Simon Kane (writer)

Simon Kane
Born	Simon Le Plastrier Kane
Occupation	Writer, Actor
Nationality	British
Alma mater	Clare College, Cambridge
Years active	1995 – present
Relatives	John Kane (father) Alison Warner (mother) Susy Kane (sister)
Website
slepkane.blogspot.com

Simon Kane is a British writer, actor, and associate artist with the Shunt cooperative working in radio, television and theatre. ^{[1] [2]} He is the son of actor and writer John Kane and opera singer Alison Warner. His sister, Susy Kane, is also an actor and writer.

Kane studied English literature at Clare College, Cambridge, graduating in 1997. ^[3]

Selected works

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1985	Daemon		As Simon Kene
2001	The Inbetweeners	Dance teacher
2012	The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff	Postman	Episode 1 [4]
2011–2013	Peeder Jigson's Video Diary	Aidan Turner	Episodes: "What Aidan Turner's Up to in the Break", "Naming the Dwarves", " Wrap Party"
2014	Mirrorboy	Funkbeard	Short (also credited as writer, composer and editor)
2016	The Nightmare on Deskteeth Street	Harold	TV Short [5]
2017	Suicide Hotline	Mr. Jameson	TV Short
2019	The Seeing	Perry	Episode: "Introduction"
2019	The Atticus McLaren Mysteries	Scout McLaren
2020	Trying	Torturer	Series 1, Episode: "Someone Else's Kids"
2020	Death Meets Lisolette	Billy	TV Short
2020	Ghosts	Keith Darren Dean	Series 2, Episode: "Perfect Day" [6]
2021	What's My Name?	Paramedic	TV Short
2021	Pretend Friends	Mark	TV Short
2022	EastEnders	Russell	Series 1, Episode 6558
2022	Christmas Carole	Vicar	TV Movie
2023	Good Omens	Theatre Announcer	Series 2, Episode 4
2024	Emmerdale	Driver	Series 1, Episode 9905

Theatre

Year	Production	Role	Company	Notes
2000	The Tennis Show	Linesman	Shunt
2000	Ophelia	Hamlet	SPID
2002	The Al-Hamlet Summit	Polonius	Zaoum
2003	Invitation to a Beheading	Lawyer, M. Pierre	Discreet Theatre	Review in Total Theatre Magazine [7]
2005	The Prometheus Experiment	The Waiter	Discreet Theatre	Hoxton Hall
2006	A Christmas Carol	Scrooge	Bigfoot
2007	Pride and Prejudice the panto	Bad Guy	The Mighty Fin
2008	Contains Violence	Narrator / Murderer		Lyric Theatre (Hammersmith)
2008	Oil Heart Mother	Simon	Present Tense 7	Southwark Playhouse
2008	Hamlet (abridged)	Barnardo / Ghost / King / Polonius / Zeus	Rival Theatre Company	Etcetera Theatre
2010	The Diary of a Nobody	Pooter	The Mighty Fin
2011	The Extremists	Dan		Rehearsed Reading. Royal Court Theatre
2012	Alice in Wonderland	Caterpillar, Duchess, Hatter	Exquisite Folly	Review in The Guardian [8]
2013	Life by Misadventure	Brendan / Brenda	Twice Shy Theatre	Latitude Festival
2014	Diary of a Provincial Lady	Robert	The Mighty Fin
2015	Ritual of Thwarted Desire	Wycliff	Little Pieces of Gold	Southwark Playhouse
2015	Of Mice and Madness	Griffin	London Horror Festival	Etcetera Theatre
2016	The Buskers Opera [9]	Mayor Lockitt	Buskers Opera Ltd	Park Theatre. Reviews [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16]
2016	Matter	Bird	Devil's Picnic	Etcetera Theatre
2016	Twelfth Night	Malvolio	Off Your Chump Theatre
2017	The Monster Hunters	Sir Maxwell House, Count Orloff, Klaus	Newgate Productions	The Courtyard Theatre
2017	The Hound of the Baskervilles	Watson		The English Theatre Frankfurt
2018	The Hound of the Baskervilles	Watson		Jermyn Street Theatre. Review [17]
2019	The Maid's Tragedy	Lysippus / Calianax	Royal Shakespeare Company	Workshop
2021	The Hound of the Baskervilles	Watson		Octagon Theatre, Bolton
2022	Bleak Expectations	Gently Benevolent		Watermill Theatre
2022	Love Goddess	Orson Welles, Harry Cohn		Cockpit Theatre, Marylebone

Radio / voice

• 2004: The Xtra Factor (voice-overs)
• 2010: Six Impossible Things ^[18]
• 2012: Occupied ^[19]
• 2011–2021: John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme ^{[20] [21]}
• 2015: John Finnemore's Double Acts : "The Goliath Window" ^[22]
• 2015: North by Northamptonshire: Full Stop ^[23]
• 2017–2018: Time Spanner – Pilot ^[24] and "The Dan in the High Castle" ^[25]
• 2017: The Now Show: "Now The Twelfth Night Show" ^[26] (as Simon Dylan-Kane)
• 2018: Angstrom ^{[27] [28]}
• 2018: Agendum ^[29]
• 2019: The Monster Hunters (podcast)
• 2019: Peter Pan (Audible)
• 2020: Down
• 2023: Below
• 2024: Torchwood - Art Decadence
• 2024: Doctor Who:- The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield
• 2024: Doctor Who - The War Doctor

Writer

• 2005–2009: That Mitchell and Webb Sound
• 2009–2010: That Mitchell and Webb Look ^[30]
• 2009: Laurence and Gus: Hearts and Minds ^[31]
• 2011: Jonah Non Grata ^[32]
• 2013: Before They Were Famous ^{[33] [34] [35]}
• 2017–2018: Time Spanner – Pilot ^[24] and "The Dan in the High Castle" ^[25]

Awards

Year	Work	Award	Category	Result	Ref.
2017	Sir Maxwell House in The Monster Hunters	AudioVerse Awards	Best Actor in a role for a Self-contained Comedic Production	Won	[36]

External links

• Simon Kane's blog
• Simon Kane at IMDb

References

1. "Simon Kane, Voice Actor | Wireless Theatre". www.wirelesstheatrecompany.co.uk. Retrieved 6 January 2018.
2. "Simon Kane". British Comedy Guide. Retrieved 6 January 2018.
3. "Simon Kane, actor". Mandy Actors. Retrieved 6 January 2018.
4. "BBC Two - The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff, Series 1, Episode 1". BBC. Retrieved 5 April 2022.
5. "British Council Film: The Nightmare on Deskteeth Street". film-directory.britishcouncil.org. Retrieved 5 April 2022.
6. "BBC One - Ghosts, Series 2, Perfect Day". BBC. Retrieved 5 April 2022.
7. "Discreet Theatre, Invitation to a Beheading | Total Theatre Magazine Print Archive". totaltheatre.org.uk. Retrieved 5 April 2022.
8. Caird, Jo (20 July 2012). "Down the rabbit hole with Bikeminded's cycling theatre | Jo Caird". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 April 2022.
9. "The Buskers Opera | Shows". Stage Faves. Retrieved 5 April 2022.
10. "The Buskers Opera review – anti-capitalism in rhyming couplets". The Guardian. 5 May 2016. Retrieved 5 April 2022.
11. "Theatre review: The Buskers Opera at Park Theatre (200)". British Theatre Guide. 28 May 2016. Retrieved 5 April 2022.
12. "The Buskers Opera - Review | Park Theatre". Stage Review. 10 May 2016. Retrieved 5 April 2022.
13. David, Caroline (10 May 2016). "The Busker's Opera, Park Theatre, review: 'Satire of London Olympics'". Islington Gazette. Retrieved 5 April 2022.
14. Lukowski, Andrzej. "The Buskers Opera". Time Out London. Retrieved 5 April 2022.
15. Aguinaldo. "THE BUSKERS' OPERA, London, To 4 June" . Retrieved 5 April 2022.
16. Maxwell, Dominic. "Theatre: The Busker's Opera at Park Theatre, N4". The Times . ISSN   0140-0460 . Retrieved 5 April 2022.
17. "Deerstalkers and devil dogs: Sherlock Holmes hits stage at the double". The Guardian. 29 December 2017. Retrieved 5 April 2022.
18. "BBC - Press Office - Network Radio Programme Information BBC Week 22 Thursday 3 June 2010". BBC. Retrieved 5 April 2022.
19. "Afternoon Play – Occupied". BBC. Retrieved 5 April 2022.
20. "BBC Radio 4 - John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme, Edinburgh 2012, Edinburgh special - Simon Kane". BBC. Retrieved 5 April 2022.
21. "BBC Radio 4 - John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme, Series 9, Episode 1". BBC. Retrieved 5 April 2022.
22. "BBC Radio 4 - John Finnemore's Double Acts, Series 1, The Goliath Window". BBC. Retrieved 5 April 2022.
23. "BBC Radio 4 - North by Northamptonshire, North By Northamptonshire: Full Stop". BBC. Retrieved 5 April 2022.
24. "BBC Radio 4 - Time Spanner, Time Spanner". BBC. Retrieved 5 April 2022.
25. "BBC Radio 4 - Time Spanner, The Dan in the High Castle". BBC. Retrieved 5 April 2022.
26. "Now The Twelfth Night Show". www.bbc.com. Retrieved 5 April 2022.
27. "BBC Radio 4 - Angstrom, Series 1, The Man Who Wasn't Dead". BBC. Retrieved 5 April 2022.
28. "BBC Radio 4 - Angstrom, Series 1, The Two Faces of Benny from Abba". BBC. Retrieved 5 April 2022.
29. "Agendum". www.bbc.com. Retrieved 5 April 2022.
30. "BBC Two - That Mitchell and Webb Look, Series 4, Episode 1". BBC. Retrieved 5 April 2022.
31. "BBC Radio 4 - Laurence and Gus: Hearts and Minds, Episode 1". BBC. Retrieved 5 April 2022.
32. "Jonah non grata". www.ica.art. Retrieved 17 March 2018.
33. "BBC Radio 4 - Before They Were Famous, Series 2, Episode 3". BBC. Retrieved 5 April 2022.
34. "BBC Radio 4 - Before They Were Famous, Series 2, Episode 4". BBC. Retrieved 5 April 2022.
35. "BBC Radio 4 - Before They Were Famous, Series 2, Episode 6". BBC. Retrieved 5 April 2022.
36. "2017 Winners". The Audio Verse Awards. 19 December 2017. Retrieved 5 April 2022.