A Yorkshireman, Derek Bell was born in Halifax and raised
in Doncaster.
It was a decade when not even Billy Elliotts could impress the prevailing
culture enough to be sent to Drama or Dance School. He had to be satisfied
with an LGSM in Speech and Drama studied externally, alongside A-levels
and Oxford Entrance, followed by song and dance training during academic
life
at Oxford and Reading Universities, then in Italy, Germany and the Middle
East… until at an advanced age his formal theatre training actually began,
taken at Arts Educational Schools.
Skills
| Accents | American Standard, American Southern, Cockney, Doncaster, European, Irish (Mayo), RP, Yorkshire |
| Dance | Ballet, Jazz, Tap |
| Languages | French, German, Italian |
| Music | Baritone Range F to top E, Guitar, Piano, Violin |
| Sports | Badminton, Combat, Fenching, Juggler, Squash, Tennis, Volleyball |
Credits
AWL
Acting Credits
| Writer | Play | Role | Director |
| Lawrence McCambridge-Audini | The Winning Post | Jeffrey Potter | Peter Mair |
| Kate Glover | An African’s Blood | Various | Kate Glover |
| Gilles Cremonesi | Afternoon of a Faun | Sergei Diaghilev | Jacqui Dickson |
| Brian Marshall | It's a Man's World | Hilary Burke | Brendan Gregory |
| Robert Eddison & Robert Francis | Joe Orton's Last Laugh | Kenneth Halliwell | David Hampshire |
| John Timperley | €unity | David | Joshua Le Touzel |
| James Sherriffs | Turn of the Century (full reading) | Various | John Melainey |
| Brendan Hennessy | Uncle Ludwig | Anton Felix Schindler | Derek Bell |
| Neville Frenkiel & Harold Langshaw | Johnny Simple | Gilbert Goodfellow | Brendan Gregory |
| Elizabeth Gamberoni | The Applicants | Grahame de Quincey | Melissa Docker |
| Gary Diamond, John Fryer & Ray Lawrence | The Adventures of Warren Dripping | Warren Dripping | Gary Diamond |
Acting Credits (Sketches)
| Writer | Sketch | Role |
| Dermot Murphy | Thirteen at Table | Derek |
| Penny Culliford | Qualis | Jared |
| Owen Michaelmoore | The Merchant of Venice (Act III Sc IIa) | Antonio |
| Melissa Docker & Brendan Gregory | Mixing It | Kevin |
| Melissa Docker & Brendan Gregory | Liz Takes the Biscuit | Charles |
Directing Credits
| Play | Writer |
| Uncle Ludwig | Brendan Hennessy |
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