LUKE SORBA is a hugely experienced actor, comedy specialist and expert improvisor.
TELEVISION
Actor
Duck Quacks Don’t Echo (Magunm Media for Sky One) 2015
A Life Less Ordinary (2LEMedia for Channel 4) (Pilot) 2013
Richard Hammond’s Secret Service (Initial for BBC1) 2013
Gibberish (Celador for Channel 5) (Pilot) 2002
Monster TV as Ed Dodds (BBC1) – 2 series 1999-2000.
Consequently (Carlton Digital) Panel Game 1999
Confessions as Inspector Baines (Hat Trick for BBC1) – 4 series 1995-98
Brass Eye (Talk Back for Channel 4) 1994
A Question of Taste as Nigel Partridge.(Tiger Aspect for BBC2) 1992
Children In Need (BBC1) BBC Business Breakfast (BBC) The Good Stuff (Carlton), The Media Show (Channel 4), Metro (LWT), Notes and Queries (Celandine \ BBC2).
Presenter
Spontaneous Combustion (HTV) 1989
Voice-over
Food and Drink Programme (BBC2) Body Styles (Mentorn \ Channel 4).
ONLINE
Clinton Baptiste’s Paranormal Podcast 2023
The Movies That Made Me (Picard Productions) 2021 – 2023
Unmute (Picard Productions) 2020,2021
Sounds Right Podcast (Lush Digital) 2018
The Anti-Social Network (Studio of Fools/ 4 on Demand) 2014
Polytickles (self-penned political sketches 2013, 2014)
THEATRE AND IMPROVISATION
Scared Scriptless (2021)
Le Roundabout 2020
Sprout News 2020
Props and Costumes (LIT) 2018 – 2020
Eternal Sunshine of the Plotless Mind (LIT) 2018
Slattery Night Fever (LIT) 2017- 2018
Stand Up for Mental Health (Ritzy, Brixton) 2016, 2017
Legends of Improvisation (London Improv Theatre) 2016
Wonderland (Petworth Festival) 2015
The Improvasprint (Barons Court Theatre et al) 2015 –
An Evening of Improvisation with Ross Noble and Special Guests (Cutty Sark Theatre) 2014
The Guest Speaker (The Miller et al) 2014 – 2015
The Vault (The Miller et al) 2014 – 2016
Unavailable for Comment with Marcus Brigstocke (Menier Chocolate Theatre; Udderbelly, Edinburgh) 2013
Paul Merton’s Impro Chums (Northampton and Barbados) 2013
Spontaneous Combustion’s True Confessions (Bristol Impro Festival) 2013
Slapdash Impro Festival (The Nursery) 2013
Stand Up for Labour (Tour) 2013 – 2014
Strictly Impro (Lost Theatre) 2011, 2012,
London Improvathon (Hoxton Hall Theatre; Park Theatre) 2011, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018
Keep It Safe (Hackney Museum) 2008, 2009, 2010
Founder member of SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION, specializing in improvised plays: Sub Post Office of Death, Raise the Dead, Human Celluloid, Outrageous Lies, True Confessions- Gilded Balloon & Assembly Rooms Edinburgh. Duke of York’s, Globe Theatre and tours 1989-1997.
Founder member of THEATRESPORTS UK – sketch improvisation company -Royal National Theatre, Donmar Warehouse, Arts Theatre, Shaw Theatre, Assembly Rooms (also Los Angeles, Seattle, Toronto, Edmonton, Melbourne) 1987-1997
Hamlet Improvised (London International Mime Festival
Impronet (Bridewell Theatre).
Court In the Act – Palace Theatre, Watford; Festival Theatre, Chichester.
Zorro (Red Rose Club)
Cinderella (Tristan Bates Theatre)
The Xtempore Files (Tristan Bates Theatre)
Custom Theatrics (various)
RADIO
Actor
Nothing Happened (play Radio 4) as various 2005
Losers (sitcom, 2 series –Radio 4) as Luke 2001, 2002
The World As We Know It (sitcom series- Radio 4) as Patrick 1999
My Stepmother is an Australian (Radio 4 pilot) as Simon
Parodies Lost (Radio 4) – 3 episodes
Bugging the System (Radio 4 pilot)
The Locker Room (Radio 5)
Presenter
You Asked For It (Radio 4) – 6 episodes.
Panellist
What am I bid? (Radio 4 pilot) and over thirty talk shows eg Radio 4, Radio 5, Capital, LBC, GLR, News Direct, Scotland, Liberty, Viva, Bedfordshire, Kent, Forth. 3CR Melbourne. 3RRR Melbourne.
VIDEO
Spontaneous Combustion (sketch show for Sabre Films).
(Corporate Videos: Fujitsu (as Farmer Walker) for DEFRA 2017, Alvarez & Marsal, BBC World Service, KPMG, Hertz Car Rental, Apple Macintosh, Lotus Software, SWEB, Galileo IT, LTV Anglais.
COMMERCIALS (all as featured actor)
Television
UK – Royal Mail, TSB, British Beef, Milky Bar Ice Cream, Cable Video Store, Dales Supermarket, Crown Paint, Penguin Biscuits
Ireland – Sun Life Assurance (2)
Germany – West Jeans, Expert Stores, Department of Transport
Radio
Prudential (13 commercials), Sea Fish (2). Burger King (3).Mercedes. Fiat. Molson Beer. Great Western Railways. First Telecom (2). Hamlet. Network Q (4). Dolmio. Graham Stores (3), Western Union. American Express. Wicks (2). Walls. British Telecom (2.)Café Pasta, Car Dealer, Value Direct. Inscape (8 commercials), Welsh Development Agency (5 ads), Talk Talk (3 ads) Many others.
TV Voice-overs
Epson Computers (2). Network Q \ Vauxhall Motors (3).
TESTIMONIALS
“You were amazing Luke. You absolutely got exactly what we hoping to achieve”
Ali Clarke, Producer ASN (Studio of Fools for 4 on Demand)
“The galloping improviser, Luke Sorba is hot!”
3RRR (Melbourne Radio)
CLIPS
Richard Hammond’s Secret Service 2013
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpIOGEIj5ts
Polytickles 2014
http://www.youtube.com/user/polytickles
Unmute 2021
https://www.youtube.com/user/sonofrenato