Nicola Keen

In London, Nicola’s recent work as an actress includes Tea with Joyce Grenfell (Old Sorting Office, Barnes) and Fenton Gray Presents (Above the Stag). Current work includes: Cocktails with Joyce Grenfell and Love etc (Ripon International Festival); lyrics for Basil Brush Unleashed (Edinburgh Festival) and A Viennese Christmas Gala (British Philharmonic Concert Orchestra); and choreography for the UK Tour of An Evening of Eric & Ern. In 2018 her BBC 2 show Inside No.9 (Choreographer) won two BAFTA Awards for its creators and stars Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith and is currently available on Netflix.

West End theatre includes: Agnes in Guys and Dolls (Piccadilly, Olivier Award for Best Musical); original cast of The Phantom of the Opera (Her Majesty’s, Olivier Award for Best Musical); White Cat in Cats (New London); Reuben’s Wife in Joseph (London Palladium); the Baker’s Wife in The Hunting of the Snark (Prince Edward); and Die Fledermaus (Royal Opera House). For the National Theatre, she played Vivian in Oklahoma! (Olivier & Lyceum, Olivier Award for Best Musical); and for the RSC, The Shakespeare Revue (UK Tour). Other theatre includes: Jacie Triplethree in Comic Potential and Cinderella in Into the Woods (St Andrews); Nancy in Divorce Me Darling (Chichester); Maria in The Sound of Music (Leicester Haymarket); Fay in The Boy Friend (Perth); Song & Dance (European Tour). Film and TV includes: Beauty and the Beast (Disney); Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (Universal Pictures); a new British feature film Angels in the Asylum directed by Rob Sorrenti; Sound of Music Live (ITV); The Basil Brush Show (BBC); The Singing Detective (BBC); and Fire and Ice with Torvill & Dean (LWT). Radio includes Helen in Half A Sixpence and Dolly in Bitter Sweet (BBC Radio 2).

Work as choreographer includes: Inside No.9 (BBC 2); The Late, Late Morecambe & Wise Show (BBC 1); 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 (Bristol Old Vic); What the Dickens! (Tobacco Factory); New Year’s Eve Gala (Buxton Opera House); Love, Life & Laughter (Bloxham Literature Festival); Love etc (Bucharest); Theatre Royal (Swan Hellenic); Transports of Delight and Anything Goes (RAC Club).

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Past productions

Choreographer / Joyce Grenfell / Writer, Cocktails with Joyce Grenfell, London Revue Company 2^nd September 2023, Ripon International Festival.
Lyricist for Basil Brush, Windsor’s Greatest Ever Night of Comedy, Bill Kenwright Ltd / Theatre Royal Windsor 2^nd April 2023, Theatre Royal, Windsor.
Choreographer / Joyce Grenfell / Writer, Tea with Joyce Grenfell, London Revue Company and Upgrade Your Day 1^st April 2023, The Old Court, Windsor.
Choreographer / Joyce Grenfell / Writer, Cocktails with Joyce Grenfell, London Revue Comany 21^st March 2023, Hurlingham Club. London.
Ensemble Company, The Shakespeare Revue, Primary Shakespeare Company 2^nd July 2019, Mercers’ Hall, City of London.
Choreographer / Ensemble Company, An Actor’s Life for Me, London Revue Company May 2019, The Centre, St Helier, Jersey.
Ensemble Company, The Best of British, Alister Cameron and London Revue Company May 2017, Radisson Blu Hotel, Bucharest.
Choreographer / Ensemble Company, An Actor’s Life for Me, Shakespeare Revue Company 2016, Bloxham Literary Festival, RAC Club, Camden Fringe Festival, Normansfield Theatre Twickenham.
Ensemble Company, Come Rain, Come Shine, Hiss and Boo Company and Shakespeare Revue Company 1999 – 2016, Tour – International.
Song Writer, Ursula Annunziata in Cabaret, EuroMed 11^th May 2015, NH Hotel Palermo, Sicily.
Choreographer / Ensemble Company, By Royal Command, London Revue Comany 1^st April 2015, Cumberland Lodge, Windsor Great Park.
Choreographer / Ensemble Company / Writer & Director, Comedy Tonight, London Revue Company April 2015, Richmond Golf Club.
Ensemble Company, And Clive Hayward, Shakespeare Revue Company January 2015, Strada, Harpenden.
Ensemble Company, Silver Linings, Shakespeare Revue Company 20^th September 2014, The Orange, Pimlico.
Choreographer / Performer / Writer & Director, You Can Not Be Serious, London Revue Comany 21^st February 2014, The Orangery, Kilworth House.
Contributing Writer, An Actor’s Life for Me, Shakespeare Revue Company 2^nd January 2014, Swan Hellenic Cruises.
Contributing Lyricist, Crackers & Spice, Shakespeare Revue Company 26^th December 2013, Swan Hellenic Cruises.
Contributing Lyricist, Love etc, Shakespeare Revue Company 22^nd December 2013, Swan Hellenic Cruises.
Contributing Lyricist, Love etc, Shakespeare Revue Company 21^st July 2013, Swan Hellenic Cruises.
Contributing Lyricist / Ensemble Company, Love etc, Shakespeare Revue Company 18^th May 2013, Swan Hellenic Cruises.
Contributing Lyricist / Ensemble Company, I Enjoy Being a Girl, Shakespeare Revue Company 15^th May 2013, Swan Hellenic Cruises.
Ensemble Company, Come Rain, Come Shine, Shakespeare Revue Company 11^th May 2013, Swan Hellenic Cruises.
Ensemble Company, What the Dickens!, Shakespeare Revue Company 8^th July 2012, Stratford-upon-Avon Poetry Festival.
Deviser & Director / Ensemble Company, Come Fly with Me, London Revue Company 8^th March 2011, Sopwell House, St Albans.
Lyricist (Additional Lyrics), Anything Goes, Private Drama September 2010, Royal Automobile Club.
Choreographer, An Actor’s Life for Me, Bristol Old Vic Theatre School June 2010, Bristol Old Vic – Theatre Royal.
Choreographer, An Actor’s Life for Me, Bristol Old Vic Theatre School March 2010, Redgrave Theatre, Bristol & Circomedia.
Choreographer, Rags to Riches, Private Drama March 2010, Hampton Court Palace.
Ensemble Company, All at Sea with Noël Coward, Private Drama May 2009, Royal Automobile Club.
Contributing Lyricist, Crackers & Spice, Bristol Old Vic Theatre School November – December 2007, Bristol Old Vic – Theatre Royal.
Choreographer, Belmont, Private Drama June 2007, Two Temple Place, London.
Frenchie, The Kit Kat Club, Private Drama and Urban Caprice April 2007, Bloomsbury Ballroom.
Choreographer / Ensemble Company, The Shakespeare Revue, Robert Friedman Presents 26^th February – 19^th March 2004, Tour – USA.
Ensemble Company, The Shakespeare Revue, Alister Cameron Productions February 2003, Nile Hilton, Cairo.
Ensemble Company, The Shakespeare Revue, Robert Friedman Presents and Western Arts Alliance September 2002, Hyatt Regency Hotel, Phoenix, Arizona.
Ensemble Company, The Shakespeare Revue, ARTS San Antonio and Robert Friedman Presents August 2002, New Braunfels, Texas.
Ensemble Company, The Shakespeare Revue, ARTS San Antonio and Robert Friedman Presents August 2002, San Antonio, Texas.
Ensemble Company, The Shakespeare Revue, Private Drama July 2002, Hampton Court Palace.
Ensemble Company, The Shakespeare Revue, Alister Cameron Productions 14^th November 2001, Savoy Hotel, London.
Ensemble Company, The Shakespeare Revue, Alister Cameron Productions 8^th – 9^th November 2001, Athénée Palace Hilton, Bucharest.
Ensemble Company, The Shakespeare Revue, Hiss & Boo Company 2^nd – 3^rd November 2001, Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.
Performer, The Shakespeare Revue, Robert Friedman Presents 6^th – 25^th October 2001, Tour – USA.
Ensemble Company, The Shakespeare Revue, Hiss & Boo Company April 2001, The Theatreroom, Bretforton Grange.
Ensemble Company, The Shakespeare Revue, Hiss & Boo Company March – April 2001, Jermyn Street Theatre, London.
Choreographer / Ensemble Company, The Shakespeare Revue, Hiss & Boo Company March 2001, Bath Shakespeare Festival.
Ensemble Company, The Shakespeare Revue, Robert Friedman Presents November – December 2000, Tour – USA.
Ensemble Company (Alternate for Gemma Craven at Some Performances), The Shakespeare Revue, Hiss and Boo Company January – July 2000, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford.
Ensemble Company, The Shakespeare Revue, Hiss & Boo Company and Royal Shakespeare Company November 1999, Theatre Royal, Newcastle upon Tyne.
Ensemble Company, The Shakespeare Revue, Hiss & Boo Company 12^th October – 26^th November 1999, City Varieties, Leeds and Tour – UK.
Vivian, Oklahoma!, National Theatre started 6^th July 1998, National Theatre – Olivier, National Theatre.
Ensemble Company, The Shakespeare Revue, Theatre for a New Audience May 1997, Hudson Theatre (44^th Street), New York.
Understudy, The Shakespeare Revue, Edward Snape and Michael Codron 15^th April – 6^th July 1996, King’s Theatre, Edinburgh, Theatre Royal, Windsor, and other locations.
Cats by Andrew Lloyd Webber and T S Eliot 1991, New London Theatre, London (now Gillian Lynne Theatre, London).

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