AN actor from Blackburn is returning to Lancashire with a starring role in a new stage play.

Zach Lee is touring with the Hull Truck Theatre Company in Unleashed, written by John Godber.

The play, about a group of men who go to Amsterdam, is on at Preston's Charter Theatre tonight and tomorrow.

It will be a chance for Zach to visit his parents, who live in Sunny Bower.

Zach, 31, was brought up in Revidge and went to Edmund Arrowsmith School - now St Bede's. He worked as a hairdresser in Blackburn before deciding on an acting career and now lives in London.

His first stage outings were with Blackburn Operatic Society, then he went to drama school in London in 1990 and has since had regular work in a wide range of stage productions and television programmes.

Zach explained: "There are so many people and so few jobs. You have got to see people and write to people.

"That's how I originally got the Hull Truck job. I wrote to them about 20 times, just bombarded them with letters."

He did a six-month run with the company in Bouncers, and the part of Gary in Unleashed was written for him by John Godber.

Working with the company is a dream come true, but he is hoping to do more television and film work in the future. Now his sights are set on Hollywood. "I am definitely going to go to America, for sure. Why not? It's an adventure."

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