Nigel Richards
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Place of Birth: Stevenage, Hertfordshire, England 

Training: The Guildhall School of Music and Drama

Theatre: The Phantom of the Opera (Her Majesty’s Theatre); As YouLike It (Wyndham’s Theatre); Songs from a Hotel Bedroom (RoyalOpera House); Martin Guerre (Prince Edward Theatre); Napoleon (Shaftesbury Theatre); Les Misérables (Palace Theatre); The Black Rider (Barbican, San Francisco, Sydney and Los Angeles); Notre-Dame de Paris (Asia); Carousel and Sweeney Todd (RoyalFestival Hall), The Stationmaster (Tristan Bates Theatre), Ever Onward (New Palace), A Christmas Carol (Antic Disposition); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Middle Temple), Drift and Tilt (Barbican); Charlotte Salomon: Life or Theatre (Soho Theatre, Amsterdam, and Philadelphia); three John Wilson Proms and MyFair Lady (Royal Albert Hall); Silverlake (Wexford Opera House); Son of a Preacher Man and Hair (UK Tours); Marriage of Figaro and Don Giovanni (Vienna and Stuttgart); The Mikado, Ghosts, and Macbeth (New Vic Theatre); By Jeeves and The World Goes ‘Round (Scarborough); Baby and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Forum Theatre, Manchester); Floyd Collins, Songs for aNew World, Hello Again and The Road You Didn’t Take (all premieresatthe Bridewell Theatre); Spend! Spend! Spend! (West Yorkshire Playhouse); A Little Night Music (Frinton)

Television: Holby City (BBC); Doctors (BBC)

Film: A Tale of Two Cities (HBO) 

Other: Nigel has a critically acclaimed solo album, A Shining Truth, and is a well-respected concert performer, especially in Malaysia, China and Latvia. He is also Patron of The Northern Musical Theatre Orchestra, and the BigLittle Theatre School in Bournemouth. Nigel is the voice of Drake, the pop star dog, in the children’s’ series, Bow-Wowza