CAST & CREATIVE
ROB MADGE
AS EMCEE (FROM 29 MAY)
They/Them
Rob is a theatre-maker, writer and actor. They began working professionally in theatre aged nine, having spent most of their childhood forcing their family to help them put on shows in the living room.
Training: Sylvia Young Theatre School, University of Warwick and Royal Academy of Music (ARAM).
Rob’s one-person show My Son’s a Queer (But What Can You Do?) had sell-out runs at the Turbine Theatre, Edinburgh Festival, across the UK, Garrick Theatre and the Ambassadors in the West End. For their work on My Son’s a Queer, Rob won WhatsOnStage, Attitude and Stage Debut Awards and received an Olivier nomination for Best Entertainment or Comedy Play. The show recently premiered in New York at New York City Center. Their second solo show Rob Madge’s Regards to Broadway played to full houses at the Garrick Theatre.
Other theatre includes: Adapter of Charley’s Aunt (Watermill Theatre), Spirit of Sherwood in Robin Hood (London Palladium), Alex in Buyer and Cellar (King’s Head and Theatre Royal, Plymouth), Tink in Peter Pan (London Palladium), Pat the Cow in Jack and the Beanstalk (The London Palladium), Millennials (The Other Palace), world premiere of Bedknobs and Broomsticks (UK tour), Les Misérables (UK tour), Matilda the Musical (RSC), Gavroche in Les Misérables (25th Anniversary tour and Concert), Artful Dodger in Oliver! (Theatre Royal Drury Lane), Macbeth (Gielgud), Michael Banks in Mary Poppins (Prince Edward).
TV includes: The Armstrong and Miller Show (BBC), Poirot: Appointment with Death (ITV), Kröd Mändoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire (Comedy Central), That Mitchell and Webb Look (BBC), and The Sarah Jane Adventures (BBC).
Hosting includes: The Stage Awards 2025 (Royal Opera House), Playbill Pride (Times Square, New York City), Stiles & Drewe Prize, writing and hosting With All Our Hearts, a gala celebrating 75 years of the NHS (Adelphi Theatre).
Rob was named one of The Stage’s Rising Stars for 2024.
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Rob Madge is not scheduled to appear from Monday 9 June – Monday 16 June (inclusive), and on Tuesday 16 September. At these performances, the role of Emcee will be played by Damon Gould.