John Bell (actor)

John Bell is an acclaimed Australian actor and theatre personality.

Career Moves

• While at High School (Marist Brothers at Maitland) he developed and performed one-man shows.
• Old Tote Theatre Company
• five years with the Royal Shakespeare Company in Great Britain
• 1970s - Taught at National Institute of Dramatic Arts (NIDA)
• major state theatre companies as actor and/or director
• co-founder of the Nimrod Theatre Company in Sydney
• producer/presenter for David Williamson's Travelling North, The Club, The Removalists and Peter Kenna's A Hard God
• productions of Measure For Measure, Much Ado About Nothing and Macbeth, etc

The Bell Shakespeare Company

In 1990, John founded The Bell Shakespeare Company and has produced, among others, Hamlet, Romeo And Juliet, The Taming Of The Shrew, Richard III, Pericles, Henry 4, Henry 5, Julius Caesar, Antony And Cleopatra, The Comedy Of Errors, Hamlet and The Servant of Two Masters.

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His roles for the Company include Shylock, Richard III, Macbeth, Malvolio, Coriolanus, Leontes, Prospero, King Lear and Ulysses.

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