Simon was born in Cardiff, South Wales.

Training: Mountview Theatre School, London.

Theatre includes: creating the role of Chris in Miss Saigon (original West End cast, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane). Also, London Players Theatre Company, Narrator in Paddington Bear (UK tour), Blondel (Old Vic and Aldwych), Eddie in Mack & Mabel (Aldwych), Young Elvis in the award-winning Are You Lonesome Tonight? (original cast, Phoenix), Marius and Jean Valjean in Les Misérables (Palace/Queen’s), Vernon Gersh in They’re Playing Our Song (Olympia, Dublin), Kangaroo in Just So (Watermill, Newbury), Poetry in Motion (Richmond), Raoul and The Phantom in The Phantom of the Opera (Her Majesty’s) and Che in Evita (Douglas, Isle of Man).

Workshops include: Greg Reed in Club Tropicana (Menier Chocolate Factory), Norman in Sex Chips and Rock ’n’ Roll (Manchester Royal Exchange), Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind for Trevor Nunn, and Elvis in This Is Elvis (UK tour).

Television includes: several Royal Variety Performances, The Kenny Everett Show, Marti Caine (ITV), Standard Awards, Olivier Awards, BAFTA Awards, That’s Show Business, The Music Game, The Heat Is On, The Great Event, What’s My Line?, Night of a Hundred Stars, Sink or Swim, Guinness Hall of Fame, Chris Stewart Show, The Lyrics Game, Wednesday at Eight, Wogan, Open House and Brian Rossington in Doctors (BBC1).

Concerts include: Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar (Sweden), Che in Evita (world premiere), Stars of the Musicals (Kuala Lumpur), Another Kind of Magic (Sweden), Thank You for the Music (Abba, Denmark), The British Invasion (Boston, USA), Bryn Terfel’s Faenol Festival (Snowdonia, Wales), Men and Supermen (Halle Orchestra), All That Jazz (CBSO), Oscar Winners (RSNO), West End – The Concert (Finland), The Music of James Bond (Luxembourg), Sing Along a Musical (Hackney Empire London), White Christmas (Royal Albert Hall), Friday Night Is Music Night (Radio 2), A Musical Gala (Seoul Korea), London’s Heritage (Mumbai, India), Llangollen Festival (Wales), Best of Bond (Carnegie Hall, New York), Best of Broadway (Sydney Opera House, Australia), Musicality (Washington, DC) and James Bond (Albert Hall).

Recordings include: Miss Saigon, Are You Lonesome Tonight?, Blondel, Poetry in Motion, No-good Boyo in Under Milk Wood, The Temptation of St Anthony, Celebrating Andrew Lloyd Webber, the voice of Gaston in Beauty and the Beast, West End – The Concert, Stars of the Musicals, West End – The New Generation, The Understudy (film soundtrack), Best of Bond (Royal Philharmonic) and One Night with You (new solo album). He has also written and completed a new musical with John Sinclair (formally of Uriah Heep).

Simon is delighted to return as Jean Valjean.

www.simonbowman.com