Robert Hazle is an award-winning actor-musician, cabaret performer and musical director. Recent credits include A Marvellous Party (Prince of Wales Theatre) with Judi Dench and Ian McKellan, Noel Coward’s London Calling! at the Duke of York’s Theatre (which he devised, directed and which starred Damian Lewis and Indira Varma) and HIPPODROME 125, a musical celebration of the West End theatre’s history which he co-devised and performed with international soprano Wendy Carr.
As well as frequent appearances at the Club for Acts & Actors in Covent Garden, London, other cabaret and theatre performances include Crazy Coqs, Phoenix Arts Club, Riverside Studios and Chichester Festival Theatre. He has performed at fringe festivals in Edinburgh and in Buxton, where he won ‘Best Music Show’ with Helena Northcote for Around The World With Noel Coward and recently developed Why Must The Show Go On? for a Jersey Arts Centre residency alongside Joe Morose, Georgi Mottram and Dr Adam Perchard.
Musical direction also includes the European premiere of Nutcracker the Musical (Pleasance Theatre, Islington), [title of show] (Camden Fringe), Gilbert & Sullivan’s Ruddigore (Illyria Open Air Theatre) and 4 years as Onstage MD for the actor-musician pantomimes at the Key Theatre, Peterborough. Robert is resident musical director/composer for Partnership Theatre (Robin Hood, King Arthur’s Quest, The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party and others).
Acting credits include the Watermill Theatre’s original national tour of its actor-musician production of Calamity Jane, and the first professional revival of Noel Coward’s Home Chat for which he received an ‘Off West End’ Award nomination.
Robert teaches at City Academy in London, creating their actor-musicianship course in 2024, directing the annual pantomimes, and delivering other classes and workshops.
When not performing, Robert works at the Noel Coward Foundation & Archive Trust and often gives talks on Coward’s work and British musical theatre in general, including for the Arts Society, the U3A and the Victoria & Albert Museum.
