DAVID BEDELLA created the role of Satan/Warm Up Man in Jerry Springer – The Opera at the Edinburgh Festival and later at the Royal National Theatre in the West End and on film for the BBC. For his performance, he won the 2004 Lawrence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical.
Other West End/UK Tours: The Rocky Horror Show (Frank-N-Furter), Hedwig and the Angry Inch Hedwig), Sweet Charity (Big Daddy). Broadway: Smokey Joe’s Café. US National Tours: Jesus Christ Superstar (Caiaphas) with Ted Neeley and Carl Anderson, The Rock Horror Show(Frank-N-Furter) with Meatloaf, Almost Like Being in Love with Diahann Carroll, La Cage Aux Folles (Chantal), Paint Your Wagon (Julio), H.M.S. Pinafore (Dick Deadeye), Book of the Night (Carlos), West Side Story (Chino), A Chorus Line (Paul - Joseph Jefferson Award, Best Actor).
Other US appearances: Ninety North (The Kennedy Center), 42nd Street, My One and Only, Dreamgirls, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, The Mystery of Edwin
Drood, Guys and Dolls, Man of La Mancha, Rags, No No Nanette!, Evita.
David also starred in the Australian production of Oh, What a Night!
Film: Oliver Stone’s Alexander opposite Anthony Hopkins, Batman Begins, Red Light Runners opposite Harvey Keitel. Television: Ben Elton’s Blessed and Holby City as series regular, Carlos Fashola, both for the BBC.