Edwards on stage in Cardiff, March 2012

Barnaby Edwards (born 20 August 1969) is a British actor, writer, director and artist. He is known as a performer for the British science-fiction television series Doctor Who, in the role of a Dalek operator. He has also written, directed, produced or performed in over 80 Big Finish Doctor Who audio stories. Alongside frequent radio and voice over work, Edwards has narrated over 40 unabridged audiobooks for Audible.com and others.

Early life

Edwards graduated from the University of Exeter in 1991 with a degree in Fine Art and French. He subsequently went on to train at the Guildford School of Acting, where he won the Postgraduate Award for Acting in 1992.

Career

Edwards has worked in the theatre, television, radio and audio plays, as a director and writer. Edwards is also an artist and his pictures hang in galleries and private collections across Europe as well as being exhibited widely within the UK. Following a successful show at the Blue Lias gallery in Lyme Regis, Barnaby was asked to form one third of the Three West Country Artists exhibition in 1998. The Kingfisher Gallery in Devon held a major exhibition of his work encompassing nearly thirty new paintings, and in 2006 he exhibited a selection of pieces at the FSA Summer Exhibition.

Edwards regularly lectures on art history and art techniques, both in Britain and farther afield. He has given talks on subjects as diverse as European Narrative Painting, Pastel Techniques, Victorian Sea Paintings, Life Drawing, and Greek and Roman Myths in Western Art. He also gives practical tuition both to individuals and to groups, including art workshops on landscape, figure and still life.

In 2010, Edwards set up Textbook Stuff, specialising in audiobooks of classic short stories and poems. Readers include Miriam Margolyes, Andrew Sachs, Peter Guinness, John Sessions, Nicholas Pegg and David Soul. The company distributes via iTunes, Amazon and other online distributors.

In November 2013 he appeared in the one-off 50th anniversary comedy homage The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot.[1]

Beginning in 2016, Edwards narrated the audiobook editions of The Bernicia Chronicles, a series of historical novels by author Matthew Harffy.

Acting

Film

Television

Theatre

Radio

  • Dick Barton – actor
  • The Father of English Football – actor
  • Dostoevsky – actor
  • Cultural Baggage – actor

Doctor Who audio plays (Fifth Doctor)

Doctor Who audio plays (Sixth Doctor)

Doctor Who audio plays (Seventh Doctor)

Doctor Who audio plays (Eighth Doctor)

Other audio plays

Directing

Television/film/video

  • Bacardi: The Making of a Commercial
  • The Dolphin Myth
  • In-store Credit

Theatre

"Mad Men r Crazy"

Audiobooks (drama)

  • The Waringham Chronicles. [2]

Textbook Stuff audiobooks (horror)

Textbook Stuff audiobooks (poetry)

Textbook Stuff audiobooks (non-fiction)

Radio plays

Doctor Who audio plays (Fifth Doctor)

Doctor Who audio plays (Sixth Doctor)

Doctor Who audio plays (Seventh Doctor)

Doctor Who audio plays (Eighth Doctor)

Writing

Television/film/video

  • Bacardi: The Making of a Commercial
  • The Dolphin Myth
  • In-store Credit

Theatre

  • English Sketches
  • Kicking Bardom

Radio plays

Doctor Who audio plays (Fifth Doctor)

Doctor Who audio plays (Sixth Doctor)

Doctor Who audio plays (Eighth Doctor)

Personal life

Edwards' long-term partner is actor Nicholas Pegg. Guesting at the 2017 Pride Cymru event Who's Queer Now, a symposium celebrating the impact and influences of Doctor Who on LGBT people, the couple revealed that they were celebrating their 25th anniversary.[3][4]

References

  1. ↑ "The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot", BBC programmes, retrieved 26 November 2013
  2. ↑ Audible - The Waringham Chronicles.
  3. ↑ "Philip Reeve". www.philip-reeve.com. Archived from the original on 11 May 2018.
  4. ↑ "StackPath".
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