Rob Madge
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Rob is a Theatre-Maker, Writer and Actor. They began working professionally in theatre aged nine, having spent most of their childhood forcing their family to help them put on shows in the living room.
Training: Sylvia Young Theatre School, University of Warwick and Royal Academy of Music.
Rob’s one-person show My Son’s a Queer (But What Can You Do?) received critical and commercial acclaim at the Turbine Theatre and the Edinburgh Festival, spurring sell-out runs at Garrick Theatre and the Ambassadors in the West End, a UK tour and most recently in New York at New York City Center. For their work on My Son’s a Queer, Rob won WhatsOnStage, Attitude and Stage Debut Awards and received an Olivier nomination for Best Entertainment or Comedy Play.
Their second solo show Rob Madge’s Regards to Broadway played to full houses at the Garrick Theatre.
Theatre includes: Diva of Dreams in Sleeping Beauty (The London Palladium), Emcee in Cabaret (Playhouse Theatre), The Spirit of Sherwood in Robin Hood (The London Palladium), Alex in Buyer and Cellar (King’s Head and Theatre Royal, Plymouth), Tink in Peter Pan and Pat, the Cow in Jack and the Beanstalk (The London Palladium), Millennials (The Other Palace), world premiere of Bedknobs and Broomsticks (UK tour), Les Misérables (UK tour), Matilda the Musical (RSC), Gavroche in Les Misérables (25th anniversary tour and concert), Artful Dodger in Oliver! (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane), Macbeth (Gielgud Theatre) and Michael Banks in Mary Poppins (Prince Edward).
TV includes: The Armstrong and Miller Show, Poirot: Appointment With Death, Krod Mandoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire, That Mitchell and Webb Look and The Sarah Jane Adventures.
Writing includes: Bank of Dave: The Musical (Curve Theatre, Leicester) and Charley’s Aunt (Watermill Theatre).
Other work includes: Hosting and writing With All Our Hearts, a gala celebrating 75 years of the NHS, at the Adelphi Theatre.
Rob was named one of The Stage’s Rising Stars for 2024.
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