Katie Birtill will play Charity Valentine in the forthcoming production of Sweet Charity at the New Wolsey Theatre. Ipswich. Picture: Mike Kwasniak
The New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich is producing a new actor-musician production of the musical Sweet Charity which runs from Thursday 3 to Saturday 26 September, directed by artistic director Peter Rowe.
Katie Birtill, who will be playing the lead role of Charity Valentine, was initially studying medicine at Bristol University before she decided to take the plunge and go into theatre. Leaving Bristol with a BSc, she then graduated from the postgraduate musical theatre course at the Royal Academy of Music in 2010.
Theatre credits include Monique in The Boy Who Fell Into a Book (Stephen Joseph Theatre); Diva & understudy Marian in Priscilla (UK tour); Sue in Dreamboats and Petticoats (UK tour); Charlotte in A Little Night Music (Sir Jack Lyons Theatre); Maid Marian in Robin Hood (Marlowe Theatre); multiple roles in Femme Fatale (Upstairs At the Gatehouse); creating the role of Hayley in the original cast for Jet Set Go! (George Square, Edinburgh and Theatre 503, London); Woman2 in I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change (George Square) and Wendy in Never Land (Merton Abbey Mills).
Vocal credits include: backing vocals for Ramin Karimloo’s Road to Find Out tour 2012; backing vocals for Russell Watson’s La Voce UK tour, 2011; backing vocals for KT Tunstall, Fyfe Dangerfield, Jon Allen, Michael Ball, Mica Paris, Fran Healy, Craig David, Tony Hadley, Marti Pellow, Suzi Quatro and Elio Pace at Hyde Park Arena for Elvis Forever, recorded live for BBC Radio 2; backing vocals for Radio 2’s Friday Night is Music Night’s Christmas Eve Special with Barbara Windsor; backing vocals for Il Divo’s album; lead vocals for function band Down for the Count and for The One Night Stand Big Band.
A full cast announcement will be made this July.
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