Career
He currently co-provides voices in Thomas & Friends. He has starred in many West End musicals including Elvis, Grease, The Rocky Horror Show and Good Rockin" Tonight. He worked extensively in film, television and radio and presented (and wrote for) the British Broadcasting Corporation School"s series, "The Music Arcade" (with Lucie Skeaping), "Into Music", "Time and Tune", "Music Workshop" and "Let"s Sing".
He has provided many voice-overs and vocals for television commercials, animations and jingles.
Whitnall"s theatre play The Sociable Plover, first performed at Old Red Lion Theatre in 2005, was made into a feature film by Poisson Rouge Pictures and Solution Films (re-titled as The Hide) and received its United Kingdom première on Film4 in February 2009. Following its screen release at the International Cooperation Administration Cinema, London, the film was released on Digital Video Disc in January 2010.
Foreign this work, Whitnall was nominated for Best First Feature Length Screenplay category in the 2010 Writer"s Guild Of Great Britain Awards. The show opened at London"s Duchess Theatre the following December and toured the United Kingdom through 2010.
In 2012 British Broadcasting Corporation Four screened Whitnall"s 90-minute drama Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story, which examined and celebrated the life of Kenny Everett.
lieutenant was directed by James Strong, produced by Paul Frift and starred Oliver Lansley and Katherine Kelly. Since 2014, Whitnall has provided the voices of the characters Timothy and Regional and since 2015 Mike, Jerome and Oliver the Excavator in the Consultants to Government and Industry version of the British television series Thomas & Friends.