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'Christopher Colley possesses a striking stage presence that has you thinking: "That lad could go far."' --Christopher Hart, Sunday Times (review of Take Flight, Menier Chocolate Factory, 2007)

Christopher Colley

With Sarah French Ellis, Stephen Sondheim and Kaisa Hammarlund.
with Stephen Sondheim
Menier 2005
Christopher as Leo Frank
Parade
Edinburgh 2005
With Ashley Lilley
Parade
Edinburgh 2005
Christopher as Caiaphas, backstage in Denmark
Jesus Christ Superstar
Denmark 2004
With Adam Linstead. Photograph by Darrin Zammit Lupi
Sweeney Todd
RAM 2004

Christopher as Sweeney Todd. Photograph by Darrin Zammit Lupi
Sweeney Todd
RAM 2004

Christopher as Starkey. Photograph by Robert Day
Peter Pan
Birmingham Rep 2007/8
With Ian Conningham and Edward Gower. Photograph by Tristram Kenton
Take Flight
Menier 2007
With Paul Chahidi and Judi Dench. Photograph by Stewart Hemley
Merry Wives
with Judi Dench
RSC 2006/7
Christopher backstage at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. Photograph by Ellie Kurttz
Merry Wives
RSC 2006/7
With Daniel Evans. Photograph by Tristram Kenton
Sunday in the Park with George
West End 2006

Theatre: Jack Rugby in Merry Wives - the Musical (Royal Shakespeare Company, with Judi Dench); the Soldier in Sunday in the Park with George (West End, five Olivier Awards including 'Outstanding Musical Production'); Fred Noonan in Take Flight (creation of role, Menier Chocolate Factory); Gentleman Starkey in Peter Pan (Birmingham Rep); Coley in The 24-Hour Plays (Old Vic); Leo Frank in Parade (UK Premiere, Edinburgh Fringe); Caiaphas in Jesus Christ Superstar (European Tour); Sweeney in Sweeney Todd (Royal Academy of Music).

Other theatre includes: Nelson (Soho Theatre); Our Miss Gibbs (Finborough Theatre); This Is My World, Willy and Rupert (Bridewell Theatre); Fanny (Sadler's Wells); Twelfth Night, Macbeth (Boomsbury Theatre).

TV includes: The Big Read, Extreme Theatre, Our Big World.

Recordings include: Merry Wives - the Musical, Take Flight and Sunday in the Park with George (on which Christopher sings a previously unrecorded song by Stephen Sondheim).

Christopher trained on the Actor/Singer course at the Royal Academy of Music where he won the Ronald William White Prize for Excellence in Acting through Song. He has a degree in English from UCL.

Christopher Colley - headshot by Ric Bacon; production photograph by Tristram Kenton
Sound Clips:
Back of the Line
from Take Flight
(Original London Cast Recording)
The One on the Left
from Sunday in the Park with George
(2006 London Cast Recording)
with Sarah French Ellis and Kaisa Hammarlund
This Jesus Must Die
from Jesus Christ Superstar
(live)
with Richard Colvin