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Alex Ranahan

Actor, Performer & Presenter

Alex Ranahan is a Royal Birmingham Conservatoire-trained actor and performer with experience across theatre, pantomime, immersive performance, comedy, corporate role play, screen work, voiceover and live audience work.

Alongside acting, Alex now works as a presenter, Conference MC and live/virtual event host — bringing performance training, timing, character, warmth and audience awareness into every room.

For the full external profile, credits and media, visit Alex’s Mandy profile.

  • Details
  • Comedy Showreel
  • General Showreel
  • Selected Acting CV

Training and practical details
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire-trained actor, with Federation of Drama Schools quality assurance.

Also:
Registered with Equity
Public liability insurance
Full clean driving licence
Enhanced DBS on the update service

Acting, performance and company awards include:
Highest ratio of rebookings to pantomime shows — Hobgoblin 2018
Highest rated team — Actionwork 2017
Highest rated team — Actionwork 2016

Alex brings preparation, imagination, stamina, collaboration and a practical, can-do attitude to rehearsals, shoots, live performance and audience-facing work.

Selected Acting Credits & Training

A concise selection of screen, stage, immersive, voiceover and performance credits. For the full external profile, credits and media, visit Alex’s Mandy profile.

Download Alex’s Acting CV PDF

 

Screen

  • The Friends of the Cross — Saint Louis-Marie de Montfort, Lead — TripTych Media / EWTN, 2025
  • The Passion of St. Margaret Clitherow — Sheriff Gibson — TripTych Media / EWTN, 2024
  • The Pilgrim: The Road to Emmaus — Alfie, Co-lead — TripTych Media / EWTN, 2023
  • Lost Women Spies — Home Office Interviewer — World Media Rights / ZDF Studios, 2023
  • The Lost — Dan the Overdose Guy — Lexart Films, 2019
  • Women’s Aid: Coercive Control — Jamie the Boyfriend, Lead — Woven Films, 2016

 

Theatre, Pantomime & Immersive

  • The Jealous Bride — Captain Horatio Weckter — Murder Mystery Meals, 2021–2026
  • Boomtown Festival / Area 404 — Various immersive characters — Third Mind Productions / Scallywag Productions, 2017–2025
  • Aladdin — Abanazer / Dame Widow Twanky / Company Manager — West Midlands Children’s Theatre, Republic of Ireland Tour, 2019
  • The Legend of King Arthur — Galahad / various roles — Hobgoblin Theatre Company, UK Tour, 2017
  • The Railway Children — Peter — Starbright Entertainments, UK Tour, 2016
  • The Boy Who Became A Beetle — Greg Samsa, Lead — Little Earthquake, 2015

 

Voiceover & Audio

  • Friends of the Cross — Saint Louis-Marie de Montfort — TripTych Media / EWTN, 2025
  • Investors In People Awards 2024 — Voice of God — Investors In People, 2024
  • Ladies Mile — Sean, Lead — BBC Radio Bristol / BCFM, 2011

 

Commercial, Role Play & Presenter-Performance

  • Be a Mate — Lightning Fibre — David, Co-hero — Smokescreen Visuals, 2023
  • Snack Surprise Social Media Commercial — Hero — The Social Shepherd, 2021
  • TrueSpeed Social Media Advert — Boyfriend Brett — The Social Shepherd, 2020
  • Investors In People Awards 2024 — Award Winner Interviewer / Voice of God — Investors In People, 2024

 

Training

  • Royal Birmingham Conservatoire — BA Acting, 3 years
  • Neuro-Dramatic-Play Diploma — Dr Sue Jennings / Institute of Dramatherapy
  • Voicemaster and Gravy For The Brain — Voiceover Training
  • Manuel Puro: The Acting Habit — 21-Day Self-Tape Challenge
  • The Presenter Studio — Presenter Training
  • Glenn Kinsey Presenter Coaching — Presenter Coaching

 

Skills

  • Comedy, comedy improv, immersive performance, musical theatre, presenting, puppetry, green screen and ADR
  • Corporate, e-learning, live event, teaching, narration and voice acting experience
  • Native Bristol / West Country accent; RP, Heightened RP, General American, Southern American, Birmingham, Cardiff, Cockney, Cork, German, Irish-Southern and Northern accents
  • Baritone, falsetto, general singing, harmony singing, guitar, percussion, rap, singer-songwriter and ukulele

 

Practical Details

  • Equity member
  • Enhanced DBS on the update service
  • Public liability insurance
  • Full clean driving licence
  • Emergency First Aid at Work
  • Level 3 Paediatric First Aid
  • Safer Events Accreditation
  • Level 1 Safeguarding Qualification

 

Awards & Recognition

  • Winner — Director Special Prize x2, including Best Original Production — Qingming / Hope China Youth Education Drama National Competition
  • Highest Ratio of Rebookings / Pantomime Shows — Hobgoblin Theatre Company, 2018
  • Highest Rated Roadshow Team — Actionwork, 2017
  • Highest Rated Roadshow Team — Actionwork, 2016
  • Christine Shelton Prize, 2015

‘The perfect addition to our ensemble cast – professional and generous, and showed an intensity and commitment to his role that made his scene shine. I wouldn’t hesitate to work with him again’

Alex Klaus, Lexart Films

For acting, presenting or event enquiries, contact Alex here.