George FouracresGeorge Fouracres

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.
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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

Theatre and Live Performance

Mates in Chelsea
George
Royal Court2023
The Comedy of Errors
Dromeo of Ephesus
Shakespear's Globe Theatre2023
Hamlet
Hamlet
The Globe2022
The Tempest
Stefano
Shakespeare's Globe Theatre2022
Much Ado About Nothing
Dogberry
Shakespeare's Globe Theatre2022
Twelfth Night
Flute
The Globe Theatre2020 — 2021
Gentlemon
(Writer/Lead Performer)
Pleasance2019
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Peter Quince
Lyric Hammersmith2018
Doctor Faustus
Faustus
Dot by Dot Theatre2015
The Diary of a Nobody
Gowing
Rough Haired Pointer2014
Scrooge & Marley
Ebenezer Scrooge
Rough Haired Pointer2013
The Wonderful World of Dissocia
Victor/Guard 1/ Argument/ Dr. Faraday
Clatterhouse2013
The Seventh Seal
Assistant Director
ADC2012
Antigone
Guard/Tiresias
released on DVD - ADC2011
Romeo and Juliet
Fiar Laurence
ADC2011
Treasure Island
Long John Silver
Cambridge Footlights2011

Television

Don't Hug Me I'm Scared
Grolton and Hovris
Channel 4 2022
The Bremners
Forensic 2
UKTV2020
Spitting Image
Prince Harry
BBC2020
Whiskey Cavalier
Hugh Cabot
Warner Bros.2019
Pls Like - Series 2
Henry Bloyd Smith
BBC Three2018
Comic Relief
Writer/Performer
Comic Relief2017
Drunk History - Series 3
English Bowman
Tiger Aspect2017
Raised by Wolves
Charlie
Channel 42016
@Elevenish
Writer/Performer
Talkback2016
Drunk History - Series 2
English Soldier
Tigre Aspect2016
The Scandalous Lady W
Clerk of Court
Wall to Wall2015

Film

Accident Man 2
Dante
2022

Podcast and Online Content

Eastenders: The Podcast
Andy/Vlas/Others
BBC Sounds2018

News

PBJ clears up with the best reviewed Edinburgh Fringe shows of 2024

9th September 2024

Huge congratulations to Ed Night, Christopher Hall, Rhys Nicholson, Michelle Brasier, George Fouracres, Tarot and Nina Conti who have some of the best reviewed Fringe shows of 2024

PBJ acts to take over the VAULT Festival in February and March

8th January 2020

The 2020 VAULT Festival will play host to a collection of some of PBJ management's best live talent in early 2020