Keith "Beefy" Jenkins

Beefy originally worked as a stand-up comic and compere touring working men's clubs and pubs in the South Wales Valleys. He was then a youthworker in community centres in Cwmafon, his hometown near Aberdare. He first came to theatre in 1990 through a community collaboration between the Welsh National Opera Education Department and Arts Disability Wales. Since then he worked as an actor with Cardiff-based Hijinx Theatre and on radio and television for BBC Radio 4 and BBC Wales. Beefy played the actor Phil John in Moments of Madness. Sadly, Beefy died in 2000.