Conrad Nelson

Conrad Nelson

Director

Conrad’s career spans over 30 years as Director, Actor and Composer. He is the joint Artistic Director of Claybody Theatre.

For the New Vic as director: One Man, Two Gunvors, The Card, Brassed Off, Much Ado About Nothing, Cyrano, Hamlet,

Canterbury Tales, (co-pro with Northern Broadsides). Anna of the Five Towns, Oleanna, I Don’t Want to Set the World on Fire.

For the New Vic as an actor: Oliver, Talking Heads, Amadeus.

For Claybody Theatre: Song of the Sytch, The Card, The Queen’s Shoulders, The D-Road, Hot Lane, Dirty Laundry, Ugly Duck, The Silver Arrow, Greenwood Dreams, Diggin’ In and Christmas Cantata.

Audio Drama: Dirty Laundry and The Call.

For Northern Broadsides: 2004 – 2019 as director: The Bells, Lisa’s Sex Strike, George

Orwell’s 1984, Government Inspector, The Grand Gesture, She Stoops to Conquer, The Winter’s Tale, Hard Times and Dario’s Fo’s Accidental Death of an Anarchist and They Don’t Pay? We Won’t Pay!

Other directing work includes: The Great Gatsby, Pride and Prejudice (Chester Storyhouse); A Christmas Carol (Octagon Theatre); Vacuum (Esk Valley Theatre); Broken Time (Three Stones Media); Ballroom Blitz (Hull Truck).

Directing coming soon: Bright Lights Over Bentilee (Claybody Theatre).

Television credits as an actor include: Emmerdale, Apparitions, Coronation Street, Without Motive, Waterloo Road and Only Fools and Horses.

Radio credits as an actor include: A Kind of Loving, Sense and Sensibility, Yerma, Silas Marner,

Reeds in the Wind, Nosferatu, Miss Nobody and Stone.

Film credits as an actor include: Dancin’ Thru the Dark and Much Ado About Nothing