Sean Foley (director)
| Sean Foley | |
|---|---|
| Born |
21 November 1964 Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire |
| Known for | Theatre director, writer, actor, comedian |
Sean Foley (born 21 November 1964) is a British theatre director, writer, comedian and actor. Following early success as part of the comedy double act The Right Size, and their long-running stage show The Play What I Wrote, Foley has more recently become a director of successful West End comedy productions.
Foley and Hamish McColl formed The Right Size in 1988. They devised and performed in the shows, with regular creative team collaborators such as director Jozef Houben, designer Alice Power, and songwriter Chris Larner. Their style combined elements of clowning, physical comedy, mime, slapstick,vaudeville and variety.The Right Size's major successes were Do You Come Here Often?, about two strangers stuck in a bathroom for 25 years, and The Play What I Wrote, a tribute to Morecambe and Wise.The Right Size were active until 2006.
Foley has played some major parts in traditional scripted roles, including Freud in Hysteria by Terry Johnson at Birmingham Rep in 2007, and the single role in the film of Samuel Beckett's Act Without Words I directed by Karel Reisz. He appeared alongside Mark Rylance in I Am Shakespeare at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester in 2007. He was a member of the Oxford Youth Theatre during his time at the University of Oxford, where he studied history.
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