In our profile series Tell Us In Ten, we ask cast members and creatives of top London shows to tell us all about themselves in just 10 questions. From the best part of their jobs to the hardest, we want to know it all!
This week we’re chatting to Dan Wolff, who plays Motel in Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s new production of Fiddler On The Roof – playing until 21 September.
1. My route into theatre was…
Seeing shows at Nottingham Playhouse from a young age. We’d watch the pantomimes every year and I always found them transfixing! The Playhouse also had a great youth theatre which I loved being a part of. During my A Levels at Bilborough College I was emboldened enough to pursue a performing career, and moved to London to train at Guildhall School of Music and Drama at the age of 19.
2. My West End idol is…
Adrian Schiller – I was lucky enough to work with him last year and he was the most generous, kind-hearted and extraordinarily charming man! A real master of his craft.
3. My colleagues would describe me as…
Some of us in the Fiddler on the Roof cast have a running table tennis competition and I win almost all of the time. So currently I’d say: annoyingly consistent.
4. My favourite show (that isn’t one I star in/work on) is…
I recently saw a reading of Arthur Miller’s play Broken Glass and it took my breath away. It is an astonishingly good play and, having missed it when it was on last time, I’m hoping it’s not long before it gets a revival.
5. The career moment I’m most proud of is…
My first job out of drama school, working on Tom Stoppard’s play Leopoldstadt. There were some seriously good people working on that show, artists at the top of their game; I tried to just soak it all in.
The cast of the London world premiere of Leopoldstadt. Photo by Marc Brenner
6. The hardest part about my job is…
Not being allowed to cut my hair!
7. If I wasn’t an actor, I would be…
Be a writer – I would love to just write about football.
8. Something people don’t know about me is…
I can label every state on an empty map of the USA.
9. The best piece of advice I’ve ever been given is…
Turn up, be on time, be kind, do your job.
10. The one thing I wish I could tell my younger self is…
No one has a clue what’s going on and we’re all as vulnerable and afraid as each other.
The cast of Fiddler On The Roof in rehearsals. Photo by Marc Brenner
Featuring glorious songs, ‘If I Were A Rich Man’, ‘Tradition’, ‘Matchmaker’ and ‘Sunrise, Sunset’, Fiddler On The Roof is a classic musical of joy, revolution and community. An exuberant celebration of love and life, it plays at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre until 21 September – book your tickets at Official London Theatre.