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Chris Gage

Swing Chris Gage

Training: Chris was born in Teeside and trained at the Doreen Bird College of Performing Arts and the Circus Space in collaboration with the Central School of Speech and Drama.
Theatre includes: his West End debut at 15 playing Snake in Oliver! (London Palladium), swing in The Lord of the Rings (original cast, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane), Tommy the Cat in Dick Whittington, The Carpet and understudy Lefou in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (UK tour), Broadway (Palace, Myrtle Beach, USA), Spirit of the Dance (international tour), Nintendo’s Pokemon (European tour, creating the role of Ash which resulted in a residence at the Aladdin Casino, Las Vegas), Michael Darling in Peter Pan (Sunderland Empire), Baby John in West Side Story (UK tour) and a season at the Greenwich Millennium Dome in which he starred in Ovo, the central arena show, as an aerialist 42m high. This gave him a taste for altitude and he is now a qualified skydiver.
Recordings include: The Lord of the Rings (world premiere cast).
Other work includes: Rebuild the Roundhouse (Roundhouse), aerial specialist in Phflaster Specktakel (Linzer Summer Festival, Austria) and television and radio in the UK and abroad.