Andrew Piper

Andrew was born in London to Rod and Terry Sharp, and moved to Oxford aged 10 when his father started working for a childrens' hospice. He studied at Magdalen College School, Oxford, before going on to graduate with a First in Drama from the University of East Anglia in Norwich. He then went on to train at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School where he graduated playing Shylock in 'The Merchant of Venice'. Since Bristol, theatre work has included national tours of A Midsummer Night's Dream (Peter Quince) and Macbeth (Banquo), Phileas Fogg in Around the World in Eighty Days (Lyric Theatre, Hong Kong), Dr Detmold in the London première of Sondheim's musical Anyone Can Whistle, Hamlet in Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead for Jersey Opera House, Herbert Pocket/Uncle Pumblechook in Great Expectations for NTC Touring Theatre, and repertory seasons at a number of theatres where roles have included Bob Phillips in Ayckbourn's How the Other Half Loves, Bryan Snow in Noel Coward's Star Quality and John Terry in Tudor Gates' Who Killed 'Agatha' Christie? Radio work includes various recordings for the BBC, most recently the voice of John Milton for BBC America's The World. Andrew also wrote and delivered the narration - entirely in iambic pentameter - for a concert performance of Berlioz's Beatrice & Benedick for the Cambridge Berlioz Festival. For Methuen Drama he edited Actors' Yearbook for the 2007 and 2008 editions.