Zachary Holton

Interim General Manager
Actor, Company Stage Manager, Lighting Designer

Biog

2010 had Zac celebrating 25 years working in professional theatre. Starting at the tender age of 15 by securing for himself the sponsorship from a local firm which enabled him to work as an acting ASM for the Nottingham Playhouse where he made his acting debut in the world stage premier of Room at the Top also appearing in Mother Goose and A Majority of One. Following this he understudied the role of Gozark in the London Palladium production of Singin’ in the Rain with Tommy Steele at the Bristol and Birmingham Hippodromes, touring as far as the Shinjuku Koma Stadium in Tokyo.

On returning to the Nottingham Playhouse at 17, he landed several acting roles including: Boo Radley in To Kill a Mocking Bird and Chad Gubbins in Lark Rise as well as playing various roles in The Hobbit for the Nottingham Playhouse and two national tours. Other credits for his early work in theatre at this time include: Scripting and directing two end of season reviews, writing/presenting the Family Fun Day Technical presentation, Technical Stage Manager with the Roundabout TIE Company touring Nottinghamshire schools with projects such as Frankie’s Friends, Commonlore Storytellersand The Aboriginal and Islander Dance Theatreof Australia; Sponsorship Co-ordinator and Assistant Director to Kenneth Alan Taylor for Jack and the Beanstalk. The next two decades saw his continuation within the industry.

Film, radio and television credits include: on-screen presenter in Somewhere beginning with N… (Nottingham’s Tourist Information Film), A very Peculiar Practice (BBC), The Bill (Thames), Hard Cases and The Next Step (Central Television). Directing includes Under Milk Wood (Works Outing Theatre Company).

Directing credits include: Assistant Director to Alan Cohen on eight opera’s performed at Queen Elizabeth Hall (National Opera Studio). Assistant Director at  at the Crucible Theatre Sheffield to Michael Rudman on Hamlet and Mansfield Park; Tim Luscombe on Oliver, and to Alan Cohen on Peter Pan, the combination of which resulted in Zac being shortlisted for a position as a Staff Director for the National Theatre. Director: Merlin’s Missing Magic (South Yorkshire Community Touring Pantomime) and Poetry for the Sheffield Literary Festival.

Other credits include: Stage Management and Lighting Designer on various touring shows (Works Outing Theatre Company); Artistic Director and writer for Viva Mania (Viva Youth Theatre); Drama teacher (The River Leen School) and as Head of Drama where he directed internal and external performances productions such as Hairspray, A Slice of Saturday Night, The Positive Hour and Pravda (Midlands Academy of Dance and Drama).

The past 36 months has seen Zac continue his eclectic career by touring the UK & Ireland as Tour Manager with Strauss Gala and Over the Rainbow; the Eva Cassidy story with Faye Tozer (Theatre Productions); touring the United Kingdom and Ireland with The Importance of Being Oscar (Original Theatre Company). Playing the dastardly Captain Hook in Peter Pan (Little Theatre Sherringham); As Director for Jane Austen’s Emma (Heartbreak Productions); Company Stage Manager for Cinderella (Palace Theatre Newark); Snow White (Marina Theatre Lowestoft); Stage Manager for Othello and the highly acclaimed Journey’s End, in which he also played the role of the Company Sergeant Major (Icarus Theatre Collective / Original Theatre Company). In 2010 he was shortlisted for the Stage Management Associations Individual Award in recognition of his work on Journeys End and has just finished treading the boards as Lord Thurlow in The Madness of King George III for its 2010 autumn tour with Simon Ward. 2011 has seen him touring the UK with Dancing at Lughnasa as Company Stage Manager and understudy for Daragh O'Mally. Outside of the theatre, Zac has a keen interest in gardening and still resides in Nottinghamshire with his wife Tracey and their three sons Sam (also working on this production), Nikolas & Tyler.