Craig Wilde
| Craig Wilde | |
|---|---|
| Born | Craig Wilde 4 March 1982 Hatfield, Doncaster, England |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| 📆 Years active | 1990–present |
| 👩 Spouse(s) | A J Hall (2006–2017) Filipe Neves Ribeiro (2017–2022) |
| 🌐 Website | craigwilde |
Craig Wilde (born 4 March 1982) is an English actor, voice actor, voice-over artist, television presenter, creative director and television producer.[1]
Early life and education
Wilde was born in Hatfield, Doncaster. He trained as an actor at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (RSAMD), now the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.[2]
Career
House music, news writing, and marketing (1990s – 2010)
He promoted and produced House Music clubs from the late -1990s until the early 2000s. He became widely known for his work with Fruitfly,[3] a club that he promoted at the Arches nightclub in Glasgow from 1999 to 2002.[4] He became the focus of several TV documentaries, one of which was STV and Grampian's 2001 documentary This Scotland.[5] Also Lanarkshire TV's 'Nightclubing' programme, which explored Craig's world as a Club Promoter. At this time he also contributed to print media such as the Glasgow culture magazine Yum Yum and the newspaper The Herald, as well as a semi-regular guest on some of BBC Radio Scotland's shows, notably 'The Brian Morton show'. In 2017, Craig continued to write for various newspapers and magazines, notably as food, travel and lifestyle contributor to North of England-based 'LA DI DA MAGAZINE'.[6]
As Creative Director led several small marketing agencies based in Glasgow, Scotland in the early 2000s, principally serving the Drinks Industry and Licensed Leisure operators, before opening Bar Warhol[7] in 2006, on Glasgow's Bath Street. Relocating to Newcastle to work with the city's leisure operators in 2006.[8][9] Most notable was the reinvention of the Powerhouse club venue.[10]
Acting (2010 – 2020)
From 2010 onwards Craig has Presented live Streaming Bingo Web TV Channel 'Bingo Studio Live'.[11][12] As creative director, Craig has worked with a number of television personalities, notably Channel 4 show 'Britain's Benefit Tenants'[13] and BBC Show 'The Customer Is Always Right[14] stars, and Millionaire Property personalities – Andrew Dyke and Alan Lee Ogden, developing vehicles for their careers, as writer and producer, principally of their YouTube show Between the Bricks".[15][16]
Wilde is a highly successful voice actor for radio, television and corporate clients around the world, with notable projects for The Bank of China, Coca-Cola, Madbid, Fanta,[17][18] as well as Narrating Documentaries for Reality Entertainment with their Conspiracy theory / Mystery series of films for Amazon Prime Video and Netflix distribution, also British Muslim TV series 'Half my Faith, all my struggle – All the Extras,[19] and more recently Devolver Digital Films & Fizz Pictures release the Call of Duty documentary titled 'CODumentary' released in September 2017.[20][21][9]
In 2013 Wilde established a global voice actor agency now full-service agency Niltoni Creative,[22][23] which as of 2023 includes the Photography, Audio recording/Podcasting Studios 'Niltoni Studios' in central Newcastle upon Tyne.[24][25][26]
In 2021, Craig led as part of his work with his agency Niltoni, the development of an online shopping solution for Newcastle's 185 year old Grainger Market, creating what has been described as a 'Mini Amazon' store - with multiple traders taking part with one next day delivery. The project garnered considerable local and national media interest; the project has been heralded as a significant factor in keeping the world famous market and its many market traders 'Alive",[27][28][26] A noted Food Blogger Craig has continued to be a huge supporter of the UK's Hospitality and food industry.[29][30][26]
In 2022 Craig wrote and produced an adaptation of Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol, playing at Newcastle upon Tyne's Historic 17th Century Alderman Fenwick House, which had been the Queens Head Hotel in the 19th Century and hosted Dickens when in the city on one of his speaking tours. The Play was Directed by the award-winning director Jake Murray and performed 'In the Round' in the Great Room, the former Dining room and Salon of the then Hotel. The sell-out production will return for an extended run in 2024.[31][32][33]
Craig's second play, a stage adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus premiered at the Newcastle Castle in November 2024.[34] to sell-out audiences.
In 2024, working with North East composer and musician Paul G Clark, Wilde will premier his original work 'Harper Thursday and the Magic Lantern' a Disney and Studio Ghibli inspired musical play written especially for The Common Room' the Wood Hall Library of the former Mining Institute, Newcastle upon Tyne.[35][36][37] 'Harper Thursday and the magic lantern™' an original work that involves some characters from now public domain childrens literature. Including Captain Hook from J.M.Barrie's Peter Pan, [Fank L Baum]'s Oz books and Lewis Carrol's Alice in Wonderland. the play opens in Summer 2025, alongside a companion story book, also authored by Wilde himself and illustrated by Animator and illustrator Stanislav Tsvetkov of Studio Zmei in Bulgaria[38]
Bibliography
| Target/ Type |
Series/ Description |
Title | Date | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Children's fiction |
Tip Top, Santas favourite Elf series | 1. Tip Top, The Elf Who Saved Christmas[26][39] | 20 Nov 2021 | |
| 2. Tip Top and the Magic Christmas Tree[40] | 2 Nov 2022 | |||
| 3. Tip Top, The Wizard and the Dinosaur[41] | 3 Oct 2023 |
References
- ↑ "CRAIG WILDE". Niltoni Group. Archived from the original on 2024-04-22. Retrieved 2024-07-17. Unknown parameter
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- ↑ "CRAIG WILDE". Niltoni Group. Archived from the original on 2024-04-22. Retrieved 2024-07-17. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Glaschu – Glasgow Scene". ScotsGay Magazine (59a). September 2004. Archived from the original
|archive-url=requires|url=(help) on 13 March 2012. Unknown parameter|url-status=ignored (help);|access-date=requires|url=(help) - ↑ "Out & About Production website". Aficionadofilms.com. Archived from the original on 13 March 2012. Retrieved 20 June 2012. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "LA DI DA MAGAZINE". LA DI DA MAGAZINE. Archived from the original on 12 February 2025. Retrieved 20 June 2012. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Bar Warhol Video". Archived from the original on 2021-12-21. Retrieved 20 June 2012 – via YouTube. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "The Cockpit". Out! Northeast Magazine (10): 12. June–July 2008. Archived from the original
|archive-url=requires|url=(help) on 16 February 2012.|access-date=requires|url=(help) - ↑ 9.0 9.1 "From coal dust to stardust unveiling the man behind the creative mystique". NILTONI STUDIOS. Retrieved 24 July 2024. Cite error: Invalid
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|archive-url=requires|url=(help) on 13 March 2012. Unknown parameter|url-status=ignored (help);|access-date=requires|url=(help) - ↑ "Craig Wilde official website".
- ↑ "Bingo Studio Live official X Profile".
- ↑ "IMDB".
- ↑ "BBC".
- ↑ "Who we are..."
- ↑ "From coal dust to stardust unveiling the man behind the creative mystique". NILTONI STUDIOS. Retrieved 24 July 2024.
- ↑ "Portfolio".
- ↑ "From coal dust to stardust unveiling the man behind the creative mystique". NILTONI STUDIOS. Retrieved 24 July 2024.
- ↑ "Half My Faith, All the Extras". IMDb.
- ↑ . Game Informer https://web.archive.org/web/20170922035156/http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2017/09/19/call-of-duty-documentary-codumentary-out-now.aspx. Archived from the original on 22 September 2017. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help); Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ "Half My Faith, All the Extras". IMDb.
- ↑ "Niltoni Creative".
- ↑ "Northern Insight Magazine".
- ↑ "From coal dust to stardust unveiling the man behind the creative mystique". NILTONI STUDIOS. Retrieved 24 July 2024.
- ↑ "Big Brother icon Kim Woodburn becomes Mrs Claus for Grainger Market's Christmas advert". Trinity Mirror. 8 November 2021. Retrieved 16 September 2024.
- ↑ 26.0 26.1 26.2 26.3 "Big Brother icon Kim Woodburn becomes Mrs Claus for Grainger Market's Christmas advert". Trinity Mirror. 8 November 2021. Retrieved 16 September 2024.
- ↑ "It Kept Us Alive". Newcastle Chronicle. 27 March 2021.
- ↑ "British Market Open: 185 Years". Daily Mirror. 7 April 2021.
- ↑ "British Market Open: 185 Years". Daily Mirror. 7 April 2021.
- ↑ "Grainger Market: Newcastle's historic market opens online delivery service". BBC News. 13 November 2021.
- ↑ "Historic Newcastle venue to host Dickens by Candlelight". Trinity Mirror. 10 September 2024. Retrieved 16 September 2024.
- ↑ "Dickens by Candlelight". Dickens Fellowship. 19 November 2023.
- ↑ "World Premiere: Harper Thursday and the Magic Lantern™". The Common Room.
- ↑ "Newcastle Castle to host a Halloween experience in the world of Mary Shelley". Trinity Mirror. 10 September 2024. Retrieved 16 September 2024.
- ↑ "Harper Thursday". Niltoni Entertainment. 18 November 2024. Retrieved 18 November 2024.
- ↑ "World Premiere: Harper Thursday and the Magic Lantern™". The Common Room.
- ↑ "Northern Insight Magazine".
- ↑ "From coal dust to stardust unveiling the man behind the creative mystique". NILTONI STUDIOS. Retrieved 24 July 2024.
- ↑ "Lots of Christmas news and fundraising ball total". The Sunshine Fund. 19 November 2021.
- ↑ "Books by Craig Wilde and Filipe Neves Ribeiro". Watertstones.
- ↑ "Books by Craig Wilde and Filipe Neves Ribeiro". Watertstones.
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