Robert Lloyd Parry

Robert Lloyd Parry is an actor and writer who specializes in literary storytelling: theatrical performances based upon texts from the golden age of the short story in English, approx 1880 - 1930.  

Since 2005 he has been touring the UK with The M R James Project, a series of solo performances which bring to life the masterpieces of the father of the English Ghost Story. In 2015 he appeared as M R James in Mark Gatiss’s BBC documentary M R James: Ghost Writer. He has himself produced, written and presented two documentaries based on James’s work: “Wits in Felixstowe” and “Dim Presences” and is currently working on a third about James’s travels in Scandinavia. He recently edited Ghosts of the Chit-Chat, an anthology of ghost stories by M R James and his Cambridge contemporaries, and is working on a companion volume. 

Between 2013 – 16 he toured his adaptation of H G Wells’s The Time Machine around the UK, with the support of Arts Council England. He regularly performs short stories online and in pubs and libraries throughout the land, works by the likes of H G Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, Saki, Arthur Machen, Kenneth Graham, Algernon Blackwood and E F Benson. For more details see www.nunkie.co.uk & https://www.youtube.com/c/NunkieFilms.