Michael Grady-Hall

Biog

Michael Grady-Hall is currently playing Andrushya in Burnt by the Sun at the National Theatre.

He graduated in 2008 from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

Whilst at RADA roles included: Don Pedro in Much Ado About Nothing (dir. Wilson Milam), Mr. Tyler in All That Fall (dir. William Gaskill), Alec in Dolly West’s Kitchen (dir. Nick Hutchison), Algernon in The Importance of Being Earnest (dir. Tim Walker), Ed/Edward Goodchild/Josh in The Strangeness of Others (dir. Tamara Harvey) and Friar Lawrence in Romeo and Juliet (dir. Edward Kemp).

Since graduating acting credits include: Bishop in Fat Men in Skirts (Stonecrabs, dir. Victor Esses), Gregory/Servant/Page to Paris in Romeo and Juliet (Theatre of Memory, dir. Tamara Harvey) and Cyril in The Apple (The Orange Tree, dir. Abigail Anderson).

Previous to training Michael played Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet: Deceased and Rosencrantzin Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead for The Rec. Theatre Company and Jack Point in The Yeoman of the Guard and KoKo in The Mikado (for which he won Best Youth Performance 2005) for the Gilbert and Sullivan International Festival.

Roles for Three’s Company include: Martin Brady-Small in A Live Transmission of Adventure Time, Simon in Dreams May Come, Andre/Claude in Plane of Existence (Best Musical Comedy 2005), Danny McKealty in one-man show Later Showers (for which he won Best Young Actor 2004 Buxton Festival Fringe), Widow Twankey in Trouble in Pantoland and Iago in Othello.

Offstage he has co-written Trouble in Pantoland and Dryland. He has stage-managed a number of productions including Shirley Valentine, Othello, When the Wind Blows and Our Day Out. Michael has worked as an Assistant Director on A Midsummer Nights Dream, The Wizard of Oz, The Dracula Spectacula Show, Trouble in Pantoland, and Oliver!.

He has also worked as a Director, directing Dryland and The Visitor (for The Rec Theatre Company), for Three’s Company the award-winning Platformation (Best Production by a Young Company 2003 Buxton Fringe), its sequel Income Taxi, the award-winning Play on Words (Best Production by a Young Company 2006 Buxton Fringe) and in a co-production with fragile theatre A Woman of Uncertain Age, for which he won Best Direction 2007 (Lost Theatre Company: One Act Play Festival, Tristan Bates Theatre).

Outside of theatre, Michael enjoys film, drawing and berating the hatless.