Ollie is an actor, songwriter and award-nominated musical director from South Yorkshire. Having obtained a BA(Hons) in Music and Drama from the University of Manchester, Ollie went on to study at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, graduating with a Distinction from the MA Music Theatre programme.
Most recently, Ollie appeared in the internationally acclaimed hit show The Choir of Man, as the ‘Pianoman’, and has also been seen in Antic Disposition’s UK Tour of Shakespeare’s Henry V, Sondheim’s Assassins at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and starred alongside Sir Michael Caine in the feature film Is Anybody There?.
Ollie’s work as a Musical Director earned him a nomination in the 2019 Great British Pantomime Awards for ‘Musical Achievement’, for his work on Sevenoaks Panto Ltd.’s Dick Whittington. He was recently able to put those skills to good use as Music Captain for The Choir of Man.
As a singer, Ollie has sung with some of the country’s most revered choirs (inc. NYCC, CBSO Male Chorus, Cambridge’s St John’s Voices), singing at the Royal Albert Hall for the BBC Proms, and as far afield as Cathedrals in Hong Kong and Singapore. His reputation as a jazz pianist earned him a place in big bands and function bands across Manchester, and his compositions have been performed by ensembles across the country.
Ollie is currently working on his debut EP, and using the lockdown to release demos of new material.
