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 Angus was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He graduated from Edinburgh University and spent two years in Athens, GA at the University there. He then returned to Bristol in England where he spent a further two years before moving to Norwich, England. From there, he went to Urbana-Champaign, IL where he was on the University faculty from 1985 to 1991 and, for three years, a member of the Theatre Board of the Illinois repertory Theatre. From Illinois he moved to New York where he has lived since 1992, working in Manhattan and living in Westchester.
He trained in Edinburgh with Elna Carey whose husband, Brian, was an actor
and director with the Edinburgh Gateway Company. While in Edinburgh, he acted with the Jasons and the Makars doing 3-4 shows a year including regular appearances at the Edinburgh International Festival. In his final year in Edinburgh, he directed John Whiting's Marching Song for the Makars at the Festival, staged managed their lunch-time show and appeared in their late-night review. From 1966-1974, he was a presenter and Folk Music and Theatre correspondent for Forth Radio Network which gave him the opportunity to meet and interview such people as Sir Laurence Olivier, Jane Lapotaire, Richard Eyre and Billy Connelly. He was also a summer relief presenter for BBC Radio Scotland.
In Georgia, he worked with the local 'Town and Gown' theatre and with the Drama Department He and Stephanie met when she cast him in the lead in her MFA (directing) Thesis Production of Neil Simon's The Good Doctor. He also had the privilege of working with the late Leighton Ballew in David Storey's Home, together with Victor Lazarow (now teaching at Syracuse), Ruth Longman and Michelle Moraine.
In Norwich, Angus worked with the three major city groups, The Maddermarket Theatre, The Sewell Barn Theatre and the Great Hall Players. He picked up a number of awards at the P.A.N. and Breckland Festivals including best actor for the father in Chekhov's The Proposal and the Recruit in Next (for which Stephanie also received the best comedy awards). As Don Pedro in Much Ado About Nothing, Angus was part of the first summer outdoor drama on a temporary stage in Norwich Castle's dry moat. The show was so successful that the city made the stage permanent Also during Angus' time in Norwich, The Maddermarket expanded its operations and formed Tangent Theatre which enabled them to do modern and often controversial plays. Angus and Stephanie were in the first Tangent production: Robert Patrick's Kennedy's Children as Sparger and Wanda, directed by the Artistic Director of the Maddermarket, Ian Emmerson. He and Stephanie later appeared in The Elephant Man with Tangent, directed by the late Dave Harris. Back at the Sewell Barn Angus played one of his favorite role: Francisco Pizarro in Royal Hunt of the Sun, directed by John Stokes for whom he had played Ishmael in Moby Dick Rehearsed (by Orson Wells) for the Great Hall Players. As a final Norwich appearance, he was Cyrano in the late Henry Burke' epic Sewell Barn production.
From Norwich the family to Urbana, IL. He was on the Board of the Illinois Repertory Theatre (IRT)and appeared in their productions of And a Nightingale Sang and The Three Musketeers. With the Station Theatre he played, Salieri in Amadeus which introduced him to the thrill (!) of doing two performances on a Friday evening. They started at 7:00pm and finished well after midnight. Stephanie, who had also appeared with the IRT, directed Angus once again in "The Good Doctor" and in "The Philanthropist" for Parkland Theatre.
In 1992, Angus and his wife Stephanie moved to Verplanck, NY where they founded and ran the Theatre Arts Guild of Peekskill. This organization constituted the theatre branch of the Peekskill Artists District and comprised Peekskill Rep as a performing wing, TAG-TIE (a theatre in education group), TAG-Along Children's theatre and a Writers group. After a year of highly successful productions which culminated in Angus and Stephanie playing George and Martha in Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, they moved Peekskill Rep as an independent entity to the Paramount Center for the Arts where it was the resident theatre for the next few years, garnering a Governor's award for the Arts and a loyal audience following. Angus and Stephanie both acted and directed with Peekskill Rep until they moved out of the area to Mt Kisco in the late nineties. Since then, Angus has concentrated on working in New York city with such groups as Synapse (Carr Gomm in The Elephant Man, York Shakespeare Company (Duke of York in Richard IIYahoo Escadrille (Strindberg's The Father - 2002 best actor OOBR Award) and, latterly, The Jean Cocteau Repertory, where, after four years, he is now a member of the permanent ensemble. He has also participated in eavery season (5 years to date) of the Instant Shakespeare reading series. Stephanie has also been working extensively in New York where she is an actor and director with "Woman Seeking...". She retains her contacts with Westchester where she has recently co-founded "Big Bottom" Productions.
In the 2005-2006 Season at the Jean Cocteau, Angus can be seen as the Chaplain in Brecht's Mother Courage, Creon in a new translation of Medea, Burgess in Shaw's Candida, Kris Christopherson in O'Neil's Anna Christie and as the Miser in a workshop production of the Moliere play.
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