Stephen Wight

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Stephen Wight is an award-winning British actor, who trained at the Drama Centre London.

[edit] Career

Wight's television career dates back to 2003 with a minor part in Casualty.

He is best known for his role as Phil to David Jason's Des in Diamond Geezer (Granada television series from March 2005).

Diamond Geezer was the second time Wight had worked alongside David Jason, having appeared in a 2003 instalment of A Touch Of Frost, playing Ritchie Mason in Another Life.

He made his National Theatre debut at the Cottesloe in 2004 in a re-cast revival of Sing Yer Heart Out For the Lads.

At the Evening Standard Theatre Awards in November 2007 [1] Wight won The Milton Shulman Award for Outstanding Newcomer for his performances in Don Juan in Soho at the Donmar Warehouse and in the revival of Patrick Marber's Dealer's Choice at the Menier Chocolate Factory in Southwark, which subsequently transferred to the Trafalgar Studios in Whitehall.

[edit] Selected Theatre credits

Jock in The Straits by Gregory Burke, Paines Plough company, Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2003 and Hampstead Theatre, November 2003
Jason in Sing Yer Heart Out for the Lads by Roy Williams, The National Theatre Company at the Cottesloe, April 2004
Skyvers by Barry Reckord, Royal Court rehearsed reading 23 January 2006
Stan in Don Juan in Soho by Patrick Marber (after Moliere), Donmar Warehouse, December 2006 [2]
Mugsy in Dealer's Choice by Patrick Marber, Menier Chocolate Factory, October 2007; then Trafalgar Studios, December 2007 [3]