Michael Wagg – Gwarwyn-a-throt (Gat)
Michael studied Drama at the University of Hull before training as an actor at Arts Ed, London.
Theatre work includes: The Ministry of Fear (National Tour, Theatre Alibi with Exeter Northcott & Oxford Playhouse); The Jungle Book (national tour, Birmingham Stage Company); Donkeys’ Years (national tour, Sonia Friedman Productions); Fahrenheit 451 (international tour, TNT Theatre & the American Drama Group, Europe); The Smallest Person (national tour, Trestle Theatre Company); Supermarket Shakespeare (Teatro Vivo); Finders/Keepers (RoguePlay Theatre); The Merry Wives of Windsor; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; The Beggar’s Opera; The Taming of the Shrew; Macbeth; The Importance of Being Earnest; Twelfth Night (all Changeling Theatre Company & The Hazlitt Theatre); An Inspector Calls; Nineteen Eighty-Four (international tours, Tour de Force Theatre & ADGE); Driving Ms Daisy (national tour, Box Clever Theatre Company); Blood, Toil, Tears & Sweat (The Bold Balladiers); Under Milk Wood (London Theatre Company); The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Extant Performance Company); The Angel & The Paginator (Theatre Intent); Box Dreams (Studio Damuza, Prague) and Box (Lift 5065, The Pleasance, Edinburgh).
Film & TV work: Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (Paramount Pictures); Showreel (Inbex Random); Mad World (NFTS); Sense (campaign); Through The Keyhole (100th Monkey); Black Ink (M.Y. Productions).
Radio work: The Eliza Stories; Woman’s Hour (both BBC Radio 4); The Arts Show (BBC Radio Scotland).
Also a writer, his poetry has been published in anthology, he wrote a regular tour diary for The Guardian website arts pages, and his play Voice was recently published in Brand Magazine. He holds a Master of Philosophy degree for research into Shakespeare’s clowns & fools.
Having played Lemuel Gulliver in the 2009 production of Gulliver by Kit Lambert, Michael is delighted to be returning to Cardiff and to be working with Hijinx again.
Michael was born and grew up in Warwickshire.
