Simon Jessop
plays
Eddie/Dr Scott
Electric Guitar, Percussion

At the Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch: A member of cut to the chase… for over ten years. Memorable productions include: Roy in Neville's Island, Caliban in The Tempest, Rick in A Slice of Saturday Night, Feste in Twelfth Night, Frederick in Noises Off, William in How the Other Half Loves, Roverini in The Talented Mr Ripley, all the men in Ladies' Day, half the men in Ladies Down Under and Marcus Lycus in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, winning the Off West End Awards. Simon played the 'comic halfwit' in Mother Goose, Dick Whittington and Sleeping Beauty and more recently, Widow Twankey in Aladdin. Work by Chris Bond includes Fred in It's a Fine Life!, Banquo in Hubble Bubble, Mr Marten in The ysterie of Maria Marten and the Murder in the Red Barn and Pirelli in Sweeney Todd, directed by the playwright. Work in musicals by Bob Carlton includes: Face, Keep on Running, From a Jack to a King and the Olivier Award-winning Return to the Forbidden Planet (West End).

Other theatre: For Terry Hands: Romeo and Juliet and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Theatr Clwyd/national tour); Hamlet with Jenny Seagrove, A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Comedy of Errors with Matt Devitt (Ludlow Festival, directed by GlenWalford); In the Midnight Hour, The Canterbury Tales and Corpse, directed by Robin Herford (Haymarket); and Thorin Oakenshield in Roy Marsden's The Hobbit (West End).

Film and television: Taggart, Sex Now, The Josie Lawrence Show, Second Thoughts, She-Wolf of London, There's a Viking in My Bed, Night and Day, A Question of Identity and Paul Kaye's Strutter. Previously modelled for Rowan with Kate Moss and was mostly recently seen in Charlie Brooker's new comedy sketch series for Endemol/BBC, How TV Ruined Your Life.