David Osmond

David is touring in LESS THAN KIND, Terence Rattigan's so-called "lost" play which was premiered very successfully at Jermyn Street Theatre last year. Before Christmas he was at Theatr Clwyd in HUMBUG! an inventive re-telling of A CHRISTMAS CAROL. Earlier in 2011 he shot his first feature film, TRAPPED, on location in Switzerland, playing the leading role of Michael. After graduating from Rose Bruford College in 2007, David joined the National Theatre for the tour and West End run of THE HISTORY BOYS. While HISTORY BOYS was still running at Wyndham's Theatre, David started rehearsing at the Young Vic for Richard Jones' production of THE GOOD SOUL OF SZECHUAN starring Jane Horrocks, playing the Nephew. Later in 2008 he was with ENO at the Coliseum playing the role of the Musical Director in another Richard Jones production, PAGLIACCI as re-imagined by Lee Hall. In 2009 he played Dino in SATURDAY NIGHT, a rare early Sondheim musical, at Jermyn Street Theatre, and subsequent transfer to the Arts Theatre, Horace in SCHOOL FOR WIVES at Upstairs at the Gatehouse in Highgate, in the Summer, he was at the Watermill Theatre in SPEND, SPEND,SPEND directed by Craig Revel Horwood, and he rounded off the year back in his home city of Cardiff playing a plethora of Dickensian characters including Fred, Dick, and Tiny Tim in the Sherman Cymru’s production of A CHRISTMAS CAROL. David spent most of 2010 on tour, Playing Sam Rodale in Alan Ayckbourn’s new play IF I WERE YOU, alongside Liza Goddard and Jack Ellis, and then Edmund Timms in Keith Dewhurst’s National Theatre adaptation of LARK RISE TO CANDLEFORD, both for Bill Kenwright. David is also an accomplished pianist, and has played on BBC One (The Andrew Marr Show, Newsnight Review) and BBC Radio 3 (In Tune), as well as in the Theatre.