Anthony May is a RADA trained Stage, TV, Film and Voice-Over actor.
THEATRE…….TV…….FILM
Anthony was in two seminal productions for the National Youth Theatre.Their first modern play Little Malcolm and his Struggle against the Eunochs at the Royal Court with Timothy Dalton and Barrie Rutter and the highly successful Zigger Zagger which transferred to the Strand Theatre with Anthony in the title role for which he was nominated for a Variety Award for most promising newcomer.
The Young Poet in Isadora directed by Karel Reisz
Zigger Zagger T.V. for the BBC.
Fergus in Anne Bronte’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.
Leading role in the musical version of Alun Owen’s No Trams to Lime Street with music by Marty Wilde. BBC.
Heinrich von Kleist’s Michael Kohlaas [Rider on Horseback] , directed by Volker Schloendorff with David Warner, Anna Karina and Anita Pallenberg
Trixie and Baba by John Antrobus, directed by Jane Howell at the Royal Court.
Lead in the short musical film Les Bicyclettes de Belsize directed by Doug Hickox.
The title role in Brendan Behan’s The Hostage with Niall Toibin and Zoe Wanamaker directed by Richard Eyre at the Royal Lyceum Edinburgh.
Richard Cromwell in Cromwell with Richard Harris and Alec Guiness, directed by Ken Hughes.
Prince Hal in Henry IV parts I and II directed by Richard Eyre at the Royal Lyceum Edinburgh, which also toured Hong Kong and the Far East
Leading role of Pirrie in Cornel Wilde’s No Blade of Grass with Nigel Davenport.
Sid in the children’s hit series ‘The Double Deckers’.
Long Voyage out of War. BBC
He formed Senta Productions with some friends and produced another production of Little Malcolm, this time in the title role, directed by John Thaw at the Mercury Theatre, Notting Hill
They then produced H.E Bates’ The Triple Echo with Oliver Reed and Glenda Jackson, directed by Michael Apted.
Several other London theatre productions including David Halliwell’s A Last Belch for the Great Auk with Susan Tracy, The Launderette with Jane Carr , Eduardo Manet’s The Nuns’ at the Roundhouse and Sloane in Joe Orton’s Entertaining Mr Sloane at the Kings Head Theatre.
Jack in an American drama documentary on Jack the Ripper.
Two tours with the London Shakespeare Theatre’s Macbeth of Iraq, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Korea, Japan and Africa with William Gaunt and Michael Elphick
Macbeth playing Macduff directed by Frank Dunlop at the Young Vic Theatre. This production also played in Mexico City and Acapulco, finishing at the Guanahato Theatre Festival.
Albany in King Lear at the Young Vic
Octavius Caesar in Anthony and Cleopatra at the Young Vic with the French film actress Delphine Seyrig
Thomas Cromwell in A Man for all Seasons with Alfred Lynch at the Young Vic
Cassio in Othello. Young Vic
Other productions at the Young Vic include Gloo Joo, Richard II, The Real Inspector Hound and Byron’s Marino Faliero
At the Bristol Old Vic, Leonidik in Arbuzov’s The Promise and Banquo in Macbeth directed by Richard Cottrell.
Sasha in a film of Chekhov’s short story Zinotchka, directed by Christoper Miles with Charlotte Rampling for the BBC.
Fletcher Christian in They Ran Before the Wind, an Australian TV movie, scripted by David Yallop filmed in the Cook Islands.
Withdrawal Symptoms by C.P.Taylor for Foco Novo at the I.C.A. and tour
Outside, a totally improvised play directed by Neil Johnston at the Mickery Theatre, Amsterdam.
Bobby in David Mamet’s American Buffalo at the National Theatre directed by Bill Bryden.
Sir Thomas Overbury in Favours directed by Stewart Trotter at the Northcott Theatre
Hamlet in Hamlet directed by Stewart Trotter at the Northcott Theatre.
Captain Plume in The Recruiting Officer directed by Nicholas Hytner at the Northcott Theatre.
Tom Stoppard’s Squaring the Circle directed by Mike Hodges
Guy Jones in A Chorus of Disapproval Leeds Playhouse.
Dreams in an Empty City Lyric Hammersmith
Other TV and film include The Confession, Gazette, Crown Court, Suspicion, Cross Now, Les Miserables, Murder by Decree, Mcvicar, Z cars, Casualty, Juliet Bravo, Dickens of London, The Bill, London’s Burning, Anna Lee, The Paradise Club, The Professionals, Shoestring, El Cid, Bulman, Between the Lines, Softly Softly, Rockliffe’s Babies, Minder, All Quiet on the Preston Front, Out Of Sight, Chandler and Co, Boon, Coronation Street, The Dream Team, The Hutton Enquiry, The Ice House and Messiah, working with directors Adrian Shergold, Anthony Minghella, Martin Campbell, Stephen Poliakoff, Paul Unwin and Tim Fywell.
Anthony is also a Voice Over Actor having covering every medium of Voice Work.
Audio Books, Documentary Narration, Video Games, Film Dubbing, Radio and Television Commercials, Promos, Websites, and Corporate Narratives.
He also performs poetry with music with various musicians and is working on an album with the Mobo award winning musician Ceri Evans featuring the poetry of Rumi.
