about – Jonny Magnanti

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FEBRUARY 2025

Rehearsals in London are done and we are out on tour playing fantastic venues across the UK and Ireland. I am Detective Inspector Brian Webster in a Tigerslane studios production of Murder Trial Tonight 3, The Doorstep Case. We opened in Swindon and High Wycombe to full houses and a great reception. I am thrilled to be a part of it. If it’s coming to a Town near you it would be great to see you.

https://murdertrialtonight.com/

Having an Italian passport has been a huge advantage since Brexit, enabling me to perform consistently in Europe playing a range of diverse and interesting parts since 2021.

Most recently, Murder by Misadventure which finished in November ’24 and was my 6th play for the English Theatre of Hamburg since 2021

Having previously played General Ben Butler in the play of the same name by Richard Strand in 2023

George Fox in Romance in D by James Sherman in ’23

Jack Munroe in John Godber’s Happy Jack for the Hamburg Summer Festival 2023

Joe Gargery and Magwitch in Great Expectations in ’22

Clown 2 in The 39 Steps 2021/22

In December 2023 I was in London performing ‘Car Crash’ written and directed by my son Bruno with a superb cast.

Playing Marc again in Yasmina Reza’s ‘ART’

May ’24

And in the summer, open-air Shakespeare with Launce in Two Gents July ’23

Having previously played Antony in Antony and Cleopatra the summer before

I have always loved the poem ‘V’ by Tony Harrison so in 2019 I began to perform it.

This powerful poem, set in my hometown, shocked the nation when it first aired on C4 in 1987. So when I was invited to headline it for the first ever Leeds Lit Festival in front of a Leeds crowd it was very emotional.

“An Incredible performance of Tony Harrison’s ‘V'”

-Leeds Lit Fest 2019 –

“A powerful performance that deserves to travel the Country. ‘V’ works on so many levels”

-Anthony Clavane – Writer journalist broadcaster –

“Emotion blazed off the stage as Magnanti brought out subtle shades of meaning through his empathetic delivery. V is often characterised, wrongly, as an angry polemic, but it is in fact much more about love, regret, identity and the passing of time.

One of the many highlights of an outstanding first-time citywide literary festival, this was a fitting tribute to a great Leeds writer.’

Yvette Huddleston – Yorkshire Evening post

“As one of the organisers of the first ever Leeds Lit Fest in 2019, I was particularly delighted to have Jonny Magnanti perform Tony Harrison’s iconic and rarely performed poem V in Leeds. It was one of the highlights of the festival for me personally and many of the audience. Jonny’s performance of V was intelligent, empathetic and passionate. I can wholeheartedly recommend this performance.”

Fiona Gell – Organiser Leeds Lit Fest

After leaving the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 1987 I have enjoyed challenging roles in a variety of demanding works such as my stint in the epic contemporary drama Three Winters, at The National Theatre, and David Storey’s The Changing Room at The Duke of Yorks.

I am experienced in television and film alongside years of corporate work and commercials.

I got into voice overs professionally in 1997 where, over the years, I have voiced television campaigns, radio, corporate, narration for the BBC and Discovery Channel, audio books, children’s stories, dubbing and ADR working in both the UK and Europe.

I have my own studio producing high quality voice overs and narrations and I’m represented by the team at Just Voices. https://justvoicesagency.com/

I began writing in 2008, and with Jason Quinn, a lifelong friend from Leeds we have written four novels, screen plays and story boards for graphic novels.

I now live with my family, dogs and cat on the East Sussex coast.

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