Tim Marriott is perhaps best known for seven series of BBC TV's leisure centre situation comedy The Brittas Empire, appearing in every episode as deputy manager, Gavin. Other TV credits include British Airman ‘Tigger Thompson’ in Allo Allo, Doctors, The Bill, An Actor's Life for Me, The Main Event, Luv and film credits include the forthcoming features; The Real Thing, Revelation and recently released comedy, Love Type D. He returned to the stage in 2018 after a seventeen year 'career break' working in education.
In 2018 Tim toured Australia supporting the Invictus Games with his award winning mental health themed solo show, Shell Shock, which was also performed at Edinburgh and Adelaide Festivals, where it won the Sunday Mail award, Best Solo Show and also won a Fringe Encore Award to be performed in New York. Tim also wrote and produced another sell-out award winning show on a Holocaust theme, Mengele. EdFringe and Adelaide 19 also saw the first performance of a new work, All Change, with another new drama, Judas. He is currently touring Watson: The Final Problem, which sold out at Edinburgh Festival Fringe in '21 and '22, where he won a Best Performance Award (Dark Chat) with another new play, Waiting for Hamlet.
2023 began with a tour of Australia with a new solo show, Jack's Ashes, and another season at Adelaide where Jack won a Best Theatre Award and Watson was selected Top Theatre in The List and CityMag's #1 Best of the Best. Watson and Tim's latest play Appraisal will be at EdFringe23.
Besides producing and appearing in new theatre work around the world, Tim is also an experienced educator, voice over artist, public speaker and event host. He delivers workshops on devising theatre and framing stories as well as keynote talks following Shell Shock performances, offering strategies for coping with anxiety, stress and trauma in partnership with Annabel Fen Marriott, an Anxiety UK practitioner and author of 'Toolkit for Anxiety'.