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Rob Madge

The Spirit of Sherwood

Rob Madge

Rob Madge (they/them).

Rob is a theatre maker, writer, and actor. They began working professionally in theatre aged 9, having spent most of their childhood forcing their family to help them put on shows in the living room.

Rob trained at Sylvia Young Theatre School, University of Warwick and Royal Academy of Music.
Rob’s debut one-person show My Son’s A Queer (But What Can You Do?) had sell-out runs at the Turbine Theatre, Edinburgh Festival, Garrick Theatre and The Ambassadors in the West End. 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. The show recently embarked on a UK tour.

Their second solo show Rob Madge’s Regards to Broadway played to full houses at The Garrick Theatre.

Other theatre credits include 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), Bedknobs and Broomsticks (World Premiere - 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), Michael Banks in Mary Poppins (Prince Edward Theatre).

Further credits include 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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