seb harcombe
Seb grew up in the Rhondda valley, Wales, and originally trained
as a musician and read music at London university - before changing course after winning a scholarship to study acting at RADA.
After 15 years as an actor , playing leading roles in major UK theatres and companies (including the National Theatre and RSC),
he became an acting coach and a director of theatre and opera.
UK productions include:
Dido and Aeneas (Purcell) - English Touring Opera / La Voix Humaine (Poulenc) - the South Bank Centre / Candide (Bernstein) - Blackheath Halls Opera / Therese Raquin (Zola), A Bright
Room Called Day (Kushner), Billy Budd (Melville) +
The Illusion (Corneille) - Southwark Playhouse /
Ladybird (Sigarev) - New Diorama Theatre / Mr Wroe's Virgins (Rogers), Attempts On Her Life (Crimp), A Waste of Time (Proust / MacDonald) + Earthquakes in London (Bartlett) - HOME, Manchester
Dreamlives (Schoenberg) + The Diary (Pollard) - Riverside Studios Bloody Poetry (Brenton), Mysteries (N-Town),
La Dispute (Marivaux) + Cleansed (Kane) - RADA
The Belle's Stratagem (Cowley) + As If (de Vere) - AUB
Electra (Payne) - DCL / Eugene Onegin (Tchaikovsky) - Bury Court
Curlew River (Britten) + Idomeneo (Mozart) - HGO
Richard the Third (Shakespeare) - CAD Beijing, China
Forthcoming productions include:
Alceste (Handel), Geschwister (Mann)
He has also taught, coached and directed @
RADA, Drama Centre, National Opera Studio, Royal Academy of Music, Institute of Arts Barcelona, Royal College of Music, Manchester School of Theatre, Welsh College of Music and Drama, the Actors' Centre, Beijing Central Academy of Drama, Vakhtangov Theatre Moscow, Birkbeck University, ACT Amsterdam and for UNESCO and Erasmus.
as a musician and read music at London university - before changing course after winning a scholarship to study acting at RADA.
After 15 years as an actor , playing leading roles in major UK theatres and companies (including the National Theatre and RSC),
he became an acting coach and a director of theatre and opera.
UK productions include:
Dido and Aeneas (Purcell) - English Touring Opera / La Voix Humaine (Poulenc) - the South Bank Centre / Candide (Bernstein) - Blackheath Halls Opera / Therese Raquin (Zola), A Bright
Room Called Day (Kushner), Billy Budd (Melville) +
The Illusion (Corneille) - Southwark Playhouse /
Ladybird (Sigarev) - New Diorama Theatre / Mr Wroe's Virgins (Rogers), Attempts On Her Life (Crimp), A Waste of Time (Proust / MacDonald) + Earthquakes in London (Bartlett) - HOME, Manchester
Dreamlives (Schoenberg) + The Diary (Pollard) - Riverside Studios Bloody Poetry (Brenton), Mysteries (N-Town),
La Dispute (Marivaux) + Cleansed (Kane) - RADA
The Belle's Stratagem (Cowley) + As If (de Vere) - AUB
Electra (Payne) - DCL / Eugene Onegin (Tchaikovsky) - Bury Court
Curlew River (Britten) + Idomeneo (Mozart) - HGO
Richard the Third (Shakespeare) - CAD Beijing, China
Forthcoming productions include:
Alceste (Handel), Geschwister (Mann)
He has also taught, coached and directed @
RADA, Drama Centre, National Opera Studio, Royal Academy of Music, Institute of Arts Barcelona, Royal College of Music, Manchester School of Theatre, Welsh College of Music and Drama, the Actors' Centre, Beijing Central Academy of Drama, Vakhtangov Theatre Moscow, Birkbeck University, ACT Amsterdam and for UNESCO and Erasmus.