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Daniel Whelan

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Daniel was born in Cheshire, but grew up on the North Wales coast. He eventually left Wales for London to study a degree in Acting, which has turned out to be exactly as useful as you’d expect it to be. (His spectacularly unsuccessful acting career included being fired from a production of As You Like It, and a phone call from the Harry Potter production office about playing Ron Weasley’s brother that never turned into an audition.)

He has written two plays: an adaptation of one of his favourite books, Richard Adams’s Watership Down, which Mr. Adams called one of the best he’d read; and A Harlot’s Progress, based on the etchings by William Hogarth. Sadly, Mr. Hogarth was too dead to give his opinion, but Time Out London gave it an alright r ...more

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