Shaun Prendergast

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Shaun Prendergast is a British actor and writer.

Shaun was born in 1958 in North Shields, educated at Collingwood School, Norham High and Tynemouth Sixth Form College and trained at Bretton Hall College (BA Hons). His first play POTTER'S WHEEL, written when a student, won five awards at the 1980 National Student Drama Festival including Best New Play and was subsequently presented at the Old Vic as part of an NSDF showcase season. He was an actor and playwright in residence for Northumberland Theatre Company before joining the BBC Radio Drama Company, and subsequently became a founder member of Kenneth Branagh's newly formed Renaissance Theatre Company. Awards include a Sony Award, a Writers Guild Award and a Time Out Award. Shaun has made hundreds of appearances in television, film and on radio and written extensively for the stage, television, radio and film.

He is married to Niki Winterson (of Global Artistes) and has a stepson Domenic and a daughter, Molly. Yhey live in London.

TV Acting includes

2006-2007 - The Bill, Eastenders, Holby, Hotel Babylon, The Lightning Kid, Heartbeat, New Tricks. Other: The lead in Kay Mellor’s Emmy Award winning A Place of Safety (CENTRAL) , Soldier Soldier (CENTRAL) , Twelfth Night (THAMES) , Peak Practise (CENTRAL) , London’s Burning (THAMES) , Heartbeat (YORKSHIRE) , Seven Industrial Wonders - the Brunel Story (BBC) , Waiting for God (BBC) , Driven (BBC) , Inspector Lynley (CENTRAL) , Teachers (CHANNEL FOUR), 55 Degrees North (BBC) , Berkley Square (BBC) , Preston Front (CENTRAL). Badger and Bodger (Central) Mathscope (BBC).

Film includes

2006-2007 - The Stepdad. Other - Henry V, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Bye Bye Columbus, Frozen, In the Bleak Mid Winter,

ACTING / WEST END

Hamlet, Much Ado about Nothing, Twelfth Night, As You Like It (for Kenneth Branagh’s Renaissance Company national tour and Phoenix Theatre West End)), The Glee Club (Bush and the Duchess Theatre West End), Macbeth and the Sam Shephard season at the BAC and A Going Concern art Hampstead Theatre Club. Other theatre includes Grace, Twelfth Night, Candida, (NTC) , Dracula, Spot the Lady, A View from the Bridge, Strippers, (Newcastle Playhouse), Twelve Tales of Tyneside (Live Theatre), Sisterly Feelings (Manchester Library Theatre), As You Like it (Nottingham Playhouse), The Miser (Salisbury).

Acting Radio Radio Westway, The Goldfish Bowl, Phoenix England, The Bee-keeper’s Apprentice and The Little World of Don Camillo, and over two hundred individual plays.

Shaun was the voice of Sunshine is the animated series TUGS

WRITING

Television and radio writing includes

2006-2007 Multi- episodes of - The Roman Mysteries, Rocket Man (BBC) Also , The Lightning Kid (BBC) Other: Multi- episodes of - My Parents Are Aliens (GRANADA), Eastenders (BBC), Grafters (CENTRAL) , Equinox (BBC) , Microsoap (BBC), Soldier, Soldier (CENTRAL).

FILM includes

Rebel Zone (BBC Films)

Theatre writing includes

Potter’s Wheel, The Firefawn Trilogy, A Fine and Private Place, Distinguished Service, Little Victories, The Green Eyed Monster of Ecrovid, The Witches’ Kitchen, Twelve Tales of Tyneside, Poles Apart, Come and Make Eyes at me, Karl Marx Live in Concert, and The True History of the Tragic Life and triumphant Death of Julia Pastrana, the Ugliest Woman in the World, The False Corpse and The Biggest Adventure in the World.

Adaptations include Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast,The Giant Prince, The Three Musketeers, The Canterville Ghost and The Day of the Triffids. Television includes The Lightning Kid, Rocket Man, Soldier, Soldier, Eastenders, Grafters, Equinox, My parents Are Aliens and Microsoap..Radio includes Open Mike, Kiss Me Quick, Only the Good Die Young, Phoenix England, A Fake’s Progress , Travellin' Light The Bee-Keepers Apprentice, The Goldfish Bowl.