Simon Trinder trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and is a Shakespeare’s Globe Associate Artist.

For Shakespeare’s Globe: as an actor, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Golden Ass and, as text consultant, Richard II, The Winter’s Tale, A Midsummer Night’s Dream – For One Night Only, Romeo and Juliet, Merry Wives of Windsor, Cymbeline, Much Ado About Nothing, The Comedy of Errors, Playing Shakespeare: The Tempest.

Other work as text consultant includes: Richard III (Rose Theatre) and A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Manchester Royal Exchange. In 2000, he was a recipient of the BBC Carleton Hobbs Radio Drama award and began his career as part of the BBC Radio Repertory Company.

Theatre credits include productions with the Royal Court, Hampstead Theatre, Young Vic, Barbican, Birmingham Rep, Chichester Festival Theatre, Hamburg State Opera, and the Royal Exchange Manchester as well as 13 plays for the RSC, on the West End, and overseas.

Awards: Clarence Derwent Award (Best Supporting Actor on a British Stage) for The Taming of the Shrew; Helen Hayes Award (USA); and London’s Evening Standard Award nominations for the RSC productions The Taming of the Shrew and The House of Desires.

Film and TV credits: Without You; The Children; Midwinter of the Spirit; The Good Karma Hospital; Vera; Holby; Ordinary Lies; Wolfblood; Katy; In Search of Shakespeare (BBC); and The Hollow Crown: Richard II.

Musical theatre credits include: The Lion King and Merry Wives the Musical (RSC).