Timothy Speyer

Dr Einstein

Timothy was born in London, and trained at the Guildford School of Acting in the UK, graduating in 1994 as winner of the Max Adrian Cup for Best Actor. He last appeared at Vienna’s English Theatre as Nicola in Arms and the Man in 2006.

Other recent theatre work includes Pygmalion (with Rachel Stirling, Hong Kong Arts festival 2009), Great Expectations (Manchester Library Theatre), The Merry Wives of Windsor (Shakespeare’s Globe), The Vortex (with Felicity Kendal, directed by Peter Hall, Theatre Royal Windsor and Apollo Theatre, West End), Pygmalion (directed by Peter Hall, for the Peter Hall Company at the Theatre Royal Bath, and National Tour), The Anatomist (Eastern Angles), Christina Rosseti’s Goblin Market (Southwark Playhouse and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sydmonton Festival), La-Surette in Jean Anouilh’s Mademoiselle Colombe (with Honor Blackman), Bridges and Harmonies (with Peter Blake and Eva Pope) and The Boundary (Bridewell Theatre), She Stoops to Conquer (with Diana Coupland and Stephen Mangan) and The BFG (Birmingham Old Rep), Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Doolittle in Pygmalion (Eye Theatre), The Clubhouse (Hampstead Theatre), Toad in The Wind in the Willows (Torch Theatre, Milford Haven), Puss in Boots and The House at Pooh Corner (Polka Theatre) and The Revengers Tragedy (Pentameters).

National No. 1 tours include; Terence Rattigan’s While the Sun Shines (Channel Theatre Company), The Witches, Horrible Histories (UK Tour and Madinat Theatre, Dubai) and Tom’s Midnights Garden (Birmingham Stage Company).

Recent television/film credits include The Culshaw and Stephenson Show (BBC), Wind-up TV (ITV), Londoners (Besta Films), The Hutton Enquiry (BBC), Crime Monthly (ITV), The Unmarried Family (BBC), Xchange (BBC), The Hanging Tree (Channel 4), Blue Peter (BBC), Newsnight (BBC) and The Clap (Breakthru Films – runner up the Edinburgh international Film Festival and the London film festival 2005).

From February 2010 Timothy will be appearing with Judi Dench in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, directed by Sir Peter Hall, at The Rose Theatre in Kingston.