Steve is an experienced and versatile character actor. You may already have seen him naked (well almost) when he played Lomper in the extraordinarily popular film The Full Monty. Steve is currently best known as the character Eddie Windass in the popular TV soap Coronation Street. You can find out more about this here.

He was born in 1962 in Leeds, trained in Community Theatre Arts at Rose Bruford College (1983-86) and is currently based in West Yorkshire. Steve has a strong connection with Shoestring Forum, a theatre company based in West Yorkshire. With them he has helped produce plays and workshops with a mental health focus that have been successfully received as training resources for mental health professionals as well as being powerful theatrical experiences.

Steve plays the guitar, bass guitar, banjo, tin whistle, ukulele, mandolin, strumstick, harmonica, drums and percussion. He is particularly skilled in devising and acting for camera workshops, improvisation, clowning and escapology - and is very adept at street theatre, singing, cycling, and theatre administration. He also holds a full driving licence. He is active in the visual arts. You can see some of his work here.