Ian Hughes

Ian trained at the National Theatre of Wales and Birmingham University.

Theatre: winner of the first Royal National Theatre/Ian Charleson Award for title role in TORQUATO TASSO at the Lyric Hammersmith.

For the Royal Shakespeare Company: TWELFTH NIGHT, ROMEO AND JULIET, HENRY IV parts one and two, OEDIPUS THE KING, OEDIPUS AT COLONUS, ANTIGONE, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM (world tour), HAMLET, KING LEAR, ELGAR'S RONDO, THE VENETIAN TWINS, THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE, THE WINTER’S TALE, THE COMEDY OF ERRORS, THE RIVALS, MERRY WIVES: THE MUSICAL, TROILUS AND CRESSIDA. For the RSC Festival: THE MAN OF DESTINY and EDMUND KEAN.

Other theatre work includes: THE LION KING (Lyceum Theatre); CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG (the London Palladium); THE REAL INSPECTOR HOUND/BLACK COMEDY (Donmar Warehouse); regional repertory at Manchester, Coventry, York, Mold, Cardiff and Harrogate; tours with the British Actors Theatre Company and the Wales Actors' Company.

Television: TORCHWOOD, ROBIN HOOD, MARGARET, GAVIN AND STACEY, FOYLE'S WAR, MUTUAL FRIENDS, A WASTE OF SHAME, MI HIGH, CASUALTY, HOLBY CITY, DOCTORS, DEATH OF A SALESMAN, FLYING BLIND and SWISS TONY.

Film: DOOM, THE ROAD TO GUANTANAMO and BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS.

Radio and audio: over 30 plays for BBC Radio 4, 15 plays for the Archangel Complete Shakespeare, over 70 television documentary narrations and numerous voice-overs.
Concerts: national tour of Mendelssohn’s A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM and MOZART IN PRAGUE, both for the City of London Sinfonia; the RSC 50 Years - the opening of the new RSC Theatre; DYLAN THOMAS REMEMBERED (New York,Washington, DC).

Cast recordings include: THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE and MERRY WIVES: THE MUSICAL.

Ian has an MA in Shakespeare and Theatre, is an Education Associate Practitioner for the RSC, and teaches regularly at universities and drama schools overseas and in the UK. He was Head of Acting at St Mary’s University College, London, for two years.

Follow Ian on Twitter: @Ian_HughesNow