Simon Startin
Acting
Biography
Training Simon Startin trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. Theatre For the National Theatre: Bacchae, After Life and The Visit Other theatre includes: The Tempest for the RSC; Odd and the Frost Giants at the Unicorn; Princess Essex, The Taming of the Shrew and Ralegh: The Treason Trial at Shakespeare’s Globe; Hir at Park Theatre; Richard III and Romeo and Juliet for Shakespeare’s Rose Theatre; The Plague at the Arcola; The Government Inspector at Birmingham Rep; Islands at the Bush; Trauma at the White Bear; Sherlock Holmes in Trouble at the Royal Exchange, Manchester; The Tempest at Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds; and Ubu, Into the Mystic, The Fall of the House of Usher and Volpone for Graeae TV Holby City, The Musketeers, Doctors, Mapp and Lucia, Criminal Justice, Every Time You Look at Me and Keen Eddie Radio Blind Jack and In Touch Panto (Published September 2025. Photo: Matthew Startin) Source: National Theatre
Known For
The iPlayer Shorts strand is a bold and exciting venture between BBC iPlayer, BBC Three and BBC Drama Production to commission six original short films over two years, written and directed by the best up-and-coming writing and directing talent from across the UK.
Original Drama Shorts
A group of strangers grapple with this impossible question as they find themselves in a bureaucratic waiting room between life and death. Encouraged by enigmatic officials, they must sift through their past lives to choose their forever. Adapted from Hirokazu Kore-eda's award-winning film, After Life is a surreal and powerfully human look at the way we view our lives, and a haunting meditation on what it is to live – and to die.
National Theatre Live: After Life
In a city devastated by a climate disaster, we follow Elliot as he uses his last ever wheelchair battery to meet his boyfriend Aaron for their first and final dance.
Battery
Fierce and unstoppable, they are a chorus of wild energy ready to shake Thebes to its core — and liberate its women. But their god Dionysos has his own reckoning. In a showdown with his cousin, King Pentheus, family loyalty, political power and human desire are pushed to breaking point.
National Theatre Live: Bacchae
An isolated film obsessive discovers an exceptional reel that could complete his collection, for better or for worse.