Training Simon Startin trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. Theatre For the National Theatre: Bacchae, After Life and The Visit Other theatre includes: The Tempest for the RSC; Odd and the Frost Giants at the Unicorn; Princess Essex, The Taming of the Shrew and Ralegh: The Treason Trial at Shakespeare’s Globe; Hir at Park Theatre; Richard III and Romeo and Juliet for Shakespeare’s Rose Theatre; The Plague at the Arcola; The Government Inspector at Birmingham Rep; Islands at the Bush; Trauma at the White Bear; Sherlock Holmes in Trouble at the Royal Exchange, Manchester; The Tempest at Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds; and Ubu, Into the Mystic, The Fall of the House of Usher and Volpone for Graeae TV Holby City, The Musketeers, Doctors, Mapp and Lucia, Criminal Justice, Every Time You Look at Me and Keen Eddie Radio Blind Jack and In Touch Panto (Published September 2025. Photo: Matthew Startin) Source: National Theatre