February 2, 2012
Hello. I'm finally back from Pantoland at Theatr Clwyd in Mold, North Wales, where I played Fairy Fanciful in Sleeping Beauty to nearly 65,000 people over the Christmas period. Now I'm off to Nottingham Playhouse again to do 'Forever Young', playing a 94 year old version of me; the show was a massive hit for the last two years and has been revived due to popular demand- but this really will be the last time we all do it!
In 2011 I played Mollie in Animal Farm at Clwyd and Kate in The Taming of The Shrew and Magenta in The Rocky Horror Show at the Queen's Theatre Hornchurch.
In the summer of 2010 I toured with 'Dolly' for New Perspectives Theatre Company. The show was voted to be one of the 5 best shows of the year in The Sunday Times. Panto in 2009/2010 Queen Camilla in Sleeping Beauty at the Churchill Theatre Bromley. In the summer of 2009 I played Maria in Twelfth Night at Stafford Castle Open Air Festival.
Other recent credits include Judith Bliss in 'Hayfever', Liz in 'September In The Rain', Sheila in 'Relatively Speaking' and Olivia in 'Twelfth Night' at the Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch and Queenie the Cat and Maureen the Moorhen in Honk at The Watermill Theatre, Newbury.
I Other recent work includes Muriel in Animal Farm for the Peter Hall Company, and Carol in a National Tour of Girl's Night. I received much acclaim for creating the role of Lily the Nun in Blonde Bombshells of 1943 (which won the Manchester Evening News award in December for Best Production) at West Yorkshire Playhouse, Bolton Octagon and the Hampstead Theatre and as Luciana in Comedy of Errors, a Northern Broadsides Tour.
I play sax, guitar, clarinet, drums, bass and piano and have performed in the West End and nationally. Other theatre credits include: Dee Dee Butterfly in Pinafore Swing (Watermill & Tour) Jane the Clown in Sweet William (Northern Broadsides), Toots in Mother Goose (Liverpool Everyman), Miss Santiago in Buddy (Strand Theatre & UK Tour), The Animals (Stratford Circus), Elvis- The Musical (Piccadilly Theatre), Get it While You Can (London One Person Play Festival), Patsy Cline-The Musical (National Tour), Three Steps to Heaven (National Tour), Comedy Brothel (Etcetera Theatre), Peer Gynt (RSC), Red Riding Hood, Sticks and Stones (Salamander TIE Co.), Comedy of Errors (White Horse Theatre Co), Big Buddha Beach (Camden Studio Theatre), Guys and Dolls (Regina Theatre, Stockholm).
A prolific singer songwriter, I have a self-penned album and as a comedy performer I became something of a one hit wonder on the stand-up circuit with my alter ego ‚ 'Milly Sue, The Singing Cowgirl'
Television appearances include Coronation Street, Hollyoaks and Doctors and I can be seen regularly as Doctor Paula Lucas on Emmerdale. I was recently seen puffing away in an NHS anti-smoking advert and, rather irritatingly, with the Churchil Insurance Dog. Oh yes.