Profiles - Damian Willams

Damian has appeared in repertory seasons in Yeovil, Chesterfield, Leeds, Worthing, Sutton, Bognor Regis and Weston-Super-Mare playing such parts as 'Bernard’ in DON’T DRESS FOR DINNER; ‘Reece'’ in COMMUNICATING DOORS; 'Hugo' in SPIDER’S WEB; ‘Gerald Thornton’ in TIME AND THE CONWAYS; ‘Michael’ in DANCING AT LUGHNASA; ‘Walter Bryce' in NATURAL CAUSES; 'Charles Stanton' in DANGEROUS CORNER; 'Ritchie Burrows' in HAVING A BALL; 'Charles Brinton' In DOUBLE CUT; 'Mr Bromhead' in NO SEX PLEASE, WE'RE BRITISH; 'Al’ in the John Godber comedy APRIL IN PARIS and as ‘Frank' in EDUCATING RITA.

Damian toured extensively as 'Bob' in the Jimmie Chinn comedy STRAIGHT & NARROW; as 'Dennis' in ONE FOR THE ROAD; 'George Willoughby' in the horror thriller I'LL BE BACK BEFORE MIDNIGHT; 'Eric' in THE OPPOSITE SEX; ‘Nick’ in DEAD FUNNY; as ‘Inspector Slack’ in the Agatha Christie classic MURDER AT THE VICARAGE, ‘George’ in WIFE BEGINS AT FORTY; as ‘Bruce Delamitri’ in Ben Elton’s POPCORN and in the Farce TWO AND TWO MAKE SEX alongside Andrew Lynford [‘Simon Raymond’ from Eastenders].

Damian became well known to television audiences in the early nineties for his appearances as 'Ginger Gahagan' in the BBC series BILLY WEBB and the second series ALFONZO BONZO. His other television appearances include 'Lumpy in SPATZ; 'Gavin' In EXAM CONDITIONS and 'lan' in THE BILL.

Damian is always in demand for Musical Theatre. He has appeared as 'Mr Squeezum’ In LOCK UP YOUR DAUGHTERS; 'Mr. Fezziwig’ in SCROOGE; ‘Max Detwei!ler' in THE SOUND OF MUSIC; 'Daddy Warbucks' In ANNIE; 'Buddy Fiddler' in CITY OF ANGELS; 'Alfred P. Doolittle' in MY FAIR LADY, 'Sir John Tremayne' In ME AND MY GIRL, 'John the Baptist’ in GODSPELL and had enormous success as ‘the Voice' of 'Audrey II' in the hit musical LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS.

Damian’s first love is comedy (his heroes are Laurel & Hardy) and he has performed various comedy roles in musicals from ‘Luther Billis’ in SOUTH PACIFIC to ‘Pseudolus’ in A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM and lead roles in LUCKY SODS, RUN FOR YOUR WIFE and BEDSIDE MANNERS.

This will be Damian’s eleventh year as Dame at the Thameside Theatre in Grays having played ‘Tilly Trott’ in JACK AND THE BEANSTALK; ‘Widow Twankey’ in ALADDIN; 'Sarah the Cook’ in DICK WHITTINGTON; ‘Nurse Glucose’ in BABES IN THE WOOD; ‘Dolly Jollybottom’ in SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS and the title role in MOTHER GOOSE.

Damian was born in Tilbury in Essex, where he still lives with his partner Barbie and they are proud parents of twins, Joshua and Esme, undoubtedly one of Damian’s finest productions to date!