BIOGRAPHY

Robert Mountford

Robert has just finished performing in Tom Littler’s sell-out production of She Stoops to Conquer at the Orange Tree Theatre. He recently played in The Habit of Art in New York City. Robert trained at RADA, where he won the Lilian Baylis Award and has worked in productions at the Royal Shakespeare Company, National Theatre and London’s West End as well as making many television appearances. Last year, he starred alongside Jonathan Hyde in Howard Brenton’s Cancelling Socrates and was in the national tour of Ian Hislop & Nick Newman’s comedy Spike (Milligan). In 2017 he was nominated at the UK Theatre Awards for House and Garden. His Solo Show (Vagabonds – My Phil Lynott Odyssey) has played in Edinburgh, Dublin & London. He has regularly appeared for Read not Dead at Shakespeare’s Globe, has been a guest for acclaimed Shakespeare Impro Group The School of Night, and extensively toured the UK & United States. 

Selected theatre credits include Much Ado About Nothing (RSC/West End); The Merchant of Venice (RSC); The Habit of Art, Into The Night, The Haunting of Alice Bowles (Original Theatre); All’s Well That End’s Well, The Wind in the Willows (Jermyn St Theatre/GSC); The Odyssey (Jermyn Street Theatre), The Winter’s Tale, Romeo & Juliet (GSC); The Omission of the Family Coleman (Royal Theatre Bath); Anita & Me (Birmingham Rep); Betrayal (Salisbury Playhouse); Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, Merlin, Hercules (Chester Open Air); Macbeth, The Tempest, Enemy of The People and The Merchant of Venice (Tara Arts); The Black Album (National Theatre); Tagore’s Women, Gandhi & Coconuts, Bitched (Kali Theatre); Hamlet, As You Like It, Winter’s Tale (USA tours); East is East (Leicester Haymarket). 

Screen credits include North Square (Channel 4); Holby City, Eastenders, Silent Witness, Torn, One Night, Casualty, Michael Wood’s History of India, Reverse Psychology (BBC); London’s Burning (LWT); A&E (Granada).