Nicky Swift

7 Mar 2019

Training: National Youth Music Theatre, Birmingham University and The Royal Academy Of Music where she received The Ian Fleming Musical Theatre Award.

Theatre: Rosie in Mamma Mia! (UK and International tour 2018-19) Shirley in Shirley Valentine (30th Anniversary UK tour), Footloose (UK Tour), Les Miserables (Queens Theatre, West End), Lennon (Royal Court, Liverpool), Songs For Victory (UK Tour), One Night In Istanbul (Echo Arena, Dublin Gaiety and Belfast Grand Opera House), Jack And The Beanstalk, Mother Goose, Aladdin, Dick Whittington, Sleeping Beauty and Red Riding Hood (Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse), Cats (Arena Tour), The Buddy Holly Story (Upstairs At The Gatehouse), Alice In The Walled Garden (Brockwell Park), Twelfth Night, Plaza Suite, The Odd Couple and A Slice of Saturday Night (QE Theatre Company on Cunard’s Queen Elizabeth), Richard Taylor’s Whistle Down The Wind, (Edinburgh Festival, Sadler’s Wells and West Yorkshire Playhouse), Charlie (Buxton Opera House), Creation and Warchild (All NYMT), Her Benny (Liverpool
Empire), David Copperfield (UK Tour), Sixteen Gobs (Kings Head, London), Habeas Corpus and City Of Angels (RAM).

Nicky has appeared as a soloist alongside Dame Judi Dench in An Enchanted Evening at Theatre Royal Drury Lane and at charity galas at The Palace Theatre, The Royal Albert Hall, O2 Arena and for HRH Prince Edward at St James’ Palace. She has worked as a backing and session singer for Tom Jones, Lesley Garrett, Elaine Paige and Cynthia Erivo.

Nicky made her Off-Broadway debut in A Broadway Diva Christmas at The Julia Miles Theatre, New York.

TV and Radio: Hillsborough (ITV), Voices Raised, Blue Peter, Sport Relief and The Olivier Awards (BBC). Loose Ends (BBC Radio 2), New Musicals with Stephen Sondheim (BBC Radio 2).