Orlando Wells

Orlando Wells
Born	9 June 1973 Tonbridge, Kent, England, United Kingdom
Nationality	British
Alma mater	University of Oxford, LAMDA
Children	4
Parent(s)	Michael Wells Susannah York (deceased)

Orlando Wells (born 9 June 1973) is an English writer and actor.

As an actor, Wells is best known for starring as Alex Stanton in the Channel 4 drama As If, and playing Irwin in Alan Bennett's History Boys. He has recently finished in James Graham's This House at the Garrick Theatre, London

Wells has written five original plays: The Winter Room (RSC fringe festival), Cold Enough, The Tin Horizon (Theatre 503), The Woodcutter’s Tale (developed with NT Studio), and Four Days in Hong Kong (about Glenn Greenwald's and Laura Poitras's first meeting with Edward Snowden), produced as part the Orange Tree Theatre Festival 2014.

Michael Billington wrote in The Guardian of The Tin Horizon, 'a play that proves Wells has a gift for gothic futurism... a name to watch... shows a wild imagination at work and displays unmistakable signs of talent.'

Wells adapted Patrick Hamilton’s Duke in Darkness for the Tabard Theatre, Chiswick, last year and co-wrote the libretto for the experimental opera, Triptych, currently showing at the Print Rooms and Wilton’s Music Hall.

He was a series-writer for the animated children programs Xolight and Noksu. He has written the full-length feature Bait the Hook, and a short film, Shrike, longlisted for Channel 4’s Coming Up.

He is the son of actress Susannah York and Michael Wells, and is married with four children.

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