Jac Yarrow
Acting
Biography
Jac Yarrow (born March 11, 1998) is a Welsh stage actor and singer born in Cardiff. Yarrow attended Arts Educational Schools, where he originated the role of Jack Kelly in Disney’s Newsies in the UK. Yarrow graduated early in 2019.[1] His first West End role was the title role in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat in 2019 at the London Palladium opposite Jason Donovan and Sheridan Smith. For his role, Yarrow was nominated for the 2020 Olivier Award for Best Actor In A Musical, Whatsonstage Awards in the same category and won The Stage Best West End Debut 2019. Following this, Yarrow appeared for two Christmas seasons (2020/2021) at the London Palladium playing himself. He reprised his role in Joseph in the summer of 2021, this time opposite pop star Alexandra Burke. Yarrow also played the role in the 2022 UK & Ireland tour and at The Princess Of Wales Theatre in Toronto, Canada in 2023. Also in 2023, he starred alongside Broadway legends Bernadette Peters and Lea Salonga in Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends, directed by Sir Matthew Bourne at the Geilgud Theatre in the West End. Yarrow went on to portray the title role in Pippin 50th Anniversary concert at Theatre Royal Drury Lane in the West End opposite Tony Award winner Alex Newell. Yarrow currently plays the role of Marius in Les Misérables: The Arena Spectacular World Tour, having played the role for a four week summer run at the Sondheim Theatre in London in 2024. On screen, Yarrow appeared as bad boy Jamie Dalton in BAFTA winning BBC drama In My Skin in 2020. Television credits also include Angelo Bernadone in Glow and Darkness (Dreamlight Productions), BBC’s Musicals The Greatest Show (2020), a guest performer on Britain’s Got Talent (ITV), This Morning (ITV) and The One Show (BBC).
Known For
Coming-of-age story of 16-year-old Bethan, who we follow as she deals with the comical but painfully real anxieties and insecurities of teenage life, along with the stark reality of a home life that is far removed from what she projects to her friends.
In My Skin
In the midst of the struggle between kings, emperors, sultans and popes, "Glow and Darkness" tells, as never before, the intertwined stories of characters such as Saladin, Emperor Barbarossa, Richard the Lionheart, Philip Augustus, Francis of Assisi and Eleanor of Aquitaine, among others. It is the time of the burghs, the fairs, the Provencal literature and the crusades. Everyone who lived at that time achieved fame and honor.
Glow and Darkness
A mysterious troupe led by the Leading Player performs a parable about a young prince, Pippin, who's in search of the secret to true happiness and fulfillment - his own "corner of the sky." With music by Stephen Schwartz and a book by Roger O. Hirson, this classic musical is brought to life in a spectacular staged concert at London's Theatre Royal Drury Lane.