Steev Cornwall

A character actor of enormous experience, Steev has had a long and varied career working in many fields (and lots of theatres too!) . The parts he has played, and the venues he has performed in, have covered a huge and diverse range, from a one-man show about Lorca in Edinburgh to Shakespeare and Oscar Wilde in Europe and the Far East.

In April 2010 Steev played Brazencourt, a roguish thug, in the premiere production of Ipso Facto or The Rake’s Return, by Graham Baker, with songs and lyrics by Neil Innes, at Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh, where he was also Company Manager.  He continues to work extensively in training and development, particularly in the areas of cultural and diversity awareness.  This year, amongst the many organisations he has worked for, he has played a senior officer for the Met Police at their H.Q., a press spokesperson for Circle 33, London’s leading Housing Association, and a variety of characters for the Chief Executives of the Race and Equality Commission.  In the recent past he has also worked for the Prison Service, Deutsche Bank (at their HQ in Frankfurt), the RAF and various other government organisations, including the Cabinet Office, as well as directing teenage peer-education projects in the Home Counties and East Anglia. 

Last summer Steev played Caliban and Alonso in an acclaimed, outdoor, multi-media (the shipwrecked were filmed, the islanders live) production of The Tempest - performing on an island in the middle of a mill-race in Suffolk!

Prior to that Steev played The Leading Man, Tough Guy, a Silent Film Director and The Muse of Poetry in the 1920’s revue show Cutting The Ribbon, with new theatre company Fast and Loose.   He was at Sheringham Little Theatre in their 2008 summer repertory season, playing Sam Spencer, the lead, in Snakes and Ladders by Eric Chappel, the writer of Rising Damp, who highly praised his performance.

His favorite parts include the title role in Wild Child (about a feral boy found living in the woods), Mr. Punch in Trick of the Stick, an IRA terrorist and British Officer in Across the Barricades, Kevin in Outside Edge at Derby Playhouse, Banquo in Macbeth and Scrooge in A Christmas Carol, touring European theatres, Inspector Fix in Around the World in Eighty Days, touring Austria, and Lord Henry Wooten in The Picture of Dorian Grey, touring European and Japanese theatres and castles.

Steev's TV and film appearances include the Bill and London's Burning. His last TV appearance was as the Referee (at the duel) in Sense and Sensibility for the BBC.