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).
