seb  harcombe

Seb was raised in the Rhondda valley, South Wales, and originally read music at London University - but changed direction to study acting at RADA after winning their Robert Donat scholarship. 

After 15 years of performing leading roles in major UK theatres and companies (including the National Theatre and Royal Shakespeare Company) he became a director and acting teacher.

Recent UK productions as a theatre and opera director include: 
Dido and Aeneas (Purcell) @  English Touring Opera ~ Therese Raquin (Zola),  Ladybird (Sigarev),  A Bright Room Called Day (Kushner),  The Illusion (Corneille/Kushner) @ Southwark Playhouse ~ La Voix Humaine (Poulenc) @ The Southbank Centre ~ Bloody Poetry (Brenton),  Mysteries (N-Town),  Cleansed (Kane),  La Dispute (Marivaux) @ RADA ~ Traumleben/Dreamlives (Schoenberg) @ Leeds Lieder ~ Electra (Sopholcles/Payne),  After Troy (Glyn Maxwell) @ Drama Centre ~ Eugene Onegin (Tchaikovsky) @ Bury Court Opera ~ Attempts On Her Life (Crimp),  A Waste of Time (Proust),  Earthquakes in London (Bartlett) @ MST.  Forthcoming work includes:  About My Mother (Almodovar) @ MST ~ Candide (Bernstein) @ Blackheath Halls Opera ~ Mr Wroe's Virgins (Rogers) @ Southwark Playhouse.

Seb is also proud to have been Head of Acting at both RADA and Drama Centre London. He has also taught, coached and directed @ the National Opera Studio, Royal Academy of Music, Institute of Arts Barcelona, Royal College of Music, Manchester School of Theatre, the Globe, Welsh College of Music and Drama, the Actors Centre, Beijing Central Academy of Drama,  Vakhtangov Theatre Moscow, Birkbeck University, the BBC and for UNESCO.