Earwig
Easter
Richard Easton
Eastward Ho!
David Edgar
Educating Rita
Edward II
Edward III
Rob Edwards
Peter Egan
Eh?
Jennifer Ehle
Elective Affinities
Electra
Elgar's Rondo
T.S. Eliot
Michael Elliott
Chris Ellis
Embers
The Empire Builders
Endgame
Enemies
Les enfants du paradis
Susan Engel
Epitaph for the Official Secrets Act
Eric LaRue
Escurial
George Etherege
Euripides
Daniel Evans
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
Everyman
Every Man in His Humour
Everything in the Garden
Exiles
Expeditions
A graduate of Oxford University and the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Rob Edwards was first at the RSC in 1980/81, playing Amintor in The Maid's Tragedy (Barry Kyle, TOP, Warehouse); Wadlow/Governor in Edward Bond's The Fool (Howard Davies, TOP, Warehouse); Lucullus in Timon of Athens (Ron Daniels, TOP, Warehouse); Lord Grey in Richard III (Terry Hands, RST, Aldwych); Lancelot Gobbo in The Merchant of Venice (John Barton, RST, Aldwych); and Khomich in The Love-Girl and the Innocent (Clifford Williams, Aldwych).
Following acclaimed work for David Thacker at the Young Vic—Lucio in Measure for Measure (1987), and the Duke in Measure for Measure (1989)—he returned to Stratford: Lysimachus, then the title role, in Thacker's production of Pericles (David Thacker, Swan, 1989); Dumaine the Younger in All's Well That Ends Well (Kyle, RST, 1989, Barbican, 1990); First Citizen in Coriolanus (Hands, RST, 1989, Barbican, 1990); Pritykin in Barbarians (David Jones, Barbican, 1990); a moody, dangerous Poins in Henry IV (Adrian Noble, RST, 1991, Barbican, 1992); Polynices/Chorus in The Thebans (Noble, Swan, 1991, Barbican, 1992); Messenger in The Dybbuk (Katie Mitchell, Pit, 1992); Bakin in Artists and Admirers (Phyllida Lloyd, Pit, 1992); a fine Horatio, wearing (at court) a borrowed evening suit one size too small, in the Kenneth Branagh Hamlet (Noble, Barbican, 1992, RST, 1993); Cassius in Julius Caesar (Thacker, TOP and Small-scale Tour, 1993); Antonio in Twelfth Night (Noble, RST, 1997); Quarlous in Bartholomew Fair (Laurence Boswell, Swan, 1997, Young Vic, 1999); Walt Disney in Stephen Poliakoff's Talk and the City (Poliakoff, Swan, 1998, Young Vic, 1999); Hippolito in Women Beware Women (Boswell, Swan, 2006); and Page in The Merry Wives of Windsor (Gregory Doran, RST, 2006-07).
At the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park, in 1997 he was Oberon to Serena Evans's Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream (Rachel Kavanagh), and a gangster in Kiss Me Kate (Ian Talbot). From 1999 to 2005 he played Scar in Disney's hit musical The Lion King (Julie Taymor, Lyceum).
Television credits: Just William (ITV, 1977); Secret Army (BBC, 1977); Prince John in Henry IV and Bedford in Henry V (BBC, 1979); By the Sword Divided (BBC, 1983); The Practice (ITV, 1985); Aliens in the Family (BBC, 1987); Soldier Soldier (ITV, 1993); A Touch of Frost (ITV, 1995); The Bill (ITV, 1996); and Dangerfield (BBC, 1996). He played Lucianus in Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet (1996).
Education: Oxford University; Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
RSC: Joined 1980
Seasons: 1980/81 (Strat.)-81 (Lond.); 1989 (Strat.)-90 (Lond.); 1991 (Strat.)-92/93 (Lond./Strat.); 1993 (Strat./Small-scale Tour); 1997/98 (Strat.)-98/99 (Lond.); 2006 (Strat.); 2006/07 (Strat., Complete Works)
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