Biographies

NICOLA KEEN
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 Torville & Dean (LWT).

Work as choreographer includes: Inside No 9 (BBC 2, BAFTA and South Bank Arts Awards Best Comedy); The Late, Late Morecambe & Wise Show (BBC1); Grey Dogs (Sky Arts); Eric and Little Ern (Vaudeville & St James); 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); T and A Viennese Christmas Gala (British Philharmonic Concert Orchestra). For more information please go to Nicola's website www.nicolakeenonstage.com

MALCOLM McKEE
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 HRH The Prince of Wales - A Marvellous Party starring Patricia Routledge and Patrick Stewart (Highgrove & St James’s Palace). Malcolm has written sixteen scripts for Radios 3 and 4, including adaptations of: The Comedy of Errors; Oh What A Lovely War; Grand Hotel; In Deep Water; The Wild Party; 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.

As 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, Some Tame Gazelle, The Carlingford Chronicles, Peter Brook's U.S., Cry of the Bittern, The Rivals, The Country Wife, The Pickwick Papers, Barnaby Rudge and The Old Curiosity Shop. www.malcolmmckeewriter.com

MICHAEL WINSOR
Michael’s West End appearances include: By Jeeves (Duke of York’s, Olivier Award Nomination, Best Musical); Children of Eden (Prince Edward); Sherlock Holmes (Cambridge); The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber (Prince Edward); and six Royal Variety Performances. Michael's other leading roles include: The Arbiter in Chess (Oslo & UK Tour); Fred Astaire in Shall We Dance (Lillehammer Winter Olympics); Robert the Robot in Justin and Friends (UK Arena Tour); Tobias in Sweeney Todd (Salisbury Playhouse); Jack in Into the Woods and Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Wolsey Ipswich); and Bobby in The Boy Friend (Perth). Michael was the first presenter of Sky's Children's Channel; and for the BBC he starred in the TV musical The Look of Love, directed by Gillian Lynne. For BBC Radio 2, credits include: Half a Sixpence and Bitter Sweet; frequent appearances as guest soloist on Friday Night is Music Night; and star of the documentary Call Me When You're In Something (Winner Prix Monte Carlo). Michael frequently appears in revue and cabaret where credits include: The Best of British (Bucharest); Anything Goes (RAC Club); Love, Life and Laughter (Bloxham Festival); From Kern to Berlin (National Trust); Christmas Crackers (Swan Hellenic); and Let the People Sing (Imperial War Museum).

Michael is also one of the UK's top puppeteers with credits which include: the US series Pajanimals (Henson Company); That Puppet Game Show (Hanson Company, BBC1); and Furchester Hotel (CBeebies). With his alter ego Basil Brush, Michael has starred in 78 episodes of The Basil Brush Show for the BBC plus appearances at the Glastonbury Festival and a host of pantomimes. Basil has also made many guest-star TV appearances including The Celebrity Chase, The Generation Game, Through the Keyhole, French and Saunders, Pointless Celebrities, The Last Leg and The Weakest Link which he won in 2003. www.michaelwinsor.com

CLIVE HAYWARD
Clive has recently played Fezziwig in the RSC's Christmas Carol at Stratford-upon-Avon. He is currently filming the new series of ITV's Victoria. Recent work includes Dr Spivey in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest at Sheffield Crucible and Holbein in a live recital version of the radio play Holbein's Skull at the National Gallery. In April 2018 he completed a fourth season as a member of the BBC Radio Drama Company with leading roles in Wuthering Heights, The Wild Duck, The Good Companions, Elsinore, Judas and The Charles Paris Mysteries opposite Bill Nighy. Clive's recordings of Frankenstein and Dracula have both recently won AudioFile Earphones Awards.

Clive trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. His West End credits include: Horace Hardwick in Top Hat (Aldwych); Bernard Woolley in Yes, Prime Minister (Trafalgar Studios); Cliff Turner in Ducktastic (Albery); Sir Andrew Aguecheek in Twelfth Night (Regent’s Park); Friar Francis opposite David Tennant in Much Ado About Nothing (Wyndham's); and Killigrew in the Olivier Award-winning Nell Gwynn (Shakespeare's Globe). For the National Theatre he played Aeschylus in Frogs, Haig in Oh What A Lovely War and Henry Tittler in Earthquakes in London directed by Rupert Goold. On tour Clive starred as ‘Eric’ in The Play What I Wrote and played opposite Rik Mayall in The New Statesman. At Manchester Royal Exchange he played Victor in Private Lives, Rageneau in Cyrano de Bergerac and Batman in Dr Heart. Television includes Dick Turpin in Historyonics, George VI in The Windsors, plus featured roles in East Enders, Silent Witness, Hollyoaks, Law and Order UK, Casualty, A Touch of Frost, Doctors, London's Burning and Prime Suspect opposite Helen Mirren. Clive has recorded more than thirty plays and serials for Radio 4 including leading roles in Time and the Conways, Barnaby Rudge, The Divine Comedy, Charles II, James II, The Cazalets, The Interrogation, and The Shootist. www.clivehaywardactor.com

ALEX MORGAN
Alex trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, and works as an actor, writer and accent coach. Theatre credits include: The Cowardly Lion / Zeke in The Wizard of Oz (Brewhouse, Taunton); Bob Cratchit in A Christmas Carol (Geneva); Ensemble Company in The Shakespeare Revue (Theatr Clwyd, UK tour); Bar in The Three Little Pigs (UK tour); Iokanaan in Salomé (Edinburgh Festival); Raif in Z-Bed (Landor); Junior Counsel in Laughed Out of Court (Royal Courts of Justice); Sebastian in The Tempest and Dickens in The Actors’ Market (Waterloo East Theatre). He has done many revues with the satirical sketch troupe Vocalarity (Canal Café Theatre, St James Studio) and, for the Shakespeare Revue Company, shows include Love etc, Crackers & Spice, An Actor’s Life for Me, and A Night at the Opera (Swan Hellenic). TV includes: Psychoville (BBC2); and Adam in Hollyoaks (Channel 4). Voiceover work includes: Peppa Pig (Commercial); Disney Infinity (Video Game); French and Spanish Language Apps (GCSEPod, Education on Demand); Narrator for Leonardo - The Man Who Saved Science; and English dubbing on many Bollywood movies including the title role in Agent Vinod (Illuminati Films).

Writing includes: revue sketches for Vocalarity; lyrics for Hay Fever (Guthrie Theatre, Minneapolis); and a new adaptation (with Malcolm McKee) of the Feydeau farce The Lady from Maxim’s which will première in 2020. As dialect coach (in French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, German, Turkish and Romanian) productions include: Nell Gwynn (Shakespeare's Globe, Apollo Theatre, UK tour - Olivier Award Best New Comedy); Travels with My Aunt (Menier Chocolate Factory); Much Ado About Nothing (Wadham College Gardens, Oxford); Love etc (Radisson Hotel, Bucharest); A Grand Night of Opera (Northumberland Music Festival); The Alchemist (White Bear); and the new Stiles & Drewe musical Travels with My Aunt (Chichester Festival Theatre). www.alexmorganactor.com

SUNNY ORMONDE
Sunny has been playing the outrageous Lilian Bellamy in Radio 4’s The Archers for the past 19 years and has become one of the listeners’ favourite characters - whether it be riding round Ambridge on a Harley Davidson or absconding to Costa Rica with her beloved Tiger. Sunny trained at the Guildhall school of Music and Drama. Theatre includes seasons at Bristol Old Vic, Leicester Haymarket, Ipswich, Theatr Clwyd, Salisbury, Coventry, Harrogate, Chester, Oldham, Northampton and Pitlochry Festival Theatre. Leading theatre roles include: Christopher in On The Razzle; Mary Mooney in Once A Catholic; Julia in The Rivals; Sally in River's Up at the Swan Theatre Worcester; and the title role in Shirley Valentine - three times, no less! For BBC Radios 3 & 4 she has recorded over 400 plays and short stories, including: The Old Curiosity Shop with Tom Courtney; The Sea with David Tennant; The Return of the Native; The Monument; Project Raphael; Death of A Secret Wife; The Adventures of John and Tony with poet John Hegley; and the Oddbody whodunnit series with Stephanie Cole. Television credits include Doctors, Casualty, Brookside, Grange Hill, Waiting for God, Why Can’t I Go Home?, The Life of Shakespeare, and Jupiter Moon in which she played the long-running character Stardust Lil.

Sunny has created two successful one-woman shows: Dorothy and An Evening with . . . which she performs at theatres and festivals throughout the UK. Other festival performances include: The Land of Lost Content - the life and poetry of A E Houseman; recitals with historian Michael Wood; and concerts with celebrated musicians the Antonius Players. She has appeared regularly with fellow cast members from The Archers in the anthology shows Wicked Women and Come Rain, Come Shine. Sunny also stars with John Telfer (The Archers’ Rev Alan Franks) as Philip Larkin in Larkin About which had a sell-out run at the Edinburgh Festival.