Alex Jennings trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre Company and has played numerous leading roles for Royal Shakespeare Company productions including Hamlet, The Taming of the Shrew, Measure for Measure, Richard III, Peer Gynt, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Much Ado About Nothing. His film credits include A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Derek Jarman’s War Requiem and The Wings of the Dove. He has also read The Sonnets, The Psalms, Thus Spoke Zarathustra and A History of the World in 10 1/2 chapters for Naxos AudioBooks.