Nancy Allsop plays Nicky.
Her theatre credits include The Hills Of California (Broadhurst Theatre, Broadway and Harold Pinter Theatre), The Fever Syndrome (Hampstead Theatre), God Bless the Child (Royal Court Theatre), Annie (Piccadilly Theatre), and The Sound of Music (international tour); and for television, Young Wallander.
Theatre includes: TWELFTH NIGHT, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM (Shakespeare’s Globe);
THE LOST DISC (Soho Theatre); HEDDA GABLER, GET CARTER, SEASON TICKET, OH WHAT A LOVELY WAR, PUB QUIZ, WIND IN THE WILLOWS (Northern Stage); CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF, TWO (Manchester Theatre Awards Best Actress Nomination), AS YOU LIKE IT (Manchester Royal Exchange); I CAN’T SING! (Palladium); COOKING WITH ELVIS (Hull Truck); TYNE, 13.1, JUMP, ME AND CILLA, A NIGHTINGALE SANG, RHINO AND THE DRUM (Live Theatre Newcastle).
Television includes: VERA, TED LASSO, RAIN DOGS, THE BAY, VIC AND BOB’S BIG NIGHT OUT, BOY MEETS GIRL, THE KENNEDYS, HEBBURN, TRUCKERS, THE MINISTRY OF CURIOUS STUFF, HOLBY CITY and STEEL RIVER BLUES
Film includes: AMMONITE
His theatre credits include Stranger Things: The First Shadow (Phoenix Theatre), Hamilton – Olivier Award winner for Best Supporting Actor (Victoria Palace Theatre), Roots (Donmar Warehouse), Road Show, Take Flight – WhatsOnStage Award Nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Musical (Menier Chocolate Factory), Brighton Rock (Almeida Theatre), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Timon of Athens (Shakespeare’s Globe), Our House – Olivier and WhatsOnStage Award nominations for Best Actor in a Musical (Cambridge Theatre), The Comedy of Errors (Royal Exchange Theatre), The Canterbury Tales (RSC) and A Chorus Line (Sheffield Theatres). His television credits include The Crown, The Essex Serpent, No Return, Four Lives, Cobra, A Discovery of Witches, Honour, Quiz, Saints and Strangers, DCI Banks, Galavant, That Day We Sang, The Thirteenth Tale, Burton and Taylor, Hatfields & McCoys, and the forthcoming Bodies for Netflix. Film work includes Last Night in Soho, To Olivia, 1917, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Hunter Killer, The Lighthouse (co-written and produced), The Riot Club, Good People, Les Misérables, Hammer of the Gods, The Bank Job and Flyboys.
He recently graduated from Arts Ed. This production marks his professional stage debut.
Gay celebrates 60 years in showbiz this year. Her career began playing Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady on a UK tour wearing some of Julie Andrew’s costumes. She is best known to TV viewers as the voice of all The Flumps, the BBC TV Children’s programme.
Her most recent West End credits include: Mrs. Boyle in The Mousetrap (St Martin’s Theatre; Mrs Strakosh in Funny Girl (Savoy, transferred from Menier Chocolate Factory); The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime (Apollo/Gielgud); Sunday in the Park with George (Wyndhams). Other West End Credits include: Jorrocks (Noel Coward Theatre), Canterbury Tales (Phoenix), Godspell (Roundhouse/Wyndhams), Barbara in Billy (Drury Lane), Side By Side (Wyndhams/Garrick), Good (Aldwych), Mother Courage as Yvette Pottier (RNT), The Ratepayers Iolanthe (Phoenix), Which Witch (Piccadilly), Debo in The Mitford Girls (Gielgud, transferred from Chichester), Salad Days (Vaudeville), Madame Thenardier in Les Misérables (Palace Theatre), Lend Me A Tenor (Gielgud), & Chanteuse in Marguerite (Theatre Royal Haymarket).
Off West End and provinces include: Madame Armfeldt in A Little Night Music and Rebecca Nurse in The Crucible (Storyhouse, Chester), Ruth in Pirates of Penzance (Regents Park Open Air Theatre), Posy in Saving Grace (Riverside Studios), Lotte Child in Crazy for You (Chichester), Countess Evangeline in Death Takes A Holiday (Charing Cross Theatre), Maurice’s Jubilee (UK Tour), Lady Jealous Traffic in The Busy Body (Southwark Playhouse), Matron in Doctor in the House (UK tour), Norah in Star Quality by Noel Coward (UK tour), Fraulein Schneider in Cabaret (English Theatre Frankfurt), Tsarina Alexandra in Killing Rasputin (Bridewell), Fairy Godmother in Cinderella (Guildford and Cambridge), Jack in Jack and the Beanstalk (Chichester Festival Theatre); Anna in The Rink (Orange Tree Theatre), Sister Wendy in The Sister Wendy Musical (Hackney Empire Studio), Grandma in Pippin, and Grandma in The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole (both at Menier Choc Factory), Cherry May in Nude With Violin (Manchester Royal Exchange), Narrator/Old Wendy in Peter Pan (Birmingham Rep), Cole (Leatherhead and Hong Kong), John Gould’s Betjemania (Southwark Cathedral/Shaw theatre/New York), Ruth in Blithe Spirit (Stockholm), Mrs Higgins in My Fair Lady (Danish Tour), & Mrs Pearce in My Fair
Lady (Kilworth House).
Television and Film: Moonflower Murders, Holby City, The Bill, Unforgotten, Romany Jones, Father Dear Father, Barbara, Bless This House, Rude Health, The Needle Match, The History of Mr Polly, The Ups and Downs of a Handyman, Lace, Rupture, A Christmas Carol, The Agatha Christie Hour.
Operetta: Mad Margaret in Ruddigore (Opera Della `Luna) Marcellina in Figaro (Holland Tour), Prascovia in Merry Widow, Buttercup in HMS Pinafore, Kurt Weill’s Street Scene (Palace Theatre);
Gay appears on a number of original cast recordings and has recorded a solo album Flying Fish and Fallen Angels (www.dresscircle.co.uk), She has performed in cabaret at venues including Pizza on the Park & Jermyn St Theatre.
Her theatre credits include Underdog: The Other Bronte (National Theatre), Upstart Crow (Apollo Theatre), Pinter at the Pinter: A Slight Ache (Harold Pinter Theatre), Radiant Vermin (Soho Theatre, Tobacco Factory), As Chastity Butterworth (tour), Dark Vanilla Jungle (Supporting Wall, Pleasance Theatre Edinburgh, Soho Theatre), One Man Two Guvnors (National Theatre and Theatre Royal Haymarket), Chastity Butterworth and the Spanish Hamster (Pleasance Edinburgh), Stephen and the Sexy Patridge (Trafalgar Studios), and Red Death Lates (Punchdrunk). For television, her work includes The Famous Five, Funny Woman, DI Ray, The Tower, Inside No. 9, Killing Eve, White Farm Murders, Gentleman Jack, The End of the F***ing World, The Crown, Decline and Fall, The Moorside, Game of Thrones, Morgana Robinson’s The Agency, Upstart Crow, Uncle, Hetty Feather, Horrible Histories, Comedy Playhouse: Broken Biscuits, Almost Royal, Not Safe for Work, Murder in Successville, The Art of Foley, Asylum, Mapp and Lucia, Live at the Electric, Siblings, Badults, Nick Helm’s Heavy Entertainment, Dr. Brown 4Funnies, The Harry and Paul Show, Threesome, Cardinal Burns, and The Persuasionists; and for film, The Last Disturbance of Madeline Hynde, Emma, Surviving Christmas, Prevenge, Gulliver’s Travels, and The Wolfman.