the last person to be hanged for blasphemy in Britain. The play received its world premiere at the Liverpool Playhouse, in February 2016, before emb ...

'' as Sir James Stewart. The same year Marsh was nominated for Best Actor in a visiting production at the

Manchester Theatre Awards The Manchester Theatre Awards were established in 2011 to replace the Manchester Evening News Theatre Awards. The MEN awards, created in 1981 by Alan Hulme, the paper's theatre critic, had long been recognised as the most important theatrical priz ...

for his role as Macheath in Kneehigh Theatre's ''Dead Dog in a Suitcase (& Other Love Songs)''. In 2017 Marsh played Tristan in Kneehigh Theatre's acclaimed production of '' Tristan & Yseult'' at

Shakespeare's Globe Shakespeare's Globe is a reconstruction of the Globe Theatre, an Elizabethan playhouse for which William Shakespeare wrote his plays, in the London Borough of Southwark, on the south bank of the River Thames. The original theatre was built in ...

which also played St. Ann's Warehouse in New York and other venues in the USA and UK on two separate tours. He also starred as Jean-René in the new musical '' Romantics Anonymous'' based on the film of the same name at the

Sam Wanamaker Playhouse The Sam Wanamaker Playhouse is an indoor theatre forming part of Shakespeare's Globe, along with the Globe Theatre on Bankside, London. Built making use of 17th-century plans for an indoor theatre, the playhouse recalls the layout and style of th ...

, Emma Rice's outgoing production as artistic director of Shakespeare's Globe. Marsh made his debut as a writer in 2013, working in collaboration with Dougal Irvine to create the musical ''The Other School'' for the

National Youth Music Theatre The National Youth Music Theatre (NYMT) is an arts organisation in the United Kingdom providing pre-professional education and musical theatre stage experience for young people. Based in London, it is constituted as a private limited company (orig ...

. It was performed at the

St James Theatre St. James Theatre is a Broadway theatre in New York City. St. James Theatre may also refer to: Australia * St. James Theatre, Sydney, multi-storey building in Elizabeth Street, not to be confused with diminutive St James' Hall, Sydney New Zeala ...

, London in August 2013. It is published by the Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization, part of Imagem Publishing. Dominic's television appearances have included '' Doctors'' (playing semi-regular patient Smithy), ''

DCI Banks ''DCI Banks'' is a British television crime drama series produced by Left Bank Pictures for the ITV network. Originally broadcast over five series in 2010–2016, the series was based on Peter Robinson's Inspector Alan Banks novels and ...

'', '' Coronation Street'', and '' The Royals''.

References

External links

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Doctors webpage at BBC websitePhotograph of Dominic Marsh as Smithey
{{DEFAULTSORT:Marsh, Dominic Living people Year of birth missing (living people) English male television actors