Howard Nightingall

W.R. Taylor, MA PhD

Howard is from London and trained at Academy of Live and Recorded Arts. His theatre credits include: Larry in Closer (Ensemble Theatre), The Lieutenant in The Man of Destiny (Kings Head), Flash Harry in Dry Rot (Channel Theatre), Fred in Present Laughter (Kevin Wood Productions), Stephen Hawking in Hawking’s Dream (Teatro Technis and dietheater Künstlerhaus), Michael in Wienerleben (European tour), Frederic in The Pirates of Penzance (Volksoper) andthe Scottish transexual policeman in When Did You Last See Your Trousers (No 1National Tour).

For Vienna’s International Theatre: Sergius Saranoff in Arms and the Man, Horatio in Hamlet, Sergeant Trotter in The Mousetrap, Jimmy Porter in Look Back in Anger, Nick in What the Butler Saw and Joe Pitt in Angels in America.

For Vienna’s English Theatre: The Young Man in the World Premiere of Three Tall Women, directed by Edward Albee, Malcolm in Bedroom Farce, The Surley Man in Lettice and Lovage with Rue McClanahan, William Humphries in 84 Charring Cross Road, Inspector Egan in Murder by Misadventure, Ross in the European Premiere of The Goat and Barnette Lloyd in Crimes of the Heart.

Last year Howard worked together with Bruce Myers in a production of The Grand Inquisitor, directed by Peter Brook at the Landestheater St Pölten.

Television work includes The Bill, Casualty, Catherine (Prix European award for TV Fiction) and the part of Percy Polutant in Help!. Film credits include Julius McDoom in The Pilgrim Factor, The Director in The Rehearsal, Frederic in MA2412 directed by Harold Sicheritz and William Harold in Nous Nous Sommes Tant Haïs with Sarah Biasini.

Later this year Howard will be directing a production of Alan Ayckbourn’s
Relatively Speaking at Vienna’s Kammeroper.