Actor & Singer

PERSONAL STATISTICS

  • Height: 5’10” (175cm)
  • Weight: 11st. 7lb. (73kg)
  • Eye Colour: Grey – Green
  • Hair Colour: Light/Mid Brown
  • Hair Length: Shaved
  • Playing Range: 60-75
  • Unions: Equity, Musicians Union
  • Role Types: White
  • Accents: Standard English, American, Irish, Scottish, Cockney, Nothern English
  • Vocal Range: Baritone
  • Voice Character: Authoritative
  • Voice Quality: Warm

CREDITS

  • 2015-20 – Author- Performer as Max Miller, Bud Flanagan, Sam Cowell & others, OH, WHAT A FUNNY STORY! (stage history of the British Music Hall)
  • 2012 – Author-Performer in various roles STREET CRIES, Edinburgh Festival
  • 2001- Present – lead singer/songwriter with world fusion folk-roots band MOVEABLE FEAST
  • 1998 – Present, TOMMY PARSONS MUSIC HALL TRIBUTE at various venues throughout UK
  • 1997 – Narrator / Street Musician, STREET CRIES, a musical, Camden People’s Theatre, directed & choreographed by Lynne Kendrick
  • 1995 – Author/Composer/Musical Director/Lead Singer LULLABY OF GANGLAND, a jazz musical, with The Jazz Outfit
  • 1986, Author/Composer/Musical Director BARNSTORMERS, a stage musical: Hens And Chickens Theatre, Islington, directed by Tony Heywood
  • 1984, Author/Composer/Musical Director/Lead Singer RED CHEVROLET, a jazz musical, The Latchmere Theatre, Battersea
  • 1982, Author/Composer/Musical Director/Performer as Fatty Arbuckle, Charlie Chaplin, Groucho Marx & others: HOLLYWOOD DREAMS, a musical history of Hollywood scandals, Gate Theatre, Battersea directed by Lou Stein
  • 1982 – Author/Composer/Performer as Fatty Arbuckle, Charlie Chaplin, Groucho Marx & others: HOLLYWOOD DREAMS, a musical history of Hollywood scandals, Battersea Arts Centre & Edinburgh Festival directed by Olivier Pierre
  • 1979-1981, STAND-UP COMEDY, performing as Mitch Binns & Mercedes Binns
  • 1979, Author/Director, LEARGAME, a combined adaptation of Shakespeare’s ‘King Lear’ and Samuel Beckett’s ‘Endgame’, Oval House Theatre, Stockwell.

SKILLS

  • Accents & Dialects: American – New York, American – Southern States, Australian, Cockney, Cork, Cornwall, Devon, East European, Edinburgh, French, German, Glasgow, Hampshire, Highlands, Irish-Southern, Italian, Kent, Liverpool, London, Nothern, RP, Spanish, Sussex, Yorkshire
  • Languages: English, French, Italian, Spanish
  • Music & Dance: Alto, Ballad, Blues, Cabaret Singing, Folk Dancing, Folk Singing, Guitar, Jazz Singing, Jive, Piano
  • Performance: Comedy, Musical Comedy, Professional Musician, Professional Singer, Stand-Up Comic, Running, Swimming, Tennis
  • Vehicle Licences: Car
  • Other Skills: Composition, Impersonation, Improvisation

TRAINING

  • 1990 – 1991 Drama Diploma Course, The Actor Institute, Holborn
  • 1976 – 1977 Drama Diploma Course, City Literary Institute, Covent Garden