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Charles Kay 1930

In 1955 along with a group of students from the Guild Theatre Group they travelled up to Edinburgh, to appear at the Festival Fringe with a performance of "The Two Noble Kinsmen" to the professional stage were Roger Jerome, ex-Captain, and Charles Kay Originally trained as a Dental Surgeon. Trained at RADA where he was awarded the Bancroft Gold Medal in 1958. Then joined the English Stage Company at the Royal Court. He was at the RSC from 1963 - 1966 both at Stratford and London.
Joined the National Theatre Company in 1967, where along with Ronald Pickup, Derek Jacobi, Jeremy Brett, Robert Stephens and Anthony Hopkins and many others, an all male production of "As You Like It" was performed.

In 1974 he performed the title role of Tartuffe with the Actors Company at the Edinburgh Festival and directed the same play in their following season. In 1976 toured extensively in the Far East, Australia and New Zealand with The Hollow Crown and Pleasure and Repentance.

Carleton Hobbs Bursary Award Winner in 1957, for Radio drama

Audio books include:
Travels With My aunt by Grahame Greene
Prince's Choice Shakespeare Selection
Dr Who Excelis Rising
The Canterbury Tales III by Geoffrey Chaucer
Put on By Cunning by Ruth Rendell
The Mist in the Mirror by Susan Hill
Ultimate Prizes by Susan Howatch

Radio Plays include:
1975 The Night Of The Fourteenth By Max Marquis
1981 "Captain Of Heretics" By Anthony Read
1986 "The Tortoise & The Hare" by Elizabeth Jenkins
1988 "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" by John le Carré
1990 "Smiley's People" by John le Carré
1991 "The Confidential Agent" by Graham Greene
"The Midwich Cuckoos" by John Wyndham