Neil had a fab 2009, playing his hero Stan Laurel in Chalkfoot's critically acclaimed production of Laurel and Hardy at Jermyn Street Theatre, appearing on TV in the USA in the short film Father's Day and filming a commercial in Prague. He also worked in Vienna playing O'Hara in Arsenic and Old Lace at Vienna's English Theatre.
Since graduating from Rose Bruford, Neil has shown himself to be a versatile character actor, performing in plays ranging from Bernard Shaw's Misalliance at Vienna's English Theatre to Face to Face for Theatre ADAD, a play he co-wrote about restorative justice which toured prisons and young offenders institutes.
Neil's real strength is comedy. He has a quirky, offbeat warmth on screen and is often cast as the put-upon everyman in commercials. (Recently for Weetabix, Capital One, Wrigleys, Tourism Ireland, Marks and Spencer, British Gas, Virgin Broadband and Xfm).
As a stand-up comedian, Neil has toured comedy clubs and universities all over the UK and appeared on BBC One's Stand Up Show and Channel Five's Comedy Network. As a writer, he has co-written a black comedy, A Pig Too Far, for BBC Radio 4, and a sit-com pilot, Turn the World Down, which starred Brendon Burns and Sean Hughes, for Channel Four's Comedy Lab.
View Neil's Showreel via his Spotlight page.