Simon Robson
{{short description|British actor, director and writer}}
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Simon Robson is a British actor, director and writer.
Career
As an actor, he has appeared in Doctors, Tom & Viv, Bodywork, Trial & Retribution and EastEnders, playing Graham Stone.
Simon Robson studied Philosophy and Social and Political Science at Cambridge University and trained as an actor at RADA. He has worked extensively in the theatre, as well as appearing in Eastenders and Doctors.
His first play, The Ghost Train Tattoo, was premiered at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester in 2001.
Since then he has published a book of short stories, The Separate Heart (Jonathan Cape),{{cite news |last1=Mantel |first1=Hilary |author1-link=Hilary Mantel |title=Catch by Simon Robson |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/jan/09/simon-robson-review-hilary-mantel |access-date=June 17, 2024 |work=The Guardian |date=January 9, 2010}} which was shortlisted for the prestigious Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award in 2007.{{Cite news |last=Crown |first=Sarah |date=2007-07-23 |title=Big names miss out on Frank O'Connor shortlist |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/jul/23/news.awardsandprizes |access-date=2025-02-19 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}{{Cite web |title=Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award – Munster Literature Centre |url=https://munsterlit.ie/frank-oconnor-international-short-story-award/ |access-date=2025-02-19 |language=en-GB}} His first novel, Catch, was published in 2010. He wrote the libretto for the opera Schoenberg in Hollywood, with music by Tod Machover, which received its premiere with the Boston Lyric Opera in November 2018. He also wrote the novel Rant in collaboration with Chuck Palahniuk.
Selected theatre performances
- Lord Darlington in Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde. Directed by Braham Murray at the Royal Exchange, Manchester. (1997)
- Count Almaviva in The Marriage of Figaro by Beaumarchais. Directed by Helena Kaut-Howson at the Royal Exchange, Manchester. (2002)
- Rupert Billings in The Happiest Days of Your Life by John Dighton. Directed by Braham Murray at the Royal Exchange, Manchester. (2003)
- Chiltern in An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde. Directed by Braham Murray at the Royal Exchange, Manchester. (2008)
- Elyot Chase in Private Lives by Noël Coward. Directed by Michael Buffong at the Royal Exchange, Manchester. (2011)
References
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External links
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Category:Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
Category:Alumni of the University of Cambridge
Category:British male soap opera actors
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
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