Greg Hicks

Greg Hicks
Born (1953-05-27) 27 May 1953 (age 71)
Leicester, England, U.K.
Alma materRose Bruford College
OccupationActor

Greg Hicks (born 27 May 1953) is an English actor. He completed theatrical training at Rose Bruford College[1][when?] and joined The Royal Shakespeare Company in 1976. He was nominated for a 2004 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award[2] in the category "Best Actor of 2003" for his performance in Coriolanus at the Old Vic and was awarded the 2003 Critics' Circle Theatre Awards (Drama) for Best Shakespearian Performance in the same role.[3]

Hicks has practised the Brazilian hybrid of martial arts and dance capoeira,[4] as well as the Japanese dance-theatre form butoh.[5] He has said that he started to explore the physicality associated with these disciplines in a masked production of Oresteia (1981), directed by his mentor at the National Theatre, Peter Hall.[6] In 2016, he toured with Flute Theatre as Claudius in a production of Hamlet, who's there? written for interactive audiences.[7]

  1. ^ "20 Questions With...Greg Hicks - - Interviews - Whatsonstage.com". Archived from the original on 15 June 2011. Retrieved 25 October 2010.
  2. ^ "Olivier Winners 2004 | the Official London Theatre Guide". Archived from the original on 27 November 2010. Retrieved 25 October 2010.
  3. ^ "Critics' Circle | Drama". Archived from the original on 7 December 2010. Retrieved 25 October 2010.
  4. ^ "Actor Greg Hicks on his new role as Tamburlaine". TheGuardian.com. 10 October 2005.
  5. ^ "The Home of London Theatre". Official London Theatre.
  6. ^ Hicks, Greg (16 September 2014). "Greg Hicks: how Peter Hall transformed me as an actor". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
  7. ^ Hamlet, who's there? on the Flute Theatre website