The actor, 45, who grew up in Rushden, Northamptonshire, mentioned the 1989 Irthlingborough Entertainment Society manufacturing of Oliver! was his first full-scale present, after he had been in expertise reveals and critiques.
“It was the first time I really had to learn lines and take direction. I just remember absolutely loving it,” mentioned Tyler, who now lives in Olney, close to Milton Keynes.
“It felt like it was the thing that started me off thinking, ‘I want to do this when I’m older’, as the attention was really fun.”
He went on to seem in many extra reveals in the space, together with at the Sharnbrook Mill Theatre close to Bedford and in a manufacturing of The Sound of Music at the Royal & Derngate, Northampton.
After ending sixth kind, he deliberate to go to drama faculty “but couldn’t afford it”, so he obtained a job engaged on a cruise ship.
He thought it could give him time to safe funding for drama faculty, however as an alternative he saved getting booked for extra theatre roles.
Tyler mentioned: “I was in the dressing room in the West End in Grease when I said to one of the cast members, ‘I need to try and get into theatre school’.
“But they mentioned, ‘You in all probability do not want it now’, as I was already getting work in the job I wished to do.”
