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DIALOGUE Issue #6 2021
10 MINUTES WITH JACK BARDOE (Morris) OG 2014
With an impressive young career at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre in Guildford and the RGS stage, Jack graduated from RADA in 2019 and is now quickly making his mark as an actor. He has held the stage alongside Ciaran Hinds in Brian Friel’s ‘Translations’ at The National Theatre; tipped his top hat as the earnest protagonist alongside an ensemble cast including Dame Harriet Walter, Tamsin Grieg and Tom Wilkinson in ‘Belgravia’; and has just concluded Channel 4’s ‘Screw’ starring Nina Sosanya and Jamie-Lee O’Donnell.
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e caught up with him in his London flat, which he shares with his brother – rising artist Dylan Bardoe (Morris) OG 2016 – to cast light on the ins and outs of RADA and share his memories of his time at the RGS.
people who wanted to get involved. I have a lot to thank her for as she was a big part of showing me that drama school was a real possibility and I remember her coaching me through my first audition at RADA.
Are you still in touch with many of your RGS friends? I am. It’s my primary social group and these are the people I see the most as we have all congregated in London. Quite a big group of us made very close friends at school, and this, along with various friends picked up at university, frames the group that I spend most of my time with now.
What was the turning point from ‘acting as a hobby’ to “I want to act professionally”? It was a relatively gradual thing. I remember Matthew Eberhardt (OG 2006) directed a combined cast of RGS and GHS in ‘Les Misérables’. I had one line as a foreman “on your way” but I had an absolute ball and fell in love with acting doing that, so it was a very formative experience.
When did you start your acting? At the Yvonne Arnold (Guildford) which encouraged me to get involved with it at school. Nancy (McClean, RGS Head of Drama) arrived when I started sixth form, and introduced drama in a big way, especially in creating opportunities for
But it was getting onto the Foundation course at RADA that developed the ambitions I had at school. I had always intended to go and study something more academic and traditional as something to fall back on (Jack studied Theology and Religion at Oriel College, Oxford, for a
