A bit more about me

I like (in no particular order):

Coffee, Radio 4, Mike Leigh, coastal walks, Shakespeare, The Archers, ghost stories, cycling, Julia Davis, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Dickens, Liz Smith, The Diary of a Nobody, British sacred choral music, the Isle of Purbeck, Monty Python, David Renwick, talking about the weather, Queen, woods and forests, Karl Jenkins, Sacha Baron Cohen, making people laugh, Russell T. Davies, Gustav Holst, Fry & Laurie, the sun (but it doesn't like my skin), Gower, writing scripts, Emma Thompson, Peter Warlock, Marion and Geoff, singing, Michael Sheen, Cardiff, Harry Potter, Lucas & Walliams, Carry On films, French organ music, Bridget Jones, The BBC Proms, Richard Curtis, films that make me cry, gin and slims, Kate Morton and Ivor Novello, amongst other things ...

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My real surname is Evans.  I have never changed my name, but I use the professional name 'Casanove' as there was already a Susan Evans on Equity, the actors' union, when I joined. Casanove is an anagram of 'Evans a Co' ('a' being the Welsh word for 'and') although strangely enough, I wasn't conscious of the anagram when I chose the name.

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I gained two music degrees before training as an actor: a BMus (Second Class Honours, First Division, Cardiff) and an MA in Musicology (London).  I play piano, organ, recorder and flute.

I also trained as a singer with Janet Price (The Royal Academy of Music) and I now sing regularly as a member of The BBC National Chorus of Wales

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An ancestor of mine was Howell T. Evans who became well-known in Wales in the 1930s and 40s as a writer of eighteen books and later, several radio scripts.  He was also a broadcaster on the then BBC Home Service.  He is the subject of the biography, Portrait of a Pioneer by Lyn Evans published in 1982 by Christopher Davies.

 

Above right:  Howell T. Evans pictured at his graduation ceremony, St John's College, Cambridge, 1901.