David Shaw-Parker
Welcome to my website, a base from which I'm able to present my CV, an up to date account of my current activities along with samples of my most recent voice tape
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Extracts from my video showreel are also now available to view and again Quicktime will be required to see them.
David Shaw-Parker trained at RADA and began his career with the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford Upon Avon.
He manages to combine a busy career in theatre and television with a wide variety of work as a voice-over artist, ranging from the popular BBC childrens' cartoons such as The Brollys, P.C. Pinkerton and Mister Men to providing narration for documentaries and commercials for both radio and television.
As well as having given many radio performances and been a reader for BBC Radio Four's Short Story, in 1992 he was invited to join Brian Henson's Muppets team as the voice of Old Joe The Spider in The Muppets Christmas Carol [1992]
He records regularly for both Cambridge and Oxford University Press; Audio Books & Music [ABM], Macmillan Audio, Orion Audiobooks and Naxos Audio Books, most recently, The Somme [2005], Not Safe After Dark [2005], Alice Through The Looking Glass [2006], Thomas Hardy – Time Torn Man [Penguin 2006], Hans Brinker [BBC Children’s Radio] and Plato's Symposium playing the part of Socrates [2005].
His most recent stage work in this new Milenia has included Acorn Antiques [Theatre Royal Haymarket 2005] [www.trh.co.uk/showing], The False Servant[2004] and My Fair Lady [2001 - 2003] at The Royal National Theatre [ www.nt-online.org/?lid=7779] and he is about to appear as Quack in Jonathan Kent’s production of Wycherley’s The Country Wife at London’s Theatre Royal, Haymarket.