George Fouracres

George is an actor and comedian from the Black Country. Since 2024 he has played ‘One Man’ in Flo & Joan’s award-winning musical One Man Musical. He is the third member of the sketch group ‘Daphne’, who were nominated for the Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Newcomer in 2015.

Previous work for Shakespeare’s Globe includes The Comedy of Errors (2023), Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, The Tempest (2022), Twelfth Night and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2021).

Theatre credits include Mates in Chelsea (Royal Court); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Filter Theatre/Lyric Hammersmith); The Diary of a Nobody (Rough Haired Pointer); Scrooge & Marley (Dippermouth).

Television credits include The Franchise (HBO); Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared (Channel 4); Spitting Image (Britbox); Semi-Detached (BBC 2); Whiskey Cavalier (ABC); Pls Like (BBC Three); Comic Relief (BBC 1), Drunk History (Comedy Central); Raised by Wolves (Channel 4).

Podcast credits include Budpod (Phil Wang & Pierre Novellie); The Beef & Dairy Network (Benjamin Partridge); Dial F for Football (Rhys James & Mark Smith)

Radio credits include George Fouracres: Black Country Gentlemon, Alexei Sayle’s Absence of Normal, The Lenny Henry Show, Clare in the Community, VIP RIP, Britain in Bits with Ross Noble, Jake Yapp’s Media Circus, The Now Show, Lenny Henry’s Rogues Gallery, Daphne Sounds Expensive, Spotlight Tonight with Nish Kumar, Newsjack (BBC Radio 4 and 4Extra).

Film credits include Accident Man: Hitman’s Holiday.

“A major star in the making”
Time Out

“George is THE FUTURE OF COMEDY. He’s a proper genius.”
Caitlin Moran

“Probably the finest comic Shakespearean working today”
Evening Standard

‘a genuinely exciting comic actor who doesn’t seem able to be not funny’ - Chortle

Glorious”
The Observer

“Joyous, barbed…a poetic pen-portraitist”
The Guardian