Killian Donnelly

Yeah, I owe Les Mis a lot.

As Cameron McIntosh says, we all owe that little Gazette girl an awful lot.

It's been 2007 is when I first joined.

And I joined as a swing.

Now, I've been in and out of the show since then.

I've gone off to do other things.

But Les Mis has always come back because as you age, there are other roles for you to play.

So I probably started when I was 23.

just covering ensemble roles.

A swing is someone who, there's 15 male roles in Les Mis and a swing would cover 10 of the ensemble male roles because in a 12-month contract you get four weeks holidays, you get sick days and with 10 male roles they can go off sick.

So I have to step in and play that role.

Never going to be on stage.

I'm just going to be in the wings.

I was never off.

And it was the best training because I always tell this joke, this thing, this story where my mom would always be like, who are you on for tonight?

And she doesn't know any of them.

I'd be like, oh, I'm Kofarak tonight.

And tomorrow I'm Bruggen.

And then the matinee, I'm Comfair.

And she's like, oh, wow.