Simon Treves

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Simon Treves
Treves in 2010
Born
Frederick Simon Treves

(1957-06-19) 19 June 1957 (age 66)
Watford, England
Spouse
Mirela Kalicanin
(m. 2001)
Children2
ParentFrederick Treves (father)

Frederick Simon Treves (born 19 June 1957) is an

ITV's Jeeves and Wooster. In 2018 he played Aleister Crowley in the short film Boca do Inferno, directed by Luis Porto and shot in Porto and Cascais, Portugal
.

Biography

Born 19 June 1957 in

Elephant Man
.

Educated first at Rokeby School, then King's College School in Wimbledon and finally Birkbeck, University of London, he trained as an actor at the National Youth Theatre and the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.[1]

Theatre

As an actor, he has played at many of the leading regional British theatres. He made his debut with the RSC at Stratford in 1983,[1] and returned in 1986 to play Joey Percival in Shaw's Misalliance at the Barbican.[1]

Lyric Hammersmith
.

In 1999, Treves led the Singapore Repertory Theatre company production of M. Butterfly as Gallimard.[2]

In 2008, he played Richard Greatham in Hay Fever at Manchester Royal Exchange.[3]

Television

On TV, Treves played

Crackerjack
.

Radio

Treves has acted in over one hundred radio productions for the

The Adventures of Sexton Blake
.

In the early 1980s, he regularly voiced trails for one of the first UK breakfast TV channels,

voices a character on the computer game, Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon
.

Writing

His play Bitter with a Twist was produced by the Bristol Old Vic in 1999, and is published by Faber & Faber.[7] It received its European premiere in Amsterdam in May 2011. Other commissions include two linked internet audio dramas – Ash and Gold, for totallyword.com; and an original short screenplay, Tweeny, commissioned by Brian Cox and Skreba Films. He recently adapted Jim Broadbent's A Sense of History for the stage; wrote and directed Smile for Miniaturists 24 at the Arcola; and devised and scripted Neither Here nor There (a celebration of cult Scottish comic Chic Murray), broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in August 2007.[1]

Directing

Treves was awarded a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Theatre Directing from Birkbeck, University of London in 2005,[1] and directed the stage premiere of the original one-act television version of Terry Johnson & Kate Lock's Tuesday's Child at Hampstead Theatre in 2005.

Personal life

A 1991 cartoon by Simon Treves

Treves married Mirela (née Kalicanin) in 2001 and lives in Buckinghamshire. They have two sons.

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "doollee.com - the playwrights database of modern plays". www.doollee.com.
  2. ^ Studio, 24K Design. "The Singapore Repertory Theatre - SRT". www.srt.com.sg.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  3. ^ 'Hay Fever' on the London Theatre Database 2008 Archived 24 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ "tnelson.demon.co.uk". www.tnelson.demon.co.uk.
  5. ^ "Jeeves & Wooster (an Episode Guide)". epguides.com.
  6. ^ "Radio Listings website".
  7. ^ "Bitter with a Twist". Public Store View.

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