Jos Vantyler

Vantyler won The NYC Star Best Newcomer Award for his portrayal of Rodolfo in Arthur Miller’s A View From The Bridge at The Tower Theater. In the same year he was also nominated for Best Supporting Actor by The New York City Review, for his portrayal of Oswald in Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen. Vantyler played Arden in Arden of Faversham, as part of the NYC Classic Revival Series for Academy Award winning director Anthony Minghella.
He Anselmus in The Second Maiden’s Tragedy at the newly refurbished Hackney Empire for which he received high critical praise. He again appeared at The Lincoln Center as Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet directed by Roberto. BAFTA winning director David Giles cast him that year in Underfoot In Show Business, Charles Leipart’s comic stage adaptation based on the early life memoir of Helene Hanff, opposite Felicity Dean.
Vantyler appeared in the controversial play Prophecy by New York playwright Karen Malpede. Although certain press branded the play as a disturbing piece, Vantyler’s portrayal of a young soldier suffering from extreme PTSD received high acclaim and resulted in Vantyler being nominated for a Critics Choice Award – Best Actor for his performance, the press described Vantyler as “a young exciting actor with distinctive looks and a powerful presence”. In preparation for the role Vantyler researched the condition at a military hospital in Scotland. It had transferred from New York to London and later back to Broadway. Vantyler did not resume his role in the new revised Broadway production nor was it well received by the New York critics.

He took the lead opposite Academy Award Nominee Susannah York in The Tennessee Williams Season for The Hampstead New End Theatre. Due to sell-out audiences from its opening night and rave reviews from the press, the show transferred to another sellout run at the Hackney Empire.Vantyler and York went on to become close friends.
He played Tom Sawyer in the National Tour in James Graham’s play Huck, a stage adaptation of the Mark Twain classic, Huckleberry Finn. He garnered critical praise and was named “The Mercurial Jos Vantyler” by Time Out and was nominated for Best Male Performance Award.
Vantyler and Dean, dubbed as “a hilarious double act” by the press, again resumed their roles as Pietro and Harriman when Swimming At The Ritz toured to great success, nationally in the early and later part 2011.
In 2011, political playwright Shaun McCarthy wrote Circus Britannica, “captivating and unusual, new play creates a disturbing world”. The play explored immigration and xenophobia set within the British Circus. Vantyler played Stevie, the young protagonist if the piece. Whats On Stage said of Vantyler “Jos was born to play that role” and gives “an outstanding performance”

Emmy Award winning writer Ron Hutchinsons play, Dead On Her Feet is set in the American Great Depression. The action takes place during a Dance Marathon contest. Vantyler stars as Mel Carney the Dance Marathon promoter, the protagonist of the piece, directed by Barry Kyle, Honorary Associate Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Critics praised Vantyler as a “tour-de-force”, Howard Loxton of The British Theatre Guide noted that Vantyler gave a “stunning performance” continuing with “The promoter may be an exploitive conman but the actor is charismatically watchable. He gives the man a capacity to charm as well as making him ruthless, yet his face is a mask, and it is not painted on”.“Vantyler gives an energetic and consistently engaging performance as Mel Carney, the ruthlessly sadistic promoter,manipulating his team of dancers for his own benefit. He moves easily between charismatic dream-maker and wildeyed, manic brute by way of tap-dance, aerial gymnastics and song”. Bella Todd of Time Out offered that “Jos Vantyler’s sensuous-lipped, sinister-eyed Master of Ceremonies … conjures romance, rivalry and crises from thin air”. Other reviews went on to comment that he was “mermersising”, Mel West of WhatsOnStage noted the varing depth of his portrayal “Jos Vantyler appals as Mel Carney, the inexhaustible promoter of questionable morals and even more questionable sanity, veering precipitously from threatening bully to wheedling charmer with extraordinary acuity.”. For his portrayal Vantyler received a Best Male Performance of 2012 Nomination by the OffWestEnd Awards[35] and received the Theatre Choice Awards for Outstanding Performance In a New Play.

Awards and Nominations
Won – BEST NEWCOMER AWARD The NYC Star Awards – Rodolfo A View From The Bridge
Nomination – BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR NYC Review – Oswald Ghosts
Nomination – BEST ACTOR Critics Choice Awards – Jeremy Prophecy
Nomination – BEST MALE PERFORMANCE Off West End Awards – Tom Sawyer Huck
Nomination – BEST MALE PERFORMANCE Off West End Awards – Mel Carney Dead On Her Feet
Won- OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE IN A NEW PLAY Theatre Choice Awards – Mel Carney Dead On Her Feet