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by Yasmina Reza
translated by Christopher Hampton
Howard Nightingall
Serge
Howard is from London and trained at the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts.
Theatre credits include Larry in Closer (Ensemble Theatre), The Lieutenant in The Man of Destiny (Kings Head), Stephen Hawking in Hawking’s Dream (Teatro Technis and dietheater Künstlerhaus), Michael in Wienerleben (European tour), Frederic in The Pirates of Penzance (Volksoper), the Scottish transexual policeman in When Did You Last See Your Trousers (National Tour) and Frosch in Die Fledermaus (Wienerkonzerthaus.); Sergius Saranoff in Arms and the Man, Horatio in Hamlet, Sergeant Trotter in The Mousetrap, Jimmy Porter in Look Back in Anger and Joe Pitt in Angels in America (all for International Theatre, Vienna)
His previous roles for Vienna’s English Theatre include The Young Man in the World Première 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 Charing Cross Road, Ross in the European Première of The Goat, Barnette Lloyd in Crimes of the Heart, William Taylor in Donkeys’ Years, Dr Alfred Feldmann in Duet For One, Michel Vallon in God of Carnage, James Dodd in Time Stands Still, Stephen in Chickenshit (that also played Off -Broadway) and Ulysses in Annapurna.
Howard has directed productions of Alan Ayckbourn’s Relatively Speaking at Vienna’s Kammeroper and Marc Camoletti’s, Boeing Boeing at stadtTheater walfischgasse
Film and television work includes The Bill, Casualty, Catherine (Prix European award for TV Fiction), The Pilgrim Factor, The Rehearsal, MA2412, Nous Nous Sommes Tant Haïs, Wilhelm Reich, The Devils Violinist and most recently as the British Sea Captain Arthur Snagge in Karl Kaiser und die Sixtus Affäre.
Howard works extensively as a voice-over and regular clients include Mercedes, T-Mobile,
OMV, Austrian Mint, various Museums around the city and Austrian Airlines. He regularly narrates English versions of Universum.
He also works as Dialogue Director for the children’s cartoon series Chi Rho for
KIKA and the films Population Boom, Everything Under Control and most recently The Green Lie due for release in March.
www.nightingall.co.uk