Simon Haines will be joining Alice Keedwell in Everything is Absolutely Fine on tour this April.
Simon trained at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. Screen work includes Benedetto in Knightfall (Netflix/History), Sherman in Should We Bomb Auschwitz? (BBC2), and several short films. Stage work includes The Mousetrap (West End), Europe After the Rain (Mercury Theatre, Colchester), Posh (Nottingham Playhouse/Salisbury Playhouse), Wireless Operator (Pleasance Courtyard/Park Theatre), The Rubenstein Kiss (Nottingham Playhouse/Yvonne Arnaud), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Orange Tree Theatre), the European premiere of Mart Crowley’s For Reasons That Remain Unclear (King’s Head), Told Look Younger (Jermyn Street), Animals and Children (STET, Netherlands), Twelfth Night (Cambridge Arts Theatre), Much Ado About Nothing (Cambridge Arts Theatre), Hamlet (Elsinore Castle), the Sam Wanamaker Festival (Shakespeare’s Globe), and three-man musical Three Guys Naked from the Waist Down (Finborough). Simon read English at Cambridge University, where he wrote and performed with the Cambridge Footlights.
Everything is Absolutely Fine is written by Alice Keedwell with music and lyrics by long term collaborator Harry Blake
Simon said “I’m thrilled to be joining such a lovely and talented team, working on this smart, funny, insightful show. It’s hilarious but also touching. It’s about something that affects all of us at some stage in our lives — our mental health. Alice’s script has so much to say that will resonate with people and make them laugh and squirm and then laugh again. And if you’re anything like me, it will really open your eyes to the way you talk to yourself – that ongoing inner dialogue that’s always ticking away. I can’t wait to start rehearsals.”
The show visits London, Doncaster, Tonbridge, Mold – 7 – 18 April 2020. More details can be found here.
