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!

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

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 Ltd.   

        Howell T. Evans pictured at his graduation

   ceremony, St John’s College, Cambridge, 1901.

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New photographs taken by Chris Baker, July 2009.

Link to Chris Baker's website here 

Some useful links:

Download 'Angels in the Dark' here

Download 'Leaves in Autumn' here

The Volts Show podcasts

BBC National Chorus of Wales

Academy of Live and Recorded Arts

The Cambridge Shakespeare Festival

Howell T. Evans at Archives Network Wales

The English Theatre of Hamburg