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[[File:Barnaby Edwards.jpg|right|thumb|300px250px|Barnaby Edwards on stage in Cardiff, March 2012]]
'''Barnaby Edwards''' (born 20 August 1969) is a British actor, writer, director and artist. He is known as a performer for the British science-fiction television series ''[[Doctor Who]]'', in the role of a [[Dalek]] operator. He has also written, directed, produced or performed in over 80 [[Big Finish Productions|Big Finish]] Doctor Who audio stories. Alongside frequent radio and voice over work, Edwards has narrated over 40 unabridged audiobooks for [[Audible_(service)|Audible.com]] and others.
 
==Early life==
Edwards graduated from the [[University of Exeter]] in 1991 with a degree in Fine Art and French. He subsequently went on to train at the [[Guildford School of Acting]], where he won the Postgraduate Award for Acting in 1992.{{factcitation needed|date=October 2013}}
 
==Career==
Edwards has worked in the theatre, television, radio and audio plays, as a director and writer. Edwards is also an artist and his pictures hang in galleries and private collections across Europe as well as being exhibited widely within the UK. Following a successful show at the Blue Lias gallery in [[Lyme Regis]], Barnaby was asked to form one third of the Three West Country Artists exhibition in 1998. The Kingfisher Gallery in [[Devon]] held a major exhibition of his work encompassing nearly thirty new paintings, and in 2006 he exhibited a selection of pieces at the FSA Summer Exhibition.
 
BarnabyEdwards regularly lectures on art history and art techniques, both in Britain and farther afield. He has given talks on subjects as diverse as European Narrative Painting, Pastel Techniques, Victorian Sea Paintings, Life Drawing, and Greek and Roman Myths in Western Art. He also gives practical tuition both to individuals and to groups, including art workshops on landscape, figure and still life.
 
In 2010, BarnabyEdwards set up Textbook Stuff, specialising in audio-booksaudiobooks of classic short stories and poems. Readers include [[Miriam Margolyes]], [[Andrew Sachs]], [[Peter Guinness (actor)|Peter Guinness]], [[John Sessions]], [[Nicholas Pegg]] and [[David Soul]]. The company distributes via [[iTunes]], [[Amazon.com|Amazon]], [[Lulu (company)|Lulu]] and [[Bigother Finishonline Productions|Big Finish]]distributors.

In November 2013 he also appeared in the one-off 50th anniversary comedy homage ''[[The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot]]''.<ref>"[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03lv3mj The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot]", BBC programmes, retrieved 26 November 2013</ref>
 
Beginning in 2016, Edwards has narrated the audiobook editions of ''The Bernicia Chronicles'', a series of historical novels by author [[Matthew Harffy]].
 
==Acting==
 
===Film===
*''[[Children of Men]]'' - Ministry of Arts official
*''[[The Merry Wives of Windsor]]'' – John Rugby
*''[[The Plotters]]'' – Robert Keyes
*''Shadows of a Stranger'' – Marley's Ghost
 
===Television===
*''[[Doctor Who]]'' (BBC) - principal [[Dalek]] operator (2005 onwards)
*''[[Children in Need]]'' (BBC) - [[Dalek]] operator
*''[[British Academy of Film and Television Arts|Children's BAFTAs]]'' (BBC) - [[Dalek]] operator
*''[[Doctor Who Confidential]]'' (BBC) - as himself
*''[[Totally Doctor Who]]'' (BBC) - as himself
*''[[The Giblet Boys]]'' (cITV) - Jeweller
*''[[The Why Files]]'' (LIVE TV) - Hoax Interviewees
*''[[EastEnders]]'' (BBC) - Queen Vic darts captain
*''[[Thirty Years in the TARDIS]]'' (BBC) - [[Dalek]] operator
*''[[The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot]]'' - Himself
 
===Theatre===
*''[[The Merry Wives of Windsor]]'' – John Rugby (at Shakespeare's Globe and in LA & New York)
*''[[Season's Greetings (play)|Season's Greetings]]'' - actor and artistic director
*''[[Hamlet]]'' - actor
*''[[Twelfth NightHamlet]]'' - actor
*''[[MacbethTwelfth Night]]'' - actor
*''[[Macbeth]]'' – actor
*''The Amazing Tale of [[Good King Wenceslas]] and Sleigh Rider'' - actor
*''Rope'' - actor
 
===Radio===
*''DostoevskyDick Barton'' - actor
*''CulturalThe BaggageFather of English Football'' - actor
*''[[Hamlet]]Dostoevsky'' - actor
*''Cultural Baggage'' – actor
 
===Doctor Who audio plays (Fifth Doctor)===
*''[[Loups-Garoux]]'' - Victor
*''[[The Eternal Summer]]'' - Vicar
 
===Doctor Who audio plays (Sixth Doctor)===
*''[[The Marian Conspiracy]]'' - Francois de Noailles
*''[[The Spectre of Lanyon Moor]]'' - Philip Ludgate
*''[[Assassin in the Limelight]]'' - The Traveller
 
===Doctor Who audio plays (Seventh Doctor)===
*''[[Bang-Bang-a-Boom!]]'' - Robot Waiter
 
===Doctor Who audio plays (Eighth Doctor)===
*''[[Storm Warning (audio drama)|Storm Warning]]'' - Rathbone
*''[[Sword of Orion]]'' - Digley
*''[[The Stones of Venice (audio drama)|The Stones of Venice]]'' - Pietro
*''[[Minuet in Hell]]'' - Scott
*''[[Shada (Doctor Who)|Shada]]'' - Professor Caldera
*''[[Horror of Glam Rock]]'' - Bendy Roger
*''[[Human Resources (audio drama)|Human Resources]]'' - Clive
*''[[Max Warp]]'' - Announcer
*''[[Brave New Town]]'' - The Voice
*''[[Grand Theft Cosmos]]'' - The Guardian
*''[[Sisters of the Flame]]'' - Galactinet
*''[[Hothouse (audio drama)|Hothouse]]'' - Newsreader
*''[[The Eight Truths]]'' - Newsreader
*''[[Worldwide Web (audio drama)|Worldwide Web]]'' - Newsreader
 
===Other audio plays===
*''[[Beyond the Sun (Bernicenovel)#Audio Summerfield)adaptation|Bernice Summerfield: Beyond the Sun]]'' - Leon
*''[[Walking to Babylon#Audio adaptation|Bernice Summerfield: Walking To Babylon]]'' - John Lafayette
*''[[Birthright (DoctorRobinson Whonovel)#Audio adaptation|Bernice Summerfield: Birthright]]'' - John Lafayette
*''[[Scorpius (Doctor Who audio)|Cyberman: Scorpius]]'' - Paul Hunt
*''[[Fear (Doctor Who audio)|Cyberman: Fear]]'' - Paul Hunt
*''[[Conversion (Doctor Who audio)|Cyberman: Conversion]]'' - Paul Hunt
*''[[Telos (Doctor Who audio)|Cyberman: Telos]]'' - Paul Hunt
*''[[Outsiders (Doctor Who audio)|Cyberman 2: Outsiders]]'' - Paul Hunt
*''[[Terror (Doctor Who audio)|Cyberman 2: Terror]]'' - Paul Hunt
*''[[Machines (Doctor Who audio)|Cyberman 2: Machines]]'' - Paul Hunt
*''[[Extinction (Doctor Who audio)|Cyberman 2: Extinction]]'' - Paul Hunt
 
==Directing==
 
===Television/film/video===
*''[[Bacardi]]: The Making of a Commercial''
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*''Kicking Bardom''
"Mad Men r Crazy"
 
=== Audiobooks (drama) ===
 
* ''The Waringham Chronicles.'' <ref>{{Cite book|last=|first=|url=https://www.audible.com/series/The-Waringham-Chronicles-Audiobooks/B082VHJ94S|title=Audible - The Waringham Chronicles|publisher=|year=|isbn=|location=|pages=|language=en}}</ref>
 
===Textbook Stuff audiobooks (horror)===
*''[[The Signal-Man|Charles Dickens: The Signalman & Other Ghostly Tales]]'' [http://www.textbookstuff.com/tsch001/]
*''[[Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories|Bram Stoker: Dracula's Guest & Other Dark Tales]]'' [http://www.textbookstuff.com/tsch002/]
*''[[The Pit and the Pendulum|Edgar Allan Poe: The PItPit and the Pendulum & Other Macabre Tales]]'' [http://www.textbookstuff.com/tsch003/]
*''[[M. R. James|M. R. James: Casting the Runes & Other Uncanny Tales]]'' [http://www.textbookstuff.com/tsch004/]
*''[[Sheridan Le Fanu|Sheridan Le Fanu: Carmilla]]'' [http://www.textbookstuff.com/tsch005/]
 
===Textbook Stuff audiobooks (poetry)===
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===''Doctor Who'' audio plays (Fifth Doctor)===
*''[[Exotron & Urban Myths|Exotron]]''
*''[[Son of the Dragon (Doctoraudio Who audiodrama)|Son of the Dragon]]''
*''[[The Mind's Eye & Mission of the Viyrans|The Mind's Eye]]''
*''[[The Bride of Peladon]]''
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==Writing==
 
===Television/film/video===
*''[[Bacardi]]: The Making of a Commercial''
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*''[[The Beast of Orlok]]''
*''[[The Book of Kells]]''
 
== Personal life ==
Edwards' long-term partner is actor [[Nicholas Pegg]]. Guesting at the 2017 [[Pride Cymru]] event ''Who's Queer Now'', a symposium celebrating the impact and influences of ''Doctor Who'' on LGBT people, the couple revealed that they were celebrating their 25th anniversary.<ref name="philip-reeve.com">{{cite web |url=http://www.philip-reeve.com/station-zero-arch-android/ |title=Philip Reeve |website=www.philip-reeve.com |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180511152159/http://www.philip-reeve.com/station-zero-arch-android/ |archive-date=2018-05-11}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pridecymru.co.uk/whos-queer-now/|title = StackPath}}</ref>
 
== References ==
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==External links==
*[http://www.textbookstuff.com/ Textbook Stuff]
*[httphttps://www.barnaby-edwardsbarnabyedwards.comco.uk/ Barnaby Edwards Official Site]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20090609112730/http://www.phantomaudio.co.uk/ The Phantom Of The Opera audio play Official Site]
*{{IMDb name|id=1141268}}
*[http://goodiespodcast.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=616750/ Audio interview with Barnaby Edwards - Goodies Podcast 17]
 
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