Fine Time Fontayne

Fine Time Fontayne

Member of the Repertory Company

Theatre credits for the New Vic: Can’t Pay Won’t Pay

From January to June 2015 Fine Time played the ‘Fool’ in Northern Broadsides’ acclaimed production of King Lear, directed by Jonathan Miller.
Throughout 2014, Fine Time played Eugene Clelland, spending four months sharing a prison cell with Peter Barlow in Coronation Street, continued underscoring on guitar Fast Woman and co-wrote Cinderella for The Mercury theatre, Colchester.
In 2013,  Fine Time played Jack Steele in John Godber’s world premiere of Jack Steele and Family at The Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, joined Sandra Hunt in Fast Woman and worked on the script of Cinderella for Cast, Doncaster. In 2012, Fine Time toured a highly acclaimed two man version of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists.

Oldham Coliseum Theatre credits: Mother Goose, Aladdin, Jack and the Beanstalk, Cinderella, Dick Whittington, Sleeping Beauty and Cleaning Windows.

Other theatre credits: Love’s Labour’s Lost, Hamlet, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, King John, The Merry Wives of Windsor and Antony and Cleopatra
(Northern Broadsides); Hercules and Much Ado About Nothing (Chester Performs); Medea, Brassed Off, Lucky Chance and One Big Blow (York
Theatre Royal); Derby Day, nominated Best Actor for Manchester Evening News Theatre Awards (Octagon Theatre, Bolton).

As a playwrite, his credits include: Murder Most ‘Orrible; Voices; Unruly Women II and Last Waltz. Fine Time has written over 20 pantomimes.

Directing credits: Artistic Director of Link TIE, Doncaster; Quondam Theatre, Penrith and Associate Director, Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham.

Television credits: Eric & Ernie, Doctors, Born and Bred, Casualty, Degreesof Error; A Little Bit of Lippy, Can’t Stop Me Dreaming, Mr Wroe’s Virgins,
Eastenders, All Creatures Great and Small (BBC); Coasting, Bulman, There Was An Old Woman, Hillsborough, Cracker, Coronation Street (in which
he played Hilda Ogden’s lodger) (Granada); Emmerdale, The Royal and Harry’s Mad (Central).

Film credits: The Knife that Killed Me (Green Screen Productions); Twenty Four Hour Party People (Revolution Films); Winnie and Itch (Channel 4
Films); Butterfly Kiss (Dan Films); and Girl’s Night (Granada Films).

Radio credits: Fine Time has played Stephen Blackburn in two series of The Blackburn Files and the title role in Richard Matthewman (BBC Radio
4); Earl in Nigel and Earl Sort Out The World, and he narrated a series of Jacob Two Two (BBC Radio 5).