Orlando Wells is an English writer and actor. Wells has written five original plays: The Winter Room, Cold Enough, The Tin Horizon, The Woodcutter?s Tale, and Four Days In Hong Kong, about Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras's first meeting with Edward Snowden, to be produced as part the Orange Tree Theatre Festival in June 2014. Michael Billington wrote in The Guardian of The Tin Horizon, 'a play that proves Wells has a gift for gothic futurism... a name to watch... shows a wild imagination at work and displays unmistakable signs of talent.' Wells adapted Patrick Hamilton?s The Duke In Darkness for the Tabard Theatre, Chiswick, last year and co-wrote the libretto for the experimental opera, Triptych, currently showing at the Print Rooms and Wilton?s Music Hall. He was a series-writer for the animated children programs Xolight and Noksu. He has written the full-length feature, Bait the Hook, and a short film, Shrike, longlisted for Channel 4?s Coming Up. As an actor, Wells is best known for starring as Alex Stanton in the Channel 4 drama, As If, and playing Irwin in Alan Bennett's The History Boys. 

June 9th, 1973 in Tonbridge (Age 51)