Stephen Evans

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Stephen Evans

Born	27 November 1970 Clwyd, North Wales

Stephen Evans (born 27 November 1970) is a British actor and comedy writer of theater, film, radio and television.

Member of four-man comedy sketch group Dutch Elm Conservatoire. Nominated for the prestigious Perrier Award at the 2005 Edinburgh Fringe Festival for the show Dutch Elm Conservatoire in Conspiracy. The Dutch Elm Conservatoire performed their last live show Prison at the 2006 Edinburgh festival and the Belfast theatre festival in November 2006. They intend to return to the stage with a new sketch show in late 2008.

Stephen graduated with a BA (Hons) degree in Theatre at Dartington College of Arts in Devon ( 1992-95 ). He has appeared in various productions for BBC television including; Vine in two series of Hyperdrive, Nighty Night, My Family, Holby City and most recently Fear of Fanny by Brian Fillis, directed by Coky Giedroyc for BBC 4. Stage work includes a 24hr play called The Warp with director/performer Ken Campbell. Also Stephen wrote and performed in a sketch troupe called The Benders. Film work includes Dust, Spivs, Antmuzak, Blakes Junction 7 and Shooters. He recently played a referee in the latest short by Tim Plester called World of Wrestling which has been released and will be available on DVD in early 2008. He has also written for shows such as Revolver and Velvet Soup for BBC Scotland and BBC Radio 1's late night comedy The Milk Run. He appeared in an adaptation of the novel The Dark Is Rising (The Seeker) by Susan Cooper for Twentieth Century Fox.

For 2008 Stephen can be seen in the forthcoming series of Comedy Cuts on ITV2, and is also working on a television sketch show with The dutch elm conservatoire for ITV2. He has recently recorded a television pilot for Miranda Harts own sitcom, Miranda Hart's Joke Shop, for the BBC2 which has now gone to series.

Stephen has also recently featured in short film written and directed by Julian Barratt and Dan Jemmett called Curtains. It will be released late summer, 2008.