Biography
Poskitt was born in York, England, grew up in Selby, Yorkshire and was educated at the Selby Abbey School, at Terrington Hall, North Yorkshire, and at Bootham School, York, before studying engineering at Collingwood College, Durham University.
Poskitt was a member of a comedy group while at Durham University, and toured with it to the US in 1979, playing the piano and singing, performing skits and doing a ventriloquist act with a dummy which wouldn’t speak. He participated in the National Student Drama Festival from 1976-1980, and also performed solo at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival from 1979 to 1981. He was a member of the pop group Candlewick Green in the early 1980s.
He has written and directed a number of pantomimes performed by the National Student Theatre Company, including Jack and the Beanstalk (1979), The Sleeping Beauty (1980), Cinderella (1981), Jack and the Beanstalk (1983), as well as a nativity play, The Road to Bethlehem (1980), and a “musical ghost pantomime”, Sammy’s Magic Garden (1985).
Early children’s television appearances included Swap Shop during its Edinburgh Festival broadcasts, and ITV Yorkshire‘s Behind the Bike Sheds.
