Colin Hurley

Colin Hurley has extensive experience performing Shakespeare and regularly teaches on LAMDA's Classical Acting programme.

"I’ve been acting for fifty years, mostly in plays by dead people. I’ve played with The Royal National Theatre (including a world tour of Richard III and King Lear), The Royal Shakespeare Theatre (most recently as Brabantio in Othello), and Shakespeare’s Globe (a couple of dozen productions, including playing Toby Belch in Twelfth Night at The Globe, in the West End and on Broadway). Next year I’ll be touring with Hull Truck, playing Duncan and The Porter in Macbeth. 

Recent TV: Dreamland, Stath Lets Flats and Flowers. 

Films include: Black Pond, The Darkest Universe, Portraits of Dangerous Women, short films: Hero Hungry, The Trouble with Guns, and The Joy of Growing Pineapples. 

I enjoy teaching students of classical acting at LAMDA and I train and play regularly with experimental pop-up guerilla theatre company The Factory. I also tour my one-man show, Lear’s Shadow."