The League of Gentlemen and Inside No. 9’s Reece Shearsmith recently starred in The Unfriend at the Criterion Theatre.
Reece’s other West End stage work includes A Very Expensive Poison at The Old Vic,The Dresser at the Duke of York’s Theatre, Ghost Stories at the Duke of York’s Theatre, Betty Blue Eyes at the Novello Theatre, The Comedians at the Lyric Hammersmith, The Common Pursuit (Menier Chocolate Factory), The Producers (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane), As You Like It (Wyndham’s Theatre) and Art (Whitehall Theatre), as well as The League of Gentlemen shows at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane and on national tour.
Reece’s TV work includes Inside No. 9, Foundation, Good Omens, Stag, The Widower, Chasing Shadows, Pyschoville, and, of course, The League of Gentleman.
Films includes Venom, The Cottage, The League of Gentleman’s Apocalypse, Shaun of the Dead and This Year’s Love.
Book tickets to The Unfriend at the Criterion Theatre in London
As well as creating and starring in some of TV’s most deliciously dark and daring comedies, the League of Gentlemen’s Reece Shearsmith has established himself in the West End. As hit comedy The Unfriend prepares to move to London’s Criterion Theatre, the actor talks to Natasha Tripney about his successes, his Shakespearean ambitions and returning to theatre
(Natasha Tripney, The Stage, 19/01/2023) - The interview
