Tim Frances – Biography

Theatre includes: William Tyndale in Anne Boleyn for Shakespeare's Globe, Sweater & Harlow in The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists at Chichester Festival Theatre; Ronald Knox in the premier of Howard Brenton's Never So Good, and Marat-Sade at the Royal National Theatre; Chronic in the Rough Cuts season at the Royal Court. In the West End: Archbishop Cranmer in A Man For All Seasons at the Haymarket, and Gerald Croft in An Inspector Calls at the Garrick.
Also: Kent in King Lear (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Captain Hook in Peter Pan (Qdos Entertainment), Adolf Hitler in 1936 (Arcola, London), Sikes & Bumble in Oliver Twist (Octagon, Bolton), He's Much To Blame, Relatively Speaking, Twelfth Night (Toby Belch) and Wives As They Were & Maids As They Are (Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds), Woyzeck (RADA directors' course), the Wizard in The Wizard of Oz (Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh), The Glee Club (The New Vic, Stoke), Bobby Fischer in The Prodigal Son & the title role in Purvis (Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough), Map of the Heart & Habeas Corpus (Salisbury Playhouse), Femme Fatale (Croydon Warehouse), Proving Mr Jennings (Courtyard Theatre), Sleeping Beauty (Northampton Royal Theatre), Romeo & Juliet (Greenwich Theatre), The Nun (Greenwich Studio Theatre), Abanazar in Aladdin (Liverpool Everyman), Cabaret, Jungle Book, Antipholus of Ephesus in A Comedy of Errors, and A Christmas Carol (Lancaster Duke’s Playhouse), June Moon (Theatre of Comedy, West End), King Lear (Compass Theatre with Sir Anthony Quayle), Coriolanus (in the USA & Canada), Freedom To Forget and Treasure Island (Farnham Redgrave), One-Eyed Monster (Greenwich Theatre), Good Rockin’ Tonite (Bill Kenwright) and Barnstormers (Century Theatre & British Council tour to India).
 

Television: The Day of the Triffids, Land Girls, Danton in The Death of Marat, Rapture: If Drugs Were Legal?, Bad Girls, My Dad’s the Prime Minister, The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, John Lilburne in Cromwell, Holby City, East Enders, The Bill, Doctors, Lexx, To Hell & Back, Search, and Othello. Film: That Deadwood Feeling with Dexter Fletcher & David Soul, plus Short Films: Panther Walk, Likely Story and The Taming of the Shrew (as Petruchio). Radio: readings of Browning & Tennyson for the BBC, two series of short stories, and She Fell Among Thieves (BBC Radio4).
 

As pianist and arranger, Tim has played with jazz ensembles Man Made Souls and Does It Matter?