Orlando Wells


Orlando Wells is an English writer and actor.

Career

As an actor, Wells is best known for starring as Alex Stanton in the Channel 4 drama As If, and playing Irwin in Alan Bennett's History Boys. He has recently finished in James Graham's This House at the Garrick Theatre, London
Wells has written five original plays: The Winter Room, Cold Enough, The Tin Horizon, The Woodcutter’s Tale, and Four Days in Hong Kong, produced as part the Orange Tree Theatre Festival 2014.
Michael Billington wrote in The Guardian of The Tin Horizon, 'a play that proves Wells has a gift for gothic futurism... a name to watch... shows a wild imagination at work and displays unmistakable signs of talent.'
Wells revised and adapted Patrick Hamilton’s Duke in Darkness for a 2013 production at the Tabard Theatre, Chiswick, directed by Phoebe Barran. The following year Wells co-wrote, with Opera Erratica director Patrick Eakin Young, the libretto for the experimental opera Triptych, performed in 2014 at The Print Room and Wilton’s Music Hall.
He was a series-writer for the animated children programs Xolight and Noksu. He has written the full-length feature Bait the Hook, and a short film, Shrike, longlisted for Channel 4’s Coming Up.

Personal life

He is the son of actress Susannah York and Michael Wells, and is married with four children.

Selected credits

Theatre