Bruce Graham

Bruce was born in Scotland and educated at the University of Edinburgh.    His first professional theatre work was with the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company with whom he toured extensively, playing many of the Gilbert and Sullivan character roles.     He has since appeared on film, radio, and TV and has taken part in many international tours across Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand.    

Bruce has appeared in eight West End musicals including Me and My Girl, Follies, The Phantom of the Opera, Sunset Boulevard and as Old Deuteronomy in Cats.    He has also appeared in a range of pantomimes at venues across London (including The Players’ Theatre at Charing Cross), and at Windsor and Norwich.     In 1999, Bruce returned to his first love, Gilbert and Sullivan, and since then has become something of a G&S specialist, having appeared in thousands of performances of Gilbert and Sullivan throughout the world, from Hull and Halifax to New Zealand and Nova Scotia.    He is proud to be a Vice-President of the Gilbert and Sullivan Society.   Recently Bruce became a Royal National Theatre player, playing the role of Roscoe in two lengthy seasons of the National’s award-winning production of Stephen Sondheim’s Follies.

This summer, he is very much looking forward to making his directorial debut with the National Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company.