Eden Phillips’ profile

At one time the youngest head flyman in the West End, Eden trained at the Drama Department of Manchester University, before working in rep at Lincoln, Oldham, Chesterfield, Swindon, Harrogate, Chelmsford and others. He played a Brother and then Narrator in numerous UK tours of Joseph/Dreamcoat and toured with Harry H. Corbett and Kate O’Mara in Rattle of a Simple Man. In Ireland Eden worked at the Lyric Theatre Belfast and for the Interplay Company, bringing theatre to Northern Ireland during the Troubles of the early 1970s, and was in the Abbey Theatre Dublin’s production of Borstal Boy in 1973. In the West End he appeared in the professional production of Zigger-Zagger at the Strand Theatre and in A Christmas Carol at the Victoria Palace.

On television, Eden worked extensively at Granada TV and Yorkshire TV, including parts in Crown Court, Coronation Street, A Family at War and Castle Haven. For the BBC he appeared in Doctor Who and starred as Peter Potter in Potter’s Picture Palace (1976–78). On radio he was heard in Radio 4’s Rogue Herries and narrated Tolstoy and Music (Radio 3).

Since his final acting credit in Follow the Star in 1979, Eden has worked in publishing, becoming editorial director of Marshall Cavendish and DeAgostini UK, before forming his own company, Edenco Creative. He has written book and lyrics for the musicals Alfie (music by John Cameron), Love in a Cold Climate (Julian Slade), Six Nights in Naples (Richard Link) and The Postman & the Poet (Michael Jeffrey) and lyrics for numerous children’s songs for the publications Little Story Teller and The Guzunder Gang. He wrote and co-produced Dorothy Fields Forever, directed by David Kernan (Jermyn Street Theatre and King’s Head, 2002).

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