NICOLA KEEN (Joyce Grenfell)
Nicola's West End appearances include: Agnes in Guys and Dolls with Ewan McGregor (Piccadilly); the original cast of The Phantom of the Opera (Her Majesty’s); White Cat in Cats (New London); Reuben’s Wife in Joseph (Palladium); and the Baker's Wife in The Hunting of the Snark (Prince Edward). For the National Theatre, she played Vivian in Oklahoma! with Hugh Jackman (Olivier & Lyceum); and for the RSC, The Shakespeare Revue (UK & US Tours and Off-Broadway). Other theatre includes: Nancy in Divorce Me Darling (Chichester); Maria in The Sound of Music (Leicester Haymarket); Jacie Triplethree in Ayckbourn's Comic Potential and Cinderella in Into the Woods (St Andrews). Film and Television includes: Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (Universal); Beauty and the Beast (Disney); The Sound of Music Live (ITV); The Singing Detective (BBC 1); and Fire and Ice with Torvill & Dean (LWT).
Nicola's West End appearances include: Agnes in Guys and Dolls with Ewan McGregor (Piccadilly); the original cast of The Phantom of the Opera (Her Majesty’s); White Cat in Cats (New London); Reuben’s Wife in Joseph (Palladium); and the Baker's Wife in The Hunting of the Snark (Prince Edward). For the National Theatre, she played Vivian in Oklahoma! with Hugh Jackman (Olivier & Lyceum); and for the RSC, The Shakespeare Revue (UK & US Tours and Off-Broadway). Other theatre includes: Nancy in Divorce Me Darling (Chichester); Maria in The Sound of Music (Leicester Haymarket); Jacie Triplethree in Ayckbourn's Comic Potential and Cinderella in Into the Woods (St Andrews). Film and Television includes: Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (Universal); Beauty and the Beast (Disney); The Sound of Music Live (ITV); The Singing Detective (BBC 1); and Fire and Ice with Torvill & Dean (LWT).
Work as choreographer includes: Inside No 9 (BBC 2, BAFTA Awards for Best Comedy); The Late, Late Morecambe & Wise Show (BBC1); Grey Dogs (Sky Arts); Eric and Little Ern (Vaudeville, Olivier Award Nomination for Best Entertainment); Into the Woods (Guildhall); Travels With My Aunt and The Lavender Hill Mob (UK Tours); An Actor’s Life for Me! (Bristol Old Vic); A Marvellous Party (Paris & Cannes); The Masque of Summer (Florence); The Best of British (Bucharest); Rags to Riches (Hampton Court Palace); and the RSC’s hit musical The Shakespeare Revue (US Tours, Off-Broadway). Nicola is a prolific lyricist and her comic songs have been heard in: The Shakespeare Revue (RSC); If All Else Fails (Chichester); Crackers and Spice and An Actor's Life for Me (Bristol Old Vic); What the Dickens (Tobacco Factory); and A Viennese Christmas Gala (British Philharmonic Concert Orchestra). For more information and photographs please go to Nicola's website www.nicolakeenonstage.com
MALCOLM McKEE (Writer, Director, MD)
Malcolm is an Olivier-nominated writer, director and composer who is well known to Radio 4 audiences for his long-running role as Graham Ryder in The Archers. Credits as writer/director include: The Shakespeare Revue (RSC, West End, Off-Broadway); An Actor’s Life For Me and Crackers & Spice (Bristol Old Vic); Masterpieces (Birmingham Rep); Love etc (Bucharest); The Masque of Summer (Florence); The Cocktail Hour starring Penelope Keith (Tate Britain); and - for King Charles - A Marvellous Party starring Patricia Routledge and Patrick Stewart (Highgrove & St James’s Palace). Malcolm has written many scripts for BBC Radio 4, including adaptations of: The Comedy of Errors; Oh What A Lovely War; Coward’s Tonight at 8.30 starring Stephanie Cole; Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator starring Matthew Kelly; and Five Children and It starring Julia McKenzie.
Malcolm is an Olivier-nominated writer, director and composer who is well known to Radio 4 audiences for his long-running role as Graham Ryder in The Archers. Credits as writer/director include: The Shakespeare Revue (RSC, West End, Off-Broadway); An Actor’s Life For Me and Crackers & Spice (Bristol Old Vic); Masterpieces (Birmingham Rep); Love etc (Bucharest); The Masque of Summer (Florence); The Cocktail Hour starring Penelope Keith (Tate Britain); and - for King Charles - A Marvellous Party starring Patricia Routledge and Patrick Stewart (Highgrove & St James’s Palace). Malcolm has written many scripts for BBC Radio 4, including adaptations of: The Comedy of Errors; Oh What A Lovely War; Coward’s Tonight at 8.30 starring Stephanie Cole; Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator starring Matthew Kelly; and Five Children and It starring Julia McKenzie.
NAs a composer, Malcolm’s West End credits include: Travels with My Aunt (Chocolate Factory); The Shakespeare Revue (RSC & Vaudeville); The Madness of George III starring David Haig (Apollo); and When We Are Married starring Maureen Lipman (Garrick, Olivier Award nomination for Best Revival). Other composing credits include: The History Boys (West Yorkshire Playhouse); While the Sun Shines (Theatre Royal Bath); Hay Fever (Minneapolis); The Good Companions (Bristol Old Vic); Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Leicester Haymarket); plus national tours of The Lady in the Van, Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Single Spies. Malcolm has composed scores for more than fifty dramas for BBC Radio including Time and the Conways, Brief Encounter, Tom and Viv, The Rivals, The Country Wife, The Pickwick Papers, Barnaby Rudge and The Old Curiosity Shop. For more information and photographs please go to Malcolm's website www.malcolmmckeewriter.com
