Nigel Richards
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Place of Birth: Stevenage, Hertfordshire, England 

Training: The Guildhall School of Music and Drama

Theatre: Phantom of the Opera (Her Majesty’s Theatre); As You Like It (Wyndham’s Theatre); Songs from a Hotel Bedroom (Royal Opera House); Martin Guerre (Prince Edward Theatre); Napoleon (Shaftesbury Theatre); Les Misérables (Palace Theatre); The Black Rider (World Tour); Notre-Dame de Paris (Asia); Blood Brothers (Olympia Theatre, Dublin); Son of a Preacher Man and Hair (National Tours); three John Wilson Proms and My Fair Lady (Royal Albert Hall); By Jeeves and The World Goes ‘Round (Scarborough); Silverlake (Wexford Opera House); Marriage of Figaro and Don Giovanni (Vienna & Stutgart); The Mikado and Ghosts (New Vic); Floyd Collins, Songs for a New World and Hello Again (premieres at the Bridewell Theatre); Baby (Forum Manchester); Spend! Spend! Spend! (Leeds); 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