English voice actor (born 1982)
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.
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,[2] a club that he promoted at the Arches nightclub in Glasgow from 1999 to 2002.[3] He became the focus of several TV documentaries, one of which was STV and Grampian's 2001 documentary This Scotland.[4] 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'.[5]
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[6] in 2006, on Glasgow's Bath Street. Relocating to Newcastle to work with the city's leisure operators in 2006.[7] Most notable was the reinvention of the Powerhouse club venue.[8]
Acting (2010 – 2020)
From 2010 onwards Craig has Presented live Streaming Bingo Web TV Channel 'Bingo Studio Live'.[9][10] As creative director, Craig has worked with a number of television personalities, notably Channel 4 show 'Britain's Benefit Tenants'[11] and BBC Show 'The Customer Is Always Right[12] 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".[13][14]
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,[15] 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,[16] and more recently Devolver Digital Films & Fizz Pictures release the Call of Duty documentary titled 'CODumentary' released in September 2017.[17][18][19]
In 2013 Wilde established a global voice actor agency now full-service agency Niltoni Creative,[20] which as of 2023 includes the Photography, Audio recording/Podcasting Studios 'Niltoni Studios' in central Newcastle upon Tyne .[21][22]
In 2019 he returned to TV screens playing the part of 'Marvin' in the Showtime Christmas movie 'A Very British Christmas'[23] which starred Rachel Shenton known for Channel 4 daytime Soap Opera Hollyoaks, Mark Killeen known for Game of Thrones and Michele Dotrice known for classic TV comedy Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em.[24] Christmas 2020 'A Very British Christmas premiered on Channel 5 as part of their Christmas scheduling under the localised title A Very Yorkshire Christmas.[25]
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, 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",[26] A noted Food Blogger Craig has continued to be a huge supporter of the UK's Hospitality and food industry.[27][28]
Authorship (2021 – present)
In 2021, Craig published his first book, a children's title The Elf Who Saved Christmas now in second edition on his own Publishing company Niltoni Publishing and retitled Tip Top, the Elf who saved Christmas,[29][19] the book was animated for the 2021 Christmas commercial for Grainger Market Delivery, with live action elements of the commercial starring Big Brother and How Clean Is Your House TV Star Kim Woodburn.[30][19] Subsequently, Craig, along with now Co-Author Filipe Neves Ribeiro and illustrator Monique Scott followed up the initial book with two more titles Tip Top and the Magic Christmas Tree and Tip Top, the Wizard and the Dinosaur .
Playwright (2022 – present)
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]
Craig's second play, a stage adaptation of Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus' premiered at the Newcastle Castle in November 2024.[33] to sell-out audiences. In 2025, working with North East composer and musical Paul G Clark, Wilde will premier his original work 'Harper Thursday and the Magic Lantern' a Disney inspired musical play written especially for The Common Room' the Wood Hall Library of the Mining Institute, Newcastle upon Tyne.[34]
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