Andrew Pollard

Andrew Pollard

Phileas Fogg

For the New Vic: Whatever Happened to Phoebe Salt, A Leap In The Dark, Tom, Dick & Harry, Around The World In 80 Days, Talent, Astley’s Astounding Adventures, Diana of Dobson’s, The Ladykillers, Ghosts, Far from the Madding Crowd, Where Have I Been All My Life, Spring and Port Wine, The Admirable Crichton, The Rivals, Alphabetical Order, The Graduate, Educating Rita (co-production with the Dukes Theatre).

Theatre credits include: The BBC’s First Homosexual (Ink Brew Prods); Hound of the Baskervilles (Eastbourne Theatres); Guy Fawkes (York Theatre Royal); To Sir With Love (Birmingham Rep); Life’s A Drag (Contact Theatre); Hayfever, Sleeping Beauty, Babes in the Wood and Perfect Days (Oldham Coliseum); Arsenic and Old Lace and The Lonesome West (Keswick Theatre By The Lake); The Rivals (Theatre Royal Bath); A Night at the Bijou (Natural Theatre); Whose Dog Is It Anyway? (JB Shorts); Comedy of Errors (Ludlow Shakespeare Festival); Search Light Over the Bemmy (Tobacco Factory); Marat / Sade (Bristol Old Vic); The Picture of Dorian Gray (American Drama Group); A Taste of Honey (Moffat Little Theatre Co); Medea, School for Scandal, Macbeth, King John and The Merry Wives (Northern Broadsides).

Andrew is also widely recognised for his long-standing association with pantomime where he has played a celebrated array of Dames, most recently at the Victoria Theatre, Halifax.

Film & Television credits include: Tinsel Town (SKY Films); Hollyoaks (Lime Pictures); Trying Again (Sky One / Avalon); Coronation Street and Emmerdale (ITV); Coup (Channel 4); Jodie and Mary (ITN); Spooks: Liberty (BBC / Kudos Television).

Writing credits include: Tom, Dick & Harry (along with Theresa Heskins and Michael Hugo) for the New Vic. Andrew also pens many of the country’s leading pantomimes.

Andrew trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.