OUR PATRON

"I was fortunate enough to join Wild Goose Theatre [then Tomahawk] at a young age (Lennox, in their first production of Macbeth). At that time in my life I wasn't sure what I wanted to do, but the utter passion, dedication and joy with which this company began, and has continued, to produce such wonderful theatre, led me to want to do it for the rest of my life. Working with different texts, different people and in different spaces helped build my craft which I would later hone at drama school. Wild Goose Theatre is hugely responsible for my acting today."

Tom Bateman has appeared in many West End productions in leading roles, including The Winter's Tale for Kenneth Brannagh, as Will in Shakespeare in Love at the Noel Coward Theatre, in the The Duchess of Malfi at the Old Vic, as Claudio with David Tennant in Much Ado About Nothing, a part he also played for Wild Goose Theatre. On television, he has starred in ITV's Beecham House, Vanity Fair, Jeykll and Hyde and Cold Feet, Netflix's Behind Her Eyes, and Sky's Funny Woman. He has also starred in Kenneth Brannagh’s films Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile, with Liam Neeson in the thriller Cold Pursuit, and in Ron Howard's drama Thirteen Lives.