David Burt

David Burt recently played the role of Vic Christian in The Pet Shop Boy's stage musical Closer To Heaven at London's Arts Theatre.

David Burt graduated from RADA in 1980.

Theatre credits include Cassino in Othello, Constantin in The Seagull; Lovborg in Hedda Gabler: Rumour/Lord Mowbry in Henry IV Part II; Chorus in Henry V; Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet; Antonio in The Duchess of Malfi; Mephistopheles in Doctor Faustus; Mordred in The Once and Future King; Florizel in The Winter’s Tale. In the West End: Dennis in Loot; Orin in Little Shop of Horrors; Jasper in The Mystery of Edwin Drood; Magaldi in Evita; Thomas Doughty in Traitors; Enjolras in Les Misérables (RSC, Barbican); The Russian in Chess; Tallyrand in Napoleon; Defarge in A Tale of Two Cities; Dupuis in Madame Bovary; Ratcatcher in Shadowmoves; Steve in The Sport of My Mad Mother; Edmund Kean in Edmund Kean – Tragedian; Sonny in Sean Devlin’s trilogy Border Lies, The Man Who Tried To Be Good, A Place Among Saints (ICA): Junipus in Conversations With the Devil; Pilate in Jesus Christ Superstar; the Berliner Ensemble’s Coriolanus; Angel in Tyger Tyger, Jenkin in A Woman Killed With Kindness; Menelaus in Troilus and Cressida, Frog in Honk!, Governer of Buenos Aires in Candide, The Duke in The Merchant of Venice, Mr Peachum in The Villain’s Opera (all at RNT); Amiens/Le Beau in As You Like It; Proculeius in Antony and Cleopatra; Captain Macheath in The Beggar’s Opera at the RSC (Olivier award nomination 1994).

Television credits include Jeremy in Flambards; Seth Curran in Poldark; Agamemnon in The Trojan Horse (BBC).

Other projects include Sheherezade; Hugh Whitmore’s adaptation of War and Peace.