Duncan Barrett

Duncan trained at Central and graduated in 2006. His theatre work includes the teenager John Walker in Eastern Angles' hugely successful 2008 tour of Arthur Ransome's We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea, the title role in Hamlet at the Harlow Playhouse in 2007, a pair of rabbinical students in The Dybbuk at the King's Head, Ariel in The Tempest at the Bridewell Theatre, the dangerous Cavalier Frederick in The Rover at the Edinburgh Fringe 2007, an ambitious philosophy student in 21st Century Faust at Upstairs at the Gatehouse and a fresh-faced journalist squeezing Susannah York's secretive piano teacher for a story in a reading of the new musical Alvaro's Balcony at Her Majesty's Theatre, Haymarket.

2009 saw Duncan mastering puppetry at the Little Angel Theatre and devising and performing This England with Upstart Theatre Co. 

While training, Duncan played Celia in an all-male production of Volpone and Demetrius, Angelo, Macbeth and Romeo in selected scenes from Shakespeare. His screen work includes the short films In The National Interest for Freewheel Productions, Until Now for B1 Idol Films, Small Crimes for Filthy Lucre, Split for Dark Planet and Exit Strategy (adapted from Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida), which he also directed.

Duncan has a particular passion for renaissance drama, and has performed in twelve productions spanning nine of Shakespeare's plays, alongside works by Kyd, Marlowe, Jonson and Calderon. He also holds a first-class degree in English from Cambridge University.

View Duncan's showreel and listen to his voice clips via his Spotlight page.