Hamish Lloyd Barnes is an actor, comedian and theatre-maker trained at Ecole Philippe Gaulier. As a comedian, he was a BBC New Comedy Awards Nominee in 2025, and a Leicester Square Theatre Sketch Off Finalist in 2026. As an actor, notable credits include Rivals (Disney+), Harry Potter (Audible), The B@IT (Channel 4), and Nasty Neighbours (Channel 4). As a writer, he has written on Newsjack (BBC Radio 4 Extra), DM’s Are Open (BBC Radio 4 Extra), and The Skewer (BBC Radio 4). He is also Co-Artistic Director of multi award-winning theatre company, Spies Like Us, with whom he wrote and performed 4 critically and commercially successful fringe show which toured nationally and internationally.

“Quite simply, a joy… I’ve rarely laughed so consistently for an hour” ★★★★
– Broadway Baby

Hamish Lloyd Barnes: ‘Stage Presence’

Actor, Comedian, and Co-Artistic Director of multi award-winning theatre company, Spies Like Us, Hamish Lloyd Barnes (Rivals, Disney+, Harry Potter, Audible, Leicester Square Theatre Sketch Off Finalist 2026) brings his debut character comedy show, ‘Stage Presence’, to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Loosely inspired by the real murder of acclaimed actor William Terris at the stage door of the Adelphi Theatre in 1897 and the subsequent sightings of his ghost, Stage Presence sees a cursed company of ghosts alongside a talking ticket, curtain and spotlight, scramble to tell their stories, tie up their loose ends, and have their moment on the final night before the haunted house is demolished.