NICOLA KEEN I ACTRESS I CHOREOGRAPHER I LYRICIST
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Nicola's recent work as an actress includes: her solo show Cocktails with Joyce Grenfell (Old Sorting Office, Barnes); The Players' Theatre Magnificent Music Hall (Wilton's); Come Rain, Come Shine (Flamstead Arts Festival); Love etc (Ripon International Festival); and the leading role in a TV commercial for Volkswagen (Netherlands). Other projects include lyrics for Basil Brush: Unleashed (Edinburgh Festival, UK Tour) and A Viennese Strauss Christmas Gala (British Philharmonic Concert Orchestra); and choreography for the hit Morecambe & Wise show Eric & Ern (West End, UK Tour). In 2018 her BBC2 show Inside No.9 (Choreographer) won two BAFTA Awards for its creators 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); On Your Toes (Palace Theatre); 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); Fay in The Boy Friend (Perth); Nancy in Divorce Me Darling (Chichester); Maria in The Sound of Music (Leicester Haymarket); Chess (Oslo); Song & Dance (European Tour); and Shall We Dance? (Winter Olympics, Lillehammer).​
Film includes: the Oscar-nominated Beauty and the Beast (Disney); Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (Universal Pictures) and a new British feature film Angels in the Asylum directed by Rob Sorrenti​​​. Television includes: The Singing Detective (BBC); The Sound of Music Live (ITV); The Basil Brush Show (BBC, BAFTA Nomination for Best Entertainment);  the Emmy Award-winning Oklahoma! directed by Trevor Nunn; and Fire and Ice with Torvill & Dean (LWT). Nicola also starred opposite Paul Young in the music video for his No1 hit 'Every Time You Go Away' choreographed by Arlene Phillips (Brit Award for Best  British Video). Radio includes Helen in Half A Sixpence and Dolly in Bitter Sweet (BBC Radio 2). ​
Work as choreographer includes: Inside No.9 (BBC 2, BAFTA Award for Best Comedy); The Late, Late Morecambe & Wise Show (BBC); 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, Off-Broadway); Basil Brush: Unleashed (Edinburgh Festival); 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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CURRENT
Cocktails with Joyce 
Magnificent Music Hall
​Basil Brush: Unleashed
Basil Brush Butlin's 
Basil Brush: P&O Cruises
Eric & Ern
​Viennese Christmas Gala
Come Rain, Come Shine
Inside No. 9
Grey Dogs
​Volkswagen
The Lady from Maxim's
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WEST END
Guys & Dolls
Oklahoma!
Cats
Joseph
The Hunting of the Snark
The Phantom of the Opera
On Your Toes
Coward: Words & Music

​Spread A Little Happiness
​Betjeman: Words & Music
​Royal Variety Show

NATIONAL THEATRE
Oklahoma!

RSC
The Shakespeare Revue

ROYAL OPERA HOUSE
Die Fledermaus

LONDON FRINGE
Tea with Joyce Grenfell
Love etc
Fenton Gray Presents
​An Actor's Life for Me!
The Shakespeare Revue
Tricycle
Three Lost Souls
UK REPERTORY
Comic Potential
Into the Woods
The Sound of Music
Guys & Dolls
Divorce Me, Darling!
The Boy Friend
Charley's Aunt
Dick Whittington

Jack and the Beanstalk
Aladdin
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UK TOURING
Song & Dance
The Shakespeare Revue


USA / EUROPE
The Best of British
Love etc
The Masque of Summer
The Shakespeare Revue
A Marvellous Party
Chess
Shall We Dance
Song & Dance


BALLET DE WALLONIE
Les Sylphides
Giselle
Coppélia
Romeo & Juliet
La Dame aux Camelias
Scheherazade
​Yerma
TELEVISION
Grey Dogs
The Sound of Music Live
The Basil Brush Show
Oklahoma!
Crime Unlimited
Les Girls
The Singing Detective
Torvill & Dean: Fire & Ice
Much Ado About Nothing 
​Ellis Island


FILM
Mamma Mia 2
Beauty and the Beast

​Angels in the Asylum
Jospeh
Heaven's Gate


COMMERCIALS
Volkswagen
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Woolwich 
Pirelli Calendar

MUSIC VIDEO
Bryan Ferry
Paul Young
Phil Fearon


RADIO
Bitter Sweet
Half A Sixpence

CD
Goodbye to Berlin
Oklahoma!
Divorce Me, Darling!​
The Phantom of the Opera


DVD
Phantom 25th
Joseph
​Beauty and the Beast
Oklahoma!
​Heaven's Gate
REVUE
​Love, Life & Laughter
​You Can Not Be Serious
If All Else Fails
An Actor's Life for Me
Love etc

​Mum's the Word
The Cocktail Hour
​Comedy Tonight
Christmas at Kilworth

The Kit Kat Club
From Kern to Berlin
Christmas à la Carte
Come Rain, Come Shine
On the Grapevine
I Enjoy Being A Girl
Moonight Serenade
Theatre Royal
Let the People Sing
Transports of Delight
​All at Sea with Coward
​Some Enchanted Evening
​Indian Summer
Showstoppers
Theatrical Digs
Comedy Tonight
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RECITALS
By Royal Command
Elizabethan Serenade
What the Dickens!
A Night at the Opera

Then and Now
​Christmas Crackers
RSVP
CHOREOGRAPHER
Inside No.9
Grey Dogs
Eric and Little Ern

The Shakespeare Revue
Into the Woods
Morecambe & Wise Show
An Actor's Life for Me
​The Best of British 
Love etc
​The Lavender Hill Mob
Travels with My Aunt
Supertroopers
A Marvellous Party

The Masque of Summer
Rags to Riches
Showstoppers!
Belmont
​Shakespeare at Kew

LYRICIST
British Airways Song
​It's Too High for Her
The Audition Song
​Mumisms
I Want To Be Evil
The Passenger's Lament
Mid-life Favourite Things
Un-Favourite Things
PC or Not PC
​Driven to Distraction
Song of the EDS
You're the Top
One's Still Here
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