Chris New

CHRIS (Glen) trained at RADA and since graduating in 2006 has built up an impressive reputation for his stage work. He started opposite Alan Cumming in the 2006 revival of Martin Sherman’s iconic play ‘Bent’ for which he was nominated for the Evening Standard Award for Outstanding Newcomer. He then went on to work at the National Theatre, under the direction of Richard Eyre as well as The RSC, The Young Vic and London Sadler’s Wells. In 2009 he returned to the West End to star as Joe Orton in the stage adaptation of ‘Prick Up Your Ears’, and in 2010 made his New York debut leading the company of Peter Nichol’s ‘Lingua Franca’. He is soon to take the title role in Christopher Marlowe's Richard II at the Manchester Royal Exchange.