Born: Glasgow

Trained: Dance School of Scotland and the Royal Ballet Upper School

Joined: 2002; Soloist, 2011; First Soloist, 2019

Other companies: English National Ballet (1996-2002).

Engagement and Participation work: I was involved with the 2006 Romeo and Juliet project, Ballet Hoo! Ballet Changed my Life, which was televised on Channel 4, and the more recent Lost Souls project.

First role with the Company: At Symphony Hall in Birmingham, in costume, I held the bike my brother Iain needed when he danced an excerpt from Far from the Madding Crowd.

Dream role: The lead man in Balanchine’s Who Cares?

Created role: Willie in Jonathan Payn's Into the Ferment

REPERTORY INCLUDES

Carlos Acosta: Don Quixote (Title role)
Frederick Ashton: Dante Sonata (Lead Child of Darkness), Enigma Variations (Hew David Steuart Powell, William Meath Baker), La Fille mal gardée (Widow Simone), Monotones II, A Month in the Country (Yslaev)
David Bintley: Aladdin (Maghrib, Sultan), Carmina Burana (Seminarian), Hobson's Choice (Albert Prosser), The Prince of the Pagodas (Emperor), Beauty and the Beast (The Merchant, Bailiff), Cyrano (Rageuneau), Arthur, Sylvia (Pirate), 'Still Life' at the Penguin Café (Southern Cape Zebra), The Shakespeare Suite (Richard III)
David Bintley and Galina Samsova's production of Giselle (Hilarion)
John Cranko: The Lady and the Fool (Midas), The Taming of the Shrew (Gremio)
Michael Kopinski: Dumbarton Oaks
Joe Layton: The Grand Tour (Noël Coward, Gertrude Stein)
Kenneth MacMillan: Elite Syncopations ('Friday Night') Romeo and Juliet (Tybalt, Lord Capulet, Friar Laurence)
Twyla Tharp: Nine Sinatra Songs ('That's Life'), In the Upper Room
Peter Wright's productions of Coppélia (Dr Coppélius), The Nutcracker ('Spanish Dance', Drosselmeyer, King Rat) and The Sleeping Beauty (King Florestan XXIV)
Ninette de Valois: Checkmate (Red King, Black Knight)