Theatre Credits
Photo courtesy of Naxos Audio books.
From 1991 to 1993, when he graduated from LAMDA, Hywel appeared in a range of plays penned by such luminaries as Shakespeare "Love's Labours Lost", "A Midsummer Night's Dream", "Macbeth", Chekov "Cherry Orchard", Sir George Etherege "The Man of Mode", Mary Seacole "The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands", David Hare "Plenty", Edward Bond "Saved" and a stage adaptation of Charles Dickens book, "Great Expectations".
(The production of Macbeth was selected for the BBC Carleton Hobbs Radio competition in 1993.)
In 1995, Hywel appeared with Thin Language Theatre Company (of which he was a founder member) in "Nothing to Pay" by Simon Harris which was based on the book by Caradoc Evans.
Between 1995 and 1996 Hywel appeared in "Gulliver's Travels" by Jonathan Swift at Theatr Clywd, an audio production of "Romeo and Juliet" by Shakespeare, "Bouncers" by the man who is sometimes called the Yorkshire Shakespeare, John Godber. "Oliver Twist" by Charles Dickens and "Arms and the Man" by George Bernard Shaw.
(For further information on John Godber see www.hulltruck.co.uk.)
1998 saw Hywel at the Theatre Royal, Plymouth in a production of Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina" adapted by Helen Edmundson.
2000 and Hywel was in another Thin Language production, this time of "Badfinger" by Simon Harris. Also in the same year he was playing Captain Absolute in "The Rivals" written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
2003 Hywel was at the Mercury Theatre in Colchester, playing Baron Tusenbach in a production of "Three Sisters" by Chekov. (A review of this play can be found here.)
March to April, 2004, Hywel was at the Nottingham Play House in a production of "Double Indemnity" by James M Cain, adapted by David Joss Buckley.
"Walter Huff leads an ordinary life as an everyday door-to-door insurance salesman. Until the day he is snared by the feminine charms of Phyllis Nirdingler. He is embroiled in a plot to murder her husband and cash in the policy. But a wily insurance investigator is on his case, casting doubt on Mr Nirdingler’s so called ’accident’ and Huff realises he is in way over his head. Made famous by Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler’s 1944 film adaptation of James M Cain’s novel, Double Indemnity is a true noir classic. David Joss Buckley returns to the original novel to bring this story of seduction, corruption and murder thrillingly to life."
(Nottingham Playhouse Theatre)
A review of the play can be found here
October/November 2004 saw Hywel back at the Northcott Theatre, Exeter, playing Gerry Evans in a production of "Dancing at Lughnasa" by Brian Friel.
January to June 2005 saw Hywel, as Dr Seward, embarking on a Nationwide tour of "Dracula", with Christopher Cazenove and Richard Bremner, as Dracula.
A full list of tour venues and dates can be found here.
June/July 2007 Hywel plays the vicious seducer Valmont in "Les Liaisons Dangereuses" at the New Vic Theatre, Stoke.
Hywel can also be heard playing Jeri, the nephew of Squire Bramble, in the audio book "The Expedition of Humphry Clinker".
Photo courtesy of New Victoria Theatre
Photo courtesy of Swansea Grand Theatre
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Captain Absolute in The Rivals
Reproduced with kind permission of Northcott Theatre. Photo by Alan Winn.
Production photo by Robert Day reproduced by kind permission of Robert Day and Nottingham Playhouse
Renee Weldon as Christina and Hywel Simons as Gerry in "Dancing at Lughnasa"
Production photo reproduced by kind permission of Alan Winn and Northcott Theatre
Hywel in rehearsal for "Three Sisters"
Photo by kind permission of Essex County Newspapers.
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Dr Seward in "Dracula"
Reproduced with kind permission of Centreline Productions and Jane Morgan Associates