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Damien James: The Storyteller/Hans the Potwasher

Damien trained at Rose Bruford College.

Theatre credits include: Sappho: The Poetess (The Other Palace); The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Ambassadors Theatre and Southwark Playhouse); Fun at the Beach Romp-Bomp-a-Lomp!! (Southwark Playhouse); Luna Loves Library Day: The Musical (UK Tour); Cinderella (Lyric Hammersmith); Ordinary People (Hazlitt Theatre); Red Riding Hood: The Rock ‘n’ Roll Panto (Liverpool Everyman); Othello, Camelot (The Watermill); The Play That Goes Wrong (Duchess Theatre and UK Tour); Romeo & Juliet (Stockwell Playhouse).

This is Damien’s first time at The Varieties for the Rock ‘n’ Roll Panto!

Panto instruments: Drums and guitar.

Festive favourites. We asked our panto cast members their favourite things about Christmas:

Panto: Jack and the Beanstalk

Musical: Heathers (I wish it wasn’t, but it just has my heart)

Thing: The increased availability of gravy and pigs in blankets

Present you have ever received: My first electric guitar

Film: Filth (2008)

Food: Goose

Song: Christmas Time (Don’t Let the Bells End) – The Darkness

New Year’s resolution: To simply improve as a human being – breaks immediately each year!

Headshot of Damien James